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Screenwriters Showcase
LIKE NO BUSINESS I KNOW
Romantic Comedy
A small town Irish playwright discovers what a cut-throat and volatile business putting on a Broadway play can be. All he wants is for his production to survive the maelstrom--and to survive the scheming high strung lead actress and the unrelenting demands of the control freak, female director.
NICHOLAS
Fantasy/Adventure
A fictional chronicle of the origins of Father Christmas, the story follows Nicholas, 26, an outcast since birth, who unites the disparaged masses of his lost kingdom in order to free their children from a bloody fate at the hands of a tyrant king and his regime of black magic. Proving his generosity and heart, Nicholas gives birth to the timeless legend of Saint Nick in this first great adventure.
NO GIRLS ALLOWED
Coming-of-Age/Sports Drama
In small town 1965 Michigan, Claire Reed, 14, recovering from the tragic loss of her mother, assembles a ragtag group of girls in an attempt to start the first girls' high school basketball team. Claire struggles between being a surrogate mother at home and taking on a community's backward views of gender roles.
SUPERNATURAL—"HANG MAN"
TV Spec (Horror)
Sam and Dean Winchester, professional supernatural hunters, track down a bloody phantasm in rural Kentucky and uncover a dark secret of racially fueled murders that have been hidden for 60 years...since the attack on Pearl Harbor. Never before have the two men faced such a gray area in the quest for justice.
Contact:
Matthew Antonelli
724.984.2573
matthewjohnantonelli@yahoo.com
NEBUCHADNEZZAR, THE LION OF BABYLON...
Epic Drama
This sweeping epic tale opens in present day Iraq and shifts to its ancient home of Babylon where forces have divided the country. Nebuchadnezzar, Babylon's young and ambitious king, must uncover a plot against his life, protect his queen, and preserve Babylon if he is to become the most powerful king in history.
SWORN
Western
After the tragic loss of his daughter in a suspicious fire, Bass Reeves, a runaway slave, becomes the first black deputy US Marshal in the Wild West. Chasing desperadoes and carving out a new life in the dangerous Oklahoma Territory, Bass learns the true meaning of the thing he desires most--respect.
Contact:
Joseph Cortez Caston
213.804.9478
castonjusa@netscape.net
NELSON
Comedy
A smart, yet damaged 13-year-old boy sets out to ruin his vain, negligent mother's political career by putting himself up for ransom so he can gather enough money to run away. The consequences are bigger than he ever imagined.
SECOND COMING OF CHRIS
Comedy
When a careless underachiever, Christopher King, works as a Jesus impersonator on Hollywood Boulevard and gets mistaken for the real deal, he pretends he is the second coming of Christ in order to get money out of the helpless elderly in the retirement home where he and his mother live. Through the process he discovers he has more "powers" than he thought.
Contact:
Elisabeth Cormier
323.559.1240
babscorm@gmail.com
BOSTON LEGAL—"SILENCE IS NOT GOLDEN"
TV Spec (Comedy/Drama)
Plagued by erotic dreams of Shirley Schmidt, Alan loses his voice, his greatest gift as a lawyer, just as he gets a high-profile celebrity case. Paul collapses in Denny's office, so "Nurse Crane" takes it upon himself to unconventionally nurse him back to health. Convinced that Shirley's beauty stole his precious vocal prowess, Alan determines the only way to get it back is to steal an illustrious kiss from Shirley herself.
CRASHERS
Action/Drama
Vincent, a South Central teen, is lured by his friend, Carlos, into the high-adrenaline underground world of crashing cars for money on the LA freeways. As their rivalry reaches the boiling point, the crashes become all too deadly. There are no accidents, only choices.
THE LEFT OVERS
Comedy
A cynical, burned-out Los Angeles comic has destroyed his career just as The Rapture occurs, leaving him stuck on Earth with the rest of the left overs, people helplessly awaiting the final showdown between Good and Evil. To make matters worse, he's fallen in love... with a beautiful female Anti-Christ. Just because it's the Apocalypse doesn't mean it's the end of the world.
