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