Hello
I’m Karin
SCREENWRITING
Work in progress.
The Pilots
August 6, 2018Life of a Spec Script
December 8, 201668th Festival De Cannes
July 13, 2015
ABOUT
After seeing her first big screen movie 007: License to Kill at age six, a questionable parenting move she still thanks her parents for, Karin naturally became obsessed with writing action-infused stories. The next time she’d see Benicio del Toro was in person, twenty-six years later at the 68th Cannes Film Festival. He was there for the Sicario red carpet, she was there for her first produced short film in the basement of the Palais…same-same.
ROLES
Writer of screenplays, fiction and brand stories.
Blogger of Film & TV.
Fairytale addict, Trekkie & Superhero Fangirl.
In between, Karin traded her small town for a Creative Writing Degree and urban life in the next city over, where she worked her way from magazine intern to interviewing Maggie Q, then went all-in on a freelance writing career. She’s since placed Top 3 in Final Draft’s Big Break with a THE FLASH spec, along with several other notable screenwriting contests, and revels in the incomparable feeling of belonging in one’s own skin when behind her pink MacBook, make-believing.
Usually too terrified to talk, Karin is pro at becoming friends with the loudest person in the room. Stemming from an over-protective mother that created fear as a guiding principle for life, Karin’s favorite type of characters are women who stand up to the Big Bad…while she spends her own days editing screenplays and contributing to the Final Draft blog (everyone needs a day job), and not going into the woods she lives next to; because why would you tempt the dark side when there’s a perfectly paved road to walk?
SCREENPLAY COMPETITIONS
THE POTENTIALS “Becoming Aphrodite”
2022 Stage32 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Screenwriting Competition Finalist
2022 Stage32 Female Driven Screenwriting Competition Semifinalist
2022 ScreenCraft Fellowship Quarterfinalist
HOPE FALLS “Pilot”
2022 Stage32 Female Driven Screenwriting Competition Finalist
2021 ScreenCraft TV Pilot Quarterfinalist
2020 Table Read My Screenplay – Genre: Drama Top 100
BECOMING APHRODITE “Pilot”
2017 ITV Fest Official Screenplay Selection
2017 ScreenCraft Screenwriters Residency Program Semifinalist
DECROWNED
2017 Hollyshorts Film Festival Official Screenplay Selection (an Academy Awards® Qualifying Festival)
2017 ScreenCraft Short Film Fund Semifinalist
THE FLASH “The Conductor”, spec script
2016 Final Draft Big Break Contest Top 3
THE OTHER ROOM, writer + director
2015 ScreenCraft Short Film Fund Semifinalist
FILMOGRAPHY
EYE FOR AN EYE (Short)
2015 Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner
PIPELINE ARTISTS CONTRIBUTOR
My POV on this crazy little thing called creative dreams.
Equal parts thrilled and terrified to be joining the talented team at Pipeline Artists and spilling the raw beans as one of their newest Contributors!
First up: Tales From a NaNoWriMo Novice.
FINAL DRAFT BLOG
Around the time I bought my first copy of Final Draft screenwriting software to take my freshman creative writing class in style, I binge-watched my first TV show: CSI.
Two decades later, I was BEYOND thrilled to get to write about it — and many more shows — FOR Final Draft. Weekly, in fact, in a little column called the History of Television: Binge-able TV Screenwriters Can Study.
As a hard and fast fan of shows like Halo and Hunters, I’m also thrilled for the opportunity to have interviewed their showrunners Steven Kane and David Weil respectively — Kane on honoring the Halo spirit, and Weil on his Sci-Fi Apple+ show, Invasion. As well as many other screenwriters rising through the ranks in Hollywood.
Some super geeky dreams coming true over here… Check them out on the Final Draft Blog.
EDITING SERVICES
Congrats! You’re literally a superhero: you finished that manuscript, pilot, feature—the THING you had to get on the page. It’s tough, but oh-so-worth-it. Now what?
The part that I love:
SCREENPLAY EDITING
I will read your script from top to bottom looking for spelling, grammar, industry-standard formatting, and clarity issues. My clients have gone on to final in screenplay contests as well as have their work produced!
- Spelling & Grammar.
Sometimes, auto-correct doesn’t cut it. - Formatting.
Did you catch that INT. header location was the same place we’re at now, but three scenes ago it had a different name? I did! - Clarity.
Say what?!
Interested in polishing your manuscript before it hits the contest, fellowship, or that manager’s desk? Shoot me an email at: writergirlkarin@gmail.com.
CONNECT
Call: 778.238.7877
Email: writergirlkarin@gmail.com
Get Social: @WriterGirlKarin
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