THE RISE OF FRED AMAZING
Dark Comedy/Action
When intrepid TV reporter Lane Burkett lands an exclusive with the last remaining superhero, Fred Amazing, she gets a lot more than she bargained for: Fred is a foul-mouthed, alcoholic, deadbeat dad hiding in a squalid low-rent apartment drowning his tragic past in crude behavior. When his lifelong nemesis returns, Fred is forced out of retirement and must fight to become a real hero, despite his filthy... everything.
- Grand Prize Winner, ScriptPIMP Screenwriting Contest (2007)
Contact:
Scott Cunningham
323.660.5360
sccunnin@yahoo.com
DISMEMBERED
Comedy
Fed up with seeing relationships fall apart all around her, an emotionally-wounded scientist invents a controversial solution to society's infidelity problems: the removable penis. When a serial-cheater and diehard commitment-phobe accidentally becomes her test subject, the future of the experiment, an unlikely new relationship, and a kidnapped love all hang in the balance.
THE ORGANIST
Dramatic Thriller
When a kidney donor can't be found for his critically ill daughter, a disgraced surgeon turns from healer to killer in a desperate quest to find the organ that will save his daughter's life. Set amid the backdrop of Katrina-ravaged New Orleans.
Contact:
Stephen Davis
310.210.6264
sjdavis81@gmail.com
CREATING KENDALL CRANE
Romantic Comedy
A bumbling, first-time producer's dream of super-stardom is dashed when he's temporarily paralyzed and sent to group therapy where he falls for his prosthetic-wearing therapist and her eclectic group of misfits.
DRIVING WHILE ASIAN
Romantic Comedy
In order to collect his inheritance, a slacker New York toll booth worker must run an Asian Driving School in downtown Chinatown, at a profit, with his deceased father's ornery Asian mistress as his partner.
GUIGNOL
Period Thriller
A young, ambitious actor seeks fame and fortune in the vibrant theater scene of Jack the Ripper's Victorian England, but is quickly seduced into a sinister troop seeking to use him to execute real people in a gruesome underground snuff theater serving the elite.
Contact:
Steve Douglas-Craig
310.750.7388
stevedc33@hotmail.com
LONG DISTANCE LAMONT
Comedy
Joe is a funny, good-looking young man who earns a decent living as an art director, but Joe can't get a date to save his life. Every girl he's interested in is tied up in a long-distance relationship. It's uncanny. It's even weirder because all of Joe's guy friends are having the same problem: every girl has a boyfriend out of town, out of state, or out of country. And then Joe discovers the kicker: every girl is tied up with one guy--a mysterious jerk in Alaska named Lamont. Joe becomes obsessed with tracking down this elusive player. Joe doesn't know if he wants to kill him, learn from him, or what--all Joe knows is that he doesn't stand a chance with women until he finds Lamont.
PARKS & REC
Comedy
Set in the world of park rangers. Young ranger Sam Crowder yearns to turn his beloved park back into the jewel it once was. He demands help from the city, and gets stuck with a meathead partner named John who does more harm than good. When the City Council threatens to turn over the park to a private corporation, Sam and John desperately join forces to redeem the park and keep their jobs.
WEIGHTLESS
TV Series Pilot (Comedy/Drama)
The Right Stuff in the Wrong Time. A one-hour workplace-based dramatic comedy. The workplace is modern-day Johnson Space Center, and the main characters are NASA astronauts in a time when the space program lacks funding, attention, and respect.
Contact:
Jeremy Engel
310.351.8054
jeremyaengel@yahoo.com
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
Thriller
After a fraudulent story gets him a coveted assignment in Baghdad, an ambitious, young journalist finds his values tested when he befriends an Iraqi woman frantically searching for her missing husband.
