My Life in Argentina and Beyond

Eugenia Maria Renskoff
Website: www.differentflags.com







August 10, 2007


Francis F. Coppola
Zoetrope Productions
USA



Dear Mr. Coppola,

I have admired you for many years. I was very young when The Godfather came out in San Francisco and it instantly became one of my favorite movies. I saw The Godfather II and Godfather III as well as some of your other movies. Everything about them is superb.
Now I am temporarily living in Buenos Aires, where I understand you will have a production company called Zoetrope Argentina. I also read in the paper that you will be making a movie here with Matt Dillon, Javier Badem and a local actress.

A few years ago I wrote a novel called Different Flags. The story takes place in Argentina, in a fictional city called San Vicente. Ani, the protagonist, is a young woman who has traveled from San Francisco to Argentina in order to take care of her widowed aunt. Ani has spent most of her life in the U.S. and it is hard at first to get used to her native country again. While she is doing this, she falls in love with a young Catholic priest. This is when Ani starts to wonder where she really belongs. Her life back in California was not the kind of life she would have wanted and the trip to Argentina has given Ani a chance to be exposed to a different culture and to know love for the first time in her adult life.
I think the main theme of the novel is a quest for identity. There is a subplot having to do with the eviction of Ani´s aunt. In a way, this mirrors my protagonist dilemma. She has led a sheltered life back in San Francisco and now she is faced with real life problems.
Ani´s love for the priest is also important because he brings out the woman in her. In spite of the fact that he is supposed to be Forbidden, she experiences all the feelings that a woman in love feels. Padre Luis and her Aunt Esther become, in Ani´s mind and heart, the new family she wants to have.
I would like for you to read my novel as I think it would make a good character-driven movie. Please feel free to visit my website at www.differentflags.com.
Here in Argentina I am an English teacher. I also do translations.
I hope to hear from you.

Sincerely,

Eugenia Maria Renskoff