Full Day Package

Join us at The Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow for the first in our Screenwriters Series.

We are proud to present award-winning screenwriter and producer Amber Lindley. The day will start with her workshop "I have a great idea for a movie!"  at 3:30 PM in the Great Room at WCDH followed by dinner with Amber Lindley prepared by WCDH renowned chef Jana Jones. Then at 7:30, Lindley’s film “Painted Woman” will be shown at Main Stage Creative Community Center at 67 North Main. Please join us in this adventure into screenwriting. 

$70 Full Day Package includes the workshop, dinner, and film. 

3:30 PM Workshop 

"I have a great idea for a movie!"  If you have ever said those words, join Amber Lindley for her screenwriters' workshop and find out how to start writing a screenplay, the resources that are available to you, and also steps that you can take after your writing is done to get your idea from a screenplay to the screen.  Multiple award-winning indie film producer and screenwriter, Amber Lindley, will discuss story elements & technique, pitching, and selling screenplays.  Beginning writers welcome!"

5:00 PM Dinner with Amber Lindley 

Join us in the Great Room at WCDH for a wonderful dinner prepared by our renowned chef Jana Jones.

7:30 Showing of “Painted Woman” 

Main Stage Creative Community Center 67 North Main.

"Amber Lindley is a multiple award winning independent screenwriter and producer. She holds degrees in English Literature and Speech Communications. Amber has written and produced feature length and short movie scripts. Her work ranges from original stories to adaptations. She also works with other writers and helps them develop and edit their screenplays.

In 2018 her script, Madelyn Wild was awarded the Grand Winner Overall Best Screenplay at The Wild Bunch Film Festival in Arizona. Her films have secured deals with the likes of Amazon, Apple, Hulu, TCM, Wal Mart, Lifetime Television and Starz movie channel just to name a few. Amber continues to negotiate rights to best-selling novels and is currently working on adaptation projects for New York Times and USA Today best-selling authors as well as developing and writing original screenplays.

In 2019, Amber founded the writers' group now called NWA Screenwriters Collective. This is a private group of Arkansas writers dedicated to discussions and education in story, structure, and sale of scripts. Amber has been involved with Ozark Media Arts Festival for several years now through guest judging, workshops and various communication roles.

She holds a professional teaching license in English Language Arts. Amber continues to work with students aspiring to start careers in film and writing, teaching workshops for Arkansas Cinema Society and Crystal Bridges Museum."

"Painted Woman"

“Don’t let anyone decide who you are.”

 A young woman with a dark past finds wisdom and her identity in the romance of

the old west.

Adapted from prolific western novelist Dusty Richards’ The Mustanger and the Lady,

Painted Woman is the story of Julie Richards, a woman of her time, passed from hand to hand

in a web of abuse and prostitution, landing at the feet of Kyle Allison. Allison, a wealthy

powerbroker of the old west town of Goldfield, takes young Julie into his home and makes her

his trophy. Although she benefits from Allison’s “ill gotten gains”, the cost of luxury is more

abuse. As Julie’s time with Allison is coming to a dangerous close, she is given two chances of

escape with two very different men… Frank Dean, a hired assassin working for Allison, and

Vince Wagner, a wayward horse trainer with a dark past. Who will help Julie and save her from

the life she was handed?