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AT THE MERCY OF FAITH

A former preacher, haunted by the tragic rape/murder of his twin sister, spirals into darkness as supernatural forces, both angelic and demonic, wage war for his soul. As his faith wavers, he must confront his past, his sins, and a terrifying entity that threatens to consume him entirely. Script Excerpt

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The Passage of Sun

Three brothers challenge the Convict Leasing System of forcing African American men into prison in order to continue providing slave labor and county revenue in Alabama following the Civil War.

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CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM: ACCIDENT

Larry David has a hard time being smart without being an ass. A traffic violation leads Larry David to traffic court and community service as a traffic cross walk guard. Meanwhile, the hybrid car maybe a silent killer, and Jeff Green is losing weight while getting Rolf-ed. Winner of 8 'Best Screenplay' awards.

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LA Nights

It is 1973, and Quick operates an upscale after-hours establishment in West Los Angeles alongside his socialite son, Dizzy. When a New York detective on Quick's trail receives a tip from his southside rival, Quick and his eclectic crew concoct a plan for one final heist before they flee the city. Script Excerpt

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Undue Influence

An unscrupulous and money hungry debt collector is forced to make hard choices when she becomes the target of a wrongful death. Script Excerpt

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MAN OUT OF COUNTRY

Pilot log line: An Iranian music teacher living in California tries to unite his family over nightly dinners. However, he encounters clashes with his rebellious teens and eccentric American in-laws. His perseverance results in humorous, heartfelt, and chaotic moments filled with misunderstandings, cultural clashes, and surprising revelations. Series premise: An Iranian music teacher, his American wife and their free-thinking teenage sons try to find common ground in a small town in California amid clashing cultures and in-laws. “Man Out of Country” is an hour-long serialized dramedy series about an interracial married couple raising a family in a small California town. Iranian immigrant Amir and his American wife Kate teach classical guitar and piano to young students while juggling marriage, two teenage sons and quirky in-laws. The series will explore the complex needs of the characters as they navigate cultural differences/traditions, relationships and pressing issues, such as teenage drug experimentation, empty nest syndrome, career setbacks, family secrets and immigration challenges. Script Excerpt

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The Longest Goodbye

A 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.

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The Sub

A dramedy, spotlighting the realities--comical, tragic, and inspiring--of the grossly overcrowded public school system and one off-centered substitute teacher’s journey through the bureaucratic, educational circus of urban public education.

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New Jack Hustlers

Two seasoned D.E.A. agents go undercover with a rookie female officer to infiltrate a ruthless gang of New Jack Hustlers, moving large quantities of a potent new narcotic. Script Excerpt

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Euthanized

A grieving animal control officer becomes an unlikely social media hero when she embarks on a vigilante crusade against animal abusers, but her violent actions trap her between friends on the police force and the leader of a citywide dogfighting ring. Script Excerpt

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A Long Way From Sunday

An 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.

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Major Players

After a five-year prison stint, a recently freed boxer must defeat the undefeated champion of Atlanta 'The Monster' to save his cousin from the criminal underworld. Script Excerpt

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A ROSE BY THE DOOR

A 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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I Hear You

A belligerent boss berates his employees and incurs struggles with his marriage and hearing-impaired son, but after he is caught pilfering from the company, he faces the threat of his wife finding out and losing his career.

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Into the Sunshine

A Naval Officer returns to his hometown Washington, D.C. to lay his younger brother to rest and bring the killer to justice. Script Excerpt

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Until I Fall

A black war veteran, suffering from a terminal heart condition, seeks bloody vengeance when his prostitute daughter is murdered at the hands of her pimp.

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BROKEN

A witty, Two-Act dramatic play about mental illness in an African American family revolving around a woman suffering compulsive guilt, drug addiction, alcohol abuse and multifaceted visual and auditory hallucinations regarding the accidental death of her 17-year-old son.

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Someone, Somewhere, Is Listening

Two police detectives, estranged lovers of years past, risk life and career in an undercover attempt to identify the sociopath conducting a campaign of extortion, robbery, rape, and murder based on information gleaned from personal phone conversations. (semi-finalist Lonely Wolf International Film Festival, winter 2024) Script Excerpt

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Twisted

A young man, scarred in a fire as an infant, exhibits secretive behavioral problems, but must straighten out his twisted thinking at a rehabilitation facility whose head has his own twisted logic.

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Lil B-Easy

Brought to life by a Voodoo priest, the ventriloquist doll Lil B-Easy springs into action when his human big brother is kidnapped and falsely accused of robbery by a mob boss. Script Excerpt

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CHANGE THE FUCKING WORLD

Robel Douglas is labeled a villain after a robbery and must evade a relentless cop while a determined journalist uncovers hidden truths that challenge societal biases and stereotypes. COMPARABLES - FALLING DOWN meets COLORS meets DUE DATE

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Lanko Rashid

A boy named Lanko Rashid wants to follow the footsteps of his father to become the protector of Kurdistan. He is well determined and energetic, though is father gets killed right in front of him, he runs away and for seven years he is the victim and quiet, shy kid who keeps thinking about his dream. He gets made fun at and gets the oppurtunity of the lifetime to train hard to go and fight the man who killed his father and to become the protector of Kurdistan.

