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Brandon Tanori

Brandon Tanori is a drama television writer from East Cleveland, Ohio. He received his Bachelor’s in Film from Howard University and his Master’s Degree in Television Writing & Producing from Loyola Marymount University. Brandon worked as an assistant on Elementary for 6 of the show’s 7 seasons, where he received a story credit for an episode in the show’s sixth season.

During his tenure as an assistant, Brandon hosted events and television writing competitions through a company he started called the Writers Assistants Network “WAN.” Through WAN, he helped over 30 writers transition from being an assistant to their first writing job. Brandon recently worked as a Showrunners assistant on the BET+ show Sacrifice for Kevin Arkadie and co-wrote an episode. Brandon is currently looking for representation to move his career to the next level.

Pilot Title: E.C.

Logline: Victor Williams, a rising star with the FBI as a profiler, returns to his hometown to hunt down a serial killer and reunites with his drug-dealing brother, whom he hasn’t seen in 25 years.

Script Summary: Victor Williams left East Cleveland after his father, who was an E.C. Police officer, was killed. After 15 years as a Profiler with the FBI, he returns to uncover who could be behind a string of unique serial killings in the city. Upon his return, he reunites with his brother, who is undercover with the DEA attempting to bring down a drug kingpin that’s been plaguing the city since they were young. They will secretly team up to help clean up the streets and bring down those responsible for their father’s death.

Genre: Crime, Drama

Pilot Title: The Family Business

*This project is made for the Spanish-speaking audience for the underserved Afro Latino market.*

Logline: A successful businessman’s life is turned upside down after revealing several secrets that divide his family and throw the family business in turmoil.

Script Summary: Charlie Payano is in the process of changing the economy in the Dominican Republic, but his plans are sidelined when he suffers a heart attack. Realizing life is too short, Charlie reveals to his family that he’s fathered several children outside of his marriage and that his right-hand man is his brother. His wife, Marisela, feels betrayed and tries to take over the company. When he least expected it, when her plans don’t work out as she hoped, she makes a more significant move that will give her the power over her husband that she desires.

Genre: Drama, Telenovela, Spanish

Pilot Title: The Sac

Logline: A psychologist who has PTSD tries to piece his life back together after a patient committed an unthinkable act right in front of him.

Script Summary: Roger Simmons relocates to Los Angeles with his family for a change of scenery after one of his clients commits suicide in front of him. While struggling with PTSD, Roger abuses drugs and alcohol to cope with his demons, not realizing how much his addiction and denial about how his problems have affected his family.  His neighbors in his Cul de Sac might be his only hope to recovering and fully recovering… if he lets them.

Genre: Drama

Alli Rock

Alli Rock grew up in Boston, MA with a series of German Shepherds and a love of strange facts and experimental theater. After graduating from Wesleyan University with a degree in film studies, Alli spent several years in reality television. She worked her way up from research assistant to producer, developing shows on everything from gypsies to farm girls to psychic realtors. She left reality behind to be an assistant at MRC in their business and television departments, before joining the team at Westworld to work as assistant to showrunner Jonathan Nolan. Currently she works as the writers assistant on season three of Westworld.

Pilot Title: Time Sandwich

Logline: On New Years Eve, a millennial burnout gets sent back in time to prevent the events that ruined her life and sent her to jail — only to discover that the real enemy is her overachieving younger self.

Script Summary: Young, naive, and obnoxiously determined, Julia Bennet was all set to take over the world of marketing – in just one New Years Eve party, she got the job offer and the apartment of her dreams. But after a disastrously public proposal turned breakup, her life fell apart. One year later, bitter and jaded “Jules” has just gotten out of jail with zero prospects. All that changes when she travels back in time to the party that ruined everything, with a chance to undo the “I don’t” and turn her life around. The only problem is her younger self is there too, and Julia has no intention of going along with Jules’ plans. If Jules thought two heads would be better than one, a concussion, cocaine, and an existential crisis are about to prove her wrong.

