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< Back Craig T. Williams redwallproductions@gmail.com http://www.redwallproductions.com/ A native New Yorker, Craig is a writer and producer at Red Wall Productions, a film production company he founded over twenty years ago with his wife and partner of 22 years, Rosalyn Coleman Williams. Together, they have created over 50 film projects, including features, documentaries, and narrative short films. His journey landed him his first staff writing job on the hit TV show "TERROR LAKE DRIVE" on ALLBLK, an AMC Streamer. Craig was part of the prestigious Warner Brothers Discovery TV Writer’s Program. His feature film “Black Boys Don't Sew” has Academy Award Winner Viola Davis and her husband Julius Tennon attached as Executive Producers. Craig has many scripts in various stages of development including the award winning one-hour TV pilot “How Ya Like Me Now,” about the ‘80s rap rivalry between Kool Moe Dee and LL Cool J. A one hour mystery procedural “The Connectors,” set in the Bronx, 2 women who discover they were born on the same day to the same father, create an agency that reconnects lost family. Honors & Awards Warner Brothers Discovery All Access TV Writers Program (2021) Gotham Film and Media - “Series Creator to Watch” IFP Episodic Lab non-WGA Male, Black, 55+ CALL ME DADDY (half hour comedy) Tired of waiting for Mrs. Right, an emotionally stunted 30 year old man decides to have a baby on his own to be the father he never had. BLACK BOYS DON'T SEW (feature drama) An untreated bipolar artist discovers his 11 year-old nephew has been diagnosed with the same illness, he kidnaps him to show him a life free of pills Character-driven, BIPOC-centric, Procedural Male, Black, 55+ Repped

< Back Candace Egan prof.candace.egan@gmail.com https://candaceegan.com/ Candace Egan is a Professor of Film and Media Arts at Fresno State and a screenwriter with a journalism and corporate media background. She’s had a long career as a non-fiction visual storyteller, exploring stories about a breadth of people, such as the first Hmong women to go to college, Portuguese-Americans in California, the first man to trek and photograph the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and competitive wheelchair tennis players. She began her career by falling in love with the camera and the power of visual storytelling and now enjoys bringing her vision to life in the screenplays she writes. Tapping into her own adventurous life, she is inspired to write female-driven stories about mature, authentic women who seek to reinvent themselves no matter how old they are. Her feature and TV pilot scripts have received numerous accolades, including a Stowe Story Labs Fellowship, finalist in Stage 32’s Grown Up Movies Contest, semifinalist in the Page International Screenwriting Awards, twice selected for the CineStory Feature Lab and an alumni of the first CineStory Residency. Honors & Awards Semi-finalist, Page International Screenwriting Awards - DESERT BELLES - 2024 Winner , Action Adventure Feature Hollywood Storytellers Festival & Genre Script Competition - DESERT BELLES - 2024 Winner , Stowe Story Labs 2023 Law Firm of Stacy A Davis Fellowship - SECOND SET pilot - 2023" non-WGA Female, 55+ DESERT BELLES Action-Adventure Feature NYAD meets F1 A veteran off-road racer facing financial ruin competes in a grueling 8-day 4-wheel drive desert auto rally for the prize money, only to battle deadly conditions, sabotage, and a shady former racing partner to claw her way to the win." SECOND SET Drama Feature In the tone of TED LASSO After her husband retires and upends her complacent life, a newly rebellious middle-aged woman jumps at the chance to play for the short-handed local community college tennis team, only to face resistance from her family, coach and the University President who wants her and the team to fail. Character-driven, Female-centric, Romantic, Horror, Naturalistic, International Female, 55+ unrepped

