Flowers Top 25

Discovered by the ISA team through their accolades, success stories and submitted projects, these writers have unique perspectives and have demonstrated incredible motivation to elevate their craft.

Amy Amani
img

When I watch a movie or TV I like to be transported, to escape. My writing reflects that need to break from reality and to be a bit cheeky in the process. Ghosts, goddesses, demons and ethereal cats populate my magical worlds. A bit about me, the person: I'm an American writer living in Oxford, England with my husband, two sons, and three cats. I've lived all over the world - in 6 countries out...

Available Projects
img 16 Awards & Accolades
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
+7 More
Valerie Bischoff
img

We did a lot of camping when I was growing up — most of it inside the condemned houses my hippie-ski-bum parents were working to restore. As they tried to establish themselves as custom home builders, my parents chose freedom over security every time. To them, spending the winter snowbound in a leaking trailer with me and my two siblings was better than working in a fluorescent lit cubicle. My ...

Available Projects
img 5 Awards & Accolades
img
img
img
img
img
Shane Elizabeth
img

Shane Elizabeth is an award-winning writer who lives her life fueled by the words she writes. Her ability to jump off the page along with her characters through a unique signature style of writing brings integrity, laughter, and attitude back to the written word. She is the 2019 Grand Prize Winner of the ISA Sundance Screenwriting Competition and has gone on to win or place in several competiti...

Available Projects
img 12 Awards & Accolades
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
+3 More
MElizabeth Eller
img

M. Elizabeth Eller, or MLiz, is an award-winning Los Angeles based writer-director who originally hails from Seattle. Her independent web series, Manic Pixie Dream Wife, toured the world at multiple film and web festivals, winning awards for Best Local Series and Best Writing at the Seattle Web Fest, Dailymotion Best Series at Vancouver Web Fest, Best Webisode at LA Femme International Film Fes...

Available Projects
img 12 Awards & Accolades
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
+3 More
Skye Emerson
img

Skye Emerson is an accomplished screenwriter and filmmaker, recently receiving her Master of Fine Arts in Screenwriting at UCLA's School of Theater, Film & Television. She is passionate about all things art and storytelling, emphasizing in her work strong female protagonists and members of the world minority. She's an advocate for the oppressed, a voice for the voiceless, and believes that film...

Available Projects
img 11 Awards & Accolades
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
+2 More
Jesse Federman
img

Jesse and Jerren specialize in writing genre films that thrust well-drawn characters into high-concept premises. Horror flicks and action thrillers that deliver the goods fans of these genres crave, but rounded out by crisp, clever dialogue, humor, and fully realized people dreaming, scheming, and screaming their way through the stories. They like entertainments, big and small, that can sneak i...

Available Projects
img 2 Awards & Accolades
img
img
Steven Feld
img

Steve Feld is a 7-time Emmy Award-winning producer/writer/director. His dramedy, "Take My Wife, Please" was awarded the Grand Prize in ISA's 2019 Emerging Screenwriters competition. His film, "40 Minutes Over Maui" was awarded Best Comedy Short in the 2019 Sunscreen Film Festival, Best of Fest in the 2019 Dam Short Film Festival and was a semi-finalist in the Fade-In Short Film/Short Script com...

Available Projects
img 8 Awards & Accolades
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
Bonnie Gross
img

Bonnie Gross is an award winning comedy writer and producer with a passion for telling stories around female health care and sexuality. Originally from Philadelphia but now a New York transplant, she earned her Bachelor s in Media Production from the University of Alabama and completed the UCLA Professional Program for TV Comedy Writing in 2018. Bonnie was named one of ISA s Top 25 Screenwriter...

Available Projects
img 14 Awards & Accolades
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
+5 More
John Harden
img

John is a writer/director whose work has screened on PBS and at top-tier festivals. He often blends imaginative sci-fi with smart comedy, as in his short film LA VIE D UN CHIEN. This tale of a French scientist transformed into a dog took home numerous festival trophies and was described as “clever, funny and profound social satire” by the Boston Globe. He co-authored THE SENSITIVITY PROGRAM, aw...

