Princess Di and the Lesbians
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Screenplay Awards
A hockey-playing single mom is threatened with having her daughter taken away by her sister and her sleazy filmmaker boyfriend, She must enlist the aid of her lesbian teammates, a church choir and some “Angry Coochies” to try and stop them.
Biography
As a social and behavioral scientist, Lesley Hoyt-Croft has worked primarily on death penalty cases, providing sociological evaluations and drug histories of people accused of murder and other serious crimes. Her job included reading hundreds of pages of trial transcripts, psychological reports, child protective service records, expert witness testimony and police and criminal history reports.
It also entailed many hours spent interviewing the client, their families and others significant to their lives.
As a result of this work, Dr. Hoyt-Croft became involved with the Arizona Justice Project, a non-profit dedicated to seeking justice for the innocent and the wrongfully convicted.
Hoyt-Croft produced the 2009 award-winning documentary,“LIFE: The Bill Macumber Story,” and the 2018 documentary short about Louis Taylor called “This Damn Town,” which has been shown in festivals in the U.S. and around the world. “Justice delayed is justice denied,” is the legal maxim fitting for the men portrayed who spent 38 years (Macumber) and 42 years (Taylor) in prison for crimes they did not commit.
On a lighter note, her award-winning screenplay, “Princess Di and the Lesbians,” is a dramedy about women’s friendships, hockey, love and justice. Lesley started playing hockey (and not very well) at a “later age” and her experiences in the locker room and “out” were the inspiration for this story.
