Kate Schultz
Screenwriter
ABOUT
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Screenwriter based in U.S., San Francisco Bay Area
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Selected: Short Film "End Run", 2026 PoppyJasper International Film Festival, Gilroy, CA
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Selected: Short film "End Run," 2025 Indie Film L.A. Festival
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Selected: Short Film "End Run," 2025 Bay Area Indies Film Festival
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Honorable Mention: Short film "End Run," 2025 Awareness Film Festival
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Semifinalist in Writing: Josephson/Roadmap 2024 Screenwriting Competition for adaptable short stories
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Finalist in Writing: CinemaStreet 2024 Women’s Short Screenwriting Competition
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Finalist and Commendation in Writing: Women Over 50 International Film Festival Screenwriting Competitions, 2024 and 2023
SKILLS
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Production assistant on numerous independent film projects
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Writer-editor at news sites and magazines more than a decade, covering arts and science
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Member, Women In Film Bay Area Chapter, and Bay Area Indies
LOGLINES
Development-ready screenplays include four feature-lengths, and nine short-shorts of less than 10 minutes. All genres are drama. A written pitch for an episodic series focuses on historical women-warrior protagonists.
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Short-shorts
"Please Tell Me” - In this 2024 CinemaStreet Short Film Screenwriting Competition Finalist, a man must disentangle his deceased father’s financial morass from family secrets.
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"Sick Day" - In this 2023 Women Over 50 International Film Festival Screenwriting Competition Finalist, a man prevents his wife from getting a Covid vaccine.
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"Heroes for Hazel" - In this 2024 Women Over 50 International Film Festival Screenwriting Competition Finalist, a woman avoids being robbed by her conniving nephew.
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"In Flight" - Their forefathers’ painful emigrations are recalled by descendants, a pair of international flight attendants, as they fly over the Atlantic Ocean.
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“The Birthday Bond” - A teen girl’s fear of her father drives her to desperate decisions.
“Heavy Wings” - A drastic accident jolts the love affair of two ballet dancers.
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“Cowgirls Go To Rehab” - Conflict between women confined to a recovery home turns to collaboration when they try to escape.
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“Bite Down” - Set in 1890-1900 Wyoming, an itinerant white male tax-assessor meets a mixed-race ranching family.
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Feature film screenplays
"Stone Erosion" - The romance of two journalists in love is torn apart in their fight for Freedom of Press.
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“The Deserving” - When two patients need a lifesaving transplant but there’s only one organ donor, families boil over in deep emotions.
“Unburied Love” - Adult children of Honduran immigrants become U.S. police officers, only to face the northern side of cartel violence their parents had fled.
In English, but should be produced in Spanish and English.
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“Spy on Thick Ice” - An aging scientist had betrayed the U.S. to Russia, when he was a young researcher in Arctic mining. The impact seeps into present time, when a determined woman agent investigates his mysterious treason.
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Written Pitch
An eight-episode series of synopses, "The Confounders" covers centuries of women protagonists with magical powers to save themselves and others.