Samuel Garza Bernstein

Babyhead Productions
Screenwriter, Author and Playwright

Los Angeles, California

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About Samuel

SAMUEL GARZA BERNSTEIN is a WGA inclusion and equity project honoree for "The Secret World of Danny Lopez," which was also 2019 winner at the New York Film Awards and a London C21 International Drama Summit nominee for Best Pilot Script. He won Best Screenplay at the London Independent Film Awards for "Elephant & Castle" and a G.L.A.A.D. nomination for the Showtime film "Bobbie’s Girl," which also garnered its star Bernadette Peters an Emmy nomination. His episodic credits range from the CBS drama "Judging Amy" to ABC/Disney's "W.i.t.c.h." and Nickelodeon's "Shimmer and Shine." He adapted his non-fiction book "Mr. Confidential" for the New York Musical Theatre Festival in 2014, and his book "Uncommon Heroes" won a Stonewall Book Award from the American Library Association.

Unique traits: Much of his life and writing reflect the wild intersections of modern life. Samuel was born to an undocumented Mexican mother who “passed” as white and a Jewish father who sold arms to the Palestinians when the family lived for a year in Egypt. “I was a gay Jewish kid surrounded by hot Muslims,” he says, “I lived in my head a lot, spinning stories.”

Gender:
Male

Ethnicity:
Latin/Hispanic

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Shine (2020)
Film by Standing Bear Productions Screenwriter The true story of a magnetic London actor’s bid for stardom that takes a disastrous turn to emotional collapse and homelessness—with a light at the end of the tunnel beyond anything he ever imagined.
Elephant & Castle (2020)
Film by Wild Thyme Productions Screenwriter London Independent Film Awards Best Original Screenplay; New York International Screenplay Awards Silver Award Feature Screenplay; British Independent Film Festival Special Screenplay Commendation -- A beloved British television star takes a shocking detour that transforms his beliefs about morality, love, sex, and violence.
Miracle on a String (2019)
Film by Astute Films Screenwriter It looks like it’s going to be Christmas on a shoestring… Then an open-hearted stranger, b-ballers from around the globe, and a miraculous balloon’s 800-mile journey across five states make a little girl’s wishes come true. But when an internet troll crashes the party, will this Christmas dream turn out to be a fake?
Shimmer and Shine (2017)
Television (Animation, Adventure and Fantasy) Writer Follows the magical adventures of genie twin sisters Shimmer and Shine and their human best friend Leah, who, when needing help with various dilemmas, is granted three wishes after summoning the genies with a rub of her oil lamp pendant necklace. Written by Anonymous
Sarge (2010)
Video (Comedy) Writer Add a Plot »
Kill Your Inner Child (2007)
Video (Comedy) Writer The world of "Kill Your Inner Child" is based on the true tales of screenwriter/author Samuel Bernstein's mondo-beyondo childhood with his bipolar, explosive-yet-charming father, Adam. Sam is a six year-old Kidnap Victim, Texas Slave, Vegas Runaway, Jew in Egypt, Mama's Boy Without a Mom, and potential Homicidal Maniac with a tragic lack of mechanical reasoning skills. He brings a resourceful sense of feeling and fantasy to every situation, like an emotional MacGyver-no jury-rigged tools-but plenty of metamorphic ideas for making human contact. His father, Adam, the Naked Dad, is a self-proclaimed Socialist and the Smartest Person in the World. He'll tell you so himself. And after his divorce from Sam's mother he takes all the kids with him, though he doesn't have custody. As Adam supports various left wing causes in South America and the Middle East he takes the whole brood, three boys a little girl and his new young wife. He espouses Socialism and individual resistance while living ... Written by RSA
W.I.T.C.H. (2006)
Television (Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy and 4 More) Writer Five teenage girls learn that they have been chosen to guard the walls between parallel universes. For this purpose, they have been given the powers of the elements.
Judging Amy (2004)
Television (Drama) Writer A family drama focused on three generations of women living together in Hartford, Connecticut. Amy Brenneman plays Amy Gray, who left New York City behind and now works as a family court judge. Karle Warren plays Lauren, Amy's daughter; Tyne Daly is Maxine, Amy's tough, opinionated mother. Written by Anonymous
Bobbie's Girl (2002)
TV Movie (Drama and Romance) Writer Two middle-aged Lesbians (Peters and Ward) find their lives complicated when one of them (Ward) takes in her ten-year-old nephew (Sangster).
Sally B. (2001)
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Icing on the Cake (2000)
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Silent Lies (1996)
Film (Drama) Writer In this earnest, unflinching drama, sisters unite in the face of their father's constant abuse. The story unfolds in a small Texas town as Shelley's senior year in high school draws to a close... See full synopsis »