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dQ Kaufman
Seattle, United States

I want to be a director/writer when I grow up.

I have a dark, dark sense of humor in my writing and a fine mix of experiences with a fine mix of people. I enjoy writing the kind of scripts that pull the rug out, both in plot points and tone. Any moments of emotional realism and truth are loving snuggled down into brassy genre stories.

You know, stuff like when Nux points at Capable at the end of Fury Road and says "Witness me" and he's really meaning it for the first time, because he's finally found something worth dying for, but, also, what he's really saying is "please remember me" because he loves her and would do anything for her, and then, after so many others have, he sacrifices himself so everyone can get away, and I get all teary in a goddamn post - apocalyptic car chase movie. That kind of shit.

Awards

Coverfly All-time Overall Top 3% for
Megan Is Everywhere
Coverfly All-time Overall Top 10% for
Persephone in the Underworld

Endorsements

WeScreenplay - Consider for
Megan Is Everywhere

Scripts By dQ

Persephone in the Underworld
After growing up in a survival bunker, a woman sets out across a post-apocalyptic landscape to find her estranged mother. 2023 Semi-finalist in the Page International Screenplay Competition.
Feature Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi For sale 103pp
Coverfly All-time Overall Top 10%
Amalthea
A ragtag team of soldiers escorts a disgruntled engineer to a distant moon of Jupiter, and are pulled into a dangerous fight for their lives against the leader of the space-station and his insane crew.
Feature Action, Horror, Sci-Fi For sale 115pp
Goldfish Theorem
On a mining colony around Neptune, a scientist must uncover a three-hundred-year-old revenge plot before she pays the ultimate price.
Feature Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller Example of work only 105pp
Megan Is Everywhere
A grieving hitman is haunted by the memories of his dead wife, as a bad night on the job becomes a battle of wills between him and a mysterious hostage.
Feature Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Horror, Thriller Seeking finance 99pp
WeScreenplay - Consider
Coverfly All-time Overall Top 3%
4 readers love this script
Uninvited
On the last night of her life, a affluent woman receives an unwelcome visitor.
Short Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller Seeking finance 12pp
1 reader loves this script
Abe & Becky
Two strangers spend their last days in an underground bunker telling each other lies to keep from telling the truth.
Short Drama Seeking finance 16pp