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ALTA CALIFORNIAHis tribe slaughtered by Spanish forces, and his unbaptized mother condemned to Hell by the padres, Paco Palido, a young mixed-blood Californian now seeks a home, a place he belongs in a radically evolving world. |
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Doors of MiraclesThis is a story of Miracles, a young woman’s test of faith, her direct link to God, God speaking and The Holy Spirit’s response. Script Excerpt |
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South Of Main StreetMom dies and the youngest daughter sues the emotionally challenged Dad for financial control of the estate sending him on a quest to prove he is normal - not an easy task when you are not. |
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PIRANDELLO'S WIFEWe know Luigi Pirandello's story: world-famous playwright, Nobel Prize Winner. But what of hers? Antonietta's? Hidden in the background, her life controlled by men, the last decades in an asylum for the insane. What is her story? https://pirandelloswife.com/ |
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Curbside ServiceA recently separated couple finds themselves stranded in the Arizona desert on their way to a family holiday function. |
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Child of the DisappearedMaria Waite is dying and has little time left to come to terms with a tragic past and to find the child that was stolen from her at birth. Script Excerpt |
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Less TraveledA well-known celebrity falls for a girl, unknowingly below his social status. He's torn between honoring his familial traditions and societal expectations regarding relationships or following his heart and true desires regardless of the consequences. |
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The Mythical Golden TroutWhen a cash-strapped family camping in the Sierras discovers a huge nugget of gold, the local police chief rounds up a posse of clueless misfits and sets out to steal it from them. |
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Under No CircumstancesA grounded, independent survivalist, swearing off parenthood, is forced to venture outside of his comfort zone when he reluctantly falls for a lively single mother. |
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THE SCRIPTA mysterious young, Irish girl, who refuses to name herself, insists that Aiden O’Brien, a Los Angeles literary agent read her work—both their lives depend on it! Despite Aiden’s repeated attempts to destroy the script, it returns, together with a host of Celtic demons and a sign, in Gaelic, “The Past Does Not Die.” |
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boo hoo flanaganWhen Joe’s 39 year-old addicted and pregnant daughter appears on his doorstep, his sedentary life is about to disappear forever. Script Excerpt |
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The Barking SpiderDepression hits Joe pretty hard after his wife died but, when his addicted and pregnant daughter appears on his doorstep a year later, his sedentary life is about to disappear forever. Script Excerpt |
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THE QUISLINGWhen O’Clery, a high-profile Irish terrorist, is arrested at San Francisco airport, his deportation defense is led, surprisingly, by Sean Conlon, an inexperienced attorney. As the twists and turns unravel, Sean’s own family becomes the subject of an old betrayal. http://quislingmovie.com/ |
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The Longest GoodbyeA poignant look at an elderly mother's battle with dementia and her son's commitment to keeping love alive, as memories fade, and life on the road is rearranged to moments in time. Script Excerpt |
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RODEOA wealthy, widowed New York socialite, Mrs. Olivia Worthmore, enters the unfamiliar world of rodeo, determined to “rescue” her wayward daughter Harper, who has fallen for a young bull rider, Cody McGraw. But, with the “help” of Coyote McGraw, a trickster figure, plans go comically awry. Eventually the rodeo and unlikely romances win the day. |
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DysfunctionalDysfunctional, it's about a true story about a woman trying to find God and self love along the way. There's a lot of hurdles around her life, but they just make her get stronger. |
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The Magnificent KevinThe Magnificent Kevin, a young magician in the old west, teams up with Harry Houdini and a secret society of magicians to battle their arch-nemesis, Melvin the Mentalist. |
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Buck and the AngelA young boy, Buck Lynch, fatherless and living with his dying mother in his grandparent’s home, has a strong belief in the power of prayer. But his faith is tested when a mysterious stranger claiming to be an angel leads Buck to believe he has come to make his mother well when he has actually come for his mother’s life on Christmas Eve. Script Excerpt |
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Pearl FisherA fruitless search for a missing woman leads a hired detective down a rabbit hole of secrets to surprise revelations involving his own family. |
