kaylee hoth
screenwriter/director
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Kaylee Hoth is a film student and screenwriter, who is committed to comedic and emotional storytelling aligned with character-driven narratives. She has written two UVU capstone short films including “The Nicest Guy I Know” and “Blossom”. Both films are in post-production and will be making their festival debuts later this year. Kaylee currently resides in Salt Lake City, though she’s counting down the days until her move to Los Angeles where she will continue to grow her career in filmmaking.
Kaylee is an intern and scholarship student with FanX Studios, where she assists in the development of feature length films. She was also one of the recipients of the 2025 Brandon Fugal Fellowship award, which was awarded to student screenwriters.
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Study Buddy
Written and Directed by Kaylee Hoth
A young woman finds herself in an uncomfortable situation, when what was meant to be a harmless study date, turns into something much more.
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Blossom
Our main character, Colby grew up fairly sheltered and has never liked change. Now that it’s time for her to finally live on her own, she realizes she might be a little immature. With the help of her two best friends, she turns her road trip into a bucket list of things she always swore she’d never do. Her greatest feat of all being, “trying a tampon for the first time”.
(expected festival run in 2025)
Over The Hills of Snow
writer
A feature length film about a band of strangers who must travel across the country in a van to make it home for Christmas.
in development
The Nicest Guy I Know
co - writer
A short film about the consequences that come with who we chose to believe.
in post-production
(expected 2025 festival run)
Cold Shoulder
writer
A short film about a man whose shoulder angel and shoulder devil are missing.
in post-production
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Recipient of the 2025 Brandon Fugal Screenwriter's Award at Utah Valley University
“This is a moment we have been working toward for a couple of months, so the culminations of it finally happening was definitely shock ... shock but also extremely grateful,” Kaylee Hoth, one of the selected students, told the Deseret News.
This yearlong program provides aspiring screenwriters the opportunity to develop individual screenplays under the personal mentorship of de Souza, who will also consider selecting one of the projects to potentially direct. The writer’s room is based on the old writer’s room concept from Hollywood studios.