Hi, my name is Carole Starcevic and I am the co-founder of the screenwriting startup, RAPSODIES, based in France. What a pleasure and honor to have won not one, but two awards at the Los Angeles Film Awards for our script Rails Run Parallel! On the very long road from idea to feature, this kind of recognition is essential to keep the flame of creativity alive, especially when working in a team.
The Rapsodies team is composed of American, French, English and Dutch screenwriters. What makes our team unique is that we have been able to unite cultures, origins, backgrounds together in order to create innovative and multicultural stories.
About Rails Run Parallel
Logline: 1943 - Four prisoners escape from a prisoner-of-war camp in Poland and undertake a grueling trip to France via Germany in an empty wine barrel wagon, while being chased by a Nazi Sherlock Holmes.
Rails Run Parallel is a drama/war feature screenplay based on the true story of Louis Seguela, maternal cousin of one of the screenwriters of Rapsodies.
In 1943, prisoner of war Louis Seguela receives a letter from home: his fiancée is seriously ill. He boldly escapes from the Nazi camp in Bartenstein, Poland, not expecting the Germans to launch a manhunt across a war-torn Europe. The manhunt is led by Standartenführer Franz Meyer – the man Reichsführer Himmler himself calls the Reich’s Bloodhound.
Louis and his fellow escapees – his friend Léon, the wounded Henri and André, the unstable gypsy giant – must endure a claustrophobic and suffocating ten-day train journey with little food and water before reaching unoccupied French territory again. They are ingeniously hidden in a cramped wine barrel wagon of a freight train, with no wine but filled with fumes.
Awards already won to date by Rapsodies in 2021
Rails Run Parallel
Los Angeles Film Awards June 2021 – Screenplay of the month
Los Angeles Film Awards June 2021 – Best Drama Screenplay
Paris Play Film Festival 2021 – Best Feature Script
Vegas Movie Award of Merit August 2021 – Best Feature Script
Golden Harvest Film Festival 2021 – Best Feature Screenplay
First Scene Screenplay Festival 2021 – Winner Best 1rst Scene Screenplay
TMFF – The Monthly Film Festival May 2021 – Winner 2nd
Mind out of Time
FilmCon Awards June 2021 – Best Feature Screenplay
L.A. Sci-Fi Film Festival – Europa Platinum Award 2021 – Best Screenplay
HALO International Film Festival St. Petersburg July 2021 – Best Feature Screenplay
The Black List - Top List in 2021
Born to Pull
Prix Royal Paris Screenplay Awards 2021 – Best Feature Script
TMFF – The Monthly Film Festival Jan 2021 – Winner 3rd
The Black List - Top List in 2021
Weapons of Magical Destruction
L.A. Sci-Fi Film Festival – Europa Silver Award 2021 – Best Screenplay
The Black List - Top List in 2021
Hel, the Last Saga
Los Angeles Film Awards August 2021 – Best Horror Screenplay
Vegas Movie Award of Merit August 2021 – Best Screenplay/Feature
On Duty
New Jersey Film Awards August 2021 – Best Feature Screenplay Honorable Mention
If you are interested in reading any of these award-winning scripts, please email us at sasrapsodies@gmail.com