Lady Jay

Feature · Drama · 112 pages
Status: Spec
After the death of his estranged brother, a drag queen struggling with addiction fights for custody of his teenage niece and nephew, who are heading down a similar path of self-destruction. Based on a true story.
Written by Alexandra Amadio
10 Accolades
Accolade Highlights
Quarterfinalist, PAGE Awards - PAGE International Screenwriting Awards Competition 2024
Quarterfinalist, The Script Lab - TSL Free Screenplay Contest 2024

1 Writer

Los Angeles, CA
Winner of the Launch Pad Pilot Competition, Alexandra is eternally fascinated by the human spirit’s ability to overcome. Growing up in troubled paradise on Maui, Hawai’i where her home was in a constant cycle of broken, the counterbalance was always the aloha spirit - the islands’ philosophy on how to live and influence others with aloha (love). As ...
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Originally from Maui, Hawaii, Alexandra Amadio is a film and television writer who is currently in the Top 10 of the 2020 Launch Pad Pilot competition with “Aloha State”, a Dawson’s Creek-esque drama based on her experiences growing up in the islands, and recently attached prolific television director Wendey Stanzler to her feature, “All-Star”, about a courageous female football player – a story inspired by an incident where Alexandra’s own high school prevented her from joining the football team based solely on her gender. A self-described tomboy shaped by her consumption of mainstream pop culture in the late 80s and early 90s, she often writes from the perspective of emotionally damaged underdogs overcoming incredible odds, and has been praised for her ability to tell fresh and innovative stories across multiple genres and mediums, while still working within their existing parameters, with a formula of 60% familiar, 40% new.
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Scored an 8 on The Black List.