Banafsheh Esmailzadeh

Author and Screenwriter

Coquitlam, Canada

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October 2024

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About Banafsheh

Hi there! I'm Banafsheh, also known as Bana. I specialise in strange and wonderful stories for strange and wonderful people, and I do novels, comics (which I also illustrate), and more recently screenplays. It is my goal to make lasting business connections to get all my offerings out into the world.

My strongest genre is drama, you won't find any work of mine without a good dose of it. My second strongest genre is psychological. I love getting into my characters' heads and bending reality. I also try to have at least a few bits of comedy in everything I write, especially my darkest stories.

My creative influences come from anime and manga as well as video games in addition to novels and film and TV. My favourite series are Revolutionary Girl Utena, Dragonball Z, Sailor Moon, Cybersix, Rose of Versailles, Oniisama E, YuYu Hakusho, and Samurai Champloo. I draw huge inspiration from Kunihiko Ikuhara, Satoshi Kon and Osamu Tezuka in particular.

Unique traits: I speak Farsi, Japanese, and German.

Gender:
Female

Height:
5' 8"

Hair:
Long

Hair color:
Black

Eyes:
Brown

Ethnicity:
Middle Eastern

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Iron Rain: The Tale of Ranmaru Action ⋄ Animation In a world ravaged by gangs ranging from bikers to ever-growing mob families, a young man of both noble and cursed lineage becomes a shinobi in order to survive.
Finding Elpis 4: The Ballad of Fallen Stars Sci-fi ⋄ Music The galaxy's most popular band, armed with a new member and songs, defends their crown against an upstart idol and two rival bands, while their frontman contends with his newfound identity and a new-old foe plots revenge.
The Metanoid Other ⋄ Drama Unwilling to accept the circumstances of his own death, a young man seeks to save the heart of a young woman convinced life isn't worth living.
What Separates Us Budget: $100K - $1M | Drama A bookish introvert finds himself in an epic love triangle with a cute cheerleader and the most popular guy in school--and both of them have a real shot at winning his heart once and for all.
Keziah Budget: $0 - $100K | Romance ⋄ Drama A voluptuous English teacher navigates jealous glares from her female and advances from her male coworkers, and things finally seem to look up when a new teacher joins the school—with a secret or two of his own.
The Errorist Budget: $0 - $100K | Comedy A young woman just wants to go to school and make friends; unfortunately just about everything she says and does goes epically, catastrophically wrong.
Glass Waltz Budget: $0 - $100K | Romance ⋄ Drama A young man refuses to get over his deceased girlfriend, while her identical twin sister refuses to admit that she has feelings for him.
Finding Elpis 2: Rondo of Pandora Sci-fi ⋄ Adventure A once-mighty planet seeking a return to their glory days imprisons the galaxy’s most beloved band and their sponsor, triggering not only a galactic war but birthing a new reality altogether.
VISION Budget: $100K - $1M | Romance ⋄ Fantasy A young boy is cursed to die a cruel death by his eighteenth birthday, and the only way to break it is to allow himself to fall in love.
The Book of Lies Experimental A tyrannical power vacuum opens up when a young man's aspiring politician wife is murdered on national TV, and he takes it upon himself to restore truth and order while his mental state slowly falls apart.
Karma Dealers Other Forces of nature in human form, ranging anywhere from girl next door to servants of God, reward and punish their targets depending on their actions.
Petal Other ⋄ Experimental A young racecar driver with no memories or even record of his past is stalked by a shadowy organisation for getting in the way of their plans to forcibly elevate humanity's collective consciousness.
Leaf Other ⋄ Experimental Two twins's rather humdrum life as the architects of their city gets turned upside down when a new girl comes to their university while on the run from her own twin sister who threatens to divulge her secret and ruin the new life she has built.
Branch Other ⋄ Experimental An eternal student-turned-teacher of ethics finds her entire worldview shaken when for the first time in her life she feels a deep bond forming with one of the last remaining homo sapiens sapiens--the very race she herself had oppressed for millennia by flooding them with rules whose evolved descendents now rebel against her.
Nectar Other ⋄ Experimental A shell-shocked warrior dealing with the death of her lover at the hands of the enemy nation contends with the truth of her lineage as well as the country she has called home all her life.
Seed Action ⋄ Experimental Two twins born to be Buddhist monk and nun are instead forced to live and work as shinobi to survive a permanent turf war between mafia families while their older brother's killers target them next.
Fruit Other ⋄ Experimental Shunned for her lineage as a girl born without a mother as well as her being jilted by the man she was to marry, a young woman finds solace in the son of God while her natural destiny prepares her to become the progenitor of witches.
