Bellie

Feature: Animated (2023)

Written by: Elaine Lai

Logline: On her eleventh birthday, the Lord of Death comes for Bellie’s mother and she chases him into another world to bring her back. There, Bellie and several mythical creatures must unite to face an Insatiable evil that started in the human world and has crossed over.

Otherwise

TV Series: Sci-fi, A.I., drama (2023), 24-minute episodes

Written by: Elaine Lai

Logline: In a pleasure house where engineered humanoids fulfill the desires of the ultra-rich, a forbidden touch between two intimacy workers unlocks a stolen memory of love, awakening something powerful enough to make them want to be free.

White Boy

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

Written by: Elaine Lai

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.

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

Advanced to the second round of the Sundance 2023 Screenwriting Development Track

Joybug

TV Series: Comedy + Drama (2022), 30-minute episodes

Written by: Elaine Lai

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.

Theodora

TV Series: Drama, historical fiction (2022), 1-hour episodes

Written by: Elaine Lai

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.