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< Back Eamonn Cogan eamonncogan30@gmail.com http://www.eamonncogan.com Eamonn Cogan is a neurodivergent Writer/Director from Chicago, Illinois. After seeing Jurassic Park 26 times in the theater at five years old, he knew he had to make movies. He graduated from Drake University's School of Journalism & Mass Communication with a degree in Radio and Television Producing. At Drake, he was a Linebacker on their Division 1-AA Football team. He applied his love for film to his senior thesis project, BEYOND THE BLUE LINE, a short Documentary on which he was a Producer and Lead Videographer. BEYOND THE BLUE LINE won 2 Silver Communicators, a Bronze Telly, and the Upper Midwest Regional Student Award of Excellence from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. After Drake, he began writing and directing. His second short film, THE RULES OF LUCK, was invited to screen as part of the HollyShorts Screening Series at the TCL Chinese Theatre. You can watch THE RULES OF LUCK here: https://vimeo.com/133103980 Eamonn's screenplays have done well in competition, including but not limited to a Finalist and two Semi-finalists at the Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition and a Finalist in the Page Awards. Honors & Awards Finalist, Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition - SYMPATHY FOR THE WILD - 2022 Semifinalist, Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition - THE FALL OF CARIBOU LODGE - 2023 Semifinalist, Austin Film Festival ScreenplayCompetition - MEMOIRS OF A FINAL GIRL - 2021 non-WGA Male THE FALL OF CARIBOU LODGE Horror BARBARIAN meets THE STRANGERS While visiting her brother's lake house, Madeline and her trio of friends have their reunion cut short when Satanists target the neighbor, a disgraced televangelist. Thrown into a fight for their lives, the friends discover a deeper and darker story than they could have imagined. SYMPATHY FOR THE WILD Adventure QUEEN & SLIM meets BADLANDS with a dash of TRUE ROMANCE Childhood sweethearts set out on a cross-country killing spree en route to Disneyland. While two FBI Agents, hot on their tail, begin questioning if this perfectly executed spree is random or rather an intricate revenge plot 25 years in the making. A HARSH NIGHT AT THE SNAKEBITE Thriller ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 meets GREEN ROOM Stranded at a hole-in-the-wall strip joint in Michigan's Upper Peninsula during a blizzard, four strangers must defend themselves against a militarized cult with white supremacist ties that, for reasons unknown, has surrounded the establishment. Character-driven, Crime, Thriller, Western, Psychological, Horror, Satire, Dark Male unrepped

< Back Daniel Gámez dannygamez@me.com 917-626-0031 Originally from Central America, Daniel writes dysfunctional tales of the Salvadorian-American experience, both as a former immigrant (who didn’t become naturalized until the age of seventeen) and now as a guilt-stricken American Citizen with far too many rights. Having fled from the Salvadorian War at the age of three, Daniel’s take on the Latinx point-of-view is rooted in trauma yet explored through humor. At the core of his writing—whether it be as an overly judgmental spectator of his ancestors or as an ethnically put-upon participant—is Daniel’s cautionary experiences in the never-ending assimilation process, a discipline that Daniel refers to as “A Rights of ‘Otherness’ Passage.” Daniel is also a proudly maladjusted homosexual, which comes with its own otherness stories. As a film instructor, Daniel has taught at AMVA, a vocational film school for teenagers and adults on the Autistic Spectrum. Currently, he runs the Cinema Arts Focus Program at Providence High School in Burbank. non-WGA Male, Latinx, LGBTQ+ LITTLE EL SALVADOR (One-hour dramedy pilot) A thirty-something Salvadorian-American Latino who, after getting dumped by his boyfriend for being too white-washed, attempts to win him back by moving into an ethnically populated apartment complex, all in an attempt to find the Latin roots he suppressed whilst over-assimilating in America. INJUSTICE FOR ALL (One-hour dramedy pilot) Set within the cutthroat world of high school mock-trials at a Law and Government Magnet program, underachieving MANNY (16) has just transferred in, determined to overcome immigrant invisibility by learning the justice system as he navigates coming-of-age as a pansexual, Latinx, illegal teen. “MOST LIKELY TO BE MURDERED” (Feature traumedy) Death-obsessed SANTIAGO (17) befriends a retiring serial-killer to help him commit suicide. However, Devon’s ‘murder-me’ plan takes an unexpected turn when the two outcasts set-out on a victim-prey love-affair that has the power to heal both their wounds. Character-driven, Queer, Romantic, Coming-of-Age, Dark, Bittersweet Male, Latinx, LGBTQ+ unrepped

