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LEGACY (retitled LEGACY TWO: ORIGINS)

A coming of age story about a boy in Ireland named Lachlan who finds himself in a magical world he never knew existed. Kyros, Lachlan’s father, abandoned his son as a young child, and never saw him again. Now Lachlan must deal with the resentment that he feels towards his father while attempting to rescue him on an epic journey. Script Excerpt

LUANA (retitled LEGACY ONE: LUANA)

After her parents are murdered, the last dragon whisperer — a 16 yr old grieving teenager named Luana — goes on an epic quest to avenge their deaths and rescue her village from blood-thirsty banshees. Script Excerpt

TRUE DESTINY

A mysterious shadow organization launches the political career of a dynamic woman, pre-destined to change the world. Yet, this same organization has other plans, as it conspires with the VP candidate to take her out, and overthrow the country. Script Excerpt

HALFWAY HOME

When a catastrophic accident causes an athlete to become paralyzed, and all seems to be lost, he finds redemption in the most unlikely place, with a gaggle of colorful characters in a halfway house for the mentally disabled. Winner of 19 'Best Screenplay' awards. Previously #1 on the MovieBytes.com feature Drama & Family 'Winning Lists.'

The Heart of a Tiger

The Heart of a Tiger is based on the true story of a woman who escaped the Cambodian Genocide in the 1970s. It follows three generations of women struggling against the boundaries placed upon them, each ultimately emerging triumphant to achieve their dreams. This is my family’s story of survival. Received 39 awards.

Hell Followed With Him

When a former Army Sergeant discovers that the crime family responsible for his best friend's death is holding the city of New York hostage, he makes it his personal mission to take them down no matter the cost.

LOST CAUSE

A lost nuclear bomb is found on a stranded ship heading for the Gulf of Mexico.

Boundary Waters

America is in violent upheaval, and Amelia Connor will do whatever it takes to get her children out of the country and to safety in Canada. Even if it involves facing down armed raiders, challenging a military order determined stop fleeing citizens, braving the life-threatening dangers of a vast wilderness and, perhaps toughest of all, finding common ground with the ex-husband who unwittingly fueled the movement that caused this chaos.

CHARMER - BREAKOUT TO MEXICO

Maria (a lonely drug runner) enlists Peter (a lonely ex-narc) as her wingman for a dangerous ‘road trip’ to Mexico - with the mysterious aide of Grandma (a venerable DEA agent).

Operation Brother Sam

During the Cold War, an aging Intelligence Officer addicted to anxiolytics must lead a rogue team of spies to investigate a US ambassador involved in a conspiracy in Brazil. Based on historical events.

MOJO

When a voodoo loving spiritualist tries to save her grandmother’s home by accepting a job in a law firm owned by her childhood crush, she must choose between her crush and the home she loves when the firm’s most important clients decide they want to buy it.

Henrietta

Ohio, 1887. A multiracial family is devastated by illness after 11 year old Rhett believes she has summoned a demonic power. While her doctor stepfather quarantines the house for cholera, Rhett must fight through an otherworldly dreamscape to protect her mother and brother. (harryaspinwall.com/henrietta) Script Excerpt

HAVANA RUN

Prodigal son, Emilio Garcia returns home for the funeral of his younger brother, then unwittingly leaves again with an ‘old girlfriend with baggage’ on a forbidden trip/ action adventure vacation to Havana, Cuba.

The Barking Spider

When Joe’s 39 year-old addicted and pregnant daughter appears on his doorstep, his sedentary life is about to disappear forever. Script Excerpt

COOP

An inspirational drama about a disabled dog who assists a recently disabled young athlete find renewed purpose in his life.

PLAY THE FOOL

PLAY THE FOOL (Action / Comedy) An eccentric musician recruits his old band to help steal a legendary guitar, unaware that competing military teams from Russia and the US Air Force - both trying to avert WWIII - are after his bass-player's rare, vintage gear. Script Excerpt

Untouchable!

An explosion rocks the corporate world when a blonde bombshell in stainless steel collides with the nation's most powerful man sending him into oblivion. Script Excerpt

BAD LISTING

(Thriller/Horror): When two strangers share an Airbnb unit, they each worry the other has a dark secret. But, in fact, a supernatural presence is toying with them both. A small-cast, minimal-location script -- a winner in both the StoryPros and WriteMovies contests -- by a two-time produced writer. Script Excerpt

RECOIL

Two survivors of a school shooting form an unhealthy romance and begin to collect guns in order to recover from their mutual trauma. Script Excerpt

Inked In Blood

A tortured, tattooed albino returns to the town he ran away from as a child to exact his revenge on all those who wronged him, and face the man he fears the most. His father. Script Excerpt

Harm for the Holidays

After his brother attempts suicide a few weeks before Christmas, an unrepentant asshole with a heart of gold moves back in with his comically dysfunctional family to help his brother, only to discover that his brother is the sanest of them all (#1 ranked Comedy and GLBT script on MovieBytes).

HAT TRICK

A retired police officer goes to the current-day Army/Navy football game with his two wacky friends intending to jump onto the field and score a touchdown he should’ve scored decades ago when he fumbled during the same football classic as time ran out, only this time dozens of security guards await him, and it’ll be a friggin’ miracle if he succeeds. Script Excerpt

The 49th Day

A young girl’s imaginary friend starts killing her family off, one by one. But how can you stop Death when she wants to play? (This script has won multiple grand prizes and was selected for The 2016 BloodList.) Script Excerpt

The Paper Route

A teenager about to turn 16 makes a discovery that could be his ticket out of his oppressive small town life, but it means leaving his younger brother behind.

SAVING SIMON

When a reckless 18-year-old becomes a mob target after her father goes to prison, she must outwit the mob’s plan to destroy her father, and at the same time prove to Social Services she is responsible enough to care for her hyper-intelligent, OCD, half-brother (11).

TIME ZERO

After acquiring the psychic ability to see everybody's past, a CIA Operative faces terrorists that kidnap his loved ones and force him to use his powers against his country.

