Name: Amy Wen
Graduation Year: 2021
Feature Track or TV Track: Feature
Contact Email: amywen42@ucla.edu
Short Bio: Amy Wen was born in a speck of a town in rural China where there were no paved roads. At age 6, she came to Canada with her mother and embarked on a journey of readjustment and learning that is still in progress, but the future looks bright; she pursued a BA in English & Creative Writing at Western University, studied Spanish at the Universidad de Salamanca, and after toiling in customer service and odd freelance editing jobs for a few years, she landed a spot at UCLA’s Screenwriting MFA program. Here she’s learning more about the writer’s craft that she has had the insatiable need to dedicate her life to ever since she was a child, in a tiny Chinese town with no paved roads, dreaming of all the fantastic worlds she would create when she grew up.
Short Artist Statement: I love writing stories that explore concentrated moments of human nature, brought out by real, multi-dimensional people in fantastical situations. Hopefully, someday soon, they’re the stories that your friend can’t stop talking to you about the next time you meet for coffee.
Logline #1: AMERICANARAMA - Feature -A smart but stubborn Asian-American teenage girl and her dysfunctional family relocates from the city to a quiet, secluded town that’s still dead set on their 40s-70s Golden Age of America roots. When it becomes clear that the family aren’t able to fully assimilate, the town residents’ perky, hospitable facades begin to slip, one by one.
Logline #2: WICKED GOOD - Feature - After the death of her father, a skeptical pessimist delves deep into the occult, and invites an onslaught of malicious spirits along with the attentions of a powerful local coven. She must maneuver between the pitfalls of both hard skepticism and paranoia, all while trying to recover from her profound grief.
Logline #3: DARA - TV Show - A witty, sarcastic high school outcast discovers her words have powerful hypnotic potential, and moonlights as a vigilante to pursue the masked politician activating mind-controlled sleeper agents in the adults of her city and turning loved ones against each other.
Name three movies or TV shows that inspire you: Annihilation, Pan’s Labyrinth, Ex Machina
Graduation Year: 2021
Feature Track or TV Track: Feature
Contact Email: amywen42@ucla.edu
Short Bio: Amy Wen was born in a speck of a town in rural China where there were no paved roads. At age 6, she came to Canada with her mother and embarked on a journey of readjustment and learning that is still in progress, but the future looks bright; she pursued a BA in English & Creative Writing at Western University, studied Spanish at the Universidad de Salamanca, and after toiling in customer service and odd freelance editing jobs for a few years, she landed a spot at UCLA’s Screenwriting MFA program. Here she’s learning more about the writer’s craft that she has had the insatiable need to dedicate her life to ever since she was a child, in a tiny Chinese town with no paved roads, dreaming of all the fantastic worlds she would create when she grew up.
Short Artist Statement: I love writing stories that explore concentrated moments of human nature, brought out by real, multi-dimensional people in fantastical situations. Hopefully, someday soon, they’re the stories that your friend can’t stop talking to you about the next time you meet for coffee.
Logline #1: AMERICANARAMA - Feature -A smart but stubborn Asian-American teenage girl and her dysfunctional family relocates from the city to a quiet, secluded town that’s still dead set on their 40s-70s Golden Age of America roots. When it becomes clear that the family aren’t able to fully assimilate, the town residents’ perky, hospitable facades begin to slip, one by one.
Logline #2: WICKED GOOD - Feature - After the death of her father, a skeptical pessimist delves deep into the occult, and invites an onslaught of malicious spirits along with the attentions of a powerful local coven. She must maneuver between the pitfalls of both hard skepticism and paranoia, all while trying to recover from her profound grief.
Logline #3: DARA - TV Show - A witty, sarcastic high school outcast discovers her words have powerful hypnotic potential, and moonlights as a vigilante to pursue the masked politician activating mind-controlled sleeper agents in the adults of her city and turning loved ones against each other.
Name three movies or TV shows that inspire you: Annihilation, Pan’s Labyrinth, Ex Machina