Hispanic Heritage Month Panel

Roadmap Writers is a talent training and discovery platform for screenwriters ready for a guided path to success. Our programs are hosted by working industry executives and are designed to empower writers with actionable tools and insights to elevate their craft and cultivate relationships with industry professionals. Since 2016, we have helped hundreds of writers from all over the world sign to representation, staff on series, and option and produce their projects. Our writers have been staffed on BRIDGERTON, THE FLASH, CHICAGO PD, THE FIRST LADY, NIGHT COURT, THE GOOD DOCTOR, THE RESIDENT, REACHER, SUBJECT TO CHANGE, MAYANS MC, and POKERFACE. Writers have sold, set up, and been produced by Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, MGM, American High, New Republic Pictures, Maven Screen Media, Lifetime, Will Packer Studios, and Roku, among others. 

Ingrid Nin is a Puerto Rican and Dominican Independent Producer. A City College of New York (CUNY) alumni, she graduated as the valedictorian of the Humanities and Arts Department with her BFA in Film and Video Production. Previously, she has worked and interned at companies such as 3 Arts Entertainment, NBCUniversal, Jax Media, and Smokehouse Pictures. Ingrid is also an almuni of the Tribeca Film Fellows Program, the HRTS Fellowship Program, and the Women Wednesday's BIPOC Mentorship Program. Recently, Ingrid produced the Latina-led short film LIKE A VIRGIN, which won Best Dark Comedy at the 2024 Austin After Dark Film Festival. LIKE A VIRGIN also won Best Music at the 2025 CUNY Film Festival. Not only that, but the film was also selected for the ¡Tú Cuentas! Cine Youth Film Festival, the Philadelphia Latino Arts & Film Festival, and Queens Film Festival. Ingrid continues to produce a variety of projects in the short form, feature, and digital space under her production company IRL Media. Lastly, Ingrid is the host of the Entertainx Podcast– focused on showcasing the career achievements of Latinxs working in entertainment.

Stuart Altman is an award-winning writer and director. He received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Film Production from Loyola Marymount University. His films have showcased at many international film festivals and have won many awards including the Yahoo-Telemundo Audience Choice in Miami, for "The Gift," a film in both Spanish and English.

Stuart's mother immigrated from Mexico and his father's family immigrated from the Czech Republic, making him Czechs-Mex.

Stuart graduated from New Mexico Military Institute where he continues to volunteer his time as both a speaker and filmmaker.

Zach Cannon was raised in a multiethnic household in Miami, where his mother’s family are Cuban exiles and his father is a retired police chief. He was most recently an Executive Story Editor on CBS’ FBI: MOST WANTED. He has also written for NBC’s THE INBETWEEN, Roku’s PANHANDLE, and Syfy’s RESIDENT ALIEN. David Milch gave Zach his start in television as his assistant, and he is an alumnus of USC’s Writing for Screen & Television program, the National Hispanic Media Coalition’s Series Scriptwriters Program, and NBC’s Writers on the Verge.

Taylor Orci (they/them) is a non-binary latinx TV/film writer from Los Angeles. They were on the writing staff of VIDA (GLAAD-winning, Starz) and KIPO (Emmy-nominated, Netflix), and during the pandemic they wrote a live action comedy feature for New Line Cinema. Most recently they were the head writer on BE@RBRICK, which will premiere on Apple TV in Fall 2024. Taylor wrote and created the viral video, "Bitchy Resting Face," which got the phrase in the dictionary. Their professional writing career started after they were a journalist with NPR. They carry a B.A. in International Development Studies from UCLA.

GT is an Afro-Indigenous-Latine Writer-Producer. Formerly, GT worked full time as an EMT and part time as an Martial Arts instructor all while carrying a full class load at Columbia College Chicago. After graduation, he drove cross country to LA with nothing more than a laptop and a suitcase full of dreams. Opting for jobs that didn’t involve blood and guts, he worked as an Executive Assistant at 20th Century Fox, a showrunner’s Assistant for the TV show Switched at Birth, and as a Field Producer for ABC News 20/20.  GT has been accepted into a handful of programs including the NHMC Writing Fellowship, CBS Writing Mentor Program and the ABC Native TV Workshop.  He has notched several writing assignments under his belt and is currently in development with a 1-hour TV drama at a production company. In all his work he uses his experience of exploring his multiple heritages as fodder to explore character and story mythology. Now the only blood and guts GT works with are those in his scripts.