In 2052 after the dissolution of the United States 30 years earlier, a young woman, 17 year-old Tamara O'Neal, is smuggled out of the Confederacy to New Albion, liberal bastion based in the Colorado Rockies, to what her father thinks is safety. After a difficult transition to life in New Albion and multiple threats from mysterious forces, Tamara becomes radicalized and vows, with the help of her new friends, to burn down the system.

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CAST LIST:

Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Tamara: Hannah Ehman
Henry: Sean Ballantyne

Get to know the screenwriter:

1. What is your screenplay about?
Tamara's Escape is the first part of my larger story, More Perfect Union, which jumps between 2020 and 2052 in a post-Civil War North America. Tamara's Escape, set in 2052, is how a spoiled, entitled young woman, Tamara O'Neal, is smuggled out of ConFed or the Confederacy by her parents, who, after the tragic death of Tamara's sister, realize that her future safety is imperiled and send her to New Albion, the utopian Colorado-based country that was carved out of the United States at the end of the Civil War in 2020.

2. What genres does your screenplay fall under?
Near future dystopian thriller. Female focused but with many male characters.

3. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?
This story is timely. A Fundamentalist theocracy threatens the lives and livelihoods of countless men and women, but the alternative is not much better.

4. How would you describe this script in two words?
Dystopian thriller (female focused)

5. What movie have you seen the most times in your life?
About a Boy and The Wizard of Oz!

6. How long have you been working on this screenplay?
15 years

7. How many stories have you written?
10 or so

8. What is your favorite song? (Or, what song have you listened to the most times in your life?)
The one I sing to myself is the New Albion National Anthem, which I wrote. I love it.

9. What obstacles did you face to finish this screenplay?
I had to get over my resentment about marriage because of my failed marriage and get real about relationships, no matter what the form they took. Then everything flowed more easily. In fact, the strongest relationships were between couples in ConFed, not New Albion.

10. Apart from writing, what else are you passionate about?
English football, travel, history, reading, and surprising my high school students.

11. You entered your screenplay via FilmFreeway. What has been your experiences working with the submission platform site?
Very good. They are an impressive organization. I've won a number of contests and I enjoy looking at my list of submissions! It makes me smile!

12. What influenced you to enter the festival? What were your feelings on the initial feedback you received?
I liked the initial feedback and instituted the changes that Matthew and his crew suggested.