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PEAK Reveals Inaugural 2024 Writers Fellowship Class
Supported by Netflix, the new fellowship discovers and nurtures six emerging Pasifika writers who are looking to launch their careers in television.
Olivé (Jacqueline Olive)| When All Is Lost In order to keep her family from starving to death, a housewife enters the perilous black-market industry in 1946 post-war Japan and must keep it secret from her husband – a newly appointed Tokyo judge. Tia Kanaeholo| Unprofessional An overworked and underpaid alcoholic thinks she is perfectly balancing her career, relationships, and sobriety, but the temptation of LA’s “cocaine on Saturday, green juice on Monday” hustle culture might be her Achilles’ heel. Taylor Foreman-Niko| Samoan/American When down-on-his-luck, Mark, a half-Samoan vet and felon, is approached by a shady CIA case officer with a deadly mission that requires he utilize his Samoan identity, he weighs its potential danger and moral compromises against the opportunity to finally feel connected to his culture.
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