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< Back Tiffany Yarde yarde_tiffany@yahoo.com https://www.tiffanyyarde.com/ Coverfly Tiffany Yarde is a Caribbean-American screenwriter whose upbringing in the Walt Whitman Public Housing of Brooklyn, NY, by Bajan immigrants deeply influences her exploration of culturally diverse characters grappling with self-acceptance. Tiffany wrote the culturally inclusive TV movie Dress for Success, which recently premiered on Tubi. She also co-wrote the short film Bon Voyage, showcased in NYC as part of the Women’s Weekend Film Challenge. As a fellow in the inaugural Creative Corridor Program, a transatlantic industry initiative by Independent Film Trust and Roadmap Writers, Tiffany has honed her craft alongside global talent. She holds a B.A. in English with a concentration in Creative Writing from Bryn Mawr College and is currently pursuing an MFA in Screenwriting at the David Lynch School of Cinematic Arts, with her graduation slated for summer 2025. AINSWORTH (One-Hour [Serialized] TV | Psychological Crime Thriller, YOU meets HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER ) When a criminology professor with dissociative identity disorder becomes the main suspect in a series of student murders, he teams up with a persistent detective to find the real killer, not realizing the true danger might be within himself. VEINS OF DECEIT (Feature | Crime Thriller Drama, ZODIAC meets THE NIGHTCRAWLER ) A detective frames a suspect in a brutal murder case, but as the lies unravel, he risks becoming the next victim of his own deception. DEADLY STREAM (Feature | Horror | Thriller, SPREE meets HUSH ) Trapped in a department store with a serial killer, a group of aspiring social media influencers must escape before their livestream turns into a deadly one.

< Back Jorge Molina jorge.molinara@gmail.com 213 -700 -6581 http://writtenbyjorge.com Jorge Molina was born and raised in a suburb of Mexico City, and graduated with a BFA in Writing for Film and Television from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He has worked extensively inside the film festival circuit as a programmer in places like Outfest, the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF), Frameline, NewFest, Sundance and Tribeca. He wrote and executive produced the short film “Muy Gay Too Mexicano”, which was acquired by HBO Max and premiered on the platform in the fall of 2021, and is the creator and showrunner of the award season murder mystery scripted podcast "Just to Be Nominated". As a critic, his work has been published in outlets like The AV Club, the Advocate, Vulture and The Cut, and he currently has a weekly film retrospective column in Queerty called "A Gay Old Time. DETECTIVE JAMES MORTENSEN AND THE CASE OF THE GOLDEN CANDELABRA (Feature film - Drama/ Fantasy) A young boy devours a series of detective novels as a way to escape his lonely reality. When his older brother dies unexpectedly, he envisions the funeral as a whodunnit, with his family and friends as colorful suspects, led by a flamboyant detective. WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO ROSA ELENA? (Feature film - Dark comedy/ horror) A gay Mexican twink moves into the Palm Springs home of a legendary telenovela actress he once worked with. However, he soon realizes that the cost and demands of living alongside a gay icon are much darker than he expected. Maybe even deadly… RAMÓN (Limited series - Historical/ Drama) A quasi-biographical, surrealist miniseries about the life, death, and many identities of Mexican silent film idol Ramón Novarro: the rise and fall of his career from global sensation to forgotten star, the struggles in concealing his homosexuality, and his brutal murder at the hands of two hustlers.

< Back Stacey Russell staceycampbellrussell@gmail.com http://www.staceyrussell.net Stacey has been writing since she was a kid, when she used to charge her family a quarter to watch her ""shows"" put on with My Little Ponies and DuckTales plushies. Unfortunately her parents still have many of these on video. Stacey writes heavy but quirky character driven stories about outsiders, misfits, and sometimes just all around spectacular failures. A late diagnosis of ADHD and raising a child with Down syndrome, she uses her writing to advocate for those who are deemed ""unworthy"" as they battle to rise above expectations - both society's and their own. Honors & Awards IWC Best Of Selection - THE OPEN AIR - 2026 Official Selection, The Women's List - TITS UP - 2025 Semifinalist, Austin Film Festival - YOUNGBLOODS - 2023 Semifinalist, Austin Film Festival - THE OPEN AIR - 2025 THE OPEN AIR Dramedy feature LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE x THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON meets HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE To avoid going to a home for adults with disabilities, a young man with Down syndrome tricks his sister into a roadtrip through the South Island of New Zealand to find the rest of their family, and themselves. TITS UP 1 hr dramedy pilot DYING FOR SEX meets WEEDS When a burlesque dancer turned stay at home mom secretly turns to OnlyFans as a way to support her family and reclaim her identity, she gets swept up in the dark realities of online pornography and realizes too late she may be in way over her head. YOUNGBLOODS 1 hr supernatural dramedy pilot SEVERANCE meets ASH VS EVIL DEAD When a stoner, slacker hacker dad discovers the company he works for kidnaps interns and feasts on their blood for immortality, he finally has to get off his ass to prevent his estranged daughter from becoming their next milkshake.

