Interview with SLAMDANCE Screenwriting Competition GRAND PRIZE Winner – Tamra Teig

By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor

This interview is also part of my Sundance Film Festival Coverage Day 5, as I met Tamra Teig because we were both staying at the same condo during #Sundance2020.  She was there to accept the award and be interviewed at Slamdance Film Festival as she and her writing partner Michael Lipoma won the SlamDance Film Festival Grand Prize for Screenwriting for their screenplay THE FALL.

“The Fall” is a narrative feature which takes us behind the Berlin Wall shortly before its fall, and the personal story of a mother & son connected to the events of that historic happening.

“The Fall” is a historical drama set in East Berlin in 1989, where a single mother is forced to become a spy to save her son after he’s framed for murder. Her act of revenge, woven into historic events, leads to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

“With over 4,200 submissions this year, our judges were challenged by a wealth of exciting new writers to choose from,” said Slamdance president Peter Baxter. “Many plugged into the passion and concern around socially conscious themes our world is currently dealing with in raw, fun and unique ways.”

Teig and Lipoma said, “The recognition of industry professionals validates our abilities as storytellers in a way that praise from a friend or relative never can.”  READ MORE VARIETY