Genre: Hour-Long Sci-Fi Dramedy

Gia El Aynaoui

Gia was born in East New York and grew up in Brownsville Brooklyn, New York, a notorious working poor neighborhood. She’s a US Army veteran, she was a Counterintelligence Agent as well as a Military Intelligence Analyst during her ten-year career in the Army. She is also CSI certified. Gia moved to Southern Arizona and lived in a historic (haunted) house in Tombstone, Arizona, until last year.

Gia recently completed a mentorship with Alex Robb of Insignia Entertainment. She completed her feature length screenplay, Bloody Mary: Avenging Angel (selected in the 2019 First Ten Pages Scriptwriting Contest), under the mentorship of Ben Everard, executive producer of Lights Out.

Pilot Title: FEMALE ENGAGEMENT TEAM (FET) 12

Logline: A diverse group of female US Army soldiers led by a contentious captain tackle tough military situations while confronting cultural and social issues facing women throughout their area of operations.

Script Summary: A routine raid on Afghanistan goes horribly wrong when the male interpreter cannot communicate with a female civilian because of cultural constraints. General Harlan Buchanan decides to begin fielding Female Engagement Teams; teams of eight female soldiers deployed specifically to communicate with female populations. He gives command of FET 12 to Captain Alaina Sweeney, a hardened soldier tired of constantly having to prove herself to her superiors. Once Sweeney takes command, she chooses a team of soldiers to lead on their first mission; investigating the incursions of drug cartel members on an Army base in Texas.

Female Engagement Team 12 (Short title: FET 12) is a premium cable or streaming service prime-time hour-long action-adventure TV series set in contemporary times. The show will portray a fictional team of military women who engage with female civilian populations while trying to resolve military and environmental conflicts.

Genre: Military procedural, action adventure, Female driven, Hour long, drama

Pilot Title: The Conversion

Logline: A medical researcher joins a resistance movement determined to return the
government to a democracy after a military coup turns it into a totalitarian state, while
keeping her activities a secret from her military policeman husband, who is unwittingly
hunting her.

Script Summary: The Conversion happened sixteen years ago, and the population is still
adjusting. Sierra Lindley appears to be a true Conversionist but is secretly bitter about
everything she has lost to the Conversion. Sierra and a band of subversives conduct
activities to help revert the government back to a democratic society, but is thrown for a
loop when her husband is transferred to the Crime Detection Detachment – a unit that
specializes in tracking down subversives like her and her companions.
The Conversion is an hour long political intrigue drama that is best suited for a
streaming service or premium cable. It takes place in contemporary times, and is a dark,
tense thriller.

Genre: Political intrigue, mystery, action adventure, female driven, hour long

Hannah Williamson

Hannah Williamson was born and raised in the small Florida town of St. Augustine, known for improving the truth by calling itself The Nation’s Oldest City. Growing up around cannon fire, reenactors in costume at Publix, and general North Florida redneckery, she learned to find the absurd in the mundane. She typically writes about reluctant, flawed heroines who smoke a lot of weed and are in over their head, because she likes to write about herself.

Pilot Title: Local Spirits

Logline: Two sisters and a semi-friendly ghost team up during their Florida town’s 500th birthday celebration to stop an evil spirit from destroying the town that they all love–or at least are partial towards.

Script Summary: During the 500th birthday celebration of Aviles, Florida, Mallory Tyson, a true drinker of haterade, begrudgingly works as a tour guide under the watchful eye of her overbearing sister Diane. While the town ramps up festivities, people start dying in odd ways (aka not meth house explosions or ATV accidents) and Mallory learns that she can see supernatural creatures, including the ghosts that haunt the town. With the help of Diane and Eleanor, a polite but naive ghost, they must work together to prevent the rise of evil spirits lurking just below the surface, as well as giving the best goddamn historical narrations this tourist trap town has ever seen.

