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< Back Adrienne Thorne IMDb Adrienne Thorne is from middle-of-nowhere farm-country in Washington state, where she spent her childhood writing stories in between driving tractors and competing in county fair 4-H contests. In the years since then, Adrienne earned an MBA in film producing and has had a feature script produced. She has also sold a spec to an indie company, and she recently optioned an original YA dramedy feature. Adrienne has placed in the Academy Nicholl Fellowship multiple times, in addition to placements in ScreenCraft and Network ISA contests. Having been happily married to her former high school boyfriend for twelve years, Adrienne writes through the lens of the transforming power of both romantic and familial love. When she’s not writing, Adrienne is busy navigating through the non-stop adventure of life with the autistic and other neurodiverse traits that she and most of her five children live with. Honors & Awards Quarterfinalist, Nicholl Fellowship, STUDS - 2020 Quarterfinalist, Nicholl Fellowship, STONES - 2022 Semifinalist, ScreenCraft Virtual Pitch Contest - CAULIFLOWER QUEEN 2024 BULLSH!T Action-Comedy - a lighter COCAINE BEAR meets the country feel of TWISTERS A screwup ranch-hand and his hapless buddies work in real time to catch the raging bull he accidentally let out, before it wreaks havoc on their small town and his blunder is discovered by his fed-up boss and his newly-pregnant, long-suffering girlfriend. CAULIFLOWER QUEEN Animated family comedy - CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS meets THE PRINCESS DIARIES An idealistic teenage beauty queen fights against an unscrupulous potato chip company mogul who wants to pave her town’s beloved farmland, while she unknowingly falls for his son. STONES Coming-of-age dramedy - LADY BIRD meets QUIZ LADY An impetuous teenage farm girl seeks freedom from her all-male household on a trip to a national dairy knowledge bowl competition, despite her overbearing brother coming along as chaperone.

< Back Tracy Charlton tkcharlton@gmail.com Tracy attended the University of California, Berkeley where she studied English literature. After graduating, she moved to Los Angeles where she worked in the film industry for several years before relocating to New York City, where she got her master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. Her screenplay RAISED UP was one of the winners of The Writers Lab, which is funded by Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman, and was based on a story she did in journalism school. Her original screenplay THE BUILDING was made into a movie that aired in Canada. She also did an uncredited rewrite on LEONIE, which starred Emily Mortimer and aired in the U.S. and Japan. She is currently in pre-production for her short script EARTH ANSWERS, which was one of the winners of the WeScreenplay Short Script Lab in 2024. Shooting is scheduled for March, 2026 in San Francisco. Tracy currently lives in Marin County with her son and an emotionally needy Golden Retriever named Pickles. Honors & Awards Stowe Story Lab Connemara – CHASING SHAKESPEARE – 2025 IWC Best of List – CHASING SHAKESPEARE and BIG LIFE -- 2025 Austin Film Festival - Second Rounder - CHASING SHAKESPEARE and NANO – 2024 CHASING SHAKESPEARE Feature - YA Action-Adventure When a teenage girl's father disappears amid accusations that he stole one of the Shakespeare's First Folios, she must find him and retrieve the Folio by solving a series of Shakespeare-themed clues he left behind. NANO Feature - horror-thriller When a scientist specializing in nano technology pushes her research too far, too fast in order to save her dying husband, she inadvertently creates a monster. A monster one thousand times smaller than a raindrop who learns faster than any A.I. on the planet and quickly has the power to destroy millions. SUKIE & JESSIE’S PUBLIC PARKS TENNIS TEAM Pilot - sports comedy - BAD NEWS BEARS meets GLOW A parks and rec women's' tennis team, misfits all, will be disbanded to make room for pickleball courts if they don’t have a winning season.

