“Words Are My Weapons:
But My Language Is Love.”
A cum laude graduate of Princeton University, UC Berkeley, Stanford Law School, and UCLA Extension, Shani Am. Moore began her career as a writer on Sweet Magnolias, a #1 hit drama on Netflix. Since then, her produced credits include The Bold Type (Freeform / Hulu), and Kingdom Business (BET / BET+). Most recently, she was a Co-Producer on Yield (set to premiere on Showtime / Paramount +). The show is created by Kyle Baugher (1883), showrun by Dave Erickson (Fear The Walking Dead), and produced by Taylor Sheridan (Yellowstone).
Shani writes simple stories, complex emotions, and dynamic characters who are all entitled to respect— especially villains. Her ultimate goal is to create programs that mirror the images constantly being birthed by her imagination.
Prior to becoming a full-time screenwriter, she was the first black female Head executive in Dolby's history. She's also worked as a model, college athlete, reporter, prosecutor, TV executive, tech lawyer, and clerk to a federal appellate judge.
She's defended white collar criminals for a lot of money and political asylum seekers for free. Led legal clinics in Africa, and marched with penguins in Antarctica.
Shani's J.D. is one of her greatest strengths; her disability from MS is another. A third is her family roots: the daughter of a Jamaican immigrant, she grew up in a small home in the Bronx with nine other people.
She weaves her life in every scene she writes.
Photograph by: A Klass
Writer.
Uppercuts with smiles; hugs of sneaky shards. She makes even her hardest blows land soft. Plus, she's one who takes pleasure in a 180.
A Love Affair: Our Life With
The Supreme Court of The United States of America
Designed as a franchise, this story currently includes
a feature film; short film;
pilot; and episode 102.
“With Fear For Our Democracy: We Dissent.”
“A controversial pick because of her incendiary views, the first black woman on the U.S. Supreme Court teams with her clerks to fight for justice — but their unspooling secrets threaten her robe, and upend their lives.”
Scripts available upon request to Michael Kolodny, Kaplan Stahler Agency
A Supreme Court Pitch
A Supreme Court Sizzle
“For the thorniest issues, reasonable minds must disagree.” And yet. “You can disagree without being disagreeable.”
These are quotes from The Honorable Ann Claire Williams (Ret.). She’s the first black person who was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. As one of her clerks, I was given the rare view of living life within the hallowed and intimate walls of a judge’s chamber.
Judge Williams -- or, simply Judge, as lovingly nicknamed by her clerks -- is a primary inspiration in my project entitled: "With Fear For Our Democracy: We Dissent."
Also inspo? Justice Thurgood Marshall; The Hon. Constance Baker Motley; Chief Justice Earl Warren; Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis; Justice John Paul Stevens; Justice Sandra Day O'Connor; Justice Sonia Sotomayor; Justice Elena Kagan; Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson; The Hon. First Lady Michelle Obama, and too many more distinguished jurists and patriots to laud by name.
We Dissent is crucial to me. And to our democracy. And, I believe, to the rest of what we want the country and world to be.
I need to tell this story. It's me, all of us, in the fictional tale of The Hon. Justice Winell Elizabeth Freeman, our star.And, her clerks – the wind beneath judges’ wings. Our insights are critical, though many don’t realize we exist.
At its core— We Dissent proves that even people with the most jagged edges of opinion can weave their disparate thoughts into a blanket of understanding and cooperation.
In other words— We Dissent is what happens when people stop being polite...and start getting real.
A Supreme Court United