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< Back Mark DeCarlo markdecarlotv@gmail.com https://www.markdecarlo.com/ IMDb The Black List Mark is a Founding member of The Second City Hollywood. Mark has written, performed and produced Emmy Award winning current event comedy for ABC’s Windy City LIVE since 2012. On the big screen, Mark produced, co-wrote (with Ryan Rowe) and stars in the animated 2025 Asymmetric Studios feature: Pinocchio & the Water of Life. Mark partnered with VES award winning VFX futurist Julian Sarmiento to found Creative Disruption Partners, www.creating3d.com, to perform recurring livestream, 4K animation sketches on the Main Stage of LA ComicCon. His 2024 animated spec pilot, Meet the Walkerz, that chronicles the adventures of funny, vegetarian Zombies, sold to Pathbender Media. Currently, Mark is seeking new comedy/animation centric management to market future work, including his spec pilot: Processing: URTH. The show leverages CDP’s below-market VFX cost and unrivaled real time MoCap animation for TV. Mark is also the voice of pie-loving Hugh Neutron in “Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius.” Honors & Awards Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Performer - Windy City Live 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Associate Member Male, Latinx, 55+ PROMISE Rom-Com - Sinners/Cadillac Records In the neon-lit heart of the Chicago blues scene, a soulful singer & a former musical prodigy who abandoned his promise must navigate family secrets, and the hidden greed of a trusted mentor’s mysterious rivalry, to rescue a musical icon’s legacy and prove that some promises… are worth keeping. PROCESSING: URTH Workplace hard comedy - Parks & Rec , What We Do in the Shadows To survive, an alien spaceship crew of disgruntled, inept failures, who for centuries have bungled human abductions, must immediately transform Planet Earth to enable an Alien Invasion. SUCKERZ (Sci-Fi, Comedy, Thriller - think DON'T LOOK UP) A NASA intern and conspiracy podcast host infiltrate a New Age guru's cabal to thwart an alien/world government alliance to enslave 5% of humanity, by raising Earth's temperature while devouring the rest. Character-driven, Female-centric, Romantic, Naturalistic Male, Latinx, 55+ unrepped

< Back Conor Dowling cdowling23@yahoo.com Conor is a writer, filmmaker, and creative media producer from Dublin with a Master's degree in Feature Film Production. Conor loves all things horror, folklore and comedy! He is developing an animated series with Ink & Light Studios. He recently optioned an original feature screenplay with Wide Eye Films. Conor's screenplay DARA MCCOOL was awarded development funding from Screen Ireland and won a bursary to attend Stowe Story Labs in Vermont. Conor was also selected as a screenwriting mentee of BAFTA-winning writer Will Collins (Wolfwalkers) for a year long mentorship. In 2024, Conor launched Gemini Dragon, a creative IP development company focused on storytelling across film, TV, podcasting, and graphic novels. He is an award-winning podcaster, known for his hit show Fad Camp. He has written, directed, & produced numerous projects for RTÉ, TG4, and NGOs. His indie shorts & specs have gotten accolades at competitions & festivals worldwide. Conor was awarded Arts Council funding for two novel manuscripts, MONUMENTAL and THE OUTER CIRCLE which was shortlisted for the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair in 2020. His directorial feature debut mockumentary THE LIGHT OF DAY screened at the Galway Film Fleadh and IFI Horrorthon. Conor has also directed factual entertainment, documentaries, and children’s TV for RTÉ and RTÉ Jr. A skilled camera operator, stills photographer, and video/sound editor. Honors & Awards Top 25, Save The Cat - DARA MCCOOL - 2021 Screen Ireland Bursary Stowe Story Labs - DARA MCCOOL 2021 Semi Finalist Stage 32 Search for New Voices in Animation - DARA MCCOOL - 2021 non-WGA Male DARA MCCOOL Animated, Fantasy, Comedy - How To Train Your Dragon His mother is a magical deer, his brother is the most legendary warrior-poet in all of Irish mythology, and his father has all the knowledge of the world. Yet somehow Dara, an unassuming tailor, is their only hope in the prophetic Great Fight. THE OTHER COUPLE Contained Horror - Funny Games meets Your Sister's Sister ) A struggling couple go to a secluded farmhouse for a long weekend away, but on their first night, they discover another couple staying there in secret who pose a threat to their relationship and their lives. Horror, Coming-of-Age, Animation Male unrepped

