Jake Lawler

2021 Minority Report Fellow
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

MARTIN CLAY
Logline: When 17-year-old Martin Clay develops telekinesis after a freak accident, he is forced to navigate his new reality of high school and Black heroism.

Jake Lawler is a former football player and recent University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill graduate. Hailing from Charlotte, North Carolina, Jake is a self-taught screenwriter and is currently a staff writer at Disney+. He is a passionate storyteller that has a love for science-fiction and horror, believing that using those spheres to weave in resonant social commentary and feature a diverse group of people and ideas will help further and elevate conversations in Hollywood and abroad...as well as selfishly knowing that there's a hell of a lot of fun to be had when things go bump in the night. He also likes to lift heavy objects from time to time.