FROM HUNGER
Dark Comedy
Something horrific is happening in Los Angeles. Celebrities are vanishing and they're not showing up in rehab, Namibia or Cambodia. And Richard Chase is next. Once a revered gossip columnist, now unable to get on the guest list for Andy Dick's birthday party, Chase discovers where the celebrities have gone and why roast pork loin is the hot dish at so many trendy restaurants.
YELLOWSTONE (co-written with Scott Fauber)
Action/Thriller
When a war-torn Marine returns home to Yellowstone National Park, he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a terrorist plot to explode the super-volcano beneath the park.
Contact:
James Eowan
818.239.9111
james.eowan@gmail.com
JACKED!
Teen Comedy
Desperate to make the varsity baseball team, a group of high school guys in rural Iowa start taking hormone pellets meant for cows.
PERSONS UNKNOWN
Drama
A single mother begins to question her family history--and the dying father she so adores--when a black stranger arrives in town, raising the specter of a race murder covered up for some 50 years.
YELLOWSTONE (co-written with James Eowan)
Action/Thriller
When a war-torn Marine returns home to Yellowstone National Park, he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a terrorist plot to explode the super-volcano beneath the park.
Contact:
Scott Fauber
323.326.9017
scottfauber@hotmail.com
THE CLOSER—"MOTHERLY LOVE"
TV Spec (Drama)
Chief Brenda Johnson and her team investigate the murder of a successful attorney, found tied to a chair, having bled to death in her upscale Franklin Hills home.
THE HARDEST PART
Family Drama
A suburban family struggles to accept each other, and themselves, in the wake of a terrible tragedy that befalls the oldest son.
THE HOMESTEAD
Western
A young girl is forced to fend for herself when she inherits a struggling homestead on the wild frontier of late 1800's Nebraska.
MONDAY'S GIRL
True Crime
A true-crime drama chronicling the series of events that led 16-year-old Brenda Spencer to commit one of the worst school shootings in American history.
THE OFFICE—"MICHAEL GOES BLIND"
TV Spec (Comedy)
Michael decides to perform a clearly ill-conceived experiment at work--spending the day wearing a blindfold, pretending to be blind. Meanwhile, Dwight and Angela argue over a briefcase security issue and Jim worries that Pam's latest prank might have taken things too far.
Contact:
Rhianon Jones
323.571.8133
rhianonjones@hotmail.com
ABATTOIR SPRING
Crime Drama
In the late 1930s, an ambitious FBI agent uses his troubled younger brother to infiltrate the infamous hit man's union, Murder, Incorporated, hoping to ensnare the mob's top contract killer--a charismatic psychopath who murdered the brothers' parents many years before.
BIG NAPOLEONS
Drama
A repressed high school senior, questioning his choices in life after a near-death experience, reinvents himself as a marijuana dealer, with unexpected and dangerous consequences.
Contact:
Brian Kistler
818.415.2794
bkistler2@adelphia.net
IN THIS CORNER
Drama
A tormented Iraq War Veteran and former world-class boxer seeks redemption by training an up-and-coming teenage Iraqi contender.
TATSU
Animated Family Drama
A band of misfit insects living on the Bayou, led by Tatsu the dragonfly, unite to rescue an eight-year-old boy during Hurricane Katrina.
Contact:
Daniel Klein
646.247.1981
bythestreetlamp@gmail.com
AN OPEN LETTER TO MY MOM WHO THINKS I'M UGLY
Comedy
Kirby is handcuffed to his bed, the girl who put him there has disappeared, and his only hope for getting free and finding the girl of his dreams is the one person he doesn't want to call--his mom.
DEATH IS GAY
Dark Comedy
Everyone thinks a bad date is the end of the world, but for Casey--the new, gay Horseman of the Apocalypse--it's true.
HANDBOOK TO CASUAL STALKING
Web Series
Lovelorn individuals follow the advice of a fictional 1950s self-help book,
The Handbook to Casual Stalking.
WELCOME BACK!
