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< Back Minki Kim minki.k@gmail.com Minki Kim is a horror and comedy television writer and art director with over 20 years of experience in the creative field. He earned his BFA in Communication Arts and Design, with a minor in Filmmaking, from VCU Arts. He later studied sketch and pilot writing at Upright Citizens Brigade in New York, trained in screenwriting under Alan Kingsberg, and participated in workshops led by horror writer Jeff Howard and Oscar-winning writer Alex Dinelaris. Minki has written five half-hour TV pilots and several horror short scripts. His half-hour comedy pilot Software Plus, set in a 1990s retail store, was a Second Rounder at the Austin Film Festival. His horror script Ostium advanced as a Second Rounder at AFF, a Quarterfinalist at the Filmmatic Horror Screenplay Awards, and a Quarterfinalist at the Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards. Honors & Awards Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival - SOFTWARE PLUS - 2021. Quarterfinalist, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards - OSTIUM - 2024 Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival - OSTIUM - 2023 Winner, Best Short Script, Santa Barbara Screenplay Awards - 6 Seconds - 2026 6 SECONDS Horror - Talk to Me To escape the crushing uncertainty of her life, a desperate woman must decide whether to embrace the ultimate certainty: a six-second glimpse into her own death. SOFTWARE PLUS Half-hour Comedy High Fidelity meets Superstore While selling the latest CD-ROMs and explaining dial-up internet, the dysfunctional staff of a '90s software chain struggles to keep their own chaotic lives from completely unplugging. THE CRUNCH Half-hour Comedy Modern Family meets Mythic Quest Unemployed, living in his ex-wife's backyard, a middle-aged dad finds purpose beyond his kids and rediscovers his youthful dreams by rallying his online gaming friends to build the video game company he always wanted.

< Back Mark Brown markabrown1965@gmail.com Mark's mother, a master storyteller in her own right, claims that he taught himself to read and write. Whatever the truth may be, he began a lifelong obsession by writing episodes of "Star Trek" and issues of "Spider-man" for himself as a young boy. After earning a master's degree in creative writing, he spent 25 years in political communication before returning to his true loves, screenwriting and playwrighting. He currently has two TV series, REDNECK ARMY and CHNL X, in development. Honors & Awards Recommended by The Black List - REDNECK ARMY - 2022 Recommended by The Black List - FEELING GRAVITY'S PULL - 2023 Quarterfinalist, The Academy Nicholl Fellowship - FEELING GRAVITY'S PULL - 2021 FEELING GRAVITY'S PULL Thriller NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, PATHS OF GLORY When she's ordered to take on a racially charged murder case, an idealistic U.S. Army attorney confronts a dark underworld that reaches further than she ever feared. REDNECK ARMY Historical PEAKY BLINDERS, MATEWAN After leading a bloody battle for workers' rights that erupted into the largest armed insurrection in U.S. history, a hot-headed coal miner fights charges of treason against the State of West Virginia. AMBER Action/Horror - STRANGE DARLING, THE GREEN ROOM When a risk-averse former college athlete follows a car named in an Amber Alert, she drives into the crosshairs of a relentless killer having the worst day of his life.

< Back Bettina Lopez Mendoza bettina.lopez.mendoza@gmail.com Coverfly Having spent her childhood moving across borders, first to Mexico then to the U.S., Bettina has always been fascinated by reality as a subjective construct. Her work often centers underdog characters who challenge the limits the world imposes on them. After studying Psychology and Screenwriting at the University of Southern California, Bettina worked with and mentored under director Michael Gracey (“The Greatest Showman"), helping develop and produce works for commercials, film, theater, and animation. Most notably, it was through this close collaboration that she learned how to push the limits of cinematic storytelling through visual language. During this time, Bettina also had the opportunity to shadow Academy Award-winning screenwriter Michael Arndt (“Little Miss Sunshine”). These experiences led to Bettina’s first writing assignments, including adapting Tom Fletcher’s best-selling novel “The Christmasaurus,” co-writing Netflix’s animated film “Ladybug & Cat Noir: The Movie,” and showrunning Audible’s Ambie Award-winning fiction podcast “PREVIA: A Tech Heist,” which she also directed. Currently, Bettina oversees the fiction slate at Sonoro Media, where she has developed and story edited over 20 fiction podcasts. Most recently, Bettina completed her debut short film “Más Allá,” a live-action coming-of-innocence tale, which uses magical realism to explore the power of imagination in a young girl’s will to survive. The film is set to make its festival premiere in 2025. Honors & Awards Ambie Award for Best Fiction Podcast, The Podcast Academy – PREVIA: A TECH HEIST – 2024 Semifinalist, ScreenCraft Film Fund, ScreenCraft – MÁS ALLÁ – 2023 VIVAS Dark Comedy, Crime, Mystery - The White Lotus & Big Little Lies When a Y2K New Year’s Eve party leaves a dead body in its wake, four upper class women in Mexico City become the prime suspects. THIS WICKED WORLD Dark Comedy, Crime - Fargo & Burn After Reading Set in 1977 after the real-life kidnapping of Charlie Chaplin’s corpse from his grave, this dark comedy pins incompetent criminals against incompetent detectives, while a grieving widow finds bizarre comfort in what seems to be her late husband’s final practical joke. WILD ONES Coming-of-Age, Dramedy - The Kings of Summer & Hunt for the Wilderpeople When a cynical, young girl who suffers from paralyzing climate anxiety learns she was adopted from a Native American community, she sets off to find her biological grandmother.

