The Screenwriters Collaborative

BLACKED OUT [Contained Thriller]
A narcoleptic border agent awakens amidst a sabotaged prisoner exchange — and suspects his fellow agents may be responsible.
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DEBT DOMINION [Action/Thriller]
A payday loan employee is drawn into a world of violent debt recovery that threatens him and his whole family. He must find a way to break free even while he begins to ascend to the criminal throne.
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Having had the great pleasure of appearing on shows like Chicago PD, Chicago Fire, Chicago Med, and Empire stoked Sean Agnew’s creative writing mind. Like everything else in his life, his journey toward excellence continues. He is a ScreenwritingU alumni, UK industrial scripts screenwriting program graduate, and a Writers Guild Foundation Veteran fellowship selectee/participant.

Sean is a member of the Black TV & Film Collective, Chicago Screenwriters Network, and the Organization of Black Screenwriters. He is also a jurist for the 2021 Vancouver International Women’s Film Festival screenwriting contest. Most recently, he is an active executive producer in short and feature films.

DISAPPEARING ACT [Dark Comedy Series]
A fixer helps people disappear into new lives, but when she double-crosses her crime boss, it’s time for her to disappear.
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BRAIN STORMS [Coming of Age Drama]
Upon release from a psychiatric hospital, a twenty-one-year-old woman reluctantly moves back in with her eccentric family — only to become obsessed with the mystery of her brother who ran away years earlier.
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Jane Aster Roe is a multimedia writer, producer, and storyteller based in Toronto, Canada. She is passionate about storytelling as a form of radical empathy and strongly believes in the power of art and media as a vehicle for societal change, with a particular focus on intersectional feminism, mental illness, and the LGBTQ+ community. Jane attended the School of the New York Times and her perspectives are shaped by her own experiences, as well as an innate curiosity about life and human nature.

Jane’s other endeavors include serving as chair of Girl Up, a division of the UN’s global young women’s empowerment movement, and participating in the Youth Advisory Committee of Lumenus Community Services. Through her work, Jane strives to tell untold stories and examine familiar stories through new lenses.

MOVE OVER SANTA [Family Comedy]
Mrs. Claus takes over when Santa breaks his leg, but her inexperience, a sneaky devious rival, and Christmasville’s outdated NO WOMEN rule create obstacles.
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LOVE DANCE [Rom-Com]
When a dance-obsessed librarian needs a new partner for the big competition, her meddling dad sends over a guy who is her polar opposite — and maybe her ultimate prize, if his dubious profession and her loopy ex don’t ruin it.
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BACK SO SOON? [Dramedy]
Blasted into the afterlife, seven souls choose new lives from customized movie trailers, are assigned one delicious deadly sin each, get reborn, duke it out with their karma, one another, and evolve or not.
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Connie is an optioned screenwriter, professional copywriter, and erstwhile columnist (Horizon newsletter) and blogger (fashion and travel). She has studied screenwriting with John Truby, Hal Croasman, Randall Johnson, Christ Soth, and others.

THE EYES ABOVE [Fact-Based Historical Drama]
In the depths of the Cold War, a KGB agent forces a CIA aerial photo analyst to choose between his country and his family.
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Patrick E. Cole has had a distinguished career as a journalist, writing for The Atlantic, The Economist, Bloomberg, The Chicago Tribune, and other publications, and currently serving as Adjunct Professor at City University of New York’s (CUNY) Graduate School of Journalism.

Patrick is interested in telling true stories of lives lived at the crossroads of history.

WITNESS ELIMINATION PROGRAM [Action/Thriller]
A vengeful father sends a hitman to kill his enemies — and mistakenly orders the assassination of his own daughter.
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DEEP FAKE [SciFi/Satire]
A famous actress past her prime tries to restart her career by launching a new movie, but her efforts are thwarted by two teen hackers who use advanced technology to post parodies of the actress that threaten to become more popular than the actress herself.
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Kevin M. Cunningham is a screenwriter who specializes in action/thrillers with psychologically complex characters.

PULL THE PLUG [Dark Comedy Half‑Hour Series]
A bankrupt funeral director teams up with an obnoxious ghost: she’s scaring people to death, but business is booming.
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BITCHILANTE [Action Feature]
A shapeshifting assassin trapped in a body with a deadly disease, uncovers her Handlers’ treacherous agenda to kill the first female president.
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Ruthie Harris is an optioned screenwriter who specializes in comedy-dramas with engaging female protagonists, dark humor and quippy dialogue.

Prior to screenwriting, Ruthie was a talent agent in Sydney and a stills and video producer in London and Aspen. An Anglo-American, originally from the UK, now residing in colorful Colorado. She’s strangely obsessed with green candy, Salvador Dali and end-credit scenes!

TIME CATCHER [Adventure/Romance]
In the Wild West, a daring female sheriff falls in love with a feisty female baker, and must protect her and Cowtown from a notorious bandit — and cake stealer.
Female/female “Princess Bride” meets “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”
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BEAUTIFUL [Romance/Drama]
A newly-sober trans army vet with PTSD, on a road trip to disrupt his sister’s wedding, meets a stripper hooked on heroin, and the two dare to fall in love.
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Kimberly Jentzen is a California native with degrees from UCLA and USM. Her films have garnered festival awards including Best Director, Best Short, Audience Favorite, as well as a screenwriting finalist award. An acclaimed acting coach in L.A., Kimberly has won Back Stage Reader’s Choice Awards “Favorite Acting Coach,” “Favorite Acting Teacher” and “Best of: Acting Coach.” Kimberly is the author of Acting with Impact and Life Emotions app. She has directed and developed over a dozen plays in Los Angeles. Her Youtube channel has over 75 videos and her reel (www.youtube.com/kimberlyjentzen).

MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT [Romantic Comedy]
A headstrong young woman lands a high-paying job that requires a non-marital status, but then falls in love and instantaneously marries her deceased father’s doctor, at the risk of being fired.
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BACK TO THE BRONX [Romantic Comedy]
A west coast top chef risks her career to help her needy family in the Bronx, but instead finds love and purpose in the community she spurned.
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Rae Rodgers is a seasoned screenwriter with one produced feature film to her credit. Originally from Australia, she now lives near Los Angeles. Rae started as a poet, then transitioned to writing stories for the screen, mostly with a romantic edge, always with social comment. Trained at UCLA, with screenwriting mentor John Herman Shaner, and at ScreenwritingU, she has seven high-concept scripts ready for a producer's sanction.

Available Screenplays

MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT [Romantic Comedy]
A headstrong young woman lands a high-paying job that requires a non-marital status, but then falls in love and instantaneously marries her deceased father’s doctor, at the risk of being fired.

BACK TO THE BRONX [Romantic Comedy]
A west coast top chef risks her career to help her needy family in the Bronx, but instead finds love and purpose in the community she spurned.