What happens when a boss named Jim leaves a voicemail firing the wrong employee? And what happens next when that employee goes to his actual boss (also coincidentally named — yep — Jim) to get his job back? Are you still with me?

Let me go back to the beginning. My friend and colleague Barbara Murray is a film and event producer based in the Bay Area. Like me, she does a lot of corporate work. (We've done some of it together.) But she was looking to branch out, and when she heard the true story (yep, true) story about the wrong employee fired via voicemail she thought it made a great premise for a short film. Happily for me, she called to ask if I would be interested in working on the screenplay with her.

Interested? I was thrilled. After all, in corporate work you don't get many opportunities to do anything funny. (Well, not much that's intended to be funny, anyway.) And it was a chance to do my first dramatic writing.

Cut to the future. So, I helped write the script, Barbara made the movie (it's called Wrong Number), and it's now making the rounds of the film festival circuit. And apparently (to quote Sally Field) people like it — they really like it: It's won several audience awards.

You can find out more — and see the trailer — by clicking here. Oscar, here we come!