Writemovies Contest – THE SANDBOX by Math Saliva

We are delighted to be able to announce THE SANDBOX by Math Saliva (story by Math and Olivier Biercewicz) as the first winner of our Featured Script of the Month. This bonus prize has been created to reward and develop the most interesting script we receive in the previous month and the result has no bearing on the result of other entries to any of our competitions. It was an interesting challenge to pick the most interesting script from such a wide variety of scripts written to a high-quality, but Math thoroughly deserves this. We will give Math and his script the kind of publicity that our previous Monthly Contest winners have received. Mathieu Saliva is a writer-director based in Paris. He has penned and directed more than a hundred music videos, and commercials for Sony, Universal, L’Oréal, Airbus… He was a stage actor for 6 years and he has followed the Bob McAndrew acting class. His two short films have travelled some 50 festivals around the world, winning 15 awards: Beneath the Surface (in competition at the Hollywood Film Festival) and Magic Kisa (broadcasted on HBO and Fox Europe). Math has collaborated with the American writer-producer Barr Potter and written several pilots and feature films, winning various awards in screenwriting competitions (OASISS, The Zone, The 5th Nation, Unikorn…). His writing style packs intense characters, pulse pounding stories and a hint of black comedy. He is currently directing a documentary about the Iridium Next satellite constellation for Thales Alenia Space and is also gearing up for his first independent feature film, shooting next spring.

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