Orb Media Group China-Hollywood Screenwriting Fellowship Quarter-Finalists Announced

by ScreenCraft on March 7, 2017

Today we announce the quarter-finalists for the inaugural Orb Media China-Hollywood Screenwriting Fellowship. These writers comprise approximately the top 20% of applicants. The semi-finalists, finalists and recipients will be selected and announced within the next several weeks, coinciding with the Beijing Film Festival in April. The chosen winners will receive a mentorship program that includes roundtrip travel to Beijing and Shanghai, including a press conference and VIP mentorship dinner at the Shanghai International Film Festival in June.

As announced by Screen Daily in January, the program aims to finance and develop up to four projects for production and distribution within the US and China each year. Winners will each be offered a WGA-scale option fee of up to $13,374 against a purchase price of up to $133,739, depending on the final budget of each film. Each of the top 30 finalists will also be considered for first-look deals with Orb Media Group.

Congratulations to these talented screenwriters!

The following 2017 quarter-finalists have advanced to the second round of consideration for the awards:

English Language Submissions

A.W. "Tony"	Scott	Parent Management
Alex	Shifman	Crossed Swords
Alex	Shifman	Shanghai Vaudeville
Alicia	Lomas-Gross	Made in China
Amanda	Keener	Patchwork
Andy	Jones	The Anklebiter
Anna	Ray-Jones	Blood Tartan
Billie	Bates	Made In China
Bradley	Stryker	The Dragon Run
Brendan	Turrill	Time Lapse!
Brennig	Hayden	Red In Tooth And Claw
Brennig	Hayden	Big Red
Brennig	Hayden	Bastard
Carlos	Arata	Supercell
Caryn	McCann	The China Conspiracy
Chee Hao	Hui	Rickshaw
Chilli	Kippen	Knowing Valentine
Chris	Howlett	FALSE FLAG
Christopher	Greenslate	Age of the Peacock
Clarence	Williams IV	Ezen Island
Craig	Rosenthal	The One
Damon	Chua	A Match Made in Diamond
Dana	Ziyasheva	The Dragon Angel
Daniel	Hogan	The Preserve
Daniel	Sheiman	Voyeur
David	Bornstein	Son
David	Ludwig	Vienna
Dean	Edelson	Trackers
Dennis	Stevens	Gunfire Reef
Dicky	Chalmers	Only Connect
Dorothy	Kozak Snoke	The Legend Of Dave: Curse Of Khan's Tomb
Dumford	King	Blue Sky And I
Eric	Bergemann	American-Born American
Felix	Wong	One Day, Three Autumns
Finola	Waller	The Unit
Frank	Kelly	Surface
Gary	Shockley	The Fantastical Waterclocks of Cao Jinsong
George	Ding	Peking Dunk
Glenn	Williams	Sympathy for the Devil-Jesus Saves Las Vegas
Graham	Parke	How to Catch A Time Traveler
Graham	Parke	Debbie The Viking
Graham	Parke	Infinity Theorem
Gunnar	Garrett Jr.	Through the Land of Illusion
Hans-Christoph	Von Goetz	The Tut Conspiracy
Heather	Farlinger	Hominine (Theta)
Helen	Truong	The God Genome
Helen	Truong	Kinetic
Homer	Hsieh	The Risk Factor
Ivy	Lee	Everyday People
J.	Titus	50 South
James	Hickey	Mindjack
James	Cisneros	Winnie
Jamie	Wang	Body Borrow
Jason	Azcar	Space Racers
Jean-Tommy	Kayembe	Phantom Pain
Jeff	Wynne	The Solar Effect
