Features written:
JENNA’S GONE (QUEST) - Script Pimp Recommended Script Genre: Modern Western Thriller In development with CoyoteMoon Films and Taz Entertainment
Logline: An untried deputy and a hunting guide find their lifelong friendship turning lethal as they track after the kidnappers of the waitress they both love, each suspecting the other of a role in her disappearance.
Winner - Contest of Contest Winners. Winner - Best Drama Script in the Screenplay Search Screenwriting Competition. 3rd Place - Divebomber Radio Movie Script Contest. 3rd Runner up - 3 Lines Or Less Contest. 4th Place - Skyfest Screenwriting Contest and The Bare Bones Film Festival. Top 5 finalist - Minnesota Screenwriters Workshop ‘Leave ‘Em Hooked Contest. Top 7 finalist - Red Inkworks Screenwriters Competition and The Screenwriters Conference in Santa Fe Killer First Page Contest. Top 8 finalist - Award Winning Screenwriters Winner. Top 10 finalist - Phoenix Film Fest Screenplay Contest. Top 20 finalist, Script PIMP Screenwriting Competition. Semi-finalist - The Writers On The Storm Contest, American Screenwriting Competition, and StoryPros International Screenplay Contest. Quarter-finalist - Champion Screenwriting Competition, NexTV Writing & Pitch Competition, and The Nicholl Fellowship Competition. Official Script Selection Action On Film - Film Festival, and .L.A. Neo Noir Film Festival. Stage Readings: Jungle Theater in Minneapolis presented by The Minnesota Screenwriters Workshop (complete script), Bare Bones Film Festival (30 pages), Minnesota Screenwriters Workshop‘s Leave ‘Em Hooked Showcase (15 pages), and The Screenwriters Conference in Santa Fe Killer First Page (1 page). IMDB Page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6264004/?ref_=nv_sr_1
PAPER TRAIL Genre: Mystery Thriller
Logline: 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. Top thriller script and best in show screenplay - Trindiefest. 3rd place - Divebomber Radio Screenwriting Contest. Top 9 finalist - Bare Bones Film Festival. Finalist - Screenplay Search Screenwriting Competition, Eyecatcher Film Festival, IFIPG Contest, and Three Lines Or Less Screenwriting Contest. Semi-finalist - Fade In Awards Contest. Official Script Selection at the Action On Film - Film Festival. Top 100 (26th) in the Capital Fund Screenplay Competition. Honorable Mention at L.A. Neo Noir Film Festival, Colorado International Film Festival, and Mountain Film Festival. Stage Reading: The Bare Bones Film Festival (23 pages).
ESCALATOR! Genre: Spoof Comedy
Logline: A spoof of disaster movies done in the vein of Airplane finds a fire chief must rescue a hundred people trapped on the Castle Mall’s four story express ESCALATOR!
Finalist – Contest Of Contest Winners. Finalist for Best Comedy and Best Dialogue Feature Script - Action On Film. Quarter-finalist - Fade In Awards Contest.
IT’S A POPCORN WORLD Genre: Comedy
Logline: When an overzealous government man tries to steal an inventor’s home using eminent domain, the inventor decides to provide alternative land by expanding the world like a kernel of popcorn, if his dance-clubbing hunchback lawyer can keep the inventor out of jail to accomplish his task.
Finalist for Comedy Script – Action On Film Film Festival, Not Your Grandma’s Screenplay Competition, and Three Lines Or Less Screenwriting Contest. Honorable Mention (runners up) - Script Savvy Monthly Screenwriting Contest. Runner-up Comedy - NOVA, Accepted into the Hollywood Dreamz Film Festival. THE ORGANIC SVENGALI Genre: Mystery Thriller
Logline: A young woman haunted by lost memories falls in love with a mysterious, scientific-minded music professor, whose secret experiments help her recall her devastating past - but also start stealing memories of the present.
