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About Delina
Delina Brooks is a Black and Filipino comedy-drama writer who was raised in San Francisco and reborn in Oakland. It was there, where she developed into a writer-producer and received more than $100K in grants and commissions. The Zellerbach Family Foundation, East Bay Community Foundation and The City of Oakland’s Cultural Funding Program are among the many organizations which seeded Delina’s work. She has been nominated for three Isadora Duncan Awards, winning in 2015 for Outstanding Ensemble Performance in “An Open Love Letter to Black Fathers”, an interdisciplinary stage play which Delina wrote, produced, directed and starred in. Since moving to Los Angeles in 2018, she has been a Showrunner’s Assistant on WOKE (HULU), THE REL SHOW (FOX) and UNRELATED/BESTIES (pilot, FREEFORM), and a Director’s Assistant on INSECURE (HBO), WOKE (S2, HULU), GRAND CREW (NBC) and NONE OF THE ABOVE (pilot, ABC). Because she can never pick just one, Delina holds a Master’s Degree in Ethnic Studies (SFSU) and two Bachelor’s Degrees in Ethnic Studies (CSU EB) and Kinesiology (SFSU). A multi-hyphenate at heart, Delina's work often marries story with music, and passionately champions troubled women who learn to save themselves.
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When the Dead Sing Budget: $1M - $5M | Musical ⋄ Comedy Three soulful, well-intended but controlling ancestors return to earth to help their mess-of-a-descendant straighten out her life - but not before they ruin it. This is the story
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The Pulse Budget: $1M - $5M | Other ⋄ Drama A law-breaking, heavy-drinking young woman who dares to dream a new life when she discovers a premiere African dance center. But, old habits die hard and threaten to destroy her coveted new life as a dancer. (A dance-drama)
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The Golden Thread Budget: $5M - $10M | Musical A Musical Fairytale in which a Time Traveler discovers how to navigate the contrasting rhythms of life.
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Anthem Budget: $5M - $10M | Experimental ⋄ Drama An adaptation of my award-winning stage play, "An Open Love Letter to Black Fathers". ANTHEM is a docu-hybrid arthouse film, perfect for a Father's Day release. Women examine their father-daughter relationships to remember, release, forgive and forge forward, in a uniquely visceral, theatrical experience.
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Crowning Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller A devoted therapist in a happy marriage finds a terrified young boy hiding in her closet. She soon discovers that saving him might cost her sanity, her license and her marriage.
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Mixed Messages Budget: $100K - $1M | Comedy A successful but dissatisfied nurse unearths the cause of the death of her childhood dream. No longer the mixed-race, mixed-religion teen whose parents’ divorce shattered her self-confidence, she sets out to discover if it’s ever too late to live the life of her dreams.
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