ANGELO EIDSE

screenwriter

 

Having come west as a young man, Angelo Eidse was naturally lured into screenwriting through storytelling when he discovered how entertaining lotus-landers found his tales of growing up in jerkwater Manitoba. His first short film, Flickering Blue, won numerous awards and carried him, however briefly, to Hollywood on its laureled shoulders. He has since written a documentary for national television broadcast and has lost count of how many episodes of Japanese animation he’s adapted, at least a dozen of which appeared on The Cartoon Network and YTV. His most recent short, Message Sent, addresses the ways in which technology simultaneously divides and connects us, while his forthcoming web-series, Prof, is made possible by that same technology. He has just written his first children’s book and has a feature script in development.

 

PERSONAL NOTE 

 

A number of years ago, back in the old days when my wife and I shared a cellphone, I was in downtown Vancouver

and needed to make a call. After an increasingly desperate search for a pay phone, I finally found one. Without a

receiver. The second one I found wouldn’t accept my quarter. The third booth didn’t even have a phone. I never made

the call, and it was the first time I remember reflecting on the growing neglect and forced obsolescence of the public

pay phone. Years later, in 2010, I came across an article in the New York Times called Listening In on a Pay Phone in

Queens, (see link below), which asked the question, “Who still uses these things?”. And it turns out a lot of people still

depend upon them, mostly in desperate circumstances. And it struck me as an interesting, almost co-dependent

relationship -- the pay phone and its users each depending upon the other for survival.