Danielle Weinberg

Attorney: Mark S. Temple, (310) 888-0044, mst@entatty.com

Writer, producer, and director Danielle Weinberg won The Script Lab's 2024 Free Screenplay Contest with her feature screenplay COASTAL WATCH, which placed first out of more than 15,000 scripts. She recently sold an original romcom feature script, and her play MURDER, PARTY OF TEN was featured in the 2023 New Works Festival of the Long Beach Shakespeare Company.

Danielle’s directorial debut is the sci-fi short film INVASION ’53, starring Jeffrey Combs. On its festival run now, the movie had its world premiere at the Oscar-qualifying Cinequest Film Festival and has been selected by more than twenty film festivals, including the 2025 Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival in San Diego. To date, INVASION '53 has won Best Short Film at the Seattle Worldcon 2025 Film Festival, Best Sci-Fi Comedy at the ConGregate Film Festival, and Best Screenplay, Best Actor, and Best Set Design at the First Contact Sci-Fi and Fantasy Film Festival.

A graduate of the Writing Seminars at the Johns Hopkins University, Danielle earned an M.F.A. in Feature Film Screenwriting from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. She worked in development for Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (STAR TREK, SLEEPY HOLLOW), Orlando Jones and Legion of Creatives. Danielle is currently developing several independent features as a multi-hyphenate. Her projects are highly commercial, with modest budgets, in genres that have worldwide appeal. Danielle's influences include Steve Martin, Mel Brooks, and Steven Spielberg.

Honors & Awards

Winner of The Script Lab's 2024 TSL Free Screenplay Contest - COASTAL WATCH - 2024

The Best of the IWC - COASTAL WATCH - 2025

The Best of the IWC - IRL - 2024

non-WGA

Female, 40+

COASTAL WATCH

(Feature)

In the vein of Hitchcock’s REAR WINDOW: A recently traumatized teen witnesses a murder in the beach house across the street, but when no one believes her, she seeks out the answers herself and becomes locked in a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a man who will stop at nothing to protect his secret.

CRIMINAL CARE

(Feature)

To pay for his mother's nursing care, a cash-strapped medical resident moonlights as a doctor for criminals but finds himself trapped in a ruthless world he may never escape.

CURIOSITY

(Pilot – comps: CASTLE, VERONICA MARS)

Sherlock Holmes with a sci-fi twist: An outgoing young undergrad teams with a brilliant but socially inept A.I. researcher to solve baffling murder cases — and gradually comes to realize that her genius partner is the world's first android.

Character-driven, Female-centric, Thriller, Procedural, Romantic, Sci-Fi, Coming-of-Age, YA

Female, 40+

unrepped