The First Look Project searches for higher-concept screenplays and pilots to develop new writers and connect them with industry.
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Purebred
Private
Winner
Feature
· Sci-fi
· 102 Pages
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Brooklyn, NY
Sam Robotham is an award-winning screenwriter and non-award-winning filmmaker and podcaster currently based in Brooklyn. With roots in playwriting, his genre heavy scripts have gathered a handful of Best Screenplay awards, as well as placements in the Nicholl Fellowship, Austin Film Festival, Screencraft and named one of the ISA Top 50. His career i...
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SUNSHOWER
Private
Winner
Feature
· Drama
· 103 Pages
A young Chinese American man visits his ailing grandma with dementia, but she mistakes him for her long lost love. As he plays along with this new “role” out of kindness, he begins losing sight of his true self.
Stefanos Tai is a Chinese–Greek–American writer/director. His works remind us of a simple idea: we have more in common than sets us apart. He's played Tribeca, BAM, Cinequest, DOXA, Palm Springs, Hawaii, Houston, Singapore– and has been recognized from Asia Society, the United Nations, Scholastic, and several universities. He has also crafted brande...
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Winner
TV Script
· Comedy
· 31 Pages
Desperate for cash, a status-obsessed fashionista turns her fortune around by building a replica bag empire out of her Upper East Side apartment, with a new streetsmart partner.
INVENTING ANNA meets HACKS
Los Angeles, CA
Yagmur Tok is a Turkish immigrant and comedy writer based in Los Angeles. A graduate of Northwestern University’s theatre department, Yagmur writes irreverent coming-of-age stories with global appeal, centered around misfit female protagonists. When she’s not using humor as a coping mechanism, Yagmur can be found producing Webby award-winning market...
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Runner-up
Feature
· Action
· 114 Pages
When the largest avalanche in recorded history strikes a close-knit ski town, a once-renowned skier turned avalanche expert must confront the relentless forces of nature and his own tragic past to save the town and his estranged wife and daughter.
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TV Script
· Comedy
· 34 Pages
To prevent himself from becoming a loser, a cynical time traveler inadvertently becomes the father-figure to his happy-go-lucky 11-year-old self.
New York, NY
Willem Lee is an award winning New York based writer and director.
His films have screened in festivals in the United State and abroad. Willem teaches screenwriting to undergraduates at SUNY FIT.
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TV Script
· Drama
· 59 Pages
When a 13-year-old misfit pretends to be psychic, she finally wins the friends she’s always wanted. But to avoid being exposed as a fraud, she’ll have to lift a deadly curse eventually uncovering her town and family’s dark secrets. WEDNESDAY goes southern gothic in a one-hour pilot adapted from the Disney-Hyperion novel, THE MONSTER HYPOTHESIS.
Atlanta, GA
Before her debut novel, FIND ME, released, Romily Bernard worked as an exercise rider, sales assistant, groom, and during a very dark time, customer service rep. So don't let anyone tell you a BA degree will keep you unemployed. Since then, she's written multiple young adult and middle grade books for publishers such as Harper-Collins, Disney-Hyper...
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