McBrides

When her male reporters, including her sexist brother, volunteer to take part in a Ukrainian bride service for an article, a senior editor must do all that she can to contain the craziness that follows, and guide the guys into finding true love. Script Excerpt

BULLY! (Teddy Roosevelt and the Panama Canal)

CHARGE! Rough Rider President Teddy Roosevelt takes on all comers – Banana Republics, Wall Street bigwigs and Congress – to build the Panama Canal. The real story. Can be expanded to TV miniseries. Professional Coverage: “Recommend” Dave Trottier (Author “The Screenwriter’s Bible.”) SEMI-FINALIST Fade In Awards rue Story/Bio Competition Script Excerpt

FEEDER

A dysfunctional family moves from Los angeles to picturesque Murphy Springs, Colorado with hopes of a fresh start, but those plans are foiled when they discover that this quaint mountain refuge holds dark secrets that could tear them apart.

Don't You Know Who I Am?

A hollywood security guard digs up celebrity dirt for money, but now his efforts to get the goods and evade detection are complicated when he befriends a young actress, and uncovers her dark secret.

The Wayward Son

Orphaned after his father is murdered in the Rock Springs Massacre of 1885, Bo helps his adopted family of sheep ranchers fight for their land in bloody range wars while struggling with his identity and reigniting a dangerous love affair. (Formerly titled BLOOD LAW)

The Glade

Rose Ferguson just wants the family back she’s never known. Unbeknownst to Rose, an evil as old as time itself, wants to make sure that reunion never takes place. When all seems lost, the one thing she sought might be her only saving grace.

Rational Panic

When a professor's wife, who suffers a panic disorder, disappears mysteriously during Mardi Gras, the professor obsesses on one of his students who's writing a play with a character eerily similar to his wife and may be in on the disappearance. Winner, Writers on the Storm; Top 16 scripts, Slamdance. Previously optioned to an LA production company.

THE BIG IDEA

THE BIG IDEA: a jack-ass odyssey. Before the pandemic, a disabled germaphobic/dirty joke scholar, a Black/Swedish hip-hop poet, a multiple personality John Doe, and a martial arts American/Asian Mensa chick want to collect a $10 million court settlement from infomercial giant, fat-man Tony Idoni, for their 'Big Idea' - a telephone condom. But they find that the biggest of big ideas is LOVE. FOUR 'Best Screenplay' award, and ONE 'Best Dialogue' award. Recent winner of Best Comedy feature in the Canadian Diversity FF.

Rebel Tides

When modern warfare meets medieval, a tyrannical monster of a man takes control of England. A former member of the SAS closes himself off from the apocalyptic world until its savagery finds its way to his doorstep. He will be forced to make a choice, to abstain, or intervene, but what he doesn't know is that the oppressive king is his former brother in arms and best friend, long thought dead.

Maeta's Story (prev. Uncle Frits)

In the Occupied Netherlands, a widow and child go into hiding with the help of her brother who struggles with PTSD. Script Excerpt

Kibou

A tenacious young Japanese-American's loyalties, duties, and illicit interracial relationship are tested to the limits when his family is separated by the US government and imprisoned during a time of fear and paranoia surrounding WWII.

The Anklebiter

Five years after the Zombie Apocalypse, a couple fighting about whether to start a family adopts a baby Zombie they don't have the heart to kill.

TRAUMATIZED

The sole survivor of a serial killer, tortured by visions of her ordeal, decides to conduct her own investigation only to realize that her former captor, whom she thought dead, might still be alive and after her.

Murder in Emergency!

A nurse's fight to save her hospital becomes a war when she discovers patients are being murdered by predators lurking the wards at night. Script Excerpt

Visions

A lonely girl is haunted by visions of classmates' murders. She suspects her overprotective father may be going to extremes to keep her isolated.

Alien In My Pocket

A pocket-sized alien prince travels to Earth to open relations, only to discover his cousin is plotting his assassination to steal the crown and achieve galactic domination, starting with Earth.

Time and Again

A ruthless politician makes a deal with an ambitious scientist: she gives him unlimited resources and he lets her use his time-bending machine to spy on her enemies. But neither of them knows that the technology has a flaw that will ultimately destroy the world. Script Excerpt

BOSS TWEED

NYC politician William M. “Boss” Tweed loots the city treasury for millions until exposed by the upstart New York Times and immigrant cartoonist Thomas Nast. Political drama/strong contemporary relevance. Heavy non-comic animation and graphics. Professional Coverage: “RECOMMEND” – Dave Trottier (Author, “The Screenwriter’s Bible”)

Simon of Cyrene

And they compel one Simon of Cyrene, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.

Desert Quarry

Two mercenaries rob a former colleague's New York jewelry shop to even a score, but after the shop’s employees are found murdered, a deadly bank heist in Iraq begins to haunt them. Script Excerpt

STORM DRAGONS

In a mystical land where champions fight to the death to keep the peace, the revenge of a chosen warrior against the killer of his family risks starting the bloody war he was bound to prevent.

Doors of Miracles

Fighting fear, the Doors to God's Miracles are flung open wide transcending a young woman into the Universe to return with supernatural powers, miracles - and God speaks. Script Excerpt

South Of Main Street

Mom 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.

The Gate

The Gate is a fantasy action feature about two crusty bait and tackle guys who must stop eco-terrorists who have opened a time portal to the Pleistocene era and are about to wipe out humanity's ancestors to save the planet. Script Excerpt

War Bonds

In the dark, the truth is bright Script Excerpt

Uniforms

Based on true events, a coming-of-age/immigration/love story takes us from central 1950's Mexico to Chicago (and a stint in Vietnam). A crooked legal system tried mightily to thwart a young man. Scouts and martial arts figure in his favor, along with family, pluck, honest work and a supernatural drum element. (This is the updated previous winner script "Machismo, Machisma").

