The Danielson family from middle, suburb America, win a six week paid vacation down the Blyde River Valley Gorge in South Africa and it becomes the vacation from hell that almost takes the life of everyone in the family, one at a time.
Written by: Mark Mc Quown
Budget: Modest
Starring Roles For: 16-year old boy
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Mark Mc Quown is an Award Winning/Produced playwright, an Award Winning/Optioned/Produced screenwriter with many finished scripts listed in InkTip.com. See the IMDB for PJ (2008) starring John Heard, Vincent Pastore, Robert Picardo, Patricia Rea and Hallie Kate Eisenberg
Mr. Mc Quown has been honored with winning at the 1997 Santa Clarita International Film Festival, Animation Division with The Rocking Horse Christmas, the 2000 Telluride Independent Film Festival with The Tahoe Signal, the 2002 Telluride Independent Film Festival with Dot Goneand the 2002-2003 Key West Independent Film Festival with Pier 21.
Mr. Mc Quown has been honored with winning at the 1997 Santa Clarita International Film Festival, Animation Division with The Rocking Horse Christmas, the 2000 Telluride Independent Film Festival with The Tahoe Signal, the 2002 Telluride Independent Film Festival with Dot Goneand the 2002-2003 Key West Independent Film Festival with Pier 21. Most recently Mr. Mc Quown was a Finalist, along with co-writer Donna Lizzio, in The International Family Film Festival, Animation genre with The Cat and The Rat, 2005 at The Universal Sheraton Hotel in Universal City.
Mark has also been honored as a Quarter Finalist in the 1997 Chesterfield Screenwriting Fellowship with Pier 21, as a Semi-Finalist in the 1998 Chesterfield Screenwriting Fellowship with The China Tigerand a Quarter Finalist in the 2000-2001 Scriptapalooza with Jane, The Legend of Mountain Charley. Marks newest script, Graduate Schoolwas just recently named the fourth place winner in The 2006 Winter Script Network Contest in Los Angeles.
Mark Mc Quown has worked as a professional educator in the Theatre Departments of The University of Colorado at Boulder, California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California , Pasadena City College, Pasadena and Scripps College in the Claremont, California. Mark is a long time member of the Screen Actors Guild in Los Angeles, Actors Equity in New York City along with The New York Dramatist Guild.
MarkMcQuown@ca.rr.com (661) 714-0976
Contest Results: Fade In (Quarterfinalist) [2004]