Script Awards
The Script Awards is an international script and writers competition focused on ideas, talent, and narrative structure. The script remains the core of any project, and we highlight the craft of writing and the discipline of storytelling across genres and formats.
Since 2016, the Script Awards Los Angeles has awarded close to 300 winners and selected an additional 700+ authors from around the world.
For years, we have hosted roundtables and recorded conversations with writers, authors, screenwriters, and playwrights, examining the creative process and the realities of the industry. Today, we are publishing this library online as a podcast, making years of discussions with working writers publicly accessible for the first time.
We hope this initiative will help writers gain confidence by hearing and seeing that no writing path is prewritten or the same.
This podcast channel will also serve as an additional outlet for our Writers' Interview Series, offering writers another platform to shine and share. The series features in-depth one-on-one conversations with writers discussing their craft, career paths, and approach to storytelling.
You write stories; we tell your story.
Script Awards
Writers’ Interview Series | Ep. 3 | Monte Albers de Leon
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This episode features Monte, whose path to filmmaking took an unexpected turn after more than two decades in law and several more in real estate.
Born to a Guatemalan mother and a Texan father, Monte grew up in the rural hills near Napa, California. At 18, he left home to attend Claremont McKenna College, later earning a law degree from Harvard and a master’s in real estate from NYU.
Monte followed the traditional path into big law, but after a late-night philosophical debate, a flurry of notes in his iPhone, and an introduction to the screenwriting software Final Draft, everything changed. That moment led to the creation of *The Family Name*, an eight-episode drama series, and effectively another self-reinvention.
In "The Family Name", a revered New York real estate patriarch is tapped to chair a high-profile public safety initiative just as his company quietly begins to hemorrhage cash. When his lawyer daughter starts digging, she uncovers a shadow network of fixers and “security” vendors capable of fast-tracking permits, silencing lenders, and weaponizing philanthropy. As the Sterling family realizes the system using them could also destroy them, they must decide whether to expose the machine before it permanently rewrites their legacy.
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