< Back Dani Hanks danihanks@danihanks.com https://www.danihanks.com Dani Hanks (they/she) is a disabled writer/director based in NYC. Their workplace comedy pilot, THE G.Y.M., won the 2024 Austin Film Festival and will be featured on Table Read at the official podcast stage of SXSW 2026. Dani grew up elbow-deep in human organs at their mom’s pathology lab in Porterville, California. A direct result of inhaling too much formaldehyde in their formative years, they dove headfirst into the entertainment industry and received a BFA in Drama at NYU Tisch. Drawing from their experience as the only purple-haired snowflake in a deeply conservative family, they promote empathy for underrepresented identities through offbeat stories centered around diverse found families. Dani approaches the taboo with both levity and nuance and loves finding humor in the mundane. Dani has worked on projects in development at FilmRise and RKO, and is a fellow of Stowe, Disability Belongs, and the WGAE SSTP. They are a full-time meme connoisseur, part-time AD, former member of Mensa, and have 10 years of experience cutting animal tissue for medical research (much to the dismay of their pet rats). Honors & Awards Winner, Roadmap Coletta Preacely-Garcia Diversity Fellowship - KNOTTY - 2025 ISA's Top 25 Screenwriters to Watch in 2025 - 2025 Winner, Austin Film Festival - THE G.Y.M. - 2024 THE G.Y.M. 1/2 Hour Workplace Comedy – ABBOTT ELEMENTARY in a Planet Fitness When a neurotic woman spends her life savings to rescue her hometown’s infamous gym, she and her ragtag employees must turn their shithole into shinola to compete with the fancy fitness chain across the street. KNOTTY 1-Hour Dramedy Determined to discover what caused her taboo fantasies, a sexually-repressed PhD student infiltrates the BDSM scene under the guise of “research,” but unexpectedly falls in love with this wholesome world of lustful LARPers, Pokémon perverts… and one of her professors. MYSTERY SISTERS 1-Hour Female-led Crime Procedural A reclusive techie with a mysterious past and a crime-junkie wannabe actress hit the road in a ramshackle Winnebago, racing to solve abandoned cases before the trail goes cold.

< Back Ann LeSchander Ann.LeSchander@gmail.com IMDB Originally from upstate NY, Ann started as a touring singer in musicals before moving to Los Angeles to record film soundtracks, sparking her passion for storytelling and a pivot to filmmaking. Ann’s historical feature, FREIDEL, won Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope Competition. As a Creative Director for Sony Pictures Entertainment, Ann has written and directed commercials, trailers, and promos for Sony content including Cinevault, Murder & Mayhem, Sony Movie Channel, Game Show Network, and more. She is the winner of a Promax Gold Award for her “Hellevator Interruptus” campaign with Blumhouse Entertainment. Ann wrote and directed the indie feature THE PARK BENCH, which won “Best Feature” awards in NY, Toronto, Chicago, and Argentina. It is available on multiple streamers and a popular pick in libraries across the US. (The daughter of a librarian, this makes Ann very happy.) Ann holds a BA in English from Colgate University, and MFA from USC School of Cinematic Arts. Honors & Awards Winner - Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition - FREIDEL - 2024 Top Ten Final Draft ""Big Break"" (& selected for The Writer's Lab) - PICKING UP PORTER DOUGLAS - 2019 MASTERPIECE Episodic TV Pilot Castle , White Collar After a reckless mistake, a rugged LA Homicide Detective is ""transferred"" to Art Theft thrusting him into LA's billion-dollar art scene. Paired with a snobby art scholar, he tracks crimes through the city while while trying to solve the one murder case that has eluded him." FREIDEL Feature - Historical Action/Adventure Arctic , The Nightingale After her family is murdered in a pogrom, a young Jewish woman embarks on a perilous journey through the Russian wilderness to escape across the border and receives help from an unlikely ally, a young Russian soldier shot for disobeying orders. PICKING UP PORTER DOUGLAS Feature - Comedy Get Him to the Greek , Topsy Turvy An aspiring singer is thrilled to drive famed opera star Porter Douglas to his sold-out concert in upstate New York, until the carousing tenor goes AWOL and she must enlist a former marine to help find him before he ruins her fledgling career.

