Hope Hickli

ahopeh@outlook.com

Hope Hickli has written and produced interactive edutainment for Disney Interactive, Pixar and Fisher Price. She cut her teeth writing international marketing materials for CBC, Canada's public broadcaster, and in small documentary film production.

After more than 15 years as a political speechwriter, Hope turned her talents to screenwriting. As penance for her previous job, Hope now writes textured, character-driven stories with a social conscience. She’s particularly drawn to biography—stories of misfits and dissidents who must break out of the boxes people put them in, in order to change the world and in the process, change themselves.

Hope is the single mom of a feisty, smart, young adult—a survivor whose desire to make change in our world fuels Hope’s work on the page.

Honors & Awards

Drama Division Winner, CineStory - EMILIE - 2024

Second-rounder, Austin Film Festival - EMILIE - 2024

Winner, Short Screenplay, Woods Hole Film Festival - JOEY - 2025

non-WGA

Female, 40+

EMILIE

TV Pilot, Biographical Drama

QUEEN'S GAMBIT meets THE EMPRESS

A naïve but brilliant debutante casts aside the restrictive life expected of her to upend the world of physics and become one of the great scientific minds of her time.

UNEXPECTED GUEST

Drama Feature

AFTERSUN & PAST LIVES

When her mother dies, taking family secrets with her, an emotionally walled-off woman goes on an obsessive Rashomon journey to find out why her family fell apart so she can let go of the past and, just maybe, learn how to live.

JOEY

Drama short; part live action/part animation

AWAKENINGS & THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY

The true story of a former artist whose life-altering experience as a WWII Spitfire pilot is played out on the hospital walls as he fights for his sanity, family and life.

Character-driven, Female-centric, Historical/Alternative History, Limited Series, Satire, International

Female, 40+

unrepped