Super excited to learn my screenplay Beyond the Arc was included as Scriptapalooza Fellowship announced TOP 20 writers. The six winners will be announced August 31st.
Beyond the Arc follows a closeted small-town Kentucky basketball star with Division I dreams must survive being outed in a deeply conservative community and find a way back to the game — and to
himself — after losing everything he was raised to become.
A note from the Scriptapalooza coverage included:
"|Brady Miller is one of the stronger central characters I've come across in a spec script
recently. He's caught between two worlds — the one he was raised in and the one he
actually inhabits — and Mills does a really good job making that tension physical. The knee
that keeps ticking, the way he mouths hymns without singing them, the milkshake he drops
in the truck stop parking lot — these are all small behavioral details that accumulate into
something genuinely felt. I like the way you've built Brady with this kind of behavioral
precision, and his arc from buried shame to quiet self-possession is emotionally coherent
from first page to las|"
Congrats on the Selection! For a second, I thought you were Brad Pitt's character from Seven, he was also "David Mills."
Congratulations, David! Top 20 is a great result. The feedback on Brady shows how much those small character details are landing with readers. Fingers crossed for August 31!