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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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TV Script  · Thriller  · 51 Pages
Two women, a brilliant North Korean hacker and a dogged cybersecurity officer, find themselves working inside the same company with opposing missions: one is tasked with leaking intelligence to the enemy state, the other is tasked with preventing the leaks.
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East Hartford, Connecticut
As one of seven children, my chaotic childhood—easily compared to Shameless meets Cheaper by the Dozen—led me to write poetry, whimsical stage plays, and occasionally talk to the dead! Despite 18 years in Christianity, my supernatural fascination endures. Now, as a proud witch and psychic medium, I weave magic into my TV scripts. Join me for spine-t...
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TV Script  · Drama  · 57 Pages
Haunted by his mother's tragic murder, Christian, a teenage DJ, and his father, who wishes he'd get a "real job", reluctantly returns to Lostbrook, MA, as his grandmother's health falters. However, the town's eerie disappearances intensify, plunging him into a desperate race against time to unravel the chilling secrets lurking beneath its surface.
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North Hollywood, CA
Del Potter is an African American TV drama writer who was raised in a Paterson, New Jersey neighborhood with drug dealers and addicts who served as antagonists in his life. These antagonists also served as inspiration for Del’s introduction into storytelling. His writing voice became more urgent, gritty, and sharp; his characters’ flawed, relatable,...
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TV Script  · Drama  · 58 Pages
In 1970s Washington D.C., Lynn Dockery is a pawn in the FBI’s COINTELPRO, as she battles poverty, racial divide, and the fight to reclaim land that was stolen from her family.
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Los Angeles, CA
Madonna Diaz-Refugia got her start writing jokes for drag queens in Philly and now lives in Los Angeles where they write about mental illness and being queer in the Filipinx-American community. She was part of the inaugural class of the Mentorship Matters Fellowship and studied at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York. Her work has also...
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TV Script  · Comedy  · 31 Pages
Two Gen-Z besties get sent back in time by a magical amulet and are forced to travel through history to prevent celebrity deaths.
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Los Angeles, California
Raised by a hypercritical, single Mexican immigrant mom in a working class small town north of Chicago, Jon turned to horror to make sense of his fears and insecurities. Jon is former Army Military Police and an alumnus of Illinois State University (BA), the WGF Support Staff Training Program, and the WGF Veterans Writing Project. He was most recent...
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TV Script  · Drama  · 59 Pages
When rising pop-punk musician Kory Kroff refuses to leave rehab, his desperate agent recruits the estranged twin brother from Wisconsin—only to discover the sober, ruggedly charming twin is better in the role than anyone expected.
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Los Angeles, CA
Raised on teen soaps and hardcore music, Stephanie began her career as a fashion publicist and singer. The daughter of Cameroonian immigrants, she grew up toggling between opposing cultures. This dichotomy is what inspires and informs her work as a writer. Currently working in nonfiction, her recent credits include Mary J. Blige’s My Life (Amazon St...
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Short  · Comedy  · 11 Pages
After discovering her best friend crossed a major milestone without her, a high school graduate takes an unconventional route to experience her first kiss while stuck in isolation.
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Los Angeles, CA
Ashley Obinwanne is a Black lesbian writer and filmmaker who was born in New York and raised in Nigeria. She enjoys writing grounded, character-driven, dramas and dramedies about interconnected groups of people. Her TV pilot HONEY LAND made the Top 100 list in Launchpad's 2025 Pilot Competition. Her recent works include the stage musical Better Off ...
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TV Script  · Drama  · 47 Pages
The residents of a women’s separatist community in rural Arizona fight to preserve their way of life while contending with interpersonal conflicts and a spiteful neighbor who has a decades-old grudge against them.
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Los Angeles, Ca
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Los Angeles, CA
Rodrigo Carvalhedo is a queer, Brazilian writer-director-actor with a passion for surreal stories with personal themes. His pilot ENCHANTED ISLE, based on his hometown myths, won the UCLA TV Comedy Award. His award-winning film, WISHFUL THINKING, is his real-life coming-out letter, created to share with his family. Carvalhedo aims for his stories ...
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TV Script  · Animated  · 33 Pages
When a whimsical girl who embarks on adventures in the land of ImagiNation drags her uptight teenage brother with her, the lines between reality and fantasy start to blur.
