Jana Monteiro

Screenwriter

Cary, North Carolina

Member Since:
July 2018

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About Jana

I'm Jana Monteiro. I'm originally from Rhode Island and am a proud Cape Verdean-American. I am a writer, a painter, a vlogger, an auntie, a dog-mom, a cat-person, a comics-nerd, a coffee addict, a feminist and a hard-worker. I have spent my entire adult life working in offices, doing admin work and hospitality, because the cynic in me believed in plans and not dreams. Now, I've realized you can plan to make dreams reality.

So here I am, dream chasing at full force.

I've always been a creative person and was a story teller before I ever knew a written language. I would sit at the type writer (it was electric, I'm not so old) typing away and present to the family a finished product that looked something like:

"Asdfk llake$#$ koahdfp a a kekkegeiiiiievvm ."

Since a translator probably wouldn't have been able to make it over before my bedtime, I was often asked to read my work aloud. My family and friends have always been very supportive (think 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding').

Everything I do creatively, I was self taught, my video editing, screenwriting, painting and art. I love reading and learning. I am part of that strange millennial group that still believes in books for research. I crave mental stimuli and love a challenge. Just because I don't know now, doesn't mean I can't figure it out. Just give me a minute. (Seriously, IKEA furniture is not that hard people.) Nothing is impossible. This realist has fully embraced that this truth includes dreams.

Gender:
Female

Height:
5' 4"

Weight:
136

Body type:
Average

Hair:
Long

Hair color:
Brown

Eyes:
Brown

Ethnicity:
Mixed

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Clean Slate Biography Based On True Events: After the death of the family Matriarch our protagonist decides to break free from the fundamentalist Christian cult she was raised in and explore her bisexuality, budding feminism and what it means to be a woman in the 21st century outside of biblical and family constraints.
Family Portrait Drama Over the holidays, a mother attempts to mend her fractured relationship with her daughter but her manipulative parents and a dark family secret stand in the way.
Our Future Drama BASED LOOSELY ON TRUE EVENTS: At school, FUTURE is a talented 12 year old facing the standard struggles of a pubescent girl, good grades, first crushes, and middle school drama. At home, her father's drug addiction has dragged the family into financial ruin and he has forced Future into the dangerous world of guns and child-sex-trafficking.