“Best of Intentions” – Live Feature Script Read

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ReelHeART 2015 Screenplay Competition: Live Script Read

• Time: 11:30AM-1:30PM
• Location: Room WO30
  Woodsworth College Residence
  321 Bloor Street West (South East Corner from St. George Subway)
  Toronto, Ontario M5S 1S5 MAP
  

• Feature Screenplay Top 3 Winner
  “Best Of Intentions“, written by Philip Peel
  Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom

Bio:

Phil is an award winning filmmaker and his short films have shown at festival’s worldwide. In addition to writing, he’s a director, producer, D.P. and editor.

He’s written a number of feature screenplays including Phoebe Langtry, a Jane Austen era period drama and Jack’s Back, a supernatural suspense horror which has recently been optioned.

Inspiration For Screenplay:

Best of Intentions is based on the true story told to me by my father about of a relative of ours, who was going to be dropped behind enemy lines in WWII. He became convinced that he would be killed. So, though newly married and deeply in love, he was unpleasant to his wife, so she wouldn’t grieve when he died. They divorced, but to his surprise he survived the war. They met up again seven years later and remarried.

So I used this story as the basis of my script, but with fictional characters. However all the main events in the screenplay actually happened. e.g Operation Jedburgh, in which three man teams each comprising a British, American and Frenchman were dropped deep inside France, just before D Day, but in uniform. All the incidents in France are based on first hand accounts from British, French and German records.

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