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AT THE MERCY OF FAITH

A former teenage preacher, tormented by guilt over a traumatic event from his past, struggles to protect his family from financial ruins, and supernatural forces threatening to destroy them, all while confronting the lingering specters of faith, betrayal, and redemption. Script Excerpt

Blind Faith

A new marriage turns toxic, due to alcoholism. Through the right encouragement and faith, the husband attempts to mend his family, utilizing his gift of screenwriting.

Lover Haters Club

A bold group of teens band together to form a unique and quickly growing movement against relationship games that captures the attention of a teen icon.

Consumed

Trapped in a basement after an apocalyptic earthquake, a grieving wife fights off a horde of parasitic monsters, unaware that her God-fearing husband has already decided her fate. Script Excerpt

Violent Delights

A group of feisty, fed-up coworkers devise a plan to utilize their clientele privileges to potentially boost their lifestyle up a notch, by copying the MO of a group of infamous thieves.

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.

ISTANBUL CROSSING

A gay Syrian refugee in Istanbul, while juggling dangerous smuggling operations for both the CIA and Islamic State, falls in love with, and must decide between, two men who offer him very different futures. Script Excerpt

Child of the Disappeared

In the shadow of Argentina's Dirty War, a woman facing terminal illness and her supportive husband embark on a poignant journey to find her long-lost son, confronting a pervasive web of silence and complicity. Script Excerpt

Heartbreak Hotel

After discovering a bag of money, two down-on-their-luck men set about improving their lives, unaware that other people are on their trail, including a small-time crook who needs to pay off his debts and a pair of crooked cops who want the money for themselves. Script Excerpt

The Coventry Deception

After a crisis thrusts him into the presidency, Robert Gorley confronts the challenges of leadership as he deals with a power struggle, an assassination attempt, and a ruthless terrorist plot to launch multiple attacks on US soil. Script Excerpt

The Paper Route

On the eve of his 16th birthday, a teenager makes a discovery that could be his ticket out of his hellish small town life, but it means leaving his younger brother behind.

MY TOWN

A local newsman reports the who, what, where, when and how of a racial murder, but what about the why? Is he prepared for the consequences of trying to answer the why?

Maeta's Story

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. * "Recommend" by Dave Trottier Script Excerpt

Less Traveled

A well-known celebrity falls for a girl, unknowingly below his social status. He's torn between honoring his familial traditions and societal expectations regarding relationships or following his heart and true desires regardless of the consequences.

BORDERLINE JUSTICE

Rita Fuentes, a fiery, attractive Latina social worker introduces Martin Wilkins, a law-and-order judge, to the violent, politically charged world of power, money, illegals, and life for the drug mules--like Demetria Plascentia, and his foolish new son-in-law, Antonio Borja--he condemns daily in his courtroom.

Ajeeta the Invincible

To chase her dream of becoming a pro soccer player, a 12-year-old orphan escapes from her cruel reformatory and sets out on a dangerous trek from New Delhi to a soccer academy near Kolkata. (This story is also written as taking place in football-crazy South America - Benita the Invincible.) Script Excerpt

Midnight Blue

An introverted teen dives into the world of love, loss and an unexpected unique ability that she must harness and embrace in this unfolding coming of age, fantasy.

BRAVE HEARTS

In 1840, an unconventional widow risks her life when she joins forces with a charismatic journalist, brutalized tenant farmers and a traumatized exile she rescues in Montreal, to stop the most powerful men in Scotland from violently evicting Gaelic Highlanders, unaware of her own family's complicity in the ethnic cleansing.

Dance of the Innocent

The just deceased spirit of a Black pro-life leader is restored in heaven with the two unaware children of her youth, recounting the events around their earthly loses decades earlier to a teenage abortion and the related miscarriage. The spirit of her one-time White fiancé divulges the explosive secret that had altered all of their lives. Script Excerpt

The Inheritance ( formerly Tit for Tat)

A spoiled, entitled young man whose goal in life is to sell off his family’s one-hundred, eighty-year-old business and walk away rich discovers he is not the sole heir. DNA tests reveal a half-sister whose philosophy is very different.

Time Before the Fall

A famous movie director harboring dark sins and nightmares of war tries to persuade his granddaughter not to make a biographical drama about his life while subconsciously knowing he needs it for his redemption. His secrets come to light when a young actress channels the spirit of his missing wife.

Under No Circumstances

A grounded, independent survivalist, swearing off parenthood, is forced to venture outside of his comfort zone when he reluctantly falls for a lively single mother.

Pretty Baby: The Tragic Death Of Marion Parker

Based on a shocking 1927 crime, a grieving woman exposes the decades-old truth about her twin sister's murder to prevent the killer's lawyer from publishing his own skewed account of the tragedy.

Misguided Illusions

In the world of Drag Queens, there's a fine line between fantasy and reality. When the two collide not even a serial killer can decide.

THE QUISLING

When O’Clery, a high-profile Irish terrorist, is arrested at San Francisco airport, his deportation defense is led, surprisingly, by Sean Conlon, an inexperienced attorney. As the twists and turns unravel, Sean’s own family becomes the subject of an old betrayal. http://quislingmovie.com/

COOPER'S PROMISE

A gay army deserter adrift in a war-torn African country vows to save a girl trafficked into prostitution to redeem himself for an earlier promise he could not keep.

Seeds

In this psychological eco-thriller, a 35-year old commodities hotshot returns home to bury her father and sell the family farm, only to unearth the dark secrets that have distorted her world ever since. Think Michael Clayton.

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.

