Thomas J Douglass has won over a dozen screenwriting awards. He began his entertainment career with The John B. Roger Producing Company, producing and directing historic pageants and patriotic spectacles in stadiums in the Midwest and South. After working on AFI productions and completing a director's program at UCLA, he began writing screenplays. He also writes fiction and non-fiction books. Thomas J. Douglass is related to the third U.S. President, Thomas Jefferson.
YANGA Budget: $30M+ | Historical ⋄ Action The true story of Yanga, the African warrior prince who was captured by the Spanish and sent to Mexico where he led a slave revolt, organized an army of runaway slaves and defeated the Spanish in battle.
I Am Virginia Budget: $10M - $30M | Historical ⋄ Drama The true story of African-born Anthony Johnson, one of colonial Virginia’s wealthiest farmers, and his daughter Virginia, who rejects marriage proposals from the sons of wealthy planters to follow her heart and marry the family servant/slave, John Casor,
THE TAJ Budget: $100K - $1M | Romance ⋄ Comedy Old world traditional values collide with Gen Z reality when Ravi’s girlfriend, Sammi, takes over management of his family’s Indian restaurant business.
GENESIS ROGUE Budget: $5M - $10M | Action ⋄ Drama An X-Special Ops-turned CIA covert operative and an Avante-garde Qatari woman become unlikely partners in a race against time to disable an AI-driven spyware technology that is programmed to destroy the free world.
RECOGNITION Budget: $5M - $10M | Thriller ⋄ Drama An alien craft takes control of one of America’s nuclear launch facilities, prompting the U.S. President to launch an investigation into a secret military-industry cabal that is hiding extra-terrestrial spacecrafts and alien bodies.
Bibb and the Candyman Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama Two fraternity brothers and best friends choose radically different paths following college graduation, with one finding fame and fortune and the other finding life behind bars.
Semifinalist - Stage32 Period Piece Contest - "YANGA"
(2024)
Semifinalist - Stage32 Period Piece Contest - "I Am Virginia"
(2024)
2nd Round – Austin Film Festival – “YANGA THE GREAT”
(2022)
Top 10% - Slamdance Screenplay Competition – “I AM VIRGINIA”
(2022)
Hot 100 – Capital Fund Screenplay Competition – “BIBB AND THE CANDYMAN”
(2022)
Official Selection – Silver State Film Festival – “I AM VIRGINIA”
(2022)
Semifinalist – Stage32 Action Thriller Contest – “YANGA THE GREAT”
(2021)
Semifinalist – Chicago Screenplay Awards – “I AM VIRGINIA”
(2021)
Official Selection – Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards – “YANGA THE GREAT”
(2021)
Official Selection – Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards –“I AM VIRGINIA”
(2021)
Top 100 – Table Read My Screenplay –“I AM VIRGINIA”
(2021)
Official Selection – Houston Comedy Film Festival – “THE LAW OF DOGMA”
(2019)
1st Place - Indie Gathering Screenwriting Competition – “THE HANDMAID”
(2018)
Top 50 – Capital Fund Screenplay Competition – “THE HANDMAID”
(2018)
2nd Round – Austin Film Festival – “THE HANDMAID”
(2017)
UCLA
American Film Institute
Denver University