Caroline Friday is an award winning screenwriter, with eleven screenplays to her credit. Her adaptation of the book, NO PLACE FOR A LADY, by Maggie Brendan, has been optioned by Starz Media for distribution on the Hallmark Channel. In addition, her script, ANGELS ON EARTH, placed second runner-up in the 2008 Kairos Screenwriting Competition for spiritually uplifting screenplays, sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation.
Her first novel, THE RIVER FLOWS, is about a poor white farm girl in 1920s North Carolina who discovers the true meaning of love through an unlikely friendship with a dynamic, black gospel preacher.
Caroline’s Kairos win received media coverage from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Marietta Daily Journal and the Christian Index, as well as Atlanta Live on WATC TV 57 in Norcross, Georgia. In addition to that award, she has received the following awards for screenwriting: Semifinalist in the 2007 Slamdance Horror, 2006 PAGE International, 2006 Scriptapalooza, and 2006 American Screenwriting Competitions; Quarter-finalist in the 2006 Slamdance Screenwriting Competition; and Second Rounder-Screenwriting in the 2006 Austin Film Festival.
Caroline is also a founder, Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Sixth Day Media, LLC, a family and faith-based film finance and production company. Before that, she worked as Legal Counsel for Technology Solutions Company, a computer services company traded on NASDAQ, and as an associate in the area of tax, mergers and acquisitions, and securities for Freeborn and Peters, a law firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Caroline has a Business Administration degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as a Juris Doctor in Law (JD) and a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Wake Forest University. Professional affiliations include Women In Film, American Christian Fiction Writers Association, the Writer’s View, the American Bar Association and the Illinois State Bar Association. Caroline is also a Stephen Minister and a Bible study teacher. She has lived in North Carolina, Chicago and London, but now resides in Marietta, Georgia with her husband, Bill, and three children, Anna, Braxton, and Rachel, and dog, Dodga.