< Back Tim Kontje trkontje@gmail.com Tim is an LA-based screenwriter whose work combines crackerjack action setpieces with emotionally-grounded character arcs and has won numerous contests including Stage 32, Emerging Screenwriters, and Creative Screenwriting. He is also a Nicholl Fellowship semifinalist and recently became a board member of the Junior Hollywood Radio and Television Society. Originally from California, Tim also grew up in Germany and has an MFA in screenwriting from Loyola Marymount University. Despite having a twin, he sadly isn’t telepathic. Honors & Awards Winner, Stage 32 Action/Thriller Screenwriting Contest - KITBASH - 2024 Semifinalist, Nicholl Fellowship - ZERO LINE - 2024 Winner, Emerging Screenwriters Action/Adventure Competition - ZERO LINE - 2023 non-WGA Male KITBASH Action Feature NOVOCAINE meets DIE HARD After a slacker maid accidentally gains advanced combat abilities from an experimental serum, she has one hour before it kills her to find a cure and rescue her sister from a psycho billionaire and his private army. ZERO LINE Action/Adventure Feature TOMB RAIDER meets BLOOD DIAMOND When her partner goes missing searching for looted treasure, a hard-charging journalist teams up with a cynical thief and a timid archaeologist in a race through the blood antiquities underworld to find him before a ruthless mercenary corporation. Inspired by true events. BLACK BUTTERFLY Action/Adventure Pilot ROGUE HEROES meets KINGSMAN Berlin, 1941: After her identical twin is killed, a shy young woman must take her sister's place as a spy in the heart of the Nazi Reich. Character-driven, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Historical/Alternative History Male unrepped

< Back Kelly and Megan Anelons kanelons@me.com Kelly writes with her daughter, Megan, as one of Hollywood’s only mother/daughter writing teams. Together, they tell multi-generational, female-driven stories for TV and features and are producing a sitcom about their partnership. They also read and review YA and romance novels on their social media platforms, which have garnered over 40,000 followers. Kelly is a TV and feature writer with a knack for finding the funny, especially in life’s worst situations. She’s been lost in Mongolia, served as the youngest member of a Congressional campaign (back when that was fun), and talked her way into running a small marketing firm. She’s the only child of workaholic parents, and spent hours watching Mel Brooks, Laurel and Hardy, and Carol Burnett doing the thing she loved: making people laugh. Her hobbies include thinking of getting some hobbies, mentoring young writers, and obsessing over YA novels. Her goals are to write a sex comedy for Helen Mirren, learn to walk in high heels… and of course, world peace. Honors & Awards Imagine Impact x Netflix - Finalist - A.K.A. - 2021 StoryPros - Winner/Best Comedy Script - BEST LAID PLANS - 2020 Nashville Film Festival - Winner/Best Comedy Script - LIFE'S A BEAUT - 2019 non-WGA Female, 40+ A.K.A. Action comedy - GROSS POINTE BLANK meets SPY When her cover is blown, the CIA’s top operative trades in her high-stakes lifestyle to hide out in the one place she swore she’d never return…the antiquated New England island where she was born. Can she protect her eccentric, combative family or will she kill them herself? BEST LAID PLANS Dramedy - HACKS meets HOPE SPRINGS When her husband of 40 years dies, a repressed widow resolves to find out what she’s been missing. She risks her reputation and relationships with her co-dependent daughter and meddling BFF to help an irreverent young lesbian who’s trying to save Boston’s oldest sex shop. LIFE'S A BEAUT Dramedy - WE'RE THE MILLERS meets THE WAY WAY BACK A straitlaced young woman explores a crooked branch of her family tree when she teams up with a grifting grandma to track down a kidney donor for her rebellious younger sister. Character-driven, Female-centric, Queer, Coming-of-Age, Satire, Bittersweet, Silly, Snarky Female, 40+ unrepped

