RANDY WOODLEY
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Where do you live (City, State, or Country)?
Yamhill, Oregon
 
Your script stood out among hundreds of others. What was the inspiration for your story and why did you write a script instead of a short story or a novel?
Watching the crazy reactions to Critical Race Theory and wanting a place to tell the true history of my wife’s relatives. I think in movies.
 
How long did it take you to write your script...and what is your writing process? Do you outline...use index cards...white board...or just start with FADE IN?
Just start writing and then organize. I get up around 4AM and write until 7ish. The story comes very quickly. The organization, not so much.
 
What is your ultimate ambition as a writer? 
My screenplays made into major motion pictures. Perhaps become an American classic writer.
 
Which film or television writers inspire you? Why?
I am especially drawn to John Sayles historic movies like Matewan, Lone Star and The Secret of Roan Inish. Also, David Ward, ala Milagro Beanfield War, Gary Ross ala Seabiscuit, and other historical Fiction. I like telling stories forgotten or unknown to most of us; especially those that help make the world a better place.
 
What’s your all-time favorite movie or television show?
Matewan
 
What advice do you have for writers hoping to win a contest or place as a finalist as you have?
Keep re-working it but make the final decisions based on your gut. Trust your gut.
 
What else are you working on that the world needs to know about?
A Cowboy love story set in 1969.

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