WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Lab |
Spring 2025
WeScreenplay is looking for stories from writers with underrepresented backgrounds. 6 writers will be selected to participate in a career-changing lab!
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Genre
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Representation Status
Winners
Winner
TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 54 Pages
After arriving on a Mars work colony, a misanthropic young woman is targeted by the company she works for and a strange group with unknown motives.
Washington
CJ enjoys writing female characters and narratives that challenge societal norms. She spent many years concealing her queer identity while studying at a religious university and is passionate about LGBTQIA+ representation on screen.
Currently, CJ is in various stages of outlining and writing scripts spanning genres such as crime, sci-fi, dystopi...
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MELANIE FROM HR
Private
Winner
Feature
· Thriller
· 96 Pages
After being misled, a woman uses her "resources" to wreak havoc on the man who broke her heart.
- Verified WGA Member
Studio City, CA
Born and raised in Nashville, TN, Asheleigh had two loves, ballet and writing. Realizing that dancing professionally was not for her, she worked briefly as a magazine writer then focused on TV writing. She worked on THE QUAD, before moving over to BLACK LIGHTNING. Her first credit earned her a nomination for Outstanding Writing in a Drama Seri...
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Winner
Feature
· Thriller
· 110 Pages
Cancer surgeon Moira Caldwell uncovers a conspiracy that seeks to squeeze profits out of patients, eliminating anyone who stands in the way.
Portland, Oregon
I'm a Portland Oregon-based writer of conspiracy thrillers and dramas with a side of comedy.
I'm also a cancer surgeon/scientist who adores T cells, math, visual arts, and cats.
I was privileged to use my patient advocate experience as an advisor on Here Awhile starring Anna Camp, Steven Strait, and Joe Lo Truglio and was featured in the Sundanc...
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Winner
Feature
· Thriller
· 98 Pages
Inspired by a true story, after being buried alive in a remote forest, a mother fights to survive, reclaim her life and discover who tried to kill her before they strike again. GONE GIRL meets ROOM meets THE SHINING
Oakland, CA
Hired to adapt Amanda DuBois' mystery novel UNSHACKLED with Ross Kagan Marks producing (THE RITUAL starring Al Pacino and Ashley Greene), Rosemary is a blend of her fearless Irish FBI agent dad and Italian tarot card reading mom. She writes Drama/Genre Features, went to Iowa, has an MFA and award winning book published by Fence. She has 2 scripts wi...
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Winner
Feature
· Sci-fi
· 107 Pages
An obsessive-compulsive grad-student is seduced into a beta test for an experimental neurotech that hijacks gifted minds to feed a parasitic sentience at its core.
Asheville, NC
DANIEL is an award-winning writer and filmmaker. He recently co-produced SITE, starring Theo Rossi and Arielle Kebbel. He is an alum of the IFP (Gotham) Emerging Narratives Lab as a writer-producer of WANDERLOST. He served as VFX Supervisor on AMC/Allblk series DOUBLE CROSS for 4 seasons, and won festival accolades as writer-director of his short fi...
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Winner
Feature
· Thriller
· 110 Pages
When her politically-divided church is threatened by extremists, a controversial pastor must fight to reclaim her pulpit as a skeptical FBI agent investigates her involvement in the threats.
North Hollywood, CA
Tosin is an actor, writer, director and proud son of Nigerian Immigrants now living in Kansas City, where he grew up.
He is most known for "Bass Reeves" (Paramount+) and “Run The World” (STARZ), “The Chi” (Showtime), “Black Lightning” (CW), and “Julia” (HBO).
On film, he stars in Amazon’s "Blackbox", "Friend Request" and "North of the 10" (B...
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Finalists
Finalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 107 Pages
A romantasy audiobook producer reeling from a break up accidentally opens up a portal that a hot knight from a magical world falls through, and now she must help him get back home while trying to keep her own life from falling apart. BOTTOMS meets ENCHANTED
Los Angeles, CA
Lissette Jean-Marie is a writer, improv comedian (UCB's Sing Out, Louise!), and Los Angeles local since birth. She plays D&D, flirts too much, practices witchcraft, and rewatches Fleabag Season 2 a worrying amount. You'll find her sipping on whiskey sours and arguing about the sex lives of Tolkien characters at bars after improv shows all around th...
