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Prior to co-founding the management/production company Fictional Entity in early 2017, Chris Deckard spent over seven years working with and representing talent at the major agencies ICM Partners and WME. While at WME, Chris worked in the media rights department, selling books for series and film adaptations before moving into the talent department, where he worked closely with high level actors in film, television, and the then-emerging digital space. While at ICM Partners, he again worked with high level actors and worked closely with the packaging and sales department and the digital media group. For over a decade, Chris has worked closely with traditional and new media buyers to find and develop content for domestic and international audiences. In addition to helping cast and package numerous features and series, he has evaluated thousands of scripts for actors and directors. Chris graduated from Cornell University and earned his J.D. from Notre Dame Law School.

Chris helps his clients navigate the evolving entertainment landscape in the United States and abroad. He has negotiated deals for features, series, and podcasts in several international territories. His clients have been named to The Black List, The Hit List, The Young & Hungry List, The Blood List and been lauded by the PAGE Awards, the International Emmys, and The GLAAD Awards. Clients have also earned nominations and placements from The Heath Ledger Scholarship, The Academy Nicholl Screenwriting Awards, the AWG, ADG, SPA, and AACTA. Clients have written, directed, starred, and produced in numerous formats, including features, TV, virtual reality, and podcasts, independently and for companies like Netflix, Lucasfilm, NBCUniversal, Legendary, Marvel, Fremantle, SyFy, the CW, Warner Bros., Amazon, Blumhouse, Hulu, XYZ, The BBC, Comedy Central, the ABC Australia, Foxtel, TruTV, Super Deluxe, Hallmark, Lifetime, CBS, Facebook, E!, and MSNBC.

Several of Chris’ clients had films shoot in 2021, including one for Netflix, and another which sold to XYZ Films, both of which are slated for 2022 release. Within the past year, clients have sold series to Amazon, Netflix, eOne, and Hulu. Chris, along with his business partner, is also an Executive Producer on a scripted series project alongside two writing EPs from New Amsterdam which sold to Universal Television in 2021.

MARISA MARTINEZ MARQUEZ is a proud Filipina American born and bred in SacTown. Playwright turned screenwriter, her focus on the complications of being Asian while American earned her multiple grants, publications, and awards, including being named 100 Most Influential Filipino Women during her seventeen years in NYC. Her emphasis on representation as a genre writer highlights diverse female leads with supernatural problems who endeavor to do good when there are only bad options.

Marquez is a Roadmap Grand Prize Winner–Coletta Preacely-Garcia Diversity Fellowship and an Unlock Her Potential mentee of Emmy-nominated executive producer Francie Calfo. Along with placing in The Writers Lab, ScreenCraft, PAGE and the Black List & WIF Episodic Lab, her supernatural drama THIRST, about a Filipina teen who inherits the ability to drain water from the living, is on Coverfly’s The Red List. Her series MIND THE GAP, a top BBC Comedy Writers Room contender developed while attending MetFilm School in England, is currently set up with a London based team. Marquez splits her time between LA and Portland, OR where she co-hosts the Paranormal POC Podcast covering the supernatural to the extraterrestrial from the BIPOC diaspora.