Rebecca Sonnenshine

Rebecca Sonnenshine is a writer. She is a graduate of UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. In addition to attending the Berlinale Talent Campus, the Film Independent Director's Director was awarded a Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting. She produced the feature films Reversion (2008), which had its Sundance Film Festival premiere, and Bunny (2000), which was nominated for a Spirit Award. Her credits as a screenwriter include Within, American Zombie, The Haunting of Molly Hartley, and Happily Even After. She also wrote on The Vampire Diaries.

Works

The Boys

A group of vigilantes known informally as “The Boys” set out to take down corrupt superheroes with no more than blue-collar grit and a willingness to fight dirty.

Release Date2019-07-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Vote Count13032

The Vampire Diaries

The story of two vampire brothers obsessed with the same girl, who bears a striking resemblance to the beautiful but ruthless vampire they knew and loved in 1864.

Release Date2009-09-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count15

Vote Count9644

The Housemaid

Trying to escape her past, Millie Calloway accepts a job as a live-in housemaid for the wealthy Nina and Andrew Winchester. But what begins as a dream job quickly unravels into something far more dangerous—a sexy, seductive game of secrets, scandal, and power.

Release Date2025-12-18

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count2540

Outcast

Kyle Barnes has been plagued by possession since he was a child. Now an adult, he embarks on a spiritual journey to find answers, but what he uncovers could mean the end of life on Earth as we know it.

Release Date2016-06-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count487

Archive 81

An archivist takes a job restoring damaged videotapes and gets pulled into the vortex of a mystery involving the missing director and a demonic cult.

Release Date2022-01-14

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count8

Vote Count715

The Housemaid's Secret

Millie Calloway takes a job keeping house for a woman she's never allowed to see — only to discover the truth behind the locked door that threatens to expose secrets far darker than her own.

Release Date2027-12-17

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Little House on the Prairie

The close-knit Ingalls family builds a new life on the Western frontier, where the joys of nature and the struggle for survival are deeply intertwined.

Release Date2026-07-09

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count8

The Crossing

Refugees from a war-torn country start showing up to seek asylum in an American town. Only the country these people are from is America and the war they are fleeing is 250 years in the future. The local sheriff with a past, a federal agent and a mother in search of her missing refugee daughter drive this allegory with a surprising conspiracy at the center.

Release Date2018-04-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count161

The Keeping Hours

A supernatural love story that centers on two parents whose life together falls apart after their son dies. The man, now a successful lawyer, and the woman, now married and an author, get a chance at reconciliation ten years later.

Release Date2017-06-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count161

The Haunting of Molly Hartley

When teenage Molly Hartley moves to a new town, she's haunted by terrifying visions that may have to do with dark secrets from her past. Something evil lurks just beneath the lush surfaces of her private-school world, and it holds the rights to her very soul. On the eve of her 18th birthday, Molly is about to discover the truth of just who or what she is destined to become.

Release Date2008-10-31

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count180

American Zombie

Documents the daily lives of a small community of the living deceased who make their home in Los Angeles.

Release Date2007-01-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count30

Within

Rachel is a sweet girl with a troubled soul, caused by a unique gift - she can see evil spirits within others. After witnessing the brutal killing of her mother, Rachel and her father look for a fresh start by moving to a new town. After befriending classmate Michelle Lowe, Rachel soon realizes that her new 'best friend' may not be the girl she first appeared to be. Rachel's visions could be the key to stopping a series of violent attacks against the town's children and unlocking the puzzle behind a grim murder

Release Date2009-06-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count6

Reversion

In a world in which the past, present and future simultaneously unfold, a woman whose genetic mutation leaves her devoid of morality struggles to preserve her romance with the man she loves.

Release Date2008-01-18

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Rhapsody in Bloom

Artist Lilah Bloom's life is upended when her widowed brother decides to remarry a strong-willed business woman. Humor and self-awareness emerge as she ventures out to start a new life with a charming musician.

Release Date1998-01-02

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive In Charge Of Production

Vote Count4

Bunny

Premiering at the 2000 Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, Bunny offers a look at an Eastern European couple's difficult introduction to American culture. Arriving in an anonymous U.S. city, Nik (Edyk Dratver) and Luda (Petra Tikalova) are taken in by Luda's brusque Aunt Elise (Elizabeth Liebel). As they attempt to find work, Nik and Luda meet with a slew of xenophobic rejection until finally they land jobs as part of an experimental public works project. The project requires the couple to dress up in pink bunny costumes and offer anonymous, understated moral support to the city's denizens. While Nik, who was a lawyer back home, is disgusted by his new job, Luda revels in it, and their marriage soon enters a territory as rocky as their assimilation.

Release Date2000-04-15

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1