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EXCLUSIVE: Last year, we reported connected a drama screenwriting contest teaming Stage 32, Pathfinder Media, and head Todd Biermann (Mythic Quest, It’s Always Sunny successful Philadelphia) — and now, we person nan winner.
Ted Sperling has taken nan expansive prize for Treasure Inc., an ensemble drama that will now participate improvement pinch Sperling, Pathfinder Media’s Mark Wheeler, and Biermann moving together to bring nan task to market. Stage 32’s Richard “RB” Botto and Geoffroy Faugérolas are attached arsenic EPs.
“Treasure Inc. is simply a propulsive ensemble drama pinch elevated stakes, genuine heart, and an original sound that besides feels familiar,” said Biermann. “Ted Sperling wrote a screenplay that plays for illustration a crowd-pleaser and earns each hit of it. I’m excited to activity pinch him.”
A Los Angeles-based writer whose integer activity has amassed complete a cardinal views connected TikTok, YouTube and Instagram, Sperling worked astatine Lionsgate earlier segueing into a Writers’ PA occupation connected nan Mitch Hurwitz-created show Running Wilde. He went done nan Fox Writers Program and nan Upright Citizens Brigade, was named to The Tracking Board’s database of Young and Hungry Writers successful 2014, and has developed aggregate projects pinch accumulation companies.
Two honorable mentions for nan fellowship were besides awarded. Lissette R. Jean-Marie received nan Feature nickname for Book F*cker, pinch Biermann calling it “sharp, current, and unsocial — guided by a crystal clear sound and authentic POV” written for nan BookTok generation.
The TV Pilot grant went to nan penning duo of Emma Pyne and Sarina Taylor for Safe Word.
“They cracked thing genuinely difficult to propulsion disconnected — a pitch-black drama pinch heart,” said Biermann. “Sharp comic instincts, genuine structural skill, and rarer still, nan expertise to springiness a dirty, raucous premise genuine affectional weight.”
Stage 32’s Faugérolas told us, “Working pinch Mark and Todd has been a existent grant — nan level of dedication they person shown to these writers is 2nd to none. What we’re doing together goes beyond a contest. We’re discovering caller voices, empowering emerging creators, and breaking down nan barriers that person historically made Hollywood inaccessible to truthful many. That’s what Stage 32 has ever been about, and this business is simply a powerful hold of that mission.”
While Treasure Inc. is being developed and shopped pinch nan afloat backing of Stage 32 and Pathfinder Media, nan writers of some honorable mentions will besides beryllium paired pinch mentors and judges from 3Pas Studios, Elevate Entertainment, Epigram Entertainment, and further manufacture partners, for support successful improvement of their projects.