< Back Elan M. Carson elancarson85@yahoo.com https://elanmcarson.com/ Elan grew up in Detroit as one of the “Whitest Black” kids you’d ever meet, thanks in part to her grandmother, an English teacher who insisted she speak properly, and Elan’s love of The Brady Bunch. What did this make her to her classmates? The kid on the bleachers… During her tween and teen years to cope with her outsider status, Elan found catharsis in two things: rebelling against the status quo and writing angsty poetry. Was she going to conform? No. She was going to stand out as a shining example of what it meant to be unique, listening to commercial pop-rock bands like Evanescence and Fall Out Boy. These weren’t radio hits in her neck of the hoods. Penning goth poetry (yes, she had a poem called Dreams of Dreary) carried her through high school until she left for college in California. At her liberal arts college, she discovered new challenges, however. Some of her peers had never seen a Black person before (this was pre-Obama era) and she was placed on a pedestal of tokenism upheld by microaggressions. Again, she turned to writing to cope. Today, Elan now finds humor and heart exploring themes of racial identity through sketch comedy and larger-than-life characters in her T.V. pilots. She also produces TikToks with her mom, letting others peek into the wholesome and unfiltered life of Black mother-daughter relationships, filling a niche in the content space that’s needed. Through comedy, Elan has moved proudly from the bleachers to center stage. Honors & Awards Emerging Screenwriters - Quarterfinalist - DIRTY DONNA - 2025 Final Draft Big Break - Quarterfinalist - INFLUENCER - 2024 Shore Scripts - Quarterfinalist - PINK SLIPPED - 2020 Fresh Voices - Semifinalist - THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL - 2020 non-WGA Female, Black INFLUENCER Half-Hour Single-Cam, Comedy As a self-absorbed micro-influencer chases online fame in Los Angeles, her over-the-top antics wreak havoc in the lives of her single mom best friend and her friend's impressionable young daughter. JUST A SPRITZ Half-Hour Single-Cam, Comedy When a disgraced CEO takes a humbling job selling perfume at a department store, she must navigate the world of petty coworker rivalries, commission wars, and keeping her ego in check, all while her co-worker coaches her on being a basic saleswomen. THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL "Take a Stand" One-Hour Single-Cam, Drama Midge gets new neighbors in her building. They’re black, bourgeois, and lack any knowledge of Jewish culture. When she invites them to one of their acts and they’re not allowed inside, she has to decide in the moment what she truly stands for. Character-driven, Female-centric, Satire, Silly, Late Night, Sketch Female, Black unrepped

< Back Heather Huntington Sheree Guitar, Sheree Guitar Entertainment IMDB Danielle Evenson & Heather Huntington are a set of mittens you left at Sundance (you can figure out which one is which). As the child of a narcissist and mother of two neurodiverse kids (Heather) and a would-be beauty queen who grew up driving the bull semen route (Danielle), obviously they write comedy. Specifically, they write edgy and sometimes nerdy feminist comedy with a pop culture bent. After studying writing at USC and Emerson, After studying writing at USC and the University of Chicago, Danielle & Heather have staffed on CBS’s "The New Adventures of Old Christine," created podcasts for Meet Cute and Aural Stories, and won audio fellowships with the Orchard Project and Gotham Film & Media Institute. Their romantic comedy feature, "The Proposal Spot," is available on Amazon and Peacock. When not writing, they teach storytelling and narrative podcasting at the New York Film Academy, and host their monthly table read series, "CoPilots," at the Elysian Theater in Los Angeles. Honors & Awards Jeff Sagansky Harvardwood Writers Program - ATHERTON - 2021 Fellow, The Orchard Project's Episodic Writer's Lab - PILGRIMAGE - 2019 Quarterfinalist, Nicholl Fellowship - THE BOOTY EMBARGO - 2009 Current member Female, 40+ TWICE EXCEPTIONAL Single cam comedy pilot - The Goldbergs meets Atypical When a couple who finds out their quirky son is actually gifted AND on the spectrum, they learn that absolutely everything they thought they knew about parenting no longer applies. PILGRIMAGE Single cam comedy pilot - Broad City meets The Crucible What happens when the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of 1620s England gets stuck with the OGs of white privilege--the pilgrims? RACHEL III Single camera comedy pilot - Richard III via Ten Things I Hate About You When back-brace-wearing loser Rachel Gloucester can't win over the popular kids at her high school by buying her way onto the student council, she decides to kill them instead. Because if you can't beat 'em, hire a hitman to make it look like an accident. Character-driven, Female-centric, Historical/Alternative History, Coming-of-Age, Satire, Silly, Slapstick, Snarky Female, 40+ repped

