Serita Stevens

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Awards

The Master's Will - script/book writer - historical - Hollywood &Vine Festival
(2015)
Gangsta - Urban TV spec pilot - Talentville Top and Writer's Boot Camp Award
(2014)
Match Made In Heaven - Beverly Hills Film Festival - Script award
(2013)
Univ of Ill College of Nursing - for contribution to nursing in form of book Forensic Nurse
(2013)
Lightning and Fire - book/script - Geller and Kairos - semi finailist
(2013)

Flip Kids - finalist International Family Film Festival Script
(2013)

Remi Award - Houston Film Fest - Best Social Consciousness Award for Unborn
(2012)

Shorts International for The Unborn
(2012)

Match Made In Heaven- official script selection of the Beverly Hills Film Festival for
(2012)

Murder Me Twice - official selection of SF Film Festival, best at Cinema City International Film Fest (2009)
(2012)

Golden Murders -spec pilot - Geller and Broad Humor - based on her Fanny Zindel mystery series
(2012)

Mother In Law - Finalist Geller, Broad Humor Festival, Cinema Citiy
(2010)

Guilty Prey - a vampire romantic comedy writer
(2006)

Unholy Alliance - Best Book for the Reluctant Reader - Amer Lib Assoc
(2004)

The Big - writer - short on Biggie, the rapper
(2001)

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Credits

Against Her Will (2015)
TV Movie by True North Press writer A rebellious teen is thrown into a psychiatric ward by her manipulative parents and her struggle to overcome -- based on my experiences as a psych nurse.
Schoooled (2013)
Television by Robert J. Locke (Comedy) Writer
Where You Are (2013)
Film (short) by Hannah Lux Davis (Adventure, Comedy, Musical and Romance) Actress
Safer Sex for Seniors (2012)
Film (short) by Chris Riess Actress Video dramatizing the need for condom use among seniors.
The Book of Poisons (2012)
Documentary by Writer's Digest writer Poison help for writers who want to kill their victims properly by an RN
Promises Maid (2012)
Film (short) by Just Us Productions writer
The Unborn (2011)
Film (short) by Pupperazzi Productions/Sam Benavides writer/producer/actor
Suit Coat (2006)
Film (short) by Tom Madigan (Drama and Thriller) Producer A homesick young man is so lonely he accepts an invitation to lunch from a quirky stranger and finds himself locked in the house with a mad man.
The Forensic Nruse (2004)
Documentary by St Martin's Press writer Law enforcement's new helper - the forensic nurse - true cases - basis for the spec series The Silent Language
Champagne For Two (2002)
Video by Warner Home Video wirter
Cagney & Lacey Prequel (2001)
Drama by Dell Publishing writer Who were Cagney and Lacey before they became detectives on the famous show? This is the prequel to their stories where I was hired by the studio to create it
Red Sea, Dead Sea (1990)
Series by St Martin's Press writer She's everyone's favorite grandmother -but she rides a Harley, carries an iron in her suitcase to steam open letters, rope to slide down from a 2nd story escape - and she solves crimes at the same time. Part of a book series - The spec pilot Golden Murders is the basis
Shades of Love: Moonlight Flight (1988)
TV Movie by Jim Kaufman Writer The story of a woman lured from the dullness and predictability of her career by a man of strength and vision.
Shades of Love: Lilac Dream (1987)
Video by Marc F. Voizard (Drama and Romance) Writer The story of a young woman alone on an island and a young man washed ashore from a shipwreck. She nurses him back to health, falling in love with him along the way.
books - too many to mention all (1983)
Series by many publishers writer
The Ultimate Writers Workbook For Books and Scripts
Documentary by Motivational Press writer A workbook for writers on major aspects of story and the difference between books and scripts based on my teaching at various universities and awards

