Kate Schultz
Screenwriter
ABOUT
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Screenwriter, based in the U.S., San Francisco Bay Area
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Semifinalist in Josephson Entertainment/Roadmap 2024 competition for adaptable short stories
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Finalist in CinemaStreet Women’s Short Screenplay Competition 2024
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Finalist and Commendation in the London-based Women Over 50 International Film Festival Screenwriting Competitions, 2024 and 2023
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Screenplay “End Run” produced by Phase4 Productions, currently in 2025 film-festival competitions
SKILLS
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Production assistant on numerous independent film projects
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Writer-editor at Santa Barbara News-Press, and Ventura County Star, more than a decade - Freelance writer covering creative arts and science in Business Insider, Daily Beast, Bay Nature.org, Livestrong, VC Reporter, The.Fix.com, and more
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Member, Women In Film Bay Area Chapter, Incubator Writing Workshop
LOGLINES
Development-ready screenplays include three feature-lengths, and nine short-shorts of less than 10 minutes. All genres are drama.
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Short-shorts
"Truth Comes Home” - In this 2024 CinemaStreet Short Film Screenwriting Competition Finalist, a woman must disentangle her recently-deceased father’s financial morass from family secrets.
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"Sick Day" - In this 2023 Women Over 50 International Film Festival Screenwriting Competition Finalist, a man prevents his wife from getting a Covid vaccine.
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"Heroes for Hazel" - In this 2024 Women Over 50 International Film Festival Screenwriting Competition Finalist, a woman avoids being robbed by her conniving nephew.
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"In Flight" - Their forefathers’ painful emigrations are recalled by descendants, a pair of international flight attendants.
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“The Birthday Bond” - A teen girl’s fear of her father drives her to desperate decisions.
“Heavy Wings” - A drastic accident jolts the love affair of two ballet dancers.
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“Cowgirls Go To Rehab” - Conflict between women confined to a recovery home turns to collaboration when they try to escape.
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“Bite Down” - Set in 1890-1900 Wyoming, an itinerant white male tax-assessor meets a mixed-race ranching family.
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Three feature film screenplays
“The Deserving” - An irresponsible young woman with terminal alcoholic liver disease competes for a place on a list of potential liver transplant patients, before her time runs out.
“Unburied Love” - Adult children of Honduran immigrants become U.S. police officers, only to face the northern side of cartel violence their parents had fled.
Written in English but would benefit from being produced in both Spanish and English.
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“Spy on Thick Ice” - An aging scientist had betrayed the U.S. to Russia, when he was a young government researcher conducting Arctic mining. A determined woman agent investigates his past, and his mysterious treason at the North Pole.