WeScreenplay College Student Competition |
2021
We’re looking for college students who are ready to take the next step in their screenwriting career! If that’s you - we want to hear your voice!
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Winners
Winner
TV Script
· Comedy
· 34 Pages
Serial manipulator Des discovers there might be more to life than her career after a drug-fueled bender finds her waking up as the newest member of a peace-loving, anti-hierarchical Commune.
Los Angeles, CA
Born and raised in Sydney, Australia, Kerrod has been signed to a major record label, worked in cult-status start-ups, and once made his own video game. His experiences empower him to write irreverent comedies about the burned-out millennial condition; a combination of imposter syndrome, constantly shifting expectations, and the generational trauma ...
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Winner
Feature
· Adventure
· 116 Pages
In 1942, after crash-landing in the Sahara, an RAF pilot joins a Tuareg nomad and a bandit on a perilous quest to rescue a girl sold into slavery — a journey through desert myth leads to ambergris — a fortune born of whales — and the monstrous legacy of colonialism.
West Hollywood, CA
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• UCLA: Screenwriting, MSMU Film Production (Graduate).
• 3 Degrees (Film, Business, Law) in 5 countries (Spain, Italy, India, Thailand, USA).
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Repair the Carrows
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Winner
Feature
· Drama
· 96 Pages
This logline was hidden by the writer.
Jackson, New Jersey
No bio available.
Winner
TV Script
· Comedy
· 32 Pages
Queen Ayasha is enjoying her life as the sole ruler of the Sister Isles until an envoy from the Motherland delivers an ultimatum: get married within the year, or lose your crown.
Harlem, New York
Alle Mims is a political satirist and recovering fanfiction author whose writing blends history with fantastical worlds straight from the imagination of a nerdy Black kid. You can find them with their nose in a book or sifting through an archive, on the hunt for their next historical muse. Mims currently lives in New York, finishing their playwritin...
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Winner
TV Script
· Drama
· 52 Pages
During the 1970s in the South Bronx Lincoln Hospital killed so many Black and Brown people it was known locally as the “Butcher Shop”. In protest of the abysmal conditions, the Young Lords seize control of the hospital in a 12 hour standoff demanding improvements from the city.
Jackson Heights, NY
Karina (33, they/them) is a genre non-conforming writer driven towards action and drama narratives. Inquire if you're interested in journeying with Latinx heroines resisting assimilation into the American dream and siding with Black, Native and Queer America’s fight against the American nightmare. Her writing is informed by her decade as a grassroot...
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Winner
Feature
· Historical
· 99 Pages
After President Lincoln asks Harriet Tubman to embark on a dangerous spy mission for the Union, Harriet struggles to secure a map central to the Combahee River Raid all while tracking her lover who is missing in action. Turning the tide of the war, the unexpected hero discovers her greater call.
University Place, WA
I am a social justice advocate, a passion driven individual and a person with a powerful narrative to share for the purpose of uplifting community. I use cinematic storytelling as a tool to bring about social change and progress through addressing relevant social issues and bringing those issues from the background to the forefront of people’s minds...
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Winner
TV Script
· Comedy
· 34 Pages
A self-effacing trans actor (college dropout) living at home is cast by his former theater teacher as the lead role in his old high school’s winter musical, thus landing him back in the world of high school theater. This time as an adult.
Brookline, MA
Sam is a queer, Jewish, Colombian-American writer from Boston. Their work aims to give a unique, hopeful voice to the queer experience. Sam is passionate about the ways comedy can be used to diffuse the over-saturation of tragedy in queer narratives. They aim to write complex, messy queer characters who get to make their own punchlines instead of th...
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Finalists
Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 101 Pages
Based on a true story, a headstrong woman braves bombs and execution in ISIS-occupied Raqqa to protect her neighborhood and the home she built with her siblings.
Boston, Massachusetts
Drawing from her experiences as a Syrian-American, Laila is passionate about bringing Arab characters to the screen. She is a JD candidate at Harvard Law School and holds a master's in Film Aesthetics from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. She loves telling stories about stubborn female protagonists wrestling with thei...
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Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 94 Pages
An aspiring young black writer, Ivy, just wants to finish school and pursue her dreams, but everything comes crashing down when her scholarship board suddenly demands her missing meth addicted mother’s signature to keep her funding. Fighting to keep both her dream and her scholarship, Ivy’s hunt for her missing mother coalesces with her hunt to disc...
