Natalie Milbrodt takes top honor in Long Island Script Writing Competition

 (Long Island, N.Y.) Screenwriter Natalie Milbrodt, a New Yorker transplanted from Michigan, won first prize in the Long Island International Film Expo Script Writing Competition this month for “The Last Weebler,” her highly original screenplay about Constance Weebler, an elderly woman who introduces carnivorous jungle hawks into her quaint small town with the misguided hope of leaving a family legacy.   While the birds do share her family name, they turn out to be a poor substitute for human descendants.  They become a menace she must either help to exterminate or rescue from her bloodthirsty townspeople.  “I am thrilled that an off-beat script like mine is getting such positive reception,” said Milbrodt, who will be honored on July 17th at the festival’s annual ceremony.

“The Last Weebler” uses elements of surrealism to explore themes of personal identity and social activism.  Ms. Milbrodt’s Midwestern upbringing informs this hyper-real version of the small town.

Ms. Milbrodt, who hails from Bloomington, Indiana and then Farmington, Michigan, came to New York in 2006, leaving behind a career writing scripts for commercials and local television programs, to pursue her dream of writing screenplays for films and works for stage. Winning the Long Island International Film Expo Script Writing Competition is an important step toward achieving that goal.  Ms. Milbrodt has optioned Sundance finalist feature screenplay, “Crisis Line” and is currently involved in several other projects.  She is the director of short documentary, “feet,” associate producer of feature documentary “Into The Pit” as well as writer of “Angeline” a short play to be staged by the New York Grand Guignol theater company.

The Long Island International Film Expo’s ceremony will be held at 7:00 PM at the historic Bellmore Movie Theatre, 222 Pettit Avenue, Bellmore, New York.  For more information about Ms. Milbrodt’s work, visit www.NatalieMilbrodt.com. Event information is available at http://liifilmexpo.org/sections/schedule.html

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