Available Projects
img 8 Awards & Accolades
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
Jeffrey Howe
img

Jeffrey Howe lives and works in the scenic Black Creek Bottoms area near St. Louis, Missouri. Since he started screenwriting in June 2015, his screenplays have won 48 competitions. His drama feature script "Summer Cut" won the Historical category for the 2023 Final Draft Big Break contest, and was a top 50 semifinalist for the 2020 Academy Nicholl Fellowship (under the title "Flat-rate Frank")....

Available Projects
img 162 Awards & Accolades
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
+153 More
Rachel Kempf
img

Rachel Kempf is a screenwriter who specializes in low-budget horror scripts with strong female leads. She also has a background in comedy and a shameful history of writing smutty romance novels (don t judge). Rachel received an MFA in Screenwriting from the University of Texas at Austin, where she co-wrote-and-produced the webseries Texting with Gosling. Since then, her scripts have gained acco...

Available Projects
img 13 Awards & Accolades
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
+4 More
Carolyn Kras
img

Carolyn Kras has developed projects for 20th TV Studio, Escape Artists, and Welle, and she was named to ISA's List of "Top 25 Screenwriters to Watch." Carolyn's awards include the Hamptons International Film Festival Screenwriters Lab, Alfred P. Sloan First Place Screenwriting Award, Visionary Playwright Award, New York Television Festival Official Selection, Plume & Pellicule Screenwriting Awa...

Available Projects
img 12 Awards & Accolades
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
+3 More
Jerren Lauder
img

Jesse and Jerren specialize in writing genre films that thrust well-drawn characters into high-concept premises. Horror flicks and action thrillers that deliver the goods fans of these genres crave, but rounded out by crisp, clever dialogue, humor, and fully realized people dreaming, scheming, and screaming their way through the stories. They like entertainments, big and small, that can sneak i...

Available Projects
img 2 Awards & Accolades
img
img
img Watch Video
Jasmine Leyva
img

Jasmine Leyva is a filmmaker and actress based in Los Angeles. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in TV, Film and Media and a Masters of Fine Arts in Screenwriting from California State University (Northridge), where she taught undergrad screenwriting. She was the recipient of the 2019 ISA Hollywood Writer Award and the grand prize winner of the 2019 WeScreenplay competition. Leyva worked as an Assoc...

Available Projects
img 4 Awards & Accolades
img
img
img
img
img Watch Video
Victoria Lucia
img

Victoria Lucia is a queer biracial screenwriter/sometimes teacher/occasional actor hailing from the far-off land of Western Massachusetts. A graduate of Hampshire College, she majored in video production and screenwriting. Victoria is interested in exploring “otherness” in her work. She enjoys writing about characters that wouldn t typically be seen as leads. Victoria s scripts are often charac...

Available Projects
img 6 Awards & Accolades
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
Jack Matosian
img

Jack Matosian is an award-winning screenwriter, with writing credits for the Disney Channel, who is motivated by his desires to make people think and to make people laugh. With his screenplays, Jack explores questions that he (and likely many others) have pondered over the years: “What if I woke up tomorrow with a great singing voice?” “What if people lived forever, without having to worry abou...

Available Projects
img 10 Awards & Accolades
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
+1 More
Andy Maycock
img

Andy Maycock grew up in New York, went to college in Ohio, got a Finance job in Pennsylvania, and in 1994 returned home to get his Master's in Education. He teaches English, Cinema, Acting, and Screenwriting in a suburban high school where he is also the Media Director. His work includes the screenplay The Best Man's Privilege, which caught the eye of writer-producer-director Josh Stolberg ("Go...