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Los Angeles, CA
Kayla Hardy is black woman of Louisiana creole descent, a topic she focused on during her time at Binghamton University where she earned her PhD in African American lit.
Kayla's work focuses on black female led genre-driven screenplays and novels. Her fantasy novel THE QUARTER QUEEN is the winner of the Launch Pad Prose Competition.
Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 108 Pages
An addict on the losing side of mid-life gets a shot at redemption through returning a lost wallet across the country, by any means necessary.
Los Angeles, CA
Co-raised by two gay couples in Los Angeles and himself identifying as queer, William is no stranger to the complexity of our very modern world. Having found screenwriting at 19 as a means of processing his grief after his twin sister was killed, William hopes to continue using his writing to offer comfort and solace to those in need and providing...
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Finalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 34 Pages
After a depressed woman mysteriously re-awakens in her coffin, she tries to uncover the meaning of her second chance at life.
In this show, rising from the dead isn't the scary part – that's living every morning after.
Los Angeles, California
Rikki's a neurodivergent comedy writer whose disability is also her writing superpower. A lifetime of learning the “script” of human interaction let her develop a voice that reveals the absurdity behind elements of life that seem so natural. Rikki’s a Disney Fellowship Semifinalist, Slamdance Winner, and somewhat popular Twitter comedian. She holds ...
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Rahul's Arrangement
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Finalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 94 Pages
A desperate gay man enlists his conservative, Indian family to help him secure an arranged marriage.
No bio available.
The House in Coyoacán
Private
Finalist
Feature
· Horror
· 95 Pages
When a Chicana teenager flees the U.S. with her mother to their ancestral home in Mexico City, she must unbind the sinister pact that has haunted her bloodline for generations before it consumes the women of her family.
Los Angeles, CA
Lore is all about pink-haired feminism, good ole' "Exorcist" horror, and razor-sharp magical realism. She studied Film and English at Stanford University and is now digging -or surviving?- the post-grad life in L.A. She writes female-centered Latinx stories that explore intersections between the horrific and the beautiful.
Finalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 65 Pages
When people-pleasing newlywed Naomi Clark crosses paths with a sardonic conwoman who shows her the cracks in her glossy existence, Naomi struggles not to unravel as she discovers what she really wants—starting with becoming an accomplice to the conwoman’s schemes.
Los Angeles, CA
Katie Adams specializes in dark female-centric stories. She recently graduated from UCLA's MFA Screenwriting program, where she was a two-time winner and three-time finalist of the school's Screenwriters Showcase. Before that, Katie studied film at Stanford University and grew up in the town of Big Bear Lake, which gave her a lot to write about.
Finalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 43 Pages
An idealistic and happy-go-lucky high school drummer joins an elite high school marching band in the town of Wallington TX, but descovers a dark underbelly that tests how far they will go to survive in the band.
Chicago, IL
Andrew is a 24 year-old writer and comedian. He is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago. He has performed stand up comedy in venues such as Caroline's On Broadway and The IO Theater and has written 2 features, including The Unkind which is on Amazon Prime. His pilot “Wallington” was a finalist in the WeScreenplay College Competition.
Semifinalists
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 34 Pages
When, at the age of 65, a townie and naïve grandpa is taken out of the closet, he moves to Los Angeles to live with his sex-positive grandson who shows him the many flavors of gay as he tries to find the one that suits him best.
Los Angeles, CA
Eric Pou is a queer immigrant from Brazil who came to L.A. to become the Carrie Bradshaw of Silverlake. He wants to live it all, and then write funny TV shows about his crazy experiences. He holds a bachelor's degree in Screenwriting and completed UCLA’s prestigious Professional Program for Writing TV Comedy. He writes comedies about the absurdity o...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Horror
· 47 Pages
Following a tragic cargo ship crash in the Bermuda Triangle, a group of survivors are left to fend for themselves in an effort to get off the island and return home before it is too late.
Los Angeles, California
Maya Baskin is a Chinese-American horror screenwriter. Being adopted at a young age allowed her mind to travel into an abyss of curiosity. This has led her storytelling to focus on ambiguous themes, such as the supernatural and the unknown.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 99 Pages
On their own after the death of their mother, two brothers struggle to figure out what to do with the rest of their lives, while dealing with the all-consuming power of loss, and the resurgence of their troubled family past.
Playwright and Screenwriter
Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 85 Pages
At the height of World War II, a precocious Japanese girl is sent to an internment camp in Wyoming where she's forced to contend with a tyrannical soldier and a vengeful shaman.
