Lisa Steadman

tAINted love (2025 - 2026)
Film (short) by Steady Creative Writer/Director/Executive Producer At an elegant Los Angeles dinner party, the margaritas are flowing, the banter is sharp, and the couples look almost too perfect … until a blackout drops several “guests’” connectivity. In a world where AI companions can be custom-built for romance, tAInted love follows the humans left behind as they navigate embarrassment, desire, grief, and the uncomfortable possibility of real connection. A darkly funny near-future relationship short, the film explores what happens when love becomes programmable, but loneliness remains stubbornly human.

Tinseltown Romance She’s a big-city attorney fighting to save her firm. He’s the London exec sent to quietly shut it down by Christmas. But when a detour lands them in the storybook town of Frankenmuth, Michigan, what begins as a holiday inconvenience turns into something deeper. As snow falls and sparks fly, he starts to see the woman behind the job—and she reminds him of everything he’s forgotten to believe in. Until he realizes she’s the very person he’s about to break.

The Ex-Files Comedy ⋄ Romance A jaded breakup podcaster risks getting canceled by her broken-hearted female audience when she gets swept up in a love triangle between the ex who publicly dumped her and her new, very married boss. It’s Hitch meets The Other Woman.

My AI Ex Girlfriend Comedy ⋄ Romance When the ultimate nice guy tries to shut down his clingy AI/cloud girlfriend, she becomes self-aware and obsessed, forcing him to outplay the smartest woman he’s ever dated while simultaneously falling for the world’s last analog girl. It's 500 Days Of Summer meets My Crazy Ex Girlfriend

Delete His Number Drama After one too many dating horror stories, three best friends across New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco launch Appily, a secret, women-only platform for reporting bad men. But when an urgent warning about a potentially dangerous date exposes the app’s power, the friends are forced into a collision of friendship, justice, privacy, and revenge.

Kindred Drama Inspired by tAInted love, a short film I wrote, directed, and executive produced in 2026 Logline: In a fractured near-future Los Angeles, a celebrity matchmaker builds KINDRED, a billion-dollar empire selling AI romantic partners to lonely elites while secretly living with an artificial replica of her comatose husband. But when a blackout exposes the truth about Kindred’s perfect matches, her carefully engineered world begins to glitch.