< Back Tim Brennan tbrennan75@gmail.com Tim's drama ROUGH SURFACE won the 2025 Emerging Screenwriters Drama Screenplay Competition. His western A BULLET FOR MERRI was a finalist in the 2023 Creative Screenwriting Feature Competition, and was optioned in July of 2025. He's a fan of projects that blend genre thrills and social commentary. Tim is also a film critic for www.aboutboulder.com. Honors & Awards Winner, Emerging Screenwriters Drama Competition - ROUGH SURFACE - 2025 Finalist, Creative Screenwriting Feature Screenplay Competition - A BULLET FOR MERRI - 2023 Top 10, Table Read My Screenplay - ROUGH SURFACE - 2023" non-WGA Male, 40+ ROUGH SURFACE Drama SPOTLIGHT meets WIND RIVER When the 1980 murder of a Lakota Sioux girl is ignored by authorities, a tenacious reporter risks her career to investigate, rocking the foundations of a small town. Based on actual events. KHALID AND THE GREAT BEYOND Comedy DEFENDING YOUR LIFE meets MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN When an atheistic physicist dies, he and the Goddess of Safe Returns must determine why the dead are going to the wrong afterlives and prevent the destruction of reality. HUNTER'S MOON Action/horror AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON meets PREDATOR When a pack of werewolves is pursued by skilled hunters, they must fight to survive in the wilds of Rocky Mountain National Park. Character-driven, Crime, Western, Horror, Satire, Bittersweet, Snarky Male, 40+ unrepped

< Back Timothy Mallon timothy.mallon87@gmail.com https://timothy-mallon.com/ Coverfly The Black List Timothy's work examines the intersection of mental health and relationships. Drawing from personal experience, he's passionate about using authentic storytelling to explore how mental health struggles affect the human condition. Honors & Awards Austin Film Festival Drama Teleplay Pilot - Semifinalist -TIME ZONE - 2024 non-WGA Male, Disabled TIME ZONE International Police Procedural, Recurring Drama - The Bridge , Southland , Line of Duty Three different cities and three seemingly unrelated crimes propels the detectives investigating them into a multinational conspiracy. HELLWATER British Neo-Western, Recurring Drama - Tin Star , Longmire , Dark Winds A mixed-race ex-soldier returning to exact vengeance on his father's killer and save his family's rural British farm from financial ruin. Crime, Thriller, Psychological, Horror, Anthology, Dark, Naturalistic, International Male, Disabled unrepped

< Back Christina Hulen chulen27@gmail.com Lawyer: Sarah Lerner - Katz, Golden, Lerner: 310-264-2163 https://christinahulen.weebly.com/ Coverfly Christina Hulen is an award-winning Writer / Director / Producer. Her female-centered work has won the Meryl Streep-funded Writers Lab and was a Top 10 female-written script in the Nicholl Fellowship. Her script, A GENTLEMAN OF GOOD HOPE was announced as a winner of the IWC “Best Of” screenwriting competition in its inaugural year. The script is currently in pre-production at New North Pictures with producers Charlotte Rothwell and Nicola Pearcey attached. Chrisina has been a selected participant to the CineStory Feature Lab as well as the Stowe Story Lab. She was the recipient of the Arch and Bruce Brown literary Fellowship and received a $25,000 grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation to help fund her latest directorial project EVERYTHING'S FINE. which premiered at the Oscar-qualifying Los Angeles International Short Film Festival. EVERYTHING'S FINE has garnered 14 Jury prizes to date. As a producer, she was part of the award-winning independent features A MARINE STORY and SHELTER, which won the GLAAD award for best Narrative feature limited release. For television, she was a producer on the final season of BRUNCH WITH BRIDGET for the LOGO channel. Christina writes and directs across genres, but holds a special place in her heart for historical dramas featuring LGBTQ+ storylines. Honors & Awards Semifinalist, Academy Nicholl Fellowship - LA MAUPIN- 2024 Finalist, Cannes Screenwriters List - LA MAUPIN - 2024 The Women's List - WARBIRDS - 2024 non-WGA Female, LGBTQ+, 40+ A GENTLEMAN OF GOOD HOPE (BOYS DON'T CRY meets THE IMITATION GAME) At the turn of