< Back Michael Lee Barlin mleebarlin@gmail.com IMDB Michael Lee began writing and directing his own stories at age six after seeing Star Wars on the big screen and having his mind blown. Growing up in rural Poughkeepsie, but visiting NYC often because his Catholic-Italian mother and Jewish father (not to mention a Syrian Great Grandfather) were all from Brooklyn, Michael Lee grew up in the spectacle-ridden era of Lucas and Spielberg, where he learned from both the movies and his family that diversity, humor, tugging the heart, and a touch of magic are the keys to making things work (neighborhoods, families, and movies alike). With a passion to push the envelope even further than his favorite filmmakers, and a talent for making people cry, or laugh out loud on the page (best when on the same page), Michael Lee now likes to write epic, world-building stories with a touch of magic, that are infused with strong, oddball characters who drive the narrative, all in an effort to entertain and touch the heart while giving thematic voice to important social commentary. Michael Lee has now directed two award-winning features, had a script on the annual Black List that was developed at Disney, won in the Page Awards, was a semifinalist in both the Nicholl Fellowships and Sundance Feature Film Program, and once did not sleep for a week when Stephen Spielberg himself personally requested to read one of Michael Lee’s scripts! Swoon to black… Honors & Awards Annual Black List - FINAL JOURNEY - 2015 Winner, Bronze - PAGE Screenwriting Awards - FINAL JOURNEY - 2015 Semifinalist, Academy Nicholl Fellowships - FINAL JOURNEY (Apocalypse Rewrite) - 2022 " SIDEKICK Live-Action/Animated Feature FREE GUY meets ROGER RABBIT When the villain from an animated TV show breaks into our world and threatens our existence, the world’s leaders try to bring through a cartoon superhero to defend us, but accidentally bring forth the hero's comedic sidekick by mistake. ONE MORE MOMENT Epic Drama THE NOTEBOOK meets ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND A man suffering from Alzheimer’s and trapped inside his own mind, goes on an epic adventure through his worst suppressed memories to escape back into lucidity and share one more moment with his dying wife. FINAL JOURNEY Adventure Drama PREY meets live-action Pixar Set in the future during a second ice age, a mistreated elderly woman is forced from her village to survive alone on a savage arctic tundra until she learns the true meaning of sacrifice through meeting a teen boy being hunted by a giant polar bear."

< Back Lisanne Sartor lisanne.sartor@me.com http://lisannesartor.com Lisanne Sartor gained early notoriety for: 1) Calling her fourth-grade teacher a female chauvinist for not letting girls play kickball (a clear outrage). 2) Teaching sex-ed seminars to her fifth-grade cohorts using Judy Blum’s FOREVER (how proud were her parents? Surprisingly, not very). 3) Calling her eighth-grade teacher a bitch for unfairly penalizing another student (While her principal shared her opinion, he told her she should keep such opinions to herself. Lesson not learned). Sartor’s outspoken nature led her to become a Los Angeles DGA assistant director (film and TV set middle management). After seven years, she had a bad back, nerve damage in her feet, and a Biblical appreciation for caffeine. She quit to write and direct. She has a UCLA Screenwriting MFA and has participated in such prestigious residencies and programs as Yaddo, Hedgebrook, Storyknife, the AFI Directing Workshop for Women, and the WGA Feature Writers Access Program. She’s won awards like the Samuel Goldwyn, the Script Pipeline First Look Project, and the Shore Scripts Feature Contest and has had a screenplay made into a Lifetime MOW. She’s also written and directed five award-winning short films that have screened in hundreds of worldwide festivals like Telluride and Cannes. She hones her writing skills by teaching at UCLA, The CineStory Foundation, Stephens, AFI, and Disney. She never looks back. SIX LETTER WORD (Feature Drama) A mom’s struggle to connect with her autistic son, repair her fraught relationship with her estranged mother, and navigate her son’s diagnosis with the help of a troubled neuropsychologist force her to come to terms with her own autism. FLATLANDER (Feature Thriller) A woman returns home to Vermont with her daughter to start anew following a separation from her adulterous husband, but a community member harboring decades-old resentment begins torturing her to enact revenge for a past loss. TESTED (Dramedy Pilot) After her husband suffers financial problems, a minister’s wife is forced to take a job notifying people they’ve been exposed to STDs. Though her first case starts out as straightforward gonorrhea notifications, she soon discovers that the case has spread like wildfire and the flames are burning down her front door.

