Skye Emerson is an award-winning screenwriter who was most recently named to the International Screenwriter’s Association Top 25 Screenwriters to Watch list. She was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Screenwriting Fellowship at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019, and is the grand prize winner of ISA’s Emerging Screenwriters Competition. Skye was honored by UCLA with the Carl David Memorial Screenwriting Fellowship for Positive Portrayals of the LGBTQ+ Community in Film. She holds an MFA in Screenwriting from UCLA’s School of Theater, Film, and Television.
Challenger Historical ⋄ Drama When guarded, yet brilliant astrophysicist Sally Ride joined the first astronaut class to include women, her fight to get to space seemed her greatest challenge, but Sally's mission to find the truth about the Challenger explosion, and her own identity, would soon threaten her foundation, and her future with NASA.
Salt & Honey Family ⋄ Comedy A spirited and earnest young girl growing up outside of a salt mine town in Utah hopes to follow her dreams and become the scientist hero her town needs. With a new best friend, the girls endure misadventures, leading to a baking competition which could be the catalyst in her dreams coming true, but a tragic accident and her resentful mother may derail her plans.
Maddening Horizon Biography ⋄ Adventure When Army Vet Tim Sears boards a Carnival Cruise ship in 2003, he expects to have the time of his life, but when he comes to hours later in the middle of the ocean, with the ship nowhere to be seen, he must brave the elements, and his own fractured mind, in an effort to survive.
Frankie & Stein Comedy ⋄ Animation Frankie, a lonely orphan, reanimates a best friend named Stein to help her face the mysterious goings-on in her spooky hometown of Amityville, from alien invasions to toy possessions, to the scariest activity of all - daily life in middle school.Co-writer
Sloan Fellowship - Sundance Film Festival
(2019)
Screenwriters Intensive - Sundance
(2019)
Grand Prize - Fresh Voices
(2019)
Semi - Finalist - Austin Film Festival
(2019)
Sloan Fellowship - UCLA
(2018)
Grand Prize - Emerging Screenwriters
(2018)
UCLA
(2016-2018)
University of Utah