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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Quarterfinalists
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 34 Pages
A newly minted Harvard reject, Iman Fick decides to take a gap year 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 notice him.
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 A withdrawn Chinese immigrant mother must confront the modern world she fears when her daughter disappears after publicly accusing a powerful man on social media.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
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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.
Glendale, CA
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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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Horror
· 94 Pages
A British-Indian teenager in suburban London, haunted by guilt over her mother's death and struggling with her secret sexuality, discovers her family is being stalked by a vengeful entity tied to a dark family secret originating in India, forcing her to confront demons, both literal and figurative.
Brooklyn, NY
Saurin's path to becoming a screenwriter was unique. Growing up in Texas as a closeted gay Indian, he used his imagination for solace. He had to settle for marketing due to the '08 Recession, but found the courage to pursue filmmaking and share experiences of bipolar disorder & substance abuse. Through these challenges, he has used his life as a Que...
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Contingent
Private
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Horror
· 108 Pages
In a last-ditch effort to save their marriage, Mia and Emily retreat to their new lake house—only to face the house's unhinged former owners, who will stop at nothing to reclaim it.
Nyc, NY
Makana Lani is a queer writer based in NYC. She is the current Director of Communications for Moonshot Initiative, a non-profit organization dedicated to creating equity for women in film and television.
Her feature script CONTINGENT is part of the Black List's 2022 Latinx List and through this initiative she received a blind script deal with Netf...
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COOKIE + ISAAC
Private
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 35 Pages
No logline available.
No bio available.
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Sci-fi
· 117 Pages
Illinois offers all convicts AR brain implants for early release, prohibiting them from running, fighting, or leaving designated areas. But when a cop gets wrongfully sentenced to the implant after shooting a 'sinner' who managed to break these restrictions, he sets out to prove his innocence before anti-reform vigilantes target him and his prison m...
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A son to a former national security officer and a nurse, Maksym tried his best to make the world a happier place, working as a comedy writer on various award-winning TV shows in Ukraine. After fleeing the war, he eventually settled in Los Angeles, where he continues to channel his experiences into impactful storytelling, including developing his hig...
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Countertenor
Private
Quarterfinalist
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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Crowley County
Private
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 54 Pages
A young woman's resolve is put to the test as a decade of teenage tragedies and murder rock an impoverished desert community.
No bio available.
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 57 Pages
A recluse, who is forced to use his werewolf curse to be a deadly assassin for the US government, goes on a scorched Earth campaign to find his sister after learning the very people who employ him might be the same people who have something to do with her disappearance.
Los Angeles, CA
A 2023/2024 finalist for both NBC and Disney's writing programs as well as semifinalist for the Academy's Nicholl Felllowship, Evan grew up in the cold homogeny of suburban Michigan woods and the hot tempered deserts of Arizona. His fire and ice upbringing offers him a unique lens -- a lens in which his worlds are filled with people full of dualit...
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Deep Within
Private
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Horror
· 95 Pages
When a pregnant woman unexpectedly suffers a miscarriage, she embarks upon a dark and disturbing quest to bond with the spirit of her lost child.
New York, NY
Working for almost a decade in the industry as a NY actor, Daron has recently added the craft of writing to his repertoire. He spent three years at the heralded United Citizens Brigade (UCB) as a Diversity Scholarship recipient, and trained under the tutelage of professional writers Michael Holman (Basquiat), and Anthony Drazen (Zebra Head).
Da...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 94 Pages
A police officer named Washington must don a pair of bomb shoes and dash around the city to accomplish a series of dangerous tasks as penance for killing a citizen. The tasks are dictated by Trey, the vengeful brother of the dead man. With each subsequent task, both Washington and Trey must come to terms with how they played a role in the death of t...
