Projects
Every script and pitch on the slate.
HOLIDAY ROMANCE
When a renowned mystery novelist investigates the theft of Snowfall's magical Christmas bell, she partners with the charming mayor, uncovering deeper mysteries and unexpected love amidst the town's festive secrets and traditions.
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HOLIDAY ROMANCE
When a renowned mystery novelist investigates the theft of Snowfall's magical Christmas bell, she partners with the charming mayor, uncovering deeper mysteries and unexpected love amidst the town's festive secrets and traditions.
Status Available
DESTINATION ROMANCE, SET IN THAILAND
Written by Eda Benjakul & Isabel Dréan
When a Thai-American investment banker’s perfectly planned life crumbles after a broken engagement, she flees to Thailand, where an unexpected romance with a charming resort heir, a rekindled passion for cooking, and the healing power of an elephant sanctuary force her to choose between the safe path she’s planned and a life filled with love, purpose, and unexpected possibilities.
Status Available
HOLIDAY ROMANCE
Written by Eda Benjakul & Isabel Dréan
When a dedicated TV producer (40s) returns home to care for her mom, she clashes with the town doctor she unknowingly hired as a handyman. Through their disagreements and shared endeavors to revive holiday traditions, she rediscovers the magic of Christmas and what's truly important.
Status Available
DESTINATION ROMANCE, SET IN ITALY
Written by Isabel Dréan & Eda Benjakul
When a disgraced American food influencer accidentally crashes into a Michelin-starred chef's Italian trattoria, she must work off her debt under his guidance, leading to a journey of culinary redemption, love, and the discovery of her true calling amidst the timeless traditions of an Italian village.
Status Available
When a world adventurer unexpectedly opens the first bookshop in Laos after the Communist era, she befriends a local teenage boy with a deep love of books. When his family threatens to send him back to his village and jeopardize his future, she is faced with the dilemma of taking him under her roof, and making Laos her home.
Status Development: Work in Progress
When a rebellious high school drop-out leaves home to become a nanny, the 16-year-old struggles to reconcile her 'girls just wanna have fun' attitude with her new boss, an ultra, orthodox Jewish family.
Status Work in Progress
PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR/THRILLER
While renovating her childhood home for her dementia-stricken father, Aria uncovers human remains, along with chilling clues linking him to her mother’s disappearance and a series of unsolved murders. As a true crime podcaster closes in on the truth, Aria must choose: protect the man she loves, or expose the legacy of an infamous serial killer before she becomes his final victim.
Status Development: Work in Progress
ECO HORROR
When a teenage girl is found dead, tangled in the roots of a tree, her four friends set out to uncover what happened. But the forest isn’t just hiding secrets, it’s alive. And it’s choosing who gets out.
Status Development
PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR/THRILLER
When Maggie, a hopeless romantic, inherits a magical map revealing multiple potential soulmates, she embarks on a rollercoaster journey through modern dating, self-discovery, and the unpredictable world of love.
Status Pitch
VERTICAL SERIES
After a disgruntled Santa and a grieving teenage girl magically swap bodies on Christmas Eve, they must deliver millions of presents and restore worldwide belief, or Christmas dies, learning to heal each other's hearts along the way.
Status Available
PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR/THRILLER
When a grieving couple moves to a New England town for a fresh start, the past, the present and the future coil themselves around the young wife’s life like razor wire. A husbands’ uncontrolled temper, hidden secrets and lost loved ones. Set in the '50s.
Status Completed draft / needs rewrite
PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR/THRILLER
Escaping her abusive past, Edie embarks on a cross-country drive, perceiving threats in every stranger she meets. But when she reaches her estranged mother's home, a horrifying revelation comes to light: Edie's distorted paranoia has led her on a tragic killing spree, culminating in a confrontation that questions who the true victim is.
Status Rough first draft
PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR/THRILLER
In the wake of his wife's mysterious death, a grieving husband's attempt to hold onto her memory spirals into an obsession, leading him on a perilous journey through her hidden life of betrayal and deceit, all while blurring the lines of his own identity. Modern adaptation of Madame Bovary with a twist.
Status Pitch only
SLASHER
After a fashion magazine assistant becomes the target of a dangerous stalker, she must fight to reclaim her life and unravel the shocking secret behind the sinister threats… Soon…
Status Draft available
LOVE TRIANGLE - COMING OF AGE - DRAMA
Harper Cole, 21-year-old influencer takes her brother’s spot in an Atlanta creator loft, where she moves in with Malik and Ethan, two up-and-coming male influencers chasing clout, love, and independence. But between dating disasters, viral scandals, and collab chaos, they discover the biggest red flags aren’t in the algorithm, they’re in themselves.
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WITH ISABEL DREAN
After her picture-perfect influencer life implodes on a disastrous livestream that exposes her boyfriend’s betrayal, 21-year-old Zoe flees LA for Charleston to help her grandmother’s failing tea shop. Stripped of filters and followers, she discovers real connection, unexpected romance, and a life worth remembering, not just posting.
Status Available
ROMANCE
The Sewing Circle: Hollywood Secrets is a fictionalized series that takes place in 1920s-1950s Hollywood, focusing on the secret lives of famous actresses and their relationships within the titular "Sewing Circle," a group of women in the entertainment industry who were either bisexual, lesbian, or exploring their sexuality. At the center of the series are Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, the unconventional actress Tallulah Bankhead, the pioneering writer Mercedes de Acosta, and savvy scriptwriter Salka Viertel, all of whom navigate their way through the treacherous waters of fame, desire, and ambition in a time and place where it was dangerous to be openly gay or bisexual.
Status Pitch only
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Romantic Comedy Screenwriter · Director · Producer
Five movies produced in 18 months. Four #1 vertical series.
Isabel Dréan is a Canadian screenwriter, director and producer based in Los Angeles. She writes romantic comedies, for features and for vertical, and is one of the leading voices in microdrama. Her series The Summer I Turned My Sexiest was called a breakthrough by The New York Times Magazine.
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