ISA TOP 25 SCREENWRITERS TO WATCH Interview With Kathryn Orwig
Each year, The International Screenwriters’ Association compiles a list of the 25 screenwriters to watch. This year, Film Inquiry is here to guide you through the incredible list of gifted individuals!
Our next writer is Kathryn Orwig. Film Inquiry spoke with Kathryn about her screenwriting practices, her writing history, her current projects and more!
This is her bio below:
Kathryn Orwig is an action-adventure film and TV writer who loves to explore in her stories how far someone will go for the people they love. Drawing directly from her background growing up struggling financially in a tiny Northern Michigan town, Kathryn has survived state of the emergency snow storms, bathed in lakes when the electricity was out, and witnessed many a buffalo roaming around the farm next to her middle school playground; in which several made daring escapes over the years. With a love of history and a passion for finding ways to incorporate the modern into the historical, Kathryn gobbles up anything on Vikings, Pirates, the Italian Mob, Scottish Royalty, and the inner workings of pocket watches among other varied topics to influence the rich worlds she creates. A book nerd at heart, Kathryn started out writing novels, poems, and short stories. She is ecstatic that the multi-author anthology she founded with nine other talented writers titled BRING YOUR WORDS: A WRITERS’ COMMUNITY ANTHOLOGY is published by Fifth Avenue Press. Her screenplays have won or placed highly in multiple screenwriting competitions (Next 100 Scripts Nicholls, Page Awards, Roadmap Diversity Initiative Winner July 2021, Roadmap Grand Prize Shorts Winner and Roadmap Write Start Manuscript Competition Top 10 Finalist, Austin Film Festival Second Rounder, etc.), acted as a final-round judge at the National Film Festival for Talented Youth in 2019, and wrote 20 animation scripts for a start-up media company. Besides writing, she enjoys spending hours researching long-dead ancestors and learning their languages such as Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Romanian, Italian, and Swedish among many others.
We want to thank Kathryn Orwig for speaking with us.
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