I write screenplays, articles, film reviews and more.  I'm also a community activist focused on immigration and citizenship issues.  I have written close to a dozen screenplays.  Also, in the 90s-early 00s produced video shorts, which  screened at multiple film festivals. My most recent five screenplays have received acclaim. In May 2025, "Migrants" received a GRAND REMI PRIZE for "Best Script."  In 2024, "Migrants" was recognized as a 10 Ten in Table Read My Screenplay - Genre competition.  Also in 2024 it was a Gold Winner in the Hispanic International Film Festival and an Official Selection in the Austin Under the Stars Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival. Also in 2025, "Hostile View" received a Gold Remi Award,  and Quarter-Finalist recognition in Table Read My Screenplay Cannes. "Amigas" was a semi-finalist in the LA Film Festival Diversity Initiative )-- a Silver Award Winner in the Women International Film Festival (WNPR.tv) -- also a quarter finalist in Table Read Your Screenplay Spring 2023 competition and a quarter finalist in Creative Screenwriting Feature Screenplay Competition (all in 2023).  In May 2023, "Amigas" was Selected for the LA Latino Film Festival - with a Best Scene selected and presented as a Live Read ( Selected - Best Scene - with Live Read  https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/amigas-screenplay . Also, I was interviewed on WILDsound regarding "Amigas." https://www.wildsoundpodcast.com/the-film-podcast-by-wildsound/2023/8/16/august-17-2023-screenwriter-lindsay-waite-amigas  "Amigas" also was selected (March 2023) for the Second Round of ISA's Fast Track Fellowship. The Austin Film Festival also advanced "Amigas" to the Second Round. In "Amigas" I have fictionalized an actual event in 1930s El Paso, Texas by creating characters with conflicting backgrounds  personalities who join together and grow when the Mexican American maid faces deportation for her labor actions. "Mother Jones" won several accolades in 2022, including Award Winner in the WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival and the Crown International Film Festival.  It was also "Selected" by the Workers Unite Film Festival (runner-up) and the Whistleblower Summit & Film Festival.  "Mother Jones"  is also based-on-a-true-story about this brave and progressive labor union organizer in the late-1800s-early 1900s. Another feature screenplay "Homestead" - the based-on-a-true-story of a steelworkers strike in which two ethnic groups come together to challenge the wealthy owners - resonates today as our 1% gets wealthier and poverty increases. This screenplay  received 2nd place Feature Screenplay and Best Period Screenplay awards in 2 recent fests.  Most recently, in 2019 "Homestead" was awarded First Place in the Workers Unite Film Festival. I practiced law for many years, taught in a prison, and worked as a volunteer for prison reform in New Mexico.  I also worked in the labor law field in the early years of my legal career. I speak passable Spanish and now in Maryland am teaching people to pass their citizenship tests with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.  In 2016  rode my bicycle from Albuquerque to Baltimore -  apx. 1400 miles on the bike  -  to raise funds for specific job seekers (former offenders). In November 2023 I, my partner, my granddaughter and her partner cycled from San Diego to Los Angeles to raise funds for the LA LGBT Center. Social justice and fairness are my guides.