< 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. 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.

< Back Philip Pierce Agent: David Saunders, APA - dsaunders@apa-agency.com Philip Pierce is a writer/producer as well as a clinical psychologist and UCLA Lecturer. He wrote and produced the feature film BOY CULTURE based on the novel by Matthew Rettenmund. It premiered at The Tribeca Film Festival, won 21 international awards, and was distributed theatrically. He produced the sequel BOY CULTURE: THE SERIES, which premiered at OutfestLA and the British Film Institute in London. It has won 4 Best Film Fest prizes. A number of Philip's scripts have won awards and been optioned. In addition, FREUD AND JUNG IN AMERICA was a finalist for a Sloan Grant and was selected by the WGA for a showcase performance and LOST LEGEND was selected by the WGA Latinx Committee for a scene reading and was a Nicholl Fellowship Semi-Finalist. MOVE by Academy Award Nominee Matthew Diamond (DANCEMAKER) to which Philip contributed a rewrite was optioned by United Artists. BIO RUN (Sci-fi Thriller - THE FUGITIVE meets CONTAGION) A doctor, suspected of starting an epidemic of a rare disease, goes on the run to clear his name and find the real perpetrator while a relentless FBI bioterrorism agent pursues him. LOST LEGEND (Action/Adventure, Latinx) Set in 1790's California, a privileged young woman, struggling to avenge the death of her father, takes on a dual identity as Zarra. Ultimately, she becomes the unlikely defender of the oppressed Indigenous people: the legend before the legend. Insprired by the public domain novel, The Curse of Capistrano . BLOOD SECRETS (Psychological Thriller) A young FBI behavioral analyst struggles with inner demons as he tracks down an escaped serial killer -- his own father.

< 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 Pow! Animated Comedy Short Film A Native American kid scrambles to charge his dying video game console at a bustling intertribal powwow.

< Back Matija Šraj matijasraj@gmail.com http://www.matija.com.au Matija Šraj is an queer Australian-Slovenian writer. He mostly writes about messy queers in absurd comedies, high-octane action thrillers or gritty, sexy dramas. He is creator and writer of two series in development and has worked as an assistant on premium Australian and US productions, including Paramount+'s NCIS: Sydney and Amazon's Deadloch. Prior to writing, Matija spent most of his career working in politics for the Australian Greens. He's also worked as a lawyer, mentored indigenous students in outback Australia, worked at a football club and he qualified as a swimming and fitness coach. Honors & Awards IWC Best Of Selection - QUEENMAKER - 2026 Grand Prize Fellowship Winner - CineStory Foundation TV Competition - QUEENMAKER - 2024 Honorable Mention - Page International Screenwriting Awards Stowe Story Labs Fellowship - QUEENMAKER - 2025 Finalist - Page International Screenwriting Awards - 2025 Semifinalist/scholarship winner - THE RIP - 2023 QUEENMAKER Comedy - VEEP meets RUPAUL'S DRAG RACE After a cash-strapped, publicity-seeking drag queen who impulsively decides to run for Australian parliament is unexpectedly elected, he has to overcome childhood trauma, inept housemates-turned-staffers and constant battles with the Prime Minister to try and change politics for the better. THE RIP Coming-of-age drama feature 1990 on the Australian coast. After an unexpected hookup with his best mate, a closeted high school jock’s life unravels as an unlikely friendship with a nerdy outcast helps him confront who he really is.

< Back Susan Brunig suze866@gmail.com Susan Brunig fell in love with cinema while studying experimental film at Binghamton University. Her scripts have won multiple awards and fellowships. She is a Cinestory Fellowship winner, Nicholl Fellowship semifinalist, and a NYWIFT Writers Lab alum who focuses on female-driven narratives. With a day job in Post Production at Pixar, Susan is immersed daily in an environment devoted to rigorous storytelling and art-making. She is an unflinching examiner of human behavior through the lens of story and is committed to the power and necessity of diverse stories and characters in these tumultuous times. Honors & Awards Official selection - The Women’s List - THE SURVEILLANCE OF ORDINARY THINGS - 2024 Winner - Cinestory Fellowship -THE SURVEILLANCE OF ORDINARY THINGS - 2020
 Top 50 Semifinalist - The Academy Nicholl Fellowship - THE SURVEILLANCE OF ORDINARY THINGS - 2021 GENERATION ZED Indie Feature - Drama When the teenage daughter of a famous mommy-blogger falls in love with a homeless teen who lives under the freeway, she must confront her privilege and fight for a better world during the chaos that was 2020. THE SURVEILLANCE OF ORDINARY THINGS Indie Feature - Drama A suburban housewife in the midst of an existential crisis decides to run away and end it all, but when she stumbles upon an unplugged community of creative misfits, she rediscovers the artist she once was. HARD IS THE GOOD One hour Pilot - Drama It is 1926. The Jazz Age, the Harlem Renaissance and Prohibition are in full swing. When three young women enter a controversial summer school for factory workers, they must face their fears, their biases, and their dreams head on.

