Cecile J. Picou 

Cecile J. Picou was born in San Diego, California, and worked in the banking industry for over thirty-some years. She worked in a local newspaper as a journalist at the San Diego Voice and Viewpoint Newspaper for two years. She placed as a 2nd rounder for the Austin Film Festival on September 2022, and won as a quarterfinalist for a screenplay entitled The Jazz Age, in 2016.With the 8th Annual Story Pro’s screenplay contest, she won an award for Apex Blues. At the Colorado Film Awards, she won for a screenplay entitled The Otherworld of Fionn Mac Comhaill, and received honorable mention for a screenplay entitled Apex Blues, in 2013. At the Austin Film Festival, a screenplay entitled, American’s Famous Slave-Frederick Douglass, in September 2022.