the 19th Century, a controversial yet brilliant British military surgeon must battle detractors who would subvert his pioneering reforms while maintaining a secret that could end his career. He is a woman. LA MAUPIN (LA VIE EN ROSE meets AMADEUS) Born the daughter of a servant in the court of Louis the XIV, a brilliant young woman uses sex and the sword on her journey to escape a death sentence and become the most celebrated opera singer in France: La Maupin. WARBIRDS (HIDDEN FIGURES meets A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN) This high-flying WWII adventure follows a naive farm girl leaving the only life she's ever known to chase her dream of joining the elite Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs), only to discover that dream threatened when she falls for a fellow female recruit. Character-driven, Female-centric, Queer, Historical/Alternative History, Naturalistic, International Female, LGBTQ+, 40+ unrepped

< Back Hank Isaac pointsource@gmail.com http://www.hankthewriter.com Hank Isaac is a screenwriter and filmmaker who has enjoyed a varied career. The only child of a motion picture executive and a professional dancer, Hank experienced a fanciful childhood. He married his college sweetheart and they are somewhat of an anomaly – they're still married to each other after more than half a century. Hank has worked as a middle school teacher, a college professor, a sailing school manager & instructor, a research director, a product designer, an exhibit designer, a radio station disc jockey, and a toy store owner. He is a former U.S. Naval Officer who served on active duty during the Vietnam conflict. Hank and his wife lived on a boat for eleven years and raised a genius daughter in a toy store. Hank began writing feature films in 1994 and was fortunate to have been mentored by the late legendary Stewart Stern (Rebel without a Cause; Rachel, Rachel; Man without a Country; Sybil). He started directing in 2006 and since then, he and his work have been “Official Selections” in over one hundred international film festivals and awards competitions and have won more than fifty awards. Additionally, his screenplays and teleplays have been finalists and semi-finalists in more than three dozen writing competitions. Non-WGA/Caucus-only Member Male, 40+, 55+ KYLA'S WAR TV Series - Historical Drama In WWII Poland, a twelve-year-old girl is the pampered pigtailed daughter of a respected surgeon by day and, by night, a Resistance fighter who is quickly becoming the scourge of the Third Reich. OLIVIANA Family TV Series & Middle-Grade Novel Against an ever-increasing set of seemingly insurmountable situations, a little girl struggles to build and run a tiny cargo-carrying railroad to try to save her town from economic ruin and in the process learns a trainload of life lessons. ATOM & EVE Feature Film - Family - Drama Without enough air to journey to each other's habitat, two children, the isolated last survivors of a failed planetary colony, must devise a way for one to rescue the other in the face of a life-threatening disaster. Character-driven, Female-centric, Sci-Fi, Coming-of-Age, YA, Animation, Limited Series, Magical Realism Male, 40+, 55+ unrepped

Stay up-to-date with the latest screenwriting news, industry insights, and Independent Writers' Caucus member achievements. Exclusive updates for our screenwriting community. Member News DEADLINE EXCLUSIVE : The Independent Writers’ Caucus has added seven new members to its board of directors. Meg LeFauve, Howard A. Rodman, Lorien Mckenna, Garrick Dion, Nitza Wilon, Elizabeth Kaiden and AJ Feuerman will all join long-standing organization chairs James Moorer, Kimberly Sparks, Kim Turner and Rich Orstad. Read the full article here . Congratulations to IWC Members Merridith Allen , Rudi O'Meara , Mage Lanz , Phoenix Black , Leah Simmons , Nicole Jones-Dion , Rich Orstad , Gabe Berry , Lynn Esta Goldman , Heather Ragsdale , and Stacey Russell , whose scripts have been named to The Grey List . The Grey List is a curated collection of pilots and feature screenplays from writers over forty whose work demonstrates craft, voice, and marketplace viability. More than a quarter of the writers named to The Grey List belong to the IWC! IWC Co-chair James Moorer and IWC member Nicola Pittam attended the 2026 San Francisco Writers’ Conference (SFWC) as panelists/speakers. James attended in his role