Chinelo Amadi
The School of Creative Writing is pleased to congratulate Chinelo Amadi, MFA. Chinelo’s thesis is a Screenplay entitled Prawn.
Chinelo’s love for writing began at the age of fourteen. Although she took the scenic route and studied law for her first degree, it only deepened her passion for creative writing, and left her with the desire not only to entertain, but to stimulate and contribute to meaningful conversations on societal issues. While pursuing her MFA in Creative Writing, she has written across multiple forms, including plays, poetry, prose, feature films, and television pilots which earned her UBC’s William Rea Fellowship in Television and the Malcom Lowry Scholarship.
Not all fugitives flee across borders with new names and faces; some are trapped in darker fates. When a defense attorney caught in a web of politics and corruption is imprisoned, she must rely on instincts and outside help to gain her freedom. To survive, she must outthink a system determined to bury her. Pawn follows Pam Greene, a criminal lawyer pulled into a twisted rape case that threatens to destroy everything she values. As stakes rise, her life unravels, her family becomes a target and buried secretes emerge, forcing her to confront a chilling question: what does justice mean when the system meant to uphold it is fundamentally broken?
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