A FATAL CURE

A loyal PR consultant rudely awakens when mysterious deaths confront her with BigPharm's sociopath gatekeeper, who fiercely protects the secret about their happiness pills.

JENNA'S GONE

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. Script Excerpt

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.

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.

LIKE PULLING TEETH

In 1910 a New York City dentist accidently finds himself with a second job as a private investigator, and when during a simple divorce case he eavesdrops on one of the biggest country-changing secret meetings, he becomes a dangerous loose end. Script Excerpt

Motherkiller

Based on a true story. Two young boys watch their mother's boyfriend beat her. On her deathbed, she says he didn't do it. He goes free. Twenty years later, a rookie prosecutor - a young woman - fights to revive the cold case.

Twisted (2024)

In the aftermath of a high-stakes drug deal, Amari navigates loyalty and trust with his partner Rico while Kehlani and Rochelle face personal challenges that threaten their ambitions and relationships in a bustling urban setting.

Pearl Fisher

A fruitless search for a missing woman leads a hired detective down a rabbit hole of secrets to surprise revelations involving his own family. Script Excerpt

Monday's Hero

A former college football All-American turned lawyer must defend his school's football team from a hate crime murder charge. Script Excerpt

Head Games

A desperate woman with the ability to make people believe they're seeing things that aren't there uses her ability on the people she believes are responsible for her sister’s murder. Script Excerpt

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 Arab-Christian grocer. GRAND PRIZE, RHODE ISLAND INT'L FILM FESTIVAL'S SCREENWRITING COMPETITION

PLAYING THE CHANGES

The country's top neurosurgeon, an unfeeling man, sees his perfectly ordered life unravel and, after hitting rock bottom, reinvents himself as a jazz saxophonist in an effort to recover his heart, humanity, and possibly his estranged wife – who is determined to resist his persistent and unwelcome attempts to win her back. Script Excerpt

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.

Untouchable!

A blonde bombshell in stainless steel becomes a femme fatale, a relentless tiger with razor-sharp-toothed-pen spilling blood across the pages leaving nowhere, for the perpetrators of the nation's greatest corporate crime to turn or hide - no 'out'. Script Excerpt

Undue Influence

An unscrupulous and money hungry debt collector is forced to make hard choices when she becomes the target of a workplace investigation and civil suit. Script Excerpt

The Storm

A small-town sheriff dealing with personal problems investigates the murder and kidnapping of several girls where there’s no lack of suspects. Script Excerpt

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

An Empty Chair

Rather than spend Christmas alone, a college girl with a writing assignment confronts her estranged grandma but can’t let go of the family gossip in her pursuit of truth. Script Excerpt

Murder in Emergency!

A dedicated nurse fights to save her beloved hospital from closure, until she discovers it is murdering patients then escalates a war against it. Script Excerpt

Autonomous

Trapped in her tech mogul grandfather’s fortress-style home, a teenage hacker must outsmart a psychotic A.I. prototype that’s intent on re-programming her.

Phishing for Phoebe

Once homeless, a successful author at the end of his life searches for the woman who gave him his start; a woman consumed with guilt, hiding away and fiercely protected by a menagerie of colorful small-town characters who block all efforts to find her. Script Excerpt

NORTH 40

A Special Ops soldier, whose grief over the loss of a son has torn his family apart, takes them on a vacation hoping to relive happier times, when a perilous situation forces them to pull together to survive. Ordinary People meets Straw Dogs in this Hitchcockian thriller.

SETTLING THE BOOKS

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. Script Excerpt

In Between The River

Katie (on the spectrum) thinks her nomadic family is normal but as she transitions from child to teenager; her father Donald is frequently absent, her mother Judy tries too hard to hold them together and her older brother Kyle hides a secret that eventually surfaces to expose the family illusion. Script Excerpt

Colter's Run

Based on a true story, John Colter becomes a legend during the early days of the American frontier due to his adventures in the Yellowstone region and encounters with dangers that lead to an arduous eleven-day, two-hundred mile flight across the wilderness in which he has only his wits to survive. Script Excerpt

Journey to Ivory Lane

A Black man recently separated from his wife starts an unlikely friendship with a devout white woman who helps him regain his lost faith.

Dysfunctional

Dysfunctional, it's about a true story about a woman trying to find God and self love along the way. There's a lot of hurdles around her life, but they just make her get stronger.

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.

THE TORTOISE AND THE HEIR

It is a mismatched battle between unlimited high tech and resources available to Charlene, the power behind the throne of a large corporation, and Stram, a lone wolf San Francisco private investigator using tried and true low-tech methods as they race to find the final heir, and chase across California, with Stram straining to keep the last heir safe. Script Excerpt

Eighty-Eight Frequencies

Gorgeous MGM star Hedy Lamarr and her unlikely confederate enter a world of flying notes and moving slots. They make a scientific discovery that could change history while she masters the Hollywood machine. Based on a true story. Script Excerpt

Between the Salt and the Sky

It’s 1942, and a small Portuguese fishing village is on the edge of a war that seems far away. An out-of-work fisherman with nothing to live for meets an unlikely ally with a dangerous secret and nothing to lose. When two Jewish girls arrive, it changes everything. Script Excerpt

The Benefactor!

A young business woman attracts the wrath of bankers when she makes interest-free loans to farmers, in her attempts to stem murder/suicides on the land. Script Excerpt

Anatomy of a Town

The Chief of Police in a small town investigates the murder of a young woman, while confronting the Sheriff, who blocks his every move for jurisdiction in order to protect himself from the Chief finding out about his paternal ties to both the murder victim and the killer. Script Excerpt

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

The Demon of Hope Street

A homeless vet 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. Script Excerpt

Fulfillment

An impoverished, middle-aged caregiver signs on for seasonal employment at the bleak and brutally efficient Big River Fulfillment Center where profits are valued over human lives. Inspired by true events.