< Back Karol Ruth Silverstein karol@karolruthsilverstein.com https://www.karolruthsilverstein.com/ Karol is an award-winning children’s book author and screenwriter. Her debut young adult novel, Cursed , was loosely drawn from her experience of being diagnosed with juvenile arthritis at thirteen. A funny, frank, and unsentimental take on the “sick kid” genre, Cursed won the prestigious Schneider Family Book Award in 2020. Karol’s feature dramedy screenplay YOU'RE MY BEST FRIEND was developed in the Film Independent Screenwriter’s Lab and was a Writer’s Guild of American West Feature Writer’s Access Project honoree. She lives in West Hollywood with two excessively fluffy cats. Honors & Awards Schneider Family Book Awards - CURSED - 2020 Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection - CURSED - 2019 Writers Guide of America West/Feature Writers Access Project - YOU’RE MY BEST FRIEND - 2016 non-WGA Female, Disabled, Over 40, Over 55 YOU’RE MY BEST FRIEND (Dramedy Feature) Pie (9), an overly dramatic crybaby and Beck (10), her budding lesbian sister, nearly break apart along with their divorcing parents in the summer of ‘75. RACE TO ROMANCE (Romantic Comedy Feature in the vein of THE PROPOSAL) Former lovers – and co-hosts of a fading reality show – must work together for the first time since a messy breakup during hiatus and try to save their show. CURSED (YA Novel, Charlesbridge Teen, 2019) Funny, frank and full of F-bombs, young teen Erica navigates being newly diagnosed with a painful chronic illness amid the normal tragedies of 9th grade. Character-driven, Female-centric, Romantic, Coming-of-Age, YA, Children's, Slapstick, Snarky Female, Disabled, Over 40, Over 55 unrepped

< Back Yousif Nash yousif.nash.1@gmail.com https://yousifnash.wordpress.com Coverfly Growing up in the wonderful land of Las Vegas, I always felt like the only Arab Muslim that ever existed. So I drowned myself in stories about other worlds, people going out on adventures, and learning about strange cultures from different parts of life. My parents would also tell me stories about Iraq, how it's like this magical oasis. That is until Saddam Hussein came and ruined everything. They told me how lucky I was her compared to how they had it in Iraq. So I felt like I owed a debt to the country and joined the United States Air Force and got the one job I never wanted: nuclear missile operator. But when you look like the enemy, some people treat you like the enemy. I got an early discharge, went through a depression, then climbed out of it through writing. I discovered that many people that look like me are always portrayed like the bad guy, so I write about Arab characters doing cool things in fantastical worlds, much like the characters I grew up with. Honors & Awards Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft Animation and Family 2024 - KILGORE AND THE ADVENTURES OF THE BARBARIAN ACADEMY WGA Associate Member Male, Middle Eastern LEGEND OF THE DRAGON KNIGHT (One hour drama fantasy) A scruffy veteran helps an innocent girl to master her newfound powers before she becomes a ticking time bomb and destroy an entire continent. Meanwhile, evil forces wants to capture her to use her powers for their own nefarious deeds. LIKE MAGIC (One hour YA drama fantasy) A freshman starts his first year in the world's greatest magical university, but the problem is that he can't use magic. So, he participates in the school's first computer science program. However, he has to gather 14 students by the end of the semester or else the program gets cancelled. SECOND CHANCERS (One hour action procedural) A Las Vegas security guard is wrongly accused of murdering a casino CEO, so he gathers his team of misfits to clear his name while making money at the same time. BIPOC-centric, Procedural, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, YA, Animation, Snarky, Magical Realism Male, Middle Eastern unrepped

