ISA SPOTLIGHT

Kate Beacom's feature REHAB CABIN was an Official Selection at Kansas City FilmFest International in April 2021.

New ISA Development Slate writer Kate Beacom's feature REHAB CABIN premiered at Portland International Film Festival as part of their 2021 festival. It received wonderful reviews from local papers like The Portland Mercury and Willamette Week.

Kate Beacom and her writing partners feature GHOSTED was discovered through a writing gig submission and the writers were invited to join the ISA's Development Slate.

Kate Beacom's feature REHAB CABIN will make it's Australian premiere in July 2021 at Revelation Perth Film Festival.

New ISA Development Slate writer Kate Beacom's feature REHAB CABIN premiered at Portland International Film Festival as part of their 2021 festival. It received wonderful reviews from local papers like The Portland Mercury and Willamette Week.

Kate Beacom and her writing partners feature GHOSTED was discovered through a writing gig submission and the writers were invited to join the ISA's Development Slate.

Kate Beacom's feature REHAB CABIN will make it's Australian premiere in July 2021 at Revelation Perth Film Festival.

Kate Beacom's feature REHAB CABIN was an Official Selection at Kansas City FilmFest International in April 2021.

New ISA Development Slate writer Kate Beacom's feature REHAB CABIN premiered at Portland International Film Festival as part of their 2021 festival. It received wonderful reviews from local papers like The Portland Mercury and Willamette Week.

Kate Beacom's feature REHAB CABIN will make it's Australian premiere in July 2021 at Revelation Perth Film Festival.

Kate Beacom's feature REHAB CABIN was an Official Selection at Kansas City FilmFest International in April 2021.

Kate Beacom and her writing partners feature GHOSTED was discovered through a writing gig submission and the writers were invited to join the ISA's Development Slate.

Paige VanTassell has just been hired as an Associate Writer for Wonderstorm, the company behind the Emmy award-winning animated fantasy show, The Dragon Prince.

Female-driven, LGBTQ+, western feature WILD DATURA advanced to the semi-finals last month, then won the 2021 Creative Screenwriting: Unique Voices Screenplay Competition in its genre!

Coverfly adds WILD DATURA script to The Red List's Top 20 Western Features in 2021... remains top 5% discoverable projects!

Paranormal Dark Comedy mini-series, PARANNOYANCE, starring co-writing and producing team Bernadett Belinda York and Kim Lupe-Smith, began production on their pilot episode in Los Angeles on November 2, 2019. A couple of months into post, the Industry shut-down due to COVID-19, and the independent project was no exception. After losing their entire post-production team, the first-time filmmakers were determined to move forward with everyone's safety in mind. No longer able to have a hands-on approach, they outsourced every key department head, and despite the challenges and circumstantial delays, they successfully finished the pilot remotely. The product is currently pitching to major network and streaming platforms.

Bernadett Belinda York pitched her high-concept, female-driven, LGBTQ+ loglines to execs at Village Roadshow Entertainment Group. Bill Benson and Senior VP Shannon Hawes Perry showed elevated interest in York's original Dark Comedy Mini-Series "Hollywood CULTure" about two frenemies who uncover a dark Hollywood secret while reluctantly searching for a mutual acquaintance.

A production company working with an A-List actor's production company hired Michael Lipoma to rewrite an action/thriller script to develop the lead character and their journey through an existing World, while maintaining the voice of the original writer.

Michael Lipoma was brought onto a project for a pilot to re-break the story that was struggling. Re-broke the story, co-wrote the outline, and the pilot script for the producer. Specific details for this project are confidential.

During a meeting, a producer pitched her idea for a story. She wanted two things: a female lead, and set against the fall of the Berlin Wall. Michael and his co-writer developed that concept into the script THE FALL, which then won Slamdance and is currently in development with a European Co-Producer.

Michale was delighted to have been awarded this honor alongside these talented screenwriters. His most recent works: F-YOU! I'M A TEACHER! A half-hour dramedy about a California transplant with Tourette's who teaches at a small rural Georgia school. OLD BONES: When a paleontologist discovers his grandson’s fossilized skull in the jaws of a T. Rex skeleton, his efforts to stop a time-travel experiment send them both 65 million years in the past where they must find a way back before their future is cast in stone.

ReAnimassassins, the latest script by Jayson Crittenden, is selected as a Semifinalist in ISA's Comedy and Genre Busting Screenplay Competition.

KILLED TWICE IN TEXAS by Jayson Crittenden Makes The Red List as the #9 Western Feature of the month... and is selected as a semifinalist in the Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Screenplay Competition

Jayson's historical pilot which tells the true story of the HARLEM HELL FIGHTERS was featured on The Red List's Top 20 for the month of February.

KILLED TWICE IN TEXAS by Jayson Crittenden awarded honorable mention by Barnstorm Fest. This revisionist Western was also featured on The Red List during the entire month of January and into the first half of February.

After a record number of submissions, HARLEM HELL FIGHTERS by Jayson Crittenden was selected as a quarter-finalist in the Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay Competition. Another humbling accomplishment for this remarkable true story.

M B Sieve strikes twice at the California Film Awards placing 2nd in the feature screenplay competition with his latest feature "Soul to Soul", and outright winning the short script competition with his multiple award winning short "Give My Love to Rose". 

Shane qualified as a one of the TOP 7 FINALISTS in the category of memoir for 2020's Pacific Northwest Writer's Association Unpublished Book Competition out of over 600 submissions.

ROTU, the VR story-narrative gaming experience was officially selected by the Cannes Film Festival 2020 in the category of: XR DEVELOPMENT SHOWCASE. Shane was the writer for this piece. She is responsible for brining the characters to life with dialogue and direction as well as setting the stage for the gaming experience.

Thanks to Felicity and the ISA, Shane has also made a great connection with Double Eye Studios. They have officially hired Shane to come on board as a writer for the larger-than-life, LIVE Interactive Virtual Reality Theater Performance: Finding Pandora. She is currently writing scenes and developing character's voices for the soon to be seen experience. Officially premiered at the Venice Film Festival 2020.

Shane was recently named the category winner in the Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards for her half-hour drama pilot, Cannabiz. This is an interesting success worth noting due to the fact that the half-hour drama format is still a very new, niche, not often used, format. Yet, Shane still pulled through with a win, beating all the other traditional hour-long drama screenplays submitted.