Other TV and Film Projects
Match
By Serita Stevens
optioned by Golden Gate Films
Match – When a mother, desperate to see her daughter happy, dies on the same day as a womanizing uncle, the pair collide in heaven and bicker about joining their dysfunctional kids but to do so they must risk their wings while they fall in love themselves and fix up the kids proving that love can happen at any age and anywhere.
Awards: Best Screenplay, Cinema City/ Best comedy Broad Humor Festival, Geller Festival finalist, Beverly Hills Film Festival Official selection, Screencraft Family finalist, 2018 Page Awards, Capitol Fund Semi-finals #28/7,000, Top 15% of Coverfly Comedy Awards
IN HIS NAME
By Serita Stevens
Format: Book -SCRIPT
Genre: Based on true historical events
Comps: A medieval family story – MASADA & WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING meets BRAVEHEART
IP true story – researched at the British Museum Library letters from Richard the Lionheart and a survivor – it’s the worst antisemitic attack in British history.
Logline: A spoiled, naïve daughter of a Jewish moneylender in York, England of 1190, who desperately wants to be part of the forbidden nobility, learns of a plot to kill the Jews of York and must risks her own life to try and save her family.”
Awards: Top 50 of ISA fellowship contestants; Emerging Writers Pilots Semi Finals -2023, Creative Screenwriting semifinals, Capital Funding semi finals, Page semifinals, Austin Film Festival – 2nd rounder. Capital Funding top30 -2023, 2026 – LA International Screenplay Awards – Semifinals. Top 10% LA Int’l Screenplay 2006
MARK OF THE DRAGON
By Serita Stevens, and Lindy Ryan
Format: Book -SCRIPT
Genre: Sci Fi Historical/Modern Drama
Comps: Jurassic Park meets Dracula meets Twilight
Logline: The evil order of the Dragon wants Vlad Dracul III (Dracula) reanimated through DNA. Only one woman – a direct descendant of Dracul and a genetic scientist – heir to the prophecy that can destroy his curse – is seduced and kidnapped by the modern son of Dracul and must make a final choice to bring Vlad’s evil back to the earth or along with his son to save humanity.
Serita adopted her daughter from Romania and told her friend, Sean McNamara, that the girl didn’t like garlic on her pizza – hence she must be a direct descendant of Count Vlad. Both stories are a result of those words.
BLOOD SISTERS
By Serita Stevens
Feature: Sci-fi Supernatural Fantasy
Comps: Dracula meets Hand That Rocks the Cradle
Series Logline: After testifying about a crime, a forensic nurse goes with her daughter into witness protection in a small town where despite the fear of being found, she becomes enmeshed in the search for a killer as she deals with her hostile teen and her personal demons.
Logline: When a fencing student reluctantly becomes a nanny for a Dracula obsessed girl as deaths pile up, the nanny begins to realize the young girl is not what she seems…but neither, the nanny realizes, is she.
Promises Maid
By Serita Stevens
Promises Maid – a short done for the 168 film festival – when an immigrant working for a wealthy family starts suspecting the father is abusing his daughter. He threatens exposing her status if she tells anyone, and she must decide to save the girl or save herself.