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Matthew Rasmussen

Matthew was born in Texas and grew up in Oklahoma, a confusing conundrum for someone who went on to graduate proudly from the University of Texas.  His cooler accomplishments include log-lining an entire season of Daria in seventh grade; he even fan-fic’ed a few episodes, which thankfully didn’t survive Y2K.  He savors stories about freak-flag-flying folks raising a middle finger to the traumas of their lives. Sweet spots include teens, genre, sci-fi, period drama, and death as the great unknown. He loves working with/for women, reads everything twice, and lives for the collab.

Pilot Title: GHOSTFACE IS MY BOYFRIEND

Logline: A clique of high school out-crowd nobodies finds themselves at the center of a serial killer’s spree.

Script Summary: A STRANGER THINGS-esque love letter to the late ’90s horror craze.  If SCREAM is all about the rules of surviving a slasher movie, GIMB is all about the rules of surviving SCREAM’s whodunit mystery.  But our four protagonists — a wallflower, a bookworm, a queer teenaged boy of color and his annoying pipsqueak brother — aren’t exactly the center of these kinds of stories, which chillingly suggests that maybe none of the rules apply.

Genre: Teen, Horror, Dramedy, Hour-Long

Pilot Title: BLACK REIGN

Logline: Amidst the otherwise glorious reign of Louis XIV in 1600s France, a sinister underground network of Satanists infiltrates the royal court.

Script Summary: This decade-long scandal known as “the Affair of the Poisons” is an all-too-true story, combining the gothic horror of THE WITCH with the delicious social climbing of THE FAVOURITE.  As the stakes escalate to become LXIV’s favourite, the women within his court turn to black magic to have spells cast against their biggest obstacles: each other.  In the end, hundreds were arrested and dozens were executed.

Genre: Drama, Period, Hour-Long

Pilot Title: OFFSHORE

Logline: In 1920s Los Angeles, a Prohibition-era bootlegger becomes an illicit gambling czar over the lawless waters of the Pacific Ocean.

Script Summary: The gambling ships which dotted the Santa Monica bay in the 1920s were degenerate dens of sin; a dangerous world where rival ships were known to commit arson against each other, winners were typically robbed before they made it back to shore, and more than a few murdered innocents routinely were thrown overboard… and yet, the boats were standing-room-only every night.  This Scorsese-esque crime drama spans decades as protagonist Tony Cornero moves from bootlegger, to gambling ship boss, to the man who dreamt up the Stardust in Las Vegas… and died mysteriously before a meeting with his debtors, never to see the massive success the hotel would become. Another all-too-true story.

Genre: Drama, Mob, Period, Hour-Long

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Julian Ouanès

Julian Ouanès knew he wanted to be a storyteller since the age of 15 when he found himself in Sri Lanka being interrogated by terrorists known as the Tamil Tigers. He was trying to film a doc– “This will make a great story one day, if I get out of here alive,” he thought. Fast forward to 2011, Julian’s on set producing his first short film when the (schizophrenic) homeowner of the filming location told Julian that a hitman from Venice Beach was on his way to murder him. Inspired and terrified by these experiences Julian stopped producing things and started writing them. The day after graduating from American Film Institute, he landed a gig in the FALLING SKIES (TNT) writer’s room and has since worked on THE ART OF MORE (Crackle), TAKEN (NBC), and POWER (Starz). Julian is currently a Staff Writer on the POWER Spinoff, working tirelessly to turn his passions– rap, drug dealing, gambling, heists– into TV shows.

Pilot Title: FLOWERS

Logline: A look at marijuana legalization through the intersecting POVs of a small-time high school dealer, a big-time dispensary, and the corporations trying to cash in on the Green Rush.

Genre: Drama, Hour-Long, Crime

Pilot Title: CHOPPED & SCREWED

Logline: A Houston rapper struggling to break through steals the motherload of “drank,” the city’s drug of choice, to jumpstart his career.

Genre: Drama, Hour-Long, Crime

Frank J. Gaydos

Frank J. Gaydos I’m a former organization development consultant who moved from Los Angeles to San Miguel de Allende Mexico and reinvented himself as a screen/TV writer.

Pilot Title: Hotel Mañana

Script Summary: Cross cultural/cross generational comedy about a 30-something software manager who in one day loses his job, his girlfriend and finds out he’s adopted when he receives a phone call from Mexico telling him his biological mother died and left him a hotel.

Genre: Romantic, Comedy

Pilot Title: Reboot

Script Summary: Comedy about what happens when four over-the-hill film makers in the twilight of their careers join forces with two hungry USC Film School grads to make a sequel to one of the biggest box office flops in Hollywood history (Heavens Gate), hoping it will become a game changer that will make all their dreams come true.

