ESSAY FILMS
Film Screenplays - available for production
Full Screenplays are available upon bona fide request
Once Bitten:
Genre: Rom-Com
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Wherein opposites attract ...
A widowed socialite, sworn off men after a failed marriage, finds herself smitten by her new working-class neighbour but must compete with her scheming best friend in order to win his heart – before he shuffles off this mortal coil.
AWARDS
2016 Creative World Awards - Semifinalist
Phoebe's Exchange:
Genre: Action-Comedy
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A cat and mouse caper ...
When a jilted woman burgles her cheating husband's lover, she loses incriminating evidence to another on the same mission and must find a way to retrieve it before she falls victim to blackmail.
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Good Country:
Genre: Drama
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Of forbidden love ... and its tragic consequences
When the heir to a once thriving wool-growing dynasty discovers that her late father's lawyer is responsible for its demise, she must eliminate him before he destroys her most precious asset.
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New Deli:
Genre: Rom-Com
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He's fallen in love with Brooklyn . . . and all that it offers
A naïve, recently orphaned Indian architecture student in Brooklyn, fearing deportation if he loses the roof over his head, teams with a classmate to save his uncle’s delicatessen from demolition by an upstart developer.
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AWARDS
2017 New York Metropolitan Screenplay Comp - Second Place
2017 The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival Screenplay Comp - Semifinalist
2020 Chicago Screenplay Awards - Semifinalist
2020 NY City International Screenplay Comp - Quarterfinalist
The Legend of Willie Telberg and Son:
Genre: Comedy Western
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Like father, like son ...
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Logline: In the Fall of 1865, a sharp-shooting twelve-year-old Black American with Down syndrome must outwit a gang of bumbling ex-Confederate rebels to track down his abducted father and save him from a lynching.
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AWARDS
2020 New York Metropolitan Screenplay Comp - Quarterfinalist
2021 Chicago Screenplay Awards - Semifinalist
2021 Screencraft Feature Screenplay Comp - Semifinalist
Positive Aging in Happy Valley: (it's a funny thing, dementia)
Genre: Rom-com / Dramedy
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She came from somewhere back in his long-ago ...
When an elderly widow, newly arrived in a retirement facility, encounters her long-forsaken true love, she must confront head-on the complications of his early onset dementia to win back his heart.
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AWARDS
2020 Miami Screenplay Awards - Semifinalist
Legacies:
Genre: Drama
Your children ... are life's longing for itself (Kahlil Gibran)
Following the death of one of his refugee students, a Vietnam veteran turned art teacher must confront the circumstances of his own son’s tragic death in order to free himself of guilt.
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Grave Danger:
Genre: Thriller/Horror
They dug graves not only for a living ...
A care-free night-clubber searching for her abducted best friend, must neutralise a pair of sexually deviant ex-cons, before she, too, ends up in the cemetery where the two men work.
NOTE: There are two versions of this script: for the US; and for the Aust markets
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