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My Only Sunshine

After her father's suicide, a sheltered young girl uncovers the horrifying truth about her overbearing mother and the role their family farm plays in a new world consumed by an insatiable hunger.

  • Jessica Landry
    Writer
    A Secret to Keep
  • Project Type:
    Screenplay
  • Genres:
    Horror, drama, coming of age
  • Number of Pages:
    93
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Vancouver Women in Film From Our Dark Side Genre Contest
    Vancouver
    January 4, 2019
    Top 10 Finalist
  • Austin After Dark Film Festival
    Austin, TX
    April 20, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Whistler Film Festival Screenwriters Lab
    Whistler, BC
    June 1, 2020
    Selection
  • The Golden Script Competition

    June 15, 2020
    Semifinalist
  • TSL Free Screenplay Contest

    August 1, 2020
    Quarterfinalist
  • Screencraft Horror Screenplay Contest

    August 1, 2020
    Quarterfinalist
Writer Biography - Jessica Landry

From the day she was born, Bram Stoker Award-winner Jessica Landry has always been attracted to the darker things in life. Her fondest childhood memories include getting nightmares from the Goosebumps books, watching The Hilarious House of Frightenstein, and reiterating to her parents that there was absolutely nothing wrong with her mental state.

Since then, Jess’s fiction has appeared in many anthologies, including Tales of the Lost, Twice-Told: A Collection of Doubles, Monsters of Any Kind, Where Nightmares Come From, Lost Highways: Dark Fictions from the Road, and Fantastic Tales of Terror, among others.

Her debut feature, My Only Sunshine, a coming-of-age horror film set against the harsh prairie winter, has been called “a sharp and precise slow-burn horror story” by the Black List. Jess has also written several other screenplays, including three Lifetime movies set to air in later in the year. She is a member of the Winnipeg Film Group and OnScreen Manitoba, and currently sits on the Board of Trustees of the Horror Writers Association.

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