LORRE FRITCHY

2004 WINNER

I WRITE
By Lorre Frtichy

"Writer" is the first word after my name on business cards, web sites, resumes, and email signatures: Lorre Fritchy, Writer-Director-Producer. It has always come first and has always been a part of me. Writing - especially in dramatic form to be watched by others -- was something I did from the moment I flicked my first Bic. But I never thought of it as a career path until a professor wrote on my freshman assignment, "You know, you should really consider becoming A Writer." As if this ability within was an actual job to pursue! With that door opened -- combined with my lifelong love of film and television -- it was not long before I heard the siren song of screenwriting. While I have written in every genre from marketing to poetry to magazine articles and everything in between, I always do so in order to support the first priority of screenwriting.

I Write to tell a visual story. I Write with the expectation that these
words will be translated on screen in a medium I have been drawn to beyond the words themselves. I Write to take seemingly unrelated aspects of life and connect them in ways that enlighten, inspire, and entertain. I Write because I Am A Writer. And it says so right after my name.

LORRE FRITCHY , Writer-Director-Producer, was One-In-Ten's 2004 Winner for her script KIND HEARTED WOMAN, where two women in 1880's Colorado face society, the truth, and each other when long-buried secrets catch up with them. The most important benefit of winning ONE-IN-TEN, Fritchy says, is the legitimacy it lends to her credentials when pitching projects. In addition to various video/film production roles, Fritchy has two documentaries in distribution: SANDY 'SPIN' SLADE: BEYOND BASKETBALL and THE GAY MARRIAGE THING. Fritchy's "First-Hand Adventures of a First-Time Filmmaker" online series of articles was a Filmmaker's Indispensable Hot Site by American Dreamer Independent FilmWorks. Fritchy is currently writing the script for her directorial feature "MILLIES" which follows a group of mill girls who return from 1912 to convince a bankrupt mill owner that her
future is the key to their past (www.MasterPeaceProductions.com).