Independent Writers' Caucus
Lisa Jeanne Rosenberg
415-407-2573
Lisa Rosenberg is an AFI Screenwriting graduate and a narrative screenwriter focused on dramas, coming-of-age, and political thrillers. CURE, a thriller, was a Semifinalist for the 2023 New York Women in Film & Television Writers’ Lab and Second Round in the 2022, 2021, and 2020 Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competitions.
A PLACE CALLED HOME, a political drama, was a 2024 Quarterfinalist in the ScreenCraft True Story & Public Domain Competition and previously an Independent Film Week selection. GRAFT, a period coming-of-age, won a 2023 Puffin Foundation grant for development as a stage play and was Second Round in the 2022 Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition. CRAWL SPACE, a psychological drama adapted from the novel by Edie Meidav, was a 2015 Finalist for the New York Women in Film & Television Writers' Lab.
Recent contracts include script consulting and editing on THE CALLBACK short by writer/director Kara Herold; writing CLIPPED WINGS (working title), a dramatic feature for Front Row Productions; co-writing the treatment for THE MAYA MOVIE, a documentary feature for Redhouse Productions; and writing A PRAYER, a script for a short for actor Anthony Aguilar Gallagher. Earlier projects she has written for have earned an Emmy, a Codie, an Action for Children's Television Award, and a nomination for a Peabody Award.
Honors & Awards
Semifinalist, NYWIFT Writers’ Lab – CURE – 2023
Second Round, Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition – CURE – 2022
Second Round, Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition – GRAFT – 2022
non-WGA
Female, Middle Eastern, Multi-Ethnic, 55+
CURE
(Political Thriller)
When a gifted Nigerian medical student invents a malaria vaccine derived from sea life, he must challenge a powerful drug company bent on co-opting his work and patenting the creatures from which the vaccine would be made.
GRAFT
(Coming-of-Age)
In 1903, a nineteen-year-old street girl, impersonator, and thief gains an unexpected chance to recreate herself on the stage, which may enable her to transform who she can be in real life.
CRAWL SPACE
(Psychological Thriller)
When an unrepentant war criminal secretly returns home, desperate to clear his name, he meets a troubled drifter whose story mirrors his own, forcing him to run again to finally face what he has become.
Character-driven, Medical, Crime, Thriller, Psychological, Historical/Alternative History, Coming-of-Age, International
Female, Middle Eastern, Multi-Ethnic, 55+
unrepped