Douglas Spaltro

Douglas Spaltro

Filmmaker, Director, Screenwriter and Musician

Fort Worth, Texas

Member Since:
September 2012

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About Douglas

Born in Portland, Maine, Spaltro is a retired USAF Veteran turned screenwriter/filmmaker. He’s since written 9 features, 4 TV pilots, and 6 shorts, earning over 86 awards, with accolades from the Nicholls, Page International, Final Draft, Austin Film Festival, American Zoetrope, and more.

His dark thriller feature, COMPASS, is a Coverfly Top 1% of its platform’s over 100,000 projects, with his 2022 Page Finalist Award. His drama feature, STILL, trails at Coverfly’s Top 2% of all projects, and his TV pilot, WASHED a Top 4%, a Shore Scripts Winner in 2018.

He produced his first short film, APPLE: When the last two alive on Earth are a ten-year-old boy and girl, compromise and navigating through their differences is the only chance for humankind.

He just wrapped on his 2nd short film, MILLY & MILO, a proof of concept for a feature adaptation: A trans woman Vietnam Veteran seeks an old Army friend she’s always loved.

Unique traits: Webbed feet but a wooden leg and I may or may not have remnants of a tail.

Gender:
Male

Height:
5' 9"

Weight:
180

Body type:
Athletic

Hair:
Short

Hair color:
Brown

Eyes:
Green

Ethnicity:
Caucasian

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1999 with the USAF Thunderbirds. Yup, that's a crazy short cut!

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Awards

2023 InRoads Fellowship Semifinalist
(2023)
2023 Page International Feature Semifinalist
(2023)
2023 Nicholls Academy Fellowship Semifinalist
(2023)
2023 Final Draft Big Break Quarterfinalist
(2023)
2022 Page International Feature Finalist
(2022)
2022 Stowe Story Labs Fellowship Semifinalist
(2022)
2022 Outstanding Screenplays Feature Semifinalist
(2022)
2022 Page International Quarterfinalist
(2022)
2021 Stowe Story Labs Fellowship Quarterfinalist
(2021)
2021 Page International Feature Semifinalist
(2021)
2021 InRoads Fellowship Quarterfinalist
(2021)
2021 Page International Quarterfinalist
(2021)
2021 The Script Lab TSL Semifinalist
(2021)
2021 Austin Film Festival 2nd Rounder
(2021)
2021 Shore Scripts Semifinalist
(2021)
2021 Wescreenplay Diverse Voices (short) Semifinalist
(2021)
2021 Nashville Film Festival (short) Quarterfinalist
(2021)
2021 Page International (short) Quarterfinalist
(2021)
2021 HollyShorts Screenplay Quarterfinalist
(2021)
2021 HollyShorts Screenplay Semifinalist
(2021)
2021 Vail Screenplay Contest (short) Semifinalist
(2021)
2021 HollyShorts Screenplay Quarterfinalist
(2021)
2021 Outstanding Screenplays (shorts) Finalist
(2021)
2021 Raindance Film Festival (short) Semifinalist
(2021)
2021 Dallas Internl Script to Screen (short) Finalist
(2021)
2021 Dallas Internl Screenwriting Competition (short) Finalist
(2021)
2021 Austin Film Festival (short) 2nd Rounder
(2021)
2021 SWN Screen Writers Network (short) Finalist
(2021)
2021 Barnstorm Fest-Top 150 )short) Shortlist
(2021)
2022 Nashville Film Festival (short) Quarterfinalist
(2021)
2020 Vail Film Festival Semifinalist
(2020)
2019 Austin Film Festival 2nd Rounder
(2019)
2019 Shore Scripts Feature Semifinalist
(2019)
2019 Vail Film Festival Feature 9th Place
(2019)
2019 Screencraft Fellowship Quarterfinalist
(2019)
2019 Stage32 TV Pilot Semifinalist
(2019)
2019 Wescreenplay Shorts Semifinalist
(2019)
2019 Vail Film Festival Semifinalist
(2019)
2019 Stage32/Gidden Feature Semifinalist
(2019)
2018 Creative Worlds Feature Quarterfinalist
(2018)
2018 Inroads Screenwriting Fellowship Feature Finalist
(2018)
2018 Austin Film Festival Feature 2nd Rounder
(2018)
2018 Austin Film Festival Pilot 2nd Rounder (2 pilots)
(2018)
2018 Page International Feature Semifinalist
(2018)
2018 Near Nazareth Film Festival Feature Quarterfinalist
(2018)
2018 Page International Feature Quarterfinalist (2 features)
(2018)
2018 Los Angeles International Awards Feature Quarterfinalist
(2018)
2018 WeScreenplay TV Pilot Quarterfinalist
(2018)
2018 Shore Scripts Feature Semifinalist
(2018)
2018 Shore Scripts Pilot Winner
(2018)
2018 Stage32 Feature Quarterfinalist
(2018)
2018 WeScreenplay Quarterfinalist
(2018)
2017 American Zoetrope Feature Quarterfinalist
(2017)
2017 Academy Nicholls 1st 100
(2017)
2017 Academy Nicholls Top 10%
(2017)
2017 Page International Feature Quarterfinalist
(2017)
2017 Final Draft Big Break Feature Top 10 Drama
(2017)
2017 Austin Film Festival Feature 2nd Rounder
(2017)
2017 Austin Film Festival Pilot 2nd Rounder
(2017)
2017Oaxaca Film Festival Feature Finalist
(2017)
2017 California Film Awards Feature 3rd Place
(2017)
2017 Maine Film Initiative Feature Finalist
(2017)
2017 California Film Awards Feature GOLD Award
(2017)
2016 Shore Scripts Feature Quarterfinalist
(2016)
2024 Page International Feature Finalist

Education

Full Sail University
(2012)

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