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< Back Katherine Ruppe katherine.ruppe@gmail.com Katherine is drawn to inspiring real life stories and twisty mysteries revolving around themes of resilience, courage, and redemption. Her Humanitas New Voices-winning TV drama, LIFTOFF, was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Grant and selected for the Netflix-sponsored Film Independent Episodic Lab. Her thriller feature, TRUE NORTH, is an Athena List Winner, Nicholl Fellowship Top 30, and set to be produced by Resonate Entertainment. Katherine’s passion for story-telling was sparked while hitchhiking the Australian Outback, shooting Super 8 film, and absorbing tales of the Aboriginal Dreamtime. She has developed an original crime drama pilot with WBTV and won fellowships in the PGA Power of Diversity Workshop and Film Independent Screenwriter Lab. A former camera operator in the International Cinematographer’s Guild, Katherine worked with renown DPs on movies, docs, and TV. She’s originally from Michigan’s rugged Upper Peninsula, where she raced in rodeos and campaigned for her Congressman father in way too many parades. Honors & Awards Winner, Humanitas New Voices Fellowship – LIFTOFF – 2021 Fellow, Film Independent Episodic Lab – LIFTOFF – 2020 Winner, Alfred P. Sloan Development Grant – LIFTOFF – 2020 non-WGA Female LIFTOFF (TV Drama – HIDDEN FIGURES / THE RIGHT STUFF) LIFTOFF intercuts the true story of America’s first six female astronauts – who blast through the brotherhood of spaceflight in 1978 – with the heartrending Challenger disaster, which claims the life of one of our first women and spurs Sally Ride to uncover NASA secrets while keeping her own. TIME BOMB (TV Drama Thriller – à la HOMELAND) An impulsive female Undercover Agent teams with a discerning FBI Psychologist to infiltrate and take down a network of lone wolf extremists. Conflict flares when the first “time bomb” they must defuse is the Undercover’s own brother, forcing her into the heart of darkness that is domestic terrorism. IN/JUSTICE (TV Crime Drama – YELLOWSTONE / JUSTIFIED) A fearless half-Blackfeet detective returns to her rugged Montana hometown to untangle the conspiracy of her activist mother’s murder – battling the FBI, greedy oil interests, and Blackfeet militants – forever upending her delicate balance between the Native and white worlds. Character-driven, Female-centric, BIPOC-centric, Science, Crime, Thriller, Procedural Female repped

< 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. non-WGA Male, Latinx, LGBTQ+ 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. Character-driven, Queer, Crime, Fantasy, Psychological, Satire, Bittersweet, Magical Realism Male, Latinx, LGBTQ+ unrepped

< 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. non-WGA Female, Over 40 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. Character-driven, Female-centric, Romantic, Bittersweet Female, Over 40 unrepped

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

< Back Sofia Drummond-Moore sofiadrummondmoore@gmail.com Coverfly The Black List Sofia has a Bachelors Degree in Creative Writing from Knox College and a Masters Degree in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute, where she was an Academy Nicholl Fellowship Quarterfinalist and won the Writers Room Ready Award. Sofia primarily gets excited about drama, horror and thriller stories with a specific interest in strange historical curiosities, LGBTQ+ stories and those focused on female protagonists. She believes ghost stories can be some of the most important stories. Her prose writing has been published in New Delta Review, Pithead Chapel, Door Is A Jar Magazine, Cleaver Magazine and many others. She has recently been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Sofia has worked as an intern at Conner Literary and Ghost House Pictures, as a writers assistant to a prominent author, and as an executive producer on a teen mystery series for streaming. She is currently a freelance writer for prose and film. Her short film THE LAST BIRTHDAY, about the Romanov family, was the Winner of Berlinale European Film Market Premier, nominee for the European Independent Film Awards, selection for The Still Voices International Film Festival, The Southside Film Festival and Mammoth Film Festival . When she's not writing Sofia has been a figure skater, a museum curator, fever specialist, tree devotee, nostalgia expert and gravestone attendee. Honors & Awards Winner, Big Break Final Draft Competition - ADA - 2024 Semi-Finalist, Austin Film Festival - RIKO'S CIRCLE - 2024 Finalist, ScreenCraft True Story & Public Domain Award - QUIET BODIES - 2023 non-WGA Female, LGBTQ+ QUIET BODIES (Historical Drama) Based on the true stories of ballerinas who burned to death on stage in the 1860s. Paris 1861, a young dancer joins the famous ballet only to be surrounded by persecution and danger, yet through the love of another dancer she finds hope and rebellion. CLY (Psychological thriller) A woman still grieving the sudden loss of her daughter lands the lead role of Clytemnestra in a retelling of the Greek tragedy Agamemnon only to be set on a path of violence she must escape from as the lines between reality and play blur. REGRESSION (Horror) A young student travels to Copenhagen to study the conservation of bog bodies but after trying past life regression therapy becomes convinced her body and her life are being taken over by a dangerous man from 280 BCE. Female-centric, Queer, Thriller, Psychological, Horror, Dark, International, Magical Realism Female, LGBTQ+ unrepped