< Back Heather Ragsdale Heatherragsdale@outlook.com Heather Ragsdale is the product of two hippies who moved to the wilderness of Northern California with a dream of living off the land. A childhood spent without electronics fueled her imagination. Not only did she read everything she could get her hands on, but the stage became her second home. Following high school, she was hired to teach foster teens improvisational skills as a way to recognize cycles of abuse. It gave her insight into the generations of women in her own family who had found a way to rise above their circumstances. As such, her scripts tend to revolve around survivors who choose to re-frame and re-write their stories. Inspired by the transformative power of storytelling, Heather moved to LA where she received her undergraduate degree from Occidental College in theater. Heather worked her way up from stage managing to producing new plays to directing. She returned to USC to get her Master’s degree in film production where she won a D.G.A. Award and a Student Emmy. Heather went on to work as a writer’s assistant for Toni Graphia and Ronald D. Moore. Her scripts have won and placed in CineStory, The Writers Lab, Final Draft Big Break, PAGE, Nicholl Fellowships, Austin Film Festival, and the Sundance labs. Although her “wild” days are behind her, Heather carries a little bit of that off-the-beaten path attitude that celebrates what it means to be human no matter who you are or where your journey takes you. PRESERVATION (hour long drama - Yellowstone, Friday Night Lights ) The daughter of a tree-hugging activist, and the son of a blue-collar logger, unexpectedly fall in love behind enemy lines just as corporate betrayal reignites tensions between their warring families in the small town of Preservation, California. LIES WE TELL (feature - Gone Girl, Orphan ) After her own life is disrupted by the arrival of a foster child, a woman discovers that the boy’s entire family was brutally murdered while he lie sleeping. Now, she must solve the crime in order to unravel the truth: Is the boy she has taken in an innocent child or a cold-hearted killer? THE LIONESS (hour long historical drama - The Tutors, Vikings ) Noblewoman. Devoted mother. Loyal wife. Pirate. Jeanne de Clisson gave up everything to become one of the most ruthless pirates to ever set sail on the English Channel in order to avenge her husband’s death after he was executed by the French crown.

< Back Megan J. Wilson megan@dirttotem.com Megan lives in Los Angeles but considers the Pacific Northwest home. She’s worked at a publishing house in Seattle, a law firm in North Carolina, the NFL in New York, and a cannery in Alaska – and yes, there were bears. She was a writers assistant for CBS for 3 years, and she wrote and produced a 6-episode webseries (The Sanctum, 2009). She writes action/drama, action/sci-fi, and action/comedy, and her stories often feature families dealing with mental illness. She’s been finalist for the PAGE Award, quarterfinalist for the Nicholl, Script Pipeline and Austin Film Festival and she's been featured on the Red List and the Next List. Megan currently has two features and a short in development. Megan is active in the LA-writing community, as co-founder of the League of Women Writers and co-founder of the Writer X Director Mixer. She loves quilting, snowboarding, writing graphic novels, and has a complicated relationship with her crockpot. Honors & Awards Finalist, PAGE Awards - AVALANCHE EXPRESS - 2023 Quarterfinalist, Nicholl Fellowship - AVALANCHE EXPRESS - 2022 Official Selection, The Next List - 2024 - https://www.tracking-board.com/the-next-list-2024/ AVALANCHE EXPRESS (Action Feature) When a passenger train traveling through the Alps is caught in an avalanche, the Syrian-Swiss conductor must surmount her own fear of being buried alive to lead the remaining passengers in a struggle for survival. DROP ZONE (Hourlong Procedural) When the prodigal daughter of a firefighting family returns home to Montana as a forest service firefighter (a “smokejumper”), she clashes with the father who disowned her and confronts the sister who married her high school sweetheart. DUSTRISE (Horror Feature) When two sisters take a back road to Burning Man to avoid the fees, their dream trip becomes a nightmare, as a 100-year flood wakes terrifying monsters from a dry riverbed to feed on festivalgoers.