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Los Angeles, California
As a Turkish immigrant, Odin spent his childhood between the snowy suburbs of Detroit camping and BBQing, and the crystal blue Aegean Sea eating fresh caught seafood and wandering bazaars. His heart is half-burger, half-kebab. Odin channels cultural fluidity to tell entertaining and accessible genre stories about characters too often unexplored. Pro...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Sci-fi
· 116 Pages
In 1955, after tragic events erase all memories of each other, teen twin sisters embark upon separate odysseys to exact revenge upon the entity that devastated their family.
Memphis, TN
No bio available.
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 109 Pages
After his 25th birthday, a young man gains the worst superpower imaginable: anyone within 5 feet of him reveals their deepest, darkest secret. Living a solitary life in Dingle, Ireland, his only chance at love shatters when the girl of his dreams blurts out, “I’m going to kill someone.”
Los Angeles, CA
Rohan Kwayedza Cutlip is an American-Zimbabwean writer, producer, actor, and director whose work explores themes of identity, belonging, and human connection through a unique blend of dark humor and heartfelt storytelling. A Quarterfinalist in the Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Spring 2024 and a finalist at the Kerry International Film ...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Sci-fi
· 59 Pages
As Sarah searches for her missing father, haunting visions draw her to Sam, and together they uncover a shadowy collective extracting dreams to reshape reality and rewrite the fate of both their worlds.
Montclair, NJ
Husani Oakley is a screenwriter and creative director. A former Netflix exec, he was named in Adweek’s Creative 100, an annual celebration of the “most fascinating creative professionals,” and in Campaign US's 40 Over 40. Before deciding to write words instead of code, Husani spent two decades as one of advertising’s leading creatives, building awar...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 60 Pages
When hospital politics blur the line between ethics and morals, a black doctor must decide what "Do No Harm" truly means when fighting racial disparity in healthcare.
Beaufort, South Carolina
With an Interdisciplinary Bachelors, a Film MFA, Entertainment Business MS, and several film festival & screenwriting awards at the young age of 25, Josh loves writing character driven dramas that connect culturally. He works hard every day to pursue his passion of directing and screenwriting and is looking to obtain a literary manager and agent to...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 113 Pages
A fearsome teenage girl living in the hostile jungles of Vietnam refuses to let her dreams be derailed by the devastating war. Inspired by a true story.
Melbourne, AU
As a medic by day and writer by night, many of my screenplays have been influenced by my weird and wonderful experiences in healthcare over twenty years.
My screenplays have gone on to claim finalist accolades in over forty competitions including Cinestory, Finish Line, Hollyshorts and Austin Film Festival to name a few.
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Thriller
· 102 Pages
When NYC professor Kenneth goes down a rabbit hole to investigate a social media mind control conspiracy, he must fight tech billionaire Ethan Monk and his own disintegrating reality to uncover the truth.
Los Angeles, California
Sal draws on his experiences as a social activist and educator to write stories that reflect vital and timely cultural themes. He writes entertaining stories with compelling and complex characters whose flaws and conflicts are universally relatable.
"FREQUENCY" was inspired by the stranger-than-fiction "Kenneth, what's the frequency" incident tha...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 106 Pages
A transfer student must adapt to her new high school basketball team but finds herself clashing with a hard-headed point guard, resulting in heated arguments and the unexpected spark of romance.
Los Angeles, CA
Sade Corneille is a driven writer who embarked on her literary journey at a young age. At just 17 years old, she successfully self-published three books, showcasing her passion for storytelling and her ability to bring complex narratives to life. Now an MFA graduate of USC's School of Cinematic Arts, Sade continues to explore the world of writing an...
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Girl Band
Private
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Comedy
· 34 Pages
GIRL BAND: Two Mexican-American sisters, tired of the machismo in the mariachi community, gather their own band of misfits to form an all-female mariachi group.
- Verified WGA Member
Los Angeles, California
Ariana Quiñónez is a Chicana dramedy writer and mariachi performer from Bakersfield, California. A 2022 fellow in the Disney General Entertainment Writing Program, Ariana has written on the CW’s ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO and ABC’s HOME ECONOMICS. Her pilot, TO ALL THE DEAD BOYS I’VE SLAYED BEFORE was selected for Coverfly’s 2022 Best Unproduced Pilot List...
