Creative Portfolio
Here’s a peek into my film and television script portfolio.
If you’d like to learn more, contact me @ kristen.angonese@gmail.com
Reaper, Inc.
TV Pilot (Half-Hour): High-Concept Dark Comedy (32 Pages)
Includes: PITCH DECK
Logline: A disillusioned Millennial strikes a deal with an underperforming Grim Reaper to design better deaths for her generation.
Comps: What We Do in the Shadows meets Parks and Recreation
Accolades:
Circle Management and Production & Anarchists United Writers Discovery Fellow (2024).
FOX Entertainment Writers Incubator Finalist (2023).
CineStory Foundation TV Comedy Division Winner (2022).
Austin Film Festival Second Rounder (2022).
Trivial Pursuits
Feature: Comedy/Teen (105 pages)
Logline: Desperate to earn a Trivia Bowl scholarship to Harvard, an overzealous teen will stop at nothing to lead her ragtag team to victory.
Comps: Nerdier Pitch Perfect, tonally Booksmart/Bottoms
Accolades:
CineStory Foundation Feature 3rd Place Winner (2024).
Austin Film Festival Semi-Finalist (2024).
Games in the Sky
Feature: Drama/Fantasy (117 Pages)
Logline: A young boy with epilepsy lives in near seclusion with his family to ensure his safety. When a new friendship sparks his desire for more in life, his overprotective mother must decide if a promising but life-threatening medical treatment is worth the risk for his future.
Accolades:
Semi-Finalist in Humanitas’ 2020 Carol Mendelsohn College Drama Fellowship.
Nicholls Fellowship Quarter Finalist.
Finalist in UCLA’s Screenwriters’ Showcase.
Recipient of the Carl David Memorial Fellowship.
Now Streaming
Feature: Family/Fantasy (93 Pages)
Logline: Set within a Streaming Platform where all films and characters exist, a young Classic Musical "Stand-In" finds herself attached to a tiny star that makes her unlawfully sing like a Main Character. Traveling in and out of different movies, she must find a way to remove it before her Genre Family finds out and banishes her forever.
Accolades:
Finalist in UCLA’s Screenwriters’ Showcase.