Tim Kontje

trkontje@gmail.com

Tim is an LA-based screenwriter whose work combines crackerjack action setpieces with emotionally-grounded character arcs and has won numerous contests including Stage 32, Emerging Screenwriters, and Creative Screenwriting. He is also a Nicholl Fellowship semifinalist and recently became a board member of the Junior Hollywood Radio and Television Society. Originally from California, Tim also grew up in Germany and has an MFA in screenwriting from Loyola Marymount University.

Despite having a twin, he sadly isn’t telepathic.

Honors & Awards

Winner, Stage 32 Action/Thriller Screenwriting Contest - KITBASH - 2024

Semifinalist, Nicholl Fellowship - ZERO LINE - 2024

Winner, Emerging Screenwriters Action/Adventure Competition - ZERO LINE - 2023

non-WGA

Male

KITBASH

Action Feature

NOVOCAINE meets DIE HARD

After a slacker maid accidentally gains advanced combat abilities from an experimental serum, she has one hour before it kills her to find a cure and rescue her sister from a psycho billionaire and his private army.

ZERO LINE

Action/Adventure Feature

TOMB RAIDER meets BLOOD DIAMOND

When her partner goes missing searching for looted treasure, a hard-charging journalist teams up with a cynical thief and a timid archaeologist in a race through the blood antiquities underworld to find him before a ruthless mercenary corporation. Inspired by true events.

BLACK BUTTERFLY

Action/Adventure Pilot

ROGUE HEROES meets KINGSMAN

Berlin, 1941: After her identical twin is killed, a shy young woman must take her sister's place as a spy in the heart of the Nazi Reich.

Character-driven, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Historical/Alternative History

Male

unrepped