< Back Elizabeth Ditty izzi.ditty@gmail.com - Rep: Seth Nagel 816-547-8990 Having grown up on Disney & Days of Our Lives, Elizabeth Ditty fell for rule-bending escapism & fairytale love stories early on. Now she writes across genres about earnest characters struggling through coming-of-middle-age crises (& usually finding romance along the way). She's a former Story Incubator fellow and has been an Austin Film Festival semifinalist. Elizabeth is based in Kansas City where she's raising two rule-bending children of her own. She’s repped by Seth Nagel. THAT BITCH Feature | Horror Comedy OFFICE SPACE x THE EXORCIST When three burned-out coworkers are kidnapped by their toxic boss, they must troubleshoot their way to escape before she feeds them to her demon-possessed corgi. 'TIS THE GODDAMN SEASON Feature | Christmas Romantic Comedy IT'S CHRISTMAS, CAROL! x SWEET HOME ALABAMA When she returns to her Christmas-obsessed hometown for the first time in 15 years, a soap opera star on the verge of a career breakthrough must face the lover she left behind — and whether she made a mistake all those years ago. THE FAMILY JEWELS Feature | Dramedy THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU x SABRINA In the days before their mother’s funeral, a newly-jilted former trust fund kid leaves her siblings in the lurch when she embarks on an emergency road trip to discover the truth about her parents’ marriage, her mother’s massive jewelry collection, and herself.

< Back Tonia Kempler http://www.bellementertainment.com Coverfly Tonia Kempler is a multi-hyphenate, genre-agnostic filmmaker who lives in New York. Her focus is on projects with IP/multi-revenue stream potential. She specializes in world-building and character development. She develops comics, podcasts, unscripted & scripted TV, and features. She is currently in development with Radar Pictures on a horror feature . Her approach to storytelling and understanding audience engagement is fortified by a career in the Music Industry, including concert production and managing Grammy-Award-Winning producers, engineers, and songwriters. “No Scrubs” for TLC and “Survivor” for Destiny’s Child are among over 100 Billboard Chart Topping songs created by her previous clients. Tonia is a serial entrepreneur. She is the founder of Bellem Entertainment, Entangled Exposure Entertainment, The 9 Armadillos (Writer's Room), and The Old Orchard Film Festival. Tonia is a connector by nature. She is a member of The Vine Impact Global, Orchestrated Connecting, and The Renaissance Weekend. Over the course of her career, she has amassed an expansive network in both entertainment and finance. In 2024, Tonia began to altruistically connect impact-driven producers with financiers. She is actively helping A-List projects (only). Honors & Awards The Academy Nicholl Fellowship - Top 10% - THE OUTPOST - 2021 Emerging Screenwriters - Horror/Thriller Genre Winner, - THE OUTPOST - 2022 Oregon Short Film Festival - Best Drama - NOT YOUR FAMILY - 2022 THE OUTPOST LGBTQ Coming-of-Age Thriller - STAND BY ME meets SUPER DARK TIMES Life quickly turns into chaos as two teen boys, struggling with their sexual identities, attempt to cover up an accidental murder, leading one to unravel a disturbing truth about the other. THE LEATHERFACE LADY Horror Feature - CREEP and T HE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT with a touch of PSYCHO . A young woman and her friends encounter the fabled Leatherface Lady, believed to slay hikers on the Appalachian Trail, only to discover the killer may, in fact, be the local urban legend’s grandson. GURCAN Action Feature inspired by true events - THE MARKSMAN and MAN ON FIRE meets the world of THE BRIDGE A federal agent pushed beyond his limits is forced to awaken his military past when his son gets kidnapped by a human trafficking organization within the government.

< Back Sage Wells sfire8@hotmail.com 323-434-5580 Coverfly IMDB Profile Sage is a former teacher and playwright from a small farming community in the Central Valley of California. She spent a year researching indigenous arts and culture in Indonesia while at UC Santa Barbara, studied playwriting at Emerson College, and earned an MFA in screenwriting from The American Film Institute. She is an Academy Nicholl Fellowship semi-finalist, and her directorial debut, the pandemic short film, HELPER, is currently making the festival rounds. She works on set as a studio teacher for children in entertainment, and lives and writes in the mountains of Los Angeles with her husband and two young sons. Honors & Awards Official Selection, Dances With Films - HELPER - 2021 Semi-Finalist, Academy Nicholl Fellowship - LULLABY - 2024 Semi-Finalist, Academy Nicholl Fellowship - LULLABY - 2018 LULLABY (Drama Feature) A recovering heroin addict returns home to substitute teach at her old high school and learns that the baby she gave up for adoption fourteen years ago attends the same school. SHE (Horror Feature) A troubled teen, sent to an all-girls wilderness therapy camp in Utah, must fight for survival when a mysterious female creature appears to be stalking and hunting them. WEDLOCK (Drama One Hour Episodic) Teenage best friends, Kent, a closeted gay man, and Frankie, a bisexual woman, enter a mixed-orientation “lavender” marriage in 1970, Los Angeles and struggle to stay together for the next 45 years.

