December 2021
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About Tate
Tate Hamilton is a bi TV and screenwriter who has recently held roles as a showrunner's assistant at Starz, and as an executive assistant/coordinator at several prominent literary management companies. He has placed as a quarterfinalist or above in screenwriting competitions hosted by Austin Film Festival, The Tracking Board, Final Draft, and the PAGE Awards, and currently works as a screenplay analyst for Stage 32.
Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan as the son of two journalists, Tate grew up accompanying his parents on interviews and photo shoots, and spent his spare time trying to write the most realistic-sounding dialogue possible for his short stories about monsters. He discovered his love for screenwriting in college while pursuing a degree in biomedical engineering, and continues to incorporate elements of his science background into his writing projects, with the goal of creating work that is surprising, unique, and meaningful.
In his spare time, he plays 7 different instruments and composes music for a variety of ensembles, including symphony orchestra and jazz ensemble. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, whom he has been in love with since junior high.
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Flat Sci-fi When an international conspiracy to hide the fact that the Earth is flat is publicly exposed, an astrophysics student and her professor must fight to protect their work from a rising tide of religious fundamentalism.
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Bakemono Sci-fi ⋄ Horror Seventeen years after supernatural creatures from Japanese folklore forced humanity to retreat behind walled cities, a Japanese refugee in Seattle fights to free herself from indentured servitude.
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Undergrowth Budget: $1M - $5M | Sci-fi ⋄ Horror Returning to campus after being diagnosed with schizophrenia, an ambitious biology major desperate to get her life back on track takes a job at an experimental botany lab, and soon struggles to tell the difference between her hallucinations and reality.
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Big Shoulders Crime ⋄ Biography An ex-Black Panther community activist takes on the mayor of Chicago in an effort to bring an end to the violence in the most notorious gang-controlled neighborhood in the country.
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Sunset at the Lazy T Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller ⋄ Action When her father is killed by a shadowy drug kingpin, a headstrong teenage girl enlists the help of a small-time drug dealer in order to get her revenge, journeying through a seedy 1970s underworld ravaged by a mysterious new drug.
Awards
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Big Shoulders - Top 100, Launch Pad Pilot Competition
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Big Shoulders - Semifinalist, Final Draft Big Break Screenplay Competition
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Sunset at the Lazy T - Quarterfinalist, PAGE International Screenwriting Awards
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Sunset at the Lazy T - Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition
(2021) -
Flat - Quarterfinalist, Final Draft Big Break Screenplay Competition
(2018)
Education
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University of Chicago
(2013-2017)
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