Jeff Barker
Screenwriter, Script Consultant, Script Supervisor and Actor
Fairhope, Alabama
February 2025
2 days ago
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About Jeff
Jeff Barker is a screenwriter and author. He hosts the podcast, The Screenplay Lab.
He is the GRAND PRIZE Winner of FADE IN's 2025 Horror Screenwriting Competition.
His screenplays have been honored at numerous other film festivals and writing contests, including the Austin Film Festival, Stage 32, FILMMATIC, The Red List, Los Angeles International, New York Horror Nights, ScreenCraft, Vail, Santa Barbara International, Big Apple, and Los Angeles Film & Script Festival.
Two of his children work in the film industry. Curry Barker is an admired director, actor, and comedian. Riley Barker is a cinematographer.
Before his full-time writing career, Jeff spent many years working as a psychiatric provider. Before that, he had a nine-year career as an award-winning television news anchor and reporter. He has been featured on NBC, CBS, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, The Weather Channel, and CNBC.
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2025-03-31
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Baphomet Condition Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller ⋄ Horror In the mildewed rot of New Orleans, a wrecked psychologist turns to an ancient god to cure her fiance’s cancer, no matter the cost.
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Sister Morgan Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller ⋄ Horror A drifting preacher finds a heart-sick teen and buries her dead daughter’s ghost inside her, setting off a slaughter, quiet and righteous.
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Choked Out Budget: $100K - $1M | Thriller ⋄ Horror Haunted by a failed suicide pact, a 65-year-old philosophy professor entangles herself with a young Satanist comic, spiraling into sex, delusion, and whatever comes after guilt.
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Mrs. Claus Budget: $1M - $5M | Horror ⋄ Fantasy Trapped in a violent marriage to a ruthless Santa Claus, a determined woman must risk everything to end his deadly reign of terror before his winter journey begins.
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