Loglines & Screenplays by Caliann Lum
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HEROES - "One of Ours" (60 minute TV Pilot)
GENRES: 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"
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Finalist - PAGE Drama Pilot, 2005
Second Rounder - Austin Film Festival, TV Pilot, 2021
EXCESS BAGGAGE
GENRES: 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"
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2nd Rounder - Austin Film Festival, 2023, 2018
Semi-finalist - Table Read my Screenplay, 2020
Quarter-finalist - PAGE awards, 2017
JADE, the imagined childhood of a Chinese goddess
GENRES: 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
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Semi-finalist - New Voices in Animation, Stage32, 2024
Considered - Sony Pictures Animation, 2019
POPPY WAR
GENRES: 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"
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Quarter-finalist - PAGE awards, drama feature, 2023
Second Rounder - Austin Film Festival, 2022
Semi-finalist - Chesterfield Writer's Film Project, 2002
MOLLY WANG AND THE LOST KINGDOM
GENRES: Adventure, Fantasy
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.
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Top 100 Action/Adventure script - Table Read My Screenplay, 2021
Quarter-finalist - PAGE awards, 2017
"Highly rated script" circulated by real-time Black List email, 2013; shopped 2014
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