JUDGMENT OF THE EYE - by Simon Bowler - FINALIST- 2024

Simon Bowler

After graduating with a degree in Film and TV from the University of Westminster in London, Simon produced at the BBC and BBC World Service Television, then made feature documentaries for Channel 4, The World Bank, and Friends of the Earth. In the United States, he produced the acclaimed mockumentary feature film ‘Man of the Year’ and produced multiple shows for ABC, PBS, Discovery, Oxygen, Bravo, Channel 4 (UK), and Fox.

He has written four award-winning full-length plays;
Judgment of the Eye (The Beverly Hills Theatre Guild Award, Broadway Bound Festival Winner, Sultan Padamsee Playwright Award Winner, Pharmacy Theatre New Writers Winner, Wishbone Theater Winner, Paragon Press Winner, Broad Horizons New Voices Finalist, Julie Harris Playwright Award),
The Enemy of the State (Coverfly World Series Contest Winner, The Writer Speaks Winner, Lighthouse Writers Winner, New Works of Merit Finalist, Sultan Padamsee Finalist),
Marlowe Part One, (Writemovies Play Writing Winner, Innovasian Writing Initiative Grand Prize, The Red List #1 Historical Stage Play, Dramatists Guild End of Play Readings, New Works of Merit Honorable Mention, American Community Theater New Play Finalist,), and, Marlowe Part Two (Writemovies Play Writing Winner, Innovasian Writing Initiative Winner, Screencraft Stage Play Finalist). He is writing a play about Edwin Hubble and has written six award-winning screenplays.

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Judgement of the Eye

Blurb

Han Van Meegeren, a struggling Dutch artist, realizes his skill is forgeries and proceeds to sell millions of dollars of fake art. When Germany invades, he is compelled by the SS to sell paintings to Goering, and he makes millions more. At the end of the war, he is accused of selling national treasure to the enemy and is to be executed. He claims the paintings are fakes and to prove it he will paint another. He is given six to paint a new Vermeer or he will be hung. His story exposes the contradictions of how we perceive and value art, in a tale so absurd, and with a character so flawed, it can only be true.