Martha's writing accomplishments:
- UPDATE: Martha's screenplay, "Marie Tussaud",
received positive and professional critique from
a screenwriting competition in Toronto. She is
preparing another draft to get it ready to be read
out loud by professional actors and to bring it to
the next step.
- My draft of Marie Tussaud is circulating. I have
entered it into contests. It is also being read by
professional readers.
- First draft of Marie Tussaud, the screenplay, is
completed. Bona fide agents and producers
should contact Martha directly for a copy.
- Martha is co-authoring a NYC theme-based guide
book.
- Martha was employed as Copy Editor in the
Public Finance Department of Moody's Investors
Service.
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| "I became aware of Madame Tussaud while counting group tickets for Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum. After asking myself who was this eighteenth-century artist, I began researching her life. The film treatment evolved out of that. I look forward to seeing her life on the big screen." - Martha Danielle Lanzillotti |
| "Martha is a hardworking and conscientious employee with excellent editing skill. Martha was assigned the additional responsibility of Bond Survey, a weekly publication... She devised a system to ensure timely receipt and delivery of work." - Performance and Career Development Evaluation, Moody's Investors Service, November 1994. |
| ". . . Your submission [Marie Tussaud] was well received . . . It's clear that the writer [Martha] has invested a good amount of research into both the subject and her times and has succeeded in many strong moments in relating current events with a couple of lines of dialogue or a visual that really places us in that world . . . you have talent . . . " - Wildsound Screenplay Festival Committee, August 2009 |
| ". . . I really like your script. I find the writing, very clean and smooth, very disciplined . . . The visualization is specific and clear . . . It has real commercial promise. The imagery is magnetic: the wax images themselves; the occasional and quite organically sensational nature of the subject matter. (I love the classic Grand Guignol of Marie being forced to use severed heads as models) . . . There is an innocent sensuality to the art itself . . . A good cinematographer can make much of that and make it a real feast for the audience . . . The audience will identify strongly with Marie, surer and surer, while always remaining vulnerable. . . The historical interest, the historical figures (especially Doctor Franklin), are a big plus . . . the “unity” that you have chosen is Marie Tussaud’s life. It is clear that you have done serious and extensive research. Well done, Martha! . . . I like it very much, and I wish you the very best of richly deserved good fortune with it!" . . . Andrew Kesler, Professor, Columbia College, Hollywood, CA |