Orb Media Group China-Hollywood Screenwriting Fellowship Quarter-Finalists Announced
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
佩王 汉字大作战
师 虹 许 永生咒
艺钟 职业电影⼈
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