Paul Sokal

Paul Sokal

Dallas, Texas

ScreenwriterPhotographer (Still)

About Paul

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Badges

2025-10-08

Double Recommended Screenwriter

2025-07-09

Stage 32 Certified

2024-11-05

Writers' Room Member

Certifications

Fundamentals of Assistant Directing Image

2025-06-26

Fundamentals of Assistant Directing

Fundamentals of Assistant Directing

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Awards

  • Semifinalist, Filmmatic Drama Screenplay
    (8)

  • Quarterfinalist, Filmmatic-Inroads Fellowship
    (6)

  • Finalist, Stage 32 Comedy Feature Screenwriting Competition
    (2025)

  • Quarterfinalist, Emerging Screenwriters Screenplay Competition
    (2025)

  • Finalist, Table Read My Screenplay Hollywood
    (2024)

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Loglines

  • BAD AIM

    BAD AIM Budget: $1M - $5M | Comedy Myron Feldman’s wife has driven him to suicide but when he attempts to blow his brains out, he misses, only grazing his skull and sending the slug into his neighborhood, causing unpredictable consequences.

  • WHO WILL LIVE

    WHO WILL LIVE Budget: $5M - $10M | Drama In 1961, Charlotte Bellamy, a 25-year-old teacher, is dying of kidney failure, and if an anonymous committee of lay-people isn’t convinced she should receive a revolutionary new treatment, she’ll die. Based on a true story.

  • MIRACLES (Feature version)

    MIRACLES (Feature version) Budget: $5M - $10M | Comedy A young, naïve parish priest, Father Moretti, is demoted to the Vatican’s Miracle Investigation Office, a dank hole in the sub-basement, where he’s told that miracles are just a marketing ploy, crushing his faith, until he can discover a true miracle. 

  • HEATHROW

    HEATHROW Budget: $10M - $30M | Thriller / Suspense Helen Engel, an environmentalist, desperate to stop climate change, has her life turned upside-down when she learns her husband is a paid assassin, and as she fights to get her life back, she learns just how far she’s willing to go to save the planet. 

  • REDEMPTION

    REDEMPTION Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama John Cochran, a prominent physician whose family tragedy has brought him to the verge of suicide, discovers his only path to redemption is through the daughter he has declared dead to him.

  • LOCKED-IN

    LOCKED-IN Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller / Suspense A wealthy CEO awakens from an accident-triggered coma, only to realize she has locked-in syndrome, is still thought by her doctors to be comatose, and must figure out a way to prove she isn’t before her greedy son pulls her plug so he can seize control of her company.

  • THE DECISION

    THE DECISION Budget: $10M - $30M | Science Fiction A childless young couple navigating the population and climate crises of 2067, learn the process of getting a pregnancy permit is corrupt and they must fight to prove it in order to be approved for their own child.

  • CAIN

    CAIN Budget: $10M - $30M | Drama Darrell Cain, a cop with a mean streak, spirals down into a bottle, and then must fight his way out of it to save his soul after he commits the most heinous murder in Dallas since the assassination of President Kennedy. Based on a true story. 

  • EBUG

    EBUG Budget: $5M - $10M | Romance Comedy A former college hockey goalie is accused by his medical student girlfriend of loving hockey more than her. When he’s given a rare chance to play in the NHL, he learns he must choose between sport and love, his past and his future.

  • NO MATCH

    NO MATCH Budget: $5M - $10M | Thriller / Suspense Danny Waltz, estranged from his twin, makes a fatal decision he’ll regret when he refuses his brother a life-saving marrow transplant, condemning him to death when he couldn't find another donor. It's then Danny learns that revenge is a dish best served cold.

  • COPIER

    COPIER Budget: $10M - $30M | Biopic / True Story Chester Carlson grew up in abject poverty but dreamed of inventing something that would change the world. His dream came true and would have made him one of the richest men in America except he donated his fortune away, vowing to die a poor man. Based on a true story.

  • REHUSBAND

    REHUSBAND Budget: $1M - $5M | Romance Comedy Sarah Forbes, a wannabe screenwriter, catches a break when an A-list actor falls in love with one of her scripts, until he demands that her despised, cheating ex-husband direct it, threatening her big chance to breakthrough.

  • DIE ON YOUR FEET

    DIE ON YOUR FEET Budget: $30M+ | Period Piece American Robert Colodny volunteers to defend Spain from fascism in the Spanish Civil War, only to learn upon his return home, that the attacks against him continue, even after the bullets stop.

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