< Back Hayley Nash hayleyannenash@gmail.com IMDB Fun, wild, and wacky in the most infectious way, Hayley Nash is a (somewhat) young comedy feature film writer. She aspires to be a female Mel Brooks but with better hair. Her work is known for its endless parade of jokes that entertains the masses and brings dishonor upon her family. After graduating from UCLA, she wrote, directed, and produced over a half dozen original movies for ONYX Films, a production company focused on stories by women, for women. Her work has been featured at the Austin Film Festival, the Florida Film Festival, the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, and her grandma's house in the world-renowned suburb of Naperville, Illinois. Having lived in the Midwest (Chicago), the West Coast (Los Angeles), and whatever Florida counts as, she uses her experiences in the fields of entertainment, history, and private investigation to create rich characters, scintillating dialogue, and one-of-a-kind comedic odysseys. If you like absurdity, then Hayley’s the girl to see. Honors & Awards Semifinalist, CineStory Feature Retreat and Fellowship - RANGER DANGER - 2025 Semifinalist, Austin Film Festival - HORSE HEIST - 2024 non-WGA Female HORSE HEIST R-Rated Comedy The Hangover meets The Naked Gun Two estranged sisters decide to teach the rich a lesson by putting together a team of Kentucky locals to steal a thirty-million-dollar breeding horse. RANGER DANGER Horror-Comedy Happy Death Day written in the style of Anchorman A young detective joins the Yellowstone park ranger department to hunt down an environmentalist serial killer on the loose in America's oldest national park. STRIPPER LAWYER R-Rated Comedy Legally Blonde meets My Cousin Vinny at a strip club A former-attorney-turned-stripper must return to court to save her business and her best friend in a murder trial. Character-driven, Female-centric, Satire, Silly, Snarky Female unrepped

< Back Steven Vivell smvivell@gmail.com Coverfly Steven Vivell is a writer, actor, and teacher living in Los Angeles. As a child he was often isolated, so he turned to fantasy novels, which fueled his overactive imagination. As a teenager, drama class made him fall in love with acting, which developed his identity and ability to empathize with others. In college, he was finally ready to start writing his own stories. As an adult, he’s learned to balance his introversion and a social life with wonderful friends (3:2 ratio). Steven’s writing combines epic stories and fantastic worlds with empathetic characters and grounded social issues. He loves the writers’ room, utilizing feedback, and reading his peers’ work to help them boost it. He is proud and overjoyed to belong to a community of talented artists. By challenging and supporting each other, we grow together. Steven received an M.F.A. in Screenwriting from UCLA. He received a B.A. in Theatre Arts and English from Loyola Marymount University. He has taken private classes from numerous industry professionals, including Corey Mandell and Wendall Thomas. And he continues to do so, artists can always learn and grow. He loves school so much, one day he might pursue a PhD. non-WGA Male NORMAN BRODY AND THE MAGIC PSYCHOLOGY PRACTICE Fantasy Comedy half-hour TV - BOJACK HORSEMAN meets FRASIER A nerdy psychologist helps fantasy creatures adjust to life in Los Angeles. But he must overcome his crippling social anxiety to get a life of his own. BEASTY AND THE BEAU Fantasy Comedy feature - MALEFICENT meets SHREK Bea loves being cursed into a beast, for the power to rebel against her perfectly oppressive fairytale kingdom. But after she blackmails kind Prince Beau to be her accomplice, she fears true love’s kiss will take away her power. SILLY GOOSE Animated Comedy half-hour TV - REGULAR SHOW meets STEVEN UNIVERSE Silly Goose loves his job as town fool, so he can make people happy with laughter. But he worries if anyone finds out he gets very sad, they won’t laugh at his fun antics ever again. Character-driven, Fantasy, Silly Male unrepped

