Debi Yazbeck

Screenwriter

Frisco, Texas

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October 2014

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About Debi

Debi is from Frisco, Texas. She’s an award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker. She’s a Board Member of Stowe Story Labs plus an alumni of many of Stowe’s programs. She’s also an alumni of The Tracking Board’s Launchpad and of The Academy of Filmwriting. Debi writes TV and features, usually based in the South. Her understanding of and love for the outdoors provides a backdrop to all her scripts, which are primarily female-driven. Death and the subsequent unhealthy reconciliations that affect her protagonists’ wants and needs are explored as the characters’ goals supersede moral decisions.

Debi directed the TV pilot, SUNFLOWER CARE, which is now at film festivals. The award winning script was written by Della Greenawalt and produced by Diana Richardson with a cast of sixteen including Bryna Weiss, Katheryn Taylor Smith and Tik-tok sensation Sebastian Tepote.

Gender:
Female

Height:
5' 5"

Weight:
130

Body type:
Athletic

Hair:
Long

Hair color:
Grey

Eyes:
Green

Ethnicity:
Caucasian

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Loglines

Brokered Heart Budget: $5M - $10M | Thriller When an anti-human-trafficking activist needs a new heart ASAP, she forsakes all ethics and enters into a deadly game between two illegal donors.
BLIND PURSUIT Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller A decorated homicide detective will be blinded rather than face the truth of who is responsible for his wife’s death.
Jazlyn's Sight Budget: $100K - $1M | Thriller A therapist with precognitive abilities sets up practice above her mentor's 'hair and voodoo' salon in New Orleans to help clients overcome traumatic experiences in their lives, while dealing with her own bad decisions causing life and death consequences.
RETURN TO XATALA Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller ⋄ Action When her brother is murdered during a human trafficking operation on the Texas/Mexico border, an overachieving Police Cadet would rather kill the perpetrator than face her own suffering, but when her plans of murder fail, she kidnaps El Jefe’s autistic son... and learns to embrace grief while surviving the majestic and dangerous mountains of Monterey Mexico.

Credits

Out of the Walls (2018)
Film (Short and Drama) Writer
SUNFLOWER CARE
Television by Piss Elm Entertainment Director After being dumped at a nursing home by her conniving daughter, a cantankerous eighty-five year old tries to outwit the grim reaper, who has come to claim her.

Awards

Feature Screenplay: Teton Reckoning -- Winner California Women's Film Festival
(2016)
Feature screenplay: Teton Reckoning -- Semi-finalist, top 100 at Park City TRMS
(2015)
One hour teleplay: Lilyhammer "Bring Jerry Home" -- Semi-finalist Stage 32 Happy TV
(2015)
Feature screenplay: Teton Reckoning -- Top Ten Percent BlueCat
(2015)
Feature screenplay: Teton Reckoning -- Winner at WILDsound 1st Sceen
(2015)
Feature screenplay: Teton Reckoning -- Semi-finalist at Acclaim Film Script
(2014)