Carmen was introduced to Horror at a young age. Her love for film grew alongside her talent for writing. She has worked in the corporate world for 25 + years. Notably, she was a Meeting Planner for the Air Force in Mission Planning and an Office Manager/Marketing representative at a Title Insurance and Escrow company. In 2020, she spread her wings and decided to pursue her writing full-time. In addition, she started her Production Company LUXEbrands Productions focusing on elevated horror.
Carmen has won numerous awards for her Horror Feature scripts. Recently among the most prestigious is placing in the Semi-Finals for her Feature Horror Script, Absolution in the ScreenCraft Horror Competition in 2021. She was chosen as a Semi-Finalist for her TV Horror/Crime Series, Veiled in the Cinequest Writing Competition in 2021. In 2022 she won Best Feature Script in the Horror Bowl Movie Awards for her newest horror feature, The Don and the Devil, among many others. She was recently commissioned to write four scripts as paid writing assignments. Additionally, her first Press Release was in August 2022 for her co-writing credit on the upcoming Ghosts of the Railroad. Carmen currently has a project under LUXEbrands Productions in Development with a known horror director and talent attached.
Carmen writes timely horror scripts raised beyond gore and jump scares. She focuses on psychological terror, dread, and terror elevated from the human experience.
Absolution Budget: $1M - $5M | Horror ⋄ Crime Ripley, a former Special Forces soldier turned Chief of Police, races against time to catch a serial killer murdering altar boys. She must also fight for her marriage, her sobriety, and a demonic force in her home before it all comes crashing down.
Abandon Budget: $5M - $10M | Horror A struggling family faces an apparently insurmountable evil ironically whose presence is due to their own indifference and disregard for the abuse in their home.
Veiled Budget: $10M - $30M | Horror Sadie Gooch lives a life of wealth, power, and popularity - then she kills her abusive parents. She has fabricated a male serial killer persona to pin it on. Sadie has thought of everything until her world of deception unravels, and she starts to become the very thing she sought to destroy.
The Don and the Devil Budget: $1M - $5M | Horror In line to be the next Vegas Don, Fredo Salvatore pursues power at any cost. But a family curse may have caught up to him. After murdering his uncle, and making himself Don, the gamble turns out to be more than he bargained for.
Finalist - Abandon - Austin After Dark Film Festivl
(2021)
Semi-Finalist - Veiled - Cinequest
(2021)
Winner - Veiled - WRPN.tv Screenplay Competition
(2021)
Official Selection - Veiled - Atlanta Award-Qualifying Film Festival
(2021)
Winner Best Horror Script - Absolution - Gold Star Movie Awards
(2021)
Winner - Best TV Pilot - Marina Del Rey Screenplay Awards
(2021)
Winner Best Horror Screenplay- Abandon - After Hour Film Festival
(2020)
Winner - Best US Screenplay - Abandon - Rocky Mountain International Film Festival
(2020)
Finalist - Veiled - Los Angeles Crime and Horror Film Festival
(2020)
Semi-Finalist - Abandon - Los Angeles Crime and Horror Film Festival
(2020)
Semi - Finalist - Veiled- Flixzie Film Festival
(2020)
Judges Special Mention - Abandon - Horror Bowl Movie Awards
(2020)
Finalist - Abandon - Inroads Screenwriting Fellowship -
(2020)
Finalist - Abandon - NOLA Horror Film Festival
(2020)
Finalist - Abandon - 13Horror.com Film & Screenplay Contest
(2019)
Finalist - Abandon - Crimson Horror Film Festival
(2019)
Arizona State University
(2017-2020)