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Bridget Visser Conjurs Accolades for Her Sitcom Project "The Coven"
Bridget Visser is a talented and multifaceted LA-based writer, and the Filmmatic TV Pilot Awards Season 7 Overall Winner for her amazing half hour sitcom project "The Coven". Some Q&A with this gifted scribe below. 1) How long have you been writing? All my life in one medium or another. But I’ve been writing screenplays since I was in undergrad. 2) What screenwriting training have you received? I have a BFA in Dramatic Writing (a mix of screenwriting, playwriting & TV writin
Filmmatic Staff
Feb 27, 20235 min read


Molly Vogel Clocks In with "Time Pod"
Molly Vogel is a talented and prolific L.A.-based writer, and Winner of Filmmatic's Comedy Screenplay Awards Season 7 for her adult...
Heather Bentley
Nov 28, 20224 min read


KWFF Short Film Slate Doesn't Disappoint
World Premieres, Florida Filmmakers, Sundance Favorites Highlight Key West Film Festival Short Film Lineup Riding the wave of being named...
Heather Bentley
Nov 16, 20222 min read


Shintaro Ogai takes us Riding With Charlie
Shintaro Ogai is a talented Tokyo-based writer, our Filmmatic Season 7 Drama Winner, and the scribe behind the historical biopic "Riding...
Heather Bentley
Aug 31, 20222 min read


Filmmatic Winner Mike Stern's thriller "Mid-Century" in Distribution with LionsGate
Mike Stern is a talented producer, writer, actor, and also a Filmmatic Horror Screenplay Awards Winner for his edgy thriller "Mid-Century". The feature-length horror project recently wrapped production, and is now available on Blue-Ray, DVD, digital and on-demand via LionsGate . Written by Stern and directed by Sonja O'Hara ('Doomsday'), 'Mid-Century' stars Shane West ('Dracula 2000'), Chelsea Gilligan ('Star-Crossed'), Sarah Hay ('Flesh and Bone'), Stephen Lang ('Avatar') a
Heather Bentley
Jul 25, 20222 min read


The "Dirty Bird" Catches the Worm
Arland DiGirolamo & Alana Wexler are both attorneys, both highly talented scribes, and together the Winners of Season 4 of our Pitch Now...
Heather Bentley
May 18, 20226 min read


Martyn Eaden & David McClellan Mystify with "Shango"
David McClellan (pictured left) honed his production and screenwriting chops in New York, Martyn Eaden is a British screenwriter, and the...
Heather Bentley
Apr 5, 20225 min read


Nuh Omar & Christian Villarreal, "A Matter of Time"
Nuh Omar (pictured right) is a director and writer born in Karachi, Pakistan. He works in film, new media, shorts, advertising, and music...
Heather Bentley
Dec 30, 20215 min read


Short Script Bringing Tall Accolades for Alexandra Leopold
Alexandra Leopold is a talented Ontario-based writer, and the winner of Season 6 of Filmmatic's Short Script Awards for her dark and...
Heather Bentley
Oct 18, 20215 min read


Kate Shenton Thrills with "Savage"
Kate Shenton is a talented, London-based screenwriter and filmmaker. Her edgy teleplay "Savage" recently won Season 5 of Filmmatic's...
Heather Bentley
Jul 27, 20214 min read


Hand it to the Manns, they sure can write!
Jocelyn (above left) lives, works and scribes in Los Angeles, and Ryan (right) is a New York-based writer. Together the Manns siblings...
Heather Bentley
Jun 9, 20214 min read


Comedy "Dick 2.0" Making Waves at Filmmatic and Elsewhere
Noel Baker (left) & Henry Sarwer-Foner are a talented screenwriting team, with plenty of writing (and directing) experience under their...
Heather Bentley
May 5, 20214 min read


Andre Jackson Discusses His Historical Pilot "Boley U.S.A."
Andre Jackson is an accomplished and award-winning actor, as well as a gifted writer who has been making some noise as of late with his film and TV projects. This Los Angeles-NY-Memphis talent is the recent Overall Winner of the Season 5 Filmmatic TV Pilot Awards, and we're happy to report also a recent signee of the Smith-Young Talent Agency! Andre was kind enough to enlighten us regarding his writing and historical and societally-relevant pilot "Boley U.S.A.". 1) How lo
Heather Bentley
Jan 27, 20218 min read


Dawn Garcia is a Winner with "The Confidence Men"
Dawn Garcia is an accomplished screenwriter, magazine editor and journalist living in Los Angeles. Dawn recently won Season 5 of the...
Heather Bentley
Dec 16, 20205 min read


2020 Key West Film Festival Delivers an A-List Jury
The Key West Film Festival — where passion meets paradise — is an annual celebration of contemporary cinema in a historically rich,...
Heather Bentley
Nov 26, 20201 min read


Q&A with Christopher Byram; The 2020 Inroads Fellow
Christopher Byram is an award-winning script writer, producer and director hailing from the English Midlands. He specializes in episodic...
Heather Bentley
Nov 2, 20207 min read


Pop Art Film Factory Options Bradley Stryker’s “Dragon Run”
Bradley Stryker, is a talented actor, writer and Filmmatic Screenplay Awards Winner. His screenplay, “Dragon Run”, is a feature length...
Heather Bentley
Apr 14, 20201 min read


Q&A with Talented Screenwriter Jai Brandon
Jai Brandon is an accomplished screenwriter, actor and filmmaker living in New York City. Jai recently won Season 4 of the Filmmatic...
Heather Bentley
Apr 14, 20205 min read


Screenwriters Karl Mather & Jack Wareham: Born to be Wild
Karl Mather and Jack Wareham are two very talented Australian screenwriters (Karl (left) and Jack pictured above just prior to hoisting a...
Heather Bentley
Apr 12, 20205 min read


Annie O’Connell and Reem Edan, Comedic Screenwriters behind “The Degenerates”
Meet Annie O’Connell and Reem Edan. They are comedians, screenwriters, and the overall winners of Filmmatic’s 2019 Comedy Screenplay...
Heather Bentley
Apr 9, 20205 min read
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