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MOONSONG TRILOGY

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STATUS OF PROJECT

The idea for "Moonsong Trilogy" was developed by Celeste Adams at a time when she was moderating panels for the Los Angeles film organization CineWomen, on the subject of Reshaping Images of Women in Film. Some of the ideas of new directions for women in film are incorporated into the themes of the three stories.

MOONSONG TRILOGY explores real issues affecting three generations of women as they struggle to comprehend the different stages and challenges of their lives--an idealistic teenage girl in Ashland, Oregon, deals with pregnancy; her mother strives to pursue her passion for choreography while working in a low-level office position for an abusive boss in LA; and a grandmother finds the possibility of a new relationship after surviving cancer, in New Mexico. It is an empowering and inspiring look at a geographically divided family, that strives to retain bonds of connection, through sharing the most heartfelt moments of their lives. It has the trilogy structure of the popular HBO movie "If These Walls Could Talk."

LITTLE EARTHA: How to draw a line between healing and self-sacrifice, compassion and self-victimization, was something that Little Eartha was struggling to understand. She had a confused sense of boundaries and a vague sense of violation. By the age of sixteen, she had experienced too much pain and suffering. Although she wanted to heal the world, she didn't want to be destroyed in the process. An unexpected pregnancy challenges her to re-evaluate and redirect the course of her life. Two worlds collide when Raven steps out of the grunge music scene and falls for Little Eartha, with her flower-child spirit and goddess circles.

AUGUSTA: Augusta, a forty year old woman and mother of Little Eartha, is a choreographer at night, but a secretary during the day. She had once made a living as a dancer and choreographer and had appeared in festivals around the world with an avant-garde dance company. As a dancer she was able to express her full self, her real self -- as a secretary she plays an empty role as she caters to an overbearing and socio-pathic partner in an accounting firm. But things change one night when she works late and overhears her boss engaged in a bizarre telephone conversation that permanently transforms their relationship.

GABRIELLA: Soon after Gabriella, a woman in her sixties, has a mastectomy, she becomes involved with a man that she had known and loved as a teenager, but whom she hadn't seen since her eighteen birthday. She expresses her feelings about her altered body in a highly evocative series of paintings and begins to live more fully as she faces the reality of her own mortality. In "Gabriella" old age is depicted as a new stage in life which should be honored and entered into with the faith that there are just as many opportunities for growth and adventure as in adolescence and mid-life.

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WRITERS

Celeste Adams wrote the treatment for "Moonsong Trilogy," and the screenplay for "Little Eartha." She is also the Story Director for the trilogy and worked with Jamie Lauren and Bhargavi C. Mandava on the development of "Gabriella," and "Augusta."

Jamie Lauren (Writer) is the screenwriter of "Gabriella," the third story in the trilogy. She has completed four screenplays -- "20 Questions," "The Dish Fairy," "One Man’s Trash," and "The God Parents." "20 Questions" was under option to an independent producer, "The Dish Fairy" was optioned by Lou Diamond Phillips, Cheryl Goetschius and L. Virginia Browne. Her most recent screenplay was optioned by Producer D. Constantine Conte.

Bhargavi C. Mandava (Writer) is the screenwriter of "Augusta", second story in the Trilogy. She was born in Hyderabad, India and immigrated to the United States in 1971. From 1985 until 1991, she pursued a career in magazine journalism and wrote music and entertainment pieces for various publications including The Village Voice, Spin, Cream and The Music Paper. Her novel of 25 short stories set in South India and New York City was published by Seal Press. Since she relocated to Los Angeles from NYC in 1993, her fiction and poetry has appeared in various literary reviews including The Rockford Review, Buffalo Spree Magazine, Poison Ivy Magazine and The Bloomsbury Review.

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