Clark Ransom

Screenwriter

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June 2020

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About Clark

Clark is a produced and optioned screenwriter with a focus on Sci-Fi, Dark Dramedy, and True Stories. Clark has successfully collaborated with Producers and other screenwriters on several projects. Most of his projects are grounded in themes of "the haves and the have-nots", classicism, and coming-of-age characters. Clark is open to writing assignments for features, shorts, and pilots.

Representative Achievements include:
 “Messenger Dogs”, Historical Drama based upon True Events: 2023 WINNER, Page Turner Screenplay Awards, 2021 WINNER, 2nd Place, SWN Goldman Award; 2021 Quarterfinalist in PAGE Awards; 2021 Quarterfinalist in Screencraft True Story Contest, 2021 Pitch Finalist in Screenwriting Staffing Competition; 2010 Semi-Finalist - "Story Pros Contest" and "Creative Screenwriting AAA Contest."
 “Losing Rudolph”, Animated/Comedy Short: 2021 Top 25, "Table Read my Screenplay", #6 on 2021 CoverFly Animated Short RedList
 “The Imposters”, Comedy Short: Produced by Christopher Cinnamon, Category Winner - "Table Read My Screenplay."
 “The Interview”, Comedy Short: Produced by John Siscel
 “The Elevator”, LGBT Dramedy Short: Finalist - "Super Shorts International"
 “ReaperVille”, Fantasy/Comedy: Collaboration with Producer David Marchetti, 2023 Shortlist Finalist, Page Turner Screenplay Awards, 2020 Page Awards Quarterfinalist
 “R.H.E.T.”, Contained, Dark, Sci-Fi/Coming of Age: 2010 Semi-Finalist - "Exposurama" & "Movie Script" Contests

Hired to Write Assignments:
 “Of Souls & Sins”, Supernatural Thriller: Collaboration with Stephen Knight written for the Producers of "In Plain Sight Films", Female Lead

Gender:
Male

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Seeing is Believing Budget: $10M - $30M | Thriller ⋄ Fantasy After a horrific onstage accident, a Vegas performer becomes a recluse but is given a second chance when a Spirit grants him the power of true invisibility. (2023 Recommend from The Script Lab)
Messenger Dogs Budget: $10M - $30M | Historical ⋄ Drama A rebellious orphan escapes to the army, finds the devotion he's longed for in a war dog he trains, and together they risk their lives to save over 50 Allied soldiers during the final months of World War One. (2024 Quarterfinalist, Outstanding Screenplay Contest, 2023 Winner - Page Turner Awards, 2023 #9 on the REDList for Historical Features and Top 7% of all CoverFly Projects, 2021 2nd Place Winner, SWN competition)
Straight To Inheritance Budget: $5M - $10M | Sci-fi ⋄ Drama With male birth control mandated and becoming pregnant illegal, a gay, playboy must produce an heir to inherit his dying grandfather’s toy-making fortune. (2022 Page Turner Finalist, "Consider" from The Script Lab),
ReaperVille Budget: $10M - $30M | Comedy ⋄ Fantasy After 200 years on the job, when a depressed Grim Reaper mistakenly causes the hit-and-run accident of a Suicide Hotline Operator, they must locate a Mystic Reaper Guru to learn how to return his soul to the living before his wife pulls the plug. (2023 Shortlist Finalist-Page Turner Awards) Top 25% of all CoverFly Projects
The Goldilocks Zone Budget: $5M - $10M | Sci-fi ⋄ Drama In a last-ditch effort to save Mankind, four astronauts in deep space encounter sentient Beings who are on a similar mission; find a habitable planet and colonize it, no matter what. (2022 "Consider" from The Script Lab)
The Oracle Reader Budget: $1M - $5M | Sci-fi ⋄ Drama A publicly denounced, world-famous psychic attempts suicide but is saved by a malevolent spirit who convinces her he can restore her soul and reputation to make her millions once again... among the dead. (2022 Page Turner Finalist, 2022 Quarterfinalist, LA Screenplay Competition, "Recommend" from The Script Lab)
Losing Rudolph Budget: $0 - $100K | Animation ⋄ Comedy When Rudolph gets drunk on Christmas Eve, it's not just his nose that turns red with anger. (TOP 25 in 2021 Table Read My Screenplay Genre Contest, #6 on 2021 CoverFly REDList)
Back on Planet Earth Budget: $10M - $30M | Sci-fi ⋄ Action A rebel teen from a future Earth fights against two powerful men who, in exchange for his father’s life, demand the formula of his bacterial fuel technology which will save our planet from an impending climate-driven apocalypse.
Of Souls & Sins Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller ⋄ Horror In an attempt to create a Hybrid Human, a desperate Scientist injects his 8-year-old daughter with Alien DNA, unleashing a terrible power within her that she must now learn to control in order to protect her, her father, and the human race.
R.H.E.T. (Robotic Human Evolutionary Tender) Budget: $5M - $10M | Action ⋄ Sci-fi Protected in an underground lab since inception, a boy raised by a robot survives the climate apocalypse, and at eighteen makes his first human contact; a young girl from the surface running for her life.

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Credits

The Imposters (2011)
Film Writer
The Interview (2011)
Film Writer

Awards

Messenger Dogs, Page Turner Awards, Golden Screenwriter Award
(2023)
ReaperVille, Short Listed Finalist, Pager Turner Awards
(2023)
Messenger Dogs, Quarter Finals, Page Awards Contest
(2021)
Messenger Dogs, 2nd Place Winner, SWN Goldman Award
(2021)
Losing Rudolph, TOP 25, Table Read My Screenplay Genre Contest
(2021)
Losing Rudolph, #6 on CoverFly RedList for Animation Shorts and ALL-Time Top 10%
(2021)
ReaperVille, Quarter Finals, Page Awards Contest
(2020)
R.H.E.T, Semi-Finalist, MovieScript Contest And Exposurama Contest
(2010)
The Imposters, Finalist, Table Read My Screenplay Short Contest
(2010)
Messenger Dogs, Semi-Finalist, StoryPros Feature Contest and Creative Screenwriting Contest
(2010)
The Elevator, Finalist, Super Shorts International Contest
(2010)

Education

ScreenwritingU
(2009-2020)