MOUNT PLEASANT
It’s 1889: When her brother does not return from the mysterious Mount Pleasant Indian boarding school, a young Comanche girl must escape the reservation in search of answers and to find her place in the changing American West.
WINNER - Screencraft Pilot Launch
WINNER - Shore Scripts TV Pilot Competition
WINNER - Athena Film Festival Television lab
FINALIST - Series Fest Women's Writing Competition
SELECTED - ATX Television Festival + The Black List Writing Program
FINALIST - The Black List / Verizon go90 Young Adult Fellowship
FINALIST - Women in Film + The Black List Episodic Lab
FINALIST - Stowe Story Labs Seed&Spark Fellowship
Second Round Sundance Film Institute Episodic Lab
4th PLACE FINALIST - WeScreenplay TV Competition
QUARTERFINALIST - Academy Nicholl Fellowship
SEMIFINALIST - Page International Screenwriting Awards
TOP 50 - International Screenwriters' Association FastTrack Fellowship
SEMIFINALIST - Screencraft Jamaica Writer's Residency
SEMIFINALIST - Diverse Voices WeScreenplay
SEMIFINALIST - ScreenCraft Fellowship
SECOND ROUND - Austin Film Festival
SEMIFINALIST- CineStory TV/Digital Fellowship
QUARTER-FINALIST - PAGE International Screenwriting Awards
QUARTER-FINALIST - PAGE International Screenwriting Awards
Monthly TOP SCRIPTS List on the BlackList
Reviews
"The premise is driven by a female protagonist, and layered with clashes of culture and race that feel relevant to a modern audience’s experience."
The BLACK LIST
“Feels like a horror film as much as American History. ”
SLAMDANCE
“This is an utterly evocative, deeply compelling story...the writer weaves a complex, nuanced narrative with built-in cinematic potential worthy of a series.”
The BLACK LIST
“This script is absolutely stellar. It sets up a clear narrative drive for a full-on series, holds intriguing characters, an honest tone, and is full of dramatic moments that humanize its cast.”
WeScreenplay
"The characterization is skillful, with just the right touch of resistance, prejudice, and threat of violence to keep this story believable without resorting to exaggeration to make its point."
BlueCat Competition
“It's all so horrifying, like it's out of a ghost story, but the real horror is that it is all true.”
The BLACK LIST
"It’s a vital and unflinching pilot that looks to the past to tell a story packed with timely sociopolitical relevance."
SCREENCRAFT
“Lola is a powerful protagonist. Strong-willed and thick-veined. She's a young girl forced into early adulthood by circumstance and determined to save her family at any cost. It's a potentially deep and provocative role."
The BLACK LIST
“A gripping, often difficult, depiction of the eradication of a way of life, tackling big themes through the perspective of a single, determined girl.”
THE BLACK LIST
"The characterization is excellent with the dialogue consistently revealing important details. The storyline moves at a good pace and while brutally violent, the story doesn’t feel exploitative, but rather historically accurate."
Executive at Universal Cable
