FRAN DANIEL
Itâs not every day that an actor gets to star in a family movie with a cuddly white lion cub, but it happened to Elliott Sancrant of Bermuda Run.
Elliott, a 16-year-old sophomore at Davie High School, has a starring role in âLena and Snowball,â a new movie now available at kiosks and on streaming services.
Elliott has been acting for about six years and already has landed some meaty roles in two films and guest supporting roles in three TV shows â âThe Good Doctorâ on ABC, âA Hauntingâ and âSnowfall.â
In âLena and Snowball,â Elliott plays Jake who befriends Lena, played by Melissa Collazo. A bullied and lonely teenager, Lena discovers a white lion club, Snowball, in a swamp. The cub is wanted by clumsy poachers who kidnapped it. As Lena jumps into action to rescue Snowball, Jake will do anything to help her.
The Dispatch
As a young person growing up in Virginia, Dianne Nicholas Goodrich just wanted to be a wife and a mother.
She did not have a very high opinion of her talents and potential, but she had a strong faith in God that has carried her through the years in all aspects of her life. I just thought of myself as a little peon, said Goodrich, who has lived in Lexington near High Rock Lake with her husband, Timothy, since 1984. I never imagined I would write children s books one day. But she has written children s books twice with more ideas for more books in the works. She gives all the credit to God.