The Experiment

Ambition, class prejudice and racism forever alter the lives of a poor white boy bound for delinquency and a young Afro-American athlete headed for stardom.

A Matter of Time, based on the book by Don Kirchner

He searched for freedom in the skies, he found it in a prison cell: A triumph of the human spirit over devastating odds this true story of one man’s journey to make a difference unleashes forces, changing his life and the lives of countless others.

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.

HOSEA

The son of the superintendent of international churches is convinced he hears a divine word which he follows, only to face ridicule from his family circle and friends and threats to lose his life from the drug and human trafficking world. This is a contemporary suspense about the prophet Hosea in the Bible.

THE FAT LADY SINGS

Present-day investigator journeys from Duluth to Ohio to find a supposed plumber the client only spoke to by e-mail years before – no name, photo, address. 3-day limit to solve the case and pay his bookie. They must eventually deal with the tragedy involving the person they searched for. Script Excerpt

JOE 'BOBCAT' CLAY

A knowingly clueless ex-football star's plans of early retirement are thwarted when he becomes a first-time father at 50. Script Excerpt

THE SECOND LOVE OF MY LIFE

To procure funds for a new business, a fashion photographer babysits the famous actress he saved from an embarrassing photo/film scandal over Christmas but didn't expect to fall in love. Script Excerpt

The Surrogate

A pregnant teenager is abducted by a deranged man who wants her baby for himself and his disabled wife. Script Excerpt

Family

Seeking a fresh start, a newly married couple and their teenage daughter move to a small town, but the daughter begins to suspect that her stepfather is hiding something sinister. Script Excerpt

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.

The Odyssey of John Buchanan

When a Scottish soldier loses his father in the Battle of Culloden, he rushes home only to see his wife and mother slain by British soldiers. John Buchanan is captured and must not only escape his captors but fight against his eventual banishment to the British Colonies and escape his life as an indentured servant on a tobacco plantation in Maryland. Script Excerpt

THE ORGANIC SVENGALI

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. Script Excerpt

A Time to Remember

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

E PLURIBUS UNUM

Virginia 1860 – when a profitable, free plantation founded by disguised aliens and supported by famous Abolitionists is attacked by pro-slavers, two former slaves - a fighter and a pacifist, leave to seek help from newly-elected President Lincoln. Script Excerpt

Falls City

TRUE STORY:

The Cowbird

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

A Cry From the Grave

A young woman's sorority initiation becomes a dangerous obsession to find a killer. Script Excerpt

Heat of the Moment

A former comedian and out-of-work chef gets invited to cook for some old friends, and he soon realizes you can't stop the heart's utmost desire in a weekend filled with love, drama, and betrayal. Script Excerpt

Fighting Johnny O'Brian

BASED ON A TRUE STORY. For a parole board hearing, a 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.

Money

A poor man, haunted by ghosts of war and without health insurance, struggles to raise money for the medical bills of a critically ill daughter. But a chance meeting with a soldier from his past turned holdup man gives the family hope when the man offers cash in exchange for refuge from the gang he stole from, unintentionally putting them all in the gang’s crosshairs.

Price of Oil

When an angry mob brutally murders an American diplomat in 1920s Tehran, a British woman must confront a firestorm of political espionage in racing against time to save a wrongfully accused friend from execution.

BITTER BEANS

With nothing but her wits as a weapon, a young Mayan woman searches three continents for a fair deal and free her folk of the iron grip of the coffee traders.

FINAL STATUS

When a Mossad agent discovers he has assassinated a Palestinian politician falsely accused of terrorist ties, he risks his job, marriage and ultimately his life to help the man's family. QUARTERFINALIST, NICHOLL FELLOWSHIPS WINNER, AMERICAN SCREENWRITERS ASSOCIATION

CHARON'S DIVIDE

Two childhood friends battle over land and the love of the same woman in 1880s Montana. Script Excerpt

Euthanized

A grieving animal control officer becomes an unlikely social media hero when she embarks on a vigilante crusade against animal abusers, but her violent actions trap her between friends on the police force and the leader of a citywide dogfighting ring. Script Excerpt

BAKING BAD

Amid the upheaval of 1960s Berkeley, a home economics teacher, her sister and friends sell magic brownies, juggle financial hardship and impending draft - sparking a journey of sexual and political awakening.

DISARMA

A savvy chemical engineer and her electronics-expert husband develop a device that can disable a firearm‘s shooting capability. Their good intention of saving lives faces an uphill battle against the least expected opponent.

Hard-Hearted Hannah

A rookie detective on a routine hotel skip case instead finds himself pitted 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 in the house. Can he stop him before he kills again...and again?

THE CHECKERED

THE CHECKERED (Action / Drama, 112 pages) In 1970s Indianapolis, a 2nd-generation hot rodder finagles a way to stay out of the Army (and the County Jail) so he can keep doing what he loves - RACING - but a cop with a grudge is obsessed with wrecking his life, and making him pay for ALL his family's crimes. WINNER, BEST THRILLER

McIntyre's Mountain

Arizona Territory, 1883: When a band of ex-confederate-led banditos raid a gold shipment steaming down the Colorado River, a fifteen year old boy has to choose between a life of adventure or doing what's right, while his father, a retired Confederate Major, races to save him and stop the bandits. Finalist, 2024 Cowpokes International Film Festival. Script Excerpt

TOXIC TIDE

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

STOLEN CRIMES

A woman’s scheme to steal a celebrity’s identity backfires when she's arrested for her victim’s past crimes. Script Excerpt

LONG PATH TO PEACE

An innocent guy evades a “death-in-custody” via a drug-lord’s dirty-cop partner by escaping into the wilderness, where he saves an immortal Guide from a guilt-fueled nightmare. Script Excerpt

God's Warrior

God chooses a young woman to be His Warrior but fails to warn of the formidable opponents which would collude to destroy her.

