UCLA taps 5 in scripter competition

Excerpts to be staged at Festival 2000

By JILL FEIWELL

UCLA's Graduate School of Film and Television has picked five winners in this year's seventh annual Screenwriting Showcase competition: "Electrical Currency," by Christopher Bradley; "Life in Samsonite Blue," Felicia D. Henderson; "Grande Dame," Kellen Hertz; "Rewind," Kelly Kennemer; and "Crossfire," Martin Shapiro. Ellwyn Kauffman received an honorable mention for "First Under Heaven."

Winners were selected by a panel of judges composed of industry executives from praiseries, agencies and production companies.

Excerpts from each script will be staged June 12 at the Geffen Playhouse during the graduate school's weeklong Festival 2000.