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She grew up in Winnipeg Manitoba, a place that is quite often the coldest place on earth. Caitlin’s career began when she became the first Canadian to win the Sir Peter Ustinov Award for Scriptwriting from the International Emmys. Since then she has written for SYFY, Lifetime, Global, CBC, Hulu, Hallmark, and she has been nominated for two Writers Guild of Canada Awards. Most recently she served as a Writer and Producer on the fifth season of international hit Private Eyes.

After working several years on such characters as Batman, Superman, and Aquaman, Chuck moved to Los Angeles and worked for E! Online as a reporter. He got his big break when he was picked as a writing fellow in the Disney/ABC writing program. Chuck wrote for several seasons on the NBC hit series Heroes. He’s also continued his work in comic books, with characters ranging from the Powerpuff Girls to the X-Men to Superman.  His animation work includes Ben 10 and Dexter’s Laboratory. He still remains proud of designing the lower half of a short-lived version of Aquaman’s costume. 

Chuck teaches television writing at several universities and lives with his husband David and their amazing dog Gatsby.

As the founder of Frankly, My Dear business affairs consulting, Samantha works with emerging filmmakers and offers production services for film projects of all sizes. As an attorney and working screenwriter, Samantha understands more than anyone the business side of writing. 

Samantha is also an experienced writer, with extensive credits, including 10 feature writing and 22 additional crew (business affairs) credits.  Samantha’s first tv-movie, MINGLE ALL THE WAY, premiered on Hallmark in 2018. Since then she has had multiple movies premiere on Hallmark and will be making her network debut this year on CBS.  

Samantha continues to write, produce and provide business affairs consulting across the industry. Please see this page (LINK) for more information about Frankly, My Dear and the industry services Samantha can help you with.

Skye believes that every person should be equipped to tell their own story. As such, she’s been a teacher of both Screenwriting and Disability Studies for the past 6 years, first at UCLA working directly with ProPath Screenwriting’s Tim Albaugh, then later through the Utah Film Center and Encircle — an LGBTQ+ youth and family resource center. In addition, Skye developed with her partner an affordable, easy-to-use screenwriting software, Scriip (www.scriip.com), to ensure that technology is never a barrier to storytelling.

 

Skye’s feature psychological thriller,
UNDER THE INFLUENCER,
was produced in Los Angeles in June, 2022. Her romantic comedy, The Heart of Huckleberry, was recently optioned by RomCom Pictures. And, she’ll be directing her cowritten short film, LITTLE GENES, in the fall of 2022.

Skye was named a Top 25 Screenwriter to Watch in 2020 by the International Screenwriters Association. She received the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in Screenwriting at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. She is also a fellow of the Sundance Screenwriters Intensive Program.

Skye’s lived multiple lives, including as an Advertising Project Manager, Sports App Product Manager, and Volunteer Dog Walker. She loves to read suspense novels and watch true crime TV, both of which have contributed to her growing insomnia and irrational fear of basements. Skye splits her time between Los Angeles and Salt Lake City, Utah.

He studied theater at the prestigious American Academy of Dramatic Arts, but soon realized that acting was not his passion. Writing was.

He made his writing debut with a stage production “17 Days,” which was produced at The Colony Theater in Los Angeles and played in in small theaters around the country. The work received strong critical praise and several DramaLogue Awards.

A few years later, his second play “Mountains” debuted at The Colony. It went on to win the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Los Angeles Theater Production.

He transitioned into travel writing, authoring more than a dozen guide books about Las Vegas including Frommer’s, Las Vegas for Dummies, and Moon Handbooks.

Rick has published four novels including “Interitas Volume 1: The Beginning of Sorrows,” “Interitas Volume 2: False Prophets,” and “Interitas Volume 3: Unequaled,” the first three books in a proposed seven book YA series, and “Jake Davenport PI: The Case of the Missing Cha Cha Heel,” a comedic mystery.

For television, he has written, co-written, developed the story, and/or acted as executive producer on 30 movies for Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, PixL, and the Lifetime Movie Network including “A Shoe Addict’s Christmas” starring Candace Cameron Bure, Luke Macfarlane, and Jean Smart; “Valentine in the Vineyard” starring Rachael Leigh Cook; “To Catch a Spy” starring Nathalie Kelley and Colin Donnell; “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” starring Eric Mabius and Tricia Helford; “Christmas at the Palace” starring Merritt Patterson; “Christmas at Pemberley Manor starring Jessica Lowndes and Michael Rady; “Love on Safari starring Lacey Chabert and Jon Cor; “Christmas in Evergreen” starring Ashley Williams and Teddy Sears; “Christmas in Homestead” starring Taylor Cole and Michael Rady; and “Late Bloomer” starring Italia Ricci and Nathan Parsons to name a few.

He is working on many more television movies for television. The fourth novel in the “Interitas” series entitled “Out in the Wilderness” will debut in 2022.

Rick enjoys taking road trips to see colorful bits of Americana and counts Savannah, Georgia as his favorite city in the world. In his spare time, you’ll probably find him on the couch binge-watching TV.

In addition to a number of projects in development, Hunter’s feature film, Bitterroot, currently has 42 Productions on board to produce, and Oscar winning actress Hilary Swank on board to produce/star. Hunter, whose projects have been officially selected at a number of festivals, has worked internationally as a screenwriter, has produced award-winning web series/indie content, and pitched and sold a one-hour, historical drama series in 2017. Having pitched to Universal, Imagine, New Line, Netflix, and dozens of production companies, Hunter, who also serves as visiting faculty for Hollins University’s Graduate Film Program, has shepherded client work to companies such as Disney, HBO and Showtime with her “Pitch it Up a Notch!”® approach. Prior to pursuing filmmaking, Hunter was an NCAA Division 1 water polo player and worked with lasers at UC Davis’ Crocker Nuclear Laboratory.