Local Woman Creating Female 'MacGyver'

Local San Diego resident, Beth Keser, was recently named one of five winners of the “The Next MacGyver” competition, sponsored by the Ford Motor Company.

The global initiative aims to increase the visibility of female engineers in the media by challenging contestants to create a TV series with a female engineer protagonist.

“MacGyver” creator Lee Zlotoff, announced the winners, with the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and the National Academy of Engineering during an exciting live pitch event co-presented with The Paley Center for Media.

Each of the winners received $5,000 and was paired with a successful Hollywood TV producer who will mentor them in creating an original TV pilot script. Expert engineers will also be involved in helping to develop the engineering-focused storylines.

Keser’s TV concept falls under the adventure/procedural genre and is titled “Rule 702.”

The story is about a young and beautiful engineering and science prodigy who decides to forego corporate life to pursue a career as an expert witness, spending her new life traveling across the country to testify in torn-from-the-headlines cases. In each case she finds a mystery that requires a keen mind and scientific investigation to find the truth.

Keser will be mentored by Lori McCreary, CEO and Founder of Revelations Entertainment and President of Producers Guild of America (Madam Secretary, Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman) and Tracy Mercer, VP of Development, Revelations Entertainment.