Los Angeles, California
Raised in rural Wyoming with limited means of entertainment, Aaron spent his weekends at the local theater where he fell in love with film. Today, he's a professional screenwriter who specializes in psychological drama and elevated horror thanks in part to his graduate studies in clinical psychology at Pepperdine University.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 47 Pages
When a foster teen goes missing, an insecure therapist and an overworked social worker must find him before he's exploited and trafficked by his imprisoned mother's boyfriend and former boss.
Inglis, Florida
Tricia Horvath is a drama writer from a small, southern town who’s explored the world as a military spouse. She’s passionate about stories that flaunt authenticity and challenge preconceived notions, connecting conflicting communities through their similarities. Tricia’s first step into the world of TV and film production was as a script supervisor ...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 45 Pages
A returning-citizen manages to get a job at his old high school, but because of his small town's views about ex-cons, they make him supervisor of trouble-makers in the Detention Center. As someone who constantly has their identity boxed in, the children end up relating to him more than any teacher...that doesn't mean they make his job easy, of cours...
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Arlington, Virginia
Kevin (he/him) is Southern writer who combines warm-hearted comedy with social criticism to create enjoyable and edifying escapades. As manager of an indie bookstore, he is never short on inspiration. Some of his favorite hobbies include reading world mythology, listening/playing music, and making films with his friends.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 33 Pages
An overlooked and disgruntled tech worker is forced to work with other top diversity picks from competing companies to form a coding academy for underprivileged youth.
Erica Jacobs-Ware
No bio available.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 35 Pages
Fumbling her way through the jaded and unfamiliar world of an Ivy League law school, an optimistic perfectionist must learn to let go in order to make the most out of life.
Los Angeles, California
Gesley Alexis is a first-generation Haitian-American actor, writer, and attorney from Queens, New York. After graduating Duke Law School, she practiced bankruptcy law on Wall Street while squeezing in time to take sketch comedy and screenwriting classes in the city. Then, after a quarter-life crisis, she quit her job to commit to the arts and fulfil...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Fantasy
· 63 Pages
A father and son shaman duo ride into a small town seeking a mysterious healer who can cure the son’s fatal spirit sickness. When they choose to help a morose hotel owner and his daughter, they embroil themselves in the townsfolk's lives and the corporate powers that own them.
Oakville, ON, CA
My name is Alok Revi. I am an Indian writer living in Canada. I mostly write about difficult family relationships, living 30 years with an undiagnosed invisible disability and the everyday heartbreaks of being an outsider - albeit in a heightened story world where magic is fair game. Because sometimes you need the cover of magic to speak real truths...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Action
· 114 Pages
On the night of her father's murder, the daughter of a notorious crime family helps an eager FBI agent piece together what happened, all while battling her inner struggles of the inevitability to uproot her normal life and take her place as rightful successor.
Toronto, Ontario, CA
Masters of Architecture grad from the University of Toronto.
Semifinalist
Feature
· Horror
· 88 Pages
When an unappreciated, ex-ballerina mother discovers an alternate world in her bathroom mirror, she must decide to stay in the real world with her family or get lost in her beautiful escape.
Atlanta, GA
Abigail Kemp is a Chinese American adoptee inspired by storytellers. She discovered her passion for storytelling through her background as an adoptee and is a product of the compelling artists and visionaries in her life. A recent university graduate, she develops her storytelling through screenwriting, video production, and editing.
Sketchy
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 104 Pages
Desperate after her expulsion from NYU, former fine arts prodigy and current hot mess Cam Harrington embarks on an impossible mission - rouse the reclusive painter Neil Fish from his self-imposed exile upstate. As the pair’s unlikely friendship forms, they begin to teach one another about embracing vulnerability, accepting help, and what it truly me...
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Chloe is most comfortable when she has a hefty “to-do” list, and she's never been the kind of person inclined to keep one plate spinning at a time. In May of 2020, she achieved her lifelong goal of graduating college in her childhood living room. Since then, Chloe's worked at a preschool, where she's learned how to deal with lots of crying and screa...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Historical
· 105 Pages
Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, an idle aristocratic family is forced to share their beloved Moscow apartment with a working-class communist family.
Los Angeles, CA
Born and raised in Moscow, Sasha Lebedeva is a writer-director based in Los Angeles, CA.
My first screenplay “The Red Roommates” became an Academy Nicholl Fellowship Quarterfinalist in 2022.
