Name: Evan Graham
Email: ivangram@gmail.com
Graduation Year: 2021
Track: Feature Track
Short Bio: Evan was born and raised by his school teacher mom in tornado-kissed Moore, Oklahoma. In lieu of braving the outdoors, he watched everything he could get ahold of, from The Seventh Seal to Murder, She Wrote.
At the University of Oklahoma he majored in zoology and history, then discovered in his third year of med school that doctoring wasn’t for him. He was forced to utter the words all parents dread: “Mom, I’ve always wanted to be a screenwriter.”
He writes historical and sci-fi stories.
Title #1: The Great Mortality
Project Type #1: Feature
Project Genre #1: Dramedy
Logline #1: As the Black Death lands on England’s shores, a money-hungry noblemen insists on keeping the town of Bristol open for WOOLAPALOOZA, the ridiculous international wool fair he organized as a get-rich-quick scheme. The only thing standing in his way: a seventeen-year-old budding physician and her ragtag band of allies, who are determined to save as many lives as possible by closing Bristol down.
Title #2: Anabasis
Project Type #2: TV - Hour Long
Project Genre #2: Historical, Sci-Fi
Logline #2: A working-class forty-something single mother finally realizes her life-long dream of studying history at a university, only to learn that she has stage four breast cancer. Though devastated, she finds new hope and meaning as she experiences a series of visions of a past life from 401BCE in which she was a Greek mercenary who joins a military expedition into the heart of Persia that devolves into a desperate thousand-mile march for survival.
Email: ivangram@gmail.com
Graduation Year: 2021
Track: Feature Track
Short Bio: Evan was born and raised by his school teacher mom in tornado-kissed Moore, Oklahoma. In lieu of braving the outdoors, he watched everything he could get ahold of, from The Seventh Seal to Murder, She Wrote.
At the University of Oklahoma he majored in zoology and history, then discovered in his third year of med school that doctoring wasn’t for him. He was forced to utter the words all parents dread: “Mom, I’ve always wanted to be a screenwriter.”
He writes historical and sci-fi stories.
Title #1: The Great Mortality
Project Type #1: Feature
Project Genre #1: Dramedy
Logline #1: As the Black Death lands on England’s shores, a money-hungry noblemen insists on keeping the town of Bristol open for WOOLAPALOOZA, the ridiculous international wool fair he organized as a get-rich-quick scheme. The only thing standing in his way: a seventeen-year-old budding physician and her ragtag band of allies, who are determined to save as many lives as possible by closing Bristol down.
Title #2: Anabasis
Project Type #2: TV - Hour Long
Project Genre #2: Historical, Sci-Fi
Logline #2: A working-class forty-something single mother finally realizes her life-long dream of studying history at a university, only to learn that she has stage four breast cancer. Though devastated, she finds new hope and meaning as she experiences a series of visions of a past life from 401BCE in which she was a Greek mercenary who joins a military expedition into the heart of Persia that devolves into a desperate thousand-mile march for survival.