Lorraine Portman

Amazing Alison McMahan of Homunculus Productions

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:22:00 -0500

I first met Alison McMahan during the 2010 Jacksonville Film Festival. I went up to reconnect with my film friends and attend “The Art of the Pitch” workshop.

During the weekend, I met a good number of the Screenplay Competition Finalists. The only woman in the group was Alison, who was there with her writing partner, John Leary.

After seeing the program put together by Jennie Jarvis, I submitted a screenplay for 2011’s competition and was thrilled the screenplay was a top ten finalist. I was also thrilled to learn that Alison and John would be returning.

Alison is a filmmaker, screenwriter and author of two books: “Alice Guy Blache’, Lost Visionary of the Cinema” and “The Films of Tim Burton: Animating Live Action in Hollywood.”

Alison McMahan, Writer

It was wonderful to have the opportunity to spend more time with Alison, and the other finalists, during the 2011 Jacksonville Film Festival.

Alison and her husband Charlie proved themselves to be true friends and quite intrepid, they travelled up from South Florida to see my production of “Duck Hunter Shoots Angel” at Limelight Theatre. Super fun evening. Some of you understand how much it means when friends show up, for our plays, our films — it means the world.

Alison very kindly wrote about “Saving Sophie” and our quest for distribution on her Homunculus Productions website.

Read Alison’s Article Here.

Thank You Alison!

Student Jill Burns Quarterfinalist!

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:04:00 -0500

I am totally proud of my student Jill Burns. Her screenplay, ”Fairies Wear Boots” is a Quarterfinalist in BlueCat’s Screenplay Competition. Which places her in the top 11%.

Jill has taken my Screenwriting and Advanced Screenwriting classes at Flagler College. ”Fairies Wear Boots” started in the Advanced Screenwriting class.

Shout out to Zoje Stage who has placed as a Quarterfinalist as well!

Quoted by Alice In Actionland!

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:49:51 -0500

Quoted by Alice In Actionland!:

The Fabulous Zoje Stage quoted me in an article about what women really want in films.

Meet The Director: Lorraine Portman

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:08:58 -0500

Meet The Director: Lorraine Portman :

Article that appeared in The Saint Augustine Record during the run of “Duck Hunter Shoots Angel” at the Limelight Theatre.

Welcome

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:23:00 -0500

Welcome to the new website. The web gods frowned and savingsophie.net was hacked or somehow compromised and my cousin David suggested we start over. This is the third time we are starting from scratch. So, here we go. Rebuilding.

Thank you for your patience and support. I’ll be building this new website as I can, around starting new classes and starting a new screenplay.