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AT THE MERCY OF FAITH

A 14 year old preacher renounces his faith in God in the wake of a terrifying and traumatic encounter. 18 years later the psychopathic demons from his past, viciously returns to wreak havoc on his home - and to rip-out-his-soul - for the god of their hell. Script Excerpt

Seraphim’s Miracle

A former war correspondent is forced to confront his tragic past, as he cynically investigates an alleged 'miracle' that might just be the real thing.

Sol

After a shocking assassination, citizen and soldier alike plunge into a sinister interplanetary civil war between a corrupt Earth government and a Martian colony that has earned its independence. Script Excerpt

HALFWAY HOME

When a catastrophic accident causes an athlete to become paralyzed, and all seems to be lost, he finds redemption in the most unlikely place, with a gaggle of colorful characters in a halfway house for the mentally disabled. Winner of 19 'Best Screenplay' awards. Previously #1 on the MovieBytes.com feature Drama & Family 'Winning Lists.'

LOST CAUSE

LOST CAUSE: The Tybee Bomb - "DIE HARD” meets “NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN” at sea. A retired Explosive Ordinance Disposal expert salvages a lost nuclear bomb while fighting Black-Ops terrorist off the turbulent coast of the Caribbean.

Hell Followed With Him

When a former Army Sergeant discovers that the crime family responsible for his best friend's death is holding the city of New York hostage, he makes it his personal mission to take them down no matter the cost.

South Of Main Street

Mom dies and the youngest daughter sues the emotionally challenged Dad for financial control of the estate sending him on a quest to prove he is normal - not an easy task when you are not.

Untouchable!

A blonde bombshell in stainless steel rocks the corporate world with an explosion when she collides with the nation's most powerful man unleashing the relentless tiger within and with razor-sharp toothed pen sends him into oblivion. Script Excerpt

The Paper Route

On the eve of the 4th of July, a teenager makes a discovery that could be his ticket out of his hellish small town life, but it means leaving his younger brother behind.

COOP

An inspirational drama about a disabled dog who assists a recently disabled young athlete find renewed purpose in his life.

Maeta's Story (prev. Uncle Frits)

In 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. Script Excerpt

RUBERT BECOMES: Existentialism for Dummies

RUBERT BECOMES: Existentialism for Dummies An animated existential story of a pink Irish ogre, RUBERT, discovering his origin and creators in an animation studio.

Gemini Baby

A career-oriented young woman working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is unexpectedly saddled with her wild twin sister’s criminal problems and her baby.

The Barking Spider

When Joe’s 39 year-old addicted and pregnant daughter appears on his doorstep, his sedentary life is about to disappear forever. Script Excerpt

GREEN WARS

When a fast-food executive’s repressed wife finds salvation with a militant vegan activist group, it stirs up hostilities that threaten his job and their marriage.

CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM: ACCIDENT

Larry David has a hard time being smart without being an ass. A traffic violation leads Larry David to traffic court and community service as a traffic cross walk guard. Meanwhile, the hybrid car maybe a silent killer, and Jeff Green is losing weight while getting Rolf-ed. Winner of 8 'Best Screenplay' awards.

RECOIL

Two survivors of a school shooting form an unhealthy romance and begin to collect guns in order to recover from their mutual trauma.

Don't You Know Who I Am?

A hollywood security guard digs up celebrity dirt for money, but now his efforts to get the goods and evade detection are complicated when he befriends a young actress, and uncovers her dark secret.

LANA LUI/BECOMING LANA LIU

LOG LINE: A young girl begins her life as an Asian martial arts Mensa chick in search of the American Dream. SYNOPSIS: Lana Liu, disguised as a boy, enters a Chinese martial arts academy, only to be discovered. She fights to support her grandmother, and begin her journey to the home of her father, the USA. Winner of 6 'Best Screenplay' awards.

Monster Carnival

An anthology series exploring humans’ modern-day meetings with folkloric creatures through cautionary tales.

COOPER'S PROMISE

A gay army deserter adrift in a war-torn African country vows to save a girl trafficked into prostitution to redeem himself for an earlier promise he could not keep.

Murder in Emergency!

A dedicated nurse fighting to save her beloved hospital from closure is alerted to patient murders which triggers her war against it. Script Excerpt

Things They Say Of Me

Judged, labelled and abused since birth, ‘She’ escapes one hell and stumbles into another on her quest for self-acceptance and unconditional love.

ANGEL HAIR

When a beautiful German teen is used by the resistance to sneak the schematics for the V-2 rocket out of Germany, to the Allies in Paris, and then vanishes, both sides send out their top killers to find her, retrieve the plans and eliminate the young courier. But it is the third thing closing in on her that she fears the most, her past.

Ashes

A combative college professor accused of Holocaust denial tries to clear his name and repair the strained relationship with his teenage daughter before the scandal irreparably widens the chasm between them. Script Excerpt

Ajeeta the Invincible

To chase her dream of becoming a pro football (soccer) player, a 12-year-old orphan escapes from her cruel reformatory and sets out on a dangerous trek from New Delhi to a football academy near Kolkata.

