Caliann Lum

HEROES - "One of Ours" Drama This high-octane medical drama follows the daily lives of American military personnel struggling to keep their humanity while fighting to save soldiers and civilians alike in war-torn Iraq, 2005. Comps: "E.R." meets "M.A.S.H."  Tagline: "E.R. in Baghdad" ---------------- Finalist - PAGE Drama Pilot, 2005Second Rounder - Austin Film Festival, TV Pilot, 2021

EXCESS BAGGAGE Budget: $10M - $30M | Action ⋄ Comedy An action spy comedy about an obsessive nerd who dreams of being a spy who finally gets her wish when recruited by the CIA to impersonate a mysterious international mercenary thought to possess an ancient artifact that can cure terrorism.Comps: "Spy" "Romancing the Stone" ---------------  2nd Rounder - Austin Film Festival, 2023, 2018Semi-finalist - Table Read my Screenplay, 2020 Quarter-finalist - PAGE awards, 2017

JADE, the imagined childhood of a Chinese goddess Budget: $30M+ | Adventure ⋄ Animation An infant Chinese goddess who falls through the floor of Heaven must learn to harness her burgeoning super powers, and learn human compassion, or be stuck on Earth forever. Comps: Hercules; Moana meets Mulan --------------- Semi-finalist - New Voices in Animation, Stage32, 2024Considered - Sony Pictures Animation, 2019

POPPY WAR Budget: $10M - $30M | Action ⋄ Drama A Vietnam hero returns to 1971 Saigon as a nosey reporter investigating the heroin epidemic killing U.S. troops when he falls for an ambitious CIA recruit ordered to stop him.Comps: "All the President's Men" meets "Air America"---------------Quarter-finalist - PAGE awards, drama feature, 2023Second Rounder - Austin Film Festival, 2022Semi-finalist - Chesterfield Writer's Film Project, 2002 

MOLLY WANG AND THE LOST KINGDOM Budget: $30M+ | Fantasy ⋄ Adventure A brilliant but arrogant surgeon takes a literal leap of faith into a cosmic wormhole high in the Kunlun Shan, to a mythical Chinese kingdom to retrieve a powerful but fiercely guarded magical Elixir to save her dying father. To succeed she must abandon science and all she has ever known for a new truth about herself and the mysterious birth-father she never knew. Comps: Indiana Jones meets Doctor Strange.-----------------Top 100 Action/Adventure script - Table Read My Screenplay, 2021Quarter-finalist - PAGE awards, 2017"Highly rated script" circulated by real-time Black List email, 2013; shopped 2014