The Meeting House
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The Meeting House

Feature · Historical · 9 pages
Status: Spec
An inspirational story of love and war based on the true account of Makorongo, an African serviceman who became a POW to the Japanese but was rescued by his boyhood friend Hans-Werner before America bombed Tokyo in WWII and returned to the girl he left behind.
Written by Sophie Neville
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Finalist, ScreenCraft True Story & Public Domain Competition 2025
Finalist, Vail Film Festival Screenplay Competition 2024
Quarterfinalist, PAGE Awards - PAGE International Screenwriting Awards Competition 2024

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Sophie Neville
Lymington, Hants, GB
A multi-award winning British writer, Sophie became well known for starring as Titty in the EMI movie SWALLOWS & AMAZONS. She has a degree in Anthropology and a background in TV production. After producing an INSET series and writing her own docu-dramas for BBC TV she set up wildlife films in Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. Her WWII screenplay s...
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Currently a finalist in Screencraft's True Story screenplay competition, 2025 Winner - Best Screenplay - Berlin International Art Film Festival, 2024 Winner - Best Screenplay - Berlin International Screenwriting Festival, 2024 Winner - Best War Themed Screenplay - Berlin International Screenwriting Festival Winner - Best Feature Screenplay - FilmHaus, 2024 Winner - Best Feature Screenwriting - New York City Independent Film Festival, 2024 Winner - Best Feature Screenwriting - Seattle independent film festival, 2024 Winner - Best Unproduced Screenplay - Swedish International Film Festival, 2024 Winner - Best Unproduced Script - Cine Play International Film Festival, 2024 Winner - Best Unproduced Script - Spring Time International Film Festival, 2024 Winner - Best Unproduced Script - Humro International Film Festival, 2024 Winner - Feature Script - Paris Film Awards, 2024 Winner - Best Feature Script - Venice Under the Stars, 2024 Winner - Best Screenplay - Movie Play International Film Festival, 2024 Winner - Best Screenwriting Feature - Magic Silver Screen, 2024 Winner - Best Feature Script Writing - Green International Film Festival, 2024 Winner - Best Female Script Writer - Author Script Awards, 2024 Winner - Best True Story - Page Turner screenplay awards, 2024 Finalist in Pitch Now screenplay competition season 7 Sophie Neville's prose version of this story is doing well in writing awards: Winner - Athanatos Writing Contest Grand Prize, USA Winner - A Woman’s Write Grand Prize, USA Winner - Eyelands Book Award for an unpublished historical novel Winner - Christlit, UK, 2024 Shortlisted - C&R Press Awards for Fiction, USA, 2022 Shortlisted - The Hemmingway Awards, USA, 2022 Shortlisted - Flash 500 Novel Opening, 2024 Finalist - Page Turner Awards, 2021 & 2022 Currently a semi-finalist - ACFW First Impressions contest, USA, 2025