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FamilySeeking a fresh start, a newly married couple and their teenage daughter move to a small town, but the daughter begins to suspect that her stepfather is hiding something. Script Excerpt |
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PLAYING THE CHANGESThe country's top neurosurgeon, an unfeeling man, sees his perfectly ordered life unravel and, after hitting rock bottom, reinvents himself as a jazz saxophonist in an effort to recover his heart, humanity, and possibly his estranged wife – who is determined to resist his persistent and unwelcome attempts to win her back. Script Excerpt |
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An Empty ChairRather than spend Christmas alone, a college girl with a writing assignment confronts her estranged grandma but can’t let go of the family gossip in her pursuit of truth. |
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Stuffing ChristmasA quirky brood attempts to stuff one last downhome Christmas into Thanksgiving weekend after learning their family’s beloved farm will be gone by December. |
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MarloweA brown, Virginia, field mouse moves into the bedroom of eleven-year-old-Cole who teaches the animal to talk and wear clothes. In the end, Marlowe saves Cole and his family and a small group of humans and animals, from a virus that kills all animals globally in less than a year. |
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A Long Way From SundayAn edgy, faith-inspired, drama about the relationships of Andre, a mischievous 11year old, and a series of family revelations that lead his grandfather, a working class, Pentecostal pastor, to question his faith, murder his friend, and burn down his church. Script Excerpt |
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RefugeWhen a career bank robber, fleeing the police, seeks refuge in a church and holds the parishioners hostage, he is turned tothe path of faith by its Baptist minister who has problems of his own.Faith -based. Script Excerpt |
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Long Path To PeaceA drug lord's incorruptible and alienated step-son escapes into the wilderness where he saves his Guide - the father he’s always wanted, from a never-ending, guilt-fueled nightmare. Script Excerpt |
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Corporate PolicyGreedy executives of a large corporation implement an illegal downsizing process, and they would've gotten away with it but they didn’t count on a desperate employee whose courage and family loyalty proves much stronger than any of their corporate policies. |
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Love and VenomAfter fleeing home as a child to escape the wrath of his deranged mother, a young man returns years later when he learns that his beloved father has just a few days to live and his mother wants to follow him to the gates of heaven. |
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True Tears - Timeless Fairy TaleA young maiden who grew up hidden in the woods must find her father the king to save the kingdom from doom – His twin sister and self-appointed Sorceress Queen who banished him almost 18 years ago uses all her powers to prevent a successful journey. |
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ELIJAHThe king of Israel marries a Phoenician Princess, who is consumed by Baal worship, wanting to kill all devout Hebrews. God’s prophet challenges the king to repent in spite of the threat of death. |
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CYCLONEQuarter-finalist Screen Lab 2019. Semi-finalist Fresh Voices 2020. Semi-finalist Emerging Screenwriters 2022. Stevie is fifteen years old and well on the way to becoming a hardened criminal; Dave is a cop, natural enemy of Stevie; Susie is Dave’s two-year-old daughter who is kidnapped during a cyclone. The last thing a teenage boy needs is a baby. But it falls to Stevie to save the baby – without knowing who she is and for totally unselfish motives – and thus to save Dave and his family from total disintegration. |
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A Mother's Christmas GiftMom has been dead for 11 months and shows up at her family's house for Christmas, as a ghost, with a mission, and like Clarence in “It’s A Wonderful Life,” has to accomplish this mission to earn her wings. Script Excerpt |
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A ROSE BY THE DOORA God fearing woman finds herself burned out by hurtful tragedies in her life. By trying to hide secrets from the past, she comes to the place where faith seems gone. But she overlooks, that old wounds must be touched and tended before they could be healed for good. A ROSE BY THE DOOR is an adaptation of Deborah Bedford's inspirational novel with the same title. |
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Furgrow Birds back to the beginning1)When a dog loses his owner, he discovers a dark conspiracy involving an evil king, a hidden realm and magical crystals that can alter the world..............2)When a former king launches a war with dark magic to reclaim his throne, gifted animals and plants create a hybrid army to save the kingdom.........3)When an evil man uses magic to disrupt evolution, a dog recruits unusually crossbred animals and plants to help restore the earth's balance. Script Excerpt |
