Zip

Leon Zipza was a nobody—until a grinning pizza mascot ruined his life. Haunted by the Zipza Gremlin, a cartoon caricature he believes is modeled after him, Leon spirals into a surreal descent of paranoia, ridicule, and existential rage. When public humiliation and corporate gaslighting push him to the brink, he storms a Zippy’s Pizza with a shotgun and one demand: kill the Gremlin.

  • Mike J. McAllister
    Writer
    I Never Saw Venice, Fish
  • T.C. De Witt
    Writer
    The Demon Detective, La Matadora
  • Project Type:
    Screenplay
  • Genres:
    Dark Comedy, Crime
  • Number of Pages:
    101
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Writer Biography - Mike J. McAllister, T.C. De Witt

T.C. De Witt is a multi-awarded writer/director originally from Wisconsin and now based in Los Angeles. His life has been devoted to the arts since he was a child. He’s been a stage performer, playwright, stand-up comic, film and television actor, radio DJ, podcaster published author, recorded musician, and comic writer/illustrator. He is now a professional screenwriter and has been thriving for the past decade, regularly offering his talents to production studios in LA, Chicago, Milwaukee, and internationally in Sydney and Poland. He’s provided content for Amazon Prime, Netflix, and several YouTube partners. His films have screened internationally, and his stageplays have been performed across the country. In the last ten years, he has directed 57 films, 23 episodes of his series The One Minute Rewatch, 300+ episodes of podcasts, and his multi-award-winning short film Screen: Righter screened at the Festival de Cannes in 2016. He has released three feature films, The Princess Knight, A Christmas Sunset and The Demon Detective . He thrives on collaboration and the thrill of sharing stories in all forms.

Mike J. McAllister is a Pennsylvania-born award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker based in Austin, Texas, known for emotionally driven, genre-defying stories that blend horror, dark comedy, drama, and coming-of-age realism. His work often explores themes of alienation, spiritual decay, and social systems on the verge of collapse—told through the eyes of flawed, compelling outsiders. In addition to screenwriting, Mike is an accomplished director, editor, and animator. His award-winning short films — Mercer County, You're On The Air, I Know We'll Meet Again, and I Never Saw Venice — have screened at festivals around the world, praised for their unique voice, visual flair, and emotional depth. He has collaborated with Twitch and YouTube creators, the Austin-based entertainment site OneOfUs.Net, and live events with The Roxy Horror Picture Show and One Man’s Trash. Mike is currently developing new feature and television projects and is actively seeking representation.

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