Birmingham Business Journal Article

STREET TALK: Lights, camera ...

Teresa K. Thorne, executive director of Birmingham's City Action Partnership, is about to become a screenwriter.

Shape Films is producing the independent film "Six Blocks Wide" - written by Thorne. Her script centers around a young girl and an old woman who stand up to a drug lord in an inner-city Birmingham neighborhood.

"I spent 22 years in the Birmingham police department, and my script is based on a drug dealer" that operated in the city at one time, said Thorne, who has had a long-term interest in films and script writing.

Shape Films is a Birmingham-based film company specializing in independent films. Shape's director, Yuri Shapochka, is an internationally known filmmaker, who won the "Best Dark Comedy" award from the New York International Independent Film Festival. Six Blocks Wide will be shot in Birmingham.