Independent Writers' Caucus
Helena Zhen
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Helena Zhen an actor/writer/director whose short films have played worldwide. She's been nominated for a DGA student filmmaking award, won one of the top writer/director awards given at NYU, and garnered a chance to work with the late, great Wes Craven as an up-and-coming director. Her scripts have won the Disney Writing Fellowship and the NexTV Grand Prize while other screenplays have been finalists at top-tier contests, such as Sundance, Tracking Board Launchpad, and Austin. She has just completed an Acting program at UCLA.
Her brand of writing tends towards high-concept, commercial fare with an edge of indie. While her writing is fairly diverse, she is drawn to grounded sci-fi and elevated genre material.
non-WGA
Female, BIPOC, Asian, Southeast Asian/Pacific Islander
EX HUMANAÂ
(Sci-Fi TV Drama - WESTWORLD meets ALTERED CARBON)
In the near future, a government health agent learns that the nanobots that everyone now uses to monitor their health has become self-aware and is editing out human traits to create the next stage of human evolution.Â
COLONY 14Â
(TV Crime Drama – YELLOWSTONE meets SONS OF ANARCHY)
An undercover FBI agent infiltrates a secretive group of off-the-grid survivalists intent on overthrowing the government and starting the next Civil War.
THE STORY OF YOUÂ
(Feature Drama – PACHINKO meets BACK TO THE FUTURE)
After the death of her father, a woman gets spirited back in time and must make the right choices in a choose-your-own-adventure style quest in order to return to her life as well as those of her parents.Â
Character-driven, Female-centric, BIPOC-centric, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Horror
Female, BIPOC, Asian, Southeast Asian/Pacific Islander
unrepped