Comedy/Horror
Zombies crashed the prom and 20 years later the daughter of the school's biggest nerd and most popular cheerleader must stop the same living dead from ruining her parents' class reunion.
Contact:
Glen Lakin
847.710.1057
glakin@gmail.com
BRENTLEY STOMPS HEADS
Drama
Brentley, a 26-year-old lawn-mowing loafer, brings down suburbia when he welcomes an underground martial arts ring into his father's home.
I AM AMERICA
Thriller-Drama
Jimmy Crach, 16, believes his father has been raising him to become a survivalist until he discovers that he is actually being trained to help assassinate 15 Yale students linked to an elite, political organization. Now, Jimmy must decide whether to accept his father's beliefs or kill him before he commits this heinous crime.
MOSSADEGH
Biopic/Drama
In the 1950's, Mohammad Mossadegh, the beloved prime minister of Iran, ousted British colonialism, nationalized his country's oil industry, and developed a form of democracy only to be overthrown by the Shah with the help of the CIA. Held under house arrest for 14 years and now on his deathbed, Mossadegh's story unfolds as he seeks forgiveness from the son he alienated to secure a country for his people.
- Recipient of AFI's William J Fadiman Screenwriting Award (2007)
SOUTHERN COMFORT
Drama
Lawry, 26, a hand-to-mouth surfer, journeys the East Coast with his ex-wrestling teammate to find the reason behind their best friend's suicide and to confront their pedophiliac former coach.
Contact:
Leif Lindhjem
310.462.9339
leif.lindhjem@gmail.com
THE CALENDAR MAN
Drama
Mort Zygleman, a lonely clock repairman, has the preternatural ability to glimpse the exact time and date of when a person dies--a gift that has gradually alienated him from his family and society. When he unexpectedly feels affections for a waitress at a local diner, he discovers just how tumultuous the journey of love can be when the future's most enigmatic query has been answered.
THE FUGUE
Mystery Thriller
When a candidate for governor vanishes in the middle of an election, a team of investigators must scramble to keep the media machine and political rivals from uncovering the disappearance, while unraveling the cryptic circumstances behind it.
SPECTRA RISING
Mystery Thriller
A rising comic book writer must face the repercussions from killing off a beloved superhero character to advance his career, including one consequence he never imagined--a vengeful fan, obsessed with seizing control of his life, even if it involves blackmail and murder.
Contact:
Gregory David Navarro
818.388.6986
valis14@sbcglobal.net
PIER 57
Political Drama
A young couple is arrested at a protest against the 2004 Republican National Convention in NYC and are separated once they reach a bus hangar at Pier 57, where almost 2,000 people are being detained.
SHE WANTS REVENGE
Horror
Mary, a transfer from a small-town community college to prestigious Wright University, is sophomore Kate's new roommate...and a ghost. Mary has come back to terrorize Wright football star Chris, who raped and accidentally killed her six months ago.
STAND UP!
Comedy/Drama
Cass is a white Italian from Brooklyn who struggles between his aspiration to become a successful stand-up comedian--in the black comedy world--and his obligation to take care of his girlfriend Janice and their newborn baby.
Contact:
Angela Perkins
914.274.7073
angelaperkins2005@gmail.com
DOUBLE CROSS
Horror
In the small lumber town of Cedar Valley, teenage track runner Sarah Miller searches for answers to her adoptive past and discovers that she must stop a ghostly curse at the heart of a murderous feud between two families before it kills more townspeople at the annual county carnival.
GAWAIN
Fantasy/Drama
A would-be knight of the Round Table is thrown into the present in hopes of stopping his brother from claiming the Holy Grail and becoming ruler of the world.
HOUSE M.D.—"WICK EFFECT"
TV Spec (Drama)
A high school girl is found burning in her bed. House and his team struggle to eliminate spontaneous human combustion as the cause and uncover that her DNA could send her father to prison.
ROADIE MOM
TV Series Pilot (Comedy)
Tour bus driver and head of a middle-aged rocker's roadie crew, Samantha Jones and her scholarly son search America's heartland to find her son's biological father.