Available Projects
img 27 Awards & Accolades
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
+18 More
LindiweSuttle MuellerWesternhagen
img

I am an MBA graduate turned singer-songwriter turned screenwriter-author. Growing up in a predominately white neighborhood and being the daughter of a famous South African talk show, I never felt like enough. I was insecure and could never find my own voice. This all informs my writing. My characters are mostly black women and girls. I love to explore family dynamics across different cultures, ...

Available Projects
img 22 Awards & Accolades
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
+13 More
Craig Peters
img

Bio. After surviving a BA from Stanford and an MFA from UC Riverside, Mr. Peters set out to fulfill his life s true ambition: to become a starving artist. He was immediately successful. As an actor, he burst onto the stage, then blazed his way into films, TV, and commercials. Inexplicably, he has spent an inordinate slice of his career on hiatus. His first stage play was greeted by rave reviews...

Available Projects
img 19 Awards & Accolades
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
+10 More
T. Siena
img

As the oldest child of an international arms dealer, Siena grew up with a unique perspective. The good guys in her world were often criminals and the bad guys wore badges. Her best friends were the animals she rescued from the forest behind her house and the imaginary characters she created in her mind. She didn t know these elements were the precursors to Story, nor that Story would become the...

Available Projects
img 8 Awards & Accolades
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
M Sieve
img

www.rumhouse.net for detailed information on M b's catalog of award winning content. Dubbed the 'King of Cry' for his strong dramatic scenes, M b is a produced writer whose scripts have been requested by executives with 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures and personally requested by Academy Award Winning Actor Jeff Bridges. "Mr. Sieve's first ever screenplay 'Rum House' was 1 of 3 feature script wi...

Available Projects
img 21 Awards & Accolades
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
+12 More
Devi Snively
img

A former ballerina, published fiction author and sometimes college film instructor, Devi is a proud alumnus of AFI s Directing Workshop for Women and Fox Studios Filmmakers Lab, and a scholarship recipient of the Nostos Screenwriting Retreat in Tuscany. Her screenplays have placed in such competitions as the Nicholl Fellowships, Slamdance and PAGE Awards, and her films have screened at over 500...

Available Projects
img 33 Awards & Accolades
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
+24 More
David Sullivan
img

David Sullivan is a horror writer. Blending folklore and mythology with contemporary social issues, he crafts thought-provoking pieces of entertainment with highly specific world-building, shivery fun and a unique language of horror imagery. He has been an ISA Stowe Story Labs Fellow and a Finalist for the Warner Bros. Television Writers' Workshop.

Available Projects
img 8 Awards & Accolades
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
Emily Tomson
img

Emily Tomson s background spans the arts and cultural studies. She studied Experimental Theatre as an actor at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts before getting her degree in cultural Anthropology from Rutgers University. After five years in advertising, she began directing and writing for film in 2013. Emily s work is noted for a distinct feminine perspective, characters driven by moral ambiguity,...

img 1 Award & Accolade
img
img
David Wappel
img

David Wappel is a Jersey-born, North Carolina-raised feature writer. Wappel's work will be featured in this year's HBO New York Latino Film Festival in the film Long Gone By for which he wrote the shooting script. He has also story consulted on a number of documentary projects, including Quest of the Muscle Nerd. Wappel's latest screenplay, The Last Farm, was a Semifinalist at the Austin Film F...

Available Projects
img 4 Awards & Accolades
img
img
img
img
Dale Winton
img

Dale is a screenwriter born in Johannesburg, South Africa, to a British dad and Zambian mom. He studied creative copywriting in Cape Town and got his first advertising gig at Ogilvy, playing it straight until his mid-twenties when he found himself (literally and figuratively) living proudly in London. Dale s journey into screenwriting began with a boutique course run by Matt Kalil (author of Th...

Available Projects
img 40 Awards & Accolades
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
img
+31 More
img
Conversations
img
img
img
img
Typing....
close
Privacy Notice

We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you accept and understand our Privacy Settings.