Normally, in a non-Covid19 World, you’d get to enjoy a Feature Screenplay Live Read with a Talented Group Of Toronto Actors. But in this Covid19, unsafe world, we can only say, that we’ll attempt to perform one or more of these Feature Scripts as a Live Read as one of our Monthly Film Series in 2020/2021.

Friday July 10, 2020 – 11:00 AM

The Vicar’s Daughter
Feature Screenplay | 111 pages
Screenwriter: Robert Thompsett, Hull, Gatineau, Canada

Synopsis: After being rescued in Iraq as a 6 year old, Mirriam, an Arab girl, is raised by a retired SAS Chaplain and his wife in the idyllic farmlands of England’s Devon.  At 18, however, the fatwa on her head for converting to Christianity returns to haunt her with her adopted parents are slaughtered by terrorists linked to the husband that she was forced to marry at the age of 6.  Instead of living a life on the lam, however, she takes the battle to them, ruthlessly hunting them down whilst the authorities remain powerless to act, crippled by “political correctness”.  At root, “The Vicar’s Daughter” is a thriller and social satire with an intriguing and morally complex female protagonist.  It explores the British political divide within mainstream commercial genre and political life of the nation.

Inspiration: A passionate believer in freedom of speech, I have always been fascinated in the powerful way that satire can convey an important point of view – and, at no time in past, have our liberties and freedom, so hard won on the beaches of Normandy, been under such attack and been in such retreat.

Keywords: #Action – #Satire – #Political correctness – #Apostate – #AlMurtab – #Refugee – #Terrorist – #Jihadist – #Islam – #Anglican – #Atheist – #Frankfurt clique – #Herbert Marcuse – #Thermate – #Sniper – #Assassin – #HumanTrafficking – #FakeNews – #Press – #Iraq – #England – #Devon – #TheShard – #Barbican – #Luton – #Torquay – #Liverpool – #Jamaican – #Geordie – #Keats – #CaptainGatso – #HaroldMacMillan – #HarleyDavidson – #GWR – #SpiritofEcstacy – #A1SteakSauce

BIO: Born in Surrey, England, I attended Sevenoaks School, one of the first high schools in the Britain to have its own TV studio and computer, then studied Economics, Modern History and Astrophysics at St Andrews University in Scotland.  Having developed tax policies for Mrs Thatcher in the early 1980’s, I was a UNIX programmer in industry for a decade, developing, amongst other things, a lexical analyser 7 years ahead of Microsoft.  After I emigrating to Quebec, I have worked as a journalist and newspaper editor for many years..