February 2021
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About Kathryn
Kathryn Orwig is an action-adventure film and TV writer who loves to explore in her stories how far someone will go for the people they love. Drawing directly from her background growing up in a tiny Northern Michigan town, Kathryn has survived state of the emergency snow storms, bathed in lakes when the electricity was out, and witnessed many a buffalo roaming around the farm next to her middle school playground; in which several buffalo made daring escapes from over the years.
With a love of history and a passion for finding ways to incorporate the modern into the historical, Kathryn gobbles up anything on Vikings, Pirates, the Italian Mob, Scottish Royalty, and the inner workings of pocket watches among other varied topics to influence the rich worlds she creates.
A book nerd at heart, Kathryn started out writing novels, poems, and short stories, She is ecstatic that the multi-author anthology she founded BRING YOUR WORDS: A WRITERS' COMMUNITY ANTHOLOGY is now out in the world as a real ink and page book.
Her screenplays have won or placed highly in multiple screenwriting competitions (Next 100 Scripts Nicholl’s 2021, Page Awards 2021/2022, Roadmap Diversity Initiative Winner July 2021, Roadmap Grand Prize Shorts Winner 2021 and Roadmap Write Start Manuscript Competition Top 10 Finalist 2021, Austin Film Festival, etc.). She's acted as a final-round judge at the National Film Festival for Talented Youth in 2019 and wrote 20 animation scripts for a start-up media company.
Besides writing, she enjoys spending hours researching long-dead ancestors and learning their languages such as Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Romanian, Italian, and Swedish among many others.
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NOT MY BROTHER Budget: $10M - $30M | War ⋄ Action A pragmatic Union soldier toughs out his injuries and embarks on an impossible rescue mission to free his reckless brother from a heavily-guarded Confederate POW camp. Inspired by my great-great-great-grandfather and his younger brother’s experience in the Civil War. In the vein of SAVING PRIVATE RYAN and 1917…but in the Civil War.
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THE HAVE NOT’S Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama Secretly poor, Jane the goodie-two-shoes has a chance at college and a life out of her small town through the “Haves”, but when the resident troublemaker and fellow “Have Not” offers her a chance at living life their way – no lies, no secrets – she must decide what she really wants and who she is.In the vein of PRETTY AND PINK.
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CASUS BELLI Budget: $10M - $30M | Mystery ⋄ Crime In the midst of WWI, when the head of the Vincenzio Mafia is murdered by an inside man, his squeamish younger brother must uncover the killer among them - the only catch is, he’s gotta suss out the murder on the battlefield as the mafiosos have been drafted.It’s BOARDWALK EMPIRE meets PEAKY BLINDERS…but on the battlefields of WWI.
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THE OCEAN’S OWN Budget: $5M - $10M | Fantasy ⋄ Adventure After Cordelia discovers she is an Accursed, a mortal claimed by the Ocean and gifted with the power to manipulate water. She must flee her island home as a pirate to keep her secret or face a fate worse than death: others using her gifts for total destruction. It’s BLACK SAILS meets SHADOW AND BONE.
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EXHALE Budget: $5M - $10M | Historical ⋄ Thriller When an earnest New York mother discovers her 4-year-old son has TB just after WWI, she must risk taking him on a cross-country train to Colorado where they’ll face robbers, contagions, and a mountain of her lies, in order to reach both the cure and her husband before they lose their son. It’s WENDY meets BLOOD RED SKY.
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AMAZONS Budget: $5M - $10M | Historical ⋄ Adventure To rescue kidnapped children, a jaded Amazon Woman Warrior must escort her greatest enemies, a group of Greeks, across the known world of 5th Century B.C.. They risk desert heat, bandits, and their own greed killing them before they reach the Assyrian Empire’s gates.SPARTACUS and GAME OF THRONES meets the real women warriors of the ancient world.
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THE QUEEN’S GAME Budget: $5M - $10M | Historical ⋄ Family Isla, a dirt-poor orphan lookalike to Queen Mary of Scotland, must act as the Queen's body double in order to draw out the assassins trying to kill her.In the vein of DAVE, set in 1558 French courts.