Genre: Comedy, half-hour, sci-fi, ghosts, historical, female-focused

JEREMY SVENSON

JEREMY SVENSON is an hour-long TV writer who has worked in the writers’ rooms on everything from broadcast, to cable, to video games.  Currently staffed on the BH90210 reboot on FOX, he’s also written and produced an episode of TNT’s Rizzoli & Isles and written for the award-winning Game of Thrones interactive story for Telltale Games.  His creative tastes are as versatile as his resume, and his passion for storytelling knows no genre.  When he’s not writing, Jeremy’s likely traveling the world with his partner of 8 years.  Whether blowgun hunting in the Amazon, fire dancing on a Thai beach, or fighting Lindsay Lohan for a parking space in the Greek Isles, some of his wildest stories come from his adventures to over a dozen countries and counting.

Pilot Title: Denmark, Michigan

Logline: After a scandal unseats the corrupt mayor and city council of a struggling rustbelt town, the city’s young, gay Human Services Commissioner becomes next in the line of succession and has a chance to try and save the hometown he’s been trying to escape from his whole life.

Script Summary: In politically charged times like this, it is easy to identify what makes us different from those on the other side of the aisle, but at the local level, even people with diametrically opposed politics can come together to, say, fix a pothole… and once the roads are fixed, there may even be hope for finding more common ground.  But that’s not to say it’ll be easy…. The conservative, white, rustbelt town of Denmark, Michigan was a hard place for the gay son of a Vietnamese refugee family to grow up.  It’s safe to say Matthew Tran hated the place.  So when he had to leave his life and boyfriend in New York to temporarily move home and help a sick parent, he couldn’t wait to get out of there again.  After decades of jobs moving overseas, Denmark was dying, and despite Matthew’s efforts working a nominal job in City Hall, the city didn’t have the resources or willpower it would take to turn things around.  But when a scandal breaks that unseats the corrupt mayor and the entire city council, Matthew learns that he’s the next in line to be the Mayor of Denmark.  Now, with public opinion on the old mayor’s side and enemies still lurking in the shadows of City Hall, Matthew will slowly discover that not everything about the city is as awful as he remembered.  As he connects with his family and his hometown on a new level, he’ll start to change his mind about Denmark and rise to the job of Mayor, where he’ll find himself in the unique position to try and save the hometown that he’d spent his whole life trying to escape from.

Genre: Hour-long, Drama, Political, Family, LGBTQ

Pilot Title: Held Back

Logline: Three high school seniors wake up the day after graduation to discover they’ve been transported back in time 4 years to relive high school all over again.  Knowing what they do now, these unlikely allies (a slacker, bookworm, and future prom queen) have a second chance to do things differently, but are they destined to make the same mistakes all over again?

Script Summary: High school graduation.  Whether you loved the past four years or hated them, whether you’re going to miss them or repress them, whether you have a scholarship or stretch marks to show for them, one thing is certain: Once you walk across the stage and get that diploma, there’s no going back.  At least, that’s usually the case… Held Back is an hourlong dramedy about a group of high schoolers who are given a chance to relive the most formative years of their lives when they are inexplicably transported back in time to their first day of freshman year with all their memories still intact.  The setting is high school, but the themes are universal: fate vs. free will, love vs. lust, nature vs. nurture.  The story is told from the perspectives of three students who all graduated high school (the first time) with very different experiences: Jonah, a slacker who couldn’t wait to be done with school; Rowena, a bookworm whose biggest regret is the mistake that cost her valedictorian; and Danielle, the prom queen who’s worried she peaked in high school and her best days are behind her.  Knowing what they do now, the three of them have a chance to correct the mistakes of their past, but while they personally may have changed, the drama that is high school remains very much the same, and they’ll come to discover that hindsight isn’t always 20/20.

Genre: Hour-long, Dramedy, Soap, Teen

Pilot Title: Long Live Primus

Logline: A serialized, hourlong drama that fuses the best elements of sci-fi and fantasy into a story of family and survival: After the planet Primus was destroyed, its sole survivors crash landed on a foreign planet where they discovered a native, medieval civilization who would sooner kill them than try to understand them.  It’s science versus superstition as the two worlds collide, but when a disillusioned Prime breaks ranks and goes out into this new world to rescue his lost wife, he begins to learn that everything he’d been told about this planet — and about his own people — may be lies. — Battlestar Galactica meets Game of Thrones.

