Judy Bednarek is a Minnesota screenwriter who is a pitch winner and has placed as a Top-10 Finalist in high-ranking screenplay contests from 2013-2023. She writes well-executed original screenplays with culturally diverse characters for an international audience. Stories with a supernatural twist that entertain but offer life lessons or a message to inspire faith. Ordinary people who overcome extraordinary situations and face their inner demons.

Her film career started with writing a commissioned low budget version of her bigfoot feature Yellow Eye. Her original script was a finalist in the Film Quest Festival in Utah. In 2016, Judy moved to LA to collaborate with award-winning directors and producers on her feature film project Star Child. The script was a finalist in the California Film Awards. A Season of Strawberries was a finalist in six high-ranking screenplay contests. At the Oaxaca Film Festival in Mexico, it was entered in the Global Script Challenge and was chosen for immediate commercial development from more than 10,000 scripts.

Judy was the Executive Producer of For All Eternity a short film with a Minnesota cast and crew. The script was a Top-10 finalist in the Apeiron Film Festival in Berlin, Germany and at the Le Femme International Film Festival in Paris celebrating women in film.