STREET STEALER
Action/Drama
Former car thief and NASCAR driver Billy Stokes fulfills his dead father's wish by retrieving a stolen prototype car from being dismantled by its captors in Mazatlan. But when they attempt to remove the car's fusion fuel system, it becomes a 700-mile race back to the US border to stabilize the engine core before it explodes.
Contact:
Benjamin Pluenneke
310.435.1428
bpluenneke@afifellows.org
AT DAWN
War Drama/Romance
After finding an unsent love letter on the body of a German soldier, US soldier Cade MacKenna falls in love with his enemy's beloved, ultimately forcing him to choose between his treasonous love affair and his duty as a soldier.
- Recipient of Ojai Film Society Scholarship Award (2006)
CINDY CLAUS
Family/Fantasy
Due to extraordinary circumstances, Santa Claus can't make Christmas and Cindy Claus, his only daughter and heir, must overcome sexist elves, a greedy golden boy vying for Santa's job, and her own insecurities to make that fateful sleigh ride.
JULIA FAE
Drama/Fantasy
A year after her mother disappears, Julia, a troubled teen, is sent by her father to live with her grandmother in Ireland. There she discovers that her mother is Queen of the Fairies and that she must save her and the fairies from a fate worse than death.
MEDIUM—"WHERE'S NORMA REINE?"
TV Spec (Drama)
When Norma Reine, a popular, local philanthropist, dies in a fire and her body goes missing, Alison DuBois must get information from a canine ghost in order to figure out where Norma's body is and why she can't rest in peace.
Contact:
Gayvin Powers
626.795.5908
gayvin.powers@hotmail.com
THE DORMITORY RULES
Thriller
After Eddie, a senior football player at an elite New England boarding school, suffers a psychotic break, he becomes obsessed with Lisa, a first year faculty member in his dorm. When Eddie becomes increasingly dangerous, the supervising faculty fails to act, forcing Lisa to take the protection of herself and her daughter into her own hands.
SEVEN DAYS IN L.A.
Comedy/Drama
At 30, Brit is a portrait of misanthropy and depression with a stalled life he can't figure out. In a chance encounter with Lauren, a former fling from a semester abroad program, Brit sees an opportunity to get unstuck. With Lauren in Los Angeles on business for seven days, will Brit be able to overcome 10 years of baggage and win her back?
Contact:
Laurence Sacerdote
917.270.7607
laurence.sacerdote@gmail.com
GOY BOY
Romantic Comedy
When Sam Zimmer, the victim of a strict Catholic upbringing, meets the Jewish love of his life, he lies about being one of the chosen people to win her affection. But just as the relationship is beginning to blossom, he is forced take her home to his crazy Catholic family whom he has to convince to play along.
THE QUEEN OF MANCHESTER
Sports Dramedy
A struggling farm league hockey team finds itself with a female coach, who is determined to keep her rumble-ready teammates in line --including the washed-up ex-NHL'er recruited for "payback", who ends up playing the rest of the season.
YOUR MOTHER'S DEAD
Dark Comedy
Middle-aged and alone, Stephanie Reiner, returns to her small hometown for her mother's funeral and is immediately coerced into staying and looking after her eccentric father. Once there, she has to contend with old widows trying to get at her father's fortune, her hypochondriac sisters, and the deep emotional scars from her strange and unusual upbringing.
Contact:
William Schneider
323.273.9028
williamjschneider@mac.com
- Recipient of the David Pincus Memorial Award for Excellence in Screenwriting (2006)
THE BIRDCATCHER
Madcap Comedy
A lonely pet shop owner living in Pathos, Illinois, falls for a porn-star's daughter and must rescue her from her maniacal mother before the police, the rest of her crazy family, and an onslaught of tornadoes catch up with them.
