Movies & Writers
2000 Procter & Gamble Dreambuilder Scribe Award Winners:

Shawn Scott is a native of Cincinnati, OH. She received her degree in liberal arts from the University of Cincinnati. She is an editor for Bawn Publishers Literary Agency. Shawn has been writing most of her life. Her purpose through writing is to inspire individual and societal change. Shawn's work is supported by her mother, Beverly Nason, and her daughter, India Jones. Our Father is dedicated to the memory of Shawn's father, Wesley Scott.

Jeff Shelby is also a native of Cincinnati, OH. As a young man he became interested in television programming and writing. His love for both continued and grew throughout high school and later at the University of Cincinnati. At UC, Jeff majored in Electronic Media and minored in Social Work hoping to find a way to incorporate his talents with writing into working with children.

Two years ago, a friend suggested Jeff meet Shawn Scott. News stories and personal experience compelled Shawn to write about the impact of absentee fathers and the repeating cycle of emotional upheaval. Jeff was immediately drawn by the concept and the two began working together. It took a year and a half to develop the characters of Our Father, and four months to write the actual script.