Judy Richland has deep connections to the place where her story is set – she both lives and works there.  But it was only after extensive research into the early life of Tennessee Williams that she decided this era of amazing creativity was worth exploring – right in her home town.

LOGLINE:
The unknown struggling playwright, Tennessee Williams, experiences love and loss in the summer of 1940 in Provincetown, when he is embroiled in love affairs with a female singer and male dancer.

GENRE:  
Biographical Film or Biopic

FILMS TO COMPARE IT TO:

Up in the Air, A Single Man, Mrs. Parker’s Vicious Circle
The film theme suggests:
L’Auberge Espanole meets Cabaret
Henry and June meets A Single Man

TARGET AUDIENCE:

Theater enthusiasts, Adult LGBTQIA

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Judy Richland earned her undergraduate degree in Psychology from Cornell, a Masters Degree in Art History from Boston University and an MFA in Fine Arts from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She ran her own award winning graphic design business, Richland Design Associates for twenty years with clients like Apple Computer, MIT, Tufts, IBM, Blue Cross Blue Shield, NY Life Insurance, and a host of other companies and institutions.

She was also elected President of the Boston Chapter of AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Designers) greatly increasing the membership during her term.

Twenty years later she earned another MFA in New Media/Film from MassArt, and shortly after began a teaching career as an Associate Professor of Practice in the Communications Department at Simmons College where she taught among other subjects, film editing, motion design, graphic communications, and international women in film.

At Simmons she is proud to have founded and run the International Women’s Film Forum for five years, where she hosted women filmmakers from all over the world. After twelve years at Simmons (and part-time teaching at the Boston Museum School), she decided to follow her dream to make her own films.

Since leaving academia, Judy has co-produced two films, The Black Emperor of Broadway and Murder on the Cape (streaming on Amazon and Netflix respectively) and emphatically studies screenwriting. In March of 2022 she will be co-producing a feature entitled The Art Thief, a narrative film based on the true events of the art heist at the Gardner Museum.

Starting at Grub Street in 2015, Judy has taken numerous screenwriting courses. In 2021 she was accepted into two Sundance Collaboration courses and attended two film-marketing programs at The Gotham.

In 2021 her screenplay Becoming Tennessee was an official selection for True Story Screenplay Competition by Ink and Cinema. Also in 2021, Becoming Tennessee was a Quarterfinalist in the Screencraft True Story and Public Domain Competition.

Currently, she is researching and writing a screenplay about a long forgotten woman journalist who worked during the early years of the twentieth century.

During this time of Covid, to break up her hours of screenwriting, Judy has utilized her background as a graphic designer and has worked on several film pitch decks and posters for independent filmmakers.

She is also a co-organizer for the Boston Chapter of Film Fatales. She has been a member of HSSW since 2018.

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