Sarah Makes Movies
Screenwriting
Sarah is focused primarily on writing for film and television. She also has experience writing, short stories, novels, podcast scripts, and comic scripts. Below is a selection of current projects.
Seeds
Feature
When a blight ruins yet another harvest on the exoplanet Earth Colony 7, a hard-headed, fifth-generation farmer must find a cure to bring the colony back from the brink of extinction.
Undesirables
Feature
After swapping life sentences for an experimental deep space mission, a crew of convicts must decide whether to save humanity when their ship’s computer detects an alien presence.
Side Effects
One-Hour TV Pilot
When a guileless marketer is brought in-house to run a biotech company’s campaign for a new supplement, she discovers a vast conspiracy to domesticate the population.
Snake Oil
One-Hour TV Pilot
After the death of her abusive husband, a young widow takes his patent medicine business on the road to carve out a new life for herself in the American West. When her brother-in-law discovers his brother’s death, he pressures the local sheriff to go after her for murder.
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Selection for the Stowe Story Labs Writers Room 2024-25
La Mochila Express
One-Hour TV Pilot
An all-woman motorcycle club runs mail between survivors' camps after the world ends. When a group of roamers threaten the women's way of life, one of the members must save the club.
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Top 50, 2021 Launch Pad Prose Competition
Top 50, 2021 Roadmap's Write Start Manuscript Competition
Semifinalist, 2022 The Script Lab Free Screenplay Contest
Pieces & Parts
Feature
A reluctant funeral director tries to save her father's funeral home by selling body parts to make ends meet.
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Selection for the Stowe Story Lab Narrative Lab 2024
The Wind Down
One-Hour TV Pilot
When her co-CEO decides to leave their hedge fund, a single workaholic tries to save the fund by herself.
