Jeanne Veillette Bowerman

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Film/theatre Journalist, Producer and Screenwriter

New York City, New York

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About Jeanne

Jeanne Veillette Bowerman is the Editor and Online Community Manager of Script magazine and a Senior Editor at Writer's Digest, where she writes the regular screenwriting column, Take Two, for Writer's Digest print magazine. Stephanie Palmer listed Jeanne as one of the "Top 10 Most Influential Screenwriting Bloggers." She is Co-Founder of WritersStrong as well as Co-Founder and moderator of the weekly Twitter screenwriters’ chat, #Scriptchat, and wrote a Tracking Board Top 25 Launch Pad Competition selected script, the narrative adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Slavery by Another Name, with its author, Douglas A. Blackmon, former senior national correspondent of The Wall Street Journal. The 10-hour limited series version of the same project was selected as PAGE Awards TV Drama Pilot Finalist as well as a Sundance Episodic Lab semi-finalist. Jeanne also is President of Implicit Productions and consults with screenwriters on how to navigate the industry, face their fears and kick Hollywood's ass, even from across the country.

Her production company, Implicit Productions, launched with her short film, IMPASSE.

Unique traits: black belt in Chung Do Kwan

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Slavery by Another Name Drama ⋄ Historical 2011 Expo Screenwriting Contest Finalist -- A shocking true story of a black farmer kidnapped and sold into slavery, forty years after the Civil War. His only way to get justice is to convince the prejudiced U.S. Attorney of Alabama to fight the slavery-addicted society and bring the first white man to trial for peonage.