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Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 89 Pages
Grappling with the loss of her father and the end of a long-term relationship, a young woman embarks on a cargo ship journey, where she and a young officer ignite a secret affair, exploring sex, intimacy, and what it means to live in the moment.
Los Angeles, CA
Writer-director Erin Cantelo has spent the majority of her adult life working on set, racking up thousands of hours of production experience. With a belief as a filmmaker you must live stories worth telling, her favorite accomplishments are her adventures, including a 4-month solo trip to Southeast Asia and a 16-day cargo ship ride home from Hong Ko...
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Cowboys
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Finalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 47 Pages
Men everywhere are haunted by visions of cowboys.
Los Angeles, CA
Karina is a playwright, poet, and screenwriter who has been published and produced widely. She is a certified death doula, and mother to three children. The writer's room is her favorite place to be.
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Her Husband
Private
Finalist
TV Script
· Thriller
· 49 Pages
A jealous wife hires a Zen-practicing nanny to save her marriage, unaware that the seemingly serene woman has been watching her husband from afar for a decade.
Los Angeles, California
Naomi Dong is a bilingual screenwriter working in Los Angeles.
She has published two novels in China and translated history and fiction.
She received her MFA in Screenwriting from USC School of Cinematic Arts.
Her first original TV series, "TA REN" was purchased by Wuyuan Culture Studio.
She is currently working on the police TV drama "Chujing" with...
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Finalist
Feature
· Horror
· 108 Pages
When a troubled teenager finds a mysterious kaleidoscope that warps her home into a shifting maze of supernatural horrors, she must unravel its deadly patterns before her family is lost inside forever.
Los Angeles, CA
Optioned screenwriter specializing in horror.
Before working in film, TV, and commercial production, Dan spent years writing for a popular entertainment news outlet, covering everything from celebrity gossip to true crime.
Finalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 55 Pages
After a perky children's librarian stumbles across a murder scene outside her library, she and her cynical coworker discover a knack for solving crimes with their unorthodox mix of literary trivia, research skills, and heartfelt community service. TED LASSO meets PSYCH.
Rikki writes dramas about people who break rules to do what's right. Her scripts may also include female friendship, authentic disability representation, & entirely too many swords. A homeschooled military kid with experience in journalism & libraries, Rikki was selected for a mentorship with a Netflix showrunner & has directed two award-winning sho...
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SUNSHOWER
Private
Finalist
Feature
· Drama
· 103 Pages
A young Chinese American man visits his ailing grandma with dementia, but she mistakes him for her long lost love. As he plays along with this new “role” out of kindness, he begins losing sight of his true self.
Stefanos Tai is a Chinese–Greek–American writer/director. His works remind us of a simple idea: we have more in common than sets us apart. He's played Tribeca, BAM, Cinequest, DOXA, Palm Springs, Hawaii, Houston, Singapore– and has been recognized from Asia Society, the United Nations, Scholastic, and several universities. He has also crafted brande...
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Finalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 58 Pages
THE REAL MCCOYS follows a legendary family of Boston con artists led by a brilliant young art forger, CAS MCCOY. When the most famous painting ever stolen suddenly resurfaces, Cas finds herself in the crosshairs of both the Russian mob and the FBI as she works to steal the painting back and save the life and legacy of the original thief: her father....
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Los Angeles, CA
Liz Tenan is a Boston-bred, British-educated and Los Angeles-based writer, creative coach and script doctor. She has written and developed projects with Academy Award-winning production companies PEARL STREET FILMS and BULL’S EYE ENTERTAINMENT. Liz’s pilot, THE REAL MCCOYS, was a semi-finalist at the 2022 Austin Film Festival & AMC one-hour drama co...
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Semifinalists
Semifinalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 94 Pages
A grieving nurse must survive a vengeful grizzly and the past she thought she buried when a healing trip with family becomes a brutal fight for their lives.
Lima, PE
With a lifelong career in the sports and entertainment industry, I bring a unique, high-energy perspective to storytelling. My deep understanding of competition, drama, and character translates seamlessly into my screenwriting. I recently completed my first screenplay and currently have twelve additional projects in various stages of development. Bl...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 112 Pages
After losing his chance at an engineering scholarship for embellishing his life story, a straight-laced people-pleaser secretly defies his strict immigrant parents and convinces a disgraced actor to help him win an acting competition that will pay for his dream college.