< Back Joey Clift joeyclift@gmail.com Chris Coggins - Heroes And Villains Entertainment http://www.joeyclift.com IMDB Joey Clift is a Los Angeles-based comedian, TV writer, director, Emmy-nominated producer, and enrolled member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe. Joey attended college to become a local TV weather person because as a kid he didn’t see any Native American comedians on television, and that made him believe he wasn’t allowed to work in comedy. Since then he has learned that this is not true – and his comedy style reflects that. Joey’s work has been featured in The Washington Post, CNN, Pitchfork, NPR, Dead Meat, and Comedy Central. As a television writer Joey has written for shows such as the 7x Emmy-nominated Spirit Rangers on Netflix, Molly of Denali and Alma’s Way on PBS, New Looney Tunes and Lego Ninjago: Decoded on Cartoon Network, and Paw Patrol on Nickelodeon. Joey Clift created, directed, and wrote Gone Native, a Webby Award-winning Comedy Central Digital series featuring many of today’s top Native American comedians, and his short films have screened everywhere from Just For Laughs to the Smithsonian Museum. Joey is also the creator of the LA Underground Cat Network, a 40,000-member strong online community for Los Angeles comedians to share cute pictures of their cats. He’s kind of a cat guy. Honors & Awards Yes And Laughter Lab | Winner | Gone Native - 2019 The Black List’s Indigenous List | Listed | Bunker Boss - 2020 WGA Pow! Animated Comedy Short Film A Native American kid scrambles to charge his dying video game console at a bustling intertribal powwow. Repped

< Back Tiffany Warren t.warren.tx@gmail.com Tiffany Warren is a filmmaker and screenwriter based in Los Angeles, building her creative brand under Theophania Visuals. Her work draws on horror, fantasy, sci-fi, and dark comedy to tell emotionally charged stories with complex characters navigating resilience, identity, and transformation. Alongside her writing, Tiffany brings a versatile background as a video editor, colorist, and 3D generalist, skills that sharpen her storytelling with both visual and technical insight. Her past projects include To and From (web series), the award-winning web series L.I.F.E. Anthologies, and collaborations such as Amber’s Closet. She is currently developing Goodnight Text, a proof-of-concept short that explores betrayal, possession, and empowerment through a cursed mirror. Passionate about collaboration and innovation, Tiffany is dedicated to creating original works that push genre boundaries while fostering community and meaningful connection. non-WGA Female, Latinx, LGBTQ+, Disabled, 40+ GOODNIGHT TEXT Horror The Black Phone meets Evil Dead (2013) After a painful betrayal, a timid young woman becomes bound to a cursed mirror and the vengeful spirit within, forcing her to confront her fears or be consumed by violent transformation. GOATMAN'S BRIDGE Horror Candyman meets Hereditary A troubled mother enters rehab to win back custody of her daughter, only to uncover her family’s connection to a Jim Crow–era murder on the land — awakening the vengeful Goatman and forcing her into a deadly battle that could end her bloodline. KIDS THESE DAYS Dark Comedy/Thriller Heathers meets Jawbreaker When a former nerd joins her school’s mean-girl clique, a botched attempt to silence a predatory coach leaves him dead — and the girls’ twisted cover-up spirals into a savage lesson in popularity, power, and survival. Character-driven, Female-centric, BIPOC-centric, Queer, Psychological, Horror, Satire, Dark Female, Latinx, LGBTQ+, Disabled, 40+ unrepped

< Back Joseph Mwamba JoeMightLikeTV@gmail.com http://www.Telemazing.com Coverfly Joseph Mwamba is a first-generation African-American Y.A. writer from Indiana. He's recently a 2024 Disney Fellowship Finalist, named ISA's Top 25 Screenwriter to Watch, and wrote an episode as a Writers' Assistant for Season 2 of Netflix’s upcoming action anime TOM CLANCY’S SPLINTER CELL. Prior, he was the Writers’ Assistant for Audible's A STRANGE CASE and Writers' PA for Netflix's YOU & Apple TV's THE AFTERPARTY. Previously an assistant for two TV Lit agents at UTA, Joe was selected into Rideback Rise Fellowship as a Circle Member, Coverfly's Endorsed Writer Program, and Roadmap Writer's Support Staff Initiative. His Y.A. action dramedy THE KNIGHT'S PHOENIX won the Grand Prize in the Emerging Screenwriters Action & Adventure Pilot Competition. Honors & Awards Disney Writing Fellowship Finalist - 2024 Top 25 Screenwriters to Know, ISA - 2023 Grand Prize Winner, Emerging Screenwriter Action & Adventure Pilot Competition - THE KNIGHT'S PHOENIX - 2022 non-WGA Male, BIPOC, Black THE KNIGHT'S PHOENIX (Y.A. Action Drama - HARRY POTTER meets KINGSMEN) The unsettling arrival of a new teen helps a principal launch the CIA’s secret prep academy into disorder as faculty and students find their secrets are no longer safe. FINDING A LOST PEN (Y.A. Mystery Dramedy - VERONICA MARS meets SEX EDUCATION with a dash of WANDAVISION) A teen with crippling social anxiety starts a high school detective agency, secretly using its intel on students to find his missing twin sister. Coming-of-Age, YA Male, BIPOC, Black unrepped

