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Mishna Wolff was one of the 2009 Sundance Screenwriting Lab fellows.

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How ‘Werewolves Within’ Screenwriter Honored the Feel of Ubisoft’s Video Game

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“A whodunnit with teeth” is the tagline for Werewolves Within.

The horror-comedy, an adaptation of Ubisoft’s multiplayer virtual reality video game of the same name, hails from first-time screenwriter Mishna Wolff and director Josh Ruben. Wolff, a humorist who is known for her 2009 memoir I’m Down, secured the script deal through the Ubisoft Women’s Film and Television Fellowship, an annual program designed to highlight female and non-binary voices in the entertainment industry and give participants access to the studio’s IP for development opportunities.

Werewolves Within sees a werewolf attack a small town while a forest ranger (Sam Richardson) and postal worker (Milana Vayntrub) try to keep the peace. Michaela Watkins also stars, along with Wayne Duvall and George Basil.

As someone who appreciates “little laugh breaks” and “over-the-top horror movies” such as Drag Me to Hell and Evil Dead 2, Wolff entered the Ubisoft Women’s Film and Television Fellowship with a genre sample that wasn’t a comedy, yet it had comedic moments. “It was like a very dusty Mexican road movie, with a lo

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I'm Down

Mishna Wolff grew up in a poor black neighborhood with her single father, a white man who truly believed he was black. "He strutted around with a short perm, a Cosby-esque sweater, gold chains and a Kangol - telling jokes like Redd Fox, and giving advice like Jesse Jackson. You couldn't tell my father he was white. Believe me, I tried," writes Wolff. And so from early childhood on, her father began his crusade to make his white daughter "down".

Unfortunately, Mishna didn't quite fit in with the neighborhood kids: she couldn't dance, she couldn't sing, she couldn't double dutch, and she was the worst player on her all-black basketball team. She was shy, uncool, and painfully white. And yet when she was suddenly sent to a rich white school, she found she was too "black" to fit in with her white classmates.

I'm Down is a hip, hysterical, and at the same time beautiful memoir that will have you howling with laughter, recommending it to friends and questioning what it means to be black and white in America.