BIO
Lucinda…
IS a documentary filmmaker turned screenwriter, who recently cowrote and directed a Lifetime movie, that premiered in May 2020. Like James Bond, Lucinda holds three passports and currently resides in Bermuda, a British island, but really a suburb of New York. Far from the Lifetime universe, her true calling is telling real-life stories about people who have great reckonings in their lives and find themselves in uncommon circumstances. Her screenplay Me & Jezebel inspired by a true story about Bette Davis, won the Worldfest Houston screenplay competition, placed 3rd in National Screenwriters Day, and was a semifinalist in the Screencraft Comedy Competition. When Lucinda isn’t writing she is giving astrology readings. The late William Goldman is her birthday twin. If you can’t guess already, Lucinda is a Leo.
"Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends." Joesph Campbell, Creative Mythology.
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SCREENWRITER
Writing for the screen is Lucinda's first passion. Her documentary work fueled a greater passion for adapting true stories for the fiction/narrative world proving her talent for molding true stories into satisfying cinema. An ongoing creative evolution led Lucinda to also write original screenplays. Comedy and Drama. A thriller or two.
Here are some of her projects. If they are adaptations she holds the story rights and is more than likely looking for financing and producing partners.
"Tell me a fact and I'll learn. Tell me a truth and I will believe, but tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever." Native American saying.
Me & Jezebel
A stay-at-home mom hides Bette Davis from the paparazzi after the release of a scandalous memoir, driving her husband to move out and sparking a new ambition: writing her own book about Bette, titled "Me & Jezebel." Based on the true story.
Feature: Family Drama with laughs (1985)
Comps: JULIE & JULIA meets MY WEEK WITH MARILYN
Based on the memoir, Me & Jezebel, by Elizabeth Fuller.
BEST SCREENPLAY : WORLD FEST HOUSTON
THIRD PLACE : National Screenwriters’ Day
SEMIFINALIST : Screencraft Comedy Competition
To CatCH The Sunlight
When the British Airship R101 crashes in 1930, a widow seeks out a psychic medium and, with her guidance, must track down evidence of a government cover-up and reveal the true villain before anyone else dies. Based on a true story.
Feature: Period Drama London (1930s)
Comps: TITANIC meets GHOST
Based on the best-selling non-fiction book, The Airmen Who Would Not Die, by John G. Fuller.
FINALIST BEVERLY HILLS FILM FESTIVAL SCREENPLAY COMPETITION
Journey of a Shaman
A broken CEO gives up his job and his marriage and launches into a journey around the globe with his twin flame, who helps him heal his soul, but only after her tragic death and the merging of their two souls does he find his true purpose as a shaman. Based on a true story.
Feature: Drama: Contemporary Europe
Comps: In the vein of COLLATERAL BEAUTY and THE SHACK
Based on the memoir, Journey of a Shaman, a book published by Hay House.
Prerogative of Mercy
A lawyer fights for the lives of two black men facing execution for the murder of the white Governor, but when she fails and riots erupt, she must turn the devastation into a platform for racial equity, culminating in a Royal Commission. A true story about the last hanging on British soil.
Feature: Period Drama: Bermuda (1977)
Comps: In the vein of SELMA and THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7
Based on the nonfiction book, Island Flames, by Jonathan Smith.
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Director
Lucinda's most recent film is Maternal Secrets, (formerly titled Babymoon) distributed by MarVista and broadcast on Lifetime in May 2020. Lucinda writes and directs feature films but her career began directing independent documentaries. Her first documentary, Rare Bird (2006) screened in the U.S. on PBS and across the world on TV and in film Festivals. Her follow up a three part historical series for PBS: The Lion and the Mouse, is narrated by Michael Douglas. Her 2013 film, In The Hour of Victory won Best Director at the Southampton Film Festival.
MATERNAL SECRETS (2020)
When a U.S. State Senator goes missing on vacation in Bermuda, his pregnant girlfriend, Aubrey, searches for answers only to find out his estranged mother is on the island and knows more about the disappearance than she is letting on.
Lifetime Movie Starring:
Kelly McGillis ( Top Gun, Witness) Golden Globe Nominee
Kate Mansi (Emmy Award Winner 2017)
Luann de Lesseps aka The Countess (Real Housewives of N.Y.)
Brooke Burfitt
Sean Stolzen
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IN THE HOUR OF VICTORY
(2013)
Untouched for fifty years, a family finds a bundle of letters setting them on a journey into their past, and the rediscovery of a tragic love story amid the turmoil of World War II
Best Director Award: Southampton Film Festival
THE LION AND THE MOUSE
(2009)
The Lion and the Mouse looks back at the birth of America and the deciding conflicts and characters that have shaped the last four centuries.
Audience Award Winner: Bermuda International Film Festival
Rare Bird
(2006)
Imagine finding a pterodactyl alive and nesting on an obscure island. Rare Bird is the true story of a 15 year old boy who helped find a bird believed extinct and solve the mystery of its existence. Like the myth of the phoenix, the Cahow bird is resurrected on the island paradise of Bermuda at the dawn of its development, returning to teach humanity an important lesson in perseverance against the threat of global warming. This true story is both a miracle and a mystery and will keep you riveted as the destiny of an "extinct" species plays out in a race against time.
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AUTHOR
Lucinda is a writer, everything she undertakes in any medium is storytelling. She has a blog: www.derelictmom.com. She has also written a serious nonfiction book, and short stories in a variety of genres. One day she will write that memoir, one day she will write that novel.
"Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment" - Rumi
WWW.DERELICTMOM.COM
An irreverent mom blog.
In an attempt to have it all, an extremely average woman takes on the impossible: working and having a baby at the same time, and she falls flat on her face, trailing a breast pump, two vicious miniature dachshunds and the snickering audience of an extended family in what amounts to a hilarious, honest and touching account of the colossal belly flop, which was the first years of her daughter's life.
Out of the Ashes: The Story of Butterfield & Company.
400 pgs.
The story of Butterfield & Company on the surface is the record of building a successful wholesale food business in a small competitive marketplace. Beneath the surface it is the tale of generations of Butterfields, each one enterprising, each one facing challenges particular to their era: a fire, major acquisitions, forays into other businesses, the great recession and the new frontier of technology. It is a sum of a company and the people involved, and for an audience it is like looking through a keyhole into a family company that has defied the odds to stand the test of time.
The Stories we tell:
Anthology of science fiction, fantasy and horror
My speculative fiction short story "The Story She Tells," is included in this 2017 anthology.
TAKE THIS JOURNEY WITH ME
: ANTHOLOGY OF MEMOIR AND CREATIVE NON-FICTION
My short memoir, "A Real Mother" is included in this anthology, published in 2014.
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