Congratulations to Dena McKinnon - Stowe Story Lab

Posted by: Don, April 16th, 2020, 6:59pm

Hearty congratulations to:

Dena McKinnon

Stowe Story Labs 2020 Development Grant Winner with:

THE BEE BOY — Drama Horror Feature

Logline: A crippled boy left for dead by his own dad is transformed into a walking bee hive bent on revenge.

Posted by: Zack, April 16th, 2020, 7:01pm; Reply: 1

Congrats, Dena! That's awesome. ;D;D;D

Posted by: ghost and_ghostie gal, April 16th, 2020, 7:19pm; Reply: 2

Dena, congratulations!!! Could not have happened to a better person. :)

Posted by: AnthonyCawood, April 16th, 2020, 7:20pm; Reply: 3

Well done Dena!

Posted by: eldave1, April 16th, 2020, 7:21pm; Reply: 4

Awesome sauce!

Posted by: khamanna, April 16th, 2020, 7:26pm; Reply: 5

Pretty amazing!

Posted by: Pale Yellow, April 17th, 2020, 5:09am; Reply: 6

Thanks everybody. That little short story started right here.. where most of my scripts have started at one time or another. I learned most of what I know right here from you guys... the notes.. the lashings ya know. :) Happy to be amongst other creatives, all who seem to pump each other up... it's a good place, here.

Very thankful for this site and you guys!!!

Posted by: Scar Tissue Films, April 17th, 2020, 6:46am; Reply: 7

Well done, Dena. Much deserved.

Posted by: Grandma Bear, April 17th, 2020, 7:24am; Reply: 8

You're awesome Dena!!!! 8)

You need to write STRINGS into a feature too. That is a great story.

Posted by: MarkRenshaw, April 17th, 2020, 7:55am; Reply: 9

Superb! Well done, Dena!

Posted by: LC, April 17th, 2020, 8:10am; Reply: 10

Great stuff! Congrats, Dena. :D

Posted by: ajr, April 17th, 2020, 9:01am; Reply: 11

Congratulations, Dena! Fantastic work - sounds like a very intriguing premise.

Posted by: SAC, April 17th, 2020, 9:45am; Reply: 12

That’s Excellent!

Posted by: MarkItZero, April 17th, 2020, 10:26am; Reply: 13

Very cool. Should be a great experience. Your premise sounds terrifying... I don't do well with bees.

Posted by: ChrisBodily, April 17th, 2020, 9:47pm; Reply: 14

Awesome. Congrats, Dena. :)

Posted by: Pale Yellow, April 17th, 2020, 9:53pm; Reply: 15

Quoted from Grandma Bear

You're awesome Dena!!!! 8)

You need to write STRINGS into a feature too. That is a great story.

Speaking of Strings... I actually dropped my external off with an editor today. He is going to edit the three scenes we will keep... Bob in the flower shop, thug smashing the violin, and the gang walking aginst that grafitti wall.. but I'm going to refilm the other scenes to redo that short. I owe it to the cast. Bob asked me for a polished cut of his scene for his reel and I was like ... I felt so bad.. so today I paid Royced $200 to start working on the footage! :) So Strings is not dead yet!

Posted by: Warren, April 18th, 2020, 2:58am; Reply: 16

Congrats. I see the grant is for $4000. I'm interested to know what the expectation is from them about how you 'develop' your screenplay, or do they just give you the cash and it's up to you how to progress from there?

Posted by: spesh2k, April 18th, 2020, 2:52pm; Reply: 17

Congrats, Dena! I LOOOOVE the premise!

I kinda wish it was on Shudder right now, definitely would be something I'd watch in a heartbeat.

-- Michael

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