Edge of Smoke screenplay - Semi-finalist in Santa Barbara/Palm Springs Diversity Screenwriters
(2025)
Edge of Smoke screenplay - quarter-finalist in Table Read My Screenplay-Cannes
(2025)
Like Dew on Roses screenplay - semi-finalist in the London Best Script Awards
(2025)
Like Dew on Roses screenplay - a nominee for the Dallas Film Festival
(2025)
Like Dew on Roses screenplay - Second Rounder in the Austin Film Festival
(2025)
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A Printer to the Territory
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Film
by Jess M. Young
Bit part Film was used for many years as the introduction for tours at the Arkansas Territorial Restoration in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Like Dew on Roses Budget: $100K - $1M | Drama ⋄ Romance After growing up in a military family with frequent moves, Cheri wants stability, but when she falls in love with two-spirit Lettie, she faces more upheaval than she ever imagined, when she has to fight the state of Texas to save their son from Lettie's conflicted family.
Edge of Smoke Budget: $10M - $30M | Mystery ⋄ Period Piece After a biracial, transgender girl lifts herself out of the slums, falls in love, and begins to build a better life, she risks everything when she encounters the man from her childhood she swore to kill.
The Calling Dream Budget: $10M - $30M After a backwoods Arkansas boy becomes a famous televangelist, he uses his wealth and power to exploit women sexually, until the telling dream of his childhood becomes his real-life nightmare, revealing the secret so dark he couldn’t admit it to himself.
Sunrise Over the Pumpkin Patch Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama ⋄ Romance A promiscuous, headstrong small-town girl learns lessons she never expected when her hippie boyfriend takes her to the 1967 Summer of Love, and she returns home pregnant with a biracial child.
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
(1979-1981)
Lyon College
(1973-1977)