Conduit of Evil

An EMT attempts to save the life of a vicious killer — but the killer's evil spirit passes into him, and through him into his 8 year old nephew.

Perfect Contrition

A traumatized priest haunted by visions of his violent past obligingly serves a rural parish while indulging in a long distance affair, but his vindictive compulsion is sparked when he’s wrongly blamed for the deaths of two troubled altar boys. Script Excerpt

Season of Mists

A Kurdish escapee from an honor killing is imprisoned in a detention center, from which she must find the strength to resist her captors and gain freedom--forcing a confrontation with the brother that still wants her dead. Script Excerpt

My Enemy, My Friend

After their only child was accidentally killed by a black security guard who mistook him for a thief, a white woman develops a feeling of hatred towards all black people.

RANGEL

Adolfo Rangel is a 19-year old Venezuelan boy with an American Dream of becoming a professional basketball player who works in a carwash while trying to achieve his goal. The greatest opportunity that comes to his life… Set in Maracaibo, Venezuela. A team called “THE WOLVES” just kicked out their best player, Jesus Gutierrez just two months before the big tournament. The coach of the team, Carlos Romero will give Rangel the shot of his life to join the team and to show his skills to everybody. Rangel also will meet a Spanish girl called Rebeca Martinez who becomes his best friend and love interest.

Something Old Something New

A professional love songwriter, whose in a major slump, falls for her obnoxious cousin's fiancé.

My Fiancé, the Dick

This detective comedy won multiple contests (including Disney and WB). An aspiring mystery author discovers her detective fiancé missed a key clue in a recent murder case and sets out to solve it herself, but her fiancé competes to re-solve it first to win back her respect and save their relationship. What makes it so fun and stylish is that it’s presented in three genres — 1950s Hollywood glamour, 1940s film noir, and 1930s pulp – depending on which character is telling the story.

GRIMOIRE

Life is short, Hell is forever Script Excerpt

Diplomatic Ammunity!

A struggling Hollywood screenwriter recruits his former best friends to help him write a script about a series of pranks they pulled in high school, and they discover why their friendship fell apart (ADAPTATION meets IDIOCRACY). [12 awards/honors including, 1st in 2017 Los Angeles Screenplay Contestl]

We Shall Not Go Hungry

In Viking Age Iceland, Sigrun and her two brothers are reunited with their estranged father, only to fall prey to a horrific curse. After their father goes missing, Sigrun must protect her brothers by any means necessary, but uncovering her family’s history of dark magic may lead her to become the very thing she’s fighting. (harryaspinwall.com/wsngh) Script Excerpt

THE FIRST GENTLEMAN

THE FIRST GENTLEMAN (Action / Romance) When President Rosa Cortese's secret Camp David peace summit is taken hostage by brutal commandos, her scandalous ex-jock husband Will slips through the cracks. As war hero Rosa fights back from within, they must find a way to save each other, the Chinese Chairman - and their marriage! Script Excerpt

Skewed Blue

A combat medic turned crusader battles discrimination, injustice, and corruption as she polices her city. After her best friend is killed in combat, she vows to uphold his legacy to shift the scales of justice back into balance.

Perfect World

A fed-up physician driven to unravel the mystery behind his wife’s E.T. abduction uncovers more than he ordered when an extra-terrestrial patient stumbles into his E.R.

The Last Guard

Detective Alvarez is trapped in an abandoned silo on a remote island, with a hostage and a bag of loot - surrounded by a squad of rogue soldiers and an ancient curse, her corruption and lies brutally unravel, as the shadows crawl and darkness descends...

and The Devil called!

The Devil's only hope of saving Hell is to capture God's chosen-one - for only she, can re-ignite its flames. Script Excerpt

Elsa

The unsung muse of the Dada art movement of the 1910s was a woman ahead of her time. Thrice married, thrice abandoned, the Baroness Elsa kept rising from ashes. Proto-punk. Performance artist. Feminist. Synesthete. Elsa enthralled and inspired everyone who met her, but remained unknown to the world at large, and died tragically unknown, alone and penniless.

The L.A. Kid

A homeless but hustling teen poses as a Reed College lit. major to impress the girls but winds up in trouble with the law instead. Script Excerpt

FULL CONTACT

While battling a vengeful extortionist’s scheme, an All-Pro linebacker with anger issues works to rebuild a life, his character and a career that spirals out of control after his fierce play on-field shatters the career of his estranged best friend.

Heroman

After accidentally killing his arch-rival, an idealistic superhero finds himself left permanently out of a job...

BITTER BEANS

A young Maya woman tries to free her village from the iron grip of local coffee traders by searching three continents for a fair deal. Script Excerpt

NOMADS

(Romantic Comedy): Seeking excitement, Sophie impulsively becomes a "digital nomad" -- someone who works remotely while traveling the world. But her new lifestyle proves more difficult than expected, especially when she keeps running into Elijah, a handsome fellow nomad, and circumstances always seem to push them apart. Script Excerpt

Pariah Chapter 1: Emergence

For thousands of years, evil has held influence over the Earth. A group of outcasts known as the Pariah have been tasked with vanquishing these demons back to the fiery gates of Hell. As some of the Pariah give into temptation, the distinction between good and evil becomes blurred. Script Excerpt

RUDY'S CHRISTMAS REVENGE

When a hardcore Christian bus-driver loses his job and then scandalises the life of the rockstar he believes is to blame, he is forced to reverse the damage done when he discovers the now critically ill man is the love of his pregnant daughter’s life.

VOICES

A single mother struggles to balance a business and a new romance with family life when her young adult daughter's bizarre behavior is diagnosed as schizophrenia. She must choose between the love of her life and the life of her child. Inspired by actual events.