as the CEO of One Moorer Media, while Nicola represented the duo’s publishing company Dark Anthem Press as COO/Acquisitions Editor. They held a Masterclass in Pitching, which was a huge success, and also appeared on several panels including Writing For Hollywood Summit, which was moderated by fellow IWC member Paul Zeidman . Joey Clift 's short film POW! qualified for the Oscars in the Best Animated Short category! POW! is an animated comedy short about a young Native kid trying to find a place to charge his video game console at a powwow. It marks one of the first times powwows and ledger art have been featured in animation. DIRTY WATER DOGS, a new feature written by Terri Coduri Viani , is gearing up for production in New York City . Produced by Wilkidoos Productions in partnership with Cardinal Flix, this heartfelt drama explores the unbreakable bonds that define diverse, working-class family life in New York City. Announced at AFM : Megan J. Wilson 's survival thriller AVALANCHE EXPRESS is set to shoot in the Alps in spring 2026! Produced by Prestige International Pictures and directed by J.P. Watts, the story follows a train conductor who leads her passengers to safety after an avalanche buries their commuter train. Steve Holbert ’s horror feature YOU, ME, & EVIL was selected for the University of North Georgia’s Micro-Budget Narrative Feature Lab and will go into production. The screenplay is part of Steve’s Queer Fears cycle, which was featured on The Dead List . UNG's lab supports independent filmmakers developing feature-length films in Georgia. Rebekah Mueller was chosen as one of five writers, out of 2000 applicants, for the Paramount Writers Mentoring program . The program offers emerging TV writers mentorship and career development with showrunners and EPs. Each writer is paired with two executives from CBS network and CBS Studios. The Center for the Arts at Kayenta staged a workshop production of Jami Brandli ’s play THE CAREGIVER’S GUIDE. The production received a great response from both audiences and critics. The New Play Exchange’s reviewer raves, “Jami Brandli never fails to blow me away with the breadth and depth of her work and THE CAREGIVER’S GUIDE is another home run.” Danielle Weinberg ’s directorial debut, INVASION ’53 , screened at San Diego Comic-Con. Well-known sci-fi actor Jeffrey Combs stars in this sendup of 1950s sci-fi movies. On its festival run now, the short film premiered at the Oscar-qualifying Cinequest Film Festival, has been selected by more than forty festivals, and won over fifteen awards, including the top juried prize at three festivals and two audience awards. Elise Salomon has been named as one of the Austin Film Festival's 25 Screenwriters to Watch . She writes present-day folk horror. Her feature climate drama THE 53RD is a semifinalist at AFF, and her horror pilot THE RESTLESS placed as a Second Rounder. In addition, her project CAOINEADH -- one of three horror finalists at AFF 2023 -- is now being packaged with Black Mansion Films. Nick Perlman screened his short film LOVING SILENCE – a proof of concept for his feature script – at the DC Shorts International Film Festival. Metro Weekly raved that Nick's short was the best of the Queer Shorts Showcase. Ellen Ancui 's directorial debut short film, SAVERIO , is rounding the festival circuit, both nationally and internationally. The film has won numerous awards, including the Grand Prize at the Jeonju International Short Film Festival in Korea, the New York Women in Film & Television Award for Excellence in Directing, and four Audience Awards for Best Short. The feature version of SAVERIO is currently in development. In February, Ellen will shoot her next short film, which will have an A-list cast. THE FARM — a serialized mystery-thriller podcast created and produced by Melody Herr — premiered its first two episodes on September 1, with new episodes dropping each Monday for nine weeks on all major platforms. Sponsored by Little Fish Entertainment, the audio drama follows an architect whose carefully built New York life unravels when family secrets resurface on her childhood farm. The series also showcases IWC members Leah Simmons as a staff writer and James Moorer performing three roles. Gina DeAngelis ’s short film adaptation DOORS premiered at the Indie Short Film Festival in Charlottesville, Virginia, and was named to Roadmap Writers' Top 25 Short Films