Aeterna Other ⋄ Experimental Long before humanity was conceived, the handsome angel of death stalks the god of life throughout his infinite lifetimes, while his fated wife makes the crucial decision to be reborn as many times as possible to meet him again. Three triplets are damned to fight one another for influence over reality itself.
Conviction Other ⋄ Experimental A young man fresh off his million-year sentence in hell for crimes against the gods and nature as a whole seeks to reunite with his beloved wife.
Link Romance ⋄ Experimental A young uniter of hearts does her best to aid the fated union of the god of life and his bride, but her more experienced agent of enchantment thwarts her every plan and her own beloved slowly grows disillusioned with her.
Induction War ⋄ Experimental Four agents sworn to fealty of a galactic terrorist carry out his plans to get revenge over his once-beloved wife, while a last remaining human woman wrestles with what it really means to live in her literal ivory tower as everyone else pays the price.
Paradox Other ⋄ Experimental Long shunned by both God and human for her dual lineage, a skilled doctor is tasked with analysing an interdimensional criminal who risks destroying her mind the deeper she falls in love with him.
Contact Other ⋄ Experimental Two sisters, one a huntress of the wild and the other a huntress of the flesh, seriously question what it means to rule over their own gilded cage domains when their estranged childhood love suffers adverse effects when daring to leave her own domain in the pursuit of her own greatest love.
AUDITION Romance ⋄ Fantasy A young girl fights for her life when her jealous best friend, in retaliation for getting passed up in favour of her gentle brother, uncovers a secret about her that she herself never even knew.
GUSTATION Fantasy ⋄ Romance A young girl lives in a castle with a vampiress who is determined to keep her inside its walls as she grows more and more beautiful and many young men seek her hand in marriage.
OLFACTION Fantasy ⋄ Drama The grisly caretaker of a lost girl protects her against the wolves of the forest claiming she rightfully belongs to them.
TACTITION Romance ⋄ Fantasy An exorcist is tasked with defeating a ghost that has haunted the emperor's palace for generations, but he finds he can't because they both fall in love.
Young Majesty Fantasy An aspiring mage is haunted by the memories of a deceased king that lead him to uncover treasonous secrets and put his life in serious danger.
The Parade of Chaos Fantasy ⋄ Adventure A young boy and his crush-turned-stepmother flee persecution when his father is sentenced to death for illegally harboring an angel, and with every new friend they make they unwittingly fulfill a prophecy that wakes up the God of the Earth who punishes all of humanity for terrible crimes unless an ultimate sacrifice is made.
Metal Garden Drama ⋄ Comedy A hotheaded entrepreneuse's life turns upside down when her boyfriend announces his plan to propose to a younger super-genius college student... who just so happens to be infinitely more interested in her.
Level 99 Sci-fi ⋄ Action Following the massive galactic war wiping out the overwhelming majority of humanity across all their colonised planets, the grandchildren of the survivors face their ultimate extinction when fertility rates crash and the very planet they call home appears to try to kill them off.
The Moneyboomers Comedy Longtime partners in crime Robby and Renny plan a casino heist but it might not be so simple when ten desperate and conniving patrons are just as likely to succeed--and more than willing to screw everyone else over in the process.
Plastic Love Drama ⋄ Comedy A love triangle between a flighty stage actress, her college boyfriend and her shy secret admirer from high school quickly spirals into an epic saga when she decides to date both of them.
Falling Awake Experimental ⋄ Drama Seven students live out their true lives in their dreams, only meeting to come to class together in a shared reality. They try and fail to understand one another until they’re brave enough to let each other in.
Niveous Reverie Romance ⋄ Drama A former couple is desperate to let go of each other—but fate keeps bringing them back together.
Life: A Tragicomedy Drama ⋄ Comedy An ill-fated man lives out his last day with his beloved as all the nonsense of his life catches up to him.
Finding Elpis 3: The Elysian Rhapsodies Sci-fi ⋄ Adventure The frontman of the galaxy's most beloved band is forced to go on a grueling journey of self-ascension alongside a young woman determined to meet a mythical entity said to have all the answers.
Lunar Window Romance ⋄ Comedy A prickly goth with impossible standards has met her match in a man who effortlessly aces every single one of her tests.
Marisol and Mezzaluna Drama ⋄ Other A joyless young woman stuck in a rut reconnects with her childhood imaginary friend--only she's not imaginary anymore.
Finding Elpis Sci-fi ⋄ Adventure A music band, upon getting abducted by a superfan alien on their final show before breaking up, learn that they're galactic superstars and simply unpopular on Earth.