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Alex Rubin

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Staffed on Netflix's SWEET MAGNOLIAS img

After working as the writers room assistant and writing a freelance script for season 4 of SWEET MAGNOLIAS, Alex was promoted to Staff Writer for season 5. The new season is currently in production with the release date TBA. Alex's showrunner read both LOST HOPE HOTEL and MONEY MAKERS prior to staffing her. Alex is on the ISA's Development Slate.
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Andrea Berting

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ISA Development Slate Writer and former Fast Track Fellow Andrea Berting had a general meeting with an executive from Footprint Features, after they read her feature screenplay BIG SKY COUNTRY through her literary manager Allen Eckhouse. Andrea was able to use the skills developed as a part of the Fast Track Fellowship to have a successful general meeting.
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L E Coleman

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SHE'S TOO YOUNG Selected as Finalist at IBDFF img

Development Slate Writer L.E. Coleman's dramatic short script, SHE'S TOO YOUNG, was selected as a finalist in the International Black & Diversity Film Festival.
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Kari Mote

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Kari Mote Tapped for NHMC 2025 Writers Program img

ISA Development Slate writer Kari Mote landed a coveted spot in the National Hispanic Media Coalition’s 2025 Scriptwriters Program, powered by NBCUniversal. The NHMC Series Scriptwriters Program has helped launch the careers of 200+ Latinx writers. Ten diverse Latinx writers nationwide were selected for an eight-week intensive writers' lab. Writers will work with a writing mentor, industry writers and pitch to industry leaders.
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Xavier B

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HEELS Season 2 Staff Writer img

XB was chosen to be a staff writer on Season 2 of the Starz drama, HEELS. XB is on the ISA's Development Slate.
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Kari Mote

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Kari Mote signs with Wonder Street Entertainment img

ISA Development Slate writer Kari Mote has secured representation through Wonder Street Entertainment, a full-service entertainment company specializing in management and production. They have been involved in projects like The Mauritanian and Beasts of No Nation.
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Katrina Jaxson

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C.R.E.A.M. Earns Multiple Industry Honors img

In the last month, Katrina Jaxson’s gritty drama C.R.E.A.M. has made major waves named a Semi-Finalist in the Palm Springs International Screenplay Awards, Creative World Awards, and Emerging Screenwriters Drama Competition.
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Kim Hornsby

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Family Movie Drops on TUBI, Roku, Prime img

Compassionate Disaster Films is pleased to announce BRAVING RAPIDS, a Family movie by Developmental Slate writer, KIM HORNSBY, is now available on TUBI, Roku, Prime, Fandango and other sites.The story follows a little girl on a river rafting trip who finds a wolf cub in the river and cares for him until she has to surrender him to authorities at the end of the trip. This is Kim Hornsby's first released feature film as both writer and producer.

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Dani Hanks

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Dani Hanks, 2024 Austin Film Festival Winner of the Josephson Entertainment Fellowship for her workplace comedy pilot, has been hired to direct the 2024 Austin-Winning Web Series Script, UR KILLING ME! Dani connected with fellow winners after the festival to start a writers group, she met the UR KILLING ME team and hit it off immediately. This comedy to-die-for will be filming in Los Angeles in November. Dani is on the ISA's Development Slate.
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Carolyn Kras

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Carolyn Kras’ screenplay AUTHORESS has been named a Top 10 Finalist Award Winner in the WritersxWriters Competition. In AUTHORESS, Jane Austen is a struggling writer who has a complicated romance with a mysterious sea captain who inspires her final novel Persuasion. Carolyn is on the ISA's Development Slate.
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Phoenix Black

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FIRE KINGS on THE BALLERS LIST of best sports-centered script in 2025 img

Phoenix Black's crime action-drama feature FIRE KINGS is on the inaugural THE BALLERS LIST.Logline: When two police officers — one a war veteran, one the son of war refugees — infiltrate rival motorcycle gangs, the secret to breaking their case lies in their own war-torn pasts. POINT BREAK meets THE BIKERIDERS. Phoenix is on the ISA's Development Slate.
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FIRE KINGS

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L E Coleman

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MUD WOOKY: A Days of the Dead International Film Festival Selection img

L.E. Coleman's contribution to the zombie horror genre, MUD WOOKY, receives an Official Selection from Days of the Dead Film Festival.
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Mud Wooky

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