BIO
Ali Imran Zaidi is an LA-based writer of dark comedies, thrillers, sci-fi, and crime, and is a Florida escapee. Caught for years between concrete swamps and the rural Florida where people tend to disappear, he took odd jobs ranging from processing piles of Gulf shrimp at a fishhouse, to building tech in a hangar near Travolta’s secret lair. He’s lived on 3 continents, and his stories are spiked with that divergent and often darkly comic experience.
He recently won the inaugural Stowe Story Labs $50k Production Grant, and was also an inaugural fellow in Riz Ahmed’s Pillars Fund Artist Fellowship sponsored by Amazon Studios and Netflix. He’s a 2022 Black List Feature Lab alum. Previously, he wrote for SoundTrip, an immersive, interactive audio story gamifying the listening experience, which launched as a live performance in an award-winning run at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. He also developed an original narrative audio series alongside Hillman Grad Productions, with Janina Gavankar and Hasan Minhaj attached to co-produce and star.
He’s currently developing a TV series with Ley Line Entertainment (Everything Everywhere, Green Knight), and helping write a video game for a robotics company trying to grow a digital intelligence toward sentience, in a manner that won’t result in it murdering us all. Hopefully.
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He has been featured on John August’s Scriptnotes, had an alt-history TV pilot featured on The Black List (JOHN BLACK RAVEN), completed an MPAC TV Drama Screenwriting Lab, and a Canon Filmmaker Lab on Directing, Cinematography, Producing and Editing.
He’s also an occasional dabbler in experimental fiction and directing & cinematography.
And people say his pages are nice.