LOTUS OPERANDI

This one is pure Fun.!It's a genre buster, Fosse/Verdon meets James Bond, meets All That Jazz and Cabaret! Asian American Black Belt goes undercover for the CIA, to help track down terrorists. Oh, and did I mention she’s the Lead in a Broadway Musical? This is very musical, but there’s a lot of action! This one is getting a lot of attention right now! The main Characters reside in New York, they are part of an international terrorist group. They include cyber terrorists in New York, arms dealers from Pakistan, and a weapons and explosives ring in China. The saavy CIA Agents discover evidence that they are planning duo attacks on the subways in New York and London on the 4th of July. That’s where the story begins, but believe it or not, it’s really a love story! Script Excerpt

The Benefactor!

Their camouflage pitted by a ruthless philanthropist's interest-free loans, criminals are projected to the kill. Script Excerpt

Lonely Creek

When a self-reliant but sheltered woman loses her last living relative in 1876 Wyoming, she must fend off a greedy rancher, a lovestruck marshal, and a desperate outlaw to maintain the family farm and protect her newfound independence.

The Time-trap

When the most dangerous man in America gets his hands on a time machine, an FBI agent, still mourning the loss of his family, must go back through time after him. However the complexities of time travel mean that although he can jump through the past; he can never jump forward. So his journey through time becomes an odyssey into his own past with a chance to change the future.

Let the Devil In

Desperate to help her Iraq veteran husband overcome PTSD, a woman moves to a remote mountain town where an evil presence attempts to entice him into violence.

Last American Lynching

The true story of the black woman in Alabama who bankrupted the national Ku Klux Klan after an FBI investigation into the lynching of her son.

THE PEACEMAKER

A legendary Texas Ranger is forced out of retirement to defend his estranged wife and his ex-partner from a vengeful marshal and his posse of deputized gunslingers out to kill them. This traditional western set in the 1880s explores the thin line between justice and vengeance.

BILLY DUKE

Don't Bully a John Wayne Fan Script Excerpt

K-9 Cop

A cranky police officer dies and ends up in the body of a police dog in order to bring down a criminal organization and help a teenager get over a big loss in his family. Script Excerpt

Ashes

A combative college professor accused of Holocaust denial tries to clear his name and repair the strained relationship with his teenage daughter before the scandal irreparably widens the chasm between them. Script Excerpt

THE FOURTH COURIER

When a series of grisly murders in Warsaw is linked to the disappearance of a Russian physicist with a portable atomic bomb, an FBI agent is sent to help the investigation, and the race is on to find the bomb before it ends up in the wrong hands.

La Tierra Que Yo Amo (Land That I Love)

After trying for seven years to successfully make it as a dancer in New York, a 30-year-old half-Mexican, half-American woman with dual citizenship reluctantly returns to her hometown of Oaxaca, Mexico and struggles to find her identity. [38 awards/honors including, First Place-2015 Las Vegas Screenplay Contest (Drama Category), and Grand Prize-2015 London Film Awards (Feature Screenplay Category)]

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 drowning into deeper debt. But the real fight lies outside the ring, where his steps are laden with betrayals, gunfights, and narcotics. Script Excerpt

The Meat Eaters

Kielbasa comes to life! A fast food manager surrenders his virginity to a cult addicted to eating a powerful aphrodisiac -- a "living meat" that won't stay on the plate.

Eddie The King

In this award-winning adaptation of Oedipus The King (public domain), a professional killer, plagued by waking nightmares and unable to kill himself, seeks the solace of a transgender prostitute who unknown to him is his younger brother who wants him dead.

Six Hours to Santa Monica

A failed NASCAR driver looking for redemption uncovers a sinister plot involving his ex-girlfriend. With the help of a prototype car, he must defy the odds to get her back.

Spoofs

An anthology of four comedic tales of sci-fi/horror/fantasy. A mudered wife resurrects through her garden; a small space alien is mistaken for an action toy; A base commander dares to challenge a UFO; A young man makes a pact with a witch. Script Excerpt

The Cowbird

Marion Duke always struggled to overcome poor life decisions - some inherited, some self-inflicted. When the disparate characters and strands of Duke’s life converge at his funeral, deeply buried secrets emerge, threatening to destroy his carefully cultivated image of a devoted family man and war hero.

A VISION OF ANGELS

A suicide bomb plot for Easter Sunday in Jerusalem sets off a chain of events that weaves together the lives of an American journalist, Israeli war hero, Palestinian farmer, and Christian grocer. GRAND PRIZE, RHODE ISLAND INT'L FILM FESTIVAL'S SCREENWRITING COMPETITION

SEIRIOS/ROBOMUTT

A boy finds a dog which is actually a dangerous military prototype.

Without Apology

In 1944, Judith Carpenter is 16 and has just been separated from her best friend and sent to live with a distant cousin in Hove, England. There, two things gradually dawn on her: 1) her distant cousin is married to Lord Alfred Douglas, of Wilde trial fame, and 2) all the poetry in the world might not be enough to understand the way she feels about the friend she left behind. Script Excerpt

Forever After

A retiring Beverly Hills Detective with a secret past is the only one who can foil an E.T. plan for global domination.

Boo Hoo Flanagan

A black correctional officer coaches a prison basketball team and finds the motivation he needs, in life and on the job, in Boo Hoo Flanagan, an aging, white, crippled inmate who shoots 3-point baskets better than anyone has ever seen.

There is a Season

Two families, one Israeli and one Palestinian, must find a way to break the cycle of violence that has locked their fates together. Script Excerpt

Art of Betrayal

A struggling painter agrees a deal with his cat to create the artist’s next exhibition but after critics hail the painter as a genius he reneges on the deal, igniting a chain of betrayals.

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The Magnificent Kevin

The 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.

