Script Awards

Since 2003 (when I began the script) this award-winning screenplay has been through many years of transformation, editing, analysis and adapting to new information in an effort to create a story that is both accurate and authentic, and also worthy of Sacajawea’s life. It has been analyzed three times by Christopher Keane, well-known script analyst and Kaaren Ochoa who is a lifelong moviemaker, producer, assistant director, director, writer and script consultant.

As a first-time screenwriter all those years ago, I am grateful for my daughter Jerah encouraging me to write it, for the many morning and evening discussions about the Lewis & Clark journals with my husband Matthew Fitzpatrick, for the expertise of the film professionals, for the Lewis & Clark consultants and authors (David Borlaug, Landon Jones and Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs) and especially Sacajawea’s own people, (Leo Ariwite) for their input, corrections and loving care of this important, untold story about an icon of American history.

I am so grateful for the awards she has won to date. They never would have been achieved without the collective hearts that came together and believed, determined to make it right.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Jane

International Script Awards:

WINNER Best Script – Roshani International Film Festival – INDIA

WINNER Best Feature Script – New York Tri-State International Film Festival – USA

WINNER Best Unproduced Feature Script – Paris Women CineFest – FRANCE

WINNER Best Author – Golden Swan Zurich Film Festival – SWITZERLAND

WINNER Best Historical Period Piece Script – Las Vegas International Film & Screenwriting Festival – USA

WINNER Best Original Screenplay – Alpine International Film Festival – SWITZERLAND

WINNER Best Historical Script - ONIROS Film Awards – USA

WINNER Best Feature Script – Portland Screenplay Awards – USA

Star of Venus Award Winner (3 Wins) – Venice Under the Stars International Film Festival includes:
WINNER Best Feature Script- ITALY
WINNER Best Original Concept – ITALY
WINNER Best Author – ITALY

WINNER Honorable Mention Best Historical Script – New York Screenwriting Awards -USA

WINNER Honorable Mention Best Feature Script – WIKI Screenplay Awards – USA

FINALIST Best Feature Script – Ottawa Film Award – CANADA

NOMINEE Best Unproduced Feature Screenplay – Milan Indie Film Festival – ITALY

NOMINEE Best Feature Script – AREA51 Underground Film Festival – USA

NOMINEE Best Feature Script – ICEBERG Film Awards – NORWAY

NOMINEE Best Feature Script – Moonlight International Film Festival – SWEDEN

NOMINEE Best Drama – Yeti Film Festival – ICELAND

NOMINEE Best Drama – Planet Cinema Film Festival – USA

NOMINEE Best Drama – Lonely Wolf Int’l Film Festival – ENGLAND

NOMINEE Best Period Piece – Action On Film International Film Festival – USA

OFFICIAL SELECTION Best Feature Script – Purple Sky International Film Festival – GERMANY

OFFICIAL SELECTION Best Feature Script – V.i.Z Film Festival Odesa – UKRAINE

OFFICIAL SELECTION Best Feature Screenplay – Golden Swan Zurich Film Festival – SWITZERLAND

OFFICIAL SELECTION Best Feature Script – Budapest International Screenplay Festival – HUNGARY

OFFICIAL SELECTION Best Feature Script- Cannes World Art Festival – FRANCE

OFFICIAL SELECTION – Sydney Cinematic Horizons Film Festival (2 Nominations):
– Best Feature Script – AUSTRALIA
– Best Author – AUSTRALIA

SEMI-FINALIST – Feature Unproduced Screenplay –
Palermo International Film Festival – SICILY

SEMI-FINALIST Best Screenplay – Tokyo Women Film Festival – JAPAN

SEMI-FINALIST Best Unproduced Feature Screenplay – London Women Film Festival – ENGLAND

SEMI-FINALIST Best Feature Script – Nocturna – USA

SEMI-FINALIST Best Historical Screenplay – New York International Screenplay Festival – USA