446: Alexandra Qin - Finish Line Social Impact Award-winner

Support the Rant Room for $1/month In this episode, Hilliard and Chris sit down with Jenny Frankfurt, founder of the Finish Line Script Competition, and its 2022 Social Impact award-winner, Alexandra Qin to discuss her potent script, THIRSTYGIRL, and the proof-of-concept short film she directed based on her feature script. Alexandra Qin is an award-winning screenwriter and independent filmmaker based in New York with a background in technology and social justice. She was born and raised in Paris, France to a half-French, half-Filipina mother and a Chinese father, and moved to the United States when she was 18 to study Computer Science at New York University.  Alexandra started writing her first screenplay, THIRSTYGIRL, in 2020. Since then, she has been the 2022 Page Awards Grand Prize Winner, a 2022 Nicholl Fellowship Semifinalist, the Winner of the 2021 Finish Line Social Impact screenplay competition, and has been selected as a 2023 Nostos Screenwriting Fellow. Her first short film, the proof-of-concept for the THIRSTYGIRL feature, was the winner of the 2022 Shore Scripts Short Film Fund, and is currently being submitted to festivals.  Outside of her work in film, Alexandra is a prison reform activist. In 2022, she co-founded #Justice4Caesar, the collective that freed Ornell Caesar from Rikers Island after he was unjustly incarcerated in 2021. She is also the founder of Emergent Works, a non-profit that teaches formerly incarcerated people to code and helps them start careers in tech.  Check out the ScreenWriterRR website at ⁠www.screenwritersrr.com⁠ for information, merch, or our ⁠Patreon⁠! Support the show via the ⁠Patreon link⁠. Remember support is love! We invest countless hours per week to deliver the actionable content that goes into this podcast. Connect with Us: ⁠Chris Derrick⁠ on Twitter ⁠Hilliard Guess⁠ on Twitter ⁠The Screenwriters Rant Room on Facebook