< 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 non-WGA Female 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. Character-driven, Female-centric, Thriller, Psychological, Horror, Coming-of-Age, Dark, International Female repped

< Back Gina DeAngelis deangelis.gina.m@gmail.com https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2391671/ The Black List Gina DeAngelis is the youngest of ten kids who all talked at once. She started writing a book at age 8 just to get a word in, little expecting that one day, she’d have published 32 others. After a year of high school in Australia -- as far from home as she could physically get -- she studied acting, playwriting, and directing alongside history for her B.A. A professional writer for 20+ years, she holds Master’s degrees in both history and screenwriting, and won an Emmy Award (two nominations) for historical drama. In Gina’s spec features, her unlikely heroes suffer from estrangement and isolation before building diverse found families. Even her darkest stories are ultimately life-affirming. Recent releases include STORIES OF WAR, a collection of 13 commissioned documentary shorts; the indie feature EVERYTHING FUN YOU COULD POSSIBLY DO IN ALEDO, ILLINOIS, which premiered in Los Angeles in 2024, and the horror short ASK FOR HELP, which DeAngelis also directed. Her short film adaptation of the Pamela Painter story DOORS recently completed post-production and will be in festivals in 2025. DeAngelis’s work has been consistently honored by the Academy Nicholl Fellowships, CineStory, PAGE International Screenwriting Awards, the Austin Film Festival, Stowe Story Labs, and others. Her work has also appeared on PBS and was performed live for Queen Elizabeth II. Honors & Awards Semifinalist, Nicholl Fellowships - THE KNOCKING AT THE MARSH - 2024 Winner, Virginia Screenwriting Competition - THE KNOCKING AT THE MARSH - 2024 Finalist, Film Pipeline Short Script Competition - DOORS - 2023 non-WGA Female, 40+ THE KNOCKING AT THE MARSH (Horror/supernatural thriller - think THE WITCH, MAMÁ, THE WIND) When her widowed mother vanishes during a blizzard in 1850s Virginia, a biracial teenager must defend herself, her vulnerable little sister, and their isolated farm against their slaveholding uncle and the torments of an angry spirit. THE LITANY OF THE SAINTS (Murder mystery/thriller - THE NAME OF THE ROSE, DOUBT) When a devout young nun suspects that the death of her mother-superior was no accident, she must identify which of her sisters is the murderer before she becomes the next victim -- while suppressing her attraction to the violent young man assigned to protect her. IF THESE WALLS COULD SHUT UP (Horror-comedy - think NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM, THE HAUNTED MANSION) When a reluctant inheritor decides to sell a tourist-trap re-enactment village, the site's ghosts mount a dangerous campaign of resistance, unless she can solve a 200-year-old mystery in one night. Female-centric, Thriller, Horror, Historical/Alternative History, Coming-of-Age Female, 40+ unrepped

< Back Maria Eugenia Mealla mariamealla@gmail.com http://mariamealla.com Coverfly Maria was raised in La Paz, Bolivia on a healthy balance of cultural folklore and Catholic superstition. She moved to Austin, TX where she studied Theater Arts before moving to the Bay Area, where she ventured into filmmaking and taught herself the craft through work-trade. She is currently Head of Production at Glass and Marker, a full service creative studio in Oakland, California. Maria was selected to participate in the 2019 Artist in Residency program at the Napa Film Festival with her feature debut, BRING ME AN AVOCADO, a Cinequest Audience Award winner streaming on Amazon Prime. She is a 2022 Sidewalk Narrative Labs Fellow. Her short film LA MACANA, won HBO's 2023 Pa'lante Competition and was licensed to Max for a year. Her latest project in development, BODY SHOP, was selected as a finalist in the 2023 Tribeca Untold Stories competition and pitched live during the festival. In 2024, BODY SHOP was accepted into the NALIP Media Accelerator Program and PGA Create. Maria plans to film a proof of concept for this film in 2024. Most recently, Maria was selected as a Latino Public Broadcasting grantee for her short film JUANA PELOS. The film was completed winter of 2024 and will hit the festival circuit in early 2025. non-WGA Female, Latinx RAFA Coming of age, drama - Lady Bird - Yes, God, Yes In the mountains of Bolivia, Rafa, a Catholic teenager, gets a job as a barback using a fake ID to save money for a New Year's Eve trip to Peru, where she's made a pact with her best friend to lose their virginities before New Year. BODY SHOP Magical Realism, Comedy In an alternate reality where “body shops” replace hospitals, Lupe’s body suffers an accident that forces her into the loaner frame of a white Anglo woman. Desperate to expedite the repairs, Lupe ventures to a rumored black market to source skin that matches her true identity. Character-driven, Female-centric, Coming-of-Age, Magical Realism Female, Latinx unrepped