< Back Nicole Jones-Dion nicole@praxiscope.com https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1955614/?ref_=fn_all_nme_1 Coverfly The Black List Nicole Jones-Dion is an acclaimed Los Angeles-based writer-director who specializes in telling elevated genre stories. Beginning her career in comics and video games, she transitioned to screenwriting, writing features for SyFy Channel, Lionsgate, and Sony - including an adaptation of the best-selling martial arts game Tekken. An Army Brat, Nicole had a nomadic upbringing, living in places as diverse as Hawaii and Germany before her family finally settled down in Wilmington, NC. In school, she won the North Carolina Writer's Award for a full scholarship to Duke University, where she studied Creative Writing, History, and Theology. After graduation, she did her own brief stint in the Army before relocating to LA. In her spare time, Nicole volunteers with the National Park Service and advocates for military veterans in the entertainment industry. Honors & Awards FOX Writers Incubator -Winner - WIKI - 2022 The Grey List - Official Selection - STILL WATERS - 2023 The Stunt List Originals Bureau - Official Selection - WIKI - 2024 non-WGA Female, 40+ WIKI (1 hour drama - YA Horror) A modern-day reimagining of The Monkey’s Paw for the internet generation. The lives of three college friends are turned upside down when they discover a mysterious online wiki site. Any changes made to the wiki magically come true in the real world — with unpredictable and deadly consequences. BACK TRACK (1 hour drama - Crime) When a young horse trainer is found trampled to death, police write it off as a tragic accident... until her father receives an anonymous tip that she was murdered. Now, it’s up to a professor-turned-private investigator to find her killer before he strikes again. Adapted from the novels by Joseph A. McCaffrey. JUVIE (Feature - YA Horror) A delinquent teenage girl discovers a pattern among unexplained deaths at a juvenile detention facility - they all die before they turn 18 and "age out" of the system. With her own 18th birthday looming, she must find out who is behind the mysterious deaths before she becomes the next victim. Crime, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Psychological, Horror, Historical/Alternative History, YA Female, 40+ Repped

< Back Khari Wyatt Sheree Guitar Sheree Guitar Entertainment (310) 286-1900 sheree@shereeguitarent.com https://khariwyatt.com Khari Wyatt is the descendant of runaway slaves and inner-city America with its adversities, tragedies and triumphs; the son of high school sweethearts: a mother who is an artist and a father who courageously moved his young family from the rust-belt to our Nation's Capital to find a better life; the grandson of men who wore blue collars in auto plants and on railroad trains; the grandson of women who taught Sunday school and waitressed in greasy spoons. He is a writer. His screenwriting has placed in competitions including, Disney/ABC Writers Program, Sony Pictures Entertainment Diversity Writers Program, AMC One-Hour Drama competition and Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition among others. Some fellowships and grants he's received came from MacDowell, the Guy Hanks/Marvin Miller Screenwriting Program, and Panavision New Filmmaker Equipment Grant. His plays have been commissioned, developed or had readings at Chalk Rep, Circle X Theatre, Morgan-Wixson Theatre, Antaeus Theatre Co., and Moving Arts. He was one of eleven writers of #While We Breathe: A Night of Creative Protest, a streaming theatrical event produced by Brian Moreland and Arvind Ethan David. He was a finalist for New Dramatists, and a semifinalist for the O'Neill NPC, Ashland New Play Festival, Dramatists Guild Foundation Virtual Fellowship, and Bay Street Theater New Works Festival. Wyatt is an alumnus of Howard University and earned an MFA in Film from Columbia University in the City of New York. non-WGA Male, BIPOC, Black RUN DEEP Crime Drama Taylor St. Brown, a political fundraiser, is forced to confront the demons of his marriage as he engages in a no-holds-barred hunt to find his wife after she goes missing from the scene of a political assassination. JIMMY Crime Drama A banished preacher turned biker returns home to wheel through an odyssey of family secrets and political corruption to meet a destiny he cannot outrun. RUSH TOWN Crime Drama A disgraced LAPD detective enlists the help of friends as she hunts the criminal who cost her everything: the same man she's dangerously in love with. Character-driven, BIPOC-centric, Crime, Thriller, Procedural Male, BIPOC, Black repped

