Screenplays

MOLLY BANDT and CELIA RAMSEY are a mother/daughter writing team who share a fascination with the cheeky underbelly of midwest nice. Molly is a public interest lawyer and children’s book author/illustrator living in Madison, Wisconsin. Celia works as an Executive Coordinator and Associate Producer for a production company in LA. Like the family they come from, their creative partnership is chaotic, fun, and only awkward sometimes…

Sturgeon General: dark comedy thriller

When an infamous sturgeon fisherman dies in a mysterious hunting accident, his outcast daughter returns to Wisconsin to protect her family from a caviar crime ring and repair the relationships she left behind.

  • Finalist, Stage 32 Thriller Competition 2024

  • Launch Pad Top 50 Features 2024

  • Semifinalist, Big Break Screenwriting Competition 2024

  • Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival 2024

  • Finalist, InkTip Pitch-to-Page 2024

  • Semifinalist, Filmmatic - Pitch Now Screenplay Competition Season 6

  • Semifinalist, Emerging Screenwriters Drama Feature Competition 2024

  • Quarterfinalist, Screencraft Feature Competition 2024

  • Quarterfinalist, Golden Scripts 2024

  • Quarterfinalist, WeScreenplay Feature Lab 2024

  • Quarterfinalist, Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Screenplay Competition 2024

  • Quarterfinalist - Outstanding Screenplay Feature Competition 2023

  • Quarterfinalist - Scriptation Showcase Feature Category 2023

Christmas in Cryonis: comedy feature

When a desperate sci-fi filmmaker reluctantly accepts a job on a made-for-TV Christmas movie, she must learn about life, love, and teamwork from the curmudgeonly, alcoholic director and oddball cast and crew, as she faces the unscrupulous producer threatening to end her career for good… If SCHITT’S CREEK was a HALLMARK CHRISTMAS MOVIE

  • Launch Pad Top 100 Features 2024

  • Semifinalist - Filmmatic Comedy Contest 2024

  • Second Rounder - Comedy Feature, Austin Film Festival 2023

  • Quarterfinalist - Page International Screenplay Competition 2023

  • Semifinalist, Emerging Screenwriters Screenplay Competition 2024

  • Finalist - Female Voice Rock Film Festival - 2022

  • Semifinalist - Scriptapalooza Screenplay Competition 2022

  • Semifinalist - Scriptation Showcase Feature Category 2022

  • Quarterfinalist, Outstanding Screenplays Feature Competition 2022

Gerryland: female driven political dramedy pilot

When protests erupt over a deeply unpopular mining project, an idealistic state senator must fight the forces of dark money and political gerrymandering to bring democracy back to Wisconsin.

  • Second Rounder, Drama Pilot - Austin Film Festival 2022

  • Quarterfinalist, Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Screenplay Competition 2024

  • Semifinalist - Screencraft Virtual Pitch Competition Spring 2023

  • Quarterfinalist, Female Voices Rock, 2022