LIVE: Joe & The Shawl

LIVE: Joe & The Shawl Screening & Script Breakdown – 4pm-5:30pm

Sponsor: Stephens College MFA in TV & Screenwriting

Reel Sisters & the Stephens College MFA in TV and Screenwriting Host Script Analysis for Joe & The Shawl

On Sunday, Oct. 25 at 4 pm, Reel Sisters & Stephens College MFA in TV & Screenwriting will host a special screening and script anaylsis of Joe & The Shawl written and directed by Nicole Ballivian, a Sundance Screenwriter Fellow, and co-written by Deonna Kelli Sayed. Enjoy an inside look at Ms. Ballivian’s choices in developing authentic characters and gain insight on her overall vision for the film.  Rosanne Welch, PHd, the Executive Director of Stephens College MFA in TV & Screenwriting, and Dawn Comer Jefferson, an Emmy-nominated award-winning writer, will led the script discussion as a part of Reel Sisters Lecture Series panel. The lead actors Jill Galbraith and Travis Lincoln Cox will join the conversation.

This event is free and sponsored by Stephens College MFA in TV and Screenwriting. Donations welcomed.

Joe And The Shawl

Director: Nicole Ballivian

Writers: Nicole Ballivian and Deonna Kellie Sayed

Joe Potay, an adorable tow truck driver really digs Kelli, a fellow North Carolinian, when he meets her as he changes her dead car battery. But Joe’s interest takes a sharp right turn when he learns that Kelli is a Muslim. Kelli finds herself stuck in Joe’s tow truck cab as he reveals his ultra-conservative white nationalist ideas. Joe informs Kelli that she’s damned to hell, so Kelli insinuates she’s left him something special in his truck.