DRAMA FEATURE SCRIPTS
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ALPHABET CITY
CRASH meets DO THE RIGHT THING
A community at war with itself reaches its boiling point as gentrification riots tear apart New York's Lower East Side in 1988
Austin Film Festival Semifinalist
Page International Screenplay Competition Quarterfinalist
Golden Script Competition Semifinalist
POLLY
DALLAS BUYERS CLUB meets BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY
A dishonorably discharged Vietnam War Combat Medic joins forces with a transgender WWII veteran to launch an underground vigilante street clinic to serve New York’s LGBT homeless community in the 1960s
Academy Nicholl Fellowship top 15%
Austin Film Festival Second Rounder
Filmmatic Screenplay Awards Semifinalist
Oaxaca Film Festival Finalist
"This is an envelope pushing and conversation starting kind of project." -Blacklist Review
"POLLY is a compelling period drama with family elements that explores themes of identity, belonging, survival and justice in 1960s and 1970s New York... The script knows what it wants to be and what it wants to say and goes for it"
-Blacklist Review
THE LIBERATION FRONT
BEASTS OF NO NATION meets THE CONSTANT GARDENER
A former child soldier seeks refuge in America where she finds herself working for a humanitarian organization that is financing the rebel warlord that abducted her.
Oaxaca Film Festival Global Script Competition Official Selection
"This is the kind of movie to get people in seats and get people talking." - Blacklist Review
SACRIFICIAL PRODIGY
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS meets THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO
A glam rocker impulsively moves into an abandoned factory to isolate himself from the pressures of the music industry that wants to translate the loss of his brother into record sales.
RUBBER SIDE DOWN
BASED ON A TRUE STORY
SONS OF ANARCHY meets THIRTEEN
A teenage girl desperate for independence rebels against her strict military father and falls in love with the leader of a dangerous biker gang.
COMEDY FEATURE SCRIPTS
THE INCREDIBLE LEAGUE OF INCREDIBLY PRACTICAL SUPERHEROES
BIRDS OF PREY meets BRIDESMAIDS
A team of broke-ass superhero girls fights to save their lair from increasing rent costs while banging their heads against the glass ceiling of a failing job market.
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Screencraft Comedy Quarterfinalist (current)
WHALE HUNTING IN UTAH
NAPOLEON DYNAMITE meets CHIGAGO
An aspiring executioner set to take over his longstanding family legacy of snuffing out criminals suffers an existential crisis when Utah's progressive new Governor abolishes the death penalty.
A MUSICAL COMEDY ABOUT THE DEATH PENALTY
TELEVISION SCRIPTS
LIVE THROUGH THE NIGHT
TRUE DETECTIVE meets HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE
When several women are killed by a mysterious and untraceable toxic smoke, a tortured detective haunted by the ghost of an unsolved case must find the force of evil before it destroys her too.
GENERATION OVERRIDE
MY SO CALLED LIFE meets THE END OF THE F***ING WORLD
A lost generation struggles to survive Y2K apocalyptic doom, only to discover that life is even scarier when you don't have the end of the world as a fallback plan
SHORT SCRIPTS
LENNY
A prisoner of war befriends a spider to save himself from the alienation of solitary confinement.
Screencraft Film Fund Competition Semifinalist
City of Ottawa Cultural Funding grant recipient
FROM SARAJEVO
A teenage girl escapes war torn Bosnia in 1992 and struggles to pursue her dreams of becoming a dancer
Detroit Shetown Film Festival Nominee for Best Writer
Best Director Digi60 Filmmakers Festival
Best War Short Film - South Film and Arts Academy Festival
MORAL CODING
When a guy's terrible decisions cause him to lose the love of his life, he turns to impulse purchase elective brain surgery to make things right.
Screencraft Short Script Competition Quarterfinalist
LA Independent Film Festival Awards 3rd place
ELECTRIC CASTLES
A schizophrenic teenager faces abandonment and violence as she searches to find her true home.
Best Screenplay Digi60 Filmmakers Festival
