Hey everyone! I wanted to congratulate our fellow community members who had scripts requested through Stage 32 pitch sessions over the last 2 weeks. We are thrilled for the opportunities for the following writers to have their scripts requested by various producers and managers, Exit 44, Heroes and Villains, Crossover Entertainment, Phoenix Pictures, and more! Please join us in congratulating your fellow writers for their accomplishments!
Congrats to:
Annerie Warrington
Arthur Steven Chancellor
Craig W George
Delaney Bishop
Alex Mehta
Stan Evans
Maggie Grant
Wendy Bednarz
James Ward
Ritchie Johnston
Michael Mouyal
Rhonda
Ingrid Wolf
Stephen Potts
Frederic Buse
Mo Smead
Eugene Patrick Marquis
Ernest Pick
Rachel Troche
Avril David
Daniel Allstrum
Omar Mousa Marwan
George Scholomite
Delaney Bishop
Ed Wiles
Crescent Novell
Gary Laney
David H. Fein (D. Hunter Fein)
Stefan Alexander
Michael Mouyal
David H. Fein (D. Hunter Fein)
Noelle Figueroa
Omer Faruk Geyik
Sean Milligan
John Martinez Hulsey
John Park
Michael Womack
Adam Englefield
Desiree Tollis
Daniel Doble
Purushothaman Anantha Krishnan
Cara Reinard
Mechelle Bordeaux
Elizabeth Torphy
Stephanie Sourapas
Holly Pasternak
Peter Edelstein
Kevin Spark
Dwayne Bricker
Charles Terry
Orges Bakalli
Erika Clark
Dietmar Schenk
Scott Liapis
Megan Karasch
Steven Statharos
Jim Cushinery
Summer Fowler
John Park
Casey Costello
Mike Browne
Rosemary Griggs
Gabriel Eby
David Ross
Kristin Francoeur
Dea Divi
Dea Divi
Marwa Bernstein
Steve Fisher
Sam Speron
Dane McCauley
John Park
Will McCord
Ronald L. Ecker
Suzy Miller
Kimberly McLeod
Matthew Hall
Bryan Kish
John Fife
Rachel Robison
Daniel Mouyal
D A Stenard
Tanisha Quilter Williams
Bill Osinski
Khalid I Saleem
Daniel Mouyal
John Park
Julie Georgina Shackman
TJ Berry
Lindsay Eleanor Smith
Jay Cipriani
Juanita Deely
Dan Morrison
Dea Divi
Aubrey C. Baptist
Michael Utt
Irish Taflinger
Dustin Williams
Elsa Sze
Kaida Mori
Suzanne Lutas
Lindsay Eleanor Smith
Craig W George
D A Stenard
Michelle Dionne Wardlaw
Stick Canning
Paul Hikari
Jeanee Ledoux
Christianna Carmine
Edina Kishonthy
Glen Brackenridge
Chu Bu
Kath E. Hewitt
Alexander Naffah
George Scholomite
David H. Fein (D. Hunter Fein)
Khalid Saleem
Tanisha Quilter Williams
Justin Jackson
Goce Cvetanovski
Kristopher Wilson
Jason Baffa
Michael Mouyal
David Page
Irwin Greenstein
Jose Argaluza
Michael Mouyal
Wayne Wills
John Fife
Ryan Peverly
Erik Howard
Cara Reinard
Charles Terry
Charles Terry
Monique Peek
Rebekah Gainsley
Rachel Amy Ritchie
Julian Rucker
Elsa Sze
Terri Jay
David Paculdo
Bill Osinski
Kristopher Wilson
Mark Schmitz
Nicholas J. Benson
Richard Gonerko
Richard Kanneh
Richard Gonerko
Alexander Naffah
Laura Harris
Todd Cohen
Casey Watson
David Page
DK Sellers
Mark M. Bello
Wayne Burdette Jr
Tom Morgan
Debbie Garrett
Stephen Potts
Mark M. Bello
Cara Reinard
Mike Bencivenga
Ramona Taylor
Donovan Scott
Kimberly Jürgen
Plus! We had 15 meeting requests from producers for our writers! Congratulations to the following writers!
