Briana Cox

Screenwriter and Script Supervisor

Nashville, Tennessee

Member Since:
December 2021

Last online:
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About Briana

Briana Cox was born and raised in Tullahoma, TN — a town inexplicably found on state maps. She is the oldest of seven children and a first-generation academic who started out as a prose writer. She began collaborative writing projects as a playwrighting fellow with the TN Playwrights Studio and has since branched out into writing for film and television for independent studios and producers.

Gender:
Female

Ethnicity:
Mixed

Badges

2024-11-05

Double Recommended Screenwriter

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Loglines

The Good Neighbors Budget: $100K - $1M | Horror ⋄ Drama In this unique blend of Irish and Native American folklore, caregiver Lyn travels to a remote country home to help dementia-addled Gayle and her estranged children. But Gayle’s delusions may be more real- and more dangerous- than any of them think.
GLOBEHEADS Budget: $1M - $5M | Comedy A down-on-his-luck artist gets embroiled in Florida’s conspiracy theory community after taking the only job he can find - producing media for a flat-earth enthusiast determined to spread The Truth.
Problem Cases Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama ⋄ Comedy High school was hard enough as the resident scholarship student, but when an unfortunate incident with a scalpel gets Drake labeled as the school’s resident psychopath as well, he reluctantly embraces his new bad reputation.
Street Safe Budget: $100K - $1M | Drama ⋄ Comedy In this love letter to the early 2000s, a working-class Tennessee family tries for their spot in the limelight by auditioning for a reality TV show that’ll revamp the family Cadillac, but their own internal drama with romantic affairs and financial trouble may hold them back.
Big Dry Run Budget: $1M - $5M | Independent ⋄ Comedy Set in the midst of opioid-afflicted rural Tennessee, a group of friends goes on a surreal quest through their trailer park to find someone's drug addicted and disappeared mother before things get a helluva lot worse.

Awards

Finalist, WeScreenplay TV Pilot Lab
(2024)
Semifinalist, ScreenCraft Horror Competition
(2024)
Quarterfinalist, Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Screenplay Competition
(2024)
Semifinlait, Coletta Preacely-Garcia Diversity Fellowship
(2024)
Winner, Stage 32 Feature Screenwriting Fellowship
(2024)
Semifinalist, ScreenCraft Horror Competition
(2023)
Finalist, Stage 32 Diversity Springboard Screenwriting Contest
(2023)
Semifinalist, Stage 32 Feature Screenwriting Fellowship Competition
(2023)
Quarterfinalist, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards - Diversity Initiative
(2023)
Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft TV Pilot Script Competition
(2023)
Quarterfinalist, Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Screenplay Competition
(2023)
Semifinalist, WWFC's Pilot Accelerator
(2023)
Finalist, Stowe Story Labs Fellowship
(2023)
Finalist, Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition
(2023)
Official Selection, Indie Suspense, Horror, Sci-Fi, Film Festival
(2023)
Finalist, Stage 32 Diversity Springboard Screenwriting Contest
(2022)
Two-Time Best of Stage 32 Look Book
(2022)
Quarterfinalist, Inroads Screenwriting Fellowship
(2022)
Finalist, Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition
(2022)
Semifinalist, Creative Screenwriting TV Pilot Competition
(2022)
Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition
(2022)
Semifinalist, Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Competition
(2022)
Quarterfinalist, Shore Scripts TV Pilot
(2022)
Semifinalist, Stage 32 Feature Fellowship Competition
(2022)
Quarterfinalist, Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards
(2021)
Second Rounder, Launch Pad Pilot Competition
(2021)
Semifinalist, WeScreenplay - Diverse Voices
(2021)
Finalist, Page Turner Awards Screenplay Award
(2021)
Semifinalist, ScreenCraft Stage Play Contest
(2020)
TN Playwrights Studio Fellow
(2019)
TN Playwrights Studio Associate
(2018)