Script Summary: Long Live Primus is a serialized, hourlong drama that puts a fresh twist on the sci-fi and fantasy genres by weaving them both into a saga of survival and the epic lengths people will go to protect the ones they love.  After a generation in space, the sole survivors of the planet Primus crash-land on a new planet where they are vastly outnumbered by its primitive, medieval-like inhabitants who see them as occupiers rather than refugees, and seek to destroy them all.  Ostensibly, the show is about the clash of these two vastly different societies: a war of science and technology versus superstition and magic.  But at the center of this struggle is a love story: Tin Ganning, a high-ranking Prime officer, discovers evidence that the wife he thought died years ago is still alive, somewhere out in this new world, and sets out and find her, breaking every rule he vowed to uphold.  Meanwhile, his wife Dahlia has been a prisoner of the in the native kingdom for years, but when she ends up stranded with her captor in a dangerous wilderness, they must work together to survive long enough for her to get back to her husband and daughter again.  The long and twisting path of their reunion is set against the backdrop of a raging war for power and survival with no shortage of spycraft, romance, mystery, and adventure.

Genre: Hour-long, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Drama

Sarah K. Moss

Sarah writes half-hour comedies, online content, sketch, and her own short bios. Last year, she co-wrote a freelance episode on the final season of FOX’s THE LAST MAN ON EARTH. She’s also a writer for Facebook Watch’s TXT STORIES, where her episodes have garnered up to 2.6 million views. She has worked as a Writers’ Assistant and Showrunners’ Assistant in several primetime writers’ rooms including FOX’s LAST MAN ON EARTH, ABC Family’s JANE BY DESIGN, and FOX’s BLESS THE HARTS where she’s currently the Writers’ Assistant. Additionally, her half-hour pilot EARTH-LIKE was featured on the 2019 Bitch List, and her script AVAST YE PIRATES was one of the top twenty comedy pilots at the 2017 Austin Film Festival. Sarah gets her distinct sense of humor from bouncing between her conflicting Northern and Southern families, spending time with loved ones with social disorders and autism, and having fun with her husband and two quirky step-kids.

Pilot Title: Earth-Like

Logline: An alien conspiracy theorist is abducted along with a mixed bag of other inept humans, and must use her seemingly absurd knowledge of aliens to try to escape an Earth-like neighborhood on another planet.

Script Summary: LENA, an alien conspiracy theorist, wakes up one morning to find her greatest fear has come true — she’s been abducted. Lena’s apartment was replicated in an Earth-like neighborhood on another planet, where a group of benevolent aliens try to make their skewed perception of Earth feel like home. She soon learns that the aliens took four specialized humans to help them defeat an aggressive alien race that’s heading their way: Earth’s greatest warrior (a nerdy video gamer), Earth’s greatest doctor (a telenovela star), Earth’s greatest weapons engineer (an old perverted criminal), and Lena, Earth’s greatest alien expert.

Lena’s fascination with aliens began when she was twelve and believed her mother had been abducted — a theory the aliens quickly reveal is false. Lena realizes she wasted her life looking up at the stars, when she should have opened her eyes to the world around her. After a couple failed attempts to get sent back home, Lena’s faced with a startling question — does she even have a home to go back to? 

Genre: Comedy

Pilot Title: Avast Ye Pirates

Logline: An eighteenth-century pirate Captain disguises herself as a civilized woman in order to exact revenge on a wealthy shop owner, but she reaches an impasse when her adversary’s kind-hearted son discovers her true identity.

Script Summary: Avast Ye Pirates follows an eighteenth century ragtag crew of pirates led by CAPTAIN JUDITH “JUDE” ADAMS. As they set sail for the coast of Cornwall, Jude plots to exact revenge on a crotchety jewelry shop owner who had Jude arrested when she was just a young orphan. Disguised as a civilized woman, Jude arrives at the shop only to be greeted by the owner’s naïve and kind-hearted son, HENRY. When Henry learns of Jude’s true identity, he reveals to her that they have little left of value to steal.