< Back Aminah Hughes sheherself@aminah.com.au http://www.aminah.com.au/film Aminah grew up in Western Australia and spent eight years as a travelling creative in Europe before immigrating to the US. Her father was a journalist and conman who once interviewed Muhammad Ali. Her mother was a theatre actress, who chose not to raise her in the theatre, much to Aminah’s disappointment. She spent her youth as a classical flautist, poet, DJ, theatre actor and film reviewer before becoming a roots musician, music journalist, photographer and filmmaker. Her day jobs have included stints serving Justices at the Supreme Court library, as the Attorney General's research assistant at the Department of Justice, and as a covert writer of witness statements, working alongside state and federal police. The theme at the heart of her writing, from poetry to screenplays, is trauma recovery. In 2020, Aminah was accepted as a member of the Australian Directors Guild and in 2021, she moved to Los Angeles, where she has worked on features for Warner Bros, Universal, Disney, MGM, Lionsgate, Sony Pictures and Netflix, as a Scripting Editor in dubbing. Hailed by Musical Notes Global (New York) as “a true Renaissance woman” she has won local and international awards as a screenwriter, director, songwriter and musician. Aminah appears on fourteen albums and has recorded vocals on various productions, including highly anticipated game, Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock, based on the popular NBCUniversal Television Series. Honors and Awards Cinequest Screenwriting Competition , Current Semifinalist - WE CAN NEVER GO BACK - 2023-2024 (co-write with Dylan Kussman) Austin Film Festival Short Screenplay Competition , Semifinalist - THE RUBICON - 2019 ScreenCraft Short Screenplay Contest, Winner - THE RUBICON - 2018 non-WGA Female, 40+ THE INSIDE OF A SHELL Feature drama/magic realism After a troubling death, an aspiring artist must grapple with intrusive dissociative experiences in order to confront the trauma of her abusive past. WE CAN NEVER GO BACK Short drama In a cabin on the high desert, two desperate men seek refuge from a viral mass-extinction event. Forced to navigate their diametrically opposed plans for survival, they must overcome a lurking threat of violence if they are to emerge from the crisis with their humanity intact. THE RUBICON Short drama/magic realism An independent woman comes to the realization that she is in an abusive relationship, betokened by a ballerina in a painting. Character-driven, Female-centric, Thriller, Bittersweet, Magical Realism Female, 40+ unrepped

< Back Roxanne Beck Raye Attorney: Judith Karfiol, Esq., 323-463-4800, Judith@karfiol-law.com ; roxannebeck1@gmail.com 323-377-6366 https://pro.imdb.com/name/nm0065270?ref_=hm_prof_name IMDB The Black List Screenwriter, author, and actor Roxanne Beck Raye took the scenic route from Arkansas to LA, making detours in Nashville and New York. There she performed with countless bands, recorded two albums and accumulated a long list of music and animation voiceover credits. But her love of movies and storytelling inspired her to move to Hollywood, where an Oscar®-winning producer optioned her first script. Credits include "Miss Famous" starring Kristen Wiig, as well as uncredited rewrites for major studios and production companies. Her TV drama script "The Queen of Magic," based on the true story of the most successful woman magician of the 20th century, received a '9' rating on The Black List and is currently available. A graduate of UCLA’s MFA in Screenwriting program and a Humanitas Drama Fellowship nominee, Roxanne’s writing tends to focus on women who refuse to be silenced and underdogs who never give up. She lives in Sherman Oaks with her wonderful dogs Dolly and Lucky. Honors & Awards Top 1% of TV Dramas, Coverfly - THE QUEEN OF MAGIC - 2024 Humanitas Drama Fellowship Nominee - THE INTENDERS - 2012 Oliver's Prize, UCLA - CATERPILLARLAND - 2011 non-WGA Female, 40+ TILL DEATH DO US PART Feature, Crime/Drama – "The Staircase" meets "All Good Things" Based on true events: When a young wife and mother disappears without a trace in Nashville, the only real suspect is her ambitious attorney husband. But without a body, will he ever be brought to justice? THE QUEEN OF MAGIC TV Drama - "The Queen's Gambit" meets "Mrs. Maisel" Based on a true story: The ambitious daughter of a Midwest circus owner overcomes the hurdles of a broken home, a rival magician, and 1920s sexism to become the undisputed “Queen of Magic” and the greatest female magician of the 20th century. Black List '9' rating. FLORIDA (Feature - Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN meets STAND BY ME) Cousins Luke, 19, and Matt, 22, set out on a road trip from North Carolina to Florida on spring break in 1982, envisioning a week of easy girls, alcohol, and partying. But when they pick up a beautiful, pregnant young hitchhiker, they get much more than they bargained for. Character-driven, Female-centric, Crime, Coming-of-Age, Animation, Satire, Magical Realism Female, 40+ unrepped