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ALTA CALIFORNIAA young mixed blood, determined to avenge his mother’s brutal death, is thrust into a battle of survival and identity as he navigates through the oppressive and inhumane colonizers of California's “Mission Era.” California Assembly Bill 1821, authored by Assemblyman James Ramos of California and signed into law by Governor Newsom, mandates that, beginning January 1, 2025, all schools in California are required to teach the historical truth about the “Mission Era” and the gold rush and its effect upon California’s native peoples. Script Excerpt |
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JebIn the wake of Stonewall, Yale professor John Boswell races against time and his own mortality to unearth secrets buried within the historical record, igniting a struggle for truth and acceptance that will outlive him. |
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RestorationAs an introverted art restorer succumbs to the evil temptations of an ancient painting, otherworldly forces attempt to stop her from unleashing the painting's unholy power. Script Excerpt |
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Unknown Black AssailantAs the crack epidemic erupts across 1980s small-city America, a Black rookie detective investigating a string of gang murders in Little Rock, Arkansas uncovers a CIA-backed arms-for-drugs conspiracy—forcing him to choose between protecting his family and exposing a truth that could destroy him. |
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Maeta's StoryIn 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 |
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THE BANNERThough haunted by the childhood memory of the lynching of his father for leading a slave rebellion, an American slave risks his life to join Mexico's struggle for independence after witnessing the execution of the leader of the revolution who seeks to end slavery and social injustice by peaceful means. |
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GreenmanA rising rock star strikes out for Iceland in search of inspiration, only to discover a centuries-old horror that threatens to use her gifts to take over the world. |
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THE QUEEN'S MARKGuy Sheridan, an English Blue Blood, runs afoul of the Crown and looses his love, his priveleged life, and his liberty. Escape from an Australian penal colony is but the first step for Sheridan to become the richest man in Australia. |
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LABYRINTH OF DESTINYDuring the Mexican-American War, Lieutenant Ulysses Grant falls in love with a young Mexican woman who helps American slaves escape bondage. The war separates them, but years later they meet again when the woman is dispatched to the United States to seek an alliance to prevent France from conquering Mexico and becoming an ally of the Confederacy. |
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By The Time I Got To Woodstock1969: a young generation is letting their hair down, except for a high school sophomore who’s wound tighter than her ballerina bun. When she accidentally ends up on a magic bus to Woodstock, she goes on a long strange trip to find her true self. |
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Eighty-Eight FrequenciesGorgeous 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 |
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Between the Salt and the SkyA small Portuguese fishing village in 1942 is on the edge of a war that seems far away. A idle fisherman with nothing to live for, meets an unlikely ally with a dangerous secret and nothing to lose. What happens when two young Jewish refugees arrive, changes everyone. Script Excerpt |
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Eternal BlessingsA dying woman enters a time portal to confront her criminal past, only to realize that what she seeks is in the present--but getting back is proving harder than she thought. Script Excerpt |
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The ExperimentThe life of poor boy bound for delinquency is altered forever by a doctor and a corrupt system. |
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HOSEAThe 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. |
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Tabula RasaLucy is an Artist. No one understands her. Lucy sees life through the viewfinder of her closest companion, a 16mm Bolex camera. You see, Lucy doesn’t make “movies” — she is a Filmmaker. Lucy’s getting ready to share her Art with the World. But she’s afraid the World isn’t ready for her. Lucy is twelve years old. No one understands her. The World isn’t going to know what hit it. Script Excerpt |
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Ilium RidgeTo brothers Zeus, Poseidon and Hades, the First World War is but a game to stave off the boredom of immortality. To Captain Achilles, the Man Who Cannot Be Killed, it is a curse to be avoided at all costs, as the gods, battles and magic of Homer's Iliad are transplanted to the bloody trenches of the last century. Script Excerpt |
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The Odyssey of John BuchananWhen 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 |
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The Puzzle PeopleBerlin 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. |
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Price of OilIn 1924 Tehran, a British spy’s ruse against an American diplomat sparks a deadly cover?up. When a Persian teen is framed and a British nurse fights to expose the truth, his mission risks igniting an international crisis. |
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McIntyre's MountainArizona 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 |
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AND WE WERE LEFT DARKLINGAs Wallenberg and Eichmann play chess, they confront the question of whether humans worship the God of Love, or the replacement God of Macht or Power. Their “chessboard” is WWII Budapest. https://andwewereleft.com/ Script Excerpt |
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Panama FeverWhen the Army sends a young doctor to Panama, his adventures- and misadventures- with the natives, the Army and his wife come fast and furious. Script Excerpt |
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The Dumb Ox BellowsA 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 |