Winner - Best Low Budget Screenplay Award in Toronto’s Female Eye Screenplay Contest. Winner of an Actor's Choice Award at The Screenwriters Conference in Santa Fe. Finalist - WSF/CSW Contest. Fifth Runner-Up - Three Lines Or Less Screenwriting Contest. Second rounder - Wisconsin Screenwriters Forum Contest. Honorable Mention - Bare Bones Film Festival, and Wiki Screenplay Contest. Quarter-finalist - Creative Screenwriting Unique Voice, and Writers On The Storm Screenwriters Contest. Official Script Selection Action On Film - Film Festival. Stage Readings: The Female Eye Film Festival (13 pages), and The Screenwriters Conference in Santa Fe (5 pages).
SETTLING THE BOOKS Genre: Contained Suspense Thriller
Logline: Lured by the reading of a billionaire rare book dealer’s will, an investigator and four other heirs are 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.
Winner - Bare Bones Film Festival. 1st runner up – Three Lines Or Less Screenwriting Contest. 3rd Place - The Indie Gathering Suspense-Thriller. 5th Place Finalist – Minnesota Screenwriters Workshop. Finalist - Contest of Contest Winners, Trindiefest, Eyecatcher Film Festival, and Screenplay Search Screenwriting Competition. Semi-finalist Stage 32 Microbudget Horror Script Competition, and Reel Authors International Break Out Screenplay Contest. Quarter-finalist - Creative Screenwriting Unique Voice, Your Script Produced, A Film Writer Contest, The Writers On The Storm Contest, StoryPros International Screenplay Contest, and Chicago Screenwriters Network Contest. Official Script Selection - Action On Film Film Fest. Certificate Of Excellence - Skyfest Screenwriting Contest. Honorable Mention – Wiki Contest. Stage Reading: The Bare Bones Film Festival (20 pages).
A LITTLE FAVOR Genre: Sci - Fi Thriller
Logline: A washed-out fighter pilot, now a wild west show fast-draw gunfighter, is asked to do a little favor: use his quick reflexes to fly to the sun, reach in and pluck out 2 off-course, discarded doomsday bombs before 7 next Wednesday evening when they’ll explode, nudging the sun, causing major global warming. Second Place - Indie Gathering Script Writing Contest. Third Place - Trindiefest. Finalist - Bare Bones Film Festival, Screenplay Search Screenwriting Competition, and Hollywood Screenplay Contest. Semi-finalist - Stage 32 Fantasy & Sci-Fi Screenwriting Contest, and Chicago Screenwriters Network Screenwriting Contest. Quarter-finalist - Fade-In, Scriptapalooza, Screencraft, Reel Authors International Break Out Screenplay Contest, and Pulsar Sci-Fi Screenplay Contest. Second Rounder - Page International Screenwriting Awards. Nominated for best sci-fi script at the NOVA Film Fest. Official Script Selection - Action On Film Film Fest, and Albuquerque Film Fest. AOF scene reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VRIia8sdW4 Also a graphic novel available at: https://indyplanet.com/a-little-favor
M.G. (THE PIPER) Genre: Dark Comedy Thriller
Logline: A financially desperate lawyer gambles his future when he reteams with a former college prankster to pull one more grand prank, hiring a private investigator to find an entirely fictional girlfriend. It’s all fun and games, until the P.I. finds her.
Grand Prize Winner Three Lines Or Less Contest. Third place - Indie Gathering Drama-Comedy. Semi-finalist Barebones Film Fest. Quarter-finalist - Writers On The Storm Screenplay Competition. Official Selection of the Sunshine Film Fest West. AGENT H 2 O Genre: Comedy in the Matt Helm vein
Logline: When the M.U.F.F.I.N.S. organization schemes to take over the world by undercutting food prices to the point that all that’s left is their monopolized muffins, it is up to America’s super spy Ben Idel, code name H 2 O, expert of the obscure, such as tiddly-winks, to single-handedly save us on a reduced budget. Finalist - Three Lines Or Less Contest. Semi-finalist - Wiki Screenplay Contest, Quarter-finalist - Chicago Screenwriters Network contest. Official Script Selection Action On Film - Film Festival - Action Sequence.