Restaurant La Vérité - the American Dream

Homeless Betrand, aged 38, and 12 years illegal refugee BOY eat leftovers out of La Vérité’s garbage bin. To get better meals, they secretly drop cooking tips in the restaurant’s letterbox. These recipes make the restaurant and its discriminating owner famous. But it is BOY who finally becomes the youngest 3 star Michelin cook ever. Script Excerpt

LABYRINTH OF DESTINY

During the Mexican-American War, Lieutenant Ulysses Grant falls in love with a young Mexican woman who helps American slaves escape bondage. The war separates them, but years later they meet again when the woman is dispatched to the United States to seek an alliance to prevent France from conquering Mexico and becoming an ally of the Confederacy. (Finalist - Academy Nicholl Screenplay Competition) Script Excerpt

FIRE ON THE ISLAND

When an arsonist threatens a Greek island village, the gay FBI agent stationed in Athens arrives to investigate, finds himself immersed in a community rife with conflict, falls in love with his chief suspect, and has only seconds to save the village after miscalculating the plan of attack.

The Mythical Golden Trout

When 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. Script Excerpt

Hapless Fu

A happy-go-lucky Asian cop in LA loses his confidence, self-respect, job and girl after an embarrassing incident ruins him. Now this fool is mankind's only hope to stop World War III! Script Excerpt

Just A Moment

Two teens masquerading as old men are then forced to become the co-social chairmen at a senior facility. Script Excerpt

THE BUBBLE

(Horror): Three lonely misfits, all plagued by different problems with social media, find themselves sucked into a bizarre "bubble" -- a pocket dimension where all the captives are locked in a never-ending battle royale, furiously attacking each other even though it's almost impossible for anyone to die. Script Excerpt

Pop Goes The World

A grumpy Jake and his bright-eyed 12 year old neighbor Lucy rise from their sick beds to find everyone around them has become zombies as a result of an alien attack, and inadvertently become the world's only hope of salvation.

Second Dance

An American college student discovers that she's the reincarnation of a 19th-century Middle Eastern belly dancer, and she has an unlikely destiny she must fulfill.

Marlowe

A 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.

BIG SISTER

A successful woman abandons her career to save her destitute younger sister, but her enabling tactics backfire and she becomes the one who needs to be saved.

The Big D

An ambitious young football coach in booming 1980s Dallas, Texas, falls under the spell of a charismatic and ruthlessly competitive mentor, who forces him to confront his relationship to the dark underbelly of college sports. Inspired by true events.

SMALLS

By produced writer. 10 feature films. A slave steals a Confederate steamship and sails it past the blockade of Charleston harbor during the Civil War, freeing himself, his family, his crew and their families. True story of Robert Smalls

Live, From The Milky Way

The crew of Earth's first starship journeys across the galaxy in search of extraterrestrial life, unaware that they're the stars of an intergalactic reality television show.

TILLIE

In 1890s Pennsylvania Dutch Country, a gifted girl must survive her tyrannical father and overcome a spiritual crisis to follow in the footsteps of her beloved teacher. (Based on the novel "Tillie, a Mennonite Maid; A Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch"

Unaccompanied Minor

A man accidentally uncovers a pedophilia ring and rescues a young sex worker. When his attempts to get help from the authorities fail, he struggles to smuggle the girl to safety before they are both arrested or captured.

The Kidnapped

In Mexico, a drug cartel boss kidnaps a washed-up Hollywood director, and the two are driven to insanity while shooting a documentary about the boss's once-powerful cartel--a project meant to help both men reclaim lost glory.

Falling from the Sky

A troubled teenager, originally known for being the kid who made up a lie about an astronaut falling from the sky after the Columbia Shuttle disaster, witnesses a murder but can't get anyone in his small town to believe him -- except the killer. Finalist, Page International Screenwriting Awards

NIGHTBREAK

When the world stops spinning, the US President’s daughter fights to get her husband, a Chinese geophysicist, across the Nightside’s empty Pacific ocean bed and the chaotic, sun-burned Dayside America to get to Washington with a plan to save the planet. Script Excerpt

The Demon of Hope Street

A homeless vet, haunted by the war, discovers that a deranged street preacher is murdering his followers to send them to heaven — and if he doesn’t stop him, he might be next.

T&T Power

A by-the-book female detective and an out of shape meter maid team up to track down a kidnapped child held for ransom. Script Excerpt

Hard-Hearted Hannah

A rookie detective assigned to a routine hotel skip case instead finds himself up against a diabolical serial killer with a deadly grudge against the Eighth Air Force, whose reunion is being held there...and no one even suspects a murderer is on the loose. Can he stop him before he kills again...and again? Script Excerpt

Mate Matcher's Match

When a godless, seemingly carefree bachelor sets course to win a feisty, virginal Christian matchmaker, he collides with a righteous blockade that buckles only when she uncovers the personal trauma that cracked his moral compass.

EXPLOSION AT BLACK TOM!

Federal Agents -- including a young J. Edgar Hoover and a badass female translator -- track German saboteurs plotting the July 30, 1916 Black Tom Island explosion in New York harbor - the terrorist attack on America! Professional Coverage: “Recommend” - Dave Trottier (Author “The Screenwriter’s Bible”). SEMI-FINALIST - Fade In Awards-True Story/Bio Contest Script Excerpt

Sovereign Citizen

A single mother joins the doomsday cult of armed, anti-government sovereign citizens that kidnapped her son and makes a desperate bid to win his freedom. Script Excerpt

SETTLING THE BOOKS

A cautious investigator is none the less drawn in, along with four other heirs, by the reading of a billionaire rare book dealer’s will, they’re sealed in an airtight panic room, and with only four hours air, must solve the centuries-old mystery contained in the book ‘The Castilian Cypher’ in order to escape. Script Excerpt

Lawn of the Dead

A teenage slacker teams up with his parents’ landscaping crew to fend off a zombie outbreak in a wealthy Connecticut suburb.

The Puzzle People

Berlin cold war aftermath: A Woman reconstructs shredded Stasi documents and stumbles upon a murder committed days after the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Her curiosity gets the best of her and she almost gets killed. The Puzzle People screenplay is an adaptation of the Berlin Spy Mystery by Doug Peterson.

A Time to Remember

The number one pop star in the world puts his blazing hot career on hold to attend high school and play football - much to the dismay of his record label. Script Excerpt

My Father's Worst Nightmare

With his boyfriend in tow, a college sophomore takes a weekend trip home for the express purpose of COMING OUT to his family and all hell breaks loose until a near tragedy triggers a father’s journey towards acceptance.

