Independent Writers' Caucus
Lisa Gold
Writer/director Lisa Gold grew up all over North America, leaving her confused and also Canadian. Dual citizen Lisa now lives in Long Beach, which looks out at oil derricks disguised as palm trees. Perfect for Lisa, who loves dressing up painful truths in unique genre material.
Lisa wrote and/or directed eight award-winning short films which played in 100 festivals. Her screenplays won a 2024 PAGE Bronze Prize, CineStory Screenwriting Award and the Nashville Film Festival Grand Jury Prize; other scripts reached the Finals of the Nicholl Fellowships, PAGE Awards and Script Pipeline TV Competition. She twice reached the Austin Semi-Finals with a feature and a TV pilot. Lisa is currently completing a YA sci-fi novel based on her script, while also working on a couple of alarmingly timely TV and feature scripts.
With a B.A. from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. from UCLA, Lisa recently worked way her downward, receiving an A.A. in cinema production from Los Angeles City College.
A graduate of Second City Conservatory, Lisa performed improv comedy at crappy coffeehouses all over LA.
Honors & Awards
Winner, Bronze Prize, PAGE International Screenwriting Awards - THE SECRET OF SHANGRI-LA, 2024
Finalist, The Writers Lab Canada - CANADA RESISTS - 2024
Finalist, PAGE International Screenwriting Awards - FOREGLOW - 2021
non-WGA
Female, disabled, Over 40
CANADA RESISTS
(TV action-thriller pilot - a reverse THE AMERICANS meets Norwegian thriller series OCCUPIED, with more satire/female empowerment like DIPLOMAT)
Following a far-right wing U.S. government takeover of Canada, a Toronto hockey mom becomes the unlikely leader of the secret Canadian resistance…pitting her against her CIA husband.
THE SECRET OF SHANGRI-LA
(family action-adventure feature - a kid-centric RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK meets the fun of HARRY POTTER.)
Following clues left by his late mother, BRANDON, 11, tricks his emotionally distant father into taking them on a perilous but healing journey to the mythical paradise of Shangri-La.
TRIPPIN’Â
(YA sci-fi time travel pilot - DEAD TO ME meets CRUEL SUMMER)
After her little sister is killed, snarky artist Lexy, 16, loses her voice. Along with brother Kyle, 17, she travels back to the past to save their sister, but instead ends up creating alternate realities, upending her family and her high school’s social order.
Character-driven, Female-centric, Crime, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, YA, Snarky
Female, disabled, Over 40
unrepped