Best Drama Screenplays
| Script Name | |
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Fast FadeBiopic of the 1950s film noir starlet Barbara Payton. The dazzlingly beautiful and talented blonde bombshell quickly ascended to leading roles in Hollywood. But her wild partying ways, alcoholism, and scandalous romances brought her career crashing down to back alley prostitution. |
| 2 |
Home Like a Shadow (AKA "The Spirit Upwelling")College girl accompanies her new boyfriend to his decaying San Joaquin Valley home town for his mother's birthday and is pulled into family conflicts and lost dreams dating back to the Civil War. |
| 3 |
The Dressmaker's DaughterAdapted from my Young Adult novel published by Santa Monica Press in 2022. Romania 1940: A teenage girl studying to become a doctor, falls into a forbidden affair with her tutor. As war erupts, the Nazis invade and her family is killed, but a Romanian Iron Guard officer takes her as his concubine and sends her to nurse enemy soldiers. When her lover shows up with a group of partisans, she leads them through headquarters to kill two high-ranking Nazi guests of the officer. Her lover dies in the action but she escapes with the partisans sabotaging German supply lines. |
| 4 |
Dead LineThe ghost of a beautiful young woman, murdered by a serial killer, enters a young man's life, bringing chaos with her. |
| 5 |
Redwood TombMarried assistant DA falls for a free-spirited Santa Cruz artist who is unknowingly entangled with a charismatic serial killer. Neo noir based on a true crime in 1982. Adapted from my short story published in UK crime magazine, Close to the Bone https://www.close2thebone.co.uk/wp/saturday-night-off-2/ |
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MalleusAmid the European famine of 1315, a handsome, cheating husband must burn at the stake when his jealous wife denounces him as a "wolf by night." But a demon transports him to modern day California, where he discovers new powers for both love and murder. |
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Riviera DriveThree felons on the run invade the home of a prosperous insurance executive, who must reconnect with his own violent gang-banging past to save his family. |
| 8 |
Space ReservedLow budget erotic vengeance thriller: one room, four characters, no escape. Young ad exec driving his date home takes a space reserved for another unit and is taken captive by two women. |
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Post Your Script Here!Cherry Girl Real
After repeated rejection from his local police department, an awkward Oklahoma 20-something becomes an online sensation confronting child predators - until one of his stings lures his own abusive father.
THE BEAUTY OF THE RODEO
A former rodeo queen returns home after thirty years, but her attempt to fit back in is further complicated by the arrival of the daughter she secretly placed for adoption.
LAST SHOPPER STANDING
A bitterly divorcing couple competes in a deadly game of survival on Christmas Eve when a disgruntled big-box store manager locks them inside with five other players and stages a twisted competition as punishment for their consumer misdeeds.
Yrrem Samtsirhc from Mars
After a highly intelligent alien crash-lands in a small town before Christmas, he teams up with a fearless girl with Down syndrome to save the holiday spirit and teach their divided community that differences can be strengths.
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
When a veteran LAPD detective is framed for the murder of his lover and diagnosed with a fatal neurological disorder that will kill him the next time he sleeps, he has one sleepless stretch of Los Angeles night to uncover the truth, protect his family, and decide how much justice he can still live with.
STRANGE
A man worried about his fading relevance agrees to the wrong favor for the wrong stranger, triggering a grimly comic nightmare that turns his anniversary celebration into a violent reckoning.
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.
Virgin, Warrior, Priest, Hero
One actress plays three incarnations of Lucy over 30 years of oppression and crises, leading her through a succession of identities and a final act of redemptive sacrifice.
Tech Me Out
Fleeing Soviet Ukraine with his mother and grandmother, a quiet teenage immigrant builds a new life in America, where the resilience and kindness of those around him help shape the man who co-founded WhatsApp.
JENNA'S GONE
The new waitress, Jenna, is missing, the only clue is horse tracks leading into the desert, and lifelong friends, an untried deputy and an exceptional hunting guide, track after her, each suspecting the other of a role in her disappearance.
