La Forza
La Forza
Television (One-hour)
· Historical · 63 pages
Status: Spec
Set against the Italian Enlightenment, know-it-all Laura Bassi clashes with allies and enemies alike - from friends-turned-lovers to scheming scholars - in her struggle to become the world’s first female professor.
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Justine Beed
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Justine Beed is a writer-director born in Washington DC, and raised across seven cities around the world. After graduating from Stanford University she moved to LA — both the strangest and most familiar place she’s ever lived. Her global upbringing and love of irony inform her screenplays and short films, which are all feminist, genre-bending coming...
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- Pitched at TIFF '24 Sloan Science and Technology Pitch Program - Recipient of Sloan Student Grand Jury Prize (2023) - Recipient of USC's Sloan Foundation Screenwriting Grant (2023) - Selected for the Athena Film Festival Writers Lab (Fall 2023)