Humanitas New Voices Fellowship |
2023
The New Voices Fellowship is a six-month mentorship program for early career writers exploring the human condition in a nuanced, meaningful way.
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Finalists
Finalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 30 Pages
With six months sober, Tessa visits a dentist to fix her missing and broken teeth - but undoing twenty years of meth use won’t be easy (or cheap). Amidst the chaos of her recovery house, Tessa must find a way to let go of her past and trust herself in sobriety.
North Hollywood, CA
Lane Michael Stanley is a transgender filmmaker, writer, and playwright. His work explores queerness, class, restorative justice, grief, and healing. Lane’s films and plays have been presented by 31 film festivals and 20 theaters in 22 states and four countries; he has studied creative writing with Tin House, Kenyon, and Lambda Literary; and been a ...
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Finalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 61 Pages
In a society deeply polarized between the seculars and Islamists, four teen girls fight for their freedom in an elite Islamic high school after being thrown into the middle of a military coup plan.
Los Angeles, CA
Feyza, inspired by her migration to the US from Istanbul, reconciles her Eastern and Western identities through her female-led screenplays about global politics touching the most intimate human moments. Her pilots won Roadmap Writers Diversity Initiative and Atlanta Screenplay Awards. She has a PhD from USC Film School in addition to her degrees in ...
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Finalist
Feature
· Historical
· 100 Pages
Austrian-Jewish physicist Lise Meitner struggles to escape 1938 Nazi Germany while her work leads towards an earth-shattering discovery -- nuclear fission, the key to the atomic bomb.
- Verified WGA Member
Los Angeles, California
Luke was born in Rome, Italy, grew up in Annapolis, Maryland and attended William & Mary, where he mainly studied Ultimate Frisbee. He continues to do so in Los Angeles.
Prince Charming
Private
Finalist
Feature
· Animated
· 92 Pages
A transgender prince sets out to prove his manhood to his family by doing the one thing all princes do: rescuing a damsel in distress. Unfortunately for him, the damsel he chooses would rather burn the entire patriarchy to the ground.
Boston, MA
Adrien Callahan is dedicated to creating media for young audiences that focuses on diverse queer characters. His lighthearted-yet-poignant and often paranormal comedies focus on the struggles and joys of coming into your identity and coming out to the world. Adrien is also interested in how the world would look if we held friendship on the same lev...
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Finalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 30 Pages
In his last year of high school, a closeted trans man loses control of his double life when his girlfriend demands that he finally come out.
Los Angeles, California
Callie J. Waligora was raised all around the Midwest before driving cross-country to Southern California, where she now permanently resides.
Semifinalists
Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 103 Pages
A teenage girl struggling to survive in solitary confinement bonds with a guard conflicted over his role in a system that is ultimately found guilty of her murder. A true story based on the last days of Ashley Smith’s life inside a maximum security prison in Kitchener, Ontario.
Toronto, Ontario, CA
Nadine Pequeneza is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Her first fiction based on a true story, 1047 DAYS, was selected for the CFC/Netflix Calling Card Accelerator and the feature script was a finalist for the 2023 Humanitas New Voices Fellowship. In 2023 she completed her second screenplay RARE EARTH working with writing coach Pilar Alessand...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 94 Pages
Soon after AIDS emerges, a New York political candidate contentiously makes it a campaign issue.
Hunter, NY
Canadian-American LGBTQ+ unrepresented aspiring professional Screenwriter. Winner of The Black List / Warby Parker Writer's Vision Grant for his Feature Drama screenplay, "Not Walter Jenkins!".
Chipped
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 89 Pages
Unable to attend her father’s funeral in China due to her pending visa status, a Chinese whale researcher reunites with her mother in the U.S. instead. Their attempt to fulfill the dying wish of the father to see whales turns a road trip across the west coast of America into a journey inward, mending their seemingly irreconcilable gap.
