Amanda Eberhardt

Amanda is a writer and media creative whose passion lies in telling immersive, emotive, and inclusive stories, especially period pieces featuring strong central female/femme characters. She has attended writing programmes at the University of Cambridge, Arcadia University London, UCLA, and Chapman University. In 2016, Amanda graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelors in Writing for Film and Television from Emerson College. Her original drama pilot, Year Without Summer, placed as a Top Ten Finalist in Final Draft's Big Break Competition; as a Semifinalist in both ScreenCraft's Screenwriting Fellowship and WeScreenplay's Diverse Voices Contest; and as a Second Rounder in the AMC One Hour Pilot division at the Austin Film Festival. Her pilot script, Rhiannon, placed as a Quarterfinalist in ScreenCraft's Pilot Launch TV Script Contest. She also co-wrote a short WWI period piece called Sapper Smith that won Best Student Short Film at the Edinburgh Independent Film Awards.