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1. SHADOW WAR

By John Conner.

Logline: Just when a battle-weary, suspended Navy SEAL revives his family fishing business, he spots Russian spetsnaz troops disguised as fishermen blow up an oil rig, and fights to prevent a hit on their next target--the Trans-Alaskan pipeline. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Synopsis: On the verge of losing his family because of prolonged overseas duty, a Navy SEAL about to make captain is suspended for disobeying orders to kill terrorists disguised as fishermen caught sabotaging a Caspian Sea gas pipeline. When the disgraced SEAL returns home to Alaska to resume the family fishing business during his suspension, he again encounters terrorists posing as fishermen, but discovers they are Russian spetsnaz forces on a covert mission to destroy the Alaskan transcontinental pipeline. After he warns his family and government officials, they accuse him of having PTSD, and the suspended SEAL learns that to win back his family and save innocent lives, he must sacrifice his Navy career and disobey orders again by engaging the enemy in a tactical fight to the death on Alaska's frigid waters.

Format: Screenplay

(Posted: 05/20/2010; Updated: 05/31/2018)

2. 4th DOWN

By John Conner.

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.

Format: Screenplay

(Posted: 04/26/2007; Updated: 05/31/2018)

3. FALLEN SON

By John Conner.

LOGLINE: When the son of mafia boss leaves the family business and is wrongly charged for murder, he must choose whether to stay loyal to his mob family and serve a prison sentence, or defy them by proving his innocence and risk assassination._____________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS: On the verge of becoming head of the family crime business, the eldest son of a New Orleans Mafia boss facing deportation orders abandons his Sicilian heritage by marrying an American woman and going into legitimate business. After his mob father is deported and his younger brother inherits the family business, the elder son is indicted for murder when a restaurant owner he had previously refused orders to kill turns up dead. Then he learns who is real family is and risks assassination by teaming up with an investigation lawyer against his crime family in court to avoid a prison sentence.

Format: Screenplay

(Posted: 07/21/2008; Updated: 05/31/2018)

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Bite The Hand That Feeds
When an orphaned girl is adopted by her low-life aunt and uncle, they drive to a drug deal with a young couple and get stranded on a supernatural farm where they begin to turn on each other.
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 his superhero steps out of a portal and into his comic book store in search of his creator.
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.
Muffled
A reclusive young man gets more than he bargained for when he buys a possessed antique radio that turns him against his girlfriend and influences him into violence.
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.
The Third Tier
Amidst the lush illusions of the Gilded Age, THE THIRD TIER follows a young woman from the New York City slums who avoids execution by becoming the sexual pawn of a politically ambitious judge, but she soon discovers that death may have been the better choice.
Invisible
A dedicated teacher feels invisible when she loses her job, husband and cat on her 50th birthday, until she embraces the disenfranchised people she's always ignored, and embarks on a journey to find new love and build community.
The Teenage Bodyguard - Truecrime/biopic
Unusually accomplished teen stands between traumatized female murder witness and the Mafia for a week of fun, frolic, and death, in 1974.
Asking The Protector
A conflicted man and his niece must get help from a friend before killers catch them.
Closet Guest
Lorilee can only guess what happens next after a strange guy from another world is jolted out of her closet and lands on top of her.

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