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.
a young Robert Downey Jr.
9 year old boy
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Education:
BA Stanford 1976 MFA UC Riverside 1979
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THE 49TH DAY
Feature - Thriller / Horror
Atlanta Screenplay Awards Finalist 2020 New York City International Screenplay Contest Finalist 2020 Inroads Screenwriting Finalist 2019 Emerging Screenwriters Semifinalist 2019 Big Break Semifinalist 2019 Capital Fund Screenplay Competition Hot 100 2018 Big Break Quarterfinalist 2018 13Horror Screenplay Finalist 2017 Official Selection of the FilmQuest Festival 2017 Selected for the BloodList 2016 ScreenCraft Horror Contest Grand Prize Winner 2016 WeScreenplay Third Place Winner 2016 ISA Fast Track Fellowship Top 50 2016 Page Quarterfinalist 2016 Best Screenplay, Horror, Table Read My Screenplay 2015 Circus Road Semi-Finalist 2015 ScreenCraft Horror Semifinalist 2015 Capitol Fund Screenplay Competition — Hot 100 2015 ScreenCraft Fellowship Finalist 2015 WeScreenplay Quarterfinalist 2014 Circus Road Semifinalist 2014 Write Movies Finalist 2014 ScreamCraft Horror Semifinalist 2014 Beverly Hills Screenplay Contest Silver Prize Winner for Horror 2013 Nicholls Quarterfinalist (top 372 out of 7251) 2013 Screenplay Festival Semifinalist 2012 Creative World Awards Finalist 2012 Reel Authors Screenplay Contest Finalist 2012 Fresh Voices Contest Semifinalist 2012 CineStory Writers Retreat Winner 2011 American Screenwriting Competition Semifinalist 2011 Script Pipeline Finalist (top 20 out of 3000) 2010 Story Pros Grand Prize Winner 2009 Script Savvy 1st Place Winner 2008 Blue Cat Semi-Finalist 2008 Screenwriters Showcase 2nd Place Winner 2007 Screenplay Festival Finalist 2007 American Zoetrope Quarterfinalist 2007
THE DEMON OF HOPE STREET
Feature - Thriller
Big Break Semifinalist 2019 Finish Line Script Competition Official Selection 2018 StoryPros Semifinalist 2017 Page Semifinalist 2016 Cinequest Feature Quarterfinalist 2016 Shore Scripts Quarterfinalist 2016 WeScreenplay Finalist 2015 Script Pipeline Quarterfinalist 2015 (top 3% of 3500 scripts) ScreenCraft Fellowship Semifinalist 2015 Table Read My Screenplay Contest Semifinalist 2015 WeScreenplay Semifinalist 2015 Fresh Voices Quarterfinalist 2015 Big Break Contest Top Ten Thriller 2014 StoryPros International Screenplay Contest Semifinalist 2014 New York Screenplay Contest Finalist 2014 CineStory Quarterfinalist 2014 ScreenCraft Fellowship Semifinalist 2014 Screenplay Festival Semifinalist 2014 Hollywood Screenplay Contest Finalist 2013 Fresh Voices Screenplay Contest 2013, Nominee for Humanitarian Award.
Table Read (Semifinalist) [2016]
WeScreenplay Feature (Finalist) [2015]
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Five thieves pull off a daring jewelry store heist and escape through the sewer where they cross paths with a researcher and police officer documenting the disappearance of city workers.
Maeta's Story (prev. Uncle Frits)
In the Occupied Netherlands, a widow and her 7 year old son go into hiding with the help of her brother, a WW1 veteran who struggles with PTSD.
AT THE MERCY OF FAITH - VERSION 4
A 14 year old preacher renounces his faith in God in the wake of a terrifying and traumatic encounter.
GHOST I.T.
After the tragic death of his identical twin brother, he feels guilty and tries to find redemption through an unsuccessful suicide! Then he comes across Hig, a demonic ghost, which promises everything, but only to trick him, so Hig can escape his own hell.
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.
The Flower Shop (half-hour teen fantasy / dramady version)
A vibrant, positive girl who can converse with flowers and saplings learns that the beloved flower shop she works at is about to be shut down.
Ravine
A lonely school teacher who discovers his deceased father’s closeted homosexuality finds he is unable to cope with his own insecurities and his family’s prejudices—prompting an all consuming obsession with returning his father’s ashes to his British birthplace.
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.
The Flower Shop (1-hour teen fantasy / dramady version)
After a 19-year-old girl learns that she's half-human and half-witch, her life takes a complicated turn, more so now that her step-brother's selling their father's only memory: The Flower Shop, and an evil warlock is after her magical powers.
BERSERK
It is her sweet 16 Birthday, and it is bring your daughter to Work Day.