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EP 023: The Milliners: The Cinematic Power of Women in Creative Collaboration: Lynn Denton and Christina Brandon-Gomez on Into the Absurd
Lynn Blackwell Denton is an award winning screenwriter, filmmaker and visual artist. In 2015 her screenplay The Milliner was named Second Finalist in the Bentonville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition juried by actor Bruce Dern. In 2016, Lynn published a novelized version of The Milliner now available on Amazon.com.
Lynn began her career as a visual artist and her films evolved from art installations that referred increasingly to women’s stories. TIME FRAME ZIGGURAT, at Nexus Gallery, included a soundtrack and photos of women in her family and their houses; POLLY’S DREAM featured a mixed media, two part installation at Philadelphia’s Institute of Contemporary Art; and for SOPHIA’S HOUSE, at the PAFA’s Morris Gallery, Lynn built a room-sized installation that celebrated woman as the original creator, inviting female sculptors to refer to early myths in making works emblematic of the first creations.
Christina Brandon-Gómez is a bilingual screenwriter and aspiring novelist. She graduated with honors from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia (UARTS), where she received her B.F.A in Writing for Film and Television. She has studied creative writing at the University College of London, the College of Santa Fe, and Arcadia University, where she received her M.F.A .
Shortly after graduating from UArts, Christina was a contributing writer for Keith Chamberlain's web series, Herrings. Following the death of her father, Christina tackled mental health in Black culture in her script, Small and Mighty, 2019 5Shorts Project finalist, 2020 Black Screenplays Matter semi-finalist, and 2020 Hip Hop Film Festival Official Selection.
In 2019, after connecting at a Philadelphia Women in Film and Television (PWIFT) event, Christina began collaborating with artist, writer, and director Lynn B. Denton on the adaptation of Lynn's screenplay and novel, The Milliner. A period drama set in Jim Crow Georgia at the turn of the twentieth century, The Milliners traces the journey of two artisans: Dayo, a black seamstress, and Keziah, a white milliner, as their paths converge while searching for work and being swept up in the mobilization of the women's vote.
Christina's teen post-apocalyptic drama, Hoodz, is currently making the rounds on the festival circuit, both at the local and national level. She intends to adapt her short film Small and Mighty into a feature length project.
Lynn began her career as a visual artist and her films evolved from art installations that referred increasingly to women’s stories. TIME FRAME ZIGGURAT, at Nexus Gallery, included a soundtrack and photos of women in her family and their houses; POLLY’S DREAM featured a mixed media, two part installation at Philadelphia’s Institute of Contemporary Art; and for SOPHIA’S HOUSE, at the PAFA’s Morris Gallery, Lynn built a room-sized installation that celebrated woman as the original creator, inviting female sculptors to refer to early myths in making works emblematic of the first creations.
Christina Brandon-Gómez is a bilingual screenwriter and aspiring novelist. She graduated with honors from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia (UARTS), where she received her B.F.A in Writing for Film and Television. She has studied creative writing at the University College of London, the College of Santa Fe, and Arcadia University, where she received her M.F.A .
Shortly after graduating from UArts, Christina was a contributing writer for Keith Chamberlain's web series, Herrings. Following the death of her father, Christina tackled mental health in Black culture in her script, Small and Mighty, 2019 5Shorts Project finalist, 2020 Black Screenplays Matter semi-finalist, and 2020 Hip Hop Film Festival Official Selection.
In 2019, after connecting at a Philadelphia Women in Film and Television (PWIFT) event, Christina began collaborating with artist, writer, and director Lynn B. Denton on the adaptation of Lynn's screenplay and novel, The Milliner. A period drama set in Jim Crow Georgia at the turn of the twentieth century, The Milliners traces the journey of two artisans: Dayo, a black seamstress, and Keziah, a white milliner, as their paths converge while searching for work and being swept up in the mobilization of the women's vote.
Christina's teen post-apocalyptic drama, Hoodz, is currently making the rounds on the festival circuit, both at the local and national level. She intends to adapt her short film Small and Mighty into a feature length project.
