Somebody, anybody, Get the Script to Woody Allen. Then maybe Keith Black can get a date.

Based on Black's own personal experience of trying to hand Woody Allen a script at a jazz club, Get the Script to Woody Allen is a 17-minute short that revolves around a writer's complete neurosis with giving the famed director his screenplay. If he could just get his script to Allen, he believes his luck with women will change. Why anyone would want Allen's luck with women to rub off on them is questionable, nonetheless the film is a highly amusing look at a writer's obsession and his dating experiences (for lack of a better word).

Black, who co-produced and co-wrote the film (the other half is director Steve Marshall), also stars as the protagonist. Opening with Black sitting at a table in front of enough prescription bottles to open a pharmacy, the film follows a day in the life of a writer who pitches his script to everyone including Allen's optometrist and a blind date. Set in a restaurant, the date scene is worthy of being compared to moments in many of Woody Allen's films. The writer not only tries to tell his date what to order but also mentions the dreaded, "It's okay, I have a coupon" line. He then goes on…and on…and on about his story idea and even gets the waitress involved in their conversation about kissing. Not surprisingly, the love match is over sooner than he can call on "Mighty Aphrodite."

Get the Script…, which won best short-film at the 2003 Long Island Film Festival and premiered before Allen's Anything Else at the Venice Film Festival, is a cleverly written homage to a smart and inimitable director. For more info on the film, visit http://www.getthescripttowoodyallen.com/

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