Thomas L. Ferguson

A.D. at The Tennis Channel
Filmmaker and Screenwriter

Los Angeles, California

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August 2014

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About Thomas

Thomas is an award-winning screenwriter from South Carolina with a lifelong passion for film and filmmaking. Seeing E.T. and The Color Purple in his youth sparked a love for the transformative magic of the movies. He began his writing journey when he won a spot in Film Independent's Project: Involve Filmmaker Program. He remains an active voting member of the nonprofit arts organization and their Independent Spirit Awards. His involvement with them led to a membership with the Writer's Guild of America, West.

His technical directing duties for a national sports network led to an Academy of Television Arts & Sciences membership. He served as a judge for the Organization of Black Screenwriter's Screenplay Competition and for Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition. He was selected to participate in Infusion, an emerging talent program founded by Outfest Film Festival/Fusion and presented by Comcast NBCUniversal.

Unique traits: A huge fan of 1980's pop culture. Heavily influenced by the movies, television, and music of the era. Loves to write genre-bending, diverse stories that challenge, but with a sense of humor.

Gender:
Male

Height:
6'

Body type:
Heavyset

Hair:
Short

Hair color:
Black

Eyes:
Brown

Ethnicity:
African American

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Santa's Secret Santa Budget: $1M - $5M | Romance ⋄ Comedy With a little help from his friends, a department store Santa must embrace his true calling in order to find his true love.
Transcendent Budget: $5M - $10M | Horror ⋄ Drama An intuitive woman living in denial of her deep connection to the spirit world is forced to embrace her power and confront her fears to save her dying father.
Mr. and Mrs. Santa Budget: $30M+ | Family ⋄ Fantasy It's Mr. and Mrs. Smith... minus Brangelina. One of the world's most famous couples are having domestic issues. On Christmas Eve, Kris Kringle struggles to find a way back to the North Pole after an incident instigated by his unhappy wife finds him stranded in inner city Los Angeles.
MYa's TRUTH Budget: $1M - $5M | Independent ⋄ Drama A reluctant writer finally gets the courage to follow her repressed dreams and her ambitious new boyfriend to Hollywood, but the discovery of his big secret and her reconnection with an old boyfriend threaten to turn her world inside out.
Cancelled? Horror ⋄ Drama After his first feature film isn’t well received, a young gay filmmaker must battle the criticism of cancel culture and a dark, mysterious presence that haunts his nightmares.
Enter At Own Risk Budget: $100K - $1M | Horror ⋄ Independent A group of men gather at an abandoned mountain resort for a weekend of restorations and male bonding, but are picked off one by one when the area's legendary serial killer resurfaces... or does he? Enter At Own Risk is a shocking, politically incorrect, and at times campy script that pays homage to the classic slasher films of the 1980's...with a gay twist.

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Credits

Forgotten (2022)
Film by Ogma Films (Horror) Co writer A madman kills a mother of twins and takes them to a house in the woods. When a fire causes a collapse, the story is buried until a young woman finds the truth.

Awards

Best Drama Screenplay Award(Nominee)- Austin After Dark Film Festival
(2020)
Best Script(Nominee)- Montreal Independent Film Festival
(2020)
Best Unproduced Screenplay(Nominee)- Sunset Film Festival
(2020)
Silver Award Winner- Best Screenplay- International Independent Film Awards
(2019)
Top Ten Semi-Finalist- Hollywood Black Film Festival
(2017)
Grand Prize Family Film Screenplay Award Winner- Las Vegas Screenplay Contest
(2017)
Star Award- International Horror Hotel Film Festival
(2015)