Lori Marett
Founder/Director of the Gideon Film Festival
Screenwriter
Writing Coach & Story Consultant
GIDEON FILM FESTIVAL
The Gideon Film Festival rallies the film community for a purpose. Yes, we screen films and make divine connections. We laugh. We pray. We enjoy each other’s company. But we also take our calling seriously. We gather together to encourage each other, not to compete; instead, to be empowered by Adonai Tzva’ot, the LORD of Armies. This world is in chaos. This world is lost. And it is up to us, Christian filmmakers, to use the power that is inherent to the visual medium, to impact the destitute. To shine a light for the hopeless. To show them Jesus.
The Gideon is not just a film festival, it’s a battle cry!
Judges 8:4
Gideon and his three hundred men, exhausted, yet keeping up the pursuit, came to the Jordan and crossed it.
SCREENWRITER
Lori Marett‘s screenwriting career began over two decades ago when her first script, an adaptation of author Yvonne Lehman’s In Shady Groves, received awards and acclaim from film industry professionals. This in turn opened the door for her to adapt Hollywood producer Ken Wales’ novel, Sea of Glory, for the movie screen. Continuing to hone her craft as a screenwriter, her first feature film, Meant To Be, was released in December of 2012 by Pure Flix Entertainment. In 2019, her adaptation of Deborah Raney’s novel, Beneath a Southern Sky (co-written with Kay Mortimer) was optioned. Due to Covid, the option lapsed, but BaSS has recently been picked up again and is under consideration with investors for production. Lori currently has three other scripts (one original, two adaptations) in the hands of producers who have shown serious interest.
WRITING COACH & STORY CONSULTANT
Unknowingly, Lori had been groomed early in her life to become a writing mentor and editor. Her mother, Yvonne Lehman, a prolific author, would casually hand Lori her latest WIP and ask for her thoughts. Mealtimes were usually conversational buffets of plotlines, character names, and book titles, while long waits at doctors’ offices provided wonderful dialogue for fictional characters. Even the most mundane activities, such as running errands or cleaning out the garage, elicited brainstorming sessions for the next novel or movie script. This upbringing, along with 20 years of participating in her mother’s in-home writer’s group meetings, Lori organically honed her talent as a writing coach. Her feedback then grew to become valued outside Yvonne’s home, working with well-known authors such as Steven James, Ann Tatlock, Cindy Sproles, and Hollywood script consultant, Linda Seger.
Lori also mentors beginning writers through WRAMS (Writing Right Author Mentoring Service) with her business partners, Cindy Sproles and Ann Tatlock.
