Cecil's Woods

Top 3% of discoverable projects Coverfly ranking
Stage32 Feature Fellowship winner 2022
Twelve finalist awards in international screenplay competitions, including:
* Feature Screenplay Finalist, Catalina Film Festival 2022
* Finalist & Official Selection, Animalis Fabula Film Festival 2022
* Finalist, StoryPros Awards 14th Annual - 2021
* Semifinalist, Stowe Story Labs Programs and Fellowships Application 2022
* Semifinalist, Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards Season 7
* Quarterfinalist, Scriptation Showcase - Features + Shorts Category 2021-2022
* Quarterfinalist, Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards Season 6

Compared to hits like MOONLIGHT KINGDOM and BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD, this small cast, limited location dramedy screenplay begins with a nameless young boy, orphaned and traumatized by a car crash, hiding from the outside world in woodlands trapped between the lanes of a rural interstate highway. Over the course of a blissful summer, The Boy befriends the unique local fauna while healing the land and himself.

When he discovers plans for a Travel Center to be built on the site of his forest home, The Boy is forced to reveal himself to a group of "Seagull Scouts" who name him "Cecil," after a character in a campfire ghost story. Refusing to tell anyone his true identity, The Boy is remanded to the Scouts' orphanage where his kind heart, pithy sayings, and adventurous spirt helps a small town and its residents find their way after being left behind by the modern world.

Cecil unites humans and animals to protect "Cecil's Woods" from the destructive development. A "final battle/woodland chase scene" ensues, before the ecologically fragile land is given ecological protective status and named "Cecil's Woods."

Cowritten by Kevin Renshaw.

From WePlay Screenplay: "Simply put, the concept is insanely odd, yet intensely entertaining..."

From Nicholl's Fellowship" "Intriguing and provocative."

From Screencraft: "...charming... verisimilitudinous and authentic."