C.C. Webster is a graduate of Columbia University’s School of the Arts with an MFA in Directing and Screenwriting. During her time at Columbia she wrote and directed two short films. Tracks (2005) starring Emmy Nominated Actress, Becky Ann Baker and Civil War (2006), winner of the 2005 Lifetime Development Grant, which played over fifty festivals internationally. She was commissioned to direct a short film, Babies (2014), written by Academy Award Winner, Mara Kassin.

 

Her feature script, BLUE BALL, PA, a raunchy senior citizen sex comedy set in Pennsylvania Dutch country, has been in development with various producers and directors since 2013. This project has also twice been selected for Coverfly‘s Pitch Week. Her feature script, MISSING, a Nordic drama about a bewildered young chef hunting for answers to her brother’s untimely death in the Swedish archipelago was the winner of the American Scandinavian Society's Cultural Grant, was invited to participate in the Squaw Valley Writer's Conference, and received pre-production funding from the Swedish Film Institute. Her feature script, LITTLE BUFFALO, a coming of age story about a girl trapped in the illegal drug world of her parents, trying desperately to find her voice among the mess, was accepted to the prestigious Writers Lab--sponsored by Nicole Kidman and Meryl Streep, and was also a finalist for the Sundance Lab and the Black List Feature Lab. This project ranked in the top 10% of 2020 Nicholl Fellowship submissions. The feature thriller, SHOW & TELL, based on the tragic murder of Laurie Show in Lancaster County, PA in 1991, follows a serial-killer obsessed teen who uses her underground zine to attract the possible killers in her midst, was accepted to the Stowe Narrative Story Lab in 2021.

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She has fostered and created a community of screenwriters with The BLITZ, which offers teaching, consulting, coaching, writing groups, and retreats.

 

She was the founder of the DRIVE-IN Film Festival that had a ten year run bringing independent films to Drive-in theaters across the country to support the dying art of the local drive-in. With notoriety and the advancement of digital projection, the festival aided in helping many drive-ins find footing and new audiences, and thrive.

 

She has taught at many wonderful institutions - Gotham Writers Workshop, Westchester Community College, Brandeis University, Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence College and Sundance Collab.