Introduce Yourself : Gabe Fontenot by Gabe Fontenot

Gabe Fontenot

Gabe Fontenot

Hey guys, my name is Gabe Fontenot from Lake Charles, Louisiana.  I'm a basketball coach and new screen writer. I've recently finished my first feature script and working on completing my second one this year. 

Cherelynn Baker

Welcome to Stage 32 and good luck!

Shawn Speake

That's what's up, Babe! When I first started writing screenplays eleven years ago, I thought all I had to know was the art of screenwriting. Did you know we must master the art of storytelling too?

Gabe Fontenot

Yeah, I definitely learned that on my first script!

Joey Madia

Gabe: Congratulations on completing your first script. What genre are you writing in?

Gabe Fontenot

Thanks Joey. Right now I am writing in comedy. I have plans to write a sports movie next year. How about yourself?

Joey Madia

I have two screenplays being read by a major production company right now. One is a paranormal thriller and the other is a romantic comedy. I am currently first-drafting a screenplay about man who grows up in the Emerald Triangle of California and how the criminalization and legalization of cannabis affect his life. Happy writing, Gabe!

Djamel Jiji

My name is Boukhroufa Amar, my pen name is Djamel Jiji, i was born on 29 february 1964,I grew up in a small town called Ouenza which is in Tebessa Prefecture. My father was a taxi driver and my mother a housewife. My mother’s dream was that I become a doctor. Both my parents aren’t literate. After I finished primary school my parents moved to Annaba Prefecture where my father engaged as a bus driver for a large company Annaba it’s a beautiful town looks like Alexandria in Egypt, which is around 600 kilometres away from Algeries the capital of Algeria. After finishing a secondary school I went to Setif University. Setif it’s the nicest town in Algeria which is around 300 kilometres from Annaba where I live now.

Annaba, it’s such a nice town, but I live in an ugly place, the worst city here, called Sidi Salem City. The houses were constructed since French colonization in Algeria and they are like hovels. Drug dealers, crime is widespread, there is no security at all and cops are corrupted. Writers are humiliated by the system. To escape this hell I create my new fantasy world and started writing fantasy stories defending the pains of innocent children and to forget all my pains

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