Ron Brassfield

Sometime Finalist!

Personal Details

Name: Ron Brassfield

Last visit: Oct 26, 2009

Interests

Alternative pop rock music, writing and home-recording my own songs, working on the web, walking in the great outdoors. Action, fantasy, science fiction, horror, thriller, gangster, some comedy, and romance movies.

Books

I have fond memories of reading Henry Miller. Thomas Pynchon. Robert Heinlein. I read a lot of PC-tech and political non-fiction, alas, and I read a lot of articles on the web for writing-related research. I've read over 60 books on screenwriting and the movie business. There's always more to learn about everything.

Movies

Casablanca; It's a Wonderful Life; Chinatown; Rosemary's Baby; Animal House; Platoon; Blue Velvet; The Untouchables; Raiders of the Lost Ark; Romancing the Stone; Wild at Heart; Jacob's Ladder; Goodfellas; Batman Returns; Pulp Fiction; The Shawshank Redemption; The Usual Suspects; L.A. Confidential; Fight Club; The Matrix; The Lord of the Rings; The Incredibles; The X-Men; Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, Animal House, and Love, Actually. I expect these will be joined by "The Watchmen" in 2009.

Television

With my aversion to commercials and the modern experience of series I start watching being killed in their cribs, I keep my investment in TV time very low. When I do watch, it's mostly comedy series reruns of Seinfeld, Frasier, The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Friends, Everybody Loves Raymond, or The Andy Griffith Show.

About Me

I have four completed screenplays, two in progress, and two in the planning stages. Scripts I have written have placed in contests with words attached like "winner," "finalist," "semi-finalist," and "quarterfinalist." Still looking to get the right script to the right person at the right time, though.

Here's what I've done so far, most recent first:

SOUL ON FIRE

A priest becomes a shaman when he discovers the power of nature healing magic, then is stalked by the Grim Reaper and returns from the brink of death to find true love in his old age.

The authorized adaptation of Peter Calhoun's autobiographical novel. 2008.

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BLUE MONDAY

An escaped clone teams with a rulebreaking psychologist to combat sinister, high-tech agents, expose a White House conspiracy, and find their way to love.

Blue Monday, rewritten in 2008, 3rd Place Winner, Tennessee Screenwriters' Association Competition, 2009.

Finalist, thriller genre, Extreme Screenwriting Contest, 2009.

Quarterfinalist in 13th Annual Fade In Competition.

Original Version, 2000:

Top Twelve Finalist, Tennessee Screenwriters National Competition, 2000.
Top 10%, Austin Heart of Film screenwriting competition, 2000.
Quarterfinalist,Fade In Magazine's 9th Annual, 2002.

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ECLIPSE

A priest accused of being a werewolf must become one to recover an artifact that could give his trickster enemy the power of the anti-Christ.

Winner, Script Savvy competition, Dec., 2007

Finalist, The Writers' Place competition, 2007.

Finalist, Movie Script Contest for Thriller/Horror/Sci-Fi, 2008

Finalist, Award-Winning Screenwriters Contest, 2009

Semifinalist, Drama and Thriller/ Horror genres, Screenplay Festival, 2007.

Quarterfinalist, PAGE International Screenplay Competition, 2008.

Quarterfinalist, Fade In (The Writer's Network) competition, 2008.

Quarterfinalist, Screenplay Expo competition, 2008.

First Round Qualifier in the 2008 Filmmakers International Screenwriting Awards, 2008.

Notified by letter, April, 2009, Quarterfinalist in 13th Annual Fade In Competition.
My Name was later posted on the Semifinalists list, online. For this? For "Blue Monday" I don't even know. :-)

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TWEAKMAN'S FALL

A genius software coder whose mind-control project wows the Pentagon, falls victim to his own devices when he balks at joining his firm's dark inner circles.

Quarterfinalist in Fade In Magazine's 9th Annual Screenplay and Fiction Competition, 2002 and (rewrite) again in the 13th Annual, 2006.

Quarterfinalist in Writer's Network, Expo's Screenwriting Competition, 2006

Quarterfinalist, Tennessee Screenwriters' Association Script Competition, 2006.