Lance Cartelli is an Emmy Award-winning sports journalist and comedy/drama screenwriter. Lance has an eclectic background working for Google, as a broadcaster in minor league baseball, and as a journalist for the NFL, Paramount, DraftKings and Vox Media.
Lance is a Stowe Story Fellow; his writing has been featured on the Stunt List twice and placed in multiple competitions — including Austin Film Festival, LaunchPad, Roadmap Writers and Final Draft. He enjoys exploring deeply flawed family dynamics and complicated relationships — in and out of the sports world.
Lance loves the San Francisco 49ers, his rescue dog Walter and talking in the third person like he’s The Rock.
SCREENPLAYS
BOOKIE OF THE YEAR
A disgraced baseball star starts an illegal betting ring around his son’s little league games to pay off a crippling gambling debt and win back his fractured family.
(ROUNDERS x BAD NEWS BEARS)
commit
Following a deadly accident, an ambitious college football recruit struggles to rebuild his reputation when his manipulative coach, jealous teammates and a love triangle brutally test him — on and off the field.
(WHIPLASH x FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS)
THE FRANCHISE
A highly dysfunctional family fights for ownership of their multi-billion-dollar NFL team and the future of their faltering franchise.
(SUCCESSION x THE BEAR)
PODCASTS
THE BIG BROTHER BROTHERS
SURVIVOR BROTHERS
LINES’ FOOTBALL SHOW
other work
A commercial I wrote for the mobile game NFL RIVALS, voiced by Rob Riggle.
To view more of my writing, visit my Muckrack page here.