Aren X. Tulchinsky
Screen and Television Writer
I am an experienced screen & television writer and story editor.
I am passionate about representing the LGBTQ2S community and other diverse characters.
The Guard
Brightlight Pictures & Halfiax Film Company
Associate Story Editor & Writer.
A Drama series portraying the professional and personal lives of four Canadian Coast Guard Officers, specializing in search and rescue operations in the Pacific Ocean.
Aired on Global TV
Robson Arms,
Season 1
Water Street Pictures/Omni Films
Writer on this 30-minute comedy series.
Set amongst a group of eccentric tenants, living in a small apartment building over a convenience store in the Pacific Northwest.
Aired on CTV
Floored by Love
Holiday Pictures
Writer on this 1-hour lesbian romance.
An Asian lesbian couple and a mixed race gay teen living in the same Vancouver apartment building struggle with their cultural identities, and how to balance their family needs and relations, just after same sex marriage is legalized in Canada.
Aired on City TV
I Shot the Sheriff
Clement Virgo, Conquering Lion Productions
Writer on this feature length western.
With the heart of Brokeback Mountain and the audacity of Thelma & Louise, I Shot The Sheriff
brings two revolutionary heroines to the screen in this sexy revisionist take on the classic
western.
Developed with Telefilm Canada
Queer Times
Writer/co-creator of this 30 minute comedy Series.
A beautiful-yet-uptight journalist dreams of anchoring her own Christian Conservative Cable TV show—But, the only job offer in sight is an internship at Queer Times, a poor but scrappy LGBTQ newspaper.
Available to be optioned
Lucky Luck
Developed at the National Screen Institute
Writer on this feature length Romantic Comedy.
While running for election, a lesbian politician falls in love with a semi-closeted drag king, whose newly widowed mother is trying to marry her daughter off to a nice Chinese man.
Available to be optioned
Sticks and Stones
Developed with Telefilm Canada
Writer on this feature length drama.
Based on my Award-winning novel, The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky, set in 1930’s Toronto, about the historic riot in Christie pits and a Jewish Russian immigrant family at the centre of the conflict.
Available to be optioned
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My Sister s Wedding
Developed at the National Screen Institute
and WGC's Diverse Writer's Commitee
Writer on this romantic comedy.
An aspiring singer/songwriter Mel and her partner Lyla are about to announce to Mel’s family that their having a baby, when Mel’s younger sister Barbie steals the spotlight when she announces her engagement to a man the family all despise.
Available to be optioned
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