I was commissioned to make music videos for such clients as U2, Interscope, Warner Records and 88rising & had short films screened at Oscar-qualifying N...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 112 Pages
Presumed dead, a cantankerous retired assassin hides out in a senior living facility. When the CIA tracks him down, he must enlist his fellow residents to trade in their walkers for weapons to defend their nursing home against a death squad.
Ohio
I'm a writer and film fan from Akron, Ohio. I studied film at Cleveland State University and screenwriting at Loyola Marymount University. Growing up, I fell in love with films ranging from James Bond to Mel Brooks' comedies. I use that inspiration in my writing, mixing genre elements together with a dose of absurd comedy.
Quarterfinalists
99¢ Dreams
Private
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 123 Pages
Desperate to post bail after the love of his life is seized by ICE, an undocumented dishwasher descends into the underbelly of California’s Central Valley and a bloody bidding war for the severed head of a man everyone is looking for.
No bio available.
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 104 Pages
A young nurse at a psychiatric ward tries to protect a patient's manufactured family when the doctors decide to destroy them as a form of healing.
Orange, CA
Patrick Skeyhill is a filmmaker and playwright who seeks to understand what is hidden beneath the world around him. . After completing his BFA from Emerson College in 2012, his production company went on to produce features, documentaries, shorts, animations, and podcasts. He recently moved to the west coast to earn his MFA from Chapman University.
Argos
Private
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Thriller
· 59 Pages
This logline was hidden by the writer.
Brisbane, Queensland, AU
Ellen studied Journalism then worked as an English Literature teacher in LA and Australia, helping students tell their best stories. Now she’s telling hers, with a focus on dark dramas, that have mystery elements, themes of loss, and complex, imperfect female characters. She recently worked as a Dialogue Editor on RUBY’S CHOICE, starring Jane Seymou...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 98 Pages
A former fashion designer struggles to stitch her life back together after a car crash leaves her with amnesia, but doesn’t know whether she can trust her doting husband - or even her own mind.
Los Angeles, California
Amber Lena was born and raised in SoCal in what she fondly refers to as suburban hell. As with many of the nerdy misfits of the world, she was drawn to storytelling from a young age, first as an avid reader and then as a writer. A self-described Italian-American Chicana, she is passionate about embracing cultural diversity in her scripts.
Best Four Years - "Speed Dating"
Private
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 40 Pages
Two college freshmen with more acne than game pose as dating connoisseurs for their reality webseries while searching for their soulmates.
Chicago, Illinois
No bio available.
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 94 Pages
A man grieving over the loss of his son finds an unexpected friendship in an odd boy from a local asylum, but he finds that those running the asylum aim to keep them apart.
Bergman Island, Se, SE
Story Academy is a Swedish screenwriting school
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 83 Pages
In this supernatural dark comedy, a pathetic Irish fishmonger must survive a sex pact with an ancient sea creature in order to save his mother's soul from burning in hell.
Los Angeles, CA
Neil Ferron is a writer/director from the suburbs of Seattle. At age 5, his dad exposed him to Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. At age 9, his mom showed him Silence of the Lambs. His work—whether film, theater, or fiction—is an attempt to merge the ridiculous, the terrifying, and (thanks to 17 years of Catholic school) a need to overcome shame to find vulner...
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Quarterfinalist
Short
· Drama
· 23 Pages
A platonic cross-generational friendship about a young nurse with intimacy issues and a lonely western actor find solace within one another as they cross the line between friendship to family.
Palm Beach, FL
Lauryn Eisenstein, 27, is a multi-award-winning writer & filmmaker, who has devoted her entire life to creating meaningful films for all to see. A good film needs impactful & relatable characters, a plot to mirror those characters, & strong themes.
Lauryn considers herself to be a character writer as she finds people to be very interesting. She als...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 32 Pages
To save their division, a ragtag group of omnipotent beings must get an aimless life coach back on track when she discovers fifty isn’t so nifty.
Fort Mill, SC
Born to a teenage single mom and the redheaded stepchild of not one but two alcoholic stepfathers, Melody Herr is as industrious as the factory she grew up next to. Both hardworking and adventurous, she fled Detroit to spend years living and traveling around the world with her growing family. Now, she escapes through her passion for telling universa...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 30 Pages
From Ivy League to IV drugs, a Harvard student who overdoses is sent to sober living, where a diverse group of misfit residents will drive him to suicide or show him the road to recovery.
Boston, MA
Donovan is a Florida man turned Yankee into TV dramedies, high-concept horror, and late-night. A neurodivergent recovering addict and Harvard alum, he's fulfilled the mandatory prerequisites to be a TV comedy writer. His humor is dry, dark, and acerbic — he's dry, pale, and bitter.
