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2018 Half-Hour Pilot Finalist Joshua Smooha

2018 Half-Hour Pilot Finalist Joshua Smooha

    Josh Smooha is a Los Angeles resident with a taste for the absurd and over-the-top. He considers Mike Schur, Edgar Wright, and Taika Waititi some of his biggest influences. Initially wanting to be an astronomer, his tastes changed in his teen years, deciding...
2018 Half-Hour Finalist Pogo New

2018 Half-Hour Finalist Pogo New

About Pogo New Living with mental health issues isn’t always very cinematic. If you’re feeling anxious, you might lie in bed all day panicking about the prospect of a sudden heart attack. If you’re feeling depressed, you might lie in bed all day...
2018 Half-Hour Pilot Finalist Samuel Josephs

2018 Half-Hour Pilot Finalist Samuel Josephs

My name is Samuel Josephs and I’m a screenwriting student at the University of Southern California, a dog walker, a radio host, a comic book artist, and a drag queen. My ultimate goals would be to create iconic show-stopping hit movies and tv shows and then use...
2018 Short Finalist Bernhard Riedhammer

2018 Short Finalist Bernhard Riedhammer

Hi, my name is Bernhard Riedhammer, and I’m from Munich, Germany. I started off writing when I was sixteen. First, bad teenage poems, which turned into short stories, and finally I arrived at screenplays. Of course, I didn’t know what the hell I was doing! Now, I hold...
2018 Short Finalist Meegan May

2018 Short Finalist Meegan May

Meegan May is a freelance writer from Melbourne, Australia. She completed her MFA in Screenwriting from The University of Melbourne in 2016, where she won Best Script for the TV series Viewers. Viewers was shortlisted in the prestigious Australian Writers’ Guild’s...