Storytellers Initiative |
2021
SeriesFest is a non-profit organization, champions and empowers artists at the forefront of episodic storytelling.
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Genre
Format
Representation Status
Winners
Fuck! Summer's Over
Private
Winner
TV Script
· Comedy
· 39 Pages
Nothing screams anxiety like the last week of summer, especially when you’re two best friends determined to reinvent themselves before the start of high school.
Los Angeles, CA
Corey Dashaun is a queer writer and former middle school teacher from Rochester, NY who was most recently a story editor for Amazon’s THE RUNAROUNDS and BAND and a staff writer on Peacock’s ONE OF US IS LYING. In 2022, Corey participated in STARZ #Takethelead writers’ intensive. In 2021, he won the Seriesfest Storytellers Initiative Competition and ...
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Finalists
Finalist
TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 53 Pages
Exhausted from centuries of being able to rewind time and change every moment except his most painful, a tortured traveler begins "helping" others in order to befriend a grief-stricken detective who may just hold the key to his salvation.
Think DEXTER meets QUANTUM LEAP
Los Angeles, CA
A former teacher, mascot, and assembly line worker. Jeff Bower earned a BA in Mathematics from Binghamton and an MFA in Theatre from FAU where he received death threats for performing his thesis role. He has a play published by Samuel French and won/placed in 80+ script competitions in the last four years. He still hopes to achieve his 1st grade dr...
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Not Dead Yet
Finalist
Television (Half-hour)
No logline available.
Semifinalists
Aliki Raisis & Emma Rosenthal
Semifinalist
Unknown
No logline available.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Historical
· 56 Pages
In 1960s New York City, a young comic book fan joins the staff of a scrappy publishing company that must survive both its brewing creative tensions and the rivalry of a corporate Goliath bent on crushing them.
Los Angeles, CA
Jake's debut feature film SHEDDING -- a fantasy told from the perspective of his very own cat -- is available on iTunes and Amazon. His career began as an intern under Garry Marshall, whose tutelage inspired his current scripts. Between writing, Jake is a recurring guest on the podcasts THE CON GUY and BINGE MOVIES.
Barbara Ward Thall
Semifinalist
Unknown
No logline available.
Commie Party!
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 36 Pages
This logline was hidden by the writer.
New York, New York
AFI DWW+ Fellow 2024
Fulbright Scholar
NYU Tisch Film/TV alumni
Award winning writer/director
Feature Film: Julia Blue
David Jaher
Semifinalist
Unknown
No logline available.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 29 Pages
Based on real life experiences in grief group, COMMUNITY meets NEVER HAVE I EVER - After a rebellious teen girl's dad suddenly overdoses, she is forced to join a grief support center full of misfit kids.
Los Angeles, CA
Aliki Raisis & Emma Rosenthal are award winning writers who both grew up outside of Philly. Their scripts won distinction from the Comedy Screenwriting MFA at DePaul University/The Second City where they met. The stories they write are just like them- honest, funny, and a little fucked up with a lot of heart. They'll encourage you to laugh at a fune...
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East Coast Famous
Semifinalist
Unknown
No logline available.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 57 Pages
In 2050, the US Government enacts GeriOsity, an incentivized euthanasia program for the elderly, to counteract the effects of famine brought on by climate collapse. Samantha, an aging bio-tech engineer, races to develop a food solution before her time runs out. Handmaid’s Tale meets Logan’s Run.
Montclair, New Jersey
Barbara is an ex-advertising and technology exec who channels her sorrow, rage, and joy to write highly personal stories. Her work crosses genres, but always feature idiosyncratic, gender-defiant female characters and dysfunctional families at the center. She credits her career in advertising for her ability to craft crisp stories that deliver maxim...
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Jake Thomas
Semifinalist
Unknown
No logline available.
Jake Williamson
Semifinalist
Unknown
No logline available.
Joseph Gagnepain & Mike Fitzgerald
Semifinalist
Unknown
No logline available.
Katie Gruel
Semifinalist
Unknown
No logline available.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 59 Pages
Rejected by friends, his career in tatters, an alcoholic, gay actor seeks refuge in a Palm Springs trailer park inhabited by Hollywood has-beens, where he struggles with sobriety, HIV, caring for his mentally declining mother, while confronting 80’s AIDS hysteria.
Palm Springs, CA
An award winning writer, Mark's work focuses on the triumphs, struggles of LGBTQI+ individuals, by exploring the breadth of their unique and vital history. Mark utilizes his experience as a gay father, an English teacher in Japan, a multimedia artist, and an activist in his work. His filmmaking degree and years in production taught him the importanc...
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Mark Bowes
Semifinalist
Unknown
No logline available.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 33 Pages
Christian is a young Filipino American graphic designer with ambitions to break into the San Francisco music scene. When his best friend Koby starts to gain clout as a DJ, Christian becomes his creative director while still hustling for more gigs in a constantly changing city.
Los Angeles, California
Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Delon Villanueva is a writer, comedian, and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. He currently works as a video producer at Crooked Media. His half-hour comedy pilot, Model Minorities, has won multiple awards, including Best TV Screenplay in the Hollywood Just4Shorts competition, and runner-up at the 2021 Scr...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 27 Pages
After the death of her husband, Elise, a small-town, middle-aged woman, looks to the spray-tanned world of Hollywood fitness culture in hopes of a fresh start.
Los Angeles, CA
No bio available.
Raleigh Cain
Semifinalist
Unknown
No logline available.
Rodeo Queens
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 34 Pages
In the aftermath of their friend's death, two Rodeo Queens come together and produce the first all-women's rodeo show.
Los Angeles, CA
No bio available.
Ronald Eltanal
Semifinalist
Unknown
No logline available.
Roxy Toporowych
Semifinalist
Unknown
No logline available.
Tenure
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 54 Pages
On the verge of losing his job and livelihood, a naïve Iranian film school professor in Chicago must learn how to use sex, money, and violence to fight his cutthroat colleagues and win a job for life.
Chicago, IL
Ron is a Filipino-American professor-turned screenwriter. After a BA at Williams College and MFA at USC, he directed or edited films that screened at Sundance, Cannes and Torino. He left LA to help build a film school in Chicago, but got trapped by the golden handcuffs of tenure. Winning Script Pipeline First Look and fellowships at IFP Episodic an...
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The Majestic 12
Semifinalist
Unknown
No logline available.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 24 Pages
An aging wrestler, stuck in his glory days, fumbles through a hilarious battle against time, trying to outperform the young stars while learning to pass the torch.
Los Angeles, CA
I'm an award-winning writer, filmmaker, and owner of Kill the Pig Productions. My work has been recognized by LA Shorts Fest (Academy Award-Qualifying), Chelsea Film Festival and Amazon All Voices Film Festival. Notable achievements include numerous assistant and associate producer TV credits, and winning Grand Prize at the Asian American Internatio...
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The Witch of Lime Street
Private
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 63 Pages
The Witch of Lime Street is an hour-long drama about the battle between science and Spiritualism as told through a female medium's unyielding rise to power. It is a true story.
David Jaher
No bio available.
Tyler Ham Pong
Semifinalist
Unknown
No logline available.
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