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 Aidan West

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. ​


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  • Creative Directory
    • Class of 2021 >
      • Abreu, Lucas
      • Angonese, Kristen
      • Arthur, Zachary
      • Bernhardt, Payton
      • Cardamone, Giulia
      • Celani, Bia
      • Deibert, Adam
      • Flanagan, Vanita
      • Gallion, Candice
      • Garcia, Isabella
      • Gaudet, Kelly
      • Grush, Rosalind
      • Hamilton, Kody
      • Hirsch, Jacob
      • Huchton, Connor
      • Jennings, Matthew
      • Lena, Amber
      • Lyu, Philip
      • Natarajan, Divija Mohan
      • Schiff, Augustus
      • Sharp, Aaron
      • Silverman, Erica
      • Wen, Amy
      • Whitaker, Marian
      • Wolf, Caitlin
      • Wootton, Samuel
      • Zhao, Jen
    • Class of 2020 >
      • Adams, Katie
      • Allender, Miranda
      • Azul, DJ
      • Bentley, James
      • Chatham, Tyler
      • Dalton, Aaron
      • Danna, Tyler
      • Dawson, Sophie
      • Doyle, Megan Patricia
      • Jakim, Elyssa
      • Johnson, Julian
      • Joyce, Natasha
      • Kim, Regina
      • Krishnan, Sanj
      • McCain, Amber
      • Overy, Alexandra
      • Parker, Jaclyn
      • Sarin, Mrittika 'Mou'
      • Sprangers, Paul
      • Strickland, John
      • Wang, Gene
      • West, Aidan
      • Wilkins, Catherine
      • Wilson, Jordan
      • Wilson, Mark Skeele
      • Wynn, Trevor
      • Quintanar, Jacqueline Eva
    • Class of 2019 >
      • Ainsfeld, Jeff Austin
      • Bean, Abigail
      • Berger, Stephanie
      • Berger, Taylor
      • Borg, Christina
      • Dil, Tanha
      • DiTullio, Alex
      • Fuller, JorDan
      • Gurzi, Jeremiah
      • Hines, Ryan Michael
      • Johnson, Griffin
      • Kozak, Jessica
      • Losch, Ariana
      • Malhotra, Yashna
      • Monaghan, Amy
      • Pascal, Lea
      • Priest, Sonny
      • Rasso, Erika
      • Reilly, Shannon
      • Shaffer, Tyrrell
      • Shore, Kianna
      • Sim, Harrison
      • Soares, Barbara
      • Strathmore, Kelly
      • Wignall, Catherine
      • Yin, Yiyi
    • Class of 2018 >
      • Abedin, Cooper
      • Ademulegun, Bisi
      • Altunin, Yaroslav
      • Batavia, Julia
      • Beall, Charles
      • Buda, Liz
      • Chambers, Mark
      • Cieslar, Katrine
      • Emerson, Skye
      • Gilman, Dan
      • Hamill, Ian
      • Harter, Julia
      • Masters, Leon
      • Mizrahi, Jake
      • Moriarty, Julia
      • Pinzon, Nico
      • Potter, Jordan
      • Schmid, Belinda
      • Segal, Guido
      • Stratton, Danielle
      • Tino, Dan
      • Tucker, Trina
      • Vivell, Steven
      • Wankier, Andrew
      • Whang, Laura
      • Wolter, Kimberly-Rose
      • Yim, Paul
    • Class of 2017 >
      • Adams, Nick
      • Atrach, Dana
      • Calbert, David
      • Carnie, Karolyn
      • Elbogen, Eli
      • Giles Dunn, Raeann
      • Gordon, Jeff S.
      • Jahagirdar, Mitali
      • Kazer, Vincent
      • Larsen, Mads
      • Maloney, Maggie
      • Mejia, Natalia
      • Shields, Anthony
      • Siara, Joey
      • White, Lynelle
      • Zhu, Yijun
    • Class of 2016 >
      • Adeeb, Mouhamed
      • Christensen, Jeremy
      • Donovan, Christian
      • Karch, Kevin
      • Sachi, Shoshana
    • Additional Alumni >
      • Horton, Aubrey
    • Alumni in the News
  • Screenwriters Showcase
    • Showcase Info
    • 2020 Showcase Winners
    • 2019 Showcase Winners
    • 2018 Showcase Winners
    • 2017 Showcase Winners
    • Previous Winners
  • Incoming Students
    • Do Now
    • Enrollment
    • International Students >
      • Before You Arrive
      • After You Arrive
    • Bureaucracy Stuff
    • First Quarter Info
    • California Residency
    • Money and Working >
      • Internships
      • Scholarships, Fellowships, Grants
      • Teaching Assistantship
    • Questions Incoming Students Ask in June: Answered
    • Quotes and Advice >
      • Class Advice
      • Five Pointers
      • Got a Family? Read This!
      • “Incoming”
      • Specific Writing Tips
  • UCLA Life
    • Living in LA
    • Driving in LA
    • Health Insurance
    • Food on Campus
    • Westwood
  • Resources
    • Campus Info
    • International Screenwriters Association >
      • ISA Emerging Screenwriters Screenplay Competition
      • ISA FastTrack Fellowship
      • ISA Table Read My Screenplay
    • Nerative (script reading service)
    • Screenwriting Resources
    • Writing Contests
    • Writers' Lounge