Joe Murillo (He/Him) is a Mexican-American screenwriter with a M.F.A. in Screenwriting from CSUN. With a penchant for horror, Joe focuses on new twists on classic monsters, utilizing diverse and under-represented casts to explore the themes in his stories. In 2022, he became an award-winning writer when his feature screenplay, The Colony, earned Best Sci-fi Screenplay at the HorrOrigins Film Festival. More recently, his creature feature screenplay, Cryptids, won the Reno Tahoe Feature Length Screenplay Contest and is currently in pre-production on a Proof of Concept with MadWife Productuons.