Independent Writers' Caucus
Lynn Esta Goldman
415-902-6800
Lynn Esta Goldman was born and raised in Miami and later escaped to San Francisco, where she worked as an artist and dancer, teaching ballroom and salsa, before becoming interested in film and screenwriting.
Her life experiences range from teaching a hundred Chinese to salsa dance on a Shanghai riverboat to working on a Pediatric HIV ward.
She was a finalist in the Nicholl Competition with two different screenplays, won a Gold Prize in the PAGE, and is a member of The Writers Lab sponsored by Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman. Her screenplay, THE WAY YOU MOVE, is in development with producer Mitchell Peck. She writes dramas, thrillers and dramedies.
Honors & Awards
Nicholl Fellowship - Finalist - ANGEL ON THE WALL - 2015
Nicholl Fellowship - Finalist - ON THE WING - 2019
PAGE - Gold Prize - BUSTER AND TONY 2024
non-WGA
Female, 55+
THE HALF-SISTERHOOD
Science Fiction
When an orphan runs her DNA, she learns that she has multiple half-sisters – all born the same day, all with the same unique green eye color, all with the same father whose DNA is not human, and all the key to averting a coming pandemic, if only they can outwit forces determined to destroy them first.
BUSTER AND TONY
Dramedy, Comps are "As Good as it Gets," "The Friend"
When an ambitious attorney inherits her sister’s feisty little terrier, she must deal with the messiness of caring for an adorable mutt, juggling an even messier divorce, and overcoming the sexist boneheads at work if she’s ever going to recreate a sense of the family she’s lost.
THE FIFTH PRISONER
Espionage Action Thriller, The Night Manager/The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
While tracking a high-level terrorist, a CIA agent uncovers a plot to overthrow the U.S. government and is forced to choose between saving his threatened family or stopping the conspirators behind the coup: his own countrymen.
Character-driven, Female-centric, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Psychological, Dark, International, Magical Realism
Female, 55+
unrepped