Nominated for Female Writer of the Year in the 2024 Austin Revolution Film Festival, multiple award-winning Author, S.D. Moore writes in spite of being a brain damaged, heart damaged Air Force veteran who also battles Lupus. She is the cash award winning writer of the drama Stronger When She's Broken which is also a Finalist in an Oscar qualifying film festival. The story also won Best Original Written Work in the Las Vegas Black Film Festival 2021, Best Inspired by a True Story in the Golden and Silver State Film Festivals 2021 and Best Feature in the Wiki Film Festival 2020.
She is also the writer of the multiple award-winning action horror screenplay LEAPERS which won Best of the Fest Script and Best Feature Script in the Boobs and Blood Horror Fest 2020, Best in Horror in LAFA 2020 and Best Original Screenplay in the Vegas Movie Awards 2020.
She is also the screenwriter of the award-winning dramatic comedy Perfectly Normal in Flagstaff. The screenplay was nominated for Best Screenplay in CIFF 2020, won Best Adapted Work in LVBFF 2019, Best Feature Script in the 2018 Top Indie Film Awards and a 2018 Silver Screen award in the Nevada International Film Festival.
S.D. is also the author of Readers' Favorite 2017 International Gold Medal (1st place) winning horror novel Wicked Prayers, the 1st prize award winning Adventures of PJ and Split Pea and the workbook Basics to Business: Minding Your Business with Excel. She is also a patented inventor of The Portable Hot Sink System. Moore also has an ABD towards a Doctorate of Education and holds two master's degrees in management and human resources development.
Blue Honey Budget: $10M - $30M | Sci-fi ⋄ Horror Thanks to a freak accident and the help of a woman, three alien military buddies discover that the answer to their financial woes is the alien made cure-all Blue Honey. It's sinisterly delicious!
Family Rental (Pilot for Ten-Part Black Sitcom) Comedy Four reluctant siblings agree to convert a broke down skating rink they inherited into an off Vegas Strip events planning business. Hilarity ensues thanks to the antics of kooky main characters, poking fun at crazy Las Vegas urban legends and mishaps in running a business and planning multicultural events. It's a tongue in cheek exercise in generational wealth.
LEAPERS Horror In this action-horror-amusement-ride, things go horribly awry at a lakeside anniversary bash when an arrogant scientist's mistake unleashes supernatural creatures. Trapped party guests engage in a terrifying fight for survival when the Leapers come out to play. Contains horror, sci-fi, humor, graphic violence, action, adult language and a bit of Grindhouse.
Stronger When She's Broken Budget: $10M - $30M | Drama ⋄ Biography In this cash award winner and Finalist in an Academy Awards qualifying film festival, a dying Black author pens an inspiring true story about her courageous journey out of the streets and into the pitfalls of the military, but she achieves triumph through recollections of lessons learned from her Army vet father turned notorious Midwest gangster. Described as American Gangster meets GI Jane that leaves you with that inspirational Akeelah and the Bee feeling.
Leapers - Best Original Screenplay - Hollywood Blood Horror Festival
(2023)
Leapers - Platinum Award - L.A. Sci-Fi & Horror Festival
(2022)
Blue Honey - Hollywood Blood Horror - Winner Best Original Screenplay
(2022)
Phantoomzz - Phoenix Shorts - Winner Best Sci-Fi Short
(2022)
Bad Move - International Horror Hotel - Winner Best Short
(2022)
Phantoomzz - Screamwriting Festival - Winner Best Horror Short
(2022)
Blue Honey - L.A. Sci-Fi & Horror Festival - Winner Unproduced Screenplay
(2022)
Family Rental - Creative World Awards Screenwriting - FINALIST
(2022)
Phantoomzz - Freak Show Horror FF - FINALIST
(2022)
Screenwriting for Storytellers Book - WINNER - Readers Favorite, WINNER - Reader Views
(2022)
STRONGER WHEN SHE'S BROKEN: Best Original Work LVBFF
(2021)
STRONGER WHEN SHE'S BROKEN: Inspired True Story - GSFF
(2021)
STRONGER WHEN SHE'S BROKEN: Best True Feature - SSFF
(2021)
Stronger When She's Broken - FINALIST - Rhode Island IFF
(2021)
Family Rental - Vegas Movie Awards - Winner
(2021)
Family Rental - Festigious Film Fest - Winner
(2021)
LEAPERS: Best of the Fest - Boobs and Blood
(2020)
LEAPERS: Best Feature - Boobs and Blood
(2020)
LEAPERS: Best in Horror - Los Angles Film Awards
(2020)
LEAPERS: Best Original Screenplay - Vegas Movie Awards
(2020)
STRONGER WHEN SHE'S BROKEN: Best Feature - WIKIFF
(2020)
PERFECTLY NORMAL IN FLAGSTAFF: Written Work LVBFF
(2019)
PERFECTLY NORMAL IN FLAGSTAFF: Silver Screen - NIFF
(2018)
PERFECTLY NORMAL IN FLAGSTAFF: Best Feature TIFA
(2018)
WICKED PRAYERS NOVEL: Best in Horror Fiction - Reader's Fav
(2017)