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Doc Savage: Dark EmpireIn the shadow of World War II, Doc Savage, the legendary Man of Bronze, embarks on a daring mission to dismantle Nazi superweapons, rescue the woman he loves, and confront a dark legacy tied to his own past — all while battling the forces of tyranny and fighting for the future of humanity. |
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HITLER'S ASTROLOGERA love affair accidentally exposes British spies tasked to eliminate Der Führer’s mystic adviser as well as disrupts the SS department’s collection of ancient texts & artifacts for the creation of Nazi ‘wonder weapons’. |
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SurfridgeDecades after the seaside community of Surfridge was erased to make way for LAX, Detective Sam Grimaldi must face the ghosts of his past and a string of murders that force him to uncover both the town’s buried history and the truth about the woman he once loved |
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WHITE DEVIL OF SHANGHAIRomantic war adventure set against the backdrop of World War II China. Two mismatched fugitives of war, a jaded American newsman and a strong-willed Jewish refugee girl, escape Japanese-occupied Shanghai to reach Free China. They evolve into unlikely heroes among the Chinese, one as a mercenary destroying lives, the other as a Red Cross miracle worker saving lives. Their stormy relationship ultimately brings them together to save Shanghai's Jewish refugees from Nazi extermination. Script Excerpt |
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The Savior's Journey (Formally Divine Journey: Moments With The Savior)When a humble carpenter from Nazareth defies an empire with words of hope, his obedience ignites a movement that transforms lives and alters the course of history—and eternity. Script Excerpt |
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ELIJAHThe 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. |
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Jane, The Legend of Mountain CharleyA woman in the 1850's gives up her children to The Sisters of Mercy, changes into men's clothing and spends the next twelve years looking for her husband's killer. She was fifteen years old and this is a true story. Jane is an award-winning script. |
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FALLEN SONLOGLINE: Raised inside New Orleans’ secretive Sicilian crime family whose power depends on hiding in plain sight, a young man must choose between saving the family that raised him by taking the fall for murder or exposing the truth and becoming its next target. ____________________________________________________________________________ A hidden Sicilian dynasty governed by an ancient code of honor, where violating one tradition can determine who inherits an invisible criminal empire. SYNOPSIS: Chosen as next head of his family’s 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 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 certain assassination by teaming up with an investigation lawyer against his blood family in court to avoid a death row prison sentence. |
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Hell Gate to Golden GateAlice 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 |
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Deborah SamsonThe based-on-true-events story of the first American female combat soldier who disguised herself as a man during the American Revolution, was wounded twice and is the Official Heroine of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. |
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RevelationA young peasant girl is tasked to help heal an arrogant teenage samurai who is gravely wounded while persecuting Christians |
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Many Happy ReturnsTwo simple-minded brothers work part time at a science lab and find machinery in an unauthorized area that unknowingly transports them to Spain years before their time. Now they must figure out where they are, how they got there, and how to get back home. Recommended on Coverfly Quarterfinalist Creative Screenwriters - Fantasy (2026) |
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NISEI LEGACYTrue story following the rise of the Imon family to nobility in the 13th Century to their escape to America in 1906. |
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A Risk of ExposureIn 1953, Russian ballet teacher plots to smuggle secret photos of Stalin's crimes while part of a cultural exchange to the U.S. Under the watchful eyes of the KBG, she finds an unexpected ally who leads her to an impossible choice. Script Excerpt |
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Turtle Eggs for AgassizA famous scientist's strange need challenges a young teacher to tackle it, launching a great adventure. Script Excerpt |
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Everything I Have Is YoursThirteen-year-old Haylee stumbles on her father's affair with her mother's friend, who has come to stay after her home was burglarized. |
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East Meets WesternA runaway indentured Asian cook bakes his way into the good graces of a frontier town, where he struggles to win the skills and allies he needs to avoid recapture by the ruthless outlaw who 'owns' him. |
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Charity RoyallA strong-willed young woman facing an unplanned pregnancy struggles with her pride, her identity, and her independence while fighting for respect in a small New England town at the turn of the 20th Century. |
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In the Broad Face of DayHistorical Drama (1843): When a lunatic guns down the secretary of the British Prime Minister in broad daylight in the streets of central London, the ensuing courtroom battle and outcome was to change forever the way insanity was viewed by courts around the world. The case was in the headlines every day and every reader had an opinion - even the Queen. |
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FLYING TIGERBased on actual exploits of the American Volunteer Group who offered the only ray of hope in the opening dark months of WWII, a Chinese village girl rescues a shot down AVG pilot while being pursued by both Japanese & Nationalist Chinese soldiers. |