Jennifer	Potts	Th Extraordinary World of Cecily Blinkstop
Jim	Jackson	The Visitors
J. Kevin	Cleary	Burma Road
John	Martins III	One China
John Perry	Dancoe	The Incident
Jonathan	Ross	Red Boat
Jose	Sepulveda	The Freedom Fighter Girl
Katharine	Yee	Final Agent
Keith & David	Lynch	PARIAH
Kelly	Yaksich	Escape From Hong Kong
Ken	Miyamoto	The Purple Heart Battalion
Kendal	Whitlock	Tea Boy Sue
Kermit	Davidson	Supercolony
Lai	Cheung	No Kicks Left Behind
Laura	Miller	Blue Cave Mountain
Lawrence	Chen	Cannonball
Lee Matthew Goldberg	and Margot Berwin	Lacerta
Lelia	Alford	The Phoenix Pin
Lew	Osteen	The Adventures Of Lash And The Red Avenger
Lin	Qian	one day husband
Linda	Toussaint	Nauti Girls
Lindsay	Golder	Leftover Guys
Lorinda	Donovan	Sister Hoods
Marc	Rosenberg	Dreams of Earth
Mark	Daniels	Shui Gui: The Water Ghost
Mark	Hammond	M - Demon Killer
Mark	Renie	Clones
Mark	Collins	The Prototype
Mark	Weatherbe	Blue Dog 7
Mark	Mandemaker	Watchers
Marlene	Shigekawa	Hawk Dreamer
Mary	Krell-Oishi	Feeling Shanghai
Matt	Soutendijk	Lioness
Matteo	Romano Bernardini	Cinderella Must Die
Matthew	Clingempeel	KPop
Matthew	Hawksworth	The Edge Of The World
Megan	Bickel	Insight Heights
Meiling	Melançon	The Red String: The Dream
Michael	Graf	The Last Indian War
Michael	Quintana	White Rabbit
Michael	Leung	Rendezvous
Michael	Thai	10G
Mike	Langer	Wendigo
Mike	Langer	Mr. Moon
Milly	Sanders	The Iron Bride
Mitch Ross	and John Taylor	Psychodrive
Monte	Swann	That Which Does Not Kill
Nell Esterhazy Scannon		Shanghai Waking
Nick	Wallace	The Road
Nicole	Jones-Dion	Alternity
Nicole	Quinn	It's a Nightmare
Patricia	Semler	Shrimp Boat Blues
Patrick	Biesemans	The Beautiful Country
Paul	G. O'Connor	The Interlude
Raed	Assar	Tectum
Richard	Guimond	Metacomet
Richard Dane	Scott	Once When U Were Mine
Robert	Porter	Orphans
Robert	Tobin	Chasing
Robert	Skir	Savage Seas
Robert	Skir	The Emperor Of Luna Park
Robert	Remy	Chameleon
Robert J.	Traydon	Iridessium 2038
Russ	Zitaruk	HEL
Ryan	Anglin	Butterfly Summer
Ryan	Toyama	Ascension
Samantha	Gurash	Whispers in the Walls
Sarah	Polhaus	Tone Dead
Sean	Cabiling	American Man
Shiv	Sudhakar	The Curmudgeons
Sid	Bodalia	White Calm
Stacy	Spruill	Beijing, Or Bust
Stephen	Lance	The Secret Lives Of Dresses
Steve	Barfield	Quest
Su Ching	Teh	A Song and a Dance
Sylvia	Llewellyn	Stone Drive
Tara	Wilkinson	Gold
Terry	Lynam	Fighting Johnny O'Brian
Thomas	Grigg	The China Bat
Thomas	Downs	Little Bird
Tim	Plaehn	The Panjiayuan Diary
Todd	Serlin	Disruption
Todd	Shuler	Dew on Ginkgo Leaves: The Tigress and The General
Tom	Freyer	Shaolin Wolf-Man
Tom	Gong	A Place For Drying Fishing Nets
Toy	Lei	Boxer
Tracey	Bradley	Red Runners
Victor	Ho	I Know Kung Fu
Xiaoli	Zheng	Forbidden Symphony
Zeb	Eckles	Veiled Horizon

Chinese Language Submissions

Boon Siang Lim 出海记之满剌加
Boon Siang Lim 诡忆
Caryn McCann 中国阴谋
Hui Mien Lu 英伦情歌
Ka Ho Wong 觸瞳
Menghan Xu 梦中人
Owen Guo 旧金山的王木头
Sixing Su 道，德
Tan Je 胜单快乐
Vivid Ping-Yu Wang 久别重逢
Wei He 英雄武松
Wei He 全民老公
Yimel Huang 东京玫瑰
Yin Kgonw 生物人血战 C魔
Yisong Chen 保卫金参
Yucheng Sun 凛冬夜