< Back Shana Holmes shanarhymeswithdana@gmail.com http://www.shanarhymeswithdana.com Coverfly Shana Holmes (no relationship to Sherlock) is a queer, neurodivergent writer working in VFX at Netflix. She was a Disney Writers Program Semifinalist and is a participant in Ryan Reynold’s Group Effort Initiative. Shana got her start in improv and sketch comedy and now writes half-hour comedies featuring unconventional women, intergenerational relationships, and queer identity. After fleeing the icy tundra of Minnesota and living all over the world–Turkey, Taiwan, Mexico, and New York, to name a few–Shana is now happily settled in Los Angeles. She spends her free time gazing adoringly at her two cats, accidentally killing succulents, and getting scraped up at the climbing gym. Honors & Awards Disney Writers Program , Semifinalist - THE RENTED FRIEND - 2022 Austin Film Festival, Second Rounder,- SMUT AND MOTHBALLS - 2024 SMUT AND MOTHBALLS (1/2 hour comedy) Jane the Virgin meets Sex Lives of College Girls A prudish woman reluctantly reinvents herself as a steamy romance writer with the help of her grandmother and other retirees in Guanajuato, Mexico.

< Back Rich Orstad richorstad@laughingo.com http://www.laughingo.com Coverfly The Black List Rich started writing his first story, the sci-fi thriller Lightmares, in his High School Creative Writing class, where his teacher commented he had a difficult choice to make; do the practical thing and become an Engineer or heed Robert Frost’s advice, take the road less travelled and become a writer. Well, after graduating college as a Mechanical Engineer and starting his career, the monkeys never stopped scratching at that story until it finally poured out of him nearly twenty years later, and he's been writing ever since. Since then, he has become a two-time winner and twelve-time finalist with two features in various stages of development. He won the Screencraft True Story Competition with his inspirational bio-pic ENDURANCE, currently in development with Noble Story Co, placed Silver in PAGE with his family feature RESCUE DOG, and is working with Redwoods Studios with his Austin After Dark Finalist horror-comedy NAMASTE ALIVE! Growing up, Rich consumed every Stephen King novel he wrote, was lucky enough to watch Star Wars when it first came out in theaters and had a dad that loved to tell stories about growing up on a farm in depression-era North Dakota. Which is why Rich loves telling stories across all genres because like a well-lived life, every story should pack an emotional punch. Rich is looking for the right representation, is open to OWA’s, and resides in Los Gatos, CA with his wife, Kim. ENDURANCE (Feature, Family Drama) After losing his legs to an IED in 2012, an Afghanistan War veteran commits his life to completing the Boston Marathon one year after the 2013 bombings and to finish the most important race of his life…his commitment to faith and bringing hope to wounded veterans. Based on a true story. KEEPSAKES CHRISTMAS (Feature, Family Drama) When a social worker discovers that an elderly woman’s Christmas keepsakes have the power to magically transport them both back in time to the memory each holiday memento represents, she takes on the fight to save the senior’s home and her lifetime of precious holiday memories. NAMASTE ALIVE! (Feature, Horror Comedy) When a shy Cali girl says her mantra wrong during Hot Mindfulness Yoga Class and becomes possessed by the Hindu God of Destruction, her best friend must assemble a rag-tag team of friends, family, and mystics to save her life and prevent the end of humankind.

< Back Stephen Krespel stephenkrespel@gmail.com IMDB Stephen Krespel is a screenwriter and producer who fled the doldrums of suburbia to play in various rock bands in San Francisco. Ultimately, he ended up bartending in the city for way, way, way too long. But, as it turns out, hanging out with a bunch of real-life raconteurs is a pathway to writing about great characters for the screen. Stephen specializes in light-hearted comedies and heart-pumping action features. Typically, he writes his characters as if they're fireflies in a jar. They emit joyous, life-affirming light while simultaneously experiencing an existential crisis... because they are trapped in a f#cking jar. Stephen learned about filmmaking working on EAST BAY (2022) starring Constance Wu. Since then he’s been a Finalist for the Paramount Writers Mentorship Program, Cinequest, and the Roadmap Writers Top Tier contest. Honors & Awards Paramount Writers Mentorship Program Finalis t - 2023 Austin Film Festival - Semifinalist - 2023 REKT - A CRYPTOCURRENCY TALE Hour long TV Mystery Drama. It's MR. ROBOT meets BLINDSPOT After a near fatal accident, a San Francisco Tech Bro loses his job, his fiancée, and the password to a cryptocurrency fortune, leaving him only 10 chances to recover the Bitcoins and reboot his life." THE SUBSTITUTES Half hour TV Pilot It's WE ARE LADY PARTS meets SCHOOL OF ROCK When former rock and roll bandmates wind up substitute teaching at the same school, the singer (who everyone hates) tries to get the band back together in an attempt to win NPR's Tiny Desk Contest. " SKATE, SPY, OR DIE Comedy Action Feature BLADES OF GLORY meets THE NAKED GUN When Olympic Gold Medalist Brian Boitano retires from the CIA he sets out to find a soul mate but discovers it might be too late. Luckily, the world faces an evil threat only he can battle, so, he salchows back to the spy game and triple axels his way to true love."