THE TORTOISE AND THE HEIR Genre: Noir Light Action
Logline: 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, and must decide whether to save the remaining heir, or abandon him to hunt down the assassin.
Winner - best action script award in the Chicago Screenwriters Network Screenwriting Contest. 2nd Runner Up - Three Lines Or Less Screenwriting Contest. Finalist – Page Turner Screenplay Contest, and Reno Tahoe International Film Fest. Semi-finalist - Writers On The Storm, Fade In Awards, Stage 32 Grown Up Movies, and America's Best Contests. Official Script Selection - L.A. Neo Noir Film Festival and Action On Film Film Festival. Honorable mention - The Feeding Frenzy Screenwriting Competition.
THE FAT LADY SINGS script, novel, & outlined novel sequel Genre: Dark Comedy Thriller
Logline: 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.
Winner - an Actor's Choice Award at The Screenwriters Conference in Santa Fe, and The Page One Screenwriting Competition. Fifth Runner-Up - Three Lines Or Less Screenwriting Contest. Top ten - Wisconsin Screenwriters Forum Contest. Semi-finalist - The Fade In Awards Contest, and Wiki Screenplay Contest. Quarter-finalist - The Austin - comedy division, and Hollywood's Next Success Contests. Top 33 Accepted Script in the L.A. Neo Noir Film Fest and Script Contest. Stage Readings: Illusion Theater in Minneapolis presented by The Minnesota Screenwriters Workshop (complete script), and at The Screenwriters Conference in Santa Fe (5 pages).
WISHFUL THINKING Genre: Comic Thriller
Logline: A genie, brought back from retirement, is disgusted with the quality of wishes. His infomercial ramps up the wishes, with world-changing results.
TIME OUT Genre: Drama
Logline: A man who has willfully taken a time out from his marriage for fourteen years, is suddenly thrust back into it to save the life of an ailing son he never knew he had.
Shorts written:
UNFRIENDED (6 page short) Co-wrote with Neil Chase & Margaret McCarley Genre: Thriller
Logline: The dangers of unfriending someone from their Facebook page.
Winner – Action On Film Film Festival Writers Room Contest.
Stage Reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HoHxIdtj-U
'583' (short script) Genre: Spoof done in 1950’s instructional film style
Logline: A couple fight to save their home after violating local ordinance 583 ‘Lawns must be mowed every 2 weeks’, even when buried under snow in December.
Winner – Action On Film Comedy, and Scriptsation Screenwritng Competition short division. Finalist - Boston Motion Picture Awards Spoof-writing Competition, Eyecatcher Film Festival, and 555SHORT Screenplay Contest. Semi-Finalist – Screencraft Short Film Production Fund, Quarter-finalist - Back In The Box Screenwriting Competition. Honorable mention - American Gem Short Script Contest.
ALL CHOKED UP (7 page short) Filmed for 48 Hour Film Project Genre: Holiday Directed By: Brent Duncan. Starring: Chris Charais as Kevin Whitefish, Jamie Houk as Liz Dorn, Dani Renner as Jennifer Fulton, Jake Hinkley as Gary, Barbara Berosik as Helen Dorn, Gary Berosik as Willard Dorn, and Tom Ritchie as Trey Snearderman.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPdwMp8mC1I Short: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQlW_3yMj70
Logline: A texting typo leads to seriously funny complications for a Valentine’s Day romance.
Tagline: Two’s company, three’s a crowd, and seven is…
Nominated for Best use of Character.
IMDB Page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6229918/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
RUNNING THE TABLE (7 page short) Co-wrote with Angela Crosato, John Hoernschemeyer, Melissa Camacho, and Stacey Black. Genre: Drama
Logline: A not so-chance encounter reunites three college friends twenty five years after life had taken the three women in different directions. Little do they realize, two are imposters, one is an undercover agent, and another, an assassin.
