The Summit Table Read Winners
Saturday, November 11, 5:00pm
Harbor island studios - stage 2
Tadpole
A buck-the-system journalist triggers a childhood trauma in the country’s biggest movie star during a live broadcast interview.
About the script
Through his career, action star Scott Fisher has evaded genuinely answering one simple question: Why acting? A journalist suspects an exposé gold mine behind Scott’s true answer and she’s determined to be the one to crack him. She wants the truth, but quickly learns to be careful what she asks for.
Tadpole is one short script in a series that explores characters in Michelle Deni Malouf’s feature action screenplay Fall Into Me. Tadpole is Scott Fisher’s origin story.
About the Writer:
Michelle Deni Malouf is a retired oceanographer, former international ice hockey player, and U.S. Coast Guard veteran who fell in love with scribing life’s adventures for the screen. To elevate her storytelling, she studied professional screenwriting in graduate school. Her action pilot The Book of Nash, dramatic feature Crescendo, and animated short Spider Season, have all placed in finalist tiers through ScreenCraft and the International Screenwriters’ Association (ISA) competitions. Michelle’s action feature screenplay, Fall Into Me, earned her a year-long mentorship under the 2023-2024 Writers Guild Foundation Veterans Writing Project. In early 2023, Michelle founded Nordic Orca Films LLC, which hosts the Northwest Screen Scribes writing group in Whatcom County, WA. She is a resident of Washington State and a member of the Northwest Screenwriters Guild, ISA, and the Louisiana Film Entertainment Association.
Social:
Instagram: @nordicorcafilms
SPIN
A man gets more than his clothes cleaned when he takes his dirty laundry to the local washateria.
About the Writer:
Richard Compson Sater retired from the U.S. Air Force after 24 years of service, attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel. He spent most of his career as a photojournalist, a veteran of both Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan) and Operation Iraqi Freedom. His first novel, Rank, was published in 2016, and his second, Thirst, is pending.
Sater earned a bachelor’s degree in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh, a master’s in creative writing from Purdue University, and a Ph.D. in fine arts from Ohio University. He has at various times been a college professor, radio announcer, bookkeeper, bricklayer, bartender, clerk, music critic, voice actor, and window-shade salesman. A Seattle resident since 2007, he has expanded his writing effort into screenwriting and songwriting.
STRONG ISLAND
An ordinary Uber ride leads to a comical and tender conversation about the shared joys and tragedies of life.
About the Writer:
Brett Kaiipo Bowker is a journalism graduate from the University of Washington, his first foray into filmmaking was the documentary The Long Ride Home. After several years working as a legal investigator and high school lacrosse coach, he dove into screenwriting. He’s fought the tyranny of the blank page writing over a dozen scripts that have achieved multiple placements in prominent competitions and received high acclaim.