"Not Our People" (TV Hour)

By Jon Lazar

A young Mexican-American Border Patrol agent is forced to confront the rift between his heritage and nationality when his girlfriend's illegal immigrant father is forced to cross the border in order to return to the United States.

An excerpt from this project will be performed as part of Screenwriting Night on Friday, April 23 at 7:00pm ET

Jon Lazar is a Los Angeles-based writer/director from New York. He graduated Columbia University where he obtained an MFA in Screenwriting/TV Writing. Jon's work tends to focus on character-driven drama & genre pieces.

Prior to Columbia, Jon worked as a Zamboni driver which he used as source material for his short film, Zamboni, which premiered at Tokyo International Film Festival. He currently works in post-production for David Fincher's Reset Content.