ODE TO FREEDOM

Alexander Pushkin, Russia's most famous poet in the nineteenth century, overcomes internal insecurity to inspire the fight against serfdom and the Tsar.

Sands of Lanikai

Before the bombs drop on Pearl Harbor, a young man new to Hawaii falls in love with an island girl as he seeks an answer to the sudden death of his grandfather.

MADEMOISELLE

In 19th Century Paris, ERICA CLAUDIN is the brightest star in Opera. After an accident leaves her husband dead and her face disfigured, Erica wants just one thing: Revenge. Inspired by Gaston Leroux' Phantom of the Opera. Winner, L.A. Reel Film Festival, 2010; Silver Remi Winner, Worldfest 2008, Finalist, Charleston International Film Festival 2008; Quarterfinalist, Champion Screenwriting, 2009. Script Excerpt

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

The Dumb Ox Bellows

A 13th-century friar struggles to revitalize Christian theology using logic and reason, but intellectual opposition from peers, malicious slander by envious brethren, and “slavery of the pen” under two Popes drive him to mental collapse and loss of faith in his life’s work -- until God intervenes miraculously to affirm its merit. The extraordinary, true story of Saint Thomas Aquinas.- Script Excerpt

AND WE WERE LEFT DARKLING

In the aftermath of WW2, in an undefined place, two men, Eichmann and Wallenberg, play chess, using humans as pawns. Each represents the extreme of man’s humanity and inhumanity to man. https://andwewereleft.com/

Behind The Veil

Film Noir. Los Angeles, 1947. A private detective struggles with moral inequities as he assists a corrupt federal judge's efforts to contact his estranged, gay son. (FINALIST: BEST FEATURE SCRIPT - 2023 LONELY WOLF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Script Excerpt

BUMPED (AFTER)

A deeply troubled man with little hope in life, is thrust into a world between life and death, which may provide the purpose he has long been searching for. Script Excerpt

Love and Venom

After fleeing home as a child to escape the wrath of his deranged mother, a young man returns years later when he learns that his beloved father has just a few days to live and his mother wants to follow him to the gates of heaven.

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

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 the criminal underworld. Script Excerpt

CARE PLANS

A closeted nurse from a dysfunctional family struggles with love and the meaning of life while working in the gay community during the emerging AIDS crisis in 1970’s New York City.

ELIJAH

The King of Israel marries a Phoenician Princess, who is consumed by Baal worship and wants to kill all devout Hebrews. God’s prophet challenges the king to repent despite the threat of death.

Sky...Diamonds

From inside the mind of an eccentric Woodstock-era grandmother with advanced Alzheimer’s, we journey back ten years, piecing together her story as issues of family and communication surface while 3 generations grapple with her changing state. Funny, sharp and alarmingly direct Monique is a force to be reckoned with. Script Excerpt

A Greenville Christmas

Hoping to revive a once promising journalism career, a struggling waitress gets the opportunity to manage a newspaper. But the new job requires that she leave her big-city home during the holidays and relocate to the small town of Greenville, where news is scarce and journalism has no rules.

Beyond Forever

Reeling from a devastating personal tragedy, a man abandons his successful career, family, and friends to embark on a one-way journey to Mars through an avant-garde space exploration initiative.

Med Frenzy - A Conspiracy

A single woman falls victim to an unknown parasitic skin ailment that doctors deny and send her away without help. In her desperate search for relief, she discovers the underlying cause and a conspiracy between powerful government and industry entities —but who can she trust to investigate her claim? 9 locations Script Excerpt

Stand By Your Man

When Chris finds the courage to be the person on the outside that matches the inside, then Dorrie might also be able to find peace. Script Excerpt

The Abyssinian

An Ethiopian soldier gets brought to World War II Italy as a prisoner. There, he's recruited by a Roman Catholic Cardinal to help carry out a plot to assassinate Benito Mussolini.

A ROSE BY THE DOOR

A God fearing woman finds herself burned out by hurtful tragedies in her life. By trying to hide secrets from the past, she comes to the place where faith seems gone. But she overlooks, that old wounds must be touched and tended before they could be healed for good. A ROSE BY THE DOOR is an adaptation of Deborah Bedford's inspirational novel with the same title.

LUSH

A widowed retiree unwittingly falls prey to rampant substance abuse plaguing her OVER 55 community in Florida.

La Potencia

An aging super light-weight club fighter, Roberta “La Potencia” Montoya after a devastating knock-out at the hands of a faster and much younger, Terri “Sweet & Sour” Jones must come to terms with the realization that she has come to the end of the road of the only kind of life skill she’s ever known, but her long-time manager, Joe Pacheco might have other plans for her future; to squeeze out one more fight for one last big payday to pay off a life threatening debt.

The link

A brother-to-brother relationship and the way of confusion in life.

POLLING PLACE

When a bitter family feud escalates, a rebellious tech exec and his girlfriend head to a remote firehouse during a blizzard to defiantly vote against his father's mayoral bid, only to be trapped by a masked axe-wielding killer.

