Pamela Weiss

Producer and Screenwriter

Palo Alto, California

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February 2021

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About Pamela

Pamela is an award-winning multi-channel creative writer, producer and story-telling entrepreneur. Through her company, Hold This While IP Productions, she’s collaborated with top-flight professionals to shepherd heart-felt, funny and transcendent human stories.

Pamela has held leadership positions in product development, marketing and strategic business development in the online consumer real estate and media industries, overseeing development of online leasing transaction systems, content partnering, ancillary news products and M&A. She is a former award-winning newspaper editor, designer and journalist. Media and publications she’s worked with include The Boston Globe and The Miami Herald, Knight-Ridder New Media and The Capital-Gazette Publishing Co. She was an original member of the Silicon Valley Mom’s Blog, later acquired by Technorati.

In addition to serving on the board of directors at LifeMoves.org, Pamela is also on the Bay Area advisory board for CrisisTextLine.org, is a trained volunteer Crisis Counselor and public speaker for the organization. She received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and her B.S. degree in journalism from the University of Florida.

Gender:
Female

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The Healdsburg Home for the Terminally Sexy Budget: $10M - $30M | Comedy Confronted with a devastating diagnosis, a posse of Florida sorority sisters in their 70s cashes in their children’s inheritance, ditching relatives and nursing home cliches for a quirky, fire-devastated California wine town where they honor their bonds, make new ones and redefine the meaning of family.
Hot Flashes Drama Three menopausal Depression Era babies spend a sweltering funeral weekend grieving the sudden death of their larger-than-life friend, discovering the depths of her dysfunctionality in her diary, while hot flashes yield revelations about their own professed liberation in the pre-Viagra, Cold War decade of the Big 80s. Based on Barbara Raskin's New York Times bestselling novel, co-written by Rosa Salazar.
The Secret Circle of Honest People: The Lucy Morgan Story Budget: $5M - $10M | Drama With the help of a small band of incorruptibles, a future Pulitzer-winning over-40 Florida reporter busts open the largest U.S. drug-smuggling operation of the ’80s in a tiny, secretive swamp town full of good ol’ boys who don’t take her seriously until it’s too late.

Credits

Thirsty (2023)
Executive Producer THIRSTY follows the upstart campaign of a gutsy public defender as she strives to unseat the incumbent mayor of Oakland and also keep her family intact.
Color of Autumn (2023)
Creative Producer In 1966 Chicago a sheltered, Black eight-year-old girl is blindsided when she encounters cruel and casual racism on the playground for the first time.
The Valley (2017)
Drama Executive Producer Devastated by his daughter's suicide, an immigrant entrepreneur working in high-tech seeks answers to his lingering questions.

Awards

Quarterfinalist, Miami Screenplay Awards
(2024)
Best Drama Short, Austin Revolution Film Festival
(2024)
Best Written Short, Equality International Film Festival
(2023)
Best Female Filmmaker, Chicago Indie Film Awards
(2023)
Best Ensemble Performance Short, Queen City Film Festival August
(2023)
Best Wardrobe Short, Queen City Film Festival August
(2023)
Best Inspirational Short, Queen City Film Festival August
(2023)
Semifinalist, Stage32 Comedy Screenwriting
(2021)
Quarterfinalist, WeScreenplay Feature
(2021)
Semifinalist, Screencraft Comedy Competition
(2020)
Semifinalist, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards
(2020)
Quarterfinalist, Page International Screenwriting Awards Competition
(2020)
Finalist, Inroads Fellowship (3rd)
(2020)
Official Selection, Script Summit
(2020)
Finalist (3rd), Pitch Finale AFF
(2020)

Education

University of Florida
Harvard Business School