CRASH & BURN (co-written with Kurt van Aswegen)
TV Series Pilot (Animated Comedy)
Two crime-fighting Chihuahuas called Crash and Burn take on a crime syndicate led by the nefarious Persian. Crash, a fast talking LA detective out to avenge the death of his partner finds himself on the wrong side of the border and is forcibly partnered with Inspector Burn, a suicidal hombre with an itchy trigger finger.
THWARTED PINES
Coming-of-age Comedy
A 10-year-old budding forensic entomologist is sent to summer camp to learn how to make friends and ends up bunking with a notorious bully, who is bent on destroying him.
Contact:
Emily Shuttleworth
312.953.3994
lostsailors@gmail.com
ASLEEP, UNDERWATER
Drama/Coming-of-Age
A psychological coming-of-age story with a historical twist. Black-outs, bloody noses and lurid, cryptic dreams lead 26-year old Brooklynite sperm-donor Isley Gage to the startling revelation that he may be related to Phineas Gage, the real-life victim of a freak railroad accident in 1848--a notion that challenges how Isley's own future may unfold.
- Nicholl Fellowship Quarterfinalist (2007)
BELOW THE WAIST
Dark Comedy
A searing dark comedy about coming of age, and the age of "coming." Vanessa, a brilliant, introverted 17-year-old, goes to often-aberrant lengths to learn how to "feel" again after a car accident--at the hands of her best friend, Jepp--leaves her permanently paralyzed below the waist. The emotional distance between her and Jepp is as pronounced as the split in her spinal column, and through a gritty rehabilitation that includes kink, self-injury, promiscuity, drug abuse...and, perhaps, love, Vanessa journeys back to him and herself.
MOTHER OF FRANKENSTEIN
Biopic
An imaginative biopic about the early life of Mary Shelley and how she finds her "true" inspiration for Frankenstein.
- Recipient of AFI's William J Fadiman Screenwriting Award (2006)
- Nicholl Fellowship Semifinalist (2006)
- Grand Prize Winner (Female Protagonist Category), 2006 Cynosure Screenwriting Awards
Contact:
Ian Simpson
443.794.3069
r.ian.simpson@gmail.com
CRASH & BURN (co-written with Emily Shuttleworth)
TV Series Pilot (Animated Comedy)
Two crime-fighting Chihuahuas called Crash and Burn take on a crime syndicate led by the nefarious Persian. Crash, a fast talking LA detective out to avenge the death of his partner finds himself on the wrong side of the border and is forcibly partnered with Inspector Burn, a suicidal hombre with an itchy trigger finger.
LOST—"STARRY, STARRY NIGHT"
TV Spec (Drama)
Walt's dog, Vincent, is badly wounded when he tries to protect Claire's baby from being kidnapped by the Others. We relive Vincent's time on the island since the crash of Flight 815 and come to understand his relationship with the Others and his part in their plans for the survivors. Locke and Sayid forge an uneasy alliance as they track the kidnappers, while Sawyer attempts to break into a mysterious box he finds floating in the ocean.
PREY
Horror
A cheerleader becomes the only hope of salvation for her town when she is infected with the DNA of a vicious killer. As the infection transforms her into the only one capable of fighting back, she must end the killer's reign of terror and find a cure before she loses herself to the bloodlust growing inside her.
STASIS
Science-Fiction
When a deep space exploration ship crashes to Earth with the crew trapped in hypersleep, the creator of the hypersleep stasis program is forced to enter its virtual world to rescue them. In order to save the crew he must partner with the ship's rogue
Artificial Intelligence and go to war with an alien species intent on escaping the ship and destroying humanity.
Contact:
Kurt van Aswegen
323.788.9581
kurtxp@gmail.com
FRED, PRINCE OF DARKNESS
TV Series Pilot (Comedy)
A cheery, idealistic young business graduate becomes the new Prince of Darkness after Satan loses Hell in a game of poker.
