New Moon… is now a movie!
I’m delighted to report that my screenplay, “The New Moon in the Old Moon’s Arms,” has been made into a movie!
Released by Kaleidoscope Films, it is directed by Daisy Friedman and produced by Isaak Popkin, with two beautiful performances by Eamon Farrell and Marc Verzatt.
I couldn’t be more pleased, and I’m happy to share it with you here:
Please enjoy, and feel free to share this and spread the word. Any ideas and assistance you might provide attracting attention, showings, awards, festival placements, etc., are greatly welcome!
Thanks!
Between the Moon and Stars honored
Happy to share that my story collection, Between the Moon and Stars, has been named a Finalist for the 2023 Hawk Mountain Short Story Collection Award. Many thanks to the wonderful folks at Hidden River Arts! Here’s the announcement:
Screenplays honored
Good news! My short screenplay, The New Moon in the Old Moon’s Arms, has been named:
- Winner, Best Short Script, Cambridge Script Festival, 2024
- 2nd-Place Winner, Vail Film Festival Short Screenplay Competition, 2024
- 2nd-Place Winner, Best Short Screenplay, New Hope Film Festival, 2024
- Finalist, Dallas International Film Festival Screenwriting Competition, 2024
- Finalist, Best Script, New Hope Film Festival, 2024
- 4th-Place Winner, Pittsburgh Shorts Script Competition with Staged Reading at Film Festival, 2023
- Official Selection, Quarterfinalist, Honey Writes Short Screenplay Competition, 2023
- Official Selection, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards, 2022
- Official Selection, HollyShorts Film Festival, 2022
- Official Selection, Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards, 2022
- Top 3% of Discoverable Projects on Coverfly, 2023
- Top 10 Finalist, Cinequest Screenwriting Competition, 2022-23
- Finalist, Sunvale Screenplay Contest, 2023
- Finalist, Dallas International Film Festival Script to Screen Competition, 2023
- Finalist, Reno-Tahoe 100 Short Script Competition, 2023
- Finalist, Diverse Writers Outreach, Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards, 2023
Here’s a short interview SBISA posted about me:
https://www.santabarbarascreenplayawards.com/david-sanders-interview.html - Finalist and “top writer and honorable mention of the week,” Reno-Tahoe Screenplay Contest, 2022-23
- Finalist, Atlanta Screenplay Awards, 2022
- Semifinalist, Dallas International Film Festival Screenwriting Competition, 2023
- Semifinalist, ScreenCraft Short Film Screenplay Competition, 2022
- Semifinalist, San Francisco Indie Film Fest Screenplay Compepition, 2022
- Semifinalist, HollyShorts Screenwriting Competition, 2022
- Semifinalist, Filmmatic Short Screenplay Awards 2022
- Quarterfinalist, Sedona International Film Festival Screenplay Competition, 2022
- Quarterfinalist, WeScreenplay Shorts Competition, 2022
- Quarterfinalist, Dallas International Film Festival “Script to Screen” Screenplay Competition, 2023
And my short screenplay, Melody, was named:
- Official Selection, Honey Writes Short Screenplay Competition, 2024
- Semifinalist, Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards, 2024
- Semifinalist, New York City International Screenplay Competition, 2023
- Quarterfinalist, Reno Tahoe Screenplay Contest, 2024
- Quarterfinalist, Hollyshorts Screenwriting Competition, 2023
My short story, “The New Moon in the Old Moon’s Arms,” on which the screenplay was based, was previously published in Big City Lit, a wonderful literary journal based in New York. You can check it out here:
The New Moon In the Old Moon’s Arms
AND… my holiday screenplay, A HemidemisemiQuaker Christmas, has been named:
- Quarterfinalist, Emerging Screenwriter Family and Holiday Screenwriting Competition 2022
Many thanks to these competitions, and congratulations to all honorees!
Busara Road is now available on:
Amazon
B&N
IndieBound
and through your local bookstore!
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Busara Road wins Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal, and more!
- Busara Road, the novel, has won the Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal for small-press publication!
- Also…
- Busara Road, the novel, has been named a Finalist for the:
- American Fiction Awards, Best New Fiction and General Fiction categories
- Screencraft Cinematic Book Competition
- Eric Hoffer Book Award Montaigne Medal
- Eric Hoffer Book Award in General Fiction
- Busara Road, the screenplay, has been named a Semifinalist for the:
- Cinequest Screenwriting Competition
- Filmatic Drama Screenplay Awards
- Rhode Island International Film Festival Screenplay Competition
- Busara Road, the screenplay, has also been named:
- Quarterfinalist in the Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Competition
- One of the Final 35 in the UK Film Festival Script Competition
- One of The Top 100 in the Table Read My Screenplay 2020 Screenplay Competition
- Award Winner, Script category, in the Writer’s Digest 89th Annual Writing Competition
- Many thanks to all involved in these competitions!
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Hollywood? Take Note!
My novel, Busara Road, has been named a Quarterfinalist in the Screencraft Cinematic Book Competition, AND my screenplay based on the novel has been named a Semifinalist in the Cinequest Screenplay Competition. Still in the running….Thanks, Screencraft and Cinequest!
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Must Read Fiction says Busara Road is a must-read!
The wonderful “Must Read Fiction,” a website and community of passionate readers hosted by the equally wonderful Erin Popelka, has featured me in an author interview.
In the interview I talk a bit about my new novel, Busara Road, and I tell some stories about the long and fraught process of bringing it to life. Erin even gets me to reveal my troubadour past playing cello and juggling on the streets of 1980s San Francisco!
Check out the interview – and watch me struggle to draw connections between juggling and novel-writing.
Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oanNfGrOoD0&feature=youtu.be
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Many thanks to all who braved storm threats
to join me at Narberth Bookshop on May 30, 2019,
for a reading from Busara Road.
And a special thanks to that fabulous bookstore
family for making me feel so welcome!
Here’s a link to some photos:
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Had fun representing New Door Books
and reading from Busara Road at the
Fairmount Arts Festival! April 28, 2019.
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Lift-off! Had a wonderful book launch for
Busara Road at Head House Books in Philadelphia,
with a great party afterward at Mustard Greens
restaurant. Many thanks to all who made it such
a great event! April 7, 2019
David H Sanders 
So awesome! I love this book.
Thanks, Jan!