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CLOUD WORLD Budget: $10M - $30M | Animation ⋄ Adventure When an airplane damages and infects Cloud World, a ragtag group of untested Cloud Builders make their way through Earth's desert, sea, and WALL-E-esque cityscapes to team up with precocious child activists, as they try and rectify utterly inhabitable landscapes Above and Below.It's WALL-E meets FERN GULLY with a touch of HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON.
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SISTERS IN ARMS Budget: $5M - $10M | Historical ⋄ Adventure Four women's lives collide after hiding their genders to enlist in the Civil War, where they must stay alive and lucid enough to find their lovers, protect their siblings, earn their freedom, and take their revenge. In the vein of TURN...but in the Civil War with female soldiers.
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GEN-Z AT THE END Budget: $1M - $5M | Adventure When a group of Gen-zer’s find themselves at the start of a new apocalypse they must travel from Chicago to the upper reaches of Michigan to a remote cabin without technology—and the occasional worldwide memory loss—to survive. It’s DAYBREAK meets SEARCH PARTY with a supernatural twist.
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YOU BELONG HERE Budget: $0 - $100K | Historical ⋄ Fantasy Shortly before attempting suicide, a young woman is transported back in time to several moments in her ancestors’ lives that all connect to a charm on her bracelet. This gives her the knowledge of who came before her, and that she’s meant to be here. In the vein of OUTLANDER and THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE.
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RINGING Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama Told through a series of voicemails, a group of concerned friends is convinced one of them has gone missing, or worse: is dead.
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IGUANA DOG Budget: $1M - $5M | Animation ⋄ Adventure When an iguana who wants to be a dog attempts to make friends with the local pack at the park, things don’t go exactly according to plan… and to gain their acceptance our friendly lizard risks life and tail to save a curious puppy from a dangerous river. It’s SECRET LIFE OF PETS meets THE PRESENT.
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MY DAD IS GOOD AT CHANGING LIGHT BULBS Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama When a light bulb blinks out, a young woman reflects on the day it’ll stay dark.
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BLOOD REMEMBERS BLOOD Budget: $100K - $1M | Fantasy ⋄ Adventure When three teens from wildly different backgrounds find out they are Viking descendants, they must team up to fight as their ancestors did, for Ragnarok has arrived. It’s HISTORY Channel’s VIKINGS and VIKINGS VALHALLA meets BUFFY.
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RAISING HELL Budget: $100K - $1M | Thriller ⋄ Drama When an ex-assassin has to fill a last-wish-promise to adopt a 10-year-old child, she’s gotta balance running her crew of white-collar thieves, and attending parent-teacher meetings all while avoiding capture by a hounding FBI agent. It’s WHITE COLLAR meets BARRY and a touch of GUNPOWDER MILKSHAKE.
Awards
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THE OCEAN’S OWN - Quarter Finalist Emerging Screenwriters Action & Adventure Competition
(2022) -
EXHALE - Top 10 (Second Place) Finalist Emerging Screenwriters Action & Adventure Competition
(2022) -
EXHALE - Semi-Finalist (Top 100) Emerging Screenwriters Action & Adventure Competition
(2022) -
EXHALE - Quarter Finalist Emerging Screenwriters Action & Adventure Competition
(2022) -
EXHALE - Second Rounder ISA Fast Track Fellowship
(2022) -
IGUANA DOG - Top 25 Shorts Table Read My Screenplay Genre Screenplay Summer Competition
(2022) -
