Heidi Weitzer
WRITER
HEIDI WEITZER
Heidi gets paid to fix other people's scripts and also sells her own original ideas to studios and production companies.
Heidi's feature script 'MARTHA' a biopic about Martha Stewart, hit number one on https://blcklst.com/ and is in development with Lynda Obst Productions.
She optioned her feature script "Zero F*cks" with 108 Media.
She optioned her feature script "Divorce Party" which she also directed. Principal photography was completed in the Fall of 2021.
She optioned her script "The Cost of Doing Business" in early 2019.
She was a 2018 Final Draft Big Break Semi-Finalist
She won the LA Comedy Fest Original Pilot Competition in November of 2018
She was a Fall 2018 Stowe Story Labs Fellow and Stowe Story Labs Final Draft Fellowship Finalist
She was in the final round of consideration for the Sundance New Voices Lab for 2018
She graduated from The Second City Chicago's Harold Ramis Film School in December 2017
She's studied improv and comedic writing at Second City, iO, and the Upright Citizens Brigade
She has written articles for the Second City Network
Her short 'Hot Air' debuted at the Minne Mini Film Festival in October 2017
She is the Co-Founder of The Ramis Lampoon, a bi-monthly short film production in collaboration with Harold Ramis Film School students
She was a quarterfinalist in the Screencraft Fellowship in 2016
She was a quarterfinalist for the Shore Scripts Screenplay contest in 2016
She was the highest ranked script on www.blcklst.com/ for Spring and Summer of 2016
She won the Chicago Screenplay Contest for her spec script in 2014
She was a Second Rounder in the Austin Film Festival in 2014, 2015, and 2018
Heidi makes dark comedies and values her privacy. Hit her up if you want to see a work sample.