Dave Schroeder

Screenwriter

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January 2022

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About Dave

Dave Schroeder is a husband, a father of three boys, a former lawyer and a retired diplomat. Having lived and worked in Ukraine, Mexico, Albania, China, Panama, and the Marshall Islands, he draws inspiration from a wide palette of perspectives and experiences. Strange encounters with Kings, awkward meetings with Presidents, a tour of Chernobyl’s exclusion zone, and all manner of absurd situations fuel his imagination.

He thinks he can write. As an English literature major, a lawyer tasked with persuading judges on diverse and complex issues, and an award-winning diplomat charged with sensitive reporting and influencing national security policy, Dave’s attention to the craft of writing has never waned. He first tried his hand at screenwriting in 2021 and fell in love with the form. He has since written five features, a short, and two TV pilots (all of which are ranked in the top 30% or higher of discoverable projects on Coverfly).

Gender:
Male

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Hack Need Budget: $100K - $1M | Comedy Ensnared in a billion dollar bitcoin heist, a computer technician and her wife use their wits — and some wicked lacrosse skills — to outmaneuver the Russian mafia, a corrupt cop and a murderous boss to stay out of prison and protect their daughter’s life.
Terms of Entanglement Budget: $5M - $10M | Sci-fi ⋄ Drama Twenty years after a mysterious event split reality and destroyed data records, a woman contends with quantum weirdness and a shadowy government agency to find the daughter she gave up for adoption.
Shiloh Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama Crossing a Blue-Red state line in a dystopian 2029, a father and daughter confront bounty hunters, law enforcement, and their own past.
Marcus Aurelius: Human Resources Counselor Budget: $100K - $1M | Comedy Following a particle accelerator accident that rips a hole in the space-time continuum, Marcus Aurelius, 14th Emperor of Rome and stoic philosopher, struggles to adapt to modern life after he switches bodies with an office's human resources counselor.
The Operative Budget: $5M - $10M | Film-noir In 2038, a private detective navigates a corrupt city’s web of deceit and violence, aiming to cleanse the town of the gangsters that have taken control, but finding that he may be a pawn in a greater game.
FreedomLand Budget: $10M - $30M | Comedy A struggling chef steals Stonewall Jackson’s left arm. To extricate himself from the slew of unintentional felonies that follow, he must woo a TV pundit, ditch an incompetent terrorist, outmaneuver a cold-blooded billionaire, and stay out of claw’s reach of a hungry leopard before he can begin serving the best hot wings in North Carolina.
Show Me Budget: $10M - $30M | Comedy To free a falsely-imprisoned man, a small town cop and her reporter boyfriend take on corrupt politicians and a greedy televangelist who, with the “help” of two heroically inept hitmen, will stop at nothing to build a 200-foot statue of Jesus in the Ozarks with convict labor.
Deep Reservations Budget: $10M - $30M | Comedy A young woman leading a traditional whale hunt to secure her Tribe’s future must first battle a Japanese seafood company’s insane plan to broadcast the hunt on the internet, a demented lion tamer, a grief-stricken submariner, and assorted lunatics from the fringes of American society.
The James King Version Budget: $10M - $30M | Historical ⋄ Western After blond, blue-eyed Clarence King dined with presidents, scaled mountains, and debunked the Great Diamond Hoax of 1872, he donned a Pullman porter’s jacket and posed as an African American to be with the love of his life. A true story.

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Awards

Quarter-Finalist - ScreenCraft TV Pilot (for Marcus Aurelius...)
(2023)
Finalist - Scriptapalooza TV Writing Contest (for Terms of Entanglement)
(2023)
Semi-Finalist - CineStory Foundation TV Retreat & Fellowship (for Marcus Aurelius...)
(2023)
Top 50 - RoadMap Writers Top Tier (for Deep Reservations)
(2023)
Second Rounder - Austin Film Festival (for Marcus Aurelius: HRC)
(2023)
Finalist - WriteLA Shorts (for Shiloh)
(2023)
Semi-Finalist - Scriptation Shorts (for Shiloh)
(2023)
Semi-Finalist - Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Screenplay Competition (for Show Me)
(2022)
Finalist - L.A. International Screenplay Awards - Spring 2022 (for Deep Reservations)
(2022)
Semi-Finalist - L.A. International Screenplay Awards - Spring 2022 (for FreedomLand)
(2022)
Semi-Finalist - ISA Emerging Screenwriters - Drama (for The James King Version)
(2022)
Semi-Finalist - 26th Annual Fade In Awards Comedy Competition (for Hack Need)
(2022)
Semi-Finalist - StoryPros Awards - Comedy (for Deep Reservations)
(2022)
Quarter-Finalist - PAGE International Screenwriting Awards (for The James King Version)
(2022)
Semi-Finalist - WriteMovies Screenwriting Contest (for The James King Version)
(2022)
Official Selection - Ink and Cinema True Story Showcase (for The James King Version)
(2022)
Quarter-Finalist - CineStory Foundation Feature Retreat & Fellowship (for The James King Version)
(2022)
Top 50 - ISA Fast Track Fellowship (for The James King Version)
(2022)
Finalist - Screenplay Festival (for Deep Reservations)
(2022)
Finalist - Screenplay Festival (for The James King Version)
(2022)
Quarter-Finalist - ScreenCraft Drama (for Terms of Entanglement)
(2022)
Semi-Finalist - Scriptation Showcase (for Hack Need)
(2022)
Semi-Finalist - Screenplay Festival (for Hack Need)
(2022)
Finalist - Emerging Screenwriters Comedy Screenplay Competition (for Deep Reservations)
(2022)
Semi Finalist – Cynosure Screenwriting Awards (for Hack Need)
(2022)

Education

University of Virginia
College of William and Mary Law School
National War College