Yellow Hearts SUGAR LAND TV pilot

Television (One-hour) · Drama · 10 pages
1924. Rural Texas. After Miss Dara’s forbidden, queer love is discovered, she is forced to work in a savage men's prison where she meets the soon-to-be-famous blue singer, Lead Belly, who sings his way to freedom (true story!) and inspires her to break free of her prisons—any way she can. All set to a backdrop of blues, secrets, and mercy killing. ...
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Written by tammy lynne stoner
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Semifinalist, Austin Film Festival 2023

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Los Feliz, ca
Award winning writer, tammy creates gritty, redeeming, queer-centric stories where "every character is so alive, you swear you hear them breathing." Her novel, SUGAR LAND, won an IPPY, was shortlisted for the Crook's Corner Prize, and an Amazon #1 Bestseller, among other bits. The adapted pilot was a Finalist for the Portland, Atlanta, New York, an...
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SCRIPT: Accepted into the Sundance Co//ab, Fall 2022 Finalist Seattle Intl Film Fest 2022 Finalist Portland Intl Film Festival 2022 Finalist Atlanta Film Fest 2022 Finalist NY Intl Film Festival 2022 Second Rounder Austin Film Fest 2022 Top 10% Writers Lab 2022 Semi-finalist in Script 32 2022 screenwriting contest Semi-finalist in the Santa Barbara Film Fest 2021 NOVEL notables: IPPY award winner Short-listed for the Crook's Corner Book Award Finalist for a Forewords INDIES Book of the Year Award Powell's Staff Top Five for 2018 The Advocate's "Best Books We Read in 2018" Bustle's 15 New Paperbacks for Your Fall Reading List Deep South magazine, Fall-Winter Recommended Reading Long-listed for the Chautaugua Prize The Tournament of Books Best of 2018 long list *