PAMELA WINFREY
Curator
Writer/Creator
MY SPECIALTIES:
•Surreal technology-driven scripts
(think Her, Arrival, Black Mirror)
•Intense mid-western dramas
(think Winter’s Bone, Field of Dreams)
•Strong female leads
(think Let the Right One In, Spirited Away)
PROJECTS
Feature Film Scripts
"Singularity in Love"
A feature about the first AI to have been convicted of committing murder but who is actually the first AI to fall in love with a human.
Currently being written on spec with Lisanne Sartor for Xing Xing Digital Corporation based in Beijing, China
Award
Screencraft Finalist 2017 (as a short)
"No Coffee?"
A disaster satire that addresses climate change in the most concrete example possible: What happens when we wake up and there is no more coffee?
Award
A selection for the 2019 Portland Comedy Festival
"When the Whale Comes"
When a 70 year old hoarder becomes friends with a 14 year old dope dealer they surmount hauntings, violence, and lies to conquer their own personal demons.
Awards
Shore Scripts Feature Contest (2018)
The Writers Lab US (2019)
ScreenCraft Drama Competition Quarterfinalist (2022)
CineStory Feature Retreat and Fellowship (2022)
Stowe Story Labs Programs and Fellowships Application (2022)
WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Lab Quarterfinalist (Spring 2022)
Launch Pad Feature Competition (10th Annual)Top 100 (2023)
"Alanine World"
A mother loses her daughter within an anime world and must overcome her racist ideas against the Japanese to rescue her.
Award
ScreenCraft Animation Competition Quarterfinalist (2020)
"Horseless"
Based on a true story, Bertha Benz steals her husband’s automobile and sets out in 1888 on the first ever road trip.
TELEVISION SCRIPTS
TELEVISION SCRIPTS
"It's Boy!"
In 2015, British scientists discovered a way to turn female bone marrow into sperm, allowing women to reproduce without the need of male companionship. Based on this new research, this pilot explores an all-female world a thousand years in the future and what occurs when a boy is born.
Award
Runner up at Wise Words, Roadmap Writers, 2017
"Water"
In a world where water defines class, a young girl from a water desert is forced to befriend a girl who is being raised to be sold to the highest bidder.
Also written as a Young Adult novel which has received a potential option.
Awards
ScreenCraft Sci-Fi & Fantasy Screenwriting Competition (2020) Quarterfinalist
Writing Climate: Pitchfest for Film and TV Semi-Finalist (2022)
Athena Film Festival Virtual Writers Lab Selection (2022)
SHORT SCRIPTS
"Singularity in Love"
What happens when an artificial intelligence is better than humans at love, the most human emotion of all?
Awards (as a short)
Runner up at the Citizen Jane Film Festival 2017
One of fifty finalists, Screencraft 2018
ScreenCraft Film Fund (Fall 2018) Quarterfinalist
SHORT FILMS
"Tiffany Gets Really Mad"
A SHORT ANIMATION
No one wants to see how mad a girl can really get.
Tiffany is a kid whose life is filled with the usual doldrums of middle school when incrementally, these small irritations pile up and she explodes in a brilliant, vivid, violent, rampage. She destroys almost everything, including her own life, before she realizes that life is a precious thing and that no matter how awful things get, there’s always a way out.
A collaboration with composer, Richard Jennings.
Award
Finalist for California Women's Film Festival
"QUARANTEEN: A GHOST STORY"
During the COVID pandemic, an American teenager struggles in her relationship with her mom and living in a foreign country, while being haunted by a ghost who died of the Spanish Flu.
A short film written by Pamela Winfrey and John Lewis
Shot/Summer 2023
In post
Awards
HollyShorts Screenwriting Competition (2021)Quarterfinalist
Scriptapalooza Screenplay Competition (2022)Quarterfinalist
Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition (Fall 2021)Finalist
"The Last Horse"
When a grieving father decides to kill his dead daughter’s beloved horse, she haunts him, determined to prevent him from such a brutal act.
(produced and wrote)
"The Ride Out" (w/ Terry Selucky)
When a Black cowboy dies, he has a vision of those who have gone before him.
(produced and wrote)