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 108 Pages
After waking up in a universe where they were born a girl, a high school senior is forced to navigate a complicated new world whilst confronting who they really are.
Strathfieldsaye, Victoria, AU
No bio available.
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 103 Pages
In this dark sexual comedy, a sexually repressed and anxious gay man has one goal after learning he’s dying in a few months: to have as much sex as possible. He hires a charismatic sex worker to help him to become a hoe, but what starts as a professional relationship might develop into something more.
Los Angeles, CA
Eric Pou is a queer immigrant from Brazil who came to L.A. to become the Carrie Bradshaw of Silverlake. He wants to live it all, and then write funny TV shows about his crazy experiences. He holds a bachelor's degree in Screenwriting and completed UCLA’s prestigious Professional Program for Writing TV Comedy. He writes comedies about the absurdity o...
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Quarterfinalist
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.
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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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 65 Pages
In an alternate history the Roman, Mayan, and Han empires have acquired railroads, electricity, and gun powder and are barreling towards a global steampunk apocalypse.
New York, New York
Andrew is a Swiss-American Filmmaker and aspiring TV Writer working in New York. He has produced multiple independent feature films including the award winning NOWHERE, MICHIGAN, which he also wrote, and is being distributed by Gravitas Ventures. At present, Andrew is finishing up his MFA in TV Writing at Stony Brook University and is seeking litera...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 69 Pages
After a train robbery goes belly up, the McAllen gang is scattered over the Texas prairie. Legendary outlaws Jack Duggan and Quinn Connely are on the run. Separated from allies, with bounty hunters on their heels and a dying kid in their care, Jack struggles to keep them moving forward as Quinn begins to question why he returned.
Los Angeles, California
Growing up in farm land, my creativity grew simply to stave off boredom. Siblings were my adventuring party, the wood beside our house was any setting I needed and the stories we came up with slowly became my portfolio. I took that passion to the University of Michigan where, according to professors, I learned to format it pretty well. I'm here now...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 31 Pages
After a quick bout of death, a disowned queer law school grad starts their new job: Interning at a firm that represents the dead, the undead and the living dead.
São Paulo, BR
B Paolucci is a non-binary Brazilian writer and game designer. They won minor awards, completed a Screenwriting MFA with Cum Laude status, and are currently working as a writer's assistant on a Disney+ original series. B is sad that Coverfly is closing down.
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 28 Pages
A hard working graduate, with much experience, decides to help a stressed out CEO manage his slacker writers into writing new stories everyday to bring back his news company and form a new reputation.
Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, GB
Andrew is a New York City native, now residing in the U.K. He has a Bacholors Degree in creative writing while double minoring in film and psychology at Pace University. He's also done work with TNT, SHOWTIME, and MTV. Andrew even wrote two award winning screenplays for Top Choice, THE SENSUAL FIGURINE and A GRAVE REQUEST.
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 95 Pages
Faced with rapid gentrification, a high school athlete turns to teenage party promotion in hopes of saving his family and loses himself in the process.
Washington, DC
Quamé Hamlin is an emerging writer-director. He is a Cine Qua Non fellow, PAGE Awards finalist, and Showtime Tony Cox Screenplay Competition finalist. His work has been recognized internationally and has screened at multiple Academy Award-qualifying festivals.
With a Master of Fine Arts from American University and a Bachelor of Science from Norfo...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 35 Pages
In 1587, a colony of screwy settlers does its best to make it in the New World before they all go mysteriously missing.
Playa Del Rey, CA
An up and coming television writer with a passion for the hopeful and the sardonic. He is always looking to grow as a writer and challenge his skills with new projects and genres!
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 91 Pages
Amelia Rincón, an oversexed art student, and her North American boyfriend, Andy, must confront their fears of loss and grief when news that Amelia’s mother is dying sends them on a frantic road trip across Colombia.
Astoria, NY
I am a playwright and screenwriter from Bogotá, Colombia. I reside in New York, where I assist in the creative development and production of various documentary projects for independent filmmakers, exploring humanity's relationship with nature in poetic and experimental ways. In my free time, I write scripts about tragic and magic Latinas who feel ...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 62 Pages
In a future US in which the Selective Service Act has been amended to include women, a stubborn individualist enlists to ensure her drafted younger sister makes it home safely, but encounters misogyny and shifting gender tensions within her unit along the way.
Bensalem, PA
No bio available.