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About Bradford
I’m a highly experienced screenwriter who’s successfully written on assignment, and, thanks to Stage 32, just sold a feature Holiday Rom Com.
2023: SOLARPUNKS VS. THE ANNIHILATION ULTIMATUM, my grounded Sci-Fi Pilot, became a Semifinalist in the Stage 32 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Screenwriting Contest. My Dramedy TV Pilot, I’M FINE... AND OTHER LIES (co-created with the incredible Lee Wilcox) was a 2021 Top Ten Finalist in Roadmap Writers Top Tier Competition.
My brand is Heartfelt Dramedies: Underdog stories for Series & Features, about the moment of becoming who you were always meant to be.
Growing-up, I needed my wild imagination to create fun & mayhem. It got me into a lot of trouble though, like that time, when I was 10 and I stole my parents' car to go buy ice-cream; or when I jumped off the roof with a bed-sheet parachute: or when I launched myself down a steep, busy street in a plywood go-cart with no brakes. At night, when my parents were fighting, I'd look out my window at the stars and imagine I was from another world.
At 17 I set-out on my own in Minneapolis. My awkward exploits, including the two incredible summers as an amateur stock car driver, lead me to The Minneapolis College of Art & Design. I worked three part-time jobs to pay for school, graduating with a double-major in Film Production and Graphic Design.
I went to work for Twin Cities PBS and won a Regional Emmy for Production Design plus 3 Broadcast Design Awards.
Started in features as the Lead Graphic Designer for Alan Rudolph's, EQUINOX, starring Matthew Modine, then got the chance to be the Lead Graphic Designer for Production Designer, Ruth Ammon, (STATION ELEVEN) on Lona William's SUGAR & SPICE and DROP DEAD GORGEOUS.
I lucked into working with Production Designer, Rick Heinrichs, as the Lead Graphic Designer for Joel & Ethan Coen’s FARGO and THE BIG LEBOWSKI. Afterwards, Rick invited me to work with Tim Burton on SUPERMAN LIVES (unfinished). I designed three key “S” logos. Two of which are still in use today.
I set my sights on screenwriting, trained with Blake Snyder and then Jen Grisanti and became an Amazon Studios Best Screenplay Competition Semi-Finalist. Was short-listed in both the NBC and ABC TV Writers Showcases. I’m a three-time Semi-Finalist in the ScreenCraft TV Pilot Competition. A two-time Top-5 Winner for Best Screenplay at Screamfest LA. Two time Second-Rounder at Austin Film Festival. A Top Ten Finalist at Cinestory. Top Ten Finalist in Roadmap Writers Top Tier Competition, 2021.
Unique traits: Smart-ass by day, introvert by night. Or maybe it's the other way around
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WATCH-OUT WORLD - A Family Ensemble Dramedy. Music ⋄ Family When fierce teenage singer-songwriter, Ally Bailey, leads her all-girl band to ditch school and crash a major audition in the city, her one-hit-wonder father arrives in time to see them prove they've got the heart & talent to go further than he ever could. Comps - Imagine THE ACES as high school seniors, with the fierce determination to share their music with the world.
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3 DARING NOBODIES - Inspired by the True Story Historical ⋄ Action 1974. Twin Falls, Idaho. Three aimless high-schoolers share the wildest summer of their lives working behind-the-scenes of Evel Knievel's death-defying Skycycle Jump across the Snake River Canyon. On the night before the big jump these nobodies become the only ones who can prevent a Hell's Angels gang from destroying Knievel’s Skycycle. Comps: FORD V FERRARI meets LICORICE PIZZA.
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TUTTLESON'S GHOSTS - Supernatural Action Budget: $10M - $30M | Horror A Philly Paramedic's questionable plan to help two long-lost ghost kids into the afterlife backfires and leads them into the grip of a Demon who needs their souls to unleash the apocalypse. Comps: WE HAVE A GHOST meets LOCKWOOD & CO.
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SOLARPUNKS VS. THE ANNIHILATION ULTIMATUM - A Grounded, Present Day, Sci-Fi Limited Series Pilot. Budget: $1M - $5M | Sci-fi ⋄ Action A rogue AI tracks down a fugitive group of Alien Hybrids and informs them they were bioengineered to become humanity’s last best hope to stop the secret countdown to annihilation started by an alliance of worlds intent on protecting Earth, from us. (Pitch Deck available)
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I’M FINE... AND OTHER LIES - A Dramedy About Rediscovering Your Light. Drama ⋄ Comedy Psychiatrist, Beth Keene has no more fucks to give. When an incident with an entitled ex-patient results in Beth’s suspension, she’s required to serve six months as a Crisis Hotline Operator where the ensemble of misfits she must work with to save unhinged callers leads her to rediscover the good in people, and herself.
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MERRILY ALL THE WAY - An out-of-the-box Christmas Romantic Comedy Budget: $5M - $10M | Romance ⋄ Comedy An out-of-the-box Christmas Rom-Com about how the chaos of two very different holiday road-trips leads two mismatched couples to their true romantic destiny. Comps: ANYONE BUT YOU MEETS meets PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES.
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