New York, NY
Quentin Owusu-Adjei Thomson is a New York-based actor, writer and comedian, balancing a life between engineering and the arts. Think Troy Bolton, but with stricter African immigrant parents and a touch more hormonal rage dancing on golf courses. Inspired by the zany spirit of 80s coming-of-age films, Quentin’s work defies stereotypes by casting unde...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 54 Pages
In 1692 Salem Village, a lonely, displaced orphan falls in with a gang of troubled girls only to find herself at the center of a deadly witch hunt. As disinformation spreads and innocents die, her crisis of conscience transforms her from accuser to accused.
Ipswich, MA
SARA HALLOWELL is a writer/ director of film, television and theater. Her short films have garnered multiple accolades, including a Panavision grant and Best Short Film/Audience awards at U.S. festivals. She won awards through Filmaka's international competition, judged by directors Werner Herzog, Neil LaBute and Wim Wenders, among others. As a scre...
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Jersey Devils
Private
Semifinalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 75 Pages
When two Asian-American brothers accidentally kill someone in self-defense while on a camping trip, their attempts to cover up lands them in a small town controlled by an ancient family whose suspicion of outsiders unveils a monstrous secret.
Inglewood, California
Joseph's homeschooled upbringing afforded him with few friends and unbounded amounts of time to make short films with his siblings, practice magic, and fail at calculus. He is a Film Production graduate of USC and now works in Los Angeles as a writer, director, and cinematographer.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 34 Pages
A struggling cult leader brings in a new follower, however their popularity and natural ability to spread nirvana, creates a rift of jealousy.
Vancouver, British Columbia, CA
Based in Vancouver, BC, Canada, Cody is a writer, comedian, director, and producer.
Cody recently worked in production on A24's feature film ETERNITY.
Cody was the Associate Producer and contributing writer of HyperObject and Disney's cult-hit MOTHERLAND: FORT SALEM.
Cody has had many unique life experiences from his childhood of moving o...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 36 Pages
In 10BC Nazareth, Galilee, 17 year old bad ass bitch, Mary and her girl gang pushback against the rigid laws of the old testament. After an empowering hut party Mary finds herself with child which is punishable by a stone or two to the head.
Los Angeles, CA
After being told, "You're the funniest person I know!" for the 5th time, Rylee realized that she had no other choice but to move to LA and become the most successful comedy writer ever! Since landing in La La Land, Rylee has worked on the adult animated series- Venture Bros. and Sausage Party: Foodtopia, where she learned everything there is to know...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 33 Pages
A young woman who's lost all personal connections through her vengeful behavior stumbles upon the chance to have the friends she never thought possible and attempts to change her chaotic ways to keep them around.
Brooklyn, NY
No bio available.
Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 40 Pages
Based on a true story, Spaced Out is a half-hour workplace comedy about an eclectic group of museum guides who fight to keep their old school space museum alive in the age of anti-science.
Los Angeles, CA
Kalpana Pot is an actor, author, TV host, and space influencer with over half a million followers across her platforms. She's appeared on numerous TV shows and national commercials, and is a series regular on FOX's new show, Strange & Suspicious. Kalpana's approach to science communication is down-to-Earth (pun intended) and casual, as she wants to ...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Fantasy
· 60 Pages
Earnestine Bin's life is a disaster; when she's not lost track of her keys, she can't find her bra... or sometimes her toilet. But when a strange book comes into her life, things get even messier as strange soldiers, a multi-dimensional flirt, and even her coworkers begin to notice that her biggest flaw may actually be her greatest power.
Mesa, AZ
A childhood love of sci-fi led Marva to earn degrees in English lit, physics, and screenwriting. But growing up, she never saw herself - a chubby, multiracial, introvert - reflected in the stories she loved so much. While honing her craft in order to change this, Marva’s spent the rest of her time annoying people with her less-than-obvious mixed-rac...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 59 Pages
After their puff piece turns into a deadly scoop, two scrappy rural journalists unravel connections between a big bad corporation and supernatural climate-altering events, hoping they can save their world before it destroys itself.
New York, NY
Ashley Lara is a Mexican-American writer currently based in NYC who crafts stories of angsty outsiders thrown into insular worlds, blending the lines between comedy and drama. Her one-hour pilot, THE GATEWAY, was a quarterfinalist in WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Lab and the ISA Fast Track Fellowship (2024). When she’s not writing, Ashley can be foun...