of 2025. It won Best Short Story Adaptation at the Highlands Horror Film Fest. In addition, Gina’s feature script THE KNOCKING AT THE MARSH won Best Regional Horror Feature Screenplay at GenreBlast Film Festival. As Director of Events for the LA Children's Media Association, IWC member Sabrina Mansfield leads monthly Q&As with notable children's media leaders. She recently interviewed Trisha Tamashiro Gray, Director of Current Series at Disney Jr. In October, Timothy Mallon 's independent TV pilot POUR DECISIONS screened in New York City and Los Angeles , following two sold-out shows in Seattle. POUR DECISIONS is a single-camera mockumentary set in a last-chance Seattle café. A festival run is planned. Candace Egan 's horror screenplay HARDWARE HELL, co-written with Ellie Wallace, is a Second Rounder at Austin Film Festival . Additionally, Candace's screenplay SECOND SET, inspired by her time playing community college tennis in her 50's, won Best Dramedy Screenplay at the Atlanta Women's Film Festival. Reenita M. Hora won the 2025 CineStory Asian & South Asian Writers Scholarship . The award is awarded to an outstanding Asian or South Asian writer whose screenplay reached the quarterfinalist level or higher in this year’s Feature Retreat & Fellowship Contest. Kathryn Orwig placed as a Silver Winner in the 2025 Page Awards with her feature screenplay PIRATE QUEEN OF THE RED FLAG FLEET. The script is inspired by the true story of ruthless Pirate Queen Ching Shih who led 40,000 pirates into a brutal clash with the Portuguese Navy and the Chinese Empire—risking everything to save her loyal crew & proving women warriors are just as brave (& successful!) as men. Suzanne Griffin was invited to attend Stowe Story Labs Fall 2025 Writers Retreat in Stowe, Vermont, with her Blacklist Recommended feature drama screenplay THE LANGUAGE OF THE SLEEPING HOUSE. The script was also a Stowe Story Labs Accelerator Fellowship Semifinalist.

< Back Rudi O'Meara rudi@rudiwithaneye.com https://www.rudiwithaneye.com The Black List Rudi O’Meara is a Black List Recommended action/adventure screenwriter based in Marin County, California. He got his start in the industry working as a junior development exec for Oscar-winning indie producer David Weisman. In his 20s, he pivoted careers and worked as an award-winning Creative Director for some of the world’s best brands. But after three back-to-back near-death experiences (blood clot, ski crash, blood clot) nearly took him out, he decided to finally listen to that voice in his head that kept asking why he wasn’t writing. Since then, he’s won or made the finals of numerous screenwriting competitions including: Roadmap Writers, ScriptPipeline, Page, Big Break, ScreenCraft, Shore Scripts, ISA, WritersXWrtiers, Filmmatic, and Outstanding Screenplays. His work tends to focus on misfits and outsiders struggling to face their mortality, fight their fears, and redefine themselves (and their tribe) in order to survive. And he sees genre as a tool for exploring taboo subjects in unexpected and arresting ways. Honors & Awards IWC Best Of Selection - THE 10TH - 2026 WritersXWriters Screenplay Competition - Winner - THE ESCAPIST - 2024 Filmmatic Pitch Now Competition - Winner - AMENDS - 2023 Script Pipeline Pitch Competition - Runner-Up - REJUVENATION - 2023" non-WGA Male, 55+ THE ESCAPIST WWII Drama Feature ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT meets THE ARTIST In a bid to survive WWII without firing a shot, a naive young jazz-obsessed musician joins the Musikkorps Leibstandarte-SS (Hitler’s elite personal orchestra) and soon finds himself thrust into some of the fiercest fighting of the war." THE 10th WWII Action Feature SAVING PRIVATE RYAN meets MERU Two headstrong mountaineers (one American, one Austrian) find themselves playing an unexpectedly pivotal role in the first high-stakes WWII mission of the US 10th Mountain Division—America’s first alpine infantry unit. REJUVENATION Horror/Thriller Feature STEPFORD WIVES meets EX MACHINA After discovering her husband is cheating on her, a middle-aged woman follows her BFF to a remote spa promising a genetically rejuvenated self. Soon though, both women find themselves being hunted down by their younger, hotter, optimized selves." Character-driven, Female-centric, Thriller, Psychological, Horror, Historical/Alternative History, Limited Series, Dark Male, 55+ unrepped