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The Master's Will Period Piece My historical true drama The Master's Will is being given an award next month at the Hollywood and Vine Festival. 3 African American slaves are bought pre Civil war by a lonely SC plantation owner. When he is murdered by the Klan, they inherit the majority of their master/husband's property. Growing past the obstacles, they must fight the family -who had expected to inherit - and Reconstructionist South to win a landmark decision in 1878 for Blacks and Women.
Murder Me Twice Thriller / Suspense You die once; you can’t die twice. When her car stalls in a small Southern town, nightmares of rape and murder haunt Andrea. Were they real? Could this White Ann Hawthaway type really have been a Black plantation worker in this small southern town? Finding clues that the events really happened, Ann knows she must the killer find her before he kills her, again.
A Match Made In Heaven Comedy A romantic comedy with a supernatural twist where a debonair Elliot Gould-type dies on the same day as an acerbic, noisy, worried about her daughter, Barbara Streisand-type. The pair take the same train to heaven and decide to defy heaven's rules and match their dysfunctional kids - Mila Kunis type, the uptight campaign manager and in love with a sleazy politician is pushed to spy on the competition, only to realize that he's the right man for the job - in more ways than one -- as the older couple fight their own attraction for each other.
Mother In Law Other Action buddy dramady, it's based on the Fanny Zindel novels from St. Martin's Press. In life, your Bette Midler type mother in law is difficult; in death, she’s impossible. Newly promoted, Detective Sara Zindel - a Hillary Duff type - hates her mother in law, but when, in an attempt to stop her investigations into a new case, her husband is kidnapped and her mother in law killed, she must partner with the ghost of her mother in law to save her husband and solve the case - police corruption and all.
Against Her Will Other A Young Aduilt - When a rebellious teen is thrown into a psychiatric hospital because her manipulative parents can't handle her, she experiences that not everyone survives the system. Based on the book out now from True North Press
Flip Kids Action Teen Adventure -In the tone of Spy Kids meets Iron Eagle Official Selection at the International Family Film Festival -- A teen gymnast and her friends defy the military to rescue her father from terrorists
Red Sea, Dead Sea Adventure Based on the book from St. Martin's Press -- Traveling to Israel for the first time, Fanny Zindel, a 50ish grandmother, is prepared for anything...except murder. Getting involved with Mosad as she searches the countryside for her missing granddaughter, she uses gimicks from her "everything bag" including rope, from her suitcase, to jump down the second story.
Forensic Nurse: Law Enforcement's Secret New Weapon Crime Based on the book from St. Martin's Press, nurses now help the police solve crimes - not just sexual assault, but elder and domestic abuse, and, of course, murder.
Logan's Land Western Based on the book Deceptive Desires, Logan's Land is a female Shane. Elisa Edwards, a Rachel McAdams type, single and alone, must defy the Cattle Barons of Montana to help save a town while falling in love with the man whom she thinks murdered her brother.
An Unborn Witness Thriller / Suspense Based on the award nominated short story "The Unborn." The Truth Is Only A Heart Beat Away. While in utero, a young girl experiences her mother's abuse and murder. She vows revenge on the killer -- her father.
Habital Swag aka Yo Nun Comedy an urban comedy – Reluctant and questioning novice Monica, along with her Lucy-like side kick Anise discover an ancient habit. Discovering she's been turned into a priest being seduced by a congregant, Monica must talk her way out of the sticky situation while saving the convent. - spec sitcom pilot. Sister Act meets Quantum Leap.
Gangsta Crime A spec pilot - Southland meets Precious. A character driven police procedural about life with the gangs. Based on work done with the gangs in prison. When newbie cop Joel discovers a drive by shooting that kills a step-father, he realizes that emotionally he's not as far from the gang kids as he would like to think. Won Talentville competition and Writers Boot Camp Fellowship.
Lightning and Fire Drama ⋄ Period Piece Young Deborah (Judges 4 & 5) must convince the stubborn Hebrews to follow her into battle against the powerful King Jabin, the Canaanite while fighting for the love of Barak, her captain, against the feelings he has for Yael, the wife of Heber, who, with her tent pin, destroys the Canaanite general, Sisera.