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The CallBart, age 15 and a new convert to the Christian faith, fights temptation in a different way. Script Excerpt |
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Everything I Have Is YoursThirteen-year-old Haylee stumbles on her father's affair with her mother's friend, who has come to stay after her home was burglarized. Script Excerpt |
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The Rocking Horse ChristmasA seven year old boy named Cody saves Christmas with the help of his dog and two animated mice. In this action/animated adventure Cody passes through the fire of manhood by saving an ancient Christmas ornament that has been in his family for three hundred years. |
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A Family Affair“ A Family Affair” depicts life from the eyes of two children caught in the middle of a nasty divorce in the late 60's. Swept up in lies, deceit, secrecy, and abuse; Torn between two families with no place in either, they struggle to find love, acceptance, and truth. |
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AMERICAN OOZEAmerican Ooze follows an entitled pre-teen that discovers the start of his essential self. He experiences a frightful, metaphysical, journey on All Hallow’s Eve. |
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Not About MoneyA dedicated woman becomes victimized by corporate men of power, but her fight for principle changes the culture for the advancement of women in business. |
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Living ProofAdopted at infancy, a pro minor league ice-hockey player searches for his biological parents during a championship season where his dream of playing for the Pittsburgh Penguins hangs on a thread and a prayer. But his quest to find his birth parents is a little more disruptive to his life than expected and he finds himself more on a journey of enlightenment than discovery. Script Excerpt |
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Turf WarAs Florida neighbors fall in love, their rival lawn ornaments start a war. Script Excerpt |
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BORN TO BE YOUA female seagull gets stranded and injured on an island of flightless cormorants. The leader nurses her back to health. He wants her to be his mate with the condition that she gives up flying. |
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A Nice Family GatheringA story about a man who loved his wife so much, he almost told her. Script Excerpt |
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Home Like a ShadowCollege girl accompanies her new boyfriend to his decaying San Joaquin Valley home town for his mother's birthday and is pulled into family conflicts and lost dreams dating back to the Civil War. Script Excerpt |
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BraumaruA clever sixth grader must learn to control her dreams or be trapped in them forever by a power hungry janitor intent on world domination. |
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Howlingween 5: Trip AlongFate has dealt another terrible hand to the Forran family. Only wishing to enjoy a road trip across America, the family encounters a human-like wolf, the brainchild of a disturbed seven-year-old boy. Script Excerpt |
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Stinky SkatesStinky Skates is an adorable story about an old pair of skates getting back out on the roller rink again. The morals of kindness and acceptance of all people no matter what race disability or personality are portrayed throughout the story. |
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The Christmas GiftA woman gives up her inheritance for a chance to stand on her own two feet, but when life becomes full of rejection and tragedy, she must choose between her career and the one that got away. Script Excerpt |
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ONCE THERE WERE STORIESIn this family drama, Christmases of long ago, ones of togetherness, family entertainments, and memorable stories, as told by Grandpa Lynn, now living in his daughter, Rhiannon Nolan's, spare room, now contrast with those of the Nolan family with its packaged television and sports, relatives' distancing, and multitude of electronic distractions. |
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The Blonde SurferA young boy becomes infatuated with a beautiful Blonde Surfer Script Excerpt |
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MIDNIGHT CONFESSIONSA headstrong detective investigating a brutal murder of a porn star discovers the trail leads to his brother, a Catholic priest. |
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HOLY FRIJOLESTwo 17-year-old buddies decide the perfect summer job is driving a hot food lunch wagon .. until they discover their route runs through the most dangerous gang banger territory in town. |
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THE MAN CALLED BIBLE JONESAn Old Testament cowboy ("An eye for an eye") and an outcast Comanche woman join forces to escort a young girl across the Arizona badlands to try and find her missing father. "The Searchers" meets "True Grit". |
