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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.

In this coming-of-age literary thriller, a young gay Syrian refugee, after watching his cousin executed by ISIS for being homosexual, flees to Istanbul for his safety. He develops such a good reputation for his resourcefulness in smuggling other refugees to Greece that he’s approached by both the CIA and ISIS to smuggle high-profile individuals between Turkey and Greece, putting him in graver danger than he ever imagined. In the process of juggling both operations, he falls in love with, and must decide between, two men who offer him very different futures.

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Format:
Screenplay
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Budget:
Modest
Posted:
03/01/2023
Updated:
08/24/2024
Author Bio:
Before becoming a full-time writer, Timothy Jay Smith worked around the world in exotic and sometimes dangerous situations collecting the characters and stories that would later inspire his novels, screenplays and stage plays. Altogether, he has won or placed in well over 100 writing competitions and has four published novels. Fire on the Island won the Gold Medal in the Faulkner-Wisdom Competition for the Novel, and his screenplay adaptation of it was named Best Indie Script by WriteMovies.

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Contest Results:
Atlanta (First Place, Out on Film Festival) [2023]
StoryPros International (Finalist) [2023]
Creative Screenwriting Feature (Semifinalist) [2023]
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