Write On with Big Break Winner Stacie Gancayco-Adlao
August 19, 2021
Stacie Gancayco-Adlao was a Grand Prize Winner in the 2020 Big Break Screenwriting Contest for her feature film script Clementine. Big Break Contest Director Kala Guess talks to Stacie about what it was like winning the contest, how Stacie's network has expanded since then, and what it takes to get a screenwriting career going:
You really, really don't know when your script is going to connect with people. So just believe in what you're writing and write what you love, write what you're passionate about."
Stacie also discusses how being bi-racial informs her work:
I am bi-racial, and I feel like people who are bi-racial can connect with each other so much more in regards to identity, regardless of what our racial makeup. It's because we have so many feelings of not belonging to whichever side or we identify too much with one and not so much with the other, and there's always someone else who's trying to define our existence.
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