Jana Monteiro

Writing samples

 six part limited series|  "our future"

​LOGLINE: BASED LOOSELY ON TRUE EVENTS: At school, FUTURE is a talented 12 year old facing the standard struggles of a pubescent girl, good grades, first crushes, and middle school drama. At home, her father's drug addiction has dragged the family into financial ruin and he has forced Future into the dangerous world of guns and child-sex-trafficking.
pilot length: 45 pages

the unforgivable truth is 200,000 American children are at risk of sex trafficking into the sex industry.

children are the future?

Feature |  "Family Portrait"
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LOGLINE: Over the holidays, a mother attempts to mend her fractured relationship with her daughter but her manipulative parents and a dark family secret stand in the way.
Length: 114 pages

​LOGLINE: BASED LOOSELY ON TRUE EVENTS: After the death of the family Matriarch our protagonist decides to break free from the fundamentalist Christian cult she was raised in and explore her bisexuality, budding feminism and what it means to be a woman in the 21st century outside of biblical and family constraints.

Length: 26 pages

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screenplay |  "Clean slate"
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Pilot |  "Super Average"
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LOGLINE: In a world where super humans exist, a group of diverse friends struggle to adult and use their less than super powers to make life bearable and maybe solve a crime if they absolutely have to. Length: 24 pages

STORY |  "untitled"
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LOGLINE: When a young writer travels to New York to meet a publisher she feels like her dream life is coming together and simultaneously her real life begins to unravel.

poem |  "untitled"
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STORY |  "untitled"
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LOGLINE: For DC Fans, a fan inspired story of if Batman had another daughter, one he was never aware of.

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