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Semifinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 33 Pages
When a homely and unpleasant alcoholic develops a sentient back mole in the form of a gorgeous second head with a sparkling personality, the two must navigate life with different desires but only one body. .
Los Angeles, CA
Samantha Clay was born and raised in southern West Virginia. Her mother was a mountain, and her father was John Denver. After getting a BFA in acting from WVU, she drove out to Los Angeles to pursue her dream with nothing but a trunk full of shoes. When her plan to become immediately discovered was thwarted, she created her own opportunities by writ...
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Semifinalist
Feature
· Horror
· 95 Pages
While directing a music video at a remote religious compound in the Philippines, a filmmaker’s relationship with her producer husband begins to fracture as she grows increasingly drawn to her lead performer — a bond that draws the suspicion of the devout, who believe the two women’s connection is the work of something evil.
Tampa, Florida
Ryan Zarra went to film school in Cebu, Philippines. After graduating, he spent ten years working in advertising and marketing. He often thought about whether the things he was doing were useful, whether they mattered, or whether he had just let time pass. Advertising felt like a game where everything was about nothing. After a while, it felt like a...
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Quarterfinalists
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 33 Pages
Harvard is Iman's dream school. So after he gets rejected, he decides to take a gap year in his suburban hometown and re-apply. Naturally, he uses this opportunity to team up with his estranged childhood best friend and start a party-planning business: Pimp My Party. Now, Iman hopes to pimp out the entire Chicagoland area and finally get Harvard to ...
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Los Angeles, CA
Fresh off the mean college streets of New Haven, CT, Armanti Reed (they/he) is a young, ambitious TV writer with nothing new to say about life but lots of new ways to make fun of it. Effortlessly and seamlessly dominating the competition circuit at the moment, they are staking their claim as a voice for queerness, blackness, and general Gen-Z-ness. ...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 37 Pages
40 Acres follows the lives of five lifelong girlfriends who purchase a homestead together. Having all just crossed the 40-year mark, the ladies looked at their lives and decided to wake up from the American dream, toss aside societal norms and build a brighter future together.
Mcdonough, GA
Roni is a full time writer working on both live action and animated projects.
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 95 Pages
Runaway or missing? A withdrawn Chinese immigrant mother must confront the modern world she fears when her daughter disappears after publicly accusing a powerful man on social media.
New York, NY
Ran is an award-winning writer, director, who has crafted stories across various languages and mediums, focusing on themes of identity, immigration, and belonging. A graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, her debut feature, MODEL, was featured in Variety China and earned accolades at several Oscar-qualifying festivals. It received the Emerging ...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 92 Pages
In post-Roe Texas, married and unexpectedly pregnant Indian-American, Amal, falls in love with Charulata, a new bride from India, undoing their carefully constructed lives.
New York City, NY
Dini Parayitam is a writer/filmmaker based in NYC. She has an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in Fiction Writing (2014). After working on novels for a decade, she came to writing screenplays as a form of collaboration with other passionate artists.
She has written/directed the short film "All Your Yesterdays" and written/co-produced the short ...
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A Violent Flammable World
Private
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Horror
· 94 Pages
In a dystopian world, a dispirited headhunter must adapt when the mysterious authority forces her to kill and feed on those deemed undesirable.
Chicago, IL
JC has been the writer, director, and/or producer of over 20 short films. Her interest lies in women-driven horror, sci-fi, and thriller genres with strong social themes.
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 54 Pages
When her recurring nightmares morph into intrusive visions jeopardizing her career, a repressed high school teacher delves into the world of past life regressions to set her free from the past, embrace her future, and exonerate the last remaining convicted Salem Witch.
Long Beach, California
Mariyam was born in Bangladesh and spent her childhood in Saudi Arabia before her family moved to the USA in search of the American Dream. She has been shortlisted for Sundance’s New Voices lab, a semi-finalist for Screencraft’s Feature Film competition, and selected as a Film Independent Incubator Lab Fellow. As a Fellow, she wrote, directed, and ...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 60 Pages
An awkward teen at a strict, exclusive Catholic girls' school navigates tricky social dynamics and accidentally starts a cult.
Los Angeles, CA
Etta Gray is a Japanese-Swedish-Korean-American writer based in Los Angeles. Born and raised in Tokyo, she grew up watching Hollywood movies and yearning to live in the U.S. one day. Her stories draw on her immigrant experience and deal with themes around identity, belonging, and spirituality.