< Back Natalie Higdon natalie.higdon@gmail.com https://www.nataliehigdon.com/ Natalie Higdon is a comedy writer originally from Memphis, Tenn., where the top tourist attraction is a pyramid-shaped Bass Pro Shop. Her mother is a romance novelist who took her along to writing conventions instead of paying for summer camp. This is where Natalie learned foundational narrative skills like how to best describe a man’s “member” in prose and avoid getting sued by an ex who bears a striking resemblance to your lead villain. After graduating from The University of Memphis with a degree in Journalism (and completing an etiquette class at Dillard’s called White Gloves & Party Manners much earlier), Natalie set out to be a screenwriter and more importantly, move out of her hometown where she never quite fit in (see: pyramid-shaped Bass Pro Shop, above). These experiences inspired her love for writing darkly comedic stories with heart, about fish-out-of-water protagonists who are on a journey to discover and love who they truly are. Natalie’s screenplays have placed in competitions including the Academy Nicholl Fellowships and Austin Film Festival. She recently completed the 2024-2025 Paramount Writers Mentoring Program where she was mentored by Carly Berg and Sean Kotzin. Her short film, Dream Skin Mask, premiered as a Film Shortage Daily Pick. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her cat, Biscuit. Honors & Awards Paramount Global Announces Participants for 2024-2025 Writers Mentoring Program (EXCLUSIVE) non-WGA Female, LGBTQ+ THE ONE One-hour, dramedy SQUID GAME meets THE BACHELOR When Madison is selected for a secretive dating reality show, she soon learns that finding ""the one"" will be her only way to survive. MALL MADNESS Half-hour, comedy THE GOOD PLACE meets SUPERSTORE When a self-absorbed fashion PR girlie dies unexpectedly, she’s sent to purgatory, a 1990s shopping mall, where she must work with an eclectic group of co-workers to pay off her moral debt and get to Heaven. Character-driven, Female-centric, Horror, Dark Female, LGBTQ+ unrepped

< Back Noemi Villela-Dean novilleladean@gmail.com Noemi Villela-Dean started as a theatrical writer and director who now writes pilots and screenplays, (and sometimes to do lists, lest she forget everything). With a flair for injecting magical realism and dark humor into every story she tells, Noemi likes to imagine 'what if'. Her biggest 'what if' is what would society be like if women had been in control from the beginning? She just finished a screenplay adaptation of the graphic novel Joe Frankenstein, that is currently in pre-pre-production. She's also worked as a playwright adapting fairytales for the stage with hilariously fresh spins on old classics as well as well as wickedly funny original works. Noemi holds an MFA in Television & Screenwriting from Stephens College. Honors and Awards Participant - Athena Film Festival Writers Lab - THE SEER - 2022 non-WGA Female, Latinx, 40+ THE SEER Hour long drama fantasy Long after the demise of the patriarchy in a society where traditional gender roles no longer exist, a band of powerful female warriors fight to protect their way of life from the rising threat of an ominous evil lurking in the shadows. SANTOS & MARGIE Feature drama fantasy A Mexican man’s journey from infancy to adulthood is fraught with magical, mysterious, and dark entities that threaten his very existence. THE DOOR Feature drama A young biracial man is forced to confront the demons of his family's dark history when he finds himself thrust into the tumultuous 1960-s Civil Rights movement in Mississippi. Female-centric, BIPOC-centric, Fantasy, Anthology, Satire, Dark, Magical Realism, Sketch Female, Latinx, 40+ unrepped