The WeScreenplay Feature Competition

INDUSTRY GUESTS

Industry Guests will participate in the 2025 Feature Lab in either group sessions or 1:1 meetings with the winners.

TATIANA KELLY, Producer at Serena Films

Tatiana Kelly is an Independent Spirit Award-nominated producer who has produced over two dozen feature films and television shows consistently with Oscar-nominated talent including THE WORDS starring Oscar-winner Bradley Cooper, CUT THROAT CITY starring Oscar-nominee Ethan Hawke and Oscar-nominee Terrence Howard, THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY starring Oscar-nominee Dev Patel, THE CATCHER WAS A SPY starring Paul Rudd and many more. Tatiana directed her first feature documentary THE PEOPLE VS. VEGAS DAVE. She got her big break with the Sundance hit WRISTCUTTERS: A LOVE STORY, starring Patrick Fugit, Shea Wigham, and Tom Waits. Tatiana excels in producing material based on pre-existing IP and has had many of her films premiere at major film festivals such as Sundance Film Festival, SXSW, and Tribeca Film Festival. She’s also worked with major networks and studios including MTV and Lionsgate.

DARCY DONELAN, VP of Development and Production at Voltage Pictures

Before returning to Voltage Pictures as Vice President, Development and Production, Donelan worked in New York at HBO, where she was a marketing manager, focusing on International Original Programing, and at CAA, where she was a coordinator in the Books Department. Originally from Boston, Darcy Donelan is a graduate of Harvard University.

MELISSA AZIZI, Creative Producer at Sparkwood Films

For a decade, Melissa Azizi worked closely with Gail Mutrux to help produce NEWS OF THE WORLD (starring Tom Hanks), the Academy-Award winning THE DANISH GIRL, the Golden-Globe winning SHOW ME A HERO (for HBO) and iBOY (UK’s first Netflix Original). She has a knack for finding great IP, having sourced the Mick Herron SLOW HORSES crime book-series for the company which currently airs on Apple TV+ and stars Gary Oldman, as well as sourced LIFE IN A FISHBOWL by Len Vlahos for Amazon. Melissa is a Sundance Producers Lab finalist and has been supported by various Australian film agencies. In 2019, Melissa co-founded Australia’s first screenwriting fellowship, IN DREAMS – designed to connect two unrepresented Australian screenwriters with Hollywood industry. Before this, Melissa produced short films in Australia that have screened in over 100 film festivals worldwide.

ALEX GEORGE PICKERING and MATTHEW BREAULT, Screenwriters

Matthew Breault and Alex George Pickering are an LA-based screenwriting team repped by Citizen Skull Management. They have written Puss in Boots and Kung Fu Panda animated shorts for Peacock Kids and optioned several scripts, including the upcoming features Crate and Impulse Control. Alex wrote the Ryan Coogler-directed short film Fig, distributed on HBO, and the upcoming comic book series and graphic novel Heard, based on his award-winning feature script of the same name. Matt directed the Streamy-winning series The New Adventures of Peter and Wendy. Matt and Alex’s feature biopic script Jumpman has earned over 20 awards alone, and is currently being shopped by a prominent production company. Outside of their writing endeavors, Matt is an editor on the Bachelor franchise. Matt and Alex’s feature biopic script Jumpman has earned over 20 awards alone, and is currently being shopped by a prominent production company.

ERIC ODIOSO, Director of Development at Catchlight Studios

Eric Odioso is a Director of Development and Producer with an extensive background in film, TV, and media project management. Working with CatchLight Studios since 2022, Eric is known for spearheading a diverse array of projects, providing critical feedback throughout all stages of development, and ensuring seamless coordination among departments, producing partners, and on-set personnel. His role involves managing productions from concept to delivery, and nurturing talent relationships. Before his current role, Eric’s journey in entertainment also includes a tenure as a Strategy Associate at Solstice Studios. A job at the intersection of targeted marketing and creative development, he crafted strategic reports to assess the theatrical market potential of projects and contributed to creative and production decision-making processes. Prior, he worked at Blumhouse Productions and spent several years freelancing in production, producing or coordinating everything from music videos for major labels, indie feature films, and in television for various scripted and unscripted projects.

ERIC BRODEUR, Founder at Exit 44 Entertainment

Eric Brodeur has a decade of experience in feature film post-production, specializing in Picture Editing. He has worked on major studio films like The Nun, The Grudge, Ouija, Sinister 2, and Transformers: The Last Knight with budgets ranging from $4M to $200M for companies including Warner Bros., Sony, Blumhouse, Paramount, and Netflix. Early in his career, he worked on independent films with budgets under $1M, including Sundance Film Festival winner The Sessions (starring Helen Hunt) and Filly Brown, which launched the career of Gina Rodriguez (“Jane The Virgin”).

JAKE WAGNER, Manager at Alibi Entertainment

Jake Wagner is one of the most respected literary managers working in the business today. Jake has also been one of top selling spec script managers of the last decade. Jake was responsible for the largest spec sale of the last 10 years (and one of the biggest in history), with SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN which sold for over $3MM to Universal Pictures. After an illustrious and celebrated career at Benderspink and Good Fear and Film + Management, Jake is now the owner of Alibi Management. Jake’s clients have made some of the most popular recent horror films including POLAROID and CRAWL.

CAMILLE TUCKER, Writer

NAACP Image Award nominated film and television writer Camille Tucker hails from Compton, CA, where both her father and brother formerly served as mayor. Passionate about writing stories centered around BIPOC characters in elevated worlds, Camille has sold scripts to Sony, Universal, New Line, Fox TV, STARZ and Disney+ and developed her projects with A-list producers such as Robert DeNiro, Marc Platt, Stacey Snider, Todd Garner, Debra Chase, and the late John Singleton. She is the co-writer of Lifetime’s critically acclaimed biopic The Clark Sisters: The First Ladies of Gospel, which was nominated for five NAACP Image Awards, including outstanding writing. As a filmmaker, Camille has directed and produced six short films that have screened at the Sundance, Heartland, Pan African and San Luis Obispo film festivals. More recently, Camille has written a biopic for LeBron James’ Springhill Entertainment and Disney+, a TV pilot for 50 Cent’s G-Unit and the STARZ network and is a Writer/Executive Producer on the Gladys Knight limited series with Cineflix Studios.

GRAND PRIZE WINNERS (6)

The top 6 winning scripts will be invited to WeScreenplay’s Virtual Feature Screenwriting Lab! This is a once-in-a-career opportunity to network, get exposure for your writing, and learn from working writers. All industry guests will be participating in the Feature Lab subject to availability.

Winners will take part in an interactive 3 day virtual lab with hands-on workshops, industry meetings, and will learn from working writers. They will take meetings with development executives, writers, and learn how to make the most of a client/rep relationship from managers and agents.

Additionally, winners will receive guidance for drafting query letters, research methods for finding the right representation, and insight for next steps.