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Lynn Blackwell Denton is an award winning screenwriter, filmmaker and visual artist. In 2015 her screenplay The Milliner was named Second Finalist in the Bentonville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition juried by actor Bruce Dern. In 2016, Lynn published a novelized version of The Milliner now available on Amazon.com.
Lynn began her career as a visual artist and her films evolved from art installations that referred increasingly to women’s stories. TIME FRAME ZIGGURAT, at Nexus Gallery, included a soundtrack and photos of women in her family and their houses; POLLY’S DREAM featured a mixed media, two part installation at Philadelphia’s Institute of Contemporary Art; and for SOPHIA’S HOUSE, at the PAFA’s Morris Gallery, Lynn built a room-sized installation that celebrated woman as the original creator, inviting female sculptors to refer to early myths in making works emblematic of the first creations.
Christina Brandon-Gómez is a bilingual screenwriter and aspiring novelist. She graduated with honors from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia (UARTS), where she received her B.F.A in Writing for Film and Television. She has studied creative writing at the University College of London, the College of Santa Fe, and Arcadia University, where she received her M.F.A .
Shortly after graduating from UArts, Christina was a contributing writer for Keith Chamberlain's web series, Herrings. Following the death of her father, Christina tackled mental health in Black culture in her script, Small and Mighty, 2019 5Shorts Project finalist, 2020 Black Screenplays Matter semi-finalist, and 2020 Hip Hop Film Festival Official Selection.
In 2019, after connecting at a Philadelphia Women in Film and Television (PWIFT) event, Christina began collaborating with artist, writer, and director Lynn B. Denton on the adaptation of Lynn's screenplay and novel, The Milliner. A period drama set in Jim Crow Georgia at the turn of the twentieth century, The Milliners traces the journey of two artisans: Dayo, a black seamstress, and Keziah, a white milliner, as their paths converge while searching for work and being swept up in the mobilization of the women's vote.
Christina's teen post-apocalyptic drama, Hoodz, is currently making the rounds on the festival circuit, both at the local and national level. She intends to adapt her short film Small and Mighty into a feature length project.
Lynn began her career as a visual artist and her films evolved from art installations that referred increasingly to women’s stories. TIME FRAME ZIGGURAT, at Nexus Gallery, included a soundtrack and photos of women in her family and their houses; POLLY’S DREAM featured a mixed media, two part installation at Philadelphia’s Institute of Contemporary Art; and for SOPHIA’S HOUSE, at the PAFA’s Morris Gallery, Lynn built a room-sized installation that celebrated woman as the original creator, inviting female sculptors to refer to early myths in making works emblematic of the first creations.
Christina Brandon-Gómez is a bilingual screenwriter and aspiring novelist. She graduated with honors from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia (UARTS), where she received her B.F.A in Writing for Film and Television. She has studied creative writing at the University College of London, the College of Santa Fe, and Arcadia University, where she received her M.F.A .
Shortly after graduating from UArts, Christina was a contributing writer for Keith Chamberlain's web series, Herrings. Following the death of her father, Christina tackled mental health in Black culture in her script, Small and Mighty, 2019 5Shorts Project finalist, 2020 Black Screenplays Matter semi-finalist, and 2020 Hip Hop Film Festival Official Selection.
In 2019, after connecting at a Philadelphia Women in Film and Television (PWIFT) event, Christina began collaborating with artist, writer, and director Lynn B. Denton on the adaptation of Lynn's screenplay and novel, The Milliner. A period drama set in Jim Crow Georgia at the turn of the twentieth century, The Milliners traces the journey of two artisans: Dayo, a black seamstress, and Keziah, a white milliner, as their paths converge while searching for work and being swept up in the mobilization of the women's vote.
Christina's teen post-apocalyptic drama, Hoodz, is currently making the rounds on the festival circuit, both at the local and national level. She intends to adapt her short film Small and Mighty into a feature length project.