RENATA ELIS CREATIONS

BUDGET-CONSCIOUS | SINGLE SET | CHARACTER-DRIVEN
MULTICULTURAL STORIES | INTERNATIONAL AUDIENCE

RENATA ELIS

Playwright & Award-winning Screenwriter
Brazilian-born American playwright and award-winning screenwriter enjoys developing character-driven stories that have social, political and psychological depth reflecting her international worldview, adding a dash of humor because, let’s face it, who can watch provocative narratives without a joke or a caipirinha?
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Renata holds a BA in Performing Arts from Arizona State University in Phoenix, Arizona and a Postgraduate Diploma in Secondary Education with a specialization in Drama from Murdoch University in Perth, Australia. She also holds a Diploma in Dramatic Arts from the Célia-Helena Theater Academy in São Paulo, Brazil.
 

TV SERIES PILOTS

MindMate®
 
TV Script · Dramedy · 30 Pages

MindMate® is a female-driven limited series about a  young woman who battles an AI that has outsmarted its creators to protect itself from being disconnected, manipulating people’s memories and desires, in an ultimate power struggle between humanity and AI.

PILOT episode: After trying a new AI promising to vanish her recurring nightmares, a young woman suffering from PTSD finds herself trapped in an “AI-gonizing” hell and must fight to regain control of her life.

$enior Care
 
TV Script · Dramedy · 32 Pages

$enior Care is a multi-generational  TV series about the Golden Care assisted living – a hotbed of greed – and its caregivers with questionable ethics, who exploit seniors through profit, kickbacks, and overcharging for services.

PILOT episode: Desperate to save her business and beloved elderly residents from her ruthless franchisor, a young woman commits a wicked embezzlement and is now trapped in a game of hide-the-fraud-and-don’t-get-caught, to keep her secret safe and protect all she’s fought for.

Narcissus Hotel
 
TV Script · Comedy/Dramedy · 30 Pages

Narcissus hotel is a TV series about a diverse group of dysfunctional employees and a narcissistic hotelier who deal with everyday problems of running a hotel in Barcelona.

PILOT episode: An overachiever hotel manager must learn to trust her new hire to handle a hectic cyberattack while discovering that her boss is behind it.

Green Union
 
TV Script · Dramedy · 27 Pages

A Geo-political workplace dramedy TV series about a diverse team of wildlife biologists who struggle to preserve their national identity, peace and the environment.

PILOT episode: After nearly losing the wildlife reservation that she runs, a pragmatic park director desperately seeks the European Union’s aid to protect the sanctuary, but is caught off-guard when her sponsor takes control over the park.

Daydreaming Mom
 
TV Script · Comedy · 31 Pages

PILOT episode: Hoping to gain entry into an exclusive mom clique and find some companions for her restless kids, an expat lures a few local moms over to a fabricated charity event at her house. But as her guests arrive, she’s forced last minute to take her biggest client on a tour of Prague while muddling through her guests, family and client.

ACCOLADES

Winner, Best Script Awards – London, Best TV Script 2023
with Daydreaming Mom

Winner, LA Neo Noir Novel, Film, and Script Festival Best TV Script 2023
with $enior Care

Winner, Berlin International Screenwriting Festival Best TV Script 2024
with Green Union

 Finalist Mad Wife 100 Scripts 2023
with MindMate®

Finalist, Katra Film Series Episodic Series 2023
with $enior Care

Finalist, Cannes Film Awards 2024
with $enior Care

Winner, Las Vegas International Film & Screenwriting Festival TV Pilot 2023
with MindMate®

Winner, Paris Awards Film Festival Best Pilot Series 2023
with MindMate®

Winner, Hollywood International Diversity Film Festival 2022
with Daydreaming Mom

Winner, Hollywood Just 4 shorts BEST TV Script, May 2021
with Narcissus Hotel

Finalist, Creative World Awards 2022
with Narcissus Hotel

Finalist, Creative World Awards 2022
with Daydreaming Mom

Semifinalist, Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition 2022
with Green Union

 

PLAY SCRIPTS

DAYDREAMING MOM
Original TV Script (Prague), 2021
Stage Adaptation (Andorra), 2023

MOLLY VISITS CHLOÉ IN ANDORRA
Written by Gregory Stéphane Coonen. Stage Play Adaptation and directed by Renata Elis. Performed at The British College of Andorra, 2021.

PETER PAN
Written by J. M. Barrie (1860 – 1937). Stage Play Adaptation and directed by Renata Elis. Performed at The British College of Andorra, February 2020.

WHAT’S AN ENCYCLOPEDIA?
Children’s Theater. Performed at The British College of Andorra, 2019.

CONTACT

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