Bentonville Film Festival Screenplay Competition

The Bentonville Film Festival (“BFF”), in its effort to expand the championing of Women & Diversity to launch ‘The Dernsie’ Feature Film Screenplay Competition, sponsored in part by Kickstart Productions and Bruce Dern. Coined by Jack Nicholson, a Dernsie is used to describe Bruce Dern’s acting technique when they were filming the movie DRIVE. Nicholson described it as, “anything you want to do, come up with, or embellish that isn’t on the script” A Dernsie script will be unique. It stands out from among the crowd of similar themes and plots by adding it’s own spin. This can be through diversity in character, invention in story, or anything else that makes the script stand out.