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WONDER DRUG has won awards or received nominations in over 20 international film festival screenplay competitions and labs, most notably:
** 15th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival, WONDER DRUG chosen for a live staged reading of select scenes and panel discussion. Reading starred Steve Guttenberg (THREE MEN AND A BABY) and Alysia Reiner (SIDEWAYS). Panel discussion featured Caitlin McCarthy and her scientific mentor P. Harry Jellinck. Event co-sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2007
** 2007 Hamptons Screenwriters Lab Participant, WONDER DRUG selected as an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation script. Lab is co-sponsored by the Hamptons International Film Festival and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Caitlin McCarthy's mentors were Tom Gilroy (SPRING FORWARD) and Joshua Marston (MARIA FULL OF GRACE).
** 2010 Action on Film International Film Festival, Winner, "Most Likely To Be Produced" Screenplay Award. Screenplay was also nominated for Best Script, and selected for interpretation on camera. A scene from WONDER DRUG was shown as a "preview" at Pasadena's Regency Academy Theatre during a block of film screenings at the festival.
** Woods Hole Film Festival, Winner, Best Science Screenplay, 2008
** Illinois International Film Festival Screenplay Competition, Winner, 2008
** Film Independent's Fast Track Program, Finalist, 2010
** Tribeca All Access (part of the Tribeca Film Institute), Finalist, 2010
** Sundance January Screenwriters Lab, Finalist, 2008
** Rhode Island International Film Festival Screenplay Competition, Second Place, 2008
** Women in Film & Video/New England Screenwriting Competition, Third Prize, 2008
** Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition, Honorable Mention, 2009
** Queens International Film Festival Screenplay Competition, Official Selection, 2009
** California Independent Film Festival, Finalist for Slate Award: Best Screenplay, 2008
** Cinequest Screenplay Competition, Finalist, 2008
** Swansea Film Festival's Dylan Thomas Screenplay Award (UK), Finalist, 2008
** Polar Film Festival Screenplay Competition, Finalist, 2009
** Phoenix Film Festival Screenplay Competition, Top 10 "Screenplays Taking Place Outside Arizona," 2010
To view the full list of honors for WONDER DRUG, please visit its Facebook page.