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Girls Camp
Private
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Other
· 85 Pages
During their final year at church camp, two Mormon girls ignite an explosive romance, while their friend has conflicted feelings about it, making all three of them challenge their self-identity and hidden desires.
No bio available.
Golf Mums
Private
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Other
· 53 Pages
A Stranger Things/Motherland mash-up centered around a group of new mums who encounter a mysterious portal.
Chesham, Buckinghamshire, GB
No bio available.
Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Comedy
· 90 Pages
A superstitious football-fanatic typically avoids the dating scene during the season, that is until her superstitions lead her to believe that her one-night-stand might actually be her team's good luck charm.
Redondo Beach, California
Isabelle moved from her small town of debutantes and cotillions in South Carolina to Los Angeles to obtain her MFA in Writing for the Screen from Loyola Marymount University. Her experiences growing up as the oldest of seven siblings inspire her coming-of-age-at-every-age stories and character-driven comedies. She also tends to infuse sports into he...
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Good Manors
Private
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 52 Pages
Ten years after the mysterious death of their classmate, four Oxbridge grads reunite for a holiday. With the unexpected arrival of someone from their past, the group’s web of lies unravels, turning the idyllic getaway into a gothic horror of reignited passions, blatant betrayals, and unearthed secrets.
London, GB
No bio available.
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 60 Pages
An immigration agent with a gambling problem blackmails an undocumented janitor who has a mysterious ability to harden anything she touches. She teams up with her quirky co-worker to produce and sell illegal ghost guns, all to avoid deportation to Africa, where she is wanted for murder.
Phoenix, AZ
M.B. Stevens is the owner/writer of BlaxBox Films (SBF). BlaxBox is a small animation company that writes and produces short drama T.V. pilots and series.
From a young age, M.B. Stevens was destined for speculative fiction nerddom. He grew up watching Star Wars, Hercules, and Aliens with his dad, and always had the latest copy of a Marvel comic tu...
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Have You Seen Her
Private
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Thriller
· 74 Pages
A driven ballerina receives a daunting vision of a girl presumed to be dead, now she must help prove the innocence of the man wrongfully convicted for the crime or kiss her dancing dreams goodbye.
Woodside, New York
Born in Paterson, NJ, Desiree Monae always knew she wanted to work in the arts. Currently, Desiree is a Producer/Director at her Production Company, Monae Productions. Launched in March 2022. Desiree has previously earned an MFA from the David Lynch Screenwriting program at MIU. She currently attends The New School, working toward an...
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Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Thriller
· 51 Pages
A tenacious detective pursuing a suspected serial killer is forced to question her faith in the justice system she's sworn to uphold as she learns more about each victim.
Salt Lake City, Utah
CJ Southcott (female, office professional by day, screenwriter by night) enjoys writing female leads and narratives that challenge societal norms. After years of concealing her queer identity while studying at a religious university, she is now passionate about LGBTQIA+ representation on screen. CJ has written multiple screenplays, including FOURTH ...
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Quarterfinalist
Feature
· Drama
· 86 Pages
Following the tragic death of their son, a couple tries to reconcile their marriage through a tropical vacation that turns into a search-and-rescue nightmare.
“Art imitates life.”
Quarterfinalist
TV Script
· Drama
· 37 Pages
An estranged adopted daughter returns to her rural hometown for the first time in years, but when she is accused of her ex’s murder, she must find the real culprit to clear her name and escape the “unimaginable horrors” of small town life.
Los Angeles, CA
AJ Dinsmore is a Chinese-American writer and producer based in LA. As a transracial adoptee raised in the boondocks of W(hite)yoming, “intersectional” doesn’t begin to cover the weirdness of AJ’s identity. Navigating this constant in-between space inspired AJ to write stories that heal the divides that exist within individuals, systems, and all of ...
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