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< Back Rudi O'Meara rudi@rudiwithaneye.com https://www.rudiwithaneye.com The Black List Rudi O’Meara is a Black List Recommended action/adventure screenwriter based in Marin County, California. He got his start in the industry working as a junior development exec for Oscar-winning indie producer David Weisman. In his 20s, he pivoted careers and worked as an award-winning Creative Director for some of the world’s best brands. But after three back-to-back near-death experiences (blood clot, ski crash, blood clot) nearly took him out, he decided to finally listen to that voice in his head that kept asking why he wasn’t writing. Since then, he’s won or made the finals of numerous screenwriting competitions including: Roadmap Writers, ScriptPipeline, Page, Big Break, ScreenCraft, Shore Scripts, ISA, WritersXWrtiers, Filmmatic, and Outstanding Screenplays. His work tends to focus on misfits and outsiders struggling to face their mortality, fight their fears, and redefine themselves (and their tribe) in order to survive. And he sees genre as a tool for exploring taboo subjects in unexpected and arresting ways. Honors & Awards IWC Best Of Selection - THE 10TH - 2026 WritersXWriters Screenplay Competition - Winner - THE ESCAPIST - 2024 Filmmatic Pitch Now Competition - Winner - AMENDS - 2023 Script Pipeline Pitch Competition - Runner-Up - REJUVENATION - 2023" THE ESCAPIST WWII Drama Feature ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT meets THE ARTIST In a bid to survive WWII without firing a shot, a naive young jazz-obsessed musician joins the Musikkorps Leibstandarte-SS (Hitler’s elite personal orchestra) and soon finds himself thrust into some of the fiercest fighting of the war." THE 10th WWII Action Feature SAVING PRIVATE RYAN meets MERU Two headstrong mountaineers (one American, one Austrian) find themselves playing an unexpectedly pivotal role in the first high-stakes WWII mission of the US 10th Mountain Division—America’s first alpine infantry unit. REJUVENATION Horror/Thriller Feature STEPFORD WIVES meets EX MACHINA After discovering her husband is cheating on her, a middle-aged woman follows her BFF to a remote spa promising a genetically rejuvenated self. Soon though, both women find themselves being hunted down by their younger, hotter, optimized selves."

< Back Brooke Muschott brookemuschott@gmail.com http://brookemuschott.com Brooke Muschott is a writer, artist and roller skater. She’s been losing sleep to good books since she discovered the Boxcar Children, and watching too much television since the premiere of Pretty Little Liars. She’s fairly certain there is no greater high than a story that gets so deep into your heart it keeps you up at night, dreaming about it. At sixteen, she walked into her favorite author’s book signing with a list of the inconsistencies in his books and walked out with a job as a continuity editor. She’s gained more tact since then, but is still the writer who will remember that Kara said she hated cats twenty-eight episodes ago. She pivoted from publishing to television during the pandemic, and most recently has worked as a production coordinator on an Apple show. Her favorite genre to write is older kids to older young adult contemporary fantasy, and her second favorite is anything anyone will pay her for. She has a bachelor’s in creative writing with double minors in studio art and multimedia design from Pepperdine University. She writes stories with enough detail to swim in, about characters in extraordinary situations dealing with ordinary problems. Her superpower is organization, her Achilles heel is cooking, and her vice is sweet tea. She can almost land an axel on roller skates, but don’t throw something at her and yell ‘catch’. It won’t be caught. Honors & Awards Quarterfinalist, The Script Lab - TSL Free Screenplay Contest - INK AND ASHES - 2024 INK AND ASHES (Hour TV - Contemporary Fantasy - Sharp Objects meets Spiderwick Chronicles ) Eight years ago, Ava fled her hometown after her best friend went missing and the town blamed her for the crime. When her old boss goes missing on the night she returns, she’s swiftly dragged back into a world of danger - and magic. CULTDOM (Hour TV - Contemporary - The Eras Tour meets Waco ) Marie, whose life revolves around being a superfan of international pop star Elli Augusta, starts a fan blog that accidentally turns into a cult. HOW TO ROLLERSKATE THROUGH THE APOCALYPSE (Half Hour TV - Kids Contemporary Fantasy - Kipo meets Gravity Falls ) When magic appeared overnight and turned Steph and Jess’s suburban middle-school lives upside down, they rolled with it. But with the world this unstable, even skating to the store can be more of a quest than they bargained for.

