Alumni News: Sarao & Stayman-London

Winners of the 2009 Cynosure Screenwriting Awards

Out of many screenplays from around the world, featuring complex, challenging screen roles for women and minorities, we are pleased to announce the winners of the 2009 Cynosure Screenwriting Awards are alumna Wallaine Sarao and current student Kate Stayman-London.


Winner
Female Category
Skirt written by Chris Mason Johnson and Kate Stayman-London
A romantic comedy and a political farce. Beautiful, sexy, smart Allie finds herself caught romantically between an older woman and a rakish young man when she goes to work for a fast-paced political campaign in Seattle.


Winner
Minority Category
PAST DUE written by Wallaine Sarao, Writing '06
Secrets tear three estranged Filipino families apart, but as they reluctantly work together to pick up the pieces, they find in each other something they never expected: family.