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 137 Pages
A young lawyer defends a Chinese PhD student accused of murdering his white professor, a case that reshapes her own cultural identity.
Hefei, CN
Born and raised in China. Had a degree in Psychology. Trained in theatrical arts from American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Lover and explorer of art, philosophy and spirituality.
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 57 Pages
After an aging writer struggling to break into Hollywood receives advice to try a backup profession, she discovers that it’s just as hard to build a career as an assassin as it is to staff as a TV writer.
Santa Monica, CA
Lori Crawford is a synchronized swimming, Christian erotica publishing, preacher's kid from a small Ohio town. After graduating from Washington University in St. Louis, she moved to L.A. to write television. She took a tiny detour and published five romance novels with Kensington among other publishers. Since returning to screenwriting, she's had se...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Horror
· 107 Pages
When an obese gay man loses weight, he must fight his former coping mechanism come to life — a physically perfect mirror image of himself — before it devours the people who threaten their bond.
Palm Springs, California
Hello,
My name is Kevin. I am a large, middle-aged, bald man who has decided that writing weird little scripts & horror movies helps to maintain what I affectionately refer to as "my sanity".
After becoming a bankruptcy paralegal, I thought, "Well, this kinda sucks. I'm not happy and I have no creative outlet." So, I dragged my large, bald middle...
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Apothecary Girls
Private
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 36 Pages
In medieval Italy, a nosy teen girl discovers that her secretive mother, an apothecary, owns an underground husband-poisoning business and joins her in protecting the women who need their help. Together, mother and daughter must evade the insane but very real danger of being burned at the stake.
Mashael Alqahtani is a Saudi Arabian, Muslim writer based between Los Angeles and Saudi Arabia. Her work often depicts women confronting their stunted adolescence, their innermost desires, and the horrifying perils of being a grown-up; she writes what she knows. Mashael earned a BA in Film Production from Emerson College, an MFA in Writing for Scree...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 97 Pages
A woman who's gone on an endless series of bad dates finds out it was part of a spy testing program, and that she’s passed. She joins a super secret agency, and must protect the world against an oncoming space alien invasion.
New York, NY
Navid is a screenwriter and native New Yorker, even if some claim that Queens doesn’t count (it totally counts). He is a two-time Finalist in the Launch Pad Pilot Competition for his works, PASTOR KAMAL and NICE BRIEFS. His writing has also been recognized by the PAGE Awards and ScreenCraft. Navid’s work often engages with his Iranian-American and L...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 51 Pages
Raven, a rising star at a prison management firm designing the world’s tallest prisons, learns of the government’s plan to accelerate its ongoing institutional eradication of African Americans. Now, she risks everything to disrupt their plans, with only her childhood friend by her side.
Mission Viejo, CA
Adrienne is a nerd, a gamer, and an academic in media studies. She has earned degrees from the USC School of Cinematic Arts, Dodge College at Chapman, and a doctorate from Claremont Graduate University. Adrienne’s dissertation on transmedia storytelling uses Naughty Dog’s video game, "The Last of Us" and HBO’s "The Last of Us" series to explore the ...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 62 Pages
As the Irish mob muscle into 1920s Harlem, a black vet turned barber must choose between protecting his peace or protecting his people from the man they call ‘The Killer.’
(Inspired by true events) Watchmen meets Peaky Blinders
New York, NY
Raised in Atlanta but blessed to travel the globe, Cam is a 6’6 giraffe, writer, and producer focused on telling stories where characters grapple with identity and belonging. Though he got his start writing and producing on Wild n Out, his interests span several genres including historic dramas, fantasy, sci-fi, and thrillers. Short term goal: hone ...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 64 Pages
When a dead Native woman surfaces at the Paradise Springs Indian Reservation, FBI Special Agent Chelsea Laforte can’t understand why the community won’t seek justice. She finds an unlikely ally in tribal outsider Samantha Deboda who has nothing left to lose. The two women must work together in order to expose the work of a nefarious organization hel...
