Go here for THE BITCH PACK What do we want? More women-centric films. When do we want them? Now. In order to get them, first we need screenplays, so… The Bitch List
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By popular demand, this time #TheBitchList2015 includes teleplays too.
Thank you so much to A-Squared Tracking Board and The Busby for facilitating votes this year. Guys named Steve out-number everyone on the list this year. WEST got the most votes. Everyone else in no particular order.
WEST
Writer: Kit Steinkellner
Genre: Western/Sci-fi/Adventure, One Hour Drama
Logline: X-Men in the Old West
Representation: Katie Cates, International Creative Management; Josh Adler, Circle of Confusion Management
Status: Available
SITUATION COMEDY
Writer: Cat Vasko
Genre: Comedy Feature
Logline: A woman feeling lost in life stumbles upon a mysterious dimension where she is a major character in a universe based on a sitcom.
Representation: William Morris Endeavor
Status: Available
PLUS-ONE
Writer: April Prosser
Genre: Comedy Feature
Logline: When all her friends get married, Rachel realizes her only friend is wing-woman Summer, a brash party animal.
Representation: Blair Kohan, Carolyn Sivitz, William Morris Endeavor
Status: Bought by Weinstein Films
MILLIE TO THE MOON
Writer: Lynn Hamilton
Genre: Drama Feature
Logline: A young woman tries to find her place in a world that isn’t exactly banging down her door demanding she lend her voice.
Writer’s Representation: N/A
Status: Director Jen McGowan (Kelly & Cal starring Juliette Lewis) attached
FORSAKEN
Writer: Isaac Adamson
Genre: Historical Drama Feature
Logline: Real life horror story of the women trapped on an island during the 1915 Mexican Revolution who struggle to survive from hunger and a monstrous lightkeeper’s reign of terror.
Representation: Lee Stobby Entertainment
Status: Available
JANE
Writer: Robert Dillon
Genre: One Hour Drama
Logline: A woman raised by serial killers lives a secret life as a dark web assassin.
Representation: N/A
Status: Available
BLOOD MOON
Writer: Monique Mata
Genre: Psychological Thriller Feature
Logline: While investigating a series of gruesome murders, a lonely coroner falls for an enigmatic stranger who may be connected to the crimes.
Representation: N/A
Status: Available
BEA
Writers: Dreux Moreland & Steve Hayes-Pollard
Genre: Historical Comedy, Period Piece Feature
Logline: 19th century tale of madness where the cunning Beatrice colludes with her brutal manservant in order to overcome her filial duties and follow her darker desires – even at the cost of her family, friends and mental fortitude.
Representation: Dreux is now with CAA & Anonymous Content after being on this list
Status: Available
THE BANG BANG GIRLS
Writer: Lauren Schacher
Genre: Dramedy Feature
Logline: Regan Boyer has done the last thing she ever thought she would: she’s moved back to the town that exiled her. When word gets out that “Easy Rei” is teaching teen girls about female sexuality, the town spares no one in their slut-shaming backlash. As the rumors that plagued her adolescence return with a vengeance, Rei struggles with bringing the others down with her in her attempt to finally rise above the ashes.
Representative: N/A
Status: Seeking director, funding
ZOEY RAMONE
Writer: Steve Boltz
Logline: A punk-rock girl with a brain tumor that causes her to hallucinate the late Joey Ramone travels cross-country to reconnect with her estranged mother and step-father.
Representation: N/A
Status: Available
THE SKY’S THE LIMIT: THE STORY OF THE MERCURY 13
Writers: Maria Burton, Gabrielle Burton, Ursula Burton & Jennifer Burton
Genre: Drama Feature
Logline: The true-life story that follows the “Mercury 13,” a group of 13 women who successfully passed NASA’s intense Project Mercury astronaut training in 1959 – but were denied the right to fly.
Representation: Linda Lichter at Lichter, Grossman, Nichols, Adler & Feldman
Status: Available
WOMEN COME TO JUDGMENT
Writer: Nate Bynum
Genre: Historical Drama Feature
Logline: About a young girl’s rape and the consequences as the town and jury debates her moral character
Representation: Mitchell K. Stubbs, Powerline Management
Status: Available
SAVAGE
Writer: Stephanie Bousley
Genre: One Hour Drama
Logline: In a neighborhood where crime seems to be the only way to a better life, a bi-racial teenage girl from South Central Los Angles tries to save her dying mother and overcome the setbacks of her upbringing by becoming a paparazzi photographer.
Representation: N/A
Status: Available
RECONCILING JIMMY
Writer: Valerie Peterson
Genre: One Hour Drama
Logline: After her uncle’s death, an accountant is tasked with being the executor on his estate, only to unravel secrets the town would prefer remain hidden.
Representation: N/A
Status: Available
PRIORY SON
Writers: Victor Marranca and Vanessa King
Genre: One Hour Drama
Logline: A female ATF agent is recruited into a murderous religious sect, dedicated to bring vengeance upon the world’s worst sinners.
Representation: N/A
Status: Available
DARK EYES
Writer: John Casu
Genre: One Hour Drama
Logline: Asked to help the FBI investigate a series of macabre murders, an AFOSI Special Agent must keep her involvement in the homicides secret as struggles to complete her true mission.
Representation: N/A
Status: Available
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The Bitch List and The Bitch Pack were started by Thuc Doan Nguyen. Thuc is a practicing writer. Thuc enjoys being kicked in the butt by Lexi Alexander to write more Women of Color, which has resulted in a comedy pilot called YELLOW FEVER aka BANANAS.
Thuc also keeps busy writing for QueenMobs, an off-shoot of Berfrois UK. She’s written a web series called DOWNTOWN for 77 Films (LA), who produced I DREAM TOO MUCH with Richard Linklater. She’s working on a short with Bodhi Films (LA & Paris) called TINDER-ITIS. Thuc is grateful to be part of her women’s film mafias in LA and in Europe, and for outstanding allies of all genders.
This list is dedicated to the memory of Richard Alexander Friedman.
