Missy Crider, producer/actor/writer found the screenplay Jewel, via a mutual friend of the writer's on Facebook. The writer, Sandra L. Bucy, has written a handful of screenplays. Jewel is Bucy's first to be recognized by Hollywood.
Small-town accountability versus longtime secrets held between people who have come to believe that they know each other all too well in such small vicinity attracted producer, Missy Crider, to optioning the rights to the screenplay, Jewel. Missy Crider, producer/actor/writer, was raised in a southern American town that boasted a population of 2,073.
Stephen Bridgewater, director/actor/writer/coach, is set to direct. Bridgewater has coached and directed some of Hollywood's A-listers for decades. Bridgewater met Missy Crider when directing her as a lead in the telefilm "Out of the Woods"(2005) opposite costars Ed Asner, Jason London, and Meredith Salenger in Northern California. Jewel will be their long awaited second mutual endeavor.