< 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. non-WGA Male, LGBTQ+, Over 40 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. Character-driven, Science, Medical, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Psychological, Historical/Alternative History, International Male, LGBTQ+, Over 40 repped

< Back Jude Roth 1juderoth@gmail.com 310.621.1697 http://www.juderoth.com ! ! ! Widget Didn’t Load Check your internet and refresh this page. If that doesn’t work, contact us. non-WGA Female ! Widget Didn’t Load Check your internet and refresh this page. If that doesn’t work, contact us. ! Widget Didn’t Load Check your internet and refresh this page. If that doesn’t work, contact us. ! Widget Didn’t Load Check your internet and refresh this page. If that doesn’t work, contact us. Character-driven, Female-centric, Thriller Female unrepped

< Back Lisa Kors lisamkors@gmail.com https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1131495/ A daughter of immigrants, Lisa Kors was raised near Yonkers, NY. Her love of storytelling was shaped by a dad who played handball with FBI guys and a social worker mom whose clients kept finding dead bodies on the job. (Yonkers was a big garbage mafia town back then, so maybe not so weird…?) By second grade, Lisa could tell a story that would scare the bejesus out of her friends. To this day, Lisa likes writing stories about good people making bad choices for excellent reasons. She is also an excellent parallel parker. Honors & Awards Coverfly Top 2% of Thriller/Horror TV Pilots - THE DRAGON OF HANDALE - 2022 Finalist, We Screenplay Diverse Voices Competition - THE DRAGON OF HANDALE - 2022 Finalist, ScreenCraft Horror Competition - THE DRAGON OF HANDALE - 2022 non-WGA Female, Non-binary THE DRAGON OF HANDALE TV, Drama Based on a popular British novel, The Dragon of Handale is a medieval whodunnit that follows a badass young widow who investigates a gruesome series of murders at the convent where bad nuns are sent to be punished. PRINCES' HOSPITAL TV, Drama (GREY'S ANATOMY x HOMELAND) Inspired by a real hospital in Saudi Arabia, PRINCES' HOSPITAL is a one-hour drama that follows the adventures of the extravagantly paid ex-pat doctors and nurses who treat only the 20,000 members of the royal family. Money, rules and secrets abound. FREAKY FURDAY Feature, Comedy Cat-astophe ensues when a pampered show dog and a scrappy feral cat switch bodies right before a high-stakes competition. Female-centric, Medical, Crime, Thriller, Procedural, Psychological, Horror, International Female, Non-binary unrepped

< Back Sage Wells sfire8@hotmail.com 323-434-5580 Coverfly IMDB Profile Sage is a former teacher and playwright from a small farming community in the Central Valley of California. She spent a year researching indigenous arts and culture in Indonesia while at UC Santa Barbara, studied playwriting at Emerson College, and earned an MFA in screenwriting from The American Film Institute. She is an Academy Nicholl Fellowship semi-finalist, and her directorial debut, the pandemic short film, HELPER, is currently making the festival rounds. She works on set as a studio teacher for children in entertainment, and lives and writes in the mountains of Los Angeles with her husband and two young sons. Honors & Awards Official Selection, Dances With Films - HELPER - 2021 Semi-Finalist, Academy Nicholl Fellowship - LULLABY - 2024 Semi-Finalist, Academy Nicholl Fellowship - LULLABY - 2018 non-WGA Female, 40+ LULLABY (Drama Feature) A recovering heroin addict returns home to substitute teach at her old high school and learns that the baby she gave up for adoption fourteen years ago attends the same school. SHE (Horror Feature) A troubled teen, sent to an all-girls wilderness therapy camp in Utah, must fight for survival when a mysterious female creature appears to be stalking and hunting them. WEDLOCK (Drama One Hour Episodic) Teenage best friends, Kent, a closeted gay man, and Frankie, a bisexual woman, enter a mixed-orientation “lavender” marriage in 1970, Los Angeles and struggle to stay together for the next 45 years. Character-driven, Female-centric, Thriller, Psychological, Horror, Coming-of-Age, Limited Series, Naturalistic Female, 40+ unrepped