< Back Terri Barclay Spaugh tbswriter@gmail.com https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3606322/ Terri B Spaugh writes character-driven dramas that explore buried truths, moral consequence, and the struggle to maintain identity within systems that seek to define it. Her stories center on flawed individuals forced to confront the cost of survival and the dignity found in facing it. Her produced YA feature FIELDS AFIRE received a WorldFest award and was distributed on streaming platforms. A graduate of UCLA’s Screenwriting programs and Rice University’s Creative Writing Program, Spaugh brings academic rigor and a background in science and history to her work. A WGA West mentor and former features writer for Creative Screenwriting, she founded the Texas Film Institute Screenplay Competition and served for over a decade as a finalist judge for the Austin Film Festival. She is currently developing feature projects, including nonfiction military adaptations, while continuing to mentor emerging writers. Honors & Awards Quarterfinalist, Blue Cat - 2 WAYS OF THE GUN - 2025, Quarterfinalist, FILMMATIC DRAMA SCREENPLAY AWARDS, S10 - The Longest Rally, 2025, Semifinalist, STAGE 32 HOLIDAY MOVIE SCREENWRITING AWARD - The Lights Before Christmas, 2023 2 WAYS OF THE GUN Revisionist Western - The Revenant , Django Unchained His sister stolen to be sold in West Texas, an eighteen-year-old hunts the notorious slaver Ghost, forced to choose between rage and restraint. DRIFT Grounded Sci-Fi Horror/Arctic Thriller - A Quiet Place meets The Thing A rescue mission to a sinking Arctic station turns deadly when an icebreaker captain discovers a shape-shifting plague has gone airborne, leaving only one chance to save the crew. CLINGING TO BONE Psychological Thriller/Suspense - Midsommar, Gone Girl A woman struggling with dissociation hunts her best friend’s ritual killer, defying her psychiatrist—only to discover he is real, entwined with her past, and hunting her next.

< Back Cynthia Crofoot Cynthia.crofoot@gmail.com 416.826.0608 http://www.cynthiacrofoot.com IMDB Profile Cynthia’s female-driven drama and genre screenplays combine robust story arcs with well-defined characters in complex, nuanced worlds where moral and ethical tenets are challenged. Her completed screenplays have consistently received positive recognition from industry peers and professionals and to date has penned over 20 screenplays, with several of those in the hands of producers, managers and directors in Los Angeles and Toronto. Her produced films have been well received on the festival circuit, garnering national and international praise for her talents. With over 25 years in the industry, Cynthia continues to excel in her creative pursuits and currently has several projects in various stages of development. She is a dual Canadian/American citizen. Honors and Awards Big Apple Screenplay Competition , Semi-Finalist - BRACEWATER - 2020 Hamilton Screenplay Competition , Top Ten Finalist BRACEWATER - 2021 Hollywood Just 4 Shorts , Winner- SAVIOR - 2021 Toronto Independent FF , Winner - SAVIOR - 2021 Global Shorts , Top 10 Finalist - SAVIOR - 2021 ONE DATE... Romantic Dramedy A widowed mother and her single daughter find new love with the help of friends and on-line dating platforms, but their happiness is jeopardized when they discover the troublesome past that links the new men in their lives. PAUSE Horror/Thriller A menopausal FBI agent hunting a group of vicious women who maintain their youth through cannibalistic rituals, must embrace the strength and beauty of her older self in order to defeat the murderous sect. BRACEWATER Cop Thriller/Drama A highly decorated small town detective is put on leave after her sister commits suicide, but when a close family friend disappears, she convinces her captain to reinstate her, unaware that the DA involved is withholding pertinent information about a murderous criminal they believe is responsible for the kidnapping.