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Los Angeles, CA
Liz Tenan is a Boston-bred, British-educated and Los Angeles-based writer, creative coach and script doctor. She has written and developed projects with Academy Award-winning production companies PEARL STREET FILMS and BULL’S EYE ENTERTAINMENT. Liz’s pilot, THE REAL MCCOYS, was a semi-finalist at the 2022 Austin Film Festival & AMC one-hour drama co...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Fantasy
· 59 Pages
After discovering her husband's betrayal, Prim joins forces with Jolene and her group of empowered sex workers. Together, they embark on a daring quest to find a legendary treasure and reclaim their destinies on the high seas.
Los Angeles, CA
Maddie Chavez, a Chicana writer based in LA, was raised by a single conservative father alongside her 3 spirited and outspoken sisters in a household where opinions clashed, but stories were plentiful. She further crafted her voice at Chapman University, studying TV Writing & Production, BFA. Most recently, she was a part of the 2024 National Hispan...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 67 Pages
In 1963 San Francisco, a troubled young man embarks on a journey to unravel the mysteries of his past and unearth secrets that bind the living and the departed.
San Jose, California
A media curator who curates media sometimes.
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 51 Pages
When a sophisticated cyber-attack plunges America into a cash-only economy, a tenacious ex-agent, haunted by her husband's mysterious death, discovers links between the crisis and a shadowy group tied to his murder, forcing her to unravel a conspiracy to protect her son and the country she loves.
Inglewood, CA
Katrina Jaxson is a drama writer with an unapologetic voice and a sharp eye for high-stakes storytelling. A former teen mom who rewrote her own narrative, she crafts gripping stories about survival, power, and the underdog’s rise. Named one of ISA’s Top 25 Screenwriters to Watch in 2025, her work is fearless, bold, and unflinchingly real. An HBO vet...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 91 Pages
A teen runaway joins a touring death metal band, only to be trapped in a twisted relationship with the sadistic lead singer, who demands increasingly violent acts for a chance to play in the band.
Los Angeles, CA
Taylor Tejada is a Latine surfer and metalhead turned teacher. Raised on spooky Peruvian and Quechua folklore stories, Taylor witnessed his father's imprisonment and realized that the past is a monster no one can outrun. Now, Taylor writes horror and drama scripts about characters forced to confront their pasts by making the biggest mistake of their...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 103 Pages
A heartbroken teen reporter teams up with the school’s star baseball player when his Editor-in-Chief (and the star’s big sister) steals away his childhood crush. Their mission: breaking them up.
Los Angeles, CA
Raised in Hialeah by extremely Filipino parents who moved to America with just $50, Eljohn decided to "blow it" and not become a doctor. To make things worse, he's a screenwriter now. He's placed in the Next 100 for 2020's Nicholl Fellowship and many others. He writes grounded & high-concept comedies usually centered around the Asian American identi...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Horror
· 103 Pages
Struggling to salvage their marriage, Andie and Caleb's getaway to Cedar Falls Bay spirals into a nightmarish survival ordeal when they discover they are prey for an annual “Hunt” that pits urban against rural.
Janet-Rose Nguyen is a filmmaker, writer, and actress based in Toronto. Her work explores the awful ways humans treat each other using comedy, horror, feminism, and queerness. Her work focuses on the Asian diaspora. Recently she was part of the inaugural Rising Voices Canada cohort presented by Hillman Grad, BIPOCTV & FILM and Indeed and pitched at ...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 37 Pages
Two gay, listless twenty-somethings accidentally become entangled with one of NYC’s most infamous mob families.
Los Angeles, California
Anika Hundal is an award-winning writer, sketch comedian, and improviser based in Los Angeles. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Screenwriting at UCLA.
City Kid
Private
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 59 Pages
City Kid follows the life of Ben, a 14 year old computer prodigy who comes of age in gritty inner-city Philadelphia.
Los Angeles, California
No bio available.
Colonial Dreams
Private
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Horror
· 112 Pages
Lola, a young Mayan woman determined to succeed in the exclusive Merida real estate world, tries to impress her patronizing boss by renting a beautifully restored hacienda to four privileged young Americans. But a vengeful ALUX, a Mayan trickster spirit, conjures the demons of the past intent on death and destruction in a chilling horror story set a...
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New York, NY
I'm an independent writer/director. I've written, produced, and directed two microbudget award-winning indie features, Seaside, a revenge thriller with a queer twist, starring Ariana DeBose (Anita in Spielberg's West Side Story, original Hamilton cast), distributed by Gravitas, and You Belong to Me, a psychological horror movie with gay lead, distri...
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