COMING SEPTEMBER 2021
The Air Between Our Tubs explores the depths of human depravity, and the resilience that enables us to triumph over it. In situations of the most dire violence and inhumanity shines a gleam of love, endurance, and commitment to a belief in the possibility of goodness. The novel is a testament to the capacity of these values and beliefs to persist and overcome in the face of the evil they encounter. Despite the heart-wrenching realities it explores, The Air Between Our Tubs is a book of profound hope and ultimately a love story.
THE AIR BEETWEEN OUR TUBS
ADAPTED FROM THE AWARD-WINNING SCREENPLAY
WHITE SHADOWS, BLACK DREAMS
book one
Borrowed Dreams
WINNER
THE HACKNEY LITERARY AWARDS
2020
Myra Crawford, PhD, Executive Director
HACKNEY LITERARY AWARDS WINNER
The Board of Trustees of the
AMERICAN CINEMA FOUNDATION
ANNOUNCES
The 8th Annual
SCREENWRITING COMPETITION WINNER
Justin Swingle, for
WHITE SHADOWS, BLACK DREAMS
For excellence in screenplay writing which tell a
positive story about specific fundamental values and their importance to society.
The AMERICAN CINEMA FOUNDATION nurtures and
rewards feature film and television projects which
address fundamental social values and support and
strengthens the common good and the common
culture.
http://www.cinemafoundation.com/archive-2001-2004.php
JUDGES:
Academy member Lionel Chetwynd
Nominated for an Academy award Best Writing, Screenplay Adapted From Other Material
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974)
Lionel Chetwynd Productions
Academy member Bob Gale
Writer | Back to the Future
Bob Gale is an Oscar-nominated screenwriter-producer-director, best known as co-creator, co-writer and co-producer of Back to the Future (1985) and its sequels. Gale was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in Cinema from the University of Southern California. He has written over 30 screenplays.
DR ANDREW HORTON
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES
Professor Emeritus
Justin Swingle's WHITE SHADOWS, BLACK DREAMS, is a compelling dramatic script based on the life of one of America's most important but least known women, Madam C.J.Walker. An African-American who was born the daughter of slaves, orphaned at seven, she became through both strength of character and good fortune, Madam C.J. Walker, the first self-made female millionaire in the country and champion of the rights of not only blacks and women, but of all people.
Swingle evokes the era as well as the character and aptly carries us through something of an epic "journey" not only of locations but of emotions as well. Humor, horror, humanity, and love mix and cross leaving us with an all too rare satisfaction in contemporary cinema, even when tackling historical figures; a sense of not only having enjoyed the "journey" along with Sarah, but of having been enlightened and uplifted as well through her pain and joys.
—Andrew Horton
Andrew Horton is an award-winning screenwriter, and the author of thirty books on film, screenwriting and cultural studies including, Screenwriting for a Global Market (University of California Press 2004) and Writing the Character Centered Screenplay (University of California Press, 2000, 2nd edition). The Library Journal wrote about his Character Centered Screenplay, "Horton walks away with an Oscar in the valuable books for the prospective scripter category with his latest rendering." His films include Brad Pitt's first feature film, The Dark Side of the Sun (1988), and the much awarded Something In Between (1983, Yugoslavia, directed by Srdjan Karanovic).
AUTHOR of
WRITING THE CHARACTER CENTERED SCREENPLAY
WRITING THE COMEDY CENTERED SCREENPLAY
FILMS of THEO ANGELOPOULOS: A Cinema of Contemplation
THE ZERO HOUR: Glasnost and Soviet Cinema in Transition
THE FILMS OF GEORGE ROY HILL