2020 ScreenCraft Drama Competition Quarterfinalists - ScreenCraft : Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2020 ScreenCraft Drama Competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 3100 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far...
Last February, I volunteered with Venture2Impact in Kigali, Rwanda, a non profit organization based in Canada. While there I worked with Hopes & Homes for Children community center where I had the opportunity to train staff and mentor young entrepreneurial parents in the village. The staff consisted of tech employees from New York, California, Canada, and London. I was the only tech employee/ filmmaker in the group. Each day started with a 2 mile walk up a dirt hill from Yambi House, a Bed and Breakfast type hotel, to the community center where we would pass local women perfectly balancing large bowls of avocados or bananas on their heads, sometimes with babies happily strapped on their backs. On occasion, we would run into school children who wanted to chat or locals on their way to work via motor taxis. Once we arrived to the center, the younger children would sing beautifully to us before heading home and before the adult participants arrived. The Community members were eager t