Tamara Steren

Pasadena, California

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January 2014

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About Tamara

I’m interested in telling stories with meaning, about hope, perseverance, and the goodness in people. Stories about standing up to fight for your rights, about picking yourself up and moving forward when all other options are unbearable.

Parts of me are sprinkled in every screenplay I write. Some of these things may be too painful to talk about, but putting them on paper is cathartic. Telling these stories may touch someone and show them that they are not alone.

Hope and justice are threads that run through all of my stories. Whether it’s standing up to cruelty and injustice to women, or saving a kidnapped orphan from a deadly fate, or opening a woman’s heart to love after a decade of heartbreak. Without hope, we die a little every day. I believe that bringing people together to fight for something positive, one justice at a time, lifts us up, and brings us hope.

My screenwriting has brought me several accolades. I won the Gold Script Writing Award winner in the WRPN Women's International Film Festival, a Top Romance Film & Screenplay Festival winner, and placed as Finalist in Table Read My Screenplay, and the California Women’s Film Festival. I’ve placed as Semi-finalist or Quarterfinalists in multiple screenwriting competitions.

In addition to screenwriting, I am a House Manager at the Pasadena Playhouse, and a Guest Services representative at the Dolby Theatre, in which my tenure has included eighteen Academy Awards. After many years in the advertising and entertainment industries, including The Walt Disney Company, my decision to focus on my writing has been the most fulfilling. I can’t imagine a day going by without writing and creating stories.

Gender:
Female

Badges

Loglines

Jewel Budget: $5M - $10M | Historical ⋄ Drama When a timid, rookie lawyer defends a case that hits close to home, she finds inspiration from her renowned actress-suffragist great grandmother's diaries for the courage to save women's lives and change the course of history.
I'll Give You My Heart Romance Ten years after her fiancé is killed on their wedding day, a traumatized young woman fights to keep her promise to never leave him, while protecting her grief-stricken heart from opening for a familiar stranger.
Every Ticket Tells A Story Budget: $5M - $10M | Family ⋄ Action When a young orphan in 1946 St. Louis is kidnapped, his brother enlists the help of a spunky, jilted, lovelorn secretary to help find him before he succumbs to the city’s dark secret.
Yia Yia's Kitchen Budget: $1M - $5M | Action ⋄ Mystery A young woman desperately searches to find her secret admirer, and stop him before he makes her deadly dreams come true.

Credits

Desire and Hell at Sunset Hotel (1991)
Film by Alien Castle Production Assistant

Awards

FINALIST - Awareness Film Festival
(2022)
FINALIST - Santa Barbara International Film Festival
(2022)
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Beverly Hills Film Festival
(2022)
OFFICIAL SELECTION - WRPN Women's International Film Festival
(2022)
GOLD SCRIPT WRITING AWARD - WRPN Women's International Film Festival
(2022)
GOLD SCRIPT HISTORICAL WRITING AWARD - WRPN Women's International Film Festival
(2022)
SILVER SCRIPT WRITING AWARD - WRPN Women's International Film Festival
(2022)
BRONZE SCRIPT WRITING AWARD - WRPN Women's International Film Festival
(2022)
QUARTER-FINALIST - ScreenCraft Fellowship
(2022)
SECOND ROUNDER - Austin Film Festival
(2022)
SEMI-FINALIST - Page Turner Screenplay Awards
(2022)
QUARTER-FINALIST - Page Turner Screenplay Awards
(2022)
Top 100 - Table Read My Screenplay AUSTIN
(2021)
FINALIST - Lonely Seal Film, Screenplay and Music Festival
(2021)
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Big Apple Film Festival and Screenplay Competition
(2021)
OFFICIAL SELECTION - New York International Screenplay Awards
(2021)
SEMI-FINALIST - Atlanta International Screenplay Awards
(2021)
SEMI-FINALIST - Creative World Awards
(2021)
QUARTER-FINALIST - The Golden Script Awards
(2021)
SEMI-FINALIST - ISA Genre Busting Screenplay Competition
(2021)
QUARTER-FINALIST - Nashville Film Festival
(2021)
QUARTER-FINALIST - New York International Screenplay Awards
(2021)
QUARTER-FINALIST - ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship
(2021)
SEMI-FINALIST - Table Read My Screenplay AUSTIN
(2021)
QUARTER-FINALIST - The Script Lab (TSL)
(2021)
SEMI-FINALIST - Big Apple Film Festival and Screenplay Competition
(2021)
SECOND ROUNDER - Launch Pad
(2021)
SEMI-FINALIST - New York City International Screenplay Awards
(2021)
QUARTER-FINALIST - New York City International Screenplay Awards
(2021)
FINALST - California Women's Film Festival
(2020)
QUARTER-FINALIST - Shore Scripts
(2020)
Quarter-Finalist Shore Scripts Feature Contest
(2019)
QUARTER-FINALIST - ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship
(2019)
TOP ROMANCE SCREENPLAY - Romance and Relationship Festival
(2019)
FINALIST in Table Read My Screenplay Park City
(2018)
Quarter-Finalist Screencraft Family Screenplay Contest
(2018)
Semi-Finalist in Stage 32 3rd Annual Feature Screenwriting Contest
(2017)