Rise Up Little Girl

In 1915 Montana, two outcast ranch girls discover a hidden altar that resurrects lost souls. But when their experiments unleash something sinister, the local sheriff is drawn into a frontier nightmare to confront the dead, and his own buried sins.

  • Matthew Avant
    Writer
    Lunopolis
  • Project Type:
    Screenplay
  • Genres:
    Western, Horror, Thriller, Drama
  • Number of Pages:
    100
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • 2021 Cinequest Screenplay Competition
    San Jose, CA
    April 20, 2021
    First Place
  • Script Awards Los Angeles
    Los Angeles
    August 26, 2020
    First Place
  • Big Break Screenwriting Contest

    Quarter-Finalist
  • BlueCat Screenplay Competition

    Quarter-Finalist
  • Emerging Screenwriters Screenplay Competition

    Quarter-Finalist
  • Table-Read-My-Screenplay Hollywood at AFM

    Quarter-Finalist
  • Emerging Screenwriters Suspense Competition

    Semi-Finalist
Writer Biography - Matthew Avant

Matthew J. Avant is an Emmy Award-winning writer, director, and editor with over 25 years of experience in film and television, spanning docuseries television (Wild Kingdom: Protecting the Wild, RanchHer), acclaimed indie features (Lunopolis), and prize-winning screenplays (Rise Up Little Girl, Cinequest Grand Prize). Known for blending sharp wit with inventive storytelling, Avant crafts narratives that fuse the absurd with the profound, from gothic horror to irreverent comedy.

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Writer Statement

I love writing stories that blur reality and drag us into the unknown. Rise Up, Little Girl is a horror western about portals that can’t be closed, choices that can’t be undone, and the cost of loving someone enough to risk hell itself.