DIGITAL SERIES – COURTNEY HOPE THEROND & EMILY CLAIRE UTLEY Courtney Hope Thérond, creator and co-writer of the digital series Between Us Girls, is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where her short film Sex & German Grammar won awards for screenwriting and cinematography. After graduation she completed a Cinereach Film Fellowship focusing […]
From the talented pool of writers, we are excited to announce Chase Pletts as the 2017 CineStory TV/Digital Fellow! Chase was born in a bathtub in New York City. At seven years old, banished to the bedroom during an adults-only holiday party, he discovered a tape of The Exorcist and popped it into the VCR. […]
Below is a list of our category winners for the 2017 TV/Digital Retreat. All of our Winners will be considered for the CineStory TV Fellowship.
We’re excited to announce the Finalists in the Spec and Digital Categories along with the Original Semifinalists. Congrats to all the writers!
Congratulations to all our semifinalists and quarterfinalists for the 2017 TV-Digital Retreat, who are listed below.
Michael Begg earned a master’s degree in Communications and English from the University of New Orleans and teaches writing and literature at the high school and college level while pursuing a screenwriting career. When Hurricane Katrina left New Orleans a shambles in 2005, recovery efforts benefitted from a transition school of over 1500 high school […]
2nd Place Winner SAVION EINSTEIN – SUPERFECUNDATION Savion Einstein was born and raised in Israel. After her military service, she went into advertising and spent the next decade producing award-winning campaigns in Israel, EU and Asia for top domestic and international brands including The Coca-Cola Company, Unilever and P&G. But what Savion really wanted to […]
AMYN KADERALI – CHOKORA The best word one could use to describe Amyn Kaderali’s background would be: unique. As one of the few Indian-Americans in a Bay Area suburb with parents who were raised in Tanzania and Scotland, it was not unusual for Amyn to hear Swahili spoken at home while his Scottish grandmother made Indian […]
Our deepest thanks to all our talented finalists!