Arts & Entertainment
Local Filmmaker Wins Screenwriting Award
Georgina Capristo-Gajdosik wins top prize in NYC Filmmaker's Screenplay Contest.
North Haven-based filmmaker Georgina Capristo-Gajdosik, , has been awarded the top prize in the 2011 New York Filmmaker's Screenplay Contest for her script, "(Make Me) Blush."
The movie, a rock musical detailing the creative awakening of an NYC artist, competed against entries from across the world during the October 8-9 New York Filmmaker's Festival.
This win marks only the latest accolade for the script, an earlier draft of which made it to the semi-finals of the Writer's Network Screenplay and Fiction Competition in 2003.
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Capristo-Gajdosik's earlier short film, "Loved, alone", was also featured at the festival, and screened at the Anthology Film Archives Theater in New York City.
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