Geaux Francois

Geaux Francois is a screenwriter, fiction writer, and educator at Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture Arts. Since 2022, she has taught feature and short-form screenwriting, television writing, pitching, and professional development. She also advises student filmmakers as they develop their stories.

Francois writes for film and television and is developing novels. Her screenplay Integrated was named an ISA Top Read for Fall 2025. Her work has earned more than twenty screenwriting competition placements, including the Academy Nicholl Fellowships, the Austin Film Festival, Scriptapalooza, and Shore Scripts and has been nominated for Sundance/Sloan Project and the Blumhouse New Horror Screenwriting Lab.

Francois earned an MFA in Motion Picture Arts with a concentration in screenwriting and a BA in Creative Writing and Japanese from FSU. She has also studied narrative design for video games and explores it in her own writing.