NOT MY BROTHER - Semi-Finalist in the Stowe Story Labs Page Awards Fellowship (Top 15)
(2022) -
CASUS BELLI - Second Rounder Austin Film Festival
(2022) -
CASUS BELLI - Semi-Finalist (Top 10) Table Read My Screenplay Genre Screenplay Competition Summer
(2022) -
CASUS BELLI - Quarter-Finalist Page Awards
(2022) -
CASUS BELLI - Quarter-Finalist Wescreenplay Diverse Voices Fall
(2022) -
CASUS BELLI - Quarter Finalist The Script Lab's Free Screenplay Competition
(2022) -
CASUS BELLI - TOP 50 ISA Fast Track Fellowship Spring
(2022) -
CASUS BELLI - Second Rounder ISA Fast Track Fellowship Spring
(2022) -
BeTwIxT - TOP GENRE WINNER ISA Fast Track Fellowship (Best Horror/Sci-Fi/Fantasy Script)
(2022) -
BeTwIxT - Second Rounder ISA Fast Track Fellowship
(2022) -
IGUANA DOG - Roadmap Writers' Shorts Competition Grand Prize Winner
(2021) -
IGUANA DOG - Roadmap Writers' Shorts Competition Top 10 Finalist
(2021) -
IGUANA DOG - Roadmap Writers' Short Competition Top 25
(2021) -
IGUANA DOG - Roadmap Writers’ Shorts Competition Top 50
(2021) -
NOT MY BROTHER - Nicholl’s Fellowship Top 5% (placed in the next 100 scripts behind QFs)
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NOT MY BROTHER - Winner of Roadmap’s Diversity Initiative - July
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NOT MY BROTHER - 2nd Place Winner & (Top 6) Finalist in Script Summit
(2021) -
NOT MY BROTHER - Second Rounder at ISA Fast Track Fellowship
(2021) -
NOT MY BROTHER - Semi-Finalist (Top 100) in ISA Action and Adventure Competition
(2021) -
NOT MY BROTHER - Semi-Finalist in FilmQuest Film Festival (Top 85)
(2021) -
NOT MY BROTHER - Semi-Finalist in Table Read My Screenplay Austin Edition (Top 100)
(2021) -
NOT MY BROTHER - Semi-Finalist in Cordillera International Film Festival
(2021) -
NOT MY BROTHER - Preliminary Finalist in Creative World Awards
(2021) -
NOT MY BROTHER - Quarter-Finalist in ISA Action and Adventure
(2021) -
NOT MY BROTHER - Quarter-Finalist in Page Awards
(2021) -
NOT MY BROTHER - Quarter-Finalist in The Script Lab Free Screenplay Competition
(2021) -
NOT MY BROTHER - Quarter-Finalist in Emerging Screenwriters Genre Competition
(2021) -
NOT MY BROTHER - Quarter-Finalist in Los Angeles International Awards - Winter
(2021) -
NOT MY BROTHER - Quarter-Finalist in Filmmatic Drama Awards Season 6
(2021) -
NOT MY BROTHER - Quarter-Finalist in Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Competition
(2021) -
NOT MY BROTHER - Quarter-Finalist in ScreenCraft’s True Story & Public Domain
(2021) -
NOT MY BROTHER - Quarter-Finalist in New York International Awards
(2021) -
NOT MY BROTHER - Quarter-Finalist in Screenwriters Network (SWN) Competition
(2021) -
NOT MY BROTHER - Honorable Mention and New York Movie Awards Official Selection
(2021) -
CASUS BELLI - Top 50 Roadmap Writers' Top Tier Competition
(2021) -
CASUS BELLI - Winner of the LA Crime and Horror Film Festival Best Crime TV Script
(2021) -
BeTwIxT - Winner of the International Horror Hotel Film Festival - Dramatic TV Pilots
(2021) -
BeTwIxT - Winner of the GenreBlast Film Festival TV/Webisodes Script Competition
(2021) -
BeTwIxT - Finalist (Top 10) in the ISA Horror and Thriller Screenplay Competition
(2021) -
BeTwIxT - Finalist (Top 10) Oregon Scream Week Film Festival TV Pilot
(2021) -
BeTwIxT - Finalist (Top 50) In the FilmQuest Film Festival
(2021) -
BeTwIxT - Semi-Finalist in Vancouver Women in Film Festival Competition
(2021) -
BeTwIxT - Quarter-Finalist in Southern California Competition TV Pilot
(2021) -
BeTwIxT - Official Selection of the Shockfest Film Festival
(2021) -
BeTwIxT - Official Selection of the Diabolical Horror Film Festival
(2021) -
BeTwIxT - Finalist (Top 10) for Women in Horror Film Festival’s Short Competition
(2020) -
BeTwIxT - TV Pilot Short List (Top 25) in Barnstorm Festival Script Competition
(2019) -
ADVENTURES OF STAR GIRL AND THE MARBLE ROLLER - Winner National Film Festival for Talented Youth
(2018)
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