< Back Nic Cohen hillmannic@gmail.com Rep by Chris Coggins - Heroes & Villains Entertainment. IMDB "NIC COHEN portrays relatable, complex women under pressure in grounded sci-fi, contained thrillers and dark comedy features. A forest scientist by training, Nic’s voracious curiosity led to an eclectic resume that includes visiting Guantanamo Bay detainees for human rights work, earning a red card to fight forest fires, lobbying Congress on global warming policy, dancing internationally in a salsa/hip hop troupe, editing a tree farming magazine, and teaching NIH neuroscientists ballroom dance. These wildly varied experiences, in combination with raising three neurodiverse teens as an LGBTQ+ and trans-proud mom, inform her unique perspective on gender, privilege and power and her empathy for marginalized voices. Nic's first three features are in development with the producers of EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE, HERETIC, and UNBROKEN. Her scripts have consistently won accolades, notably as a PAGE International Silver Winner for Thriller and Austin Film Festival Enderby Finalist. Nic was selected to attend the Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman-supported The Writers Lab in 2022. A native Texan, Nic now lives outside Washington, D.C. with her Yankee husband, three adolescent gamers, a shy Siberian kitten and a bold African Pygmy hedgehog. She’s represented by Heroes & Villains Entertainment. Honors & Awards Selected Writer, The Writer’s Lab Eighth Edition - ARTEMIS ONE - 2022 Silver Prize Winner Thriller/Horror Feature, PAGE International Screenwriting Awards - ALWAYS WE BEGIN AGAIN - 2023 Enderby Feature Finalist, Austin Film Festival - ALWAYS WE BEGIN AGAIN - 2022 ALWAYS WE BEGIN AGAIN Contained Thriller Feature In the vein of a dark 50 FIRST DATES After surviving the car crash that killed her family, a woman with anterograde amnesia wakes in her own bed to a stranger who says he’s her fiancé´ and must piece together clues left by her past-self before she falls asleep and forgets it all again. ARTEMIS ONE Sci-Fi Contained Thriller Feature When three women astronauts on the first human flight to Mars are cut off from NASA by a solar flare, they must battle the mysterious sinister forces threatening their mission - and their lives. MOTIVATED Comedy pilot DIRTBAG meets BARRY , literally A wannabe motivational speaker in a downward spiral takes her last stab at stardom and unintentionally inspires a lonely serial killer to chase his dreams.

< Back Anne Toole thewritetoole@gmail.com https://writingiswriting.wordpress.com/ Writers Guild Award-winning writer Anne Toole has written for live-action series, games, animation, comics, and more. Her work currently appears in Netflix's DANIEL SPELLBOUND and the action-comedy series CANNON BUSTERS. Previously, she wrote for GHOST OF TSUSHIMA: DIRECTOR'S CUT and for WOMEN OF MARVEL #1 . She also wrote for DAYS OF OUR LIVES, contributed to the Emmy-winning short-form dramedy THE LIZZIE BENNET DIARIES, and created the hundred-episode dramedy ALLES LIEBE, ANNETTE for the German market. Anne's credits include THE WITCHER game, the HORIZON ZERO DAWN games and comics, and ASSASSIN'S CREED ORIGINS. She has spoken extensively on storytelling across platforms at South by Southwest and Comic-con International as well as in presentations at MIT, Harvard, and Cannes. A citizen of Ireland as well as the US, Anne holds a degree in Archaeology from Harvard. Honors & Awards Golden Joystick Award, Narrative - DAYS GONE - 2022 Writers Guild Award Winner - HORIZON ZERO DAWN - 2018 UNMOVED MOVER (Period sci-fi short story) Professor Challenger enlists an old friend to find the source of a mysterious sound, while still reeling from the loss of his son in the Great War. WITNESSES (Legal procedural pilot) A disbarred attorney seeks redemption by assembling a team of expert witnesses, but his integrity immediately comes into question on their very first case.