Percy and Viola

A man involved with a white supremacist group falls in love with an African-American woman, leaving him conflicted between his feelings for her and his loyalty to the group, which is preparing to start a race war.

No Feelings

Follow the plight of Eileen Drucker who becomes paralyzed following a freak accident while playing chicken with another couple in waist high waters of the Atlantic when she hits her neck on an underwater buoy. Enter Jimmy who befriends Eileen in the wake of the accident and becomes romantically involved with her.

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. Script Excerpt

A Journey With Destiny

In 1906, a young man’s journey by automobile leaves him stranded in a remote mining town about to erupt into a battle royale between company goons and radical labor. Script Excerpt

Sweet Dreams

2X Nicholl QF 2022 QF Stage 32: Female Driven Screenwriting Contest 2021 WINNER: Missouri Stories Scriptwriting FINALIST: Diverse Voices/Black Scripts Matter SEMIFINALIST: StoryPros To find her young runaway daughter a head-strong but tender-hearted woman breaks a solemn promise to her close-knit family and takes a deadly risk to bring her daughter home. To this determined mother, finding her daughter is more important than her own life.

RED BANDANA

A repo man on the run from a Mexican drug gang sets up his twin brother to take the hit for him, only to have a change of heart and try to save his life - The Talented Mr Ripley meets The Usual Suspects in No Country for Old Men in this gritty and fast-paced suspense thriller.

Broken Bonds

"A terminally ill father, estranged from his family for years, returns home to seek forgiveness and reconnect with his children before it's too late. As they confront the pain of the past, they must decide whether to let go of their anger or miss their last chance for reconciliation."

I Hear You

A belligerent boss berates his employees and struggles with his marriage and hearing-impaired son, but after he is caught pilfering from the company, he must find a way save his career and reconcile his relationships.

Into the Sunshine

A Naval Officer returns to his hometown Washington, D.C. to lay his younger brother to rest and bring the killer to justice. Script Excerpt

SHEILA'S WEB

A psycho-sexual thriller about a Key West sculptor, yachtsman and society drop-out who falls in love with the troubled daughter of a powerful Tennessee Williams-styled family and becomes embroiled in a complex web of madness and murder. A twisted, Hitchcockian tale of a single man's nightmare of sex, romance and paranoia based on Patricia Highsmith's theme in "Strangers On A Train". Script Excerpt

Playing the Field

After dominating youth leagues and high school football, a young woman struggles with womanhood, academic studies, gender expectations, and family tragedy while trying to find her place as quarterback on her new college team.

Sam Fights Back

: An engaging, stroppy 12/13 year-old, having blinded his sister, must save for her eye operation by Christmas. He has to outwit ruthless crooks wanting his computer skills, or disappear.

A Fading Finish Line

Four lifelong middle aged men deal with the challenges of starting over in employment, relationships, parenting and health when they are so close to reaching their goals. Script Excerpt

The List

Al-Quaida operatives in NYC and on trial for a milk tainting scandal. Prosecution's witnesses suddenly end up in body bags as the trial nears. A law clerk and her lackey try to put a stop to the madness.

A Risk of Exposure

In 1953, Russian ballet teacher plots to smuggle shocking photos of Stalin's crimes while part of a cultural exchange to the U.S. With the KGB in close pursuit, she finds an unexpected ally. Script Excerpt

In Da Boogie Down

Three desperate inner-city teens, Wilton Fernandez, Yazmin Garcia, and Jamal Faulkner find themselves at a crossroads in their young lives and must choose which path not to take. For Wilton, it’s a return home to a family that fears him and the hope for them not to. For Yazmin, it’s a search for a place where she can feel save, protected, and loved. For Jamal it’s simply looking for a place to belong and to find who his true self is, but at what cost? Because in the South Bronx for these three teens the struggle to survive where not living beyond today is just another heartbreak and gunshot away.

Shaman

An elderly Mexican and his grandson are called upon to deliver a powerful crystal to an exiled Shaman mystic in the Australian desert backcountry. Dark forces follow leaving a bloody trail of terror and death.

FAUSTIAN

After a string of suspicious celebrity deaths, an obsessed detective must protect a fragile pop starlet and other notable targets of an eccentric stalker who claims to be able to cancel deals with the devil they've unknowingly made.

The PUZZLE MAKER

A career driven NSA analyst gifts his autistic daughter an antique jigsaw puzzle, but when she begins to assemble the pieces, it conjures the evil spirit of its creator, a dark entity who plagues their family.

IMPACT

For, Elizabeth Bradford, this was just supposed to be another family road trip with her beloved husband and daughter. For, Warren Campbell, this was just another long hours ride back home from another job. The road taken by these two strangers leads them on a unexpected tragic turn of events that will forever change the course of their lives. Life changes are often not of our own choosing.

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."

Que Lastima

Life lessons are learned, digested, spit out and then re-kindled, reformed and refined in this touching story about life, lust and love. A truly emotional roller coaster ride into the depths of one's conscious and soul.

A Good Soul

A sitcom actor risks losing his soul for the chance to prove that he can be more than the lovable big brother he played on TV. His quest for a darker role leads him into the world of underground clubs where he is tricked into playing the killer of a snuff film.

New Jack Hustlers

Two seasoned D.E.A. agents go undercover with a rookie female officer to infiltrate a ruthless gang of New Jack Hustlers, moving large quantities of a potent new narcotic. Script Excerpt

Ungodly Behavior

In this contemporary retelling of the Greek myth, Demeter decides to kill the earth to get her daughter back, but Persephone has her own terms. The Chorus presides over it all while Cassandra has a prophecy. Script Excerpt

Not About Money

A gal of principle gets promoted into a leadership position, then gets her career derailed by males in power, and goes up against a large corporation with a discrimination lawsuit that ultimately changes the culture for women in business.

