Talent Guide

Laura Hubber

  • Discipline:Writer
  • Program Year:Screenwriting Lab 2004

Bio

Laura Hubber is a Los Angeles based writer, journalist, and filmmaker. She has been a radio reporter for the BBC World Service for the past ten years, made documentaries in Sarajevo, and worked on a photographic history of the Kurds in northern Iraq. She is a story editor for ABC on the program Switched Up!, where she writes half-hour documentary scripts about teenagers who switch families, and was Story Producer on PBS’s American High. In addition, she has worked as a foreign correspondent in Bosnia and Herzegovina for The San Francisco Chronicle and The European, as well as a Lector and Soros Fellow at Sarajevo University. Her script, Postcard from Sarajevo, was a finalist in UCLA’s DianeThomas screenwriting competition, and she is currently working on a novel. She received her MA in Anthropology/Culture and Media Studies at NYU, her MA in English Literature/Critical Theory at the University of Sussex, and her BA in English Literature from Harvard University.

Current Project

TALK ABOUT A REVOLUTION

Logline

A tormented teen hell-bent on stopping the Vietnam War comes to realize that the biggest war is the one inside herself.