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About Sandi
Sandra Jerome (Sandi) is a screenwriter and novelist and graduate of UCLA’s Advanced Screenwriting program. Her screenplay, Runaway Cricket, is being produced as an animated musical by BlackOrb Studios. Two of her scripts, Last Hand and First Man were Quarterfinalists in Nicholl’s Fellowship. Sandi is an enrolled and blood member of the Cherokee Nation and winner of the 2023 Native American Media Alliance Fellowship.
Sandi is an avid women’s soccer fan, and her latest comedy, Technically Soccer (Formally - Aim Me, Coach) involves AI and women's professional soccer. She has coached, played, and refereed soccer for over twenty years.
She grew up on an avocado farm in Escondido and was the "go to" kid to climb up high and pick the top fruit. She would then jump down into the thick pile of leaves and thought she could fly! She created Kira and Henry - where the teen princess has to hide the secret that she can fly or be banished from the kingdom. It was a 2nd Rounder in 2023 Austin Film Festival where she pitched live and survived!
Sandi loves designing edible gardens and doing botany experiments. Her early fascination with science and the nearby San Onofre Nuclear Generating station inspired her to write a female-lead action script, Use of Deadly Force. Her husband was a technical writer in the nuclear industry and ensured its authenticity.
She is a native Californian, born in Santa Ana. She belonged to a Science and Technology group and helped develop a volunteer Web on Wheels program that brought email to residents of assisted living centers. This inspired her body-switching comedy – Time for Lily, which was a First-Round Finalist in Script Magazine Open Door Contest.
As a former computer programmer, she has been granted two patents for software design and recently sold her software company. She wrote a script, Last Woman, that involves the multi-universe and technology gone awry. Sandi was the first editor of Digital Dealer and wrote computer software reviews for major publications and numerous published computer guides.
Sandi is a long-time Disney fan, annual passholder and certified Disney expert. She wrote Pixie Dust Death as a young adult novel set at the Magic Kingdom and Grand Floridian. Pixie Dust Death is part of Sandi's Wilma Wallaby Genius Girl Detective Series has 5-star reviews and good rankings on Amazon. Her young adult novel, Sleep Warrior, about her actual Cherokee ancestor, is on Coverfly’s Red List.
Sandi's family is part of the Wolf Clan of the Cherokee tribe, and she has written two screenplays with wolves. NOT werewolves - these wolves are real. Blood Moon Wolf teen fantasy about a wolf turning into the girl (spirit guide) and Nature's Way is a faith-based movie (where you often don't see wolves and rom-coms.)
Unique traits: Member of the Cherokee Nation, Disney fan, soccer player
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Time for Lily Budget: $100K - $1M | Comedy An elderly woman at an assisted living center and the driven, nearly divorced director -- switch bodies, forcing them to face their prejudices and fight to keep the home from being closed by the corporate bosses. Freaky Friday with 80 for Brady.
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Use of Deadly Force Budget: $10M - $30M | Action When neo-fascist terrorists take over a nuclear power plant, a former Marine K9 sergeant struggling to adjust to civilian life must learn to break some rules to save the plant, the public and her daughter.
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Last Hand Family ⋄ Drama When a young, driven female blackjack dealer gets blackballed and then loses her job, she decides to reconcile with her father and enlist his help to win a blackjack tournament and seek revenge against the casino owner who wrongly put her dad in prison.
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Last Woman Budget: $100K - $1M | Sci-fi ⋄ Drama A brilliant female scientist brutally attacked in college develops an electromagnetic device that makes her disappear, but when she starts testing it on herself, she struggles to understand what is happening to her world, and she must decide -- to be safe and alone in a "nothing" world or return and find the family she loves, but it contains the man who terrorizes her.
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Last Man Budget: $5M - $10M | Comedy An ambitious and focused newly appointed Vice President doesn't want anything to get in her way on the road to the White House, but when she reunites with her college sweetheart, she struggles to decide if our country is ready for a former pro baseball player with opposing political views as our unconventional next First Gentleman.
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Technically Soccer: Release the Droids! Budget: $1M - $5M | Comedy ⋄ Sci-fi When the captain of a women's professional soccer team finds out it has been sold to a former rival who plans to coach it with a droid, she must find the humanity in AI technology before her angry teammates destroy the robot and the team.
Credits
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Runaway Cricket (
2001 - 2023 )
Film by Black Orb, Martine Gaudissart (Musical) Screenwriter, Story Black Orb is a 3D ANIMATION company SINCE 1998 Runaway Cricket is their first full length animated musical feature
Awards
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Second Place, https://scriptapaloozatv.com/winners/
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Semifinalist, Final Draft - Big Break 2023 - Last Woman
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Winner - Native American Media Alliance Fellowship - Blood Moon Wolf
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Second-round finalist Austin Film Festival with Kira and Henry
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Semifinalist, Outstanding Screenplays Feature Competition 2022 - Last Hand
(2022)
Education
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UCLA
(2000-2002)
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