HOPJOCKEY
TV Series Pilot (Science-Fiction/Fantasy)
An unqualified stowaway leads a ragtag pack of cross-dimensional travelers through the Omniverse on the dimension-hopping ship, the Joseph Campbell. Their mission: to prevent the return of a dark supreme being known only as The One True Jim.
LONGBALL!
Sports Comedy
An ex-con father tries to repair his relationship with his baseball-stats-loving son by hatching a scheme to catch Barry Bonds's record-breaking 756th career homerun ball.
PWNED
Comedy
After his video-game-addict girlfriend leaves him and severs all contact, a non-gamer has only one way to find her--by joining her massive multiplayer online game himself, and trying to find her in a virtual world with over eight million players.
RED SHIRTS
Science-Fiction/Action/Satire
In a distinctly Trekkian universe, Red Shirts are the low-ranking, grunt-level military men serving the royal officers on starships in the future. But when an alien menace decimates the command-structure of the starship Independence, it's up to irreverent, slacker-savant Red Shirt Webb to keep what's left of the crew alive.
SNEAKY PETE'S HAREM
Comedy
An environmentalist whose life has been devoted to saving seals must choose between taking revenge or sticking to his life's work after he's raped by a three-ton elephant seal on live TV.
Contact:
Matt Vancil
323.462.1198
mattvancil@gmail.com
JAMES JOYCE'S DAUGHTER
Historical Drama
The untold story of Lucia Joyce, daughter of famed Irish author James Joyce, who is an up and coming modern dancer in 1920s Paris, until she suffers a series of nervous breakdowns, including one attributed to a failed relationship with Samuel Beckett. Despite her father's unwavering conviction that Lucia is not mentally ill, she is diagnosed as schizophrenic and committed to psychiatric hospitals all over Europe, at one point becoming a patient of Dr. Carl Jung. Until James Joyce's death, Lucia remained his muse and inspired some of the most celebrated and controversial literature of all time.
NANNYWOOD (co-written with Wendy Wegner)
TV Series Pilot (Comedy)
The series follows the adventures of Shawn, in her 20s, and her group of fellow wanna-be's who live in Los Angeles and work as nannies to the rich and spoiled.
NEVER A BRIDE
Romantic Comedy
Jane Abbott, 29, a special events photographer with an uneventful love life, looks forward to her 10th high school reunion for one reason: to see her teenage crush, Casey Masters. When Casey is revealed to be a transsexual, Jane is shocked and disappointed. But, despite Jane's reluctance, the two begin an unlikely friendship, and Jane's definition of "happily ever after" is challenged as she finds herself falling in love.
UNDER THE GUN
Heist/Caper
Allison "Ace" Walker makes ends meet by executing small time robberies of local poker games. A disastrous hold-up leads to her being recruited by Vegas hustler Jack Tuesday to steal the biggest pot of them all—the $26 million prize at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. With an unforgiving gangster and the FBI on her tail, Ace heads to the Nevada desert for the biggest gamble of her life.
Contact:
Polly Walter
310.8011710
MM62@aol.com
BOYFRIEND STEALERS
Comedy
When Betty's boyfriend is stolen by her sorority rival Taylor, Betty and her sisters devise the ultimate revenge plan—they'll steal as many boyfriends as possible from Taylor's sorority in order to break their spirit and win Greek Week for the first time in 20 years.
A DMV STORY
Dark Romantic Comedy
Two high school sweethearts reconnect 10 years later and relive their romance during one long day at the DMV.
MORE THAN LIFE ITSELF
Coming-of-Age Drama
In the midst of the Great Depression, a young girl gets to know her troubled mom through yearly summer visits, and eventually must choose between following in her self-destructive footsteps or finding her own path.
NANNYWOOD (co-written with Polly Walter)
TV Series Pilot (Comedy)
The series follows the adventures of Shawn, in her 20s, and her group of fellow wanna-be's who live in Los Angeles and work as nannies to the rich and spoiled.
Contact:
Wendy Wegner
310.801.5119
wendy.wegner@gmail.com
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