Immigrants, a richly detailed story of family struggle and survival from Nazi Germany to the melting pot of New York, won Best Screenplay at this year’s Ojai Film Festival. The honor includes a Zoom-style table read by professional actors directed by Valerie Alexander, on Sunday, November 8.

Meet the Actors

Clarissa Aubin is currently a Screenwriting major at Biola University. She excels in script coverage and writing her scripts quickly, which she learned from USC and other notable institutions. Aubin placed in the top 10 in the Biola University Screenwriting Competition in 2019 and is very passionate in portraying diverse voices and experiences in her stories.

Bob Ehrhardt, semi-retired from a career in environmental protection and workplace safety, Bob has been a volunteer screenplay reader with OFF for the last four seasons. He moved to Ojai in 2014 from New Hampshire. In addition to volunteering with OFF, Bob is also a volunteer pick leader with Food Forward, a nonprofit that fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce and distributing it to community support groups such as Help of Ojai and other agencies in Ventura county. Bob is a long-time cinephile and says his favorite era is Classic Hollywood. His favorite genres include Indie biographies and anything his four grandchildren want to watch.

Maria Victoria V. Hubbard is 29 years old with a B.A. and M.F.A. in Screenwriting from California State University of Northridge. She is a screenwriter, playwright and poet. She has been a script reader for Eclectic Pictures, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Ojai Film Festival, Vail Film Festival, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards, Wiki Screenplay Contest and Script2Comic. She is an avid reader, prolific writer, thespian and connoisseur of Vincent Price movies.

Sam Kurd is a screenwriter and script reader based in Nottingham, UK. He reviews films for the websites Midlands Movies and Ginger Nuts of Horror, as well as being a Senior Programmer for the Beeston Film Festival.

Wayne Johnson is a Nashville based script analyst who found his passion for reading scripts by writing peer reviews for the website Coverfly and since then has read over fifty screenplays for notable competitions such as the Atlanta Film Festival. He is a member of the Tennessee Screenwriting Association and, in between analyzing screenplays, he works on his own creative story ideas. Wayne hopes to help writers discover the importance of following the basic foundations of screenwriting that lives inside the classic three-act structure.

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