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Screenwriting

Genie Leslie writes female-driven comedies for film and TV.

Screenwriting

In both features and pilots, I focus on female-driven stories of self-discovery and complex relationships. I write stories about women figuring their shit (and themselves) out in their 30s and beyond—late bloomers, big life changes, coming of age when you thought you were too old for that.

SLEEPING WITH STRANGERS
Romantic comedy screenplay
A newly engaged woman is determined to check off her sexual bucket list before she walks down the aisle, only to discover that the man she’s set to marry is not the woman of her dreams.

Official Selection: Atlanta Women’s Film Festival 2024
Finalist, Roadmap Writers GPS Fellowship, 2024
Semifinalist, ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship, 2024
Second Round, Launch Pad Feature Competition, 2024
Second Round, Austin Film Festival, 2024
Semifinalist, ScreenCraft Feature Competition, 2023
Quarterfinalist, The Script Lab’s Free Screenplay Contest, 2023
Quarterfinalist, The Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition, 2024

Selected Project, Stowe Story Labs Remote Writers Retreat 2023

COUPLES’ THERAPY
Comedy screenplay
When Molly’s wife leaves her, she invites her childhood best friend Kayla to join her on an exclusive getaway in the mountains. With one catch: it’s a couples’ therapy retreat, and they’ll have to pretend to be married. Playing a couple is actually pretty fun, until they unearth real tension as therapy digs deep. COUPLES’ THERAPY is a comedy feature about two best friends discovering that not only romantic relationships need a little work.

Official Selection: Atlanta Women’s Film Festival 2024
Quarterfinalist, Final Draft - Big Break 2024
Second Round, Austin Film Festival, 2024

TALK MURDER TO ME
Half-hour comedy pilot
Best friends Amy and Christina don't agree on much except for their obsession with true crime. But when their passive entertainment turns into a real-life investigation of local crimes, their personal lives start to fall apart.

Finalist, Bigfoot Script Challenge, 2021

OTHER ACCOLADES, FELLOWSHIPS, ETC.

MFA student, Stephens College MFA in TV & Screenwriting, 2024-2026
Green Room Fellow, 2021 & 2022