Jacob Shivers
Showcase Scripts
A Beast in the Woods (Drama Feature) — On a planet where a single night lasts a year, citizens of a northern keep gather for the winter’s solstice. Famine looms, a foreign threat has appeared on the horizon, and the full moon rises, calling forth the Beast in the Woods.
Hot at Night (Drama Pilot) — The year is 2055, and the United States has collapsed amidst climate change, plague, and civil conflict; in the Great Lakes Basin, a group of off-grid settlements coexist to survive, but fracture after an act of violence from within.
Biography
Jacob Shivers grew up in Connecticut reading, writing, making music and watching movies. They moved to California in 2016 to pursue a career in narrative media and graduated from Chapman University in 2020 with a BFA in Screen Acting, and minors in English and Ethics. During their undergraduate degree, Jacob also learned script supervision, post-production, and developed adept editing skills. Thereafter, Jacob successfully freelanced as an assistant and associate editor, working on a range of projects from music videos to commercials to a feature documentary that premiered at Tribeca Film Festival 2021. Then, after a couple years of gigs in Los Angeles, Jacob decided to apply to UCLA’s screenwriting program to develop a portfolio of genre scripts — science fiction, fantasy, and horror, with stylized, period-appropriate dialogue. Jacob takes inspiration from filmmakers like Hayao Miyazaki, Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Agnes Varda — and most especially loves films that concern dreams. They hope to find work on a genre-based television show or video game, and aspire to eventually write and direct feature films.