Melinda L Hicks
Screenwriter and Script Supervisor
Atlanta, Georgia
September 2019
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About Melinda
MELINDA HICKS is an Atlanta-based feature film screenwriter. Her brand is Moms With Moxie, characters who are pushed out of their comfort zones to break the mom mold and release their badassness onto the world.
Melinda has received numerous semi and finalist awards in competitions such as the Screencraft Screenwriting Fellowship, Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards and StoryPros International Screenplay Contest. Her Rom Com, All The Way Happy, is Top 3% Coverfly overall. In a prior TV career, she won multiple local Emmy’s and international promo marketing awards for her work as a Promotion Writer/Producer. She is also a published short story author.
In addition to screenwriting, Melinda uses her skills as a script editor to teach up-and-coming student filmmakers how to improve their short films. She also writes reels for local actors which are shot and produced by an Atlanta actor/director. Currently, Melinda is working with local talent on the development of several short film projects and is penning a dystopian YA novel that’s been kicking around in her brain.
Melinda is a wife, a mother to an award-winning student filmmaker, and a host to many stray animals. She’s a hiking, biking, nature-loving kind of woman who even rescues insects that wander into her home. She draws the line at saving cockroaches, though. They can suck it.
Certifications
Loglines
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That Time We Lied to the Kids Budget: $10M - $30M | Comedy ⋄ Action Stressed-out parents lie to their selfish, entitled grown children to get away to Europe scot-free but when the couple is mistaken for assassins by a mafia boss in hiding, their only hope…is their loser kids.
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All The Way Happy Budget: $1M - $5M | Romance ⋄ Comedy When single mom and helicopter parent Wendy falls for the new single dad at school, she re-discovers a part of herself she’d shut down long ago, but their prospective romance is thwarted by a budding relationship between their teenage kids.
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Losing Faith on Route 215 Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama An estranged husband and wife work through their grief over a miscarriage as they search for their beloved dog, lost during a trip home for Christmas.
Credits
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Lights Out (
2023 )
Film (short) by Hailey Moore Script Editor A female boxer fights back against her sexually abusive coach. -
EnVz Studios: Relentless Love (
2020 )
Film Script and Continuity Department
Awards
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Quarterfinalist, Pitch Now Screenplay Competition
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Finalist, We Screenplay Diverse Voices Lab
(2019) -
Semifinalist, Screencraft Screenwriting Fellowship
(2019) -
Finalist, Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards
(2019) -
Finalist, Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards
(2019) -
Finalist, SF Indie Film Fest
(2019) -
Semifinalist, StoryPros Int'l Screenplay Contest
(2018)
Education
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ScreenwritingU
(2020-2020)
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