Bellie

Feature: Animated (2024)

Logline: Bellie discovers her mother and only caretaker will die soon. On the night of her 11th birthday, Bellie is transported to another world where she journeys to face-off with the Lord of Death.

Written by: Elaine Lai

Otherwise

TV Series: Sci-fi, A.I., Drama (2023)

45-minute episodes

Logline: Tenzin wakes up in a hospital with her memory erased. Her meeting with an A.I. humanoid elicits memories of a lost love, launching Tenzin on a journey to reconnect with her beloved, whatever form she may be in.

Written by: Elaine Lai

White Boy

Feature: Drama, Coming-of-Age (2022)

Logline: Shame bubbles up for an introspective Chinese American girl who remembers the year that ended her childhood—how her desire for upward mobility compelled her to betray and ultimately “kill” a white boy.

Written by: Elaine Lai

Workshopped in the 2022 winter works festival with Stanford’s Asian American Theatre Project (AATP)

Admitted to the second round of the Sundance 2022 Screenwriting Development Track

Joybug

TV Series: Comedy + Drama (2022)

30-minute episodes

Logline: In search of freedom and belonging, JOY LEE (32), the daughter of Taiwanese immigrants, negotiates her illegible identities within Buddhist communities in America and abroad, within the bounds of corporate academia, and as a queer person who doesn’t quite fit in anywhere.

Written by: Elaine Lai

Theodora

TV Series: Drama, historical fiction (2022)

1-hour episodes

Logline: In Constantinople, Theodora, once a theatre actress and a prostitute, rises to become one of the most influential, and also violent Empresses in the history of the Byzantine Empire.

Written by: Elaine Lai