About

SCREENWRITER, WRITER, AND FILMMAKER.

Denise Meyers is the inaugural recipient of a Sloan Foundation grant  in partnership with the Athena Film Festival for her work on LUCKY 13 – based on the remarkable true story about the Women’s Air Force Service Pilots and the powerful role they played in bringing World War Two to a conclusion.  

In 2018 she was named one of the Top 25 Screenwriters to Watch by the International Screenwriters Association and was one of nine screenwriters invited to participate in the New York Stage and Filmmakers Workshop at the PowerhouseTheater at Vassar College. 

An Athena List winner and the winner of the Atlanta Film Festival screenplay competition, Meyers has also been a finalist for the Writers Lab, the Athena/IRIS Lab, the Atlanta Film Festival, the Nashville Film Festival, and Diverse Voices, and placed in the Launch Pad Feature Competition (Top 50), the Nicholl Fellowships (top six percent, 2019), the Austin Film Festival (Second Rounder 2016, 2017, 2018) and was the Grand Prize Winner for Table Read My Screenplay Austin in 2015.

Her short film, THE DARK OF NIGHT, directed by Robin Wright and starring Leslie Bibb and Sam Rockwell had its red-carpet world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017. The film also screened at the Palm Springs International Short Film Festival, the Mill Valley Film Festival, LA Shorts, the Seattle Film Festival and won Best Short at the LA Femme International Film Festival and Best Actor (Sam Rockwell) at the Paris Art and Movie Awards.