Meanwhile, SULLY, the first mate, has grown tired of pirating and decides to collect his retirement savings to set out on his own. Unfortunately, his treasure is hidden in a room occupied by a prostitute, PEARL, and she demands payment before any man can enter.

Genre: Comedy

Evan Iwata

Evan Iwata grew up in Oshkosh, Wisconsin – the birthplace of Oshkosh B’Gosh overalls – where his Japanese-American father and extremely Midwestern mother provided him with a nurturing yet culturally confusing East-meets-Midwest upbringing. Inspired by his father’s photography career, Evan took an early interest in filmmaking, and at the age of 16 he was hired to shoot a documentary about Oshkosh’s little-known hip-hop scene. He went on to attend the USC School of Cinematic Arts, and upon graduation he quickly found his way into the writers room, working as a researcher on the CBS medical drama PURE GENIUS and writers’ assistant on Starz’s OUTLANDER, where he pitched and wrote original scenes for DVD bonus content. He now assists Jerome Schwartz, a drama writer with an overall deal at ABC Studios, for whom he has pitched ideas and helped break story for multiple projects in development. On his own, Evan writes emotionally grounded, character-driven dramas and dramedies that focus on ordinary people dealing with extraordinary circumstances.

Pilot Title: American Infamy

Logline: In 1940s Portland, a rebellious Japanese-American teenager must step up to help his family withstand the wave of persecution that arises after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Script Summary: On the morning of December 7th, 1941, Eddie Ishikawa’s only concerns were those of a typical American teenager: going on joyrides, flirting with girls, shirking his familial responsibilities. But one afternoon changes his life forever. News of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor sends his hometown of Portland, Oregon, into hysteria, upending the peaceful existence of the city’s Japanese-American community. Within the walls of the working class Laurel Hotel, the Ishikawa family business and home, Eddie’s parents do their best to maintain order while sheltering his three younger siblings from the turmoil. But when Eddie’s father is arrested by the FBI without cause, along with countless other first-generation community leaders, Eddie is thrust into a position of authority for which he is woefully unprepared. Desperate to secure his father’s release, Eddie finds himself torn between his need for action and his daunting new responsibilities as hotel manager and family caretaker. Forced to come of age amid rising racial tensions, shifting relationships with his white friends, and continued threats from the FBI, Eddie is pushed to a breaking point – and the only people he can turn to for help are the family and community he’s spent his whole life rebelling against.

Genre: Historical Family Drama

Pilot Title: Destructive Tendencies

Logline: A family in a small Midwestern town is forced to reexamine their priorities when the world learns of an extinction-level meteor hurtling towards Earth, which threatens to tear them apart in more ways than one.

Script Summary: A huge meteor is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to wipe out humanity in exactly 359 days. In the halls of power, the world’s greatest minds are doing everything they can to stop it – but meanwhile, in a small Ohio town, everyday life for one dysfunctional family is about to get incredibly complicated. In the wake of a botched press conference that spills the meteor beans to the world, Henry and Annie Zelhofer present a united front of optimism to their two kids, assuring them that everything is going to be fine – but their true feelings couldn’t be more at odds. Believing that this may very well be their last year to live, Henry is tempted to throw caution to the wind and live out his wildest dreams. Annie takes a more pragmatic approach, asserting that they should proceed as normal and assume that the government’s plan to thwart the meteor will succeed in due time. Caught in the middle are their daughter Blake, a moody high school junior grappling with all the things in life she may never get to experience, and 11-year-old son Brandon, who’s curious just how far he can push his father’s newfound disregard for household rules. As their once-quiet town starts to descend into chaos around them, the Zelhofers must contend with their baser instincts and decide what’s truly important to them if they’re going to have any hope of making it through the year.

Genre: Hour-long Family Dramedy

James Rogers III

James Rogers III was born and raised in Compton, California. He escaped the hysteria in his neighborhood by way of fantasy books, The Truman Show, and various shonen anime. James first found filmmaking by transforming his encounters with danger into fantasy stories on his dad’s old camcorder. He has written and directed three short films, including an award-winning animated short (Felix). He currently has two screenplays in the semi-finalist round for the Sundance Episodic Lab, is a UTA First Look short film finalist, and an ATX TV Festival Pitch Competition top 10 finalist. James also went to college with his father, James the II…but that’s another story.