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BAD TO THE BONEA K-9 Rottweiler taken too soon to doggie heaven, escapes and returns to earth in the body of a 17-year-old kid to find his hit-and-run killer and save his family. |
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Parenting 101When a successful hair stylist and her goal-oriented husband determine they need to make a decision about starting a family, they struggle with a year-long parenting experiment starting with houseplants, then pets, and finally other people's children. Script Excerpt |
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The Water BabiesAn orphan who transforms into a Waterbaby learns the power of forgiveness and love in an animated magical adventure featuring aquatic and land creatures. |
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Lightning StrikesComing of Age ? Akeelah and The Bee runs track An Olympic hopeful has her dreams shattered when her family is forced to return to Jamaica to avoid deportation. |
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Doing 70To 70-yo Enrico Allini, being forced into a retirement home is like ringing the doorbell to Hell. Script Excerpt |
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TwistedAn opportunistic young man scarred in a fire as an infant suffers from distorted thinking, but the head of his rehab facility has his own twisted logic. |
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Koutua the make believe hero7 Friends go to help a devasted town. One became a fill in actor who was a hero in the story, but Koutua was in situations where it needed a real hero.. this story will have you smiling and happy crying throughout the movie. great for all ages. Script Excerpt |
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TEXT MEMAN'S BEST FRIEND IS NOT A DOG, IT'S A CELL PHONE. |
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FISHING ON TUESDAYSFriendship is the greatest catch. |
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Neighbors and StrangersNEIGHBORS AND STRANGERS - As the world spirals downward into a major recession, a diverse cast of neighbors and strangers struggle to survive. Now they must join hands and overcome their biases and distrust. |
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I Hear YouA belligerent boss berates his employees and struggles with his marriage and hearing-impaired son, but after he is caught pilfering from the company, can he rectify his situation and reconcile his relationships? |
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Paula Bunyan: A Taller TalePaula Bunyan is a story about Paul Bunyan's twin sister, by 14 seconds, the greatest Lumberjill in all the land who did all the work and gave her brother, Paul, all the credit. |
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Sioux FallsSioux Falls is based on a true story about four small town Minnesota kids ages 13 to 15, who plan to sneak out, “borrow” a parent’s car, drive all night to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to buy illegal fireworks, and get home before their parents wake up. |
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HavenAfter crashing on a deserted planet, two sisters fight to meet a deadline window to get rescued while being pursued by bloodthirsty, desperate prisoners who were shipwrecked and left for dead on this planet years ago. Script Excerpt |
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Going AloneWhen a biologist working on a vitally important environmental report dies mysteriously, his estranged daughter takes over his work with an assassin closing in. Script Excerpt |
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DOWN WITH DADA 3 time Man of the Year dad Dave McNabb tries to teach his teen son Lincoln a life lesson -- “do good things, good things happen.” But much to Lincoln's delight and wonder, while things seem to improve for him they suddenly go south for dear old dad when bad things happen... very bad things. Script Excerpt |
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WhirlaboutA man returns home to care for his father who’s riding a downhill early-onset Alzheimer’s spiral, but dark secrets revealed about the family patriarch’s past shock him to the core, dramatically altering the course of the old man's care... as well as the direction of his own life. Script Excerpt |
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THE GEPETTO PROTOCOLTo stay "real" in the real world after their last creator dies, an action figure, fashion doll, superhero, anime girl, and crash dummy—now real flesh and blood—must find new believers in ten days or be forgotten forever, and get help from two kids and their dad at a cosplay convention. |
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On BoardA "ship of fools" indeed: madcap teenagers, a lush head of security, a pastor who loves riddles, a captain off death-row, a martial artist challenging a boxer — and a serial killer. Script Excerpt |
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Howlingween 3: Red River CountyA tourist-dependent town in Florida boasts of a historic inhabitant as being America's first serial killer, only to suffer his reawakening. Script Excerpt |
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Howlingween 2: Clarry the ClownHoliday-makers on a beautiful island resort find themselves trapped with a murderous clown. Script Excerpt |
