Jon Shaivitz is an LA-based screenwriter originally from Baltimore, Maryland. Jon's feature script, Chó, a foreign-language thriller about a Vietnamese boy trying to rescue his dog before it's killed and eaten, placed in the Top 20 of the 2019 Roadmap Writers JumpStart Competition, as a finalist in the 2019 ScreenCraft Drama Contest and won "Best Feature" at the 2021 Atlanta Screenplay Awards. It is currently under option.