Pilot Title: Sun

Logline: A closeted artist must figure out his place in his dysfunctional modern family, when his plans to come out to his conservative parents are thrown into chaos by his younger brother coming out first.

Script Summary: Through animated vignettes interspersed between live action, we meet MARC SMITH, a Black queer artist who lives in the political anarchy of present-day D.C.  Marc’s plans to come out to his family unravel when DEE SMITH, his mother and Congressional Rep for South Los Angeles, invites her employee RYAN to the family Christmas dinner, not knowing that Marc is both gay and secretly dating Ryan. Marc’s attempt to come out at dinner goes terribly wrong when his younger brother, L.J., comes out as pansexual right before Marc could have. We dive into animated segments that are visual expressions of Marc’s artistic and personal desires, while L.J.’s news sends shockwaves through the family: Congresswoman Dee struggles with her homophobia and a re-election platform built around faux-inclusion; Marc is pinned between his parents and his newly de-closeted, vulnerable younger brother (who, unlike Marc wears his queerness defiantly). Amidst cringe-worthy chaos, an impromptu drag performance, and laughter born of heartbreak, we end on Marc, trapped with his choice between a selfish lover, an overburdening family, and his own sanity.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Animation, Half Hour

Pilot Title: The Vanishing Mirror

Logline: Two rambunctious kids must travel through a vast number of parallel worlds when their brother disappears into a magical mirror. While unraveling the mysteries that led them there, they discover witch-like abilities, strange new friends, and powerful enemies.

Script Summary: We meet three adventurous orphans on the porch of their new guardian’s home – an uptight, reclusive Aunt living in a strange, seemingly magical mansion. Euriah, the youngest child, is suppressing a magic of her own that she can’t control, while plotting her escape from their abhorrent Aunt. But Euriah just can’t stop fighting with her sibling James, while Terrick, the oldest child, keeps them all together. Euriah sneaks into her Aunt’s room to learn more about her abilities, and discovers a magical mirror that bears no reflection. As her brothers arrive, a fight between the three siblings ensues, resulting in the mirror falling onto Terrick, swallowing him whole, and shattering into a thousand pieces. Before Euriah and James can take a breath, the room’s defenses kick in: the three children are attacked by five enormous snakes, but quickly rescued by their Aunt, who reveals she is a powerful witch and protector of the mirror they just destroyed. And Euriah is next to inherit that power. Or she was. Now Euriah and James must travel through nine parallel worlds to save Terrick from danger, restore the mirror, and uncover the truth about their parents.

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Young Adult, Animation, Half Hour.

CS Fischer

CS Fischer grew up in a small, rural, Illinois town, where everyone knew everyone and the most popular club in high school was the Future Farmers of America. On the short list to work in the Obama White House, Fischer changed courses when she got into USC’s screenwriting MFA program. After graduating, she worked in artificial intelligence for three years before moving over to work on Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD for two seasons. Currently, she is the showrunner’s assistant on the upcoming Marvel show, Helstrom.

Pilot Title: The Bone Wars

Logline: A headstrong paleontologist must fight off a well-connected rival to be the first to discover a new species of dinosaur.

Script Summary: Edward Cope dreams of dinosaurs. As one of the preeminent paleontologists of his age, he has the access necessary to find the greatest collection of fossils the world has ever known. After a mistake puts him behind his ambitious rival, he must throw himself into the hunt. But in the race to find new species, he must be careful not to lose himself.

Genre: Drama, Historical, Rivalry, Feature, True Story

Pilot Title: The War Magicians

Logline: A magician with a dangerous secret joins forces with the British military to use knowledge of stage magic to help win World War II.

Script Summary: In the midst of the London Blitz, a young soldier recruits a world-famous magician to help fight against the Nazis ravaging Europe. But while the magician’s skill may turn the tide of World War II, her secret may turn the nation against her.

