Albinism screenplay idea

RECENTLY there has been a great deal of interest in people with albinism. Two years ago, The Independent on Saturday featured an article about my late husband (an albino Indian), titled “Man’s apartheid pain finally revealed”. It drew a large response. Last year I decided to write a film script which shows people with albinism as real people, normal people, not aliens, not people with miraculous body parts. Just people who have a specific gene that makes their appearance different.

Just as some people have curly hair and others straight hair, all people have genes that affect their appearance. My husband looked “European” but he had an Indian birth certificate which, in that era, created huge problems. To an extent he lived in “no-man’s land”.

I have been involved in education all my life and so I have had writing experience. However, I have not written a screenplay before. No doubt my script would benefit from the assistance of a professional scriptwriter.

I am looking for a filmmaker to take on my script with me and turn it into an original movie on a theme that has never realistically been used before.

Although my script was prompted by my life with an albino husband, it is more of a short story about many albinos and their life stories – and their need for recognition as normal people.

I’d like an enterprising filmmaker to take this challenge.