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

< Back 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 Jori Lynn Felker joriwritestv@gmail.com Agent: Michael Chung (Verve) Coverfly Hailing from the harsh winds of Chicago, Jori once earned a Neuroscience degree just to spite a misogynistic ex. But when GREY’S ANATOMY failed to align with the realities of medical school, she disappointed her conservative Jewish family, pivoting to entertainment… With over a decade in the support staff trenches, Jori's eclectic journey spans from Disney kids’ comedies (GABBY DURAN) to erotic thrillers (THE IDOL). Blending sharp wit and emotional depth, her writing transforms high concepts into intimate explorations. Her frozen-time coming-of-age feature BETWEEN THE RAINDROPS sold on spec in 2020, marking Jori as a writer to watch. Previously, she worked on the alt-history FOR ALL MANKIND spin-off and S2 of Colin Farrell’s SUGAR for Apple TV. Her horror short story, TOO CUTE, exploring the neurological phenomenon of ‘cute aggression,’ was published in Dark Matter’s anthology, ‘Haunted Reels.’ Jori is also a recipient of the prestigious USC Renaissance Scholarship, noted for her exemplary work across diverse disciplines. Most recently, Jori wrapped a Stephen King adaptation for MGM+ and is currently penning the feature adaptation of the indie darling game THE UNFINISHED SWAN for PlayStation with Hisko Hulsing (UNDONE) attached to direct. Between projects, Jori works her way through her self-imposed 'alphabet hobbies,' which have included everything from Blacksmithing to Exotic Dancing. She is currently on the letter ‘H’ and learning ‘computer hacking’ – because why not? Honors & Awards ● Writer – Writer’s Lab 2020: Bonfire (Baobab) ● Top 10% Nicholl’s Fellowship 2020 – The First Year ● Finalist Unique Voices 2020 – The First Year ● Finalist Unique Voices 2020 – Between the Raindrops ● Semifinalist ScriptShadow 2020 – Between the Raindrops ● Quarterfinalist Emerging Screenwriters 2020 – Between the Raindrops ● Quarterfinalist Screencraft 2020 – Between the Raindrops ● USC Renaissance Scholar - 2015 THE UNFINISHED SWAN (Feature -Magical Realism - ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND meets GROUNDHOG DAY ) Struggling with a tough decision, a teenage boy accidentally stops time, but can’t figure out how to restart it. Based on the video game. PlayStation producing. GLITCHIKER (Pilot - Sci-fi/Drama - THE DROPOUT meets MR. ROBOT ) A disgraced tech CEO must decide how far she’ll go to redeem her legacy when she stumbles upon technology so earth-shattering, the world might not be ready for it — teleportation. THE FIRST YEAR (Feature - Drama/Coming of Age - AN EDUCATION meets TULLY ) An introverted freshman is taken under the wing of her peculiar RA and finds herself forced to grow up in ways she never expected.

< 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 Johnny Gilligan gilligaj@yahoo.com (310) 945-7707 Coverfly The Black List Born in Ireland into a family of cops, Johnny jumped ship and became a coder in Silicon Valley. Later, Johnny took up acting where, ironically, he plays a lot of cops... Four years ago, his mother's sudden death, while he was 10,000 miles away on a movie set, ignited his screenwriting journey. Johnny mines his day job working in cutting-edge technology, his acting, and his life experience as the son of a wheelchair mother, to create grounded scifi stories led by richly complex characters. Honors & Awards Page Awards - GOLD PRIZE WINNER SCI-FI - 2023 Final Draft Big Break - TOP 5 SCI-FI - 2020 9 OVERALL 8 OUT 10's ON BLCKLST.COM THE STREAM Grounded Sci-Fi Feature - LOOPER meets THE DISCOVERY In the near future, when a tech company perfects a way to communicate with the dead in a scientifically discovered afterlife, known as The Stream, a failed novelist fights to save his daughter’s soul from being permanently erased by the company’s CEO… his estranged brother. INHERITANCE Grounded Sci-Fi Feature - TRUE DETECTIVE: NIGHT COUNTRY meets MIDNIGHT SPECIAL When alien DNA is discovered in an innocent Native Alaskan teen, a tenacious geneticist fights to stop her shadowy biotech bosses from weaponizing him. LIFELINK Grounded Sci-Fi Feature - DIE HARD meets FINAL DESTINATION When bio-implants give users 24-hour notice of their death, a grieving ex-marine fights to undo the past-death of his daughter, unearthing a catastrophic secret about the implants and their creator.

