Caliann Lum

JADE, the imagined childhood of a Chinese goddess Budget: $5M - $10M | Animation ⋄ Adventure A spunky and courageous young goddess must learn human compassion or be stuck on Earth forever. COMPS: Chinese MOANA--------------- Semi-finalist - New Voices in Animation, Stage32, 2024Considered - Sony Pictures Animation, 2019

MOLLY WANG AND THE LOST KINGDOM Budget: $10M - $30M | Action ⋄ Fantasy An arrogant surgeon takes a leap of faith into a cosmic wormhole to retrieve a mythical Chinese elixir to save her father's life.COMPS: "Doctor Strange" meets "Indiana Jones"---------------- 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 

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 

HEROES - "One of Ours" Drama HEROES, the series, is a military medical drama set in 2005 Iraq at the Combat Support Hospital (CaSH) in Baghdad, about the daily struggle of doctors and staff to keep their humanity while fighting to save soldiers and civilians alike. COMPS: "E.R." meets "M.A.S.H." ---------------- Finalist - PAGE Drama Pilot, 2005Second Rounder - Austin Film Festival, TV Pilot, 2021

EXCESS BAGGAGE (male version) Budget: $10M - $30M | Action ⋄ Comedy A nerd who dreams of being a spy must live by their wits when chased by CIA and terrorists who mistake them for a mysterious international spy thought to possess an ancient artifact that can cure terrorism. COMPS: "Spy" "Central Intelligence"---------------  2nd Rounder - Austin Film Festival (female version), 2023, 2018Semi-finalist - Table Read my Screenplay (female version), 2020 Quarter-finalist - PAGE awards (female version), 2017