Tam Lin

In a modern romantic fantasy based on an ancient Scottish fairy tale, a strong young woman risks everything to save her mysterious lover from the evil Fairy Queen, and bring him back to a world he's never known.

A Noble Truth

Two estranged best friends set off on a road trip to explore what truths unite people in a modern America dominated by apathy and discord. It is soon clear, however, that truth is the last thing either man seeks. [20 awards/honors, including first place in the 2016 London Film Awards, the 2014 Awareness Film Festival, and the 2014 West Field Screenwriting Awards].

A Whisker Past Midnight

Genres collide in this irreverent, darkly humorous animated thriller, as two American mice battle a crew of Nazi rats who have turned an ocean liner into a fiendish trap.

The Naughty List

With the help of a bicycle, an Ice Road Trucker and an Inuit Dog Sled Driver, Aiden Shea travels to the North Pole to face every kids’ worst nightmare right before Christmas – being on the Naughty List.

FALLOUT

Locked in separate booby-trapped rooms, two women are given 90 minutes to decide which of them will live, or they'll both die, but as secrets are revealed, the line between who is worthy and who isn't begins to blur. Script Excerpt

The Mishpat Iudicium

No one can take my life away. I give it on my own.

Fighting Johnny O'Brian

For a parole board hearing, a cocky young civil rights attorney gets appointed - despite his protests - to represent a white man who's been in prison twenty years for killing two black police officers.

Timeless

Two young lovers endure an "on and off-again" romance through the years only to end up in unhappy marriages longing for one another until the star-crossed lovers meet again.

The Way Back Home

A young boy who loves animals must cope with his father’s insistence that he will someday work in the slaughterhouse that has employed the men of his family for the past several generations. [21 awards/honors including, Grand Jury Prize winner of 2014 Hollywood Screenplay Contest, Grand Jury Prize winner of 2015 Las Vegas Screenplay Contest, and Grand Prize Winner of the 2014 London Film Awards (Feature Screenplay Category).]

The Calvary Incident

Green Berets and Marines time-jump to save the 21st century from obliteration by killing a rogue SEAL team bent on rescuing Jesus from the Cross and inadvertently upending history with catastrophic results. Script Excerpt

The Intruder

After a tragic death, a grieving mother moves into an isolated farm to help her troubled teenage son cope – only to discover the farm is haunted by the ghost of a young man who committed suicide there, and he’s targeted her son as his next victim.

THE TORTOISE AND THE HEIR

When hired to find heirs to a large will, a lone wolf San Francisco private investigator finds the heirs are being killed by the same assassin that murdered his girlfriend years before, he must decide whether to save the remaining heir, or abandon him to hunt down the assassin. Script Excerpt

JIMMY AND JARA FROM OUTTA SPACE

A twisted sci-fi road comedy with heart, a la “Little Miss Sunshine” with aliens, an interspecies romance and a spoof on classic sci-fi films and the American Southwest’s UFO subculture. JIMMY, a Venice Beach boardwalk hustler, discovers beautiful alien JARA and her two intergalactic circus performers stranded on Earth. He cons them into his “family” of misfit street performers and takes them to Las Vegas. Along the way, sweet-tempered aliens touch jaded human hearts. Ultimately Jimmy must save Jara and her E.T.’s from a ruthless Las Vegas casino kingpin, with the help of Nevada UFO buffs. Script Excerpt

I'll Die Tomorrow

An American citizen of Hispanic descent suffering from a fatal disease is denied medical treatment from his HMO is prosecuted for medicaid fraud after he impersonates an illegal alien and receives the medical assistance that saves his life.

LANCELOT

Disgraced knight Lancelot Du Lac returns to England following the death of King Arthur to find Mordred on the throne. With Merlin’s help, he sets out to unite the last surviving Knights of the Round Table, overthrow Mordred, and restore his honor.

GRAND & HUMBLE

(Puzzle Box Thriller) Two troubled teen boys, the most popular kid in school and the least popular, struggle to understand the shocking secret that links them both together. Script Excerpt

Black Sheep

A soldier tries to find his way back from the abyss as he tries to adjust to the civilian world. Cast out by society, he finds a way to put his skills to good use as a criminal organization threatens New York City.

Kingbird and Franklin

He tamed the heavens with his discoveries and inventions; enlightened the world with his reason and wit; but Franklin's crowning achievement was fostering a revolutionary legacy called Kingbird. VERY BRIEF SYNOPSIS: The untold 18th century tale of the Philadelphia Franklins, and their struggle to forge an enduring American republic, as the family's revolutionary legacy passes contentiously from patriarch, Ben Franklin, to his namesake grandson.

Expiration Date

Noticing how many marriages around them fall apart as soon as the kids leave home and fearing that their own marriage has an expiration date, a married couple spends the final year before their impending empty nest discovering who they want to be for the next act in their lives.

Avalon

When the lost love of her life tracks her down, a reclusive bar owner must face up to the mistakes of her past. The dangers are far greater than she knows as she must find the strength to take back control of her life from those closest to her.

The Interrogator aka The State of the Union

A U.S. Army interrogator in Afghanistan uncovers details of an al-Qaeda plot to detonate a nuclear device in Washington, DC as the President delivers his State of the Union Address. But, in the process of interrogation, SHE bonds with her prisoner and fights to save him from the death sentence brought on by his own disclosures. Script Excerpt

Sweet life

This is about a 9 year old that wants to become a singer but her parents doesn't support her because they taught that she is being childish also her 12 year old brother is always cherished by everyone cos he wins awards unlike his stubborn sister that must fufil her dream and make every body sorry Sometimes the two siblings don't get along but their parents try their best to make their lives more better and easier But the problem is that the nine year old doesn't know what to be she changes her mind and never focus on real life and her brother is famous on social media

Mad And Bad Fairy Tale

An unlikely duo of a wacky magician and a former shaolin nun must stop the released demon to save the kingdom and his lives from the demon’s revenge.

