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NEWS AND UPCOMING EVENTS

From March 2, 2025:

Hi Screenline Friends,

Welcome to March!!  We had a good meeting last Monday with a fairly large crew to read new works from John and Larry.   It will still be a few years until they win Oscars, but there was good feedback and both were well received.

I made an updated our Screenline calendar for the coming year, picking the 4th month of every month (except 4th Monday in May which is Memorial Day), but I also added some Sunday meetings (in March, June, and September) to help some folks to be able to attend.  For March, we adjusted the date to be Sunday, March 30th and set a 1:00pm meeting time (since I also have a Hurricanes game to attend).  I'm also planning to meet at Two Roosters (across the street from Panera) which has outdoor seating, but people can also take part in a beverage from House Creek Beverage Company nearby.

Other things to mention for 2025:

• Calvin has offered us to use classroom space at NCCU in Durham for a meeting or two (maybe we can figure out when to do that at the next meeting).
  
• We've also discussed the possibility of catching a movie together, but that would be outside our normal meeting schedule.  Does anybody have any suggestions?
• Maybe watching "Catching Dust" (on Amazon) by our new Screenline friend, Mark David.

The current committed people to bring "something to read" every month is as follows (let me know if I need to adjust):

• February - John and Larry
  
• March - Young Mike
• April - Calvin
• May - Tim?
  

The 2025 Cary Film Festival has announced its scheduled (Sept. 11-14) and opened its screenplay competition for 2025 and has the following submission dates:

• Early date - March 15
• Final date - May 17

If you are interested  in any screenplay competitions that are coming up in 2025, I would recommend checking contest listings on MovieBytes.com and FilmFreeway.  You can sign up on Film Freeway to get e-mails about upcoming contests.

If anyone else has any screenwriting news updates, please let me know and I'll post them here.

That’s a wrap for now.  See you at Screenline on Sunday, March 30!!

John (Filling in for our illustrious leader, Mike)

P.S. If you have news or information you’d like to share, send it to me at writersinbox@yahoo.com and I will get it posted to the web site.