Katharine Densmore

Screenwriter

Los Angeles, California

Member Since:
November 2016

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About Katharine

Katharine is an optioned screenwriter, documentary award winner, and producer whose screenplays are often about family, revenge, and death. Her latest pilot, "Free Spirits," was the winner of the 1-Hr TV Pilot Category of the 2021-22 Fresh Voices Screenplay Competition and a finalist in the ScreenCraft Horror Screenwriting Competition 2022. In 2016, her co-written pilot, "Tangled," was optioned by TV One. In 2012 and 2013, Katharine was an NAACP Act-So Teen Filmmaker Judge. In 2008, Katharine was selected for the Reel Ideas Studio documentary filmmaking program at the Cannes Film Festival. Her dream is to continue to create content with multigenerational casts while creating iconic characters that black and brown people, well, really anyone, can cosplay in.

Unique traits: Currently a script analyst for a film studio

Gender:
Female

Ethnicity:
African American

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Free Spirits Horror ⋄ Drama After a gristly murder got them out of an abusive household, three young adults in the foster care system find themselves bound by a haunted weapon and must get to the bottom of the possessed item and the haunted past brought with it.
Death & Detroit Family ⋄ Drama A failed stand-up comedian and drug addict returns to Detroit, Michigan, and discovers her mother has converted their childhood home into a hospice care facility. Desperate for cash, she begrudgingly becomes a patient sitter and grapples with the concept of family, death, and everything in-between. (Golden Girls meets Six Feet Under)
The Love Interest Romance ⋄ Action Desperately wanting a better life, a struggling actress enters a green card marriage, but when her fiancé is framed for the murder of a gang leader's son, she gets trapped inside a revenge plot and must escape LA with her life and marriage intact.

Awards

Finalist, ScreenCraft Horror Competition (FREE SPIRITS)
(2022)
Semifinalist, Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition (FREE SPIRITS)
(2022)
Winner (1Hr TV Category), Fresh Voices 12th Annual (FREE SPIRITS)
(2022)
Quarterfinalist, Filmmatic Horror Screenplay Awards Season 6 (FREE SPIRITS)
(2022)
Quarterfinalist, Screenwriters Network - SWN Screenplay Competition TV Pilot (FREE SPIRITS)
(2022)
Semifinalist Chicago Screenplay Awards (DEATH & DETROIT)
(2022)
Semifinalist in ISA's Family & Holiday Genre Busting Screenplay Competition (DEATH & DETROIT)
(2022)
Quarterfinalist, WeScreenplay - Diverse Voices Spring (DEATH & DETROIT)
(2022)
Quarterfinalist, Screenwriters Network - SWN Screenplay Competition TV Pilot (DEATH & DETROIT)
(2022)
Finalist, Portland Screenplay Awards (DEATH & DETROIT)
(2022)
Semifinalist, ISA Genre Busting Horror/Thriller (FREE SPIRITS)
(2021)
Semifinalist, ScreenCraft Animation Competition (FREE SPIRITS)
(2021)
Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft Sci-Fi & Fantasy Screenwriting Competition (FREE SPIRITS)
(2021)
Quarterfinalist, Outstanding Screenplays TV Pilot Competition (FREE SPIRITS)
(2021)
Quarterfinalist, Filmmatic - Inroads Fellowship Season 4 (FREE SPIRITS)
(2021)
Quarterfinalist, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Fall (DEATH & DETROIT)
(2021)
Quarterfinalist, Script2Comic Contest (FREE SPIRITS)
(2020)
Semifinalist, WeScreenplay - Diverse Voices Fall (FREE SPIRITS)
(2019)
Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship (FREE SPIRITS)
(2019)