Monte Albers de Leon

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2026-02-11

Writers' Room Member

2025-11-13

Double Recommended Screenwriter

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The Family Name Pilot Table Read 6-25-26.mp4

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Awards

Palma International Film Festival - Best Feature Screenplay
(2025)
Palma International Film Festival - Best Original Screenplay
(2025)
Palma International Film Festival - Best Thriller
(2025)
Seoul International Short Film Festival - Best Feature Script
(2025)
Santa Monica International Filmmakers Awards - Best Unproduced Script
(2025)

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Good
Film by Drop a Piano Productions Screenwriter In a near-future Omaha, Nebraska, Nile.com workers Eva, Lily, John, AJ, Leo, and Eli face the relentless threat of AI replacing their jobs. Just as they contemplate unionizing to reclaim their future, an apocalyptic event turns their world upside down. In the ensuing chaos, they are thrust into a desperate struggle for survival. Amid the digital dusk, they embark on a gripping journey toward hope and redemption, where every choice can mean life or death.
Mecca
Film by Drop a Piano Productions Screenwriter A Young Professional, newly arrived in the 2001 Post 9/11 New York City, is manipulated by his abusive boss at a top financial firm, leading to a tragic accident that is mistakenly ruled a suicide. Despite his career skyrocketing, his guilt and inner turmoil spiral, pushing him towards a breaking point as he grapples with the consequences of his actions and the dark secrets surrounding the event.
Hi: Part One
Film by Drop a Piano Productions Screenwriter Part One of a two-part epic spanning from 2007 to 2028, where a young woman’s abduction and a haunted estate reveal a sinister secret that could alter the course of humanity.

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The Fall of Ted Budget: $5M - $10M | Thriller / Suspense After an exhausted rising Wall Street managing director quietly covers up a ten-million-dollar trading error to protect the promotion he's chased for nineteen years, he discovers the mistake was engineered to recruit him into a hidden partnership that has secretly run his firm for two centuries — and must choose between becoming one of them or risking his family, his freedom, and his life to bring it down.
The Last Town Hall Drama When a $78M deal to sell Tidehaven's waterfront — pier, promenade, public pool — posts at 4:58 on a Friday, chief of staff Maria Velasquez has five days to choose between the mayor she helped elect and the town she grew up in. Her coalition finds fine print built to kill the pool quietly. Unseen: an eight-year affair between the mayor and the deal's architect. Then the pool is chained shut by an order no one will claim. Who owns a town — the people who love it, or those who can afford it?
The Family Name Drama ⋄ Thriller / Suspense When a revered New York real estate patriarch is tapped to chair a high-profile public safety initiative as his company quietly hemorrhages cash, his lawyer daughter uncovers a fixer and “security” vendor network that can fast-track permits, silence lenders, and weaponize philanthropy, forcing the Sterling family to expose the machine using them before it rewrites their legacy.
All Downhill From Here Budget: $5M - $10M | Comedy ⋄ Drama A comedic drama about two blended families, the Williamses and the Meltzers, whose ski vacation in Vermont goes off-piste when a dog mix-up, an unplanned pregnancy, and clashing interfaith traditions threaten to cause an avalanche of family secrets.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Budget: $10M - $30M | Drama ⋄ Thriller / Suspense An everyday Illinois prosecutor is suddenly appointed to the U.S. Senate, only to uncover a political machine determined to use him to pass a dangerous constitutional bill — forcing him to choose between survival in Washington and the truth.
Good Budget: $10M - $30M | Science Fiction ⋄ Thriller / Suspense Hostage to AI amid apocalyptic chaos, Eli, Eva, and four colleagues attempt to save the world.
Hi: Part Two Budget: $10M - $30M | Experimental ⋄ Thriller / Suspense Caught in a dangerous future of infinite possibility, Eva, Robert and Lisa come together to save the world from AI and itself, one last time.
Hi: Part One Budget: $5M - $10M | Horror ⋄ Thriller / Suspense Part one of a two-part epic spanning from 2007 to 2028, where a young woman’s abduction and a haunted estate reveal a sinister secret that could alter the course of humanity.
Mecca Budget: $10M - $30M | Drama ⋄ Thriller / Suspense A drama set in 2001, where a young professional’s life is forever changed by the events of 9/11 and a fateful encounter with a powerful financial firm.