
Ben Kim is a television writer living in Hacienda Heights, California with his fiancee and two dogs, Dill and Pickles. After graduating from Emory University, where he once held the school record for the hammer throw, he went on to receive an MFA from the FSU Film School. Ben was previously a writers’ assistant and a writers’ production assistant on Ava DuVernay’s Queen Sugar. Most recently, he was selected as a fellow for the Giant Leap Media Accelerator where his pilot was optioned. Ben tends to write subversive one-hour dramas that amplify Asian Americans, but when he’s not doing that, he’s cooking, biking, or playing golf badly.
The 14th Annual First Look Project searches for higher-concept material across MULTIPLE categories for film and TV, introducing select writers to reps and producers.
Well. What’s old is new again … It’s been over 15 years since Evan Daugherty (2008 Screenwriting winner) sold Snow White and the Huntsman to Universal—in what is still one of the biggest spec sales ($3.5m) from an unproduced writer in Hollywood history. So why not another fantasy script in 2026? Paramount Primal picked up […]
Scott Wagner, winner of the First Look Project (Drama) with his screenplay Intern of the Year signed with manager Aubrey Morgan at Adventure Media in 2026. Pipeline execs called Intern of the Year, loosely based on Scott's own experiences working in a hospital, as "one of the "most riveting dramas we've ever reviewed." The Pipeline […]
Screenwriting Competition winner Untitled Home Invasion Romance (formerly Getaway) was produced in the summer of 2024 released in 2026 and is now on streaming. Jason Biggs (American Pie, Orange is the New Black) makes his directorial debut with the crime/comedy. Stars Anna Conkle (Pen15), Arturo Castro (Broad City), Meaghan Rath (Hawaii Five-o), and Justin H. […]
