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Joseph Murillo
Dana Point, United States

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. 

Awards

Coverfly All-time Overall Top 25% for
Emerald Lagoon
Coverfly All-time Overall Top 25% for
The Colony
Coverfly All-time Overall Top 10% for
Cryptids
Stage 32 Search For New Blood - Semi Finalist for
Cryptids
Coverfly All-time Overall Top 35% for
Silver

Endorsements

Shore Scripts - Recommended for
Cryptids
Stage 32 - Recommended for
Silver

Scripts By Joseph

The Oath
A Doctor faces the greatest ethical challenge of his career after being in a car accident and the other driver is on the run from the law.
Short Drama For sale 10pp
1 reader loves this script
Silver
A young sheriff of an Old West mining town struggles to defend his people from a werewolf that's claimed the territory as its new hunting ground.
Feature Horror, Western For sale 100pp
Stage 32 - Recommended
Coverfly All-time Overall Top 35%
Cryptids
When a Cryptozoologist answers a call to help search for a friend who's gone missing in the Canadian wilderness, she finds herself fighting to protect more than the search team from an insatiable monster
Feature Adventure, Horror For sale 93pp
Shore Scripts - Recommended
Coverfly All-time Overall Top 10%
The Colony
Searching for a fresh start, a family moves to a small home in the desert, while rebuilding their lives they learn a small pest problem is not that small.
Feature Horror, Sci-Fi For sale 99pp
Coverfly All-time Overall Top 25%
Emerald Lagoon
A woman gets a second chance at a family when she takes in her orphaned niece and nephew while opening an island resort. Everything is threatened when a local legend turns her paradise into hell.
Feature Drama, Horror For sale 92pp
Coverfly All-time Overall Top 25%
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