Storytellers Initiative: Wondaland Pictures |
2022
SeriesFest & Janelle Monáe & Wondaland Pictures are looking for episodic content featuring radical and rebellious stories.
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TV Script
· Drama
· 57 Pages
When a hurricane barrels through a small North Carolina town, the vanishing of a girl and a fugitive sets off the reawakening of a Black utopia, hidden and long-forgotten.
California, Pasadena
2024 Sundance Episodic Intensive Fellow
2023 SeriesFest x Wondaland Storytellers Initiative
2022 Gotham TV Series Lab Fellow
Semifinalists
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TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 58 Pages
A small town is thrown into crisis when sweet, unassuming teenager Betty Lee goes missing on prom night - and then returns, three days later, as a 36 year-old woman.
New York, NY
Allyson Morgan is a writer, actress, producer, Columbus, Ohio native, and graduate of The Ohio State University. She is the founder and Executive Director of the award-winning film and theatre collective F*It Club. She loves fruit pies, bourbon, and naps.
Allyson was named one of just five winners out of thousands of entrants from over 63 countri...
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Countertenor
Private
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TV Script
· Drama
· 59 Pages
After a young, troubled Black opera singer suffers a catastrophic meltdown at the most renowned school of classical music on earth, he must choose whether to kill his dream in the hopes of healing, or risk his life to reclaim his voice.
Los Angeles, CA
Xavier is a Black-Indigenous award-winning television writer who creatively obsesses over forced asymmetrical class interactions and self-deluded nepobabies. Loves: Witty, propulsive, unpopular observations. Hates: Laziness. Bias-affirmation. Banality. Licorice. He has won official selection in the Impact x Skydance Premium TV Drama contest and the...
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TV Script
· Drama
· 66 Pages
An ambitious billionaire scientist vengefully tracks down the birth parents who abandoned her to use them in an experiment to cure her rare disease.
No bio available.
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TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 60 Pages
When a beaten-down, VR-obsessed teen wins a coveted internship at a nefarious metaverse company on an isolated island, she plays painful experimental games to keep her internship, unaware she's become the pawn of a rogue A.I.
No bio available.
ELLIES
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 57 Pages
When an unexpected visitor arrives in her city, maverick senator Athena Napoli must stop the colonizer before he invades the entire country.
No bio available.
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TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 61 Pages
A serialized episodic drama about 2 scientists working for a shadow division at the Dept. of the Interior that secretly investigates scientific phenomena and controls the flow of information to the public. It’s a diverse reversal of the X-Files… They’re covering up the truth vs. exposing it.
- Verified WGA Member
Los Angeles, California
Calof started writing comedy features until he turned to sci-fi & thrillers. Marvel hired him to write The Hulk, then an Emmy-winning Netflix show (as a result)- He also crafts the occasional chiller.
Calof sold his first 3 feature specs to Sony, Constantin & Disney. He was a finalist for the Universal Writers Program & the Sundance Screenwriters L...
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TV Script
· Horror
· 58 Pages
A journalist must come to terms with her father's past when she begins investigating the mysterious disappearance of her sister and other young Black girls who have gone missing in her town - only to learn that something more sinister is at play.
Ontario, CA
Jon is writing the stories their ancestors didn’t get to to tell. They are a 2021 Disruptor, a WGA Writers’ Access Support Staff Training Program Fellow and former intern for Chernin Entertainment. They have also worked as an Executive Assistant to Colman Domingo and Edith Productions. They have placed as a semi-finalist in the Sci-Fi Screencraft C...
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TV Script
· Other
· 67 Pages
The Last Resort is a satirical, black comedy-drama, set at an assisted suicide resort, about an unambitious maintenance person who confronts the resort’s exploitative practices in an effort to uncover the truth behind her girlfriend’s suspicious suicide.
Los Angeles, California
Born and raised in Lowell, Massachusetts. An optimistic nihilist. Peter writes social commentary, walking the line between flippant and poignant, while challenging the world's hypocrisies without ruining your day.
The Queen's Warriors
Private
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TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 51 Pages
Three black girls from 2022 are trapped in a strange new sci-fi world full of monsters and mayhem while on an expedition.
Video Production became a part of my life at an early age. At age sixteen, I was managing local R & B bands in the Kansas City Area. By the age of seventeen, I co-wrote, produced directed and edited my first music video. By the ripe old age of eighteen, a cousin and I had formed a production company. The company was operated in the basement of my pa...
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