< Back Elise Salomon https://againstthewindproductions.com/ Coverfly The Black List Elise Salomon is an award-winning storyteller based in Los Angeles whose projects have been featured at international festivals and markets including Sundance, SXSW, IDFA, FrightFest, Stowe Story Labs, Austin Film Festival, Galway Film Fleadh, Frontières and Cannes. A proud graduate of Pitzer College with a BA in Media Studies, she produced PAPER HEART, co-produced SMASHED and directed and produced LOS WILD ONES. Her writing embodies themes of trauma, trust, truth and transformation. She believes in storytelling as a universal tool to foster engagement, compassion and meaningful discourse. Elise continues to be a fierce advocate for diversity and pursues projects with iconic characters and an all-encompassing aesthetic. Recently invited as a new member into the Independent Writers’ Caucus, she has also been selected for the Austin Film Festival's "Screenwriters to Watch” List 2025. Honors & Awards Austin Film Festival Screenwriters to Watch 2025 Finalist - CAOINEADH - Austin Film Festival 2023 Selection - INSIDE - Cannes Marche du Film Frontières Genre Proof of Concept Platform 2019 non-WGA Female, 40+ INSIDE (Haunting of Hill House meets MOTHMAN PROPHECIES) On Ireland’s mystical Aran Islands, an American therapist arrives to treat a recently widowed composer imprisoned in his remote cottage by agoraphobia - and learns the terrifying possibility that the true source of his suffering may be a dark force rooted in the land itself. CAOINEADH (A supernatural Romeo & Juliet) In the West of Ireland, Brona and Cormac are two lost souls brought together by a terrible accident. Their fated union bonds them with the kind of love only written about, but a series of eerie events plague them...and propel them toward fulfilling their dark destiny. URD | SKULD (THE SHINING meets THE WICKER MAN) A young American couple attempts to mend their strained relationship as they travel on a tight budget to the Austrian Alps for Christmas — as their troubles are laid bare, something much more sinister and powerful than they have ever known awakens. Character-driven, Female-centric, Thriller, Psychological, Horror, Limited Series, International Female, 40+ Repped

< Back Emelie Svensson emelie.norrahammar@gmail.com The Black List Shaped by pivotal moments in her life, she turned to storytelling as a way to transform personal experience into narratives with universal resonance. She primarily writes feature films about people who struggle to let go of the life they had when circumstances force them into a new reality. Her work balances emotional depth with moments of lightness and explores how connection, community, and resilience emerge in the face of unwanted change. Emelie is the creator and owner of a trademarked creative brand that serves as the foundation for her first children’s book, currently in development, as well as three completed feature screenplays based on the same intellectual property. She has also produced and directed an animated teaser trailer for one of these projects. She holds the film rights to the life of Jayden “Mozzie” Irving, an Australian stuntman who survived 25 days imprisoned in a notorious Democratic Republic of the Congo prison after a traveling adventure went horribly wrong. She is currently writing a television pilot inspired by selected aspects of his life story. Emelie is collaborating with a British producer on two projects, including a historically based script developed in close consultation with a postdoctoral historian to ensure historical accuracy. Honors & Awards BRONZE PRIZE, Short Film, The PAGE International Screenwriting Awards - INTO THE DARKNESS - 2024 non-WGA/Caucus only Female INTO THE DARKNESS Historical Drama Feature BILLY ELLIOT meets LEAN ON PETE In 1930s Wales, a proud coal miner whose body is failing takes a job with the pit ponies. Torn between tradition and the hope of a better life for his family, he forms an unlikely bond with one of the ponies as he struggles to leave the mine before it breaks him. HATING CHRISTMAS Romantic Comedy, Holiday Feature THE GRINCH meets BAD MOMS When a divorced mother who hates Christmas is kidnapped by Santa and taken to the North Pole, she must rediscover her Christmas spirit to help him save the holiday before she is allowed to return home to her children. SHAKA Sports Drama Feature SOUL SURFER meets THE INTOUCHABLES When a horrific accident leaves him paralyzed, an arrogant world-champion surfer struggles to adapt to life in a wheelchair and find meaning beyond the waves. Character-driven, Romantic, Sci-Fi, Historical/Alternative History Female unrepped

