Semifinalist, Roadmap Writers Short Script Lab 2026
Finalist, Josephson Entertainment + Roadmap Writers Short Story Competition
BIO
Pamela Weiss is a former journalist who moved from a life in. Silicon Valley to Los Angeles to pursue screenwriting. She's written several features in the comedy/dramedy genres including The Healdsburg Home for The Terminally Sexy now in development with producer Margaret French Isaac and Di Novi Pictures. She's currently pitching a series about the first woman reporter to win the Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism in 1980s Florida.
Pamela has produced a short film (www.ColorofAutumn.com) an anti-racism piece which depicts an incident from 1966 involving a young Black girl and engaging with its modern-day impact on the adult she grew into.
Skewness is a story of personal exploration of the arc from storytelling to activism and her own evolution from ally to upstander while navigating the many hypocrisies of Southern culture. The story is intended as a snapshot in time but sets us up to witness the evolution of the gay rights movement from a different lens.
The short film is a tiny "peephole" view into one situation; what it looked like to be queer and a Southerner in the '80s - and these two identities are not as far apart as you might think. Her love of legal procedurals like L.A. Law but Atlanta-style is clear in the setting, but her true inspiration is a deep love and respect for family who are LGTBQ+.
As a journalist, Pamela learned firsthand that as a society we don't learn unless we have to. In place of curiosity, we will substitute skewed perceptions we've either been raised with or chosen to believe - until the moment it directly impacts us. As a mom of a trans kid finding his way in the world, she has her own insight into how far a child will go to avoid a parent's disapproval and how far one must go to find one's true self.