Rod Knock

A newly single man establishes himself as a handyman and becomes friends with two buddies, but he doesn’t realize he has grown to love his new female friend until they all return from his heroic feat. Script Excerpt

Autumn Blood

Bad Apples Don't Fall Far From The Tree... A social worker, tormented by his own abused past, gives aid to an abused, pregnant teen that threatens to become a taboo relationship. The fact that his live-in mother likes to kill socially irredeemable door to door salesmen only makes life worse. When fate deals him a lottery win, his seemingly mundane life falls apart. Script Excerpt

Harpo's Bike (Can't Find My Way Home)

A young ad artist takes a trip to New Orleans on a Harley inherited from his estranged Marine father to prove to his family that the man was having an affair. Instead, he finds a veteran homeless mute - his father's best friend - who thinks he's Harpo Marx. Script Excerpt

Last Supper

In a neighborhood rife with adversity, a teenage boy named Michael becomes the pillar of his family, navigating through challenges of poverty, crime, and personal tragedy, until his life is tragically cut short in a crossfire, leaving his brother Brayden to grapple with grief and newfound responsibilities.

Standing Up Sitting Down

A disabled teenager, orphaned by tragedy, learns that his biggest challenges come not from what he can't do, but from what others can't imagine him doing.

FINDING CHRISTMAS

A woman gets threatening emails and anonymous calls about her little girl, who had drowned with her husband three years ago. They never recovered her body. Could she still be alive? Finding Christmas is an adaptation of Gail Gaymer Martin's inspirational suspense.

Transference

The thing about death is the fear that there may be no afterlife. The Malone Family for generations have been betting heavily on it.

Upon My Approval

One act of lust turns a home into a war zone.

Spike

A Native American environmentalist is pitted against his logger brother after a botanist whistleblower is pushed too far in the struggle to maintain the forests of Northwestern Montana. As loggers fight for job security, and as environmentalists fight for their cause, the botanist becomes the victim of both sides, and enacts a dangerous retribution. Script Excerpt

Sweet Dreams

2X Nicholl QF 2022 QF Stage 32: Female Driven Screenwriting Contest 2021 WINNER: Missouri Stories Scriptwriting FINALIST: Diverse Voices/Black Scripts Matter SEMIFINALIST: StoryPros To find her young runaway daughter a head-strong but tender-hearted woman breaks a solemn promise to her close-knit family and takes a deadly risk to bring her daughter home. To this determined mother, finding her daughter is more important than her own life.

Equity

Are you in or out? The year is 1919. Your name is Frank Bacon, and you’re the author and lead actor of the most successful play in Broadway history. Your fellow actors are about to go on strike in support of their union, the Actors Equity Association. You’ve spent your life fighting for the rights your friends are hitting the bricks to protect. If you go out on strike with them, you risk losing everything you’ve achieved. Your wife doesn’t want you to go out. The managers will fire you and take away the rights to your play if you don’t cross the line. What about it, Frank — which side are you on? Are you in or out? Script Excerpt

April Mae

A terminally-ill Vietnam vet, haunted by recurring nightmares of an incident from the war, takes drastic action when his self-centered, irresponsible teenage daughter decides to give her out-of-wedlock baby to her boyfriend’s family.

Alien Revelation

A woman’s sanity is tested trapped underground in the family’s new shelter with her domineering husband and drug addicted son as aliens invade Earth.

Intersection

The lives of a paraplegic and a mobster literally and figuratively intersect with fatal results.

Hundreds and Thousands

Some people run, some people hide, but one unexpected visitor makes an indelible impression.

My Country Lost

Think of something that would gnaw at you. Go further, think of something that would make your gut wrench. Now think of something that would make you seethe and your blood boil. Go deeper, think of something that would make you seek revenge... To the point that your pupils are fully dilated... To the point of physical violence... To the point of death... Now enter, weapon drawn with memories of your dead loved ones...

Artifact

A New York Times photographer is losing his mind, or so he thinks.

Scraps

Curiosity gets the best of the women of the Scraps memory book club and they nudge their newest member onto a quest to find her long lost mother.

The Accomplice

A lovable reform school grad, desperately seeking a fresh start in a small town, unwittingly becomes an accomplice in a murder committed by the most popular kid in town.

All My Trials, Lord

In a drunken stupor a handsome young singer kills a taxi driver while visiting Spalding County, Georgia. While awaiting trial, he plays his guitar and sings hymns so beautifully that the townspeople gather in the evenings outside his cell to listen, inspiring a local minister to hold revivals outside the window. (Set in 1950s and inspired by a true event)

LAST FLAG ON OAK ISLAND

When a museum curator and his female assistant translate clues in an American Revolution-era journal to a British payroll buried on Oak Island, they must go undercover to unearth the treasure before two rival treasure hunters discover it. Wealth of the century or the island's deft insult? (From the novel Last Assault on Oak Island by Jenn Rekka.)

The Legend of Karly

High school archery sensation Karly McCombs is living the dream life after her parents move the family to Alaska. Living isolated they depend on Karly to supply them with meat. Discovering gold on their land sets in motion a series of tragic events when a gang of ruthless men catch wind of it. Karly now must put her skills to the ultimate test to save her family.

APPEARANCES

Ronnie, a street-wise teen, invites the scorn of her friends, school, and church when she claims to have seen a vision in a city park.

