Jasmine Aziz

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Ottawa, Canada

Member Since:
April 2022

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About Jasmine

The brown girl in this writing duo, Jasmine Aziz, writes comedic stories taking into account cultural sensitivities from the South Asian culture and the immigrant journey. She writes to convey the struggles of generations born trying to find balance between North American ideals and traditional Indian values. Her novel SEX AND SAMOSAS was optioned for a film and a FINALIST in Screencraft’s Book to Cinema Contest.

The white boy in this writing duo, Dan McNeil, is an award-winning songwriter whose novels THE JUDAS APOCALYPSE and CAN’T BUY ME LOVE both reached SEMIFINALIST status in Screencraft’s Book to Cinema Contest. Jasmine constantly reminds him that she placed higher in the same competition and still he perseveres.

Unique traits: twisted sense of humour

Gender:
Female

Ethnicity:
Indian/South Asian

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HERE SHE COMES Comedy An introverted South Asian woman having the worst sex of her life becomes an adult toy seller much to the chagrin of her eccentric but traditional Indian family.
MERRY KARISHMAS Budget: $1M - $5M | Comedy When a feisty south Asian with anger issues finds out that a greedy developer wants to demolish the community center her grandmother built, she must enlist the help of her eccentric Indian family and Wham! obssessed ex-boyfriend to pull off a Christmas miracle and save her family’s legacy.

Awards

Shore Script TV Pilot 1/2 hour comedy - Grand Prize Winner
(2023)
Screencraft Comedy Competition Quarterfinals
(2022)
Filmmatic Inroads Fellowship 5 Quarterfinals
(2022)
Screencraft Screenwriting Fellowship Quarterfinals
(2022)
Semifinalist, Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards Season 7
(2022)
Semi-finalist, Final Draft - Big Break 2022
(2022)

Education

Bachelor of English