
Kyle Sims is a filmmaker from Buffalo, NY. He graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2018 as a Film/TV major.
His senior thesis film Our Boy won the Wasserman Undergraduate Directing Award and Best Achievement in Experimental Film at NYU’s 2019 First Run Film Festival. Our Boy also earned a National Board of Review Student Grant and premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival in 2020.
His short film Galapagos (feat. Catherine Curtin) premiered at the Aspen Shortsfest in April, 2023, where it won a Special Mention for Comedy before releasing on Short of the Week.
An editor by day, Kyle edited the feature film Cicada (dir. Matthew Fifer) which was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award in 2021. He also co-edited the feature documentary A House Is Not A Disco (dir. Brian J. Smith) which premiered at SXSW in 2024.
He currently lives in Los Angeles.
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. […]
