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," Indie Film L.A. Festival 2025. Produced by Phase4 Productions
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Selected: Short Film "End Run," Bay Area Indies Festival 2025
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Honorable Mention: Short film "End Run," Awareness Film Festival 2025
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Semifinalist in Writing: Josephson/Roadmap screenwriting competition 2024, for adaptable short stories
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Finalist in Writing: CinemaStreet Women’s Short Screenwriting Competition 2024
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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 three feature-lengths, and nine short-shorts of less than 10 minutes. All genres are drama.
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Short-shorts
"Truth Comes Home” - In this 2024 CinemaStreet Short Film Screenwriting Competition Finalist, a woman must disentangle her recently-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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Three feature film screenplays
“The Deserving” - When two patients need a lifesaving transplant but there’s only one organ donor, families boil over in deep emotions. A decision must be made about who lives and who dies.
“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.
Written in English but would benefit from being produced in both 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 government researcher conducting Arctic mining. A determined woman agent investigates his mysterious treason at the North Pole.