Mickey Falcone is a queer Italian-American screenwriter from New York, currently making the sprawling suburb of Los Angeles home. After a decade in the closet and the financial world, Mickey came out as both gay and a screenwriter; and at 30 years old went back to school at NYU’s Tisch School of Arts for screenwriting. Since then, Mickey has won the LifeWtr Life Unseen Challenge sponsored by Issa Rae, earned 8’s on the Blacklist for his autobiographical half-hour comedy, and is currently pitching his three features, all placing in AFF, Cinestory and PAGE Intl. As a writer, a filmmaker and a student of the craft, Mickey seeks to explore unique, historical, and often uncharted aspects of the queer experience to elevate representation and move the social outlook from pride to glory.
Charles Xavier Kilborn (he/him) is a motivational speaker, spoken-word artist, plant papa and Drama writer of Trans Experience who utilizes dark humor as a vehicle for transformation or being a professional goofball. He currently lives in Baltimore where he does crucial work not just as a writer and graphic designer, but as a Queer advocate, recovering alcoholic, community healer and literal magic. Because writing stories saved his life, his work as a filmmaker focuses on radical honesty by creating uncanny worlds and complicated characters that show no one is disposable.
PAGES Matam (they/he) is a genderqueer med-school dropout turned award-winning poet, performer and Drama writer who was born and raised in Cameroon, Central Africa, blossomed in the DMV and currently lives & works in Los Angeles. A kinky pleasure activist and agent of imagination fluent in four languages, they love battle-horror anime and fried plantains as much as crafting Black, queer stories on the fantastical aspects of grief and the dynamic healing it ushers fueled by Toni Morrison’s words: “the function of freedom is to free someone else.”
Philip Malaczewski is a Philadelphia native (yes, he’s “Phil from Philly”) and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Cinema Studies program. His love of movies began at a young age with classic big budget 90s movies from Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton and James Cameron - and was further solidified in his teenage years when he discovered the films of Alfred Hitchcock and Quentin Tarantino. In college, he wrote film reviews for UPenn’s student newspaper and Philadelphia Weekly while also interning as a script reader for a local producer. For over a decade he’s worked numerous roles in the film and media industries, including a copywriter for movie marketing materials, a movie poster designer, and a film distribution salesperson. Eventually he turned his love of writing about movies into a love of writing movies and has been writing spec screenplays and TV pilots in earnest for the past five years. His scripts often feature LGBTQ protagonists and explore genre conventions from a queer perspective. He’s a three-time winner of the Greater Philadelphia Film Office’s Set In Philadelphia Screenplay Competition and, in 2019, moved from Philadelphia to Los Angeles to more seriously pursue screenwriting.
Tyler Medina-Minerva is a writer hailing from Queens, New York. His work concerns the struggles of outsiders in an unyielding effort to extend to them the empathy and recognition they might have elsewhere been denied. He believes writing for television would be a good way of doing that.
Jasmine Ogunjimi is a Nigerian-American Professional Athlete turned Screenwriter and Filmmaker from Chicago. Before selling her soul to FinalDraft, you could catch her playing basketball across the globe, dancing backup for celebrities - although no one ever believes her, and adding to her running list of ways people mispronounce her name. She enjoys writing dramedies that explore faith, sports, social institutions, and grounded characters with skin dark enough to make Beverly Hills nervous.
Eudie Pak was born and raised in a chaotic working-class immigrant family from the Deep South surrounded by religious fundamentalism and unsupervised horror movies; to this day, she doesn't know which is scarier. She channels her past experiences by writing dark dramas and dramatic comedies about psychologically complex antiheroes who must reconcile with their inner demons.