MADAM PRESIDENT
SHE WAS THE PRESIDENT! When Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke in 1919, First Lady Edith Wilson launches a mammoth White House cover-up and runs the presidency herself—for 18 months! Think “Iron Lady” (2011). Based on the true, actual historical events. Professional Coverage: “Recommend” Dave Trottier (Author, “The Screenwriter’s Bible”) Multiplt contest wins and placements
Screenplays
Jim specializes in screenplays based on historical true events (including musicals), bio/pics and/or disasters. In alphabetical order:
“BOJANGLES, EUBIE AND BERT!” Three Black musical legends of the past – Bert Williams, Eubie Blake and Bill “Bojangles” Robinson – relive their show business success in spite of racism and theatrical bigotry.
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!Traverse Envizib. Invisible crossings. Episode 6: THE BOY WHO EARNED HIS MAGIC
Howell and friends enter the tunnels that lead to the central kiva.
“Kochma Kote! Nightmare Place!” EPISODE 5: THE BOY WHO EARNED HIS MAGIC
Howell and his friends fail to complete the task ordered by Drago Lucian.
Look Into My Eyes! EPISODE 4: THE BOY WHO EARNED HIS MAGIC
After Howell completes a series of challenges, he returns to his friends in the desert questing for Apache Tears.
Only You Can Help Her. EPISODE ONE/PILOT: THE BOY WHO EARNED HIS MAGIC
When a boy's mother vanishes after a car crash, he's thrust into a perilous quest.
My Greatest Enemy--Myself! Episode 3: THE BOY WHO EARNED HIS MAGIC
Howell's rising doubts about his friends have disastrous results.
The Seed Bearers: Episode One, The Mongrel
A virus is decimating the male population making most impotent.
THE SCRIPT
A mysterious young, Irish girl, who refuses to name herself, insists that Aiden O’Brien, a Los Angeles literary agent read her work—both their lives depend on it! Despite Aiden’s repeated attempts to destroy the script, it returns, together with a host of Celtic demons and a sign, in Gaelic, “The Past Does Not Die.
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.
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.
GHOST TOWN, NM
NEELAN PATEL (PITA), the obstinate Indian American father of AMISHA, insists his daughter marry the rich but foolish RAKISH LAGHARI.
