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Orb Media Group China-Hollywood Screenwriting Fellowship Semifinalists Announced

by ScreenCraft on March 23, 2017

Today we announce the semifinalists for the inaugural Orb Media China-Hollywood Screenwriting Fellowship.  These writers comprise approximately the top 8% of applicants. The finalists and recipients will be selected and announced next week. 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, and to the quarter-finalists.

The following 2017 semifinalists have advanced to the penultimate round of consideration for the awards:

Alex Shifman Crossed Swords
Alex Shifman Shanghai Vaudeville
Alicia Lomas-Gross Made in China
Amanda Keener Patchwork
Billie Bates Made In China
Caryn McCann The China Conspiracy
Chee Hao Hui Rickshaw
Craig Rosenthal The One
Damon Chua A Match Made in Diamond
Frank Kelly Surface
George Ding Peking Dunk
Helen Truong Kinetic
J Titus 50 South
Jean-Tommy Kayembe Phantom Pain
John Martins III One China
Jonathan Ross Red Boat
Katharine Yee Final Agent
Keith & David Lynch Pariah
Kelly Yaksich Escape From Hong Kong
Lai Cheung & Robin Rose Singer No Kicks Left Behind
Laura Miller Blue Cave Mountain
Lindsay Golder Leftover Guys
Lorinda Donovan Sister Hoods
Mary Krell-Oishi Feeling Shanghai
Matteo Romano Bernardini Cinderella Must Die
Matthew Clingempeel KPop
Matthew Hawksworth The Edge Of The World
Michael Leung Rendezvous
Michael Thai 10G
Monte Swann That Which Does Not Kill
Nicole Jones-Dion Alternity
Patrick Biesemans The Beautiful Country
Richard Guimond Metacomet
Ryan Anglin Butterfly Summer
Ryan Toyama Ascension
sarah Polhaus Tone Dead
Stacy Spruill Beijing, Or Bust
Su Ching Teh A Song and a Dance
Tara Wilkinson Gold
Thomas Downs Little Bird
Tim Plaehn The Panjiayuan Diary
Todd Serlin Disruption
Todd Shuler Dew on Ginkgo Leaves: The Tigress and The General
Tom Gong A Place For Drying Fishing Nets
Toy Lei Boxer
Zeb Eckles Veiled Horizon

Chinese Language Submissions

Boon Siang Lim 出海记之满剌加
Vivid Ping-Yu Wang 久别重逢
Yisong Chen 保卫金参 
Yucheng Sun 凛冬夜

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