< Back Jude Roth 1juderoth@gmail.com 310.621.1697 http://www.juderoth.com The Black List After spending time at the Berkshire County jail where her mother was Deputy Sheriff, tween Jude started a diary with this entry: “Last night I had my first dance (to Jingle Bell Rock) with a boy, an inmate at the jail’s Christmas party. His name is Smitty, he starts fires, and mom says he escaped.” Instead of joining the hunt for him (or hiding), Jude began exorcising her bemusement and bewilderment at life by writing personal, character-driven stories often set against big-world backdrops. Jude's a graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts and is an award-winning TV/feature drama writer. As an indie filmmaker, she wrote and EP’d a scripted drama about an undocumented day laborer that PBS and Latino Public Broadcasting acquired (twice). She's also won “Best Screenplay” at La Femme Int'l Film Festival and has had TV pilots featured on The Black List, The Black List Disability List, and WeForShe WriteHer List, the latter annually featuring 20 unproduced pilots selected from hundreds of nominations from industry executives and creatives. She's one of only 6 writers chosen for the 2019 Black List-Women in Film Episodic Lab, was a finalist for the HUMANITAS New Voices in TV award, and is a two-time semifinalist for the Sundance Episodic Lab. Her scripts have advanced in contests such as Austin Film Festival (semifinalist), Writers Lab supported by Meryl Streep (semifinalist), PAGE (top 10), Writers Network/Fade In (8 quarterfinalist projects in one year), Slamdance (top 25), and Cinestory (semifinalist). Fate also once thrust her into working in TV development at Skydance Media where she got to partake in how the proverbial sausage is made - and it was amazing (thanks, Fate!): The team there loves writers and it rocked. To relax, Jude eats pizza all over LA, practices her baseball pitching skills (just in case she gets called up by the Red Sox or Dodgers one day), pets every dog she can, and worships at the altar of "Niles" in FRASIER reruns. Honors & Awards Black List-Women in Film Episodic Lab - HOMEFRONT - 2019 WeForShe WriteHer List - SINS OF THE FATHER - 2018 Audible Development - Finalist - THE STING - 2021 THE ASSETS (Spy thriller) After China executes dozens of CIA assets on Chinese soil, a reinstated CIA officer puts a dangerous revenge plan into action as her colleague's crisis of conscience threatens to bring her, the plan, and the Agency down. HOMEFRONT (Drama) Struggling to salvage their post-military lives in America’s south, four very different women combat veterans turn to each other for support they can’t find elsewhere. But when the most vulnerable among them gets into serious trouble, the new friends close ranks to help her – risking their public and private lives. SINS OF THE FATHER (Geopolitical thriller) A U.N. human rights worker discovers the truth about her beloved father's deadly identity and sets out to right the crimes he committed.

< 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 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.

< Back Jennifer Vandever jrvandever@gmail.com http://www.jennifervandever.com Jennifer Vandever is an author, screenwriter, and educator born and raised in Portland, Oregon. She's the author of the novel THE RONTE PROJECT, published by Random House (US) and Simon & Schuster (UK) and translated into Spanish, Italian, and Polish. The Bronte Project was also optioned for film by director Nisha Ganatra (LATE NIGHT, THE HIGH NOTE). A second novel, American Tango was published in 2016. She has optioned numerous screenplays to both independent and studio-based producers. She's a graduate of Columbia University's MFA program, has written film criticism for The Village Voice and was the co-screenwriter of the film JUST ONE TIME. Vandever is an adjunct professor teaching courses in Screenwriting, Screwball & Romantic Comedy, and Women in Film for Emerson College's Los Angeles program as well as its MFA program in Dramatic Writing. OCTOBER SURPRISE (Romantic Comedy Feature - THE LONG SHOT meets CRAZY, STUPID LOVE) A governor's wife runs against him after she discovers an affair. SPEARFISH (Comedy Feature - comps: ALWAYS BE MY MAYBE, SWEET HOME ALABAMA) A disgraced Washington political aide returns to her rural hometown of Spearfish as its mayor, rekindling an old romance while confronting an international incident with Finland. EDENDALE (TV Drama - think BABYLON or MAD MEN) A young woman in 1922 Hollywood discovers the darker, less glamorous side of Hollywood's early beginnings as an aspiring director who becomes involved with a closeted male movie star.

< 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 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.

< Back Brandy N. Carie brandyncarie@gmail.com http://www.brandyncarie.com Coverfly Brandy N. Carie is a playwright, screenwriter, and director from Minnesota who writes about what happens when nice girls get mad. Her furious abortion-themed horror flick BABY won the 2024 Athena Film Festival Abortion Pipeline Project, was featured on the Dead List, and is a Moonshot Feature Accelerator Semi-Finalist. Carie is a Playwrights’ Center Core Writer and a winner of the 2019 Kennedy Center ACTF Steinberg Playwriting Award and the Sloan/CMU Screenwriting Competition. Her work for the stage often intersects with the digital: her immersive opera THE BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING: A LOVE STORY was released as an animated short by New Opera West, and her collection of short puppet plays adapting Jane Austen’s oeuvre, ABRUPTLY, AUSTEN, was produced with D.T. Burns as a web series. Carie’s playwriting has been supported by numerous theaters and residencies, including Barter Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, SPACE on Ryder Farm, and the Edward Albee Foundation. Recently, Carie’s apocalyptic stage play TOMORROW GAME was published by Samuel French. MFA, Carnegie Mellon University. Honors & Awards Winner, Athena Abortion Pipeline Project - BABY - 2024 Official Selection, Dead List - BABY - 2024 First Place, Sloan/CMU Screenplay Competition - LOVE, GENOME - 2019 BABY Body Horror Feature - MISERY meets MIDSOMMAR While recovering at an isolated cabin, a traumatized teacher desperately pursues an abortion amidst paranoia that her boyfriend is trying to trap her. When suspicion turns to certainty she becomes reckless, aiming to regain control of her body — or die trying. SPIDER HOUSE!!! Body Horror Feature / Creature Feature - ARACHNOPHOBIA meets THE FLY When a cash strapped couple buys a spider-infested fixer-upper, they take extreme measures to save the house that is trying to destroy them. Will the affordable housing keep these Millennials together? Or will the spiders tear them apart? LEGEND OF A WEIRD GIRL Horror Dramedy / hour long - CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA meets MIDNIGHT MASS After a sheltered Lutheran purity girl is bitten by a werewolf, she tries to figure out if her symptoms are puberty or lycanthropy, desperate to control her body before it derails her quest to upgrade her nerdy image.

