I write dramedy features and episodic content, ranging from sexy edgy female-driven romantic comedy to Middle Eastern family dramedy to rave culture satire to mythological metaphysical sci-fi comedy.

WRITTEN BY . . . Serene Zloof

FEATURE SCRIPTS

The Unicorn Diaries - Produced Feature Film

When Lili, an innocent curious Iraqi-American DJ girl with a traditional family and a long-term partner, is inspired by a liberated polyamorous couple to sample the Ethical Non-Monogamous lifestyle and explore a new world of sexual encounters, multiples partners, and fetish dating apps, she takes on the challenge from her boyfriend to prove she can keep her explorations casual and her relationship intact.

Lili embarks on a journey of self-discovery in a world where no one and nothing is as they seem – meeting some, losing others, and ultimately finding her voice.

The Jewel Net

A Science Fiction Fantasy feature about a metal sculptor named Chance who discovers that a specific sound frequency will transform her giant sculptures into a portal leading to a new mythological dreamworld – a place where thoughts come to life as sparkling jewel pods strung on a crystalline web. In this world she calls the Jewel Net, she meets Thoth and discovers that this is more than just an alternative world -- it is the battleground dimension for the future of humanity. FAN, the Frequency Alteration Network, and its agents, fear-based hallucination entities called FANtms, are using frequency vibrations to control all the planets inhabitants. The only way to freedom is a shared moment between every human on earth. But what could cause such an event ?

Beat It To Baghdad

A Xenophobic dramedy series about checking the box marked OTHER. Gigi, an Iraqi American Jewish Female Sex-Positive Musician receives a letter from the Iraqi government with news that her grandfather’s house, abandoned after the family escaped Baghdad in 1958, has been recovered and now belongs to her. She plans a controversial music tour in the Middle East, despite major protests from friends, family, and fans alike. Can she be a voice for Middle Eastern girls, or is her outspoken liberated girl-powered message enough to incite chaos and even violence?

99 Lines … From Other Movies

When Sam Sweeney, a seemingly-gay Renegade Rave Promoter and Chaos Instigator, has his trustfund ripped away from him by his blue-blooded hag of a mother and her stiffly starched accountant/lover, he must find a new way to avoid a job and wake up the world. He and his best friend/leading lady Monica, a self-obsessed performer who longs for fame, leap into the real world via the reel world on a new mission: Creating a taped audition for Tarantino’s new contest reality-show “Reel Stars”, where they speak only in dialogue from other movies.

When the web catches on to the project, the pair unknowingly sparks a guerilla film sensation that turns ordinary people into stars overnight . . . until everything gets fucked-up by Monica’s need for fame, Sam’s newfound love for Monica, everyone else’s self-centeredness, and the U.S. Postal service.

RAVE PARTY COMEDY SERIES

Pop&Spin Series on AMAZON Prime (Alternate title: Headliners)

A quirky sexy ambitious DJ Datgirl will hatch any crazy scheme to blow up in the underground rave scene, despite misgivings from her rebellious-looking yet safety-first partner Zapper. These two controversial DJ Rappers fight to take their music careers to the top, as they navigate through party politics, dancefloor disasters, and a world of crazy festival egos, in this magically-real hilariously-hip candy-pop electronic-musical ensemble comedy series.

Datgirl (Alternate title: Slutstep)

A stripped-down dramedy behind-the-scenes look at the dating and family life of DJ Rapper Datgirl, or rather her “real-life” alter ego. Datgirl’s onstage musical persona is a sexy girl-powered badass-bitch Rapper DJ who loves to party. To reach the top of the music industry, she has to push her “Slutstep” brand. But offstage, she is quite the contrast. A quirky animated nerd with a secret passion for mythology and comics, she is especially awkward when it comes to sex.Her surprising innocence in the bedroom leads to a variety of strange encounters. Meanwhile her traditional Middle Eastern family tries to push her into new career paths and marriage matches, loudly and often, as she juggles and often trainwrecks her work and personal life.

Zapper & Datgirl present THE AFTERPARTY

In this Round-the-World Party Variery Travel Show, controversial Rap Rave DJs Zapper and Datgirl -- dubbed the Sonny and Cher of Electronic music – show you what’s really behind the Rave Act. From the Eastern-European Free-Party Scene to Thailand Full-Moon Beach Parties to unlikely Middle America venues, Nascar events and even an Amish wedding, this crazy duo knows just how to turn people on to their way of life! Well, maybe, like … three people.

Pop&Spin the Movie

The Pop&Spin pantheon of characters is back, in their most high-octane make-or-break adventure – Burning Man! Datgirl brings her high-maintenance parents to Burning Man, hoping for a “year off” from performing. But when her fans challenge Paris Hilton to a DJ Battle and Mad Max Fight in the Thunder Dome on her behalf, she must spend eight crazy days and nights training, campaigning, and barely maintaining.

THE JEWEL NET UNIVERSE – Science Fiction Comedy Projects

The Jewel Net is a dimension made of thoughts, dreams, myths, and psychic vibration, where people’s thoughts manifest as jeweled pods that open up to skilled travelers.

The Adventures of Girlcules and the Jewel Net - Six Episode Fiction Podcast (Alternate title: The Techno Detectives)

Girlcules, a modern-day female Hercules and techno DJ, and her cousin Theseus, a billionaire start-up tech genius, unwittingly fall into a mystery involving missing persons, an alchemical Polaroid camera and their own mythological trials, in a dimension made of thoughts called the Jewel Net.Based on a live theatrical musical and podcast series, with potential for a combination of live action and animation.

The House of Dreams - Episodic Series Bible

A group of suicidal teenagers search for nanotechnology-based portals hidden in urban graffiti -- which legend states will emerge inside a traveling virtual Vaudeville theater called the House of Dreams. But when they finally arrive, the demi-god coaxial Snake-like ringmaster Slinky McGee pulls them into his hidden agenda. Feature and prequel to the Jewel Net.

The Jewel Net - Feature Script

A Science Fiction Fantasy feature about a metal sculptor named Chance who discovers that a specific sound frequency will transform her giant sculptures into a portal leading to a new mythological dreamworld – a place where thoughts come to life as sparkling jewel pods strung on a crystalline web. In this world she calls the Jewel Net, she meets Thoth and discovers that this is more than just an alternative world -- it is the battleground dimension for the future of humanity. FAN, the Frequency Alteration Network, and its agents, fear-based hallucination entities called FANtms, are using frequency vibrations to control all the planets inhabitants. The only way to freedom is a shared moment between every human on earth. But what could cause such an event ?

Produced Plays

“MANIFEST: The Battles of Intergalactic Farces”

“Askin’ Ms Bangin” “

“The Adventures of Girlcules”