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Cleveland: The Completed Screenplay
The script is finished. Long live the script. What began nearly three years ago as almost a dare by my dear friend Sonia to "write that story" after we both witnessed a section of downtown Cleveland inundated with cops the night of the last Cavs championship game against the Spurs, the screen...
read more...03.20.2010
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To L.A. and up the Mountain
In April, 2009, on recommendation of Ivan Schwarz, Cleveland's Film Commissioner, I attended an invitation-only screenwriting retreat just outside of Los Angeles. Below are notes from the event. The Retreat Idyllwild, California is ~ 2 1/2 hours east and up the mountain from L.A. It was an amazi...
read more...04.30.2009
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"Cleveland Rising" music video. Since the initial inspiration and conception, going back to 2007, "Cleveland Rising" the song & video, and Cleveland, the screenplay, are now completed! "Cleveland Rising," written by & © Alexsandra Sukhoy (Lyrics) and Vanessa Daffron (Musi...
read more...03.4.2009
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The Backstory. The Statler 7. The Band.
THE BACKSTORY - As an Art and Communication student at DePaul University in the early 1990's, I spent each weekday commuting on the el to school and work, between suburbia and Chicago, while listening to my white Sony tape and radio walkman. Often XRT (93.1) would serve as entertainment on the...
read more...02.22.2008
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