Natalia Alyukova wins the JumpStart Writing Scholarship from Winter Story Summit
Natalia will be traveling from Moscow to the Caribbean to work with Academy Award-nominated writers
Natalia Alyukova, 25, a screenwriter from Moscow, Russia has won the top prize in the Jumpstart Scholarships provided by the Winter Story Summit.
Natalia’s winning screenplay, Enchantress of Numbers, is an historical drama about Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s daughter, who was a pioneer in early computer programming during the Victorian age.
“ Ada lived a vivid, ambitious and imaginative life, full of personal drama and dreams about the future that we live in now,” says Natalia. “A period drama fan myself, I enjoy watching and reading stories about women, like Ada, and I want to popularize their stories through films.”
Screenwriter, Tab Murphy, who himself, was nominated for an Academy Award for his historical adventure-drama, Gorillas in the Mist, will be mentoring Natalia at the summit in February, 2020. Tab made the final decision on the top prize: full tuition paid for Natalia and guest to attend the summit in the Caribbean.
“It gives me hope to see a young woman with Natalia’s talent tackling big, universal themes,” says screenwriter, Tab Murphy. “ Natalia is an important young writer and I am fortunate to be working with her in this critical time in her development as an artist.”
Natalia Alyukova will be attending the Winter Story Summit this February in the Caribbean with another hundred writers, including Tab Murphy and Jeff Arch, the writer of Sleepless in Seattle. The summit takes place from February 22–27, 2020.
Here is a video we put together from a Skype call on Sunday, November 25, between Tab Murphy and Natalia Alyokova when Natalia was told the good news!
Story Summits refresh and inspire gifted writers in an immersive and inviting global setting. A stimulating community of successful writers guide Summit participants in completing writing projects, the goal being to launch scripts and novels as commercial products. Go here for more information on the summits.