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REDEMPTIONA washed-up Texas Ranger must set aside the bottle and regain both his courage and skills to rescue his long-thought-dead wife from the clutches of a vile human smuggling ring...whose kingpin is his former partner. |
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EquityAre 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 |
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The Redemption of John ParkerAn embittered former slave risks life and limb as an Underground Railroad “conductor” until, targeted for death by angry slave owners and a sociopathic slave hunter, he must confront and resolve his inner rage or bring tragedy on his family. Based on a true story. |
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When Doves CryIn 1991, fraternal twins navigate the treachery of young adulthood, dealing with bullies, racists, homophobes, and abusive authority figures while seeking the ultimate Minneapolis experience; seeing the legendary Prince perform live at First Avenue on Halloween night but a freak blizzard threatens their plans. |
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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. |
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ErikssonThe Viking Leif Eriksson, who, to prove himself to his legendary father Erik the Red, embarks on a dangerous voyage to find new lands and inadvertently discovers America. |
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LAST FLAG ON OAK ISLANDWhen a museum curator and his female assistant translate clues in an American Revolution-era journal describing a British payroll buried on Oak Island, they must go undercover to unearth the treasure before two rival treasure hunters discover it. (From the novel Last Assault on Oak Island by Jenn Rekka.) Script Excerpt |
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The BootleggerTwo men - one destiny. Script Excerpt |
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Pat Garrett - Vampire HunterHe's never met baddies like these before Script Excerpt |
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The Sky’s EdgeAt the dawn of the aviation age, America's greatest daredevil aviator recounts his meteoric rise from working-class mechanic to national hero as fierce rivalries, personal tragedy, and an obsession with conquering the impossible drive him toward one final, calculated defiance of death. Script Excerpt |
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Six Hundred Years of LoveThe Fountain meets Blade Runner 2049: A man risks his life twice to save the same woman — first in Renaissance Italy, then in a post-human future that threatens human extinction. |
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I Am BothWhen the people of 1629 Jamestown put Thomas-ine Hall on trial for being both man and woman, they never expected Thomas-ine to put all of them on trial in return. Script Excerpt |
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The Fighting WagnersLog line – It’s the early 1900’s in Greenwich Village. A sixteen-year-old son of an Italian immigrant enters the boxing ring for the first @me. Before the bell rings he must choose between keeping his Italian heritage or forfei@ng his name to fight in the boxing arena. Script Excerpt |
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Willowbrook C Building (based on a true story)An entitled college student is assigned an internship at Willowbrook, the Asylum in Staten Island 1972. Her contempt for authority helps a misdiagnosed child escape. Script Excerpt |
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The BoxcarPrompted by a young engineer in 1985, a stoic defense plant manager reveals his secret past as a World War II 'Carpetbagger,' recounting his crew's harrowing fight for survival after their blacked-out B-24 is shot down over Nazi-occupied Poland, pitting them against a ruthless SS commander. |
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ForeverWhen a mild-mannered student discovers he is the reincarnation of Genghis Khan, he must channel the brutal strategies of his ancestors to stop a rogue Chinese General from triggering World War III. |
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1979In the heat of California’s Central Valley in 1979, a stoic high school gearhead navigates a volatile romance with a sophisticated L.A. art student and the expectations of a strict father, eventually spiraling into a crisis that forces him to choose between the dangerous allure of the big city and the enduring strength of his hometown roots. |
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December 8thAfter the attack on Pearl Harbor fractures their California farming community, two inseparable friends are torn apart by history: Lorne, a vengeful Marine, endures the psychological and physical torment of the Pacific island campaigns, while Lonnie, a Japanese-American fighting for dignity, navigates the injustice of an internment camp to the bloody trenches of Europe with the segregated 442nd—both struggling to preserve their humanity and fulfill a sacred pact to return home for the harvest. Script Excerpt |
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THE LEGEND OF IDA B. WELLSIda B. Wells (1862-1931), African-American anti-lynching crusader and civil rights advocate, tirelessly fights to end the horrors of lynching, and challenges two U.S. Presidents to desegregate the government, and make lynching a federal hate crime. |
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Dark LatitudeWhen a young woman discovers a hidden photograph in the family album of a murdered WWII survivor, she becomes the target of a decades-old conspiracy linking Nazi fugitives, a secret escape flight from Germany, and a deadly cover-up that kills to protect its secrets. (The Black List / Nicoll Fellowship coverage simulation 9+) Script Excerpt |
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MASTER OF STATECRAFTBooker T. Washington risks his reputation and his life to outmaneuver those determined to erase Black voices from democracy. |
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THE ANDREW JACKSON DEFENSEA reformed prisoner with a violent past frames his clemency petition using the biography of Andrew Jackson, arguing that like the seventh president, a man forged by violence can still become a force for good. |
