Helmann Wilhelm

Helmann Wilhelm is a Taiwanese-American screenwriter born in Texas, but raised in Canada. He is a two-time recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts grant and the Waterloo Region Arts Fund. Collectively, his work has been selected at the Austin Film Festival, Slamdance, PAGE Screenwriting Competition, Nashville Film Festival, Final Draft Big Break, Atlanta Film Festival, and ScreenCraft. He is also an alum of the Netflix-Banff Fellowship, the Reelworld Emerging 20 Program, and a finalist for the Reel Asian Film Festival's So You Think You Can Pitch Competition. Helmann holds a Bachelor of Arts in Cinema Studies from the University of Toronto and is a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre's Bell Media Prime Time TV Program (2022).