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HowlingweenA dream holiday turns nightmarish when a family encounters a malicious wolf and traders in fresh human organs. Script Excerpt |
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CounterchanceAn FBI agent goes to any length to save his family. Script Excerpt |
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Splendid IsolationA girl lost in the Alaskan wilderness meets her banished pet tiger — now fully grown. Together they survive many challenges — except, perhaps, one another. Script Excerpt |
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NOT ANOTHER VAMPIRE STORYAn embarrassment-prone middle school girl's life gets risky when she suspects her pretty older sister's good-looking boyfriend is really a vampire, and sets out to prove it. |
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A New DayAfter a black high school student befriends a new talented Latina transfer student, they give new life to the stodgy traditional Christmas musical and change racist attitudes in a small town. |
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Watch NightAfter his wife abandons him and their autistic son, a husband loses everything and needs supernatural help to regain his dignity and keep his son. |
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THE ODYSSEY OF A REGIME VICTIMA young man’s world is taken away from, when he happens to be in the wrong place and time during a horrible morning of a military coup that imprisoned and tortured him till he lost his mind and memory. |
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The Process of HeavenWhat does it take to get into Heaven? Nathan Braxton is about to find out. But first, he needs to survive the evil forces bent on taking his soul and keeping him from entering The Process of Heaven. |
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SunnysideQuirky young woman gets drunk on her high-tech job and ends up in a strange rehab where she must come to terms with her choices and history. Adapted from my published short story. Script Excerpt |
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SWIM FOR YOUR LIVESA dysfunctional father and daughter vacationing in Bali, conflicted over a pending divorce, are sole survivors of a plane crash at sea and try to swim to the nearest coast, fighting both natural and human elements of danger. Alternate version for a different location: British Columbia, Canada. Script Excerpt |
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The ContestantA suburban architect gives it all up to pursue his lifelong dream of playing the world stage as a famous rock drummer. |
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LIFE WITHOUT FATHERGhost dramedy with family values, a la "Ghost" meets "Parenthood". An acclaimed news cameraman who's been neglecting his family for his career dies suddenly under mystical circumstances and returns home as a ghost to haunt his 12-year-old son a week before his 13th birthday. He only has a short time to teach his son life lessons and to learn how to be, and to redeem himself as, a once-absentee dad. Script Excerpt |
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Post Your Script Here!AT THE MERCY OF FAITH
A 14 year old preacher renounces his faith in God in the wake of a terrifying and traumatic encounter.
THE TORTOISE AND THE HEIR
A will leaves half of California to someone, if a lone wolf San Francisco private investigator can keep any of the heirs alive.
CONNECTING FLIGHT
A cutthroat salesman must confront faces from his past, present, and future in a busy airport, where he's forced to reconcile prior misdeeds and reforge alliances, as he races to thwart a catastrophic time-space anomaly.
The AWNING
Troubled commuters take shelter from a sudden downpour on a Chinatown street corner, only to be tormented by the elderly man in their midst selling unique umbrellas and dispensing cryptic wisdom.
CREATURES of HABIT
After changing therapists, a man with OCD sheds his repetitive routines, but when monsters emerge from the woods and abduct his friends, he suspects his compulsive behaviors may actually be rituals intended to ward off an ancient supernatural force.
Ayden: Rise of the Divine Beings
After the mythical oval, the Heart of Saros detects Ayden 'The Exceptional,' who was hidden among humans as a child by his mother, four divine beings with superhuman abilities from the planet Memnon are ordered to earth by their Lord to execute the vigilante crime fighter.
Heat of the Moment
A former comedian and out-of-work chef gets invited to cook for some old friends, and he soon realizes you can't stop the heart's utmost desire in a weekend filled with love, drama, and betrayal.
Uncle Jake
Jake Evans, 36, a fun-loving former rock musician, moves in with his older sister, Sophia Livingston, 38, an Environmental Attorney, to help take care of her two kids, Corey, 11, and Violet, 16, after losing her husband a year prior.
Ayden: The Exceptional
A brilliant young geneticist who believes superhumans exist in our modern society makes the ultimate discovery after he is led to a man with exceptional abilities.
Duplicitous
A father takes his young disabled son to the country to reconnect in an old Victorian, but their stay becomes one of regret after a malevolent presence is awakened.