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The Six Loops of ScottOn the day of his death in 1940 Hollywood, F. Scott Fitzgerald spirals through six looping visions of his life with Zelda — each reframing their love, rivalry, and betrayal — until the truth emerges: he wasn’t just writing her story, he was erasing it. |
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Queen of the DesertAs the Assyrian Empire expands across the ancient Middle East, a young monotheistic woman from a forsaken desert tribe is captured, enslaved, and forced to choose between survival and surrender. In her defiance, she sparks a rebellion that will echo through centuries. |
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Mineral Rights"An ex-con returns to his hometown and becomes an unlikely leader in the resistance against a powerful mineral drilling companies quest to destroy their community" |
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LolitaA Puerto Rican seamstress becomes firebrand revolutionary Dolores ¨Lolita Lebrón¨, masterminds the 1954 U.S. Capitol attack, and battles prison, heartbreak, and history itself to prove colonial chains can be shattered. |
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The Rondo ConspiracyIn the late fifties a resident lawyer of Rondo, primarily St. Paul's Black community, must assist a Chicago rogue cop hunt a killer through after-hours joints or be charged with murder. The lawyer agrees and soon believes he can save himself and Rondo when he learns the cop is hunting him and is conspiring to destroy Rondo. Script Excerpt |
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RUNNING FROM DEATHTrials and tribulations of the notorious John Wesley Hardin, 1800’s Texas gunfighter, who’s gunfighting abilities are tested while he runs from death throughout his life. Script Excerpt |
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PITTSBURGH PHILBiopic of Harry Strauss, a.k.a. Pittsburgh Phil, notorious mafia hitman in the 1930’s, who rises from the streets of Brooklyn to become one of the most ruthless killers in Murder Incorporated. Script Excerpt |
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The March of the 18thIn the waning days of the Civil War, a battle-worn colonel leads a regiment of physically shattered but unbroken soldiers on a brutal mission that will test their limits, proving that even the “invalid” can become an army—and that courage is not measured by the body, but by the will to serve. Script Excerpt |
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Mother SeacoleBritish soldiers are transported from Jamaica to fight in the Crimean War. From her own resources, a Scottish Jamaican lady provides home comforts and medical assistance to her boys in Crimea and becomes a British heroine. Script Excerpt |
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MARY BAKER EDDYWhen the leader of a new Christian religion is targeted by a vicious smear campaign by a leading newspaper, it launches a suit against the popular 85-year-old woman for control of her newly found church; but a famous literary figure (Mark Twain) surprisingly comes to her aid, and the church leader wins the suit and starts a newspaper that decades later wins awards named after the publisher (Pulitzer) that attacked her. |
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Duty to Warn: The Tanya Tarasoff StoryThriller based on the true stalking murder of Berkeley student Tanya Tarasoff in 1969 by an obsessed graduate student, and the legal case that changed doctor-patient confidentiality laws across the country. |
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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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SnooksThe extraordinary true life story of Nate "Snooks" Gulliver, dancer and drummer extraordinaire, who played with Cab Calloway and other greats and was Billie Holliday's childhood sweetheart. |
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Shadow on the HeartlandA successful Wall Street attorney reluctantly returns to rural North Dakota to help his family fight against an agricultural corporate giant that's quickly taking over the food industry with dangerous GMO seeds. |
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ROME IN WHITEThe assassination of an American president begins in 300 AD in Rome and proceeds to 2011 Washington DC and then returns to Rome in 307 AD for the assassination, death of Severus II on a day it snowed on Italy and Rome is in white. |
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Post Your Script Here!THE POOL
Character-driven psychological horror thriller set in a suburban house, with a disturbed female lead and a shocking twist ending, inspired by Henry James' "Turn of the Screw".
CONFESSIONS OF AN ACCIDENTAL ALIEN
Fictionalized autobiographical dark comedy about a UFO fanatic turned screenwriter on a rollercoaster ride of Hollywood success, failure and a nightmarish marriage that nearly destroys his career.
Palo Alto Bang & Burn
When idealistic professor Will Reynolds joins a clandestine government program researching remote viewing, his faith in science and reality unravels as he discovers truths that feel ripped from science fiction.
Wounds of Love and Conspiracy: When Personal Wounds become National
Desperate to prove himself worthy of his civil rights activist wife, whom he crippled in an accident, George obsesses about the JFK promise, which turns into a delusional quest to prevent assassination.
Six Hundred Years of Love
The Fountain meets Blade Runner 2049: A man risks his life twice to save the same woman — first in Renaissance Italy, then in a post-human future that threatens human extinction.
Rebecca Saves the Human Web
After witnessing a deadly shootout, a teenage girl, afraid of her rage in a violent future, supernaturally connects with the spirit of her murdered grandmother to fight a growing, highly contagious web of hate and violence.
Henry, Henry
One actor plays two constantly interacting personalities that split when he failed to stop the charismatic priest he caught abusing a child and heals as he uses his illness to infiltrate a child-trafficking empire.
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, until a final act of sacrifice offers redemption.
FORBIDDEN PROVISIONS
A journalist goes undercover as an illegal migrant to get a story on how well the government is treating captured immigrants, only to uncover something grizzlier than he expected.
BUMPED
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.
