NEWS:
L. C. is currently in Los Angeles taking meetings on her scripts. She is
represented by entertainment law firm Myman, Abell, Fineman, Fox, Greenspan & Light.
L.
C. has completed her 20 page short script "Seeker" her part of a Vampire Anthology feature to be filmed this summer
in Atlanta.
L. C. has just been awarded a NAPTE 2009 Diversity Fellowship which gives
fellows access to top executives in broadcasting, cable, and the Internet.
L. C. has
been invited to submit a pitch for an original horror series for a major cable network.
L.
C. is currently in talks to write a feature trilogy based on a collection of short stories from an acclaimed supernatural/horror
writer.
L. C. is in pre-production on her dark-comedy short "Why I am a dog person"
which she wrote and will also co-produce and direct.
Award-winning screenwriters L. C. Cruell,
Diana Kemp-Jones, and Linda S. Scott have just completed perhaps the first all-female-written horror anthology feature script,
"Mistresses of Horror," combining six chilling tales of flesh and fear including L. C.'s "Switch" and
"The Adventures of Spinster Kitty." "Mistresses of Horror" is a Finalist
in the Horror Screenplay Awards and the 2008 Los
Angeles International Sci-Fi/Horror Film Festival A.K.A. Shriekfest. L.C. also has two other Finalist scripts in the Festival.
L. C. sold her dark comedy short, "The
Chickens are On Fire," to producer Oliver Lessard.
L. C. recently finished
working with director Attila Szász ("Now You See Me, Now You Don't") and production company Extreme Film
on a professional Script Polish assignment for the Hungarian director's upcoming supernatural feature "Zoe."
"Have Me For Dinner," a short horror/dark comedy film co-written by L.C., has been chosen
for screening at the Atlanta Horror Festival. The film was part of the Atlanta Film Festival's Rapid I Movement "film
a short in 50 hours" project.
L.C. recently wrote a short spoof on 80's slasher films, "The Horror, The Horror," for a colleague's "Footastic
Theatre" video series. It went to #1 of over 46,000 videos on www.funnyordie.com and was Video of the Week on Internet
Video Magazine.
L. C. has joined the writing staff
of EInsiders as a film critic. To see her reviews check out the review archive at
EInsiders.Com.
L. C. has joined the writing staff of Indie Express as a film festival critic. To see
her reviews of the Atlanta Film Festival and the Atlanta Jewish Film Festivals search those titles at IndieExpress.Com.
Sales on
RedStateResistance.Com , L.C.'s political webstore featuring Blue Political Action Wear and Gear for Blue People in Red States, doubled last year.
BIO:
Graduate with Honors from both Duke University
(Majors: History; Medieval & Renaissance Studies; Minor: Film/Video Theory & Practice) and Harvard Law School (specialization:
Entertainment law), L. C. is a versatile writer of screenplays, teleplays, shorts, pilots, plays, skits, etc., whose current
focus is on horror, thrillers, dark comedy, and sci-fi. L.C. is also a professional freelance writer/editor, film critic,
author of 25 published short stories, attorney/legal consultant, and a member of Women in Film, Science Fiction Writers of
America, and The Organization of Black Screenwriters.
SCREENPLAYS:
Blue Bloods
(Horror)
When small
town, country boy Will Cross gets into the best Ivy League college in the country, he was prepared to face off against snobs.
He was not prepared for Vampires. [Vampires in the Ivy League. "The Skulls" meets the "Lost Boys."]
Finalist, 2008 Shriekfest
Finalist, 2008
Horror Screenplay Contest
Semifinalist, 2008 PAGE International
Screenwriting Awards
Semifinalist, 2008
International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival Screenplay Contest
Semifinalist, 2008 Writers on the Storm Contest
Winner, 2008 20/20 Screenwriting Contest
Last Call for Angels
(Supernatural Thriller)
Dangerously dysfunctional
humans and angels gather at a bar on a night, which, depending on how things go there, could be the end of the world.
Top 10%, 2002 Nicholl
Fellowships in Screenwriting Competition
Top Ten Finalist, 2003 Roy W. Dean Writer’s Grant
Finalist, 2003 Indiefest Chicago Film Festival/Cyclone
Screenwriters Project
The Guardians
(Sci-Fi/Action/Conspiracy Thriller)
THEY are
everywhere. THEY have manipulated mankind from behind the scenes for a hundred years, are now ready to emerge, and have only
thing standing in their way… her. ["The X-Files" meets "The X-Men."]
3rd Place Winner, 2003 Breakthrough
with a Scream Contest
Finalist, 2003 Shriekfest
Top Four Finalist,
2000 Cynosure Screenwriting Awards
Armageddon at Coffeeheaven
(Comedy/Action/Thriller)
Sharp-tongued gen-X workers put snobby patrons and people from their past in
their place while piecing together their own as-of-yet unfulfilled lives and dreams in the midst of a cataclysmically chaotic
coffeehouse. [“Clerks” meets “Caddyshack.”]
First Place Winner, 2004 Expose It! Screenplay
Competition
Winner, Honorable Mention, 2003 Screenplay Festival
SHORT SCRIPTS:
Switch (Horror/Thriller)
Boy meets girl. One night. One moment. One choice. And romance becomes horror.
Finalist, 2007 Shriekfest
Semifinalist, 2007 Gimme a Break Contest
Afghan of Doom
(Dark Comedy/Horror)
With the best gifts, it really is the thought that counts.
Semifinalist, 2007 Shriekfest
Semifinalist,
2007 Gimme A Break Contest
Through
a Glass House Darkly
(Horror)
If the secrets a house holds are strong enough,
they will find a way out.
Finalist, 2008 Shriekfest
Semifinalist, 2008 American Gem Literary Festival
Working on the I-1
(Fantasy)
Two tollbooth workers make their way through the workday, or the two halves
of the human soul help each other survive life… whichever way you want to look at it.
5th Place,
2008 5th Annual Screenwriter’s Challenge First Round
The Chickens Are on Fire
(Dark Comedy)
The chickens are on fire?! What the hell does that mean?
Finalist, 2008
Broad Humor Film Festival
Top
50, 2008 Movie Script Short Contest
The
Adventures of Spinster Kitty
(Dark Comedy/Horror)
He will be the only man
in your life, by any means necessary.
Semifinalist, 2008 Shriekfest
TELEVISION SPECS:
The Devil Inside
Spec Script, "Supernatural"
What secret in this quiet mountain town is powerful enough to make a demon die… laughing?
(Newest Spec)
Sweet Dee Pimps Out the Boys
Spec
Script, "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"
Sweet Dee pimps out the boys, Charlie
becomes a cyber-porn star, and Mac gets litigious on everyone's ass.
Finalist,
2008 Broad Humor Film Festival And That Was the Night
that the Cable Went Out in Springfield Spec Script, "The Simpsons"
It's
the end of the world as we know it, and the only one who can save us is Homer Simpson.
Top Ten Finalist, 2003 ATalent Scout TV Competition
Semifinalist,
2003 10th Annual Writers Network, Anything But Hollywood,
American Accolades TV, and Austin Film Festival Prime Time
Previous Television Specs:
"Family Law" and "The X-Files"- winners of Scriptapalooza TV and the Organization of Black Screenwriters Television Script Competition and finalists in American Accolades TV and Austin Film Festival Prime Time.
