Sad Gopher
Sad Gopher
Feature
· Drama · 99 pages
A disabled man sets his eyes on a regional chess tournament in pursuit of self-worth, but the trans woman he meets along the way might just turn his ambitions from check to mate.
Written by
Brian Koukol
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Semifinalist,
Raindance Script Competition 2025
Top 5 Finalist,
Write LA 2024
1 Writer
Nipomo, California
Brian Koukol is an award-winning screenwriter, prose writer, and poet. A lifelong battle with muscular dystrophy has informed the majority of the darkly comedic stories he favors, which are written with the aid of voice recognition and eye gaze technology out of physical necessity. And because keyboards are for suckers.