The Schoharie

A volunteer firefighter of Native American descent must convince a small town sheriff with a grudge that a vengeful Indian spirit is bent on destroying their town with the flood waters of a nearby creek. Inspired by the actual Schoharie Creek bridge collapse of 1987. Now available as a novel. Script Excerpt

At the Sound of the Tone

"I think I killed her," says a mystery voice on her answer machine, and a frightened young architect searches for answers. Is the caller's messages related to her powerful father, her ex- husband, or something else? The answer may lie with an Apache policeman with a who has a troubled history of his own. Script Excerpt

Broken Clocks

A rich real estate tycoon wants to divorce his wife after fifteen years of marriage. Refusing to lose half of his assets to her, an attractive and charismatic Frenchman is hired to seduce his wife into having an affair. What can go wrong? Script Excerpt

A Christmas Carol : The Next Chapter

On the day after his transformation, Ebenezer Scrooge embarks on a journey of redemption, determined to mend the relationships he once neglected and spread the newfound spirit of Christmas.

A Christmas Carousel

A determined journalist returns to her charming hometown to cover a Christmas festival, only to find herself reconnecting with her childhood friend while working together to restore a beloved carousel—and discovering love along the way.

Home For The Holidays

When a career-focused New Yorker accidentally ends up in Chicago during the holiday season, he finds himself unexpectedly enchanted by the city—and a local artist who helps him rediscover the meaning of home.

The Hidden Workshop

Long Way Down

Five high school girls are thrust into the spotlight of stardom, with little to no say of their own and definitely no guidance on how to handle the fame..... To their very demise.

A Stroke of Luck

After a cynical stroke survivor is admitted to a chaotic yet hopeful rehab hospital, he must rediscover his strength, purpose, and humor—while forming unlikely bonds with quirky patients and staff who refuse to give up.

Lucky's Betrayal-- From Rat to Boss

“From Rat to Boss”—Before he became the infamous Mafia kingpin, Lucky Luciano made a secret betrayal to save himself—an act that, years later, threatens to destroy his empire and the myth of his loyalty."

Tomorrow!

When a pregnant woman and her children flee from a violent uprising, Genet, a compassionate mother, risks everything to hide them in her home, leading to a tense confrontation with their pursuers that tests her courage and humanity.

Trial and Redemption

Forged into a partnership by personal and professional tragedies, a disgraced scientist and a bereft young woman embark on an emotional journey of redemption, guided by an ancient Janus key with magical powers to reveal future events.

Chasing Time

A retired history professor will stop at nothing to save his wife from the throes of a terminal disease. It’s torture to watch her slip away, so he seeks to recapture a long-lost magical key and use its time-bending power in a frantic race against time and death.

Remembrance: The Memory of a Lost Home

This is a story about recollection: 28-year-old Alan, trapped in a cycle of addiction and isolation, seeks solace and redemption by rekindling bonds with estranged high-school friends Brad and Ben, navigating a web of betrayal and shattered dreams. As he then confronts the demons of his past and the rift that sin has wrought, Alan embarks on a poignant journey of Salvation, rediscovering the healing power of the Gospel to mend broken lives and restore lost Hope.

United We Stand

A group of paper deliverers set up a trade union for themselves in an ex-mining town, but are met with aggressive opposition from the Newsagents, opening festering wounds from the bitter miners strike years earlier.

Polaroid

A 23-year old college student who goes on a jealous rage over her boyfriend, Siri American Voice 3, lands in an asylum where the events and actions she confuses for reality are retold as they actually happened.

Never Too Late

Sophia doesn’t know it yet, but the sweet old man who has been helping her transform from a timid woman to an assertive one is no other than Tony Moretti, one of New York’s most ruthless mob bosses. Script Excerpt

Saint and Miles

A homeless man on Skid Row desperately seeks a path to success, but as he navigates dubious deals and fading hopes, his closest companion may not be what he seems.

REFUGE

A woman has her husband arrested for assault and battery, only the husband has no memory of the event and depends on a young, inexperienced court-ordered attorney to discover what really happened.

MYSTIC

World famous American mystic fights against being exploited by others, as he struggles to find his place in the world.

An Unplanned Affair

A successful, widowed New York playwright reluctantly enters a romantic relationship with an aspiring young artist, which leads to disturbing details of the secret life of her dead husband.

Clandestine

On a road trip, two best friends discover a mysterious town long abandoned. Trapped inside and uncovering its truth, they must find a way out before plummeting into madness. Script Excerpt

Drop In Squad

There’s the family you’re born into and the one you choose: Aging out of foster care meets elder aging in place when a sharp-witted teen and a feisty elder activist team up to navigate the housing crisis in a world stacked against them.

Three Daze of Denver - It's Been a Long Road for David Wooderson

A seventeen year old golf prodigy and his mom are upended and move to small town Iowa in 1976. Where he is befriended by the group of the only not white and straight kids in town. And two middle aged misfits to work on the only flaw in his game. Script Excerpt

MUFFLED SCREAMS

Double- crossing payroll thief, fleeing vengeful buddies, stops at motel run by homicidal hillbillies. A murderous battle of wits ensues between the thief, his one-time buddies, a corrupt sheriff and the crazy hillbillies for possession of the stolen payroll.

MADALYN MURRAY-O'HAIR

Athiest Madalyn Murray-O'Hair becomes the most hated woman in America by having prayers banned in public schools. Her confrontational style causes riots and ultimately leads to her sensational death at the hands of a former employee.

HART CRANE

Homosexual poet Hart Crane achieves fame and notoriety during the Great Depression before self destructing in alcohol and sexual excess, leaving behind a series of classic poems praising the myth of America.