< Back Denise A. Agnew One Moorer Media & Management James Moorer, james@onemoorer.com Denise A. Agnew is the author of over 70 novels and several optioned and produced screenplays and TV pilots and two non-fiction books. Her film House of Lies (also titled Secrets Beneath The Floorboards) premiered on Lifetime Movie Network October 2023 and is currently on Amazon. She has placed in numerous contests including the ISA (International Screenwriters Association) Story Farm Fellowship as a top 5 in the contest. Denise loves writing horror, thrillers and sci-fi but has also written romantic comedy, historical, and romantic suspense. Denise is also a paranormal investigator (SOS Paranormal Investigations), Reiki Master, Certified Creativity Coach and Evidential Medium. As a Creativity Coach, Denise assists anyone in the creative arts to maintain lifelong creativity. She is represented by One Moorer Media and Management, fiction/screenwriting agent Jo-Ann Cubello, and nonfiction agent Lisa Hagan. Honors & Awards Creative Screenwriting Top Ten Finalist - CRASH - 2025 ISA Top 5 The Story Farm Fellowship - CRASH - 2025 ISA Second Round Fast Track Fellowship - FALLOUT - 2025 non-WGA Female, 55+ CRASH Sci-Fi/Thriller Comps: Close Encounters of The Third Kind, The X-Files, Arrival An airline forensics expert teams with a park ranger to find out the true cause of a mysterious commercial plane crash with no bodies recovered and reports of a possible UFO in the sky at the time of impact." THE ANDERSONVILLE HORROR Historical Horror Comp: Crimson Peak An idealistic young nurse is sent from the North to the nation's most notorious Civil War prison camp where she must overcome sexism and bigotry to save her fiancé and her brother during a life-or-death battle against a supernatural enemy. DEEP Creature Feature Horror/Sci-Fi Comps: Mimic, The Descent, Quarantine. An emotionally broken British ex-soldier leads a group of mismatched survivors into battle against monsters released into the New York subway after a series of freak earthquakes. Female-centric, Crime, Thriller, Romantic, Sci-Fi, Horror, Historical/Alternative History, Dark Female, 55+ repped

< Back Arun K. Vir arunvirproductions@gmail.com Award-winning writer/director Arun K. Vir tells stories that capture hearts. Her honest approach to explorations of gender, race, and identity in America are her gifts as a storyteller in spaces and settings both local and completely unknown. A single mom living in New York and working multiple jobs, she collaborated with the Nuyorican Poets Café-Fifth Night series. Arun found her voice and wrote THE LAST WEEKEND earning her the prestigious "Directing Workshop for Women Award." She then moved to Los Angeles with her daughter to develop her project. THE LAST WEEKEND, starring the late Suzanne Douglas (PARENTHOOD) won Best Short at the Pan African Film Festival. Continuing to sharpen her skills as a director, Arun wrote and directed more shorts including RESET, nominated by The Africa Movie Academy Awards & Winner of Programmers-Pan African FF. Arun’s feature script, SUBURBAN TURBAN was voted Finalist by The Academy Nicholl Fellowship in 2016. She was a Pitch Finalist for the 2018 Humanitas New Voices Award and Semifinalist for Writers on the Verge in 2019. Her most scripts include pilots WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE, THE GIVER, I LOVE YOU, and MONA SINGH and feature screenplay THE PERFECT CANDIDATE – a Final Draft/Rocaberti Winner. Honors & Awards Finalist, Nicholl Fellowship - SUBURBAN TURBAN - 2016 Semifinalist, NBC Universal Writers on the Verge - SUBURBAN TURBAN - 2019 Semifinalist, ScreenCraft Competition - RIVER MAMMA - 2022 non-WGA Female, BIPOC, Asian THE PERFECT CANDIDATE (Think HIDDEN FIGURES meets BROOKLYN) 1955. Harlem. The true story of Patricia Banks, a Harlem girl who had her heart set on achieving her dream job: Flight Attendant for Capital Airlines. But, at age 19, when Banks filed a lawsuit, not a single U.S. Airline had ever hired a black stewardess. Character-driven, Female-centric, BIPOC-centric, Queer, Thriller, Historical/Alternative History, Coming-of-Age, Dark Female, BIPOC, Asian unrepped