Writing Samples (TV, feature & adaptation)
by Anne Perera
TV Pilots (Original)
Peachy Beachy Summer! — 22-min animated comedy
In a perpetually sunny coastal town, the teen crew of the Peachy Beachy smoothie bar are chasing the ultimate surfer’s dream: an endless summer. But with chaotic tourists, clueless managers, and a rival Halloween-themed coffee shop across the street, their chill paradise is anything but smooth.
So There’s a Ghost in My Coffee and I Don’t Know What to Do…! — 22-min animated comedy
Sixteen-year-old Knicole lands her first summer job at The Dark Lantern, a Halloween-themed coffee shop on the beach—only to discover half her coworkers are ghosts. Between vampire regulars, pumpkins that bite back, and a rivalry with the smoothie bar across the street, Knicole’s about to learn customer service is a real nightmare.
TV Samples (Spec scripts)
Bob’s Burgers: “Bob’s Books, Beach Mice, and Body Scrubs” — 22-min animated spec
Linda turns the restaurant into a literary café to attract fancier customers, while Louise scams the public with a fake nonprofit for endangered rodents, Tina attempts to find inner peace at a Nordic spa, and Gene debuts a new stand-up act that tests everyone’s patience.
☆ 2022 Austin Film Festival Script Competition Finalist in “Comedy Teleplay Spec” category ☆
Scooby-Doo: “Haunted: Those Meddling Kids: The Wane of Whitney Woods” — 22-min animated spec
Haunted: Those Meddling Kids reimagines the Scooby-Doo gang as traumatized teens battling real monsters in a world that refuses to believe them. In this episode, the gang travels to rural Louisiana, where a sinister spirit has possessed a young boy’s father. As survivor’s guilt and isolation mount, Fred, Daphne, Velma, and Scooby must face supernatural horrors and their own inner demons.
Feature SCRIPTS (Original)
Sea Breeze Academy — Young Adult thriller–comedy
The picture-perfect teens at an elite beachside boarding school begin to unravel when they realize their lives are merely episodes in a manufactured tween sitcom. Sea Breeze Academy is a surreal takedown of the Disney Channel generation and what it costs to smile on cue.
Where Nightmares Go — animated comic–horror odyssey
After a car crash leaves her stranded in a haunted, otherworldly forest, twelve-year-old Graves Norah must face monstrous creatures, a manipulative filmmaker, and the ghosts of her past to rescue her sister’s lost soul—and finally confront the grief she’s been running from.
Skylines — Young Adult anti-romance
Bonded by a shared passion for cars, two college students form an almost-love that never quite ignites, forcing them to navigate messy relationships and parallel personal growth as they struggle to let go of—or finally face—the roads not taken. Co-written with Betty Yang.
Feature Adaptation
Dandelion Wine — Young Adult drama, based on the novel by Ray Bradbury
In the summer of 1928, twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding comes of age in a quiet Illinois town, discovering the fragile beauty of life, the ache of mortality, and the wonder hidden in ordinary moments—all bottled into the memory-soaked ritual of making dandelion wine.