scott clemens
Crescent Novell
David H. Fein (D. Hunter Fein)
Cara Reinard
Charmane Wedderburn
Kristin Francoeur
Tim Kontje
Staton Rabin
Susan Lander
Suzy Miller
Kimberly McLeod
Bryan Kish
Bill Osinski
Khalid I Saleem
Daniel Mouyal
Renee Mone't Weeks
Jim Cushinery
Goce Cvetanovski
Kristopher Wilson
Jason Baffa
Steve Mihaylov
Donny Mac
Irwin Greenstein
Jose Argaluza
David Page
Michael Mouyal
David Paculdo
Todd Cohen
Casey Watson
D A Stenard
Michele McKnight Baker
Ramona Taylor
Negrita Smart
Kimberly Jürgen
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Congratulations on the requests!
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Not trying to be the wet blanket and while there's is always a light at the end of the tunnel, I would be interested in hearing about done deals with the budget in the bank. Requests are fine, but they really don't carry much weight. The first table read with a signed cast is a bit more impressive.
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Congratulations to everyone who has made it this far! Wishing you all the best as you continue on your journey.
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Wow! That's great news!
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Sam Rivera at a quick glance the first list has a few names repeated several times—presumably they are writers who’ve received more than one script request? but is that on the basis that several producers requested the same script or that that writer succeeded with several scripts?
also—ethnic Chinese here, living in Borneo—special congrats to the writers with brown names on the list! REPRESENT!
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That's amazing! Congrats to all!
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Great job everyone…Congratulations!
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Well done everyone what a great achievement!!
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OKONKWO
A West African Epic of Betrayal, Strategy & the Birth of Colonial Doom
Genre: Historical Epic / War Drama / Political Tragedy
Tone: Braveheart × Kingdom of Heaven × Apocalypto × Igbo cosmology
Scale: Hundreds of thousands of soldiers, cavalry, villages, kingdoms, forests, and full pre-colonial Africa
Setting: 700 years ago – the old Igbo kingdoms, early Hausa states, Oyo/Ife, and the first whisper of European invasion
Tagline:
“A kingdom can survive its enemies.
But never a betrayal born from home.”
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LOGLINE
When a young Igbo prince blessed with superhuman intelligence leads a tiny, outnumbered army to victory against a greedy rival empire, his triumph ignites a chain of betrayals, alliances, invasions, and tragedies that culminate in the rise of colonial conquest—and the fall of the last free kingdoms of West Africa.
HULA — LOG LINE (Very Simple)
A young Yoruba queen gives birth to a baby whose blood “cries,” meaning tradition says the child must be killed. She discovers the elders secretly have the real medicine to save the baby. Now she must choose between obeying tradition or saving her child and destroying a 400-year-old belief system.
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HULA — SYNOPSIS
The film happens in a hidden Yoruba village.
For hundreds of years, whenever a royal baby is born with sickle-cell crisis, the elders kill the baby quietly and say “the blood is tainted.”
But secretly — they have a herbal cure that works.
They just don’t want a “sick” child to ever rule.
A new queen, Adunni, gives birth.
Her baby’s blood “cries,” meaning the baby might have SS.
Tradition says the baby must die before morning.
But the queen discovers the truth:
The herbalist has been hiding the REAL cure for years.
He gives fake herbs to the public and keeps the working one hidden.
He even used it secretly years ago to save Adunni’s own younger sister.
The queen is shocked and furious.
She realizes even her own grandmother-in-law has killed many royal babies “for tradition.”
So the queen has only one night to decide:
I write original African sci fi and thriller and horror stories
also have my own mythology for a film universe
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That's WAY off the charts, Sam! Congratulations to all the writers who scored all those script requests and meeting requests!