< Back Tracy Held tracyheldconsulting@gmail.com https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6326686/ Tracy Held (she/they) is an award-winning, multi-racial Chinese/Eastern European American writer for stage and screen. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Tracy has a background in nonprofit fundraising and conservation science. She is a do-gooder with a heart of puns who writes like Rachel Bloom on PBS. Tracy uses her writing to defeat pessimism and to inspire collaboration and connection. Winner of an Alfred P. Sloan Screenwriting Award, she is a co-founder of Erosion films, founder of All Terrain Theater, and served as a former Executive Director of the nonprofit Play Cafe. She is the Vice-Chair of the Writers Guild of America West Asian American Writers Committee. Tracy has a BS in Conservation and Resource Studies from UC, Berkeley and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie Mellon. SCIENCE FAIR (Coming of Age Musical Feature) All Katie wants to do is save the world, and she has a step-by-step plan to do it, but first she needs to win her high school science fair which means accepting the hard-to-believe truth that she may not always be right. NATURE ORGANIZATION (Comedy, Pilot) Theresa Chin's first act as the new Executive Director of the struggling nonprofit Friends of the Local Parks is to eliminate the office hierarchy, but the human and animal staff fall apart without their beloved structure, and the newly-hired horse just wants to stop being stuck in the door.

< 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 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.

< 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 Virtic Emil Brown virtic@artiststudioprods.com http://www.imdb.me/virticemilbrown Virtic Emil Brown is a writer/filmmaker. She is a part of the disabled community. Her recent screenplay FREE! was a recipient of Sundance Accessible Future Initiative. It is currently in development. Some of her writing credits include WILL UNPLUGGED (Randall Park), HINDSIGHT, and YOU’LL NEVER MEET MY NEW FRIENDS. Virtic’s film ON TOUR screened at the 70th Venice International Film Festival’s library. Since then, she has written and directed plays performed in festivals at EST/LA and The Vagrancy Theater. Virtic worked for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences as the Oscar’s Press Guide Manager, handling domestic and international media outlets. Virtic recently directed two films for the Easterseals. She is currently shooting her feature documentary MLICSU starring Lee Pugsley. Virtic is also an actress who also appeared in shows like HOW TO HACK BIRTH CONTROL, THE SHIELD, and WITHOUT A TRACE. She is a Board Member of The Classical Theatre Lab. She is currently appearing as a core Foundation Worker on the new TV show LOOT. FREE! (Indie Feature Musical - think ONCE) In the final six days of their child’s life, the Bradys must confront their past, leading them to realize this is not the life God wanted for them when He gave their souls a body.

< Back Yeni Alvarez Manager: Will Swift, Arsenal Media - swifty@arsenalmediallc.com (323) 424-7647 https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0023337/ Google "Multi-Cultural" and you get Yeni Alvarez. Yeni was born in Cuba and escaped with her parents to Panama when she was 10. She was smuggled via Rio Grande into the US and grew up in the most Cuban of neighborhoods, Hialeah, where stores display signs that read “We speak English.” She studied theater in NY and Miami and paid for college by working weekends as a children’s party princess, all while learning makeup techniques from a transgender best friend. Yeni later moved to LA to be an actress, booking her first audition for the highest-rated sitcom in Spanish Television, and later her voiceover career bloomed when she booked the Spanish Female voice of Disney Theme Parks. (She's the Spanish voice that tells you to "keep your arms inside the vehicle at all times.") Yeni is fluent in three languages, writes in two, and dabbles in Klingon. Her worldview informs her screenwriting, creating stories and characters that span the entirety of the human experience. Plenty of people can imagine fish-out-of-water stories, but few have lived one as fearlessly – and humorously – as Yeni. She is currently developing multicultural comedy, sci-fi, and animation properties that celebrate human diversity and the most powerful force on Earth: Laughter. AQUA TOFANA (Period feature) 17th Century Italy was plagued by the deaths of hundredths of abusive husbands. They all had one thing in common. Very well scented wives. Enter Julia Tofana, the profumiera saint and savior of would be widows. TESLA AND THE TINY TITANS (Animated TV Series - similar to JIMMY NEUTRON but with Einstein and Tesla) Mostly true tales of steampunk inventions by the kids who would grow up to be titans. DIVERSITY HIRE (Half Hour Comedy Sitcom) Afraid of losing his job in Hollywood, a washed up Jewish writer hires his Latina dog walker to play the role of his writing partner.