Name: Aidan West
Graduation Year: 2020
Feature Track or TV Track: TV
Contact Email: aidanwest@g.ucla.edu
Bio: Aidan West is a writer and filmmaker from Vancouver, Canada. In 2019 he received the Alfred P. Sloan award for his screenplay "She Sells Sea Shells."
Logline #1: SUMMER CAN'T LAST FOREVER (half-hour, TV): A sixteen-year-old girl, her thirteen-year-old brother, and their friends enjoy the first days of summer break, until the news announces an asteroid is hurtling towards the planet, life on Earth is doomed, and the next few months may be their last.
Logline #2: LONG IN THE TOOTH (feature): An eighty-year-old retiree living in Florida, who is secretly a vampire, seeks revenge against the gang of vampire hunters who murdered his husband.
Logline #3: SHE SELLS SEA SHELLS (feature): The true story of an uneducated young woman whose ground-breaking fossil discoveries changed the world, all while she struggled to support her family and faced rejection from the male-dominated world of 19th century London academia.
Graduation Year: 2020
Feature Track or TV Track: TV
Contact Email: aidanwest@g.ucla.edu
Bio: Aidan West is a writer and filmmaker from Vancouver, Canada. In 2019 he received the Alfred P. Sloan award for his screenplay "She Sells Sea Shells."
Logline #1: SUMMER CAN'T LAST FOREVER (half-hour, TV): A sixteen-year-old girl, her thirteen-year-old brother, and their friends enjoy the first days of summer break, until the news announces an asteroid is hurtling towards the planet, life on Earth is doomed, and the next few months may be their last.
Logline #2: LONG IN THE TOOTH (feature): An eighty-year-old retiree living in Florida, who is secretly a vampire, seeks revenge against the gang of vampire hunters who murdered his husband.
Logline #3: SHE SELLS SEA SHELLS (feature): The true story of an uneducated young woman whose ground-breaking fossil discoveries changed the world, all while she struggled to support her family and faced rejection from the male-dominated world of 19th century London academia.