JUST A TIC (short) Filmed, viewable on Amazon Prime Genre: Spoof Comedy https://www.amazon.com/Just-Tic-Charles-Hubbell/dp/B07Z8HVY5N/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=just+a+tic&qid=1575640469&s=instant-video&sr=1-1
Directed by Gary Berosik. Starring: Charles Hubbell as Ron Bloom, Jennifer Kuznetcova as Fontaine, Russell Delbert Johnson as Supervisor, Barbara Berosik as Radio Weather Announcer, and Russ Meyer as Co-worker.
Logline: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, and a wind generator mechanic attempts to point out this even applies apocalyptically to windmills.
Script: Finalist - Minnesota Screenwriters Workshop Script To Screen Short Screenplay Contest, and Bare Bones Film Festival. Bronze Award - International Independent Film Awards.
Film: Nominated for Best Lead Actor in a short film, and won a Script To Screen Award at the Barebones Film Festival. Runner-Up for Best Comedy Scene - Action On Film. 4th place Micro Comedy at The Indie Gathering. Narrative Short Bronze Award in the International Independent Film Awards. Accepted into Eyecatcher Film Festival, The Barebones Film Festival, and the Southern Arizona Independent Film Festival. Official Selection - Loudon International Film Extrafaganza (LIFE Fest), Muscatine Independent Film Festival, and L.A. Neo Noir Film Festival. Artists Circle at NOVA.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/198363620 IMDB Page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6243188/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
FREEDOM (1 page short) Genre: Drama
Logline: In the near future, when everyone has microchips implanted, a doctor attempts to help those few who still hold freedom dear, and risk all to regain their freedom.
Los Angeles Feedback Film Festival reading: https://lafeedbackfilmfestival.com/2021/04/21/1pg-short-screenplay-freedom-by-russ-meyer/ Los Angeles Feedback Film Festival interview https://matthewtoffolo.com/2021/04/28/interview-with-screenwriter-russ-meyer-freedom/
EVERY WEEK (15 page short) Genre: Fantasy Comedy
Logline: What happens when the vacuum cleaner quits; dust grows, developing limbs, speech, manners; and so Julie battles to save her sanity, and her home from a pair of six foot fuzz balls.
Won Best Comedy Short Script and nominated for Best Sci-Fi Fantasy Short Script - Hollywood Dreamz Film Festival. Finalist for Best Comedy, Best Sci Fi Fantasy Short, and Best Dialogue Short at The Action On Film Film Festival. Finalist - Table Read My Screenplay Contest, Not Your Grandma’s Screenplay Competition, and Genreblast Film Festival. Top 12 Finalist - The Bare Bones Film Festival. Semi-finalist - Short Script-to-Screen Contest, HollyShorts Screenplay Contest, and Bluecat Fellini Screenplay Contest, Quarter-finalist - Fade In Awards Contest. Second rounder - Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition. Accepted – 15 Minute Mini Movie.
SEEING CLEARLY (short script) Genre: Drama
Logline: Carol, a factory worker, hides from life after surviving a car accident, until she seizes the opportunity to correct the problem that caused her accident, and can rejoin life.
Official Script Selection Action On Film - Film Festival.
EXPOSED (6 page short) Co-wrote with Neil Chase, Patricia Poulos, & Lydia Martinelli Genre: Comedy
Logline: A 12-hour allergy medication gives an unsuspecting woman telepathy as a side effect.
A STABLE MARRIAGE (7 page short) Co-wrote with Ron Podell, Michael Gibrall, Gerry Pallay, & Lydia Martinelli Genre: Comedy
Logline: A married couple in their 50s try to sneak out to the stable for a romantic moment. Around the same time, their newly married daughter, in her 20s, is looking for love with her new husband. And everyone thinks there is an intruder in the stable.
Television spec episodes written:
CASTLE
THE MATERIAL WITNESS EPISODE spec episode
A pedestrian is killed, not by the car that hit her, the driver stepping on her, or the high fall; but was poisoned by a dress, a knock-off of a $100 dress made from $5000 a yard fabric. And Castle attempts to hide the fact from his Mother, that Alexis has taken a below the line position with the school play.
