Michael David

Screenwriter and Script Consultant

Ottawa, Canada

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April 2020

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About Michael

Michael Fine enjoys writing engaging thought-provoking, high concept stories that question societal values and has written five screenplays and four pilots in thriller, drama, sci-fi, historical and comedy genres. Michael sold his first screenplay in 2022 and was hired to write a psychological thriller feature. Michael loves working collaboratively or remotely.

Gender:
Male

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Artificial Eve Budget: $5M - $10M | Thriller ⋄ Sci-fi In the future, it is illegal to raise your own children; all babies must be raised by AI. The wife of the most powerful AI CEO goes on the run to raise her own baby and must escape her husband's murderous intentions.
Hostages Budget: $100K - $1M | Thriller A top hostage negotiator goes rogue and takes a bus of school children hostage. It's up to the father of one of the hostages, a second-rate hostage negotiator, to negotiate their release before they are killed.
The Unit Budget: $100K - $1M | Horror When a young woman wakes up in a psychiatric hospital with no memory of how she got there, she discovers the head psychiatrist is using patients for cruel experimentation. She must devise an escape before she becomes his next victim.
Maple Meadows Budget: $100K - $1M | Comedy The shenanigans of a retirement home. A middle-aged director faces the closure of her retirement home and must solicit the help of her estranged, curmudgeon, and universally reviled ex-politician father in order to save it.
Spencer's Project Budget: $0 - $100K | Comedy In an attempt to become popular and garner one million followers, a high school freshman makes a vlog documenting his funny initiatives at his high school. Only, they always seem to backfire.
The Ones Who Got Away Budget: $100K - $1M | Drama After his son is killed in a high school shooting, a grieving father tries to piece his life together when he's asked to coach his son's basketball team even though he knows nothing about the sport. In the process he learns to cope with loss, and coaches the team on how to cope with their loss while leading them to the championships.

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Awards

(Spencer's Project) Quarterfinalist, Filmmatic TV Pilot Awards Season 7
(2022)
(Whoever Fights Monsters) Quarterfinalist, Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition
(2021)
(Golden Meadows) Quarterfinalist, NexTV Writing & Pitch Competition
(2021)
(The Ones Who Got Away) Quarterfinalist, Emerging Screenwriters - Genre Screenplay Competition
(2021)
(Golden Meadows) Quarterfinalist, Filmmatic TV Pilot Awards Season 6
(2021)
(Whoever Fights Monsters) Semifinalist, Final Draft - Big Break
(2020)
(Whoever Fights Monsters) Semifinalist, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Spring
(2020)
(Whoever Fights Monsters) Quarterfinalist, Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition
(2020)
(Whoever Fights Monsters) Semifinalist, Table Read My Screenplay - Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
(2020)
(Whoever Fights Monsters) Quarterfinalist, So Cal Screenplay Competition - The Southern California S
(2020)
(Jerusalem) Quarterfinalist, PAGE Awards - PAGE International Screenwriting Awards Competition
(2018)
(Jerusalem) Finalist, The Film Empire Diversity Mentorship
(2018)
(Jerusalem) Finalist, So Cal Screenplay Competition - The Southern California Screenplay Competition
(2018)
(Jerusalem) Quarterfinalist, WeScreenplay TV Contest 2018
(2018)
(Jerusalem) Semifinalist, Creative World Awards
(2018)
(Jerusalem) Quarterfinalist, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Spring
(2018)
(Jerusalem) Quarterfinalist, Filmmatic - Pitch Now Screenplay Competition
(2018)