Genre: Drama, Historical, Hour-Long, Television, War, Military

Pilot Title: The Death of Robin Hood

Logline: A woman-in-mourning takes up the mantle of Robin Hood to protect the people of Nottingham in a time of political upheaval.

Script Summary: In the wake of her husband’s death, Rhee struggles to balance her old life in court as Maid Marian, and her new life upholding the legend of Robin Hood. But as the truth about Robin Hood’s death becomes clearer, and the political noose around Nottingham tightens, Rhee finds herself losing control — not only of the Merry Men, but of her own identity.

Genre: Drama, Historical, Action, Hour-Long, Television

Emily Palizzi

Emily Palizzi has possessed a highly creative mind since age four, when she was awarded BEST IMAGINATION in Kindergarten. Determined to put that imagination to good use, Emily graduated from the University of Colorado with a BFA in Television, Film & Theatre (with an emphasis in Writing & Directing) and immediately moved to Los Angeles. During her 8.5 years in LA so far, Emily has written and produced a webseries entitled The Rule of 3, worked as a CBS Page, been a Writers’ PA on both seasons of Marvel’s Agent Carter, and is currently going into her second season as Script Coordinator on DC’s The Flash. In her free time, Emily enjoys playing tennis, Dungeons & Dragons (she’s an Elf Rogue named Rinn), her ukulele, and also traveling.

Pilot Title: Amber Waves

Logline: Estranged brothers Cal and Nick Fields are reunited when a clue leading to the mythical treasure of nefarious pirate captain Marco D’Amato, and his ship, The Foul Manta, is unearthed, but gold and glory doesn’t come easy in the wild and dangerous world of professional treasure hunting as Cal and Nick face off against modern day pirates, drug lords, and rival treasure hunter Reid Becker… the man who murdered their father.

Script Summary:

When brothers CAL and NICK FIELDS were young boys, their father, JOHN FIELDS would always tell them the same bedtime story – the story of the ruthless pirate captain MARCO D’AMATO and how he and his treasure ship, The Foul Manta, were lost at sea in a hurricane… never to be heard from again. After John tragically drowns while on a treasure hunting expedition, the brothers grew apart – with Cal carrying on in his father’s footsteps and becoming a treasure hunter himself, and Nick, a historian and archivist at the financially troubled KEY WEST MARITIME HERITAGE MUSEUM.

One day, a 17th Century TEACUP is brought into the museum by local fishermen – a teacup with the name The Lady Heroine inscribed on the bottom… the last merchant ship to have had contact with The Foul Manta before she disappeared. With the museum’s finances in mind, museum Curator RAUL SÀEZ decides to bring a down-on-his-luck Cal in for the dive job in order to save some money, much to Nick’s displeasure. A thankful Cal heads out with his team, which includes Nick and Raul’s witty assistant, ELLIE MASON – but before their adventure can begin, Cal is called upon to settle a debt with local Cuban gangsters, MICKEY and MINNIE ROJAS. With only half his debt paid, Cal is given until midnight to get the rest of the money together, something that he chooses not to share with his teammates. They arrive at the dive spot where Cal and Ellie go under with metal detectors (Nick is afraid of diving after a childhood accident at a pool party), only to find loads of TRASH – but Nick has found something interesting… Cal’s troubles with the Rojas twins. Before they can move on to AMBER WAVES the next dive spot, Nick and Cal must return to shore for more gas, leaving Ellie alone on Cal’s boat, AMBER WAVES, where she uncovers all of Cal’s research on D’Amato and The Foul Manta. Meanwhile, back on shore, Cal and Nick have a run-in with Mickey and his thugs at a local gas station where they are forced to run for their lives in order to get back to Amber Waves. The team dives the next location and this time it’s a success – unfortunately, their celebration is cut short when the Rojas twins arrive and demand the priceless artifacts in exchange for Cal’s debt (and their lives). Thinking they’ve lost it all, Nick and Ellie prepare to return to land, but Cal has a surprise – he kept one of the artifacts, a JOURNAL with the last known location of The Foul Manta before she disappeared – they have their first clue! Nick, having had enough of Cal’s wild and dangerous lifestyle, calls it quits and returns home, but Ellie stays and offers to help Cal because she was told the same bedtime story when she was a young girl. As Cal and Ellie celebrate the beginning of their search on the beach, Minnie Rojas calls up REID BECKER (John’s old partner) and informs him of what was found… and, driven by greed, Reid can’t resist the call of gold and glory that awaits, no matter what the cost…

