About Linda

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2024-11-05

Writers' Room Member

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Awards

  • Semifinalist Table Read My Screenplay - Park City
    (2024)

  • Table Read My Screenplay - Hollywood
    (2024)

  • Semifinalist Creative World Awards
    (2020)

  • Semifinalist Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Screenplay Competition
    (2020)

  • Quarterfinalist Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards
    (2019)

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Credits

  • Fashion Victim

    Fashion Victim (2010)
    Film by Ben Waller (Crime) Writer The story of Andrew Cunanan, the aging gay hustler who killed fashion icon Gianni Versace, comes to the screen in this fact-based drama from director Ben Waller.

Loglines

  • IMPERVOS

    IMPERVOS Budget: $100K - $1M | Horror Eccentric billionaire, convinced that nuclear war is imminent, lures his family and workers into a luxury subterranean bunker. But when his engineers tapped an ancient aquifer, they released salamander-like predators from 280 million years ago that hunt them through a maze of blind alleys and dead ends as they bolt for the surface.

  • Redwood Tomb

    Redwood Tomb Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller / Suspense Crime Married, ambitious young assistant D.A. in Santa Cruz falls for a beautiful bohemian artist, unaware that she is also involved with a charismatic killer.Neo noir based on a true crime in 1982. Adapted from my short story published in Close to theBone UK crime magazine: https://www.close2thebone.co.u...

  • Duty to Warn

    Duty to Warn Budget: $1M - $5M | Crime Thriller / Suspense True Crime: Legal thriller miniseries based on the edge-of-seat stalking and murder of Berkeley freshman Tanya Tarasoff in 1969 by an obsessed graduate student. The subsequent Supreme Court case changed doctor-patient confidentiality laws: a psychiatrist must warn the potential victim if a patient makes a death threat. This duty takes precedence over confidentiality and is bitterly controversial. 

  • Dead Line

    Dead Line Budget: $100K - $1M | Horror Romance While trying a "seance by phone" with friends, a young man opens a conduit to the underworld where his dead father resides, a suicide by cop ten years earlier. He also summons a beautiful young girl out to avenge her murder by a serial killer.

  • Grizzly

    Grizzly Budget: $100K - $1M | Thriller / Suspense Crime Aging hacker, once the terror of the Internet, falls obsessively for a teen Dutch hacker chick and plots to reclaim his stature with a horrendous act of sabotage.

  • The Dressmaker's Daughter

    The Dressmaker's Daughter Budget: $1M - $5M | Military/War Romance Yedinitz,Romania. A young Jewish girl in love with her tutor is swept up in the 1941 Nazi invasion of Romania and endures the murder of her family, sexual slavery, betrayal, and a death march before she can reunite with her lover, join the Jewish partisans and eventually make her way to freedom.

  • Cherry Hill

    Cherry Hill Western Pretty young widow in 1870s Cimarron, Kansas ends up in a brothel called Cherry Hill after her husband dies. She and other women become entangled in the plots and feuds of the town’s most powerful men.

  • Everything I Have Is Yours

    Everything I Have Is Yours Budget: $100K - $1M | Drama Family Thirteen-year-old Haylee stumbles on her father's affair with her mother's friend, who has come to stay after her home was burglarized. Adapted from my award-winning short story recently republished in Shark Reef Magazine http://sharkreef.org/fiction/a...Won first prize in The Writers Place fiction competition. 

  • The Virgin Effect

    The Virgin Effect Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller / Suspense Romance After being raped at a fraternity party, the daughter of a middle-eastern oil billionaire contacts an L.A. surgeon to restore her virginity for her upcoming arranged marriage. But a disgruntled former employee of the surgeon and her lowlife boyfriend find out and blackmail the woman and her doctor.

  • Vengeance Island

    Vengeance Island Thriller / Suspense A young law student, his girlfriend, and their pilot become stranded on a remote Alaskan island when their Cessna goes down in a winter storm. Soon, they realize they are being stalked—and not just by the many wolves on the island.  

  • Aviana

    Aviana Budget: $100K - $1M | Thriller / Suspense Science Fiction 30 million years after a global cataclysm has wiped out humans and most mammals, a tribe of "people" evolved from birds live in a Fertile Crescent of early agriculture. When the leader’s daughter falls in love with the son of an adversary and betrays her village, her tribe is driven out into a wilderness of huge rat-predators, cunning insects, giant toads, intelligent crocodilians and other monstrous life forms. Helped by outlaw raptors, they struggle to survive and reclaim their home.

  • Malleus

    Malleus Budget: $100K - $1M | Horror During the 1315 famine in Europe, an adulterous husband is denounced by his wife to the Inquisition as a heretic and his mistress as a she-wolf. Burned at the stake, they are transported by a demonness to modern day Los Angeles and discover depravity, romance, and murder.  

  • Riviera Drive

    Riviera Drive Thriller / Suspense Crime Three felons on the run invade the home of a prosperous Latino insurance executive, who must reconnect with his own violent past to save his family.

  • Fast Fade

    Fast Fade Budget: $1M - $5M | Biopic / True Story Romance Biopic of tragic 1950s film noir actress Barbara Payton, a luminous and talented beauty whose drinking and scandalous affairs caused her to plummet from earning $10,000 per week to prostituting herself for $5 a trick. Adapted from "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye: The Barbara Payton Story" by Hollywood historian John O'Dowd.

  • Space Reserved

    Space Reserved Thriller / Suspense Crime Young ad exec takes somebody's numbered space when bringing his date home to her condo complex. When he finds his tires deflated, he confronts the owner of the space and is taken hostage by two women who blame him for everything that has ever gone wrong in their lives. And they may be right.

  • Light Fingers

    Light Fingers Budget: $100K - $1M | Adventure Lonely, bookish teen, uprooted from Minnesota to L.A. by her father's bankruptcy, falls for her deft lab partner in biology class. When he admits he belongs to a teen shoplifting ring, she joins the "Lifters" to help out her struggling parents.

  • Twisted Fate

    Twisted Fate Thriller / Suspense When a variant of "Mad Cow" brain disease strikes the U.S. a young woman and her infected lover flee to a rumored sanctuary in the Mojave Desert that is actually a lab conducting radical medical experiments. She finally frees her lover and they flee, but she now finds herself alone in the desert with what he has become and has to find a way to say alive. 

Education

  • UC Berkeley
    (1945-2025)

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