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Can U Love Me

Can U Love Me is a powerful and intimate story that speaks to the resilience of family, the pain of systemic failure, and the determination of a mother and son striving to transcend their circumstances. It serves as both a love letter to the strength of Black families and a critical reflection on the America that shapes—and often limits—their possibilities. Script Excerpt

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She Curses Like a Sailor

The perception of women and cursing is entertained at this art opening in New York. Two twenty-something artistes and a fifty-something writer explore various facets of whether it is 'ladylike' to curse - or not...in public...a philosophical comedy of sorts. Are we too crass as a society? Maybe - maybe not. You decide!(Copyright Wash. DC) A mini-play and/or teleplay. Script Excerpt

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The Rondo Conspiracy

In the late fifties a resident lawyer of Rondo, primarily a Black community in St. Paul, must assist an evil cop hunt a killer through after-hours joints or be charged with murder. As his life unravels, he agrees and could save himself and Rondo when he learns the cop is actually stalking him and is a co-conspirator with St. Paul to destroy Rondo.

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Judge, Me

Group-therapy prison inmates are given an opportunity to be a jury and decide whether a vengeful reporter's expose' of a judge, who is to be elevated to the supreme court, should be published. As the inmates clash over therapy, power politics creeps in and soon they realize what they intuitively know: some people are beyond the law.

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A Taste of Cold Steel

A Chicago gangster's estranged and addicted son struggles to reunite with his psychpathic brother to get revenge against his immoral father. He's marked for death, barely survives, gets revenge but loses more than he gains from vengeance.

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THE DISSIDENTS

An LAPD officer recognizes common ground in a very personal way with a poignant and uncompromising gang- banger.

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THE ESTRANGED

After being diagnosed with terminal cancer and learning that his DNA is a spot on match from a horrible crime committed fifty years earlier, a seventy five year old loner abruptly leaves his rural home town outside of Chicago for the west coast to live out his remaining days with the intent of eluding the FBI.

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FELLOW TRAVELERS

Eddie, a reclusive thirteen year old Boyle Heights African American, is persuaded by, Diego, an equal age Boyle Heights Latino rival, to navigate the dark and dangerous streets of 1978 Los Angeles through the overnight hours with the goal of reaching the beach/ocean ten miles away, a destination Eddie has never seen in person.

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QUASH

Inspired by true events... A brilliant but troubled Latina activist and an enigmatic non-binary colleague unexpectedly team up to lead a community revival in her barrio. They face incredible challenges from a ruthless drug kingpin and an antagonistic law enforcement detail with conflicting interests. "The Wire" meets "Breaking Bad"...

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A Force Of Habit

Two siblings, grappling with the emotional baggage that has taken a toll on their lives, find hope and healing through the power of faith and forgiveness.

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Twelve Less

Twelve teenagers survive a plane crash, which at first was thought to be caused by a structural flaw. However, one-by-one the surviving teenagers are being killed. It is left to those still alive to find the saboteur before they too perish. Script Excerpt

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Major Players 2: Thunder vs Lightning

After defeating a seemingly invincible opponent and severing ties with his manipulative cousin, a boxer must face an even more intimidating foe. Script Excerpt

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Sanctuary

A hapless and socially detached attorney's life changes dramatically when he executes a will stipulating that a substantial fortune will be shared by all who attend the deceased's funeral mass. But no one shows up... except one mysterious homeless man seeking shelter from a raging storm. Script Excerpt

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Once Young

Two parent-less 18-year-olds fall in love and, alone and together, struggle with what love and maturity may look like amid an adult world that is often confusing and sometimes dangerous. A panoramic tale of life as seen through the eyes of innocence. Script Excerpt

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SPARKS

An alcoholic’s gifted teenage son and a stripper’s alienated teenage daughter grow up, face their fears of intimacy and adulthood, and come to terms with their dysfunctional parents one summer on the wrong side of the tracks.

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Sandwich Generation

A white woman and her longtime Korean boyfriend have to take in their fathers, hers because he’s a broke compulsive gambler, and his, because his fifth wife just threw him out while a third generation gets added, when they decide to foster an at-risk African American boy who keeps breaking into their garage to raid a box of porn magazines. Script Excerpt

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Riviera Drive

Three Latino felons on the run invade the home of a prosperous Latino insurance executive, who must reconnect with his own violent past to save his family. Script Excerpt

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JANIE LOVES BOLLYWOOD!!

An updated heartwarming and relatable take on "It's a Wonderful Life!" - but Bollywood style with a Goth girl and a hot Bollywood actor "angel" instead of old-fashioned George Bailey and Clarence. Script Excerpt

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CERTAIN ARRANGEMENTS

A naïve teen on probation for a first offense gets lured into using an old woman's flower shop where he works as a front for drug trafficking.

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THE WORD ON THE STREET

While trying to keep her family together, a young Catholic widow must deal with prejudice as black families start moving into their all-white parish in 1950s West Philadelphia.

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THIS MODERN MAN IS BEAT (produced)

In the post 9/11 world of cultural confusion and erroneous judgment, Habib bin Habib al Fulan pawns his beloved guitar and reconciles with his young wife. Premiered in 15 countries and won 115 Best Film Awards/12 Best Screenplay Awards.

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