Cruell World

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L. C. Cruell - Screenwriter

Phone: 310.694.4363 |  lcruell@gmail.com

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.

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