Genre: hour-long, drama, action/adventure

Pilot Title: Cristo

Logline: Alex Bertram escapes prison, 16 years into his life sentence for a crime he didn’t commit, seeking revenge on those who ruined his life – namely, his jealous brother, Hawk – only to realize that the world he was locked away from for those 16 long years is a world he no longer recognizes…

Script Summary: ALEX BERTRAM, a young, naïve employee of Tolli Shipping Co., meets exiled scientist, ROBERT FENCZIK, during a dangerous run to deliver medical supplies to Fenczik’s isolated outpost in the Extreme North Region. Unknown to Alex, their meeting results in the smuggling of information regarding a new scientific discovery back to the mainland, a dangerous new technology that could potentially change the face of humanity. Upon Alex’s return home, he is reunited with his love, MAISIE ADAMS (a sweet, yet stubborn, school teacher), but their time together is cut short when Alex is arrested and taken to see T’LANE WESTLAKE (the power hungry Governor of New York City). Alex is charged with high treason for smuggling illegal technology and sentenced to a lifetime in the infamous CAGE PRISON (a floating cellblock high in the atmosphere). An innocent Alex escapes the clutches of T’Lane’s evil State Officers (androids programmed to do the Governor’s bidding), and returns home only to find his older brother HAWK BERTRAM (fellow Tolli employee who has been poisoned by his jealousies) waiting for him. Alex learns that Hawk, jealous of Alex’s seemingly perfect life, set him up in order to take back what he believes Alex stole from him – a life of ease and happiness with Maisie. Completely broken by this betrayal, Alex allows himself to be hauled away by Sentinels and locked away in the Cage Prison. 16 years into his sentence, Alex manages to escape with the help of PRIEST (his wise cellmate), who, during their 16 years together, turned the naïve Alex into a hardened man set on revenge against those who ruined his life (namely, his brother, Hawk). Back on the outside, Alex is shocked by the world he is met with – a swiftly dying planet, people suffering beyond anything ever seen before, and a world where Hawk is in a position of power (with a supportive Maisie at his side!). With the help of GIO (a fast-talking tech wizard who leads the Soulèvement), Alex must decide which path to take – the path of revenge, which will ultimately lead to more pain, or the path of the Soulèvement (the Resistance), a path which could reunite him with everything he has lost…

Genre: hour-long, drama, sci-fi, action/adventure

Rishabh Bhavnani

Pilot Title: SHINKOLOBWE

Logline: When uranium exposure gives a Congolese miner superpowers, he races to save his adopted daughter caught in a crossfire between the warring US and Nazi troops. 

Script Summary: When his adopted daughter’s life is threatened by the village elders, Shujaa, a uranium miner, and Nadi plan to escape. But their plans are discovered. Shujaa and Nadi are separated from one another and Shujaa is presumed to be dead in a uranium-infested river. Meanwhile, the Nazis learn that the US is secretly transporting uranium back to Manhattan and launch an attack on the US armies in Shinkolobwe. In the midst of the chaos, Shujaa must try and save Nadi before the radiation from the powers destroy him.

Genre: Feature, WWII, Sci-Fi, Action, Drama, Dark

Pilot Title: EXTENSION

Logline: An immigration twist on COMMUNITY with international students set at a fictionalized version of UCLA Extension.

Script Summary: Sameer is an aimless trust-fund Indian immigrant, and Hollywood reject. Determined to find his purpose, he re-enrolls back at Cal U Extension where he meets a group of International students who, just like he once was, are in pursuit of the American dream and need his help.

Genre: TV, half-hour, comedy, network