Los Angeles, California
No bio available.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Family
· 110 Pages
A Boy Scout and his bully neighbor help an undocumented girl navigate LA's concrete jungle to reunite with her family, but little do they know she has a magical secret that will change their lives forever.
Los Angeles, CA
Marina graduated from AFI in 2019 and was voted to give the commencement speech. Her thesis short film about an undocumented girl who transforms into a mermaid won a DGA Award and a grant from AGBO. Her script about the Great Recession received an Alfred P. Sloan award. A propagandist at heart, Marina's goal is to inspire people to think about inc...
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Fear of Flying - Pilot
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 57 Pages
Join the glossy and glamorous heyday of commercial aviation when flying is for businessmen and the
wealthy, and all pilots are white males with military backgrounds. But beneath the surface, as we push
closer into the personal lives of the crew at regional Big Sky Airlines, their world is about to
be rocked by changes in the industry, and challen...
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No bio available.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 32 Pages
A young mother grapples with the realities of rural living while trying to survive as a member of the prestigious and competitive Seoul Metropolitan Traditional Music Orchestra.
Los Angeles, CA
Yeon Jin Lee is a Korean-American drama writer specializing in the thriller genre. Yeon Jin’s stories explore characters who straddle seemingly disparate communities in the United States, and spotlight women in STEM.
Her experiences as one of the few female engineers at UC Berkeley and NASA, and as a first-generation immigrant, have given her muc...
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Holy Shhh...
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 63 Pages
When a sheltered evangelical drummer from an Orange County Christian rock band is discovered by a queer music industry exec and finds herself falling in love with her, she must fight to reconcile her faith and her authentic self.
Los Angeles, CA
Former Catholic school girl turned "queer mayor of LA," I bring a background in playwriting, LGBT activism and music to my work. I've worked with names like Roberta Colindrez (on my projects) and Joey Soloway (on their projects) and am currently seeking representation. Always love to meet cool people.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Sci-fi
· 111 Pages
In the near future, Neutrals—individuals born without any physical gender—are criminalized and imprisoned. A bigoted prison guard is coerced by an escaped teenage Neutral into helping them in their race for freedom and safety. (Children of Men + Logan)
Woodland Hills, California
I’m an LA-based writer obsessed with telling stories about underestimated heroes forced to answer, “What would you do for family?” As the mom of a bio and an adopted kid, “family” means adoptive, step, found, & traditional.
I've recently optioned a script to an A-lister and my indy horror feature , “Murder Van” comes out in 2025. Other scripts...
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Not Our People
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Thriller
· 59 Pages
A conservative Mexican-American Border Patrol Agent's world is turned upside down when he finds out that he was, in fact, born in Mexico and has to hide his forged immigration status from his employer.
Jon Lazar is a Los Angeles-based Latino writer/director from NY. He is one of four children -- the only boy surrounded by three sisters and was a Zamboni driver before obtaining his MFA in writing from Columbia University. His work tends to focus on character-driven crime drama and mysteries with themes of mental illness and examining familial roots...
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Penned In
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 34 Pages
A hopeless female mail clerk wants to develop an intimate relationship with an inmate inside a minimum-security prison, while the inmates are desperate to maintain their relationships outside of the facility.
Los Angeles, CA
No bio available.
Prairie Girls
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 34 Pages
Somewhere on the Oregon Trail, Hattie Daniels’ first period sets her off in a frantic quest to reverse it in order to maintain her independence and avoid becoming a child bride.
No bio available.
Redoubt
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 109 Pages
In North Road, Alaska, a single mother reconnects with her own, as they find themselves embattled with a town matriarch and an illicit drug ring bearing all too familiar a resemblance to the industry already looming over their small town.
Kaelan Dickinson
No bio available.
SWEET, SWEET BOY
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 105 Pages
A hardened high school wrestler determined to win a state championship meets a fashion-obsessed young man who ignites a painful struggle with his sexuality, all while his life and his parents' marriage fall apart.
