Pursuing the Dream with Denise Meyers

Denise Meyers began her professional career at the William Morris
Agency as an assistant to literary agent, Judy Scott-Fox after
graduating from Oregon State University in 1982 with a degree in
broadcast communications. After working as a freelance story
analyst for independent film and distribution companies, Meyers
became a screenwriter herself, but after twelve years in the film
business with nothing but a handful of free options to show for her
efforts, she moved to Utah to pursue a successful career as a
full-time artist. When the economy bottomed out in 2009, Meyers
returned to what she calls “the dream that wouldn’t die”. Principal
photography was just completed on a short film she wrote in 2015
entitled THE DARK OF NIGHT (a Table Read my Screenplay Grand Prize
Winner, Austin Film Festival 2015). The film, directed by Robin
Wright, stars Leslie Bibb and Sam Rockwell, and was shot with the
crew from House of Cards (including award winning director of
photography, Dave Dunlap). In February 2016 she was named an Athena
List winner at the Athena Film Festival in New York. Meyers is the
only writer in the six year history of the festival to have two
screenplays make it to the finals; RIDE THE WIND: The Bessie
Stringfield Story, about the only African American woman to serve
as a motorcycle dispatch rider in World War Two was an Athena List
winner, and LUCKY 13, an Athena Finalist, is about the first
American women to fly military aircraft in wartime and the
significant role they played in training male pilots how to fly the
B26 “Widowmaker” in advance of the D-Day attack on Normandy. Lucky
13 was recently chosen as one of three winners of the 2017 Atlanta
Film Festival screenplay competition.
For more information on Denise, please visit her website at:
www.delicateflowerfilms.com. You can, also, connect with Laura
Powers at www.laurapowers.net. You can also find her on facebook
and follow her on twitter @thatlaurapowers.