Fellows /
Laurel Gans
Screenwriters Lab
2023-2024 Fellow

THE EIGHT DATES OF HANUKKAH (Finalist __________)
Natalie knows that time is valuable, and she is determined to not waste a moment. A top efficiency expert, she has helped hundreds of businesses succeed through her time management techniques. She swears that if she had been with the Maccabees, she could have made the oil last for way longer than eight days. Unfortunately, her success in her professional life far exceeds that of her personal life. She hasn’t dated a nice Jewish boy since her Birthright trip—and that was more of a hook up in the Bedouin tents. She has had it with being single but she’s running out of ideas. That is, until she is chosen to go on a work trip at her company’s headquarters in New York City. Determined to finally meet someone, she gets swiping on the apps and lines up a date for each of the eight nights of her trip. She soon realizes that romance is not something that can be scheduled.
Natalie knows that time is valuable, and she is determined to not waste a moment. A top efficiency expert, she has helped hundreds of businesses succeed through her time management techniques. She swears that if she had been with the Maccabees, she could have made the oil last for way longer than eight days. Unfortunately, […]