No bio available.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 110 Pages
A drama feature inspired by a true story. In West Baltimore, Anthony, a self-made and charming barber cuts hair at his beloved shop. But when gun violence erupts, he takes on a gruesome and routine task at the local funeral home’s morgue — repairing bullet trauma to the hairlines of deceased young Black men using donated hair from his shop’s floor.
Los Angeles, CA
Journalist by day, and multi-hyphenate actress, screenwriter, and hip-hop artist in Los Angeles. Her latest song "Queen's Gambit" is available on streaming platforms under artist name Chaseedaw. Nearly six feet tall, Chaseedaw has never been able to fit into any box. Raised in Roxbury, MA and a Boston Latin School and Boston College alumnae. Chaseed...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 34 Pages
After the death of her sister, Lottie, an aspiring photographer and avid party girl struggles to rebuild her life in Brooklyn without succumbing to her ever worsening bulimia.
Brooklyn, New York
Nia Ashley is an award-winning writer, producer, and media artist born and based in Brooklyn. Nia’s work explores how women’s intimate relationships (familial, romantic, platonic) impact them. Raised by career educators and multi-hyphenate weirdos in a multi-ethnic Black household, Nia conjures characters experiencing multiple identities at once.
Fellows
Fellow
Feature
· Drama
· 97 Pages
After being diagnosed with retrograde amnesia, Angel, a husband, and father, struggles to remember who he is. As memories and repressed feelings return, he realizes he’s been living his entire life in the closet, leading to an encounter with Joshua, an estranged high school friend he was once in love with.
No bio available.
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Fellow
TV Script
· Comedy
· 35 Pages
A teen girl on a family trip to Iran finds an unlikely companion in the troubled young neighbor boy who once asked her to marry him.
Los Angeles, CA
Growing up in St. Petersburg, FL, my friends and I joked that if we didn’t get into our preferred colleges, we could always work for the state hunting pythons.
My Muslim mother made me speak Farsi at home and my Jewish Dad and I recited the Sh’ma Yisrael together every day on the way to school.
On family trips to Iran, I played soccer in the s...
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Fellow
Feature
· Drama
· 90 Pages
An undocumented African immigrant with a love of 90's R&B, dreams of becoming a recording artist but when a coup in his homeland threatens the existence of his wife and daughter, he must make a drastic decision that will forever change him.
Bronx, New York
Terron is a storyteller from Hartford, Connecticut. A multi-hyphenate, Terron's first film, with he wrote, directed, and produced, was selected as part of the HBO Short Film Competition at the American Black Film Festival.
Terron is a Humanitas and Black Magic Collective fellow and was a finalist in the Stowe Story Lab SAGindie Fellowship. His ...
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Fellow
Feature
· Fantasy
· 105 Pages
In a faraway fishing village in the Philippines a girl makes a (soul) pact with an ancient forest spirit to resurrect her father. To keep him alive she has to reap and feed him the souls of the dying.
Barad-dûr, California
Jordan Guingao is a Filipino-American Screenwriter & USC MFA. He's worked for Tracy Oliver, Gaumont & Rideback Rise.
His stories echo a rich lineage of oral storytelling where characters journey to find truth in their most broken parts. Whether it's rom-com, magical realism or slacker sci-fi. His writing yearns to pinpoint the mundane mysticism n...
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Fellow
TV Script
· Drama
· 61 Pages
Set on an isolated Romani compound where young girls are sold as brides, a 17-year-old Romani girl fights for agency and reform after being forcibly sold into marriage.
Los Angeles, California
What started out as a little girl's means for escape, story has since grown in Julia's life as a promising career. Since the completion of her film 'Desde la Tierra Muerta,' Julia has taken meetings with major companies like HBO, Amazon, and Apple, without representation, evident of her go-getter personality. Julia is currently in pre-production for...
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