RACE FOR THE GOLD EPISODE spec episode
When he investigates Alexis’ classmate’s claim to be the best stock car racer in New York City, Castle is arrested for the second of two murders involving a race car buried for forty years.
THE MIDDLE
THE STOVE EPISODE spec episode
When Sue’s school project doesn’t cure, the family discovers the oven doesn’t work. Axl, to improve his debating skills, is delegated to deal for the new stove. Brick belatedly reads the online instruction manual and determines nothing is amiss with the old stove.
TURK DIAMOND wrote on spec for Jeff Babb’s series, pilot has been shot.
THE POPCORN EPISODE (PARTS ONE AND TWO) The mob is after… a popcorn stand?! Turk has to dig deep to find the answers.
THE BOOKCLUB EPISODE (PARTS ONE AND TWO) Turk is asked to follow a will’s instructions, and deliver a book each to three fellow book club members. He learns multiple lessons that you can’t judge a book by its cover.
Pilot video Trailer: https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yfp-t-900&ei=UTF-8&hsimp=yhs-att_001&hspart=att&p=TURK+DIAMOND+++Jeff+Babb+video&type=att_pc_homerun_portal#id=1&vid=0babced265f1ac18b2faac8ce457c145&action=click
IMDB Page: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1188756/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_1 KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES TV sit-com story by, series book
The Jones family is a typical unflappable 1960s suburban American sitcom family, living in present day suburbia, constantly confounding their 21st century neighbors.
Short Stories written:
Three time runner-up in the Hitchcock Mystery Magazine Mysterious Picture Short Story Contest.
CHARLIE’S BRIDGE
Logline: A fatal miscalculation comes back to haunt a retired welder after he decided to inscribe his name on the last bridge he built.
Quarterfinalist - ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Contest
PEOPLE CONTINUE TO FILE INTO…
Logline: Criminals use their skills to escape; prisoner J.T. is an accountant.
Novellas written:
THE FAT LADY SINGS
Logline: 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.
Minnesota Genre Fiction Book Award Nominee.
Excerpt: https://www.theotherrussmeyer.com/excerpt/
AFTER THE FEDORA
Logline: After waking in the hospital to find his fedora taken by the street musician who sang over his unconscious body, private investigator Byroan is further convinced by a stranglehold from Zutty’s mother that he needs to find the missing musician and get back his fedora.
Excerpt: https://www.theotherrussmeyer.com/excerpt/ Bio:
Co-wrote and helped edit a true story pod cast series, DECEIVED. https://soundcloud.com/user-789499859
Nominated for the Arthur Rosenfeld Award For Excellence In Dramatic Writing. https://248b6353-63eb-412b-baf8-c557a6ae0414.filesusr.com/ugd/1f669b_0da89240bcc541918a8e124ae3430f01.pdf
The holiday comedy short that I wrote, ALL CHOKED UP, premiered at the Riverview Theater in Minneapolis, MN.
Named one of the Top 100 Indie Writers in Del Weston’s book of the same name.
Finalist in the BizOfScreenwriting Rewrite Contest.
Member of the Minnesota Screenwriters Workshop, FilmNorth, Wisconsin Screenwriters Forum, and Film Independent.
Have done unpaid and paid script doctor work.
Studied - Screenwriting with Dan Decker, Durrell Royce Crays, and Steve Larson - Silent Filmmaking at Film In The Cities - Improv at Dudley Riggs
Twin Cities Film Fest - St. Louis Park, MN - Volunteer.
The Central Standard Film Festival - Minneapolis, MN - Volunteer.
Acted with The Curtain Call Theater Group.
Lived in the country, a village of 50, small town of 1,800, 2nd and 3rd ring suburbs, and the City of St. Paul, MN.
Graduated New Prague High School, and 916 Vo-Tech - Refrigeration & Appliance Repair.
Former stock car racer. Member of a top ten team 13 out of 18 years. 1st NASCAR Minnesota season champion driver in the ‘Thundercar’ division.
Owned, managed repair and retail businesses. Worked farm, Post Office, foundry, delivery, and repair before becoming a full-time writer.
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