The Hunted

A woman struggling with the loss of her father and on the verge of uncovering a crime syndicate, ventures into the Scottish Highlands with her best friend, unaware that a ruthless assassin has been sent after them.

The Squawker

Two gonzo grad students and a fearless Native American woman clash with the FBI as they search for an endangered, sacred bird on her tribal homeland that could save the area from loggers. Script Excerpt

The Interlude

An idealistic American woman fights for the chance to run a soup kitchen near the front lines in Belgium during World War 1 but a mysterious Belgian soldier brings her face to face with the reality of war.

Burning Old Man

A group of grade school friends reconnect to throw a communal sixty-fifth birthday party for one another - leading to a Burning Man type celebration.

I'LL DANCE ON YOUR GRAVE

A brawny, gun-fighting Irish marshal, Mart Duggan, is selected to tame the fast-growing, notoriously wild and depraved new boomtown of Leadville, Colorado in the 1870s. Script Excerpt

BODIES BY GRACE

A wanna-be cop inherits the family business of body disposal for the mob but when she accidently gets rid of the wrong body, she's in danger when the mob wants the dead dude back.

Long Path To Peace

A streetwise tween hidden in the wilderness for his protection, battles with his immortal Guide before saving him from a living hell. Script Excerpt

The Director's Girlfriend

His marriage on the rocks, a once hot screenwriter now turned lush finds himself in over his head when he falls for the sexy, psychotic young girlfriend of his sleazy movie director neighbor.

God's Warrior

God chooses a young woman to be his Warrior but fails to warn her of the dangers.

PAPER TRAIL

When a young Army MP becomes a private investigator after he inherits his Grandfather’s storefront in a small town in the mountains of Colorado, his first case reveals a town full of secrets, including one that destroyed his family years before, and a new one he must forever keep from his fiancée. Script Excerpt

Kindred

A man who refuses to face his past is visited by his future daughter, with a desperate plea: confront his childhood tormentors, before they kill him and enslave the world.

Crashed

When an alien spaceship crashes a couple’s rehearsal dinner, it forces the wedding party to band together to stop the ensuing invasion and -- more importantly -- save the couple’s big day.

Generational Curses

After a bitter middle aged alcoholic saves the life of a broken teenaged sex slave, they lift each other from the depths of despair.

Tripping Through The Multiverse

A reclusive writer finds new lust for life when a friendly alien sends him on a dizzying journey through alternate realities.

Cesar & Max

Cesar and Max, two teenaged boys and best friends; one the son of an illegal Mexican immigrant and the other a spoiled middle-class attorney’s son, escape problems at school and at home and run away to Mexico in search of Cesar’s long lost father. Along their eventful journey, they discover the value of friendship and family.

Jane, The Legend of Mountain Charley

A woman in the 1850's gives up her children to The Sisters of Mercy, changes into men's clothing and spends the next twelve years looking for her husband's killer. She was fifteen years old and this is a true story. Jane is an award-winning script.

Dancing for the Executioner

Poland, 1943. Two lovers plot an escape from Hitler’s most secretive and violent death camp. When the plan is uncovered, they must assassinate the Führer’s best killers to save hundreds of lives from the impending mass execution. Based on the true story.

Destination Yesterday

A California businessman discovers, through information provided by a mysterious woman, that his recurring nightmares of a tragic plane crash could be repressed memories of a previous life.

Bloodlines

A gentle teenage Neanderthal living in the remote mountains of modern-day Montana falls in love with the daughter of a redneck rancher and discovers his calling in the rodeo. But, in order to achieve his dreams, he must defy his father, leave his clan, and defend himself against an accusation of murder. Script Excerpt

Panama Fever

When the Army sends a young doctor to Panama, his adventures- and misadventures- with the natives, the Army and his wife come fast and furious. Script Excerpt

Endangered Species

In 2456, an ancient cryo-pod is found floating in space. The occupant, a college professor, is re-animated by the crew of the salvage vessel Renaissance, but he awakes to find a very different future to what he was expecting. With only a vague recollection of his past, he tries to piece together the answers that will determine his future and help him find the love of his life.

The King of Birds

An oddball birdwatcher thinks that he is the son of Mother Nature, who has fallen ill due to the effects of climate change. Determined to save the planet, he attempts to become a bird-like superhero, but unfortunately he can't fly. In fact, his only power is the ability to make a single measly hail stone fall from the sky. But eventually he learns there are other ways to make a difference.

THE FAT LADY SINGS

When a small time private investigator gets a chance at the big time taking on a prominent politician’s wife’s case; neither realizes they are in way over their heads, the political party has been shadowing her, and will do anything to protect her husband, a presumed future presidential candidate. Script Excerpt

The Rifle

Logline: A former college football star battles survivors guilt from a past fatal car accident when a NFL scout recruits him as a practice player for training camp on a new expansion team.

Population: One

A nineteen-year-old drops out of film school in New York City following a tragic accident and returns to his small Pennsylvanian hometown, only to be confronted by an array of quirky small town folk, including his detached best friend, his alcoholic single mother and a free-spirited cross-country-traveling girl. Script Excerpt

A FATAL CURE

A loyal PR consultant rudely awakens when mysterious deaths confront her with the fiercely saved secrets about BigPharm’s happiness pills. Script Excerpt

SEE JANE RUN

A young teacher moves back into her hometown. An unknown stalker disrupts her life over and over and almost succeeds to kill her. The investigating officer and preacher's son turns out to be more than a protector of the law and her. "See Jane Run" is an adaptation of Gail Gaymer Martin's inspirational suspense titled "A Love for Safekeeping."

Forgive Not Their Trespasses

After the brutal murder of his mother, an orphan becomes a technologically advanced vigilante, dispensing justice to violent predators who evaded punishment due to loopholes in the law.

