Pj Perez
Pj Perez is a writer and filmmaker based in Southern California, who cut his teeth as a journalist, musician, and artist living in Las Vegas for 25 years. He first dabbled in video journalism in the mid-2000s, producing short-form segments for various websites, and was bitten by the filmmaking bug after winning a query contest in 2009, which led to the development of his original TV pilot, BEING (which was also a Round 2 finalist in the 2018 ATX Pitch Competition).
Perez co-wrote and co-directed the short film SUGARHOOK as part of the 48 Hour Film Project, created the docu-series micro-pilot LAS VEGAS RULES, and worked on the short film NAMASTE as part of the 2019 AT&T Create-a-Thon. He is currently in post-production on his first feature-length documentary, PARKWAY OF BROKEN DREAMS, which was a quarterfinalist for the ScreenCraft Film Fund, and is developing a TV drama, THE FOUNDATION, based on his long-running webcomic series, whose pilot was a finalist in the 27th annual TVWriter People’s Pilot contest.
Matthew Sorvillo
Born and raised in Queens, New York, Matthew Sorvillo is a writer who lives and works in Las Vegas. The screenplay for his psychological thriller, EDGEWATER, was an Official Selection of both the 2018 Catalina Film Festival and the 2018 SmashCut Screenplay Competition and was the inaugural winner of the 2018 StudioFest Film Festival. His debut feature, the dramatic thriller SOUVENIRS, premiered at the 2019 StudioFest Film Festival and is now available on demand.
Though constantly working on scripts for both film and television, Sorvillo is also making the transition to develop comic book projects as well. In 2018 he contributed to Image Comics’ WHERE WE LIVE, a benefit anthology exploring themes of gun violence in America, which raised more than $125,000 for the victims and families of the tragic Las Vegas shooting of October 1st, 2017, and was nominated for the 2019 Eisner Award for Best Anthology.