Joan Holmes, The Girl Child: The Future Depends on Her

http://www.thp.org/resources/speeches_reports/speeches/girl_child

Introduction

The treatment of women and girls is the greatest violation of human rights in our world today.
Ninety-three million women and girls are “missing” from the world population because of sex-selective abortion, female infanticide, malnutrition, abuse and neglect of girl children. This is roughly equivalent to all the deaths in all the wars of the 20th century – the most violent century in human history. This is a holocaust many times over.
So why don’t we as citizens of the world hear of this tragedy?
What kind of world are we living in where 93 million lives can be extinguished just because they’re girls? Where’s our shame? Where’s our moral outrage?
Gender discrimination is the greatest moral challenge of our age. And, we will be judged by history on how we respond to this challenge.

DO SOMETHING TODAY TO HELP

 THE SCRIPTFACTORY AND GENERATION NEXT MOVIE PROJECT PRESENTS, THE 1st SCREEN WRITERS COMPETITION FOR SHORT MOVIES

1ST PRIZE 1OOK NAIRA + A LAPTOP
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SCRIPT ISSUE: THE GIRL CHILD
Due to the success we recorded in our writers workshops and other programs and in our bid to encourage writers and improve on the quality of screenplays coming out of NOLLYWOOD, we have decided to take things a little further and kick off our Screen Writers Competition.
We have selected the issues surrounding the girl child as it relates Millenium Development Goals (MDG'S)

Writers are required to submit short film scripts of not more than 15 minutes or between 25-30 scenes.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Well told stories that incorporate all the elements of good movies. Suspense, drama, tension, good grammer and punctuations. the scripts can be traditional or modern. The best 6 scripts will be optioned for a compilation of short films and royalties will be paid accordingly after production and marketing. Apart from the chosen script all other scripts will be returned after selections and judgements. send only soft copies of registered scripts to thescriptfactory2006@yahoo.co.uk

ENTRIES OPEN ON 30TH 0F JUNE AND CLOSE ON THE 15TH OF JULY.

RESULTS WILL BE ANNOUNCED AT A PRESS EVENT ON THE 30TH OF JULY.

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 Between Scriptwritting and Fiction Novels [1].

 Godwin Onyeka Obi  ·

They're both forms of storytelling. Each with its own complexities and idiosyncracies but both aim to entertain or educate, both could be a form of escape and knowledge. Thus taking us "out of the squalor of the real world" or revealing deep truths that may leave our minds unsettled. Now I'm talking about the end product of both art forms: a film or movie for scriptwritting and a novel for fiction novel writting. All art is creative but not all writting is. That is why I find the term 'Creative Art' to be totally out of place. All art is a creative process: making something out of nothing. Masonry, carpentry, writting, architecture, tailoring, photograghy, painting, drama, music. Even abstract art is a creative means or form of expression. Back to the fundamentals: comparing novel writting to scriptwritting. Scriptwritting is, as implied by the name, writting a blue-print called a script of how a story unfolds. This story is to be shot on film or a digicam or performed live on stage, but our focus is on scripts written for filming. A script is the basis for a story. A script is the professional way of telling the story. A script is not a technical directive of how the story should look like. It should not describe camera angles or special effects, unless the writer is also the director or a member of the editing team. The actors work with the script under the director's supervision. Dialogues and drama are contained in the script.

Scriptwritting is more controlled and rigid than novel writting. Perhaps this style was a necessary invention due to our sense of perception. A film (script) must have three acts: the first, second and third. Should have a clear protagonist and antagonist (hero, villain) and must have a central conflict which I think all story is based on, whether oral, written or performed. For a film (script) to be viable, it has to observe these rules. The protagonist must gain the empathy of the audience...

To be continued.