Dann Stupp

Screenwriter • Journalist

Dann Stupp is a screenwriter, journalist, and media entrepreneur focused on character-driven stories about money, competition, and broken systems – with a soft spot for underdogs. He co-founded MMA Junkie, later acquired by USA Today Sports, and has written for The Athletic, USA Today, and ESPN.com.

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Dann Stupp

Selected Work

Hard Refresh

Prestige TV Pilot
In 2005, as sports media moves online, a broke three-person fight site tries to drag a niche sport into the daylight – until fixing the system means taking on the people who profit from keeping it dirty.

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Triple Crowned

Featured Film
2026 Austin Film Festival Second Rounder
When wildfires reroute hikers away from her struggling Appalachian Trail hostel, a 50-something innkeeper who’s never hiked must complete Virginia’s Triple Crown to become the reason they return – or lose her home to the bank.

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Par 2

Featured Film
On the final day before leaving for college in 1997, a gifted but emotionally reserved Putt-Putt employee spends Labor Day preparing for the course’s annual championship while quietly confronting the friendships, first love, and identity he must leave behind.

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