Genre: Comedy

Pilot Title: Worst Friends Forever

Script Summary: A female buddy comedy about what happens when a private investigator who tracks down deadbeat dads for a living reluctantly teams up with her former high school nemesis, now a rich celebrity model to help locate the model’s hedge fund scam artist husband, a guy on the lam from both the FBI and Russian mobsters.

Genre: Comedy

Pilot Title: Black Dispatches (6-part mini-series)

Logline: During the Civil war, a former slave, educated in the north returns to his southern roots as a spy for Allan Pinkerton and the Secret Service.

Genre: Drama

Pilot Title: Letters from Antonieta: (6-part Mini-series) Historical Drama

Script Summary: True story about the first feminist of Mexico in the 1920’s who fought for women’s rights in a background of political corruption, to lose her wealth, reputation and love, committing suicide in the Cathedral of Notre Dame at the age of 30.

Genre: Drama

Jacey Heldrich

After graduating from Columbia University’s MFA film program, Jacey moved from NYC to LA, where she landed as assistant to Jonathan Nolan, working onPerson of Interest (CBS) and Westworld (HBO). She co-wrote episode 511 of Person of Interest. In 2016, she was featured on The Tracking Board’s Young and Hungry list. She is currently a staff writer on Hulu’s Emmy winning The Handmaid’s Tale.

Sabrina Sherif

Having lived in Spain, Canada, and the US, Algerian-Canadian writer Sabrina Sherif is the product of many cultures. From a young age, her parents used TV shows like THE FRESH PRINCE OF BEL-AIR and BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER to teach her English. In 2014, she obtained her MFA from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, and has since worked on shows for Warner Brothers, Netflix and Hulu. Sabrina’s main focus as a writer is coming-of-age stories, which are, to her, a microcosm of the human experience. She is currently a Story Editor on an upcoming YA series for Hulu.

Joey Day Hargrove

Joey Day Hargrove lives in Burbank with her husband, stepdaughter and dog — all who feature prominently in her scripts. (Shh, please don’t tell them!) She likes to write female-centered comedies. She has worked in development in the industry but is currently running after school porgams for kids to allow more time for her writing. Her scripts have won several screenwriting contests and fellowships, including the Austin Film Festival.

Pilot Title: Stepmoms

Logline: Lacey, Cate and Joy are three very different women, but they form their own Second Wives Club as they forge a friendship over the struggles of being stepmoms.

Script Summary: When Cate’s boyfriend tasks her with planning his 10-year-old son’s birthday party, Cate throws a beautiful, completely “age-inappropriate” party. And when the boy’s mom makes a huge scene over Cate’s ignorance of her son’s allergy, two complete strangers jump to Cate’s defense  The three stepmoms find support and commiseration in their new friendships as they attempt to navigate the world of stepchildren, first wives and the condescending social hierarchy of the other moms. Sex and the City meets Modern Family.

Genre: Family, Comedy

Pilot Title: Woman’s Best Friend

Logline: When a lonely woman accidentally wishes to make her beloved dog human, she realizes quickly that the qualities that make a good pet don’t always translate to a good human best friend.

Script Summary: After a disastrous blind date, lonely thirty-something Stacey makes a birthday wish that her precious golden retriever, Goldie, could be human so she would at least have a human best friend to offer her advice.  Miraculously, Stacey wakes the next morning to find Goldie very much human, but still with allthe golden retriever’s personality, and ready to begin her mission to find Stacey a boyfriend.  Stacey quickly learns the truth behind the adage: be careful what you wish for, as Goldie sets about destroying Stacey’s quiet life (and house). Throughout the series the two women learn from each other what it truly means to be human.

Genre: Comedy

Pilot Title: Fast Forward

Logline: After spending a weekend away, a group of girlfriends return to their lives in Los Angeles, to discover the world has moved forward ten years — without them.

Script Summary: After spending a weekend away, a group of girlfriends return to their lives in Los Angeles, to discover the world has moved forward ten years — without them.  As they struggle to track down their loved ones and try to discover the cause of their apparent time-travel, it becomes clear that the mysteries of this new decade hold much bigger dangers than lost romances and missing family members.  Between denial, blame, constant fighting and the revelation of many secrets, the women begin to work together to try and discover what happened to them and who might be responsible.

Genre: Action, Drama, Comedy, Sci Fi

Marque Franklin-Williams

Born in wintry Boston and raised on tropical Barbados, Marque’s whole life has been spent straddling two different worlds. He grew up in Roxbury’s inner city, but attended a private school in Cambridge, MA. He came from a working class family, but entered an Ivy League university. And though his heart and soul reside on the east coast, he moved to Los Angeles to follow his true passion… really good Mexican food.

Pilot Title: Black Caesar