About Us
about
“The narrative plumbs complex emotions and the lifelong attempt to cope with grief and mourning through meticulous description of emotions, and an educated and sophisticated use of language.” -Rome Prisma Awards
It is not possible to calculate the true human cost of war because estimates can never include the psychological or physiological costs to survivors or consider other long-term events such as inter-generational trauma. Dinner with Dante, completed in 2023, is a somber tale that reveals one woman’s struggle to come to terms with World War II trauma through the weekly monologues she has in her mind with the statue of Dante in the Piazza di Santa Croce in Florence, Italy. The script conveys a sense of repetitiveness which symbolizes the narrowness of the protagonist’s world and the fact that the monologues occurred week after week, month after month, year after year until they flowed like water, and her entire life passed before her in this way.
Although the protagonist is fictional, the inspiration for the story came from the author’s own more limited conversations with the statue which she then combined with fragments of stories she’d heard about the early post WWII years in Florence.
Dinner with Dante marks the author’s screenplay debut. It will be filmed in Italian and onsite in Florence, Italy, in 2024.
Hello and welcome to this site! Who am I? I am someone who is passionate about great cinema and telling stories that have the power to make you stop in your tracks and think about the world in a slightly different way. My goal is to shift your perspective, alter your view, and reveal things you might not ordinarily notice but that will somehow hopefully inspire you in some way to learn more.
I am also committed to giving back and hope you will consider donating to the Opera di Santa Croce (which oversees the maintenance of the monuments in the piazza along with the incredibly important artworks, graves and funerary monuments in the basilica); or to The World War II Memorial Foundation (Florence, Italy); or simply to any cause that will add a little light and make this world a little better.
Finally, Dinner with Dante is my first screenplay and I will be running a fundraising campaign for the making of the film beginning in the Fall of 2023 so please check back soon for updates on this and of course please let me know if you are interested in learning more or wish to pledge any amount for this campaign. A substantial portion of any proceeds from the completed film will be donated to the above-named charitable recipients.