THE ORGANIC SVENGALI

She wants to connect with her dead parents by attending their alma mater; he’s a young genius coasting as a music history professor who cured himself of cancer, and is looking for a fresh mind now that the cancer has returned; their paths and wills are about to cross. Script Excerpt

THE SWORD AND THE SERPENT

A spirited young woman and her little brother barely escape the slaughter when their Medieval Scottish fishing village is raided by Vikings - but then must risk their lives to summon the village's ancient, reptilian guardian from its exile, at the far end of Loch Ness.

The Umpire Has No Balls

A fiery young woman who has baseball running through her blood and can call the game better than anyone starts her journey through the umpire ranks to achieve her one goal in life – becoming a major league baseball umpire. Her problem? No woman has ever broken through the stainless-steel ceiling of this male dominated sport.

The Color Of The Puck

Amidst the backdrop of the American civil rights movement, Canadian Willie O'Ree overcomes racial prejudice and a career-threatening injury to become "the Jackie Robinson of hockey," the first black man to play in the National Hockey League.

Mistresses of Sleep

A young lady receives an unusual invitation to visit one of three mysterious hypnotists to unlock the secret of her recurring nightmares of death and destruction.

Free Indeed

When our heroine sees more than what meets the natural eye, she knows she is on a divine assignment, if she doesn't free a woman from spiritual bondage the woman will die. Angels of light fight angels of darkness to protect us. Our prayers influence the outcome of spiritual warfare.

Hell Gate to Golden Gate

Alice Ramsey is on a mission to become the first woman to drive an automobile across the United States, but a vengeful bank president, whose wife becomes a suffragette, isn't about to let that happen.

ETERNALLY YOURS

A woman stuck in purgatory tries to win admission to heaven by returning to earth and saving an honest politician's soul by preventing him from committing a sin during a small-town election. When her devious ex-husband realizes he still loves her and wants her in Hell with him, he comes up to make sure the politician commits a sin. (It also won the CBC Arts Performance Showcase.)

God is a Geek

A geeky comic book writer promotes his comic book with the aid of a young prodigious girl and a band of nerdy kids after the superhero he created steps out of a portal and into his comic book store in search of his creator.

Snow

When a fierce snowstorm blankets the area, four stranded travelers find themselves in a remote town battling an insidious force more terrifying than the elements.

The Ed Dennehy Story

Ed always wanted to act or direct in theatre. Infant epilepsy, a lifelong battle with booze, or the bizarre hallucinations of van Gogh, Barrymore and spiders the size of dogs were not going to stop him. Living in reality was another matter. This is a physiological journey where a man struggles to find peace between the worlds of the real and the imaginary.

Shadow of Despair

A Chicago homicide detective specializing in behavioral psychology and analytics, pursues a serial killer who extracts body parts from his victims. Script Excerpt

Beyond Forever

A man that tragically lost his wife and son decides to leave his remaining family, friends and successful career behind by signing up for a one-way trip to Mars as part of an experimental volunteer space exploration program.

Escape To Egypt

After narrowly escaping a raid on Bethlehem, the Holy Family confronts enemies, the elements, each other, and Death himself, as they struggle to keep one step ahead of Herod’s forces. It’s a biblical thriller inspired by The Protoevangelium of James, Christian Orthodoxies, and the Writings of Josephus.

Hold Fast

When a gang war threatens to spill into her county, a Texas Sheriff uses unconventional methods to protect it. Script Excerpt

Ajeeta the Invincible

To pursue her dream of becoming a pro football (soccer) player, a 12 year-old orphan escapes from her cruel reformatory and sets out on a dangerous trek from New Delhi to a football academy near Kolkata. Script Excerpt

With Any Luck

Due to misfortune and dumb luck, two brothers must set aside their differences to save the woman they care about from the clutches of her unlikely kidnapper. Script Excerpt

Forbidden Sea

Two families try to survive a hellish yachting weekend when they become the prey of a huge, mysterious creature which seems to be part of the sea itself. Script Excerpt

The Catacomb

A group of high school students trapped in a catacomb fight for their lives against a ruthless and mysterious killer. Script Excerpt

Dangerous Ground

Following Germany's victory in World War Two, a risk-averse student in modern-day Edinburgh is thrust into joining a rebellion against the Nazis when his family is threatened.

Turtle Eggs for Agassiz

A famous scientist's strange request launches a young teacher on an improbable adventure. Script Excerpt

Funny Boneyard

A young entrepreneur plugs his last dime into Heaven-Wise Acres, a cemetery-of-the-absurd theme park. To everyone's surprise it's a huge hit...until things go horribly wrong. Script Excerpt

Cleopatra's Revenge

A snake's on the loose in Mike Turner's new home and his wife is really freaking out!!! Script Excerpt

THE GHOSTS OF SILVER GULCH

In 1900 Colorado, four ghosts hold an intervention to save the soul of the meanest, stingiest galoot in a small mining town -- but he manages to make “life” miserable for them! Script Excerpt

Maiden Voyage

A klutzy James Bond wannabe and an introverted bookworm join forces to save a Cruise Ship and a billion dollar cold cure from a watery demise.

CULT FAN

SUNNY, a teen runaway obsessed with a cult TV show, hitchhikes to Los Angeles for a fan convention and wins a trivia contest. Her prize is dinner with the star from the show, and an invitation to stay as a houseguest. Isolated in a mansion of the Hollywood Hills, Sunny slowly becomes tortured by evil forces with sinister motives as she uncovers horrifying secrets behind the scenes.

Silver Daze

She wants romance. He just wants to get high. During their silver anniversary trip to Jamaica, full of stalker skinny-cats, nip slips, trips, falls, bearded fireworms, boogers, poop, tinkle accidents and of course adventures in weed, they might find both. Comedic hilarity ensues. Script Excerpt

TOXIC TIDE

A young nurse and her fellow Florida refugees attempt a daring escape from an environmental disaster brought on by greed and political corruption. Script Excerpt

E Pluribus Unum