< Back Micheal Morra morra33@gmail.com The Black List Informed by his years as a trial lawyer helping everyday people navigate emotionally charged situations, Michael writes character-driven horror and thriller features about people struggling to overcome past traumas, with their grief, guilt, and anxiety often taking the form of a dark or supernatural adversary. Michael is a recent winner of the Final Draft Grand Prize and Page Awards Gold Prize for ABOUT MCKENNA, a female-driven revenge thriller in the vein of COLLATERAL meets PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN. Michael’s horror/sci-fi short, SCOUT, appeared at the top of the Killer Shorts Scream List in 2025. When Michael is not writing scary stories, he enjoys spending time with his family and their three rescue dogs, playing poker on Friday nights, and, for better or worse, white-knuckling emotionally fraught Sunday afternoons with the Dallas Cowboys. Michael never gets tired of watching JAWS, especially in the summer. Honors & Awards Finalist, Emerging Screenwriters Competition - BLIND SPOT - 2026 Finalist, ScreenCraft Horror Competition - FEAR BOX - 2023 Winner, Final Draft Big Break and Page Awards Gold Prize - ABOUT MCKENNA - 2022 BLIND SPOT Thriller - PHONE BOOTH meets JOY RIDE A routine driving lesson takes a dark turn when a traumatized teen and her shady driving instructor are targeted by a menacing killer in a souped-up pickup hell-bent on punishing them for their past misdeeds. SCOUT Horror/Sci-Fi short - LET THE RIGHT ONE IN meets E.T. A guilt-stricken teen responsible for the accidental drowning of her younger sister finds her life takes an even darker turn when her sister returns from the grave to carry out a sinister otherworldly agenda. INSATIABLE Horror - BREAKDOWN meets JEEPERS CREEPERS When a law student's pregnant girlfriend vanishes from a truck stop diner the only thing more terrifying than her captor is the reason she was taken.

< Back Ambra Chavira ambra.chavira@gmail.com https://ambrachavira.wixsite.com/website Coverfly A Latina and California native, Ambra writes about kick-ass women. Her great grandfather rode with Pancho Villa during the Mexican revolution, what else would you expect? Naturally curious and a bit of a wiseass, Ambra loves to play with the typical story structure of TV and Film while also staying true to the genre. Her first female centered story was published in third grade. After that, she was hooked. Growing up, she didn't see many films with a strong female protagonist, certainly not any who looked like her, so it's important she create stories that inspire women of all ages to step into their power. Like her great-grandfather, Ambra packed up her life on the back of a horse-well, her car- and moved to L.A. with a leap of faith and a dream. She’s since worked on several independent projects in various roles, from 1st AD to Director to Floor Manager on a local Health Show, including the award-winning Fragile Storm and Killer Friends. Her set experience influences her writing, allowing her to understand what works, what doesn’t and how to adjust story for production. An architect of emotion, her storytelling digs down to your soul, leaving a lasting impact long after you've finished watching. Building worlds where women shine is what brings her the most joy in her writing. No stranger to smashing barriers and kicking ass herself, you can usually find Ambra out-lifting most guys at the gym, doting on her nieces and nephews or arguing with her seven pound Yorkie. VENGEANCE When a former cartel hitwoman turned finance manager undergoes hypnosis to forget how to kill, she must later confront her past life in order to avenge the people who tried to kill her fiancé. MARRY, FUCK, KILL A skeptical romantic must confront three childhood friends who show up decades later to honor the promise she made to marry them if she was still single by her thirtieth birthday. ON THE RUN Bonnie and Clyde, Thelma and Louise ... (but a mother and daughter) When another abusive encounter with her husband goes terribly wrong, a timid nurse flees the scene with her 10-year-old daughter and the two go on a nationwide crime spree to survive their journey out of the country and away from the authorities hunting them down.