QUEEN'S CHAMPION

In 1702 Queen Anne of Great Britain appointed Lord Cornbury to be Governor of New York and New Jersey. She had no idea that he was a cross-dresser. Neither did the Americans.i

THE YIPS

Based on a true story... A high school pitching phenom's lifelong dream of Major League glory is derailed when deep-seated anguish from maternal abandonment of his incarcerated mother, bubbles to the surface in self-destructive behavior, as he rejects the love of his devoted stepmom... until an unlikely friendship helps him confront his pain. (Google China McCarney to see his amazing mental health journey)

THE FRONT

As a Mexican & black woman, being a master of living a double life is something Lyvette Speedy Williams does with out fear. After years of dealing drugs in secret, will one mistake cost her everything or give her a new life?

A HAPPY LIFE

A slightly slow but lovable, hardworking man who communicates with the likes of pelicans and smiley-face balloons takes drastic measures to shake loose a houseful of freeloaders to pursue his dream of owning a very unique B & B. Script Excerpt

THE JACKPOT

After a botched heist, an ethical getaway driver pursues a winning lottery ticket belonging to a hostage killed by his gang before it becomes void in 30 days, while facing his corrupted parole officer and a vengeful gang member. Script Excerpt

LOST - The Diary of a Crazy Woman - PILOT #1

Character Description: Eo is a young girl who loses her entire family when they are evacuated to the US on April 30, 1975. Bright and beautiful, she works hard to survive a lonely and difficult life. Misfortune seems to follow her everywhere as she struggles to secure a better future by leaving Vietnam. Logline: Despite her intelligence, beauty, and success in raising her children to be accomplished, Eo's years in America were marked by severe personal struggles. Behind the facade of her achievements, she grappled with PTSD and MD, endured the abuse of a domineering husband, faced the disrespect of her children, and suffered the harsh judgment of a strict Catholic family. Time and again, they pushed her to the brink of suicide. Her life, filled with countless tears, now feels like a story she must sell to find release and justice from the Holy See.

A Christmas Redemption

15 years after her twin brother’s untimely death on Christmas Eve, Ebonee Pritchard returns home facing a holiday she truly despises. After her mother's wish, Ebonee is greeted by 4 Christmas spirits, the last of them, Revenge. Script Excerpt

Cold Pepper

A law-abiding, church-going court stenographer becomes a one-woman vigilante assassinating violent domestic abusers (and other twisted souls) after their third offense. Fed up with the ambiguous legal system - she then goes after their prickly attorneys. Why not? (Think Dexter in high heels) (Potential for ongoing series) (Copyright Wash DC) Script Excerpt

Psychotic USA

A dramedy. A twisted view of the ineptness of modern day psychiatric treatment as seen through the lens of four patients in an asylum. An Angel saves the day! Truthful and engaging . Imagine "Girl Interrupted + One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest + Running With Scissors + Touched By An Angel = Psychotic USA" ( Loosely based on book Psychotica, USA on Amazon) (Could be pilot script for possible mini-series based on vignettes in book) (Copyright Wash DC) Script Excerpt

Psycho-Hearts

A world renowned heart transplant surgeon is an absolute magician at finding compatible hearts for wealthy clients. Her partner, a nurse, from the local penitentiary, finds suitable hearts from Death Row inmates. An ironic spoof on the questionable transplant business in the USA. And exactly who donated that heart to you? A black comedy/satire on modern day medicine. Hmmm! I wonder? (Copyright Wash. DC) Script Excerpt

Nina and Flossie

Three European sisters, in their 70's, scheme to dump a dead body that the eldest killed in the middle of the night as a result of a break-in. What transpires is one hairbrained adventure after the next in attempting to dispose of the body in their ritzy neighborhood. Can they pull it off without attracting police or neighborhood interference? Ya' think? OMG! LOL! (Dark comedy/satire) (Copyright Wash. DC) Script Excerpt

End It On This

Determined to revive their failing relationship, a heedless couple's last ditch effort trip is interrupted when a sudden apocalypse begins to unfold around them. Script Excerpt

CANCELLED

After recording a racist tirade at a casino, a troubled black man finds himself pursued by crooked security guards who will stop at nothing to obtain the incriminating video to protect an influential VIP.

A Force Of Habit

A brother and sister, whose emotional baggage takes a toll on their marriages, find hope and healing through the power of faith and forgiveness.

The Dreams of Sisyphus

Baylor Holloman refuses to accept what fate has planned for him and he's willing to fight to the death to prove it. Script Excerpt

NORRISTOWN

In 1994, grieving brothers spend the weekend partying hard at an old friend's house, but an unexpected guest awakens past grudges and petty jealousies, unraveling their plans to start over.

The Mayor of Little Bosnia

After the tragic death of his son, a former Bosnian soldier turned mechanic protects his St. Louis neighborhood, "Little Bosnia," when the police fail to combat crime, becoming a vigilante crime boss in the process.

Grace 'Til Christmas?

If aged pianist Grace doesn't realize God's plan for her, she'll never live to celebrate a her much desired Christmas at Slumber Jack's Rest Home.

SCOPE CREEP

After her mentor's suspicious death, a driven project manager inherits the rebuild of a notorious private prison, only to find herself stalked by a mysterious entity hellbent on sabotaging her at every turn.

Down & Hopeful

A destitute man remains an optimistic hopeful during the hardest and lowest point of his life.

Call

A man is a surgeon trying to save his teenage son from a heart disease, but after his son's death, his life changes and a huge accident happens to him that connects him with spirits.