Third Girl film deal.Martha Southgate's new novel Third Girl From the Left (Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Company is a leading educational publisher in the United States. The company's headquarters is located in Boston's Back Bay. It publishes textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers , September 2005) will move quickly to the medium of film. Washington Square Films (WSF WSF World Social Forum WSF Web Services Framework WSF Women's Sports Foundation WSF World Squash Federation WSF Washington State Ferry WSF Wake Shield Facility (space laboratory) WSF Water-Soluble Fraction ) optioned it and hired the talented screenwriter Cauleen Smith, who did the award-winning film Drylongso in 1998, to adapt it. Third Girl tells of three generations of black women in the film industry and spans from the era of the Tulsa Race Riots The Tulsa Race Riot, also known as the 1921 Race Riot, The Night That Tulsa Died, the Tulsa Race War, or the Greenwood Riot, was a large-scale civil disorder confined mainly to the racially segregated Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA in in 1921 through the present. (See "What Might Have Been," THE WRITING LIFE, BIBR BIBR Bay Islands Beach Resort (Roatan, Honduras) BIBR Backward Indicator Bit Received , November-December 2005.) "We're simply ecstatic ec·stat·ic adj. 1. Marked by or expressing ecstasy. 2. Being in a state of ecstasy; joyful or enraptured. [French extatique, from Greek ekstatikos, from and are very honored by Martha's faith in us to adapt her work," says Amy Hobby, the producer. WSF said it planned to begin filming by mid-year and release it late this year in time to stir up "pro-award season buzz." Southgate told BIBR she was "thrilled of course" about the film project. "I respect Amy's work enormously," she adds. "She's produced some fine films. I look forward to seeing what they do with it." Russ Stratton, the film's coproducer, says, "Every so often, a novel comes along that not only strikes a strong dramatic and historical chord, but that allows us to look at ourselves through a long lens of incredible wisdom. Third Girl From the Left is just such a story." Angela P. Dodson: Email your news to angela4bibr@aol.com |
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