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Los Angeles, CA
Born and raised in Detroit, J. Gabriel Ware is a product of the foster care system. Don’t worry: he turned out just fine. He has worked for ABC News, where he covered the George Floyd protests in New York and the Harvey Weinstein trial. He uses his journalism experiences and his life growing up in the ‘hood and navigating academia and corporate Amer...
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Feature  · Drama  · 115 Pages
As high school ends and college looms, a misguided 18-year-old struggles to weigh the sexual, emotional, and societal pressures surrounding his infatuation with a beautiful young woman and his desire to lose his virginity.
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Los Angeles, California
Stephen Ra-Choi is a Korean-American writer from New Jersey. His knack for storytelling grew as he spent most of his childhood stuck behind a church pew, drawing comics or writing short stories that were highly inappropriate for a pastor’s kid. Stephen became hooked on films and TV during the early 2000’s heyday of K-dramas and New Korean Cinema...
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TV Script  · Drama  · 60 Pages
A Korean-American grandmother stakes her reputation, business, and life on the line as she investigates the sinister circumstances behind a double homicide in her family.
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Los Angeles, California
Saira Umar is a writer passionate about stories around the themes of identity, culture, family, following dreams, and fighting injustice set in a hopeful world, that sometimes have magic. Some of her past side-quests include working at Disney World, YouTube, musical theater, and being a HS teacher. Other interests include reading, mythology/world c...
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TV Script  · Comedy  · 30 Pages
Devi has just gone from never been kissed, to having two kisses, from two different boys in a week! But will these first kisses lead to more? A study group with both boys almost goes nuclear.
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Los Angeles, CA
Growing up as a queer woman in a persecuted religious minority in Iran helped Maaman develop a dark sense of humor which she later utilized for a career in filmmaking. She went from being a political prisoner at the age of 17 to becoming a political refugee in the US. After receiving her MFA, she pursued an academic career as a professor of fil...
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Feature  · Thriller  · 104 Pages
After following her mother’s last wishes to take her ashes to her home country, in the middle of a feminist revolution, Mona - An Americanized Iranian woman - discovers a web of family secrets that rewrites her entire past.
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Los Angeles, CA
Samuel C. Spitale is author of How to Win the War on Truth and Star Wars: Collecting a Galaxy. He's written for Huffington Post, Geek magazine, and Advocate.com. He's a Moth Story Slam winner, former puppet show performer, and collector of bad dates. When not writing, he can be found at Comic-Con giving presentations on media literacy or at the gym...
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Short  · Animated  · 11 Pages
After a long Halloween night, a Ghoul's rest is disturbed when Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy, and Werewolf wear out their welcome in this animated children's short.
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North Hollywood, CA
Boston born and LA based, Khadijah Iman realized her knack for entertaining and touching hearts after writing, illustrating, and performing a short story at her grandmother’s funeral when she was nine years old. She writes queer-led stories in the genre and procedural space - often exploring grief, identity, and social tensions. She’s a 2023 Writer...
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TV Script  · Fantasy  · 59 Pages
A Boston police detective traces the origin of a lethal drug to the heart of a war between Heaven and Hell while struggling to piece together her clouded past and connection to this age-old fight.
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Brooklyn, NY
Kyle Harris is a feature writer specializing in dark comedy and horror.
TV Script  · Comedy  · 37 Pages
As the "dot com" era takes off, a retired teacher grieving her late husband begins to explore the internet, where she's invited to participate in a series of increasingly criminal email challenges from a mysterious group preying on the lives of unsuspecting internet users.
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Los Angeles, CA
Growing up in the Western Ghats of India, Archana remembers racing home after school to watch reruns of ‘Who’s the Boss’ and ‘Bewitched’. She is a graduate of UCLA’s Professional Program in Screenwriting. Archana’s stories examine how South Asian and American societies and cultures, although on a macro level seem worlds apart, heavily depend on conv...
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Feature  · Drama  · 105 Pages
After numerous failed rounds of IVF, Mira convinces her single younger sister Jo to let her adopt her “oopsy baby”. Little does she know that this adoption will be the fight of her life when her own ‘Mommy Dearest’ comes knocking at her door with the biological father in tow.
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