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Announcing the China-Hollywood Screenwriting Fellowship Winners!

by ScreenCraft on May 18, 2017

Orb Media Group and ScreenCraft are pleased to announce the four recipients of ScreenCraft's inaugural China-Hollywood Screenwriting Fellowship! These winners will be offered option agreements from Orb Media, and a special mentorship trip to China next month for development and meetings with the goal of facilitating the full finance and production of these projects.

The winners are:

  • Michael Thai for his screenplay 10G
  • Patrick Biesemans for his screenplay The Beautiful Country
  • Michael Leung for his screenplay Rendezvous
  • Yucheng Sun for his screenplay 凛冬夜/Snowy Night

These Orb Media China-Hollywood Screenwriting Fellowship recipients will receive roundtrip travel to China where they will meet with industry professionals and financiers in Beijing as well as attendance at the Shanghai International Film Festival, where ScreenCraft is hosting a special panel with some of Hollywood's top blockbuster creatives including James Gunn (writer-director of GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 1 & 2, screenwriter of SCOOBY DOO and DAWN OF THE DEAD) and Max Borenstein (screenwriter of KONG: SKULL ISLAND, GODZILLA and HBO's VINYL). These ScreenCraft winners will also have the opportunity to join these Hollywood luminaries for a special mentorship dinner in Shanghai next month!

Additionally, we wish to recognize the talented finalists, as chosen by Orb Media and ScreenCraft:

Su Ching Teh A Song and a Dance
Tim Plaehn The Panjiayuan Diary
Frank Kelly Surface
Boon Siang Lim The Lost Chronicle: Malacca
Yucheng Sun 凛冬夜
Nicole Jones-Dion Alternity
Craig Rosenthal The One
Lindsay Golder Leftover Guys
Billie Bates Made In China
Yisong Chen  Ginseng
Damon Chua A Match Made in Diamond
Tom Gong A Place For Drying Fishing Nets
Keith & David Lynch Pariah
Michael Leung Rendezvous
Ryan Toyama Ascension
Helen Truong Kinetic

Congratulations to the talented winners and finalists listed above, and congratulations the semifinalists announced here, and the quarter-finalists announced here.

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