Rachel S. Thomas-Medwid

Rachel is an award-winning screenwriter, director, and independent filmmaker who made the ISA's Top 25 Screenwriters to Watch in 2021 list. As a storyteller, she likes to explore the darker instincts of human nature to shed light on important subjects. She won the Female Filmmaker Award at the Lonely Seal International Film Festival for her film "The Squirrels in the Attic," which will be going to the Cannes Film Market during the Cannes Film Festival in 2021. She also received Best First Time Director at the New York Movie Awards, Best Narrative Short Film Director at the Mystic Film Festival, Audience Award for Outstanding Short at the Film Invasion Los Angeles Festival, and semi-finalist in the Academy Award Qualifying Flickers Rhode Island International Film Festival. Her other screenplays-two features, a television pilot, and numerous shorts-have won multiple awards and have provided her with incredible opportunities to network and learn more about the craft of filmmaking. Her screenplay "The Influencer" was the Grand Prize Winner in the ISA's Shoot Your Short 2020 contest and is in preproduction. She directed another of her award-winning screenplays, "In the Company of Crows," which is in post production, scheduled for release in 2021, and for which she was finalist for the New England Film Star Awards.