Thriller · Horror
Romance is Isabel's signature. Thriller and horror are her other great love, the genre she writes and directs for the pure thrill of it, with festival wins for Best Directing at Hollyweb Fest and Austin WebFest. Let Go and Manigances come from KebWebTV, her short-form content platform, now defunct.
If happiness is family, how does one keep on living when losing a child? For Anna, life comes to a halt when she loses her daughter in an accident. She is torn between her young son, Mathis, and the memory of her beloved daughter, Claire. Mathis acts like nothing has changed, because to him, his sister is still here. Can this love keep them together even through death? Or should she let go?
Would you trust your friends? Michel Galland, a famous horror novelist, stages his own suicide disguised as a friendly reunion dinner. Five carefully chosen friends unknowingly become the prime suspects in their host's premeditated death. But the perfectly orchestrated evening turns into a disjointed, twisted improvisation, and two investigators are pulled into the depths of human nature to find logic in what has none.
Optioned in the room at a major studio, in Isabel's first pitch in Hollywood.
Ten months after season one, Jonathan Brière must face his demons and find who killed his friend and colleague, Dan Portal. With a new teammate, Alex Dubois, he must interrogate and protect three key witnesses. A seedy hotel, surveillance cameras, an assassin called “the Hand.” Who will crack first? 72 hours to find the truth.
Spec script · Psychological thriller · Quarterfinalist, Nicholl Fellowship
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. Set in the '50s.
“The tone is pitch-perfect. The suspense and intrigue will have you turn the page with anticipation. The intensity has a constant build throughout.”
Pitches ready
Isabel has thriller and horror microseries pitches ready to go, and she would love to write more microseries in the genre. Platforms and producers looking for a writer who knows how to build a cliffhanger in the dark, this is the place.
Request a pitchRomantic 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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Movies — five produced in 18 months
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Alongside the slate: market-ready scripts and open assignments — romantic comedy, holiday and destination specs — polished, produced-minded, and ready to move.
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