ALFF ‘26 Live Script Reading: The Ruby Nugget

This event took place on Sunday, February 8, 2026 at 6:00 pmOld Fire Hall

Experience the Live Script Reading at the Available Light Film Festival; an intimate, high-energy showcase where a feature-length work-in-progress is brought to life through live performance. Featuring a cast of actors, this event offers audiences and industry guests a rare window into stories at an early and exciting stage of development, followed by a moderated conversation around the creative and development process.

Announcing screenwriter and author Barbara Dunlop's The Ruby Nugget as this year's Live Script Reading! 

To earn her inheritance in the family’s hotel conglomerate, a young woman travels to smalltown Yukon to revamp her grandfather’s original hotel, clashing with the quirky local culture and running afoul of a disgraced architect intent on preserving the status quo.

Barbara Dunlop is a USA Today Bestselling Author of 70 lighthearted romance and romantic comedy novels. A former Yukon Film Commissioner, she is Executive Producer of the adventure web series Yukonic! and the short comedy Rocky Road. Several of Barbara’s novels have been optioned for film including the Great American Family movie Jingle Bell Princess.