< Back Jibreel Turner jibreel.turner@gmail.com James Moorer, One Moorer Media & Management As an optioned and repped writer Jibreel Turner writes stories about heroes dealing with tremendous external pressures. Based in Los Angeles and half of a writing duo, they focus on protagonists who must stay grounded to fulfill their inherent responsibilities usually involving family and relationships. As a devoted single dad, he writes gritty TV and Features about strong-willed intelligent fathers with a moral compass, taking drastic measures and creative steps to achieve their goals. Jibreel's experience as a disabled combat veteran from Philly allows his stories to speak not just to the multifaceted black experience, but the greater humanity that resonates in us all. Honors & Awards GREEN OR GO: CHASING THE HOLLYWOOD DREAM Docuseries (Writer, Director, Producer) - In Post Production. THE PRYOR ENGAGEMENTS Feature Optioned by Tecknology Enterprises - 1/2024 Stage 32 - THE HARD WAY - TV Pilot Top 1% included in the “Best of Stage 32” Lookbook (2022). non-WGA Male, Black, Disabled, 40+ FAMILY OVER EVERYTHING TV Drama - POWER meets THE SOPRANOS \After his rap phenom little brother is murdered due to his involvement with a criminally financed record label, a streetwise single dad from the Bronx and his daughter are forced into witness protection in Cleveland, to unravel what led to his brother’s death. THE HARD WAY One-Hour [Serialized] TV | Sports / Period Drama | Basic Cable - HEELS meets ENTOURAGE It’s 1985 and a small-town wrestling prodigy must fight his way to the top of the biggest league in America while dodging the pitfalls of stardom in order to care for his sick mother and pregnant girlfriend at home. THE KANDAHAR PROJECT (Working Title) Feature Sci-Fi, Horror, Military Drama - LONE SURVIVOR meets TRAIN TO BUSAN When a highly skilled Recon team becomes trapped in a labyrinth of Afghanistan caves they must confront a mythical tribe of giants in order to make it out alive. Character-driven, Crime, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Psychological, Horror, Dark, International Male, Black, Disabled, 40+ repped

< Back Nicole Jones-Dion nicole@praxiscope.com Matt Prater, Citizen Skull 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 Alexander Adell zander@magnesiumfilm.com Alex Creasia, Navigation Media Group https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0011809/ Coverfly Alexander Adell, represented by Alex Creasia at Navigation Media Group, writes Sci-Fi and Drama features and TV filled with tangled and passionate characters who need as much therapy as he does, who claw their way through deeply researched, unforgiving worlds. He won at the 2022 Austin Film Festival with his fiction podcast pilot script CELERITAS, which he produced into a global top ten sci-fi podcast that was nominated for a Webby and received seven Signal Awards including Best Writing and Best Scripted Fiction Podcast. A former Pixar Technical Director now based in Austin, TX, he was regularly pulled out of grade school to hitchhike through developing countries, get hypothermia on Mt. Everest, drink cow blood, and witness the occasional public cremation. From a young age he was drawn to science fiction, which felt more familiar than the Americans around him. Now a father of two, his writing attempts to channel the fear and awe of his childhood, and the broken decision-making of adults who are raised in chaos. Honors & Awards Austin Film Festival Fiction Podcast Award - Winner - CELERITAS - 2022 Signal Award for Best Scripted Fiction Podcast- Gold - CELERITAS - 2023 non-WGA Male, 40+ ANTLION (Drama Feature, Phantom Thread meets Saltburn) When a furniture maker is ruined by his wealthy clients, he lures them in with a mysterious luxury mattress and turns their methods of indoctrination against them. CELERITAS (Dark Sci-fi Scripted Podcast Series, The Revenant meets Interstellar) The first test of light speed flight hurls an astronaut deep into the future where he searches the planets for remnants of the human race, and the memory of his daughter. Character-driven, Science, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Psychological, Dark, Magical Realism Male, 40+ Repped