Written by Beatrice Yilin Jiang. 26 pages<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Beatrice Jiang is a queer filmmaker from Shenzhen, China, devoted to telling stories that are raw, funny, and unafraid. She earned her B.A. in Film & Television Production with a minor in Comedy from the University of Southern California and her MFA in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute Conservatory (Class of 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Beatrice\u2019s work centers on women and queer relationships. She gravitates toward romantic comedies and intimate dramas that explore the awkward, messy, and beautiful ways people try\u2014and fail\u2014to connect. Drawing from her bicultural background, her stories often examine love, shame, and freedom through both Chinese and Western lenses, finding universality in the most specific moments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Whether she\u2019s writing a heartfelt rom-com or a character-driven drama, Beatrice aims to make audiences feel seen, heard, and less alone. She believes humor is a form of compassion, and that storytelling can hold both truth and joy at once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Writer Statement<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I went to one of the strictest international high schools in Shenzhen\u2014phones banned, dating forbidden\u2014and yet I secretly dated the president of the dance club. That thrill of danger and tenderness\u2014wanting to love but having to hide\u2014became the emotional seed of this story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I grew up with parents who loved me through criticism, who wanted me to study, not dream\u2014and that shaped both my discipline and my loneliness. Wendy and Odette are two versions of me. Wendy, the girl who tries to fix everything, who believes love must be earned through achievement. Odette, the one who hides, escaping into manga pages because reality hurts too much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a queer Chinese woman, I was raised in a culture that teaches you to hide your feelings\u2014to be smaller, quieter, safer. My teenage self would confide, \u201cI wasn\u2019t trying to make trouble; I was trying to feel alive.\u201d Every rule I broke was a way of asking: how much of myself can I keep before the world takes the rest? She was stubborn, dramatic, a little vain\u2014but brave in ways I didn\u2019t recognize back then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If my show could whisper to a queer teen in China, it would say: You\u2019re not dirty. You\u2019re not broken. You\u2019re just beginning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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At an elite, hyper-strict international school in China, a straight-laced literature club president\u2014desperate to cover her comatose mother\u2019s hospital bills\u2014is lured into an underground erotic manga business started by the Dean\u2019s manipulative daughter, risking expulsion, scandal, and the friendships she\u2019s come to rely on. (Half-hour dramedy)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false},"movie_genre":[212,218],"movie_tag":[258,259,231,260],"class_list":["post-264","movie","type-movie","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","movie_genre-script-screenplay","movie_genre-social-issues-women-issues-social-issues-legal-issues","movie_tag-lgbtq","movie_tag-queer","movie_tag-script","movie_tag-women-story"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t