CURIOUS BUDDIES

It's not your mother's buddy movie. It's a combo meal. It’s a little bit of Lethal Weapon, Die Hard, The Social with a side of Taken. Experienced FBI Agent hires and befriends an internet entrepreneur to help rescue a six year old girl taken hostage in a fall out shelter by a ruthless psychopath. Winner LA film fest Best scene 2017. Winner Willdsoud 1 page screenplay 2016 Script Excerpt

Healing Marie

She’s a French nude artist’s model who fears gargoyles are dead. He’s a New York artist who fears the city is a living monster. Together they vibrate in harmonic explosive love. Ludicrous sex. Preposterous adventures. Against the world ... but maybe they’re right ... like Don Quixote, this is a documentary about the pain of being happily insane.

BOSS TWEED

NYC politician William M. “Boss” Tweed loots the city treasury for millions until exposed by the upstart New York Times and immigrant cartoonist Thomas Nast. Political drama/strong contemporary relevance. Heavy non-comic animation and graphics. Professional Coverage: “RECOMMEND” – Dave Trottier (Author, “The Screenwriter’s Bible”)

Desert Quarry

Two mercenaries rob a former colleague's New York jewelry shop to even a score, but after the shop’s employees are found murdered, a deadly bank heist in Iraq begins to haunt them. Script Excerpt

THE FOURTH COURIER

When a series of grisly murders in Warsaw is linked to the disappearance of a Russian physicist with a portable atomic bomb, an FBI agent is sent to help the investigation, and the race is on to find the bomb before it ends up in the wrong hands.

Miracle Cove

Set in the 1970’s and based on actual events, an idealistic college student on the cusp of earning his degree is forced to take a dangerous job as a logger in order to save his younger sisters from their abusive family home. As he learns the ropes of this perilous job, his values will also be challenged by a ruthless boss, working to further his control over the isolated woodland town with the help of some criminal cronies. Script Excerpt

FIRE ON THE ISLAND

When an arsonist threatens a Greek island village, the gay FBI agent stationed in Athens arrives to investigate, finds himself immersed in a community rife with conflict, falls in love with his chief suspect, and has only seconds to save the village after miscalculating the plan of attack.

The Sea Dragon

England, 1810: A sharp-witted young girl who hunts and sells fossils to help support her impoverished family unearths a never-before-seen skeleton that shakes the foundations of science and religion. Script Excerpt

Season of Mists

A Kurdish escapee from an honor killing is imprisoned in a detention center, from which she must find the strength to resist her captors and gain freedom--forcing a confrontation with the brother that still wants her dead. Script Excerpt

My Enemy, My Friend

After their only child was accidentally killed by a black security guard who mistook him for a thief, a white woman develops a feeling of hatred towards all black people.

LABYRINTH OF DESTINY

During 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. (Finalist - 2018 Academy Nicholl Screenplay Competition, Finalist - 2020 Final Draft Big Break Screenplay Competition) Script Excerpt

Euthanized

A grieving animal control officer becomes an unlikely social media hero when she embarks on a vigilante crusade against animal abusers, but her violent actions trap her between friends on the police force and the leader of a citywide dogfighting ring. Script Excerpt

THE PRODIGAL

In the 1880s West, a twin returns from exile to reclaim her birthright from her scheming, murderous sister.

Consumed

Trapped beneath a collapsed building, a grieving wife struggles to protect her treacherous husband from a horde of parasitic monsters. Script Excerpt

A VISION OF ANGELS

A suicide bomb plot for Easter Sunday in Jerusalem sets off a chain of events that weaves together the lives of an American journalist, Israeli war hero, Palestinian farmer, and Christian grocer. GRAND PRIZE, RHODE ISLAND INT'L FILM FESTIVAL'S SCREENWRITING COMPETITION

Perfect Contrition

A traumatized priest haunted by visions of his violent past obligingly serves a rural parish while indulging in a long distance affair, but his vindictive compulsion is sparked when he’s wrongly blamed for the deaths of two troubled altar boys. Script Excerpt

LOTUS OPERANDI

This one is pure Fun! It's a genre buster, Fosse/Verdon meets James Bond, meets All That Jazz and Cabaret! Asian American Black Belt goes undercover for the CIA, to help track down terrorists. Oh, and did I mention she’s the Lead in a Broadway Musical? This is very musical, but there’s a lot of action! This one is getting a lot of attention right now! The main Characters reside in New York, they are part of an international terrorist group. They include cyber terrorists in New York, arms dealers from Pakistan, and a weapons and explosives ring in China. The saavy CIA Agents discover evidence that they are planning duo attacks on the subways in New York and London on the 4th of July. That’s where the story begins, but believe it or not, it’s really a love story! Script Excerpt

MAMMOTH REVENGE

An Australian woman rescues elephants from Africa and discovers a living herd of ancient Mammoths Script Excerpt

The Benefactor!

A business woman becomes Incensed at the persecution by predator bankers of farmers and sacrifices her income to pay out their mortgages in her quest to prevent murder/suicides on the land, as she dodges the hitman. Script Excerpt

RETIREMENT ROAD TRIP

A commercial pilot (Kyle) plans to retire and do nothing, but comfortably relax in his paid-off custom-built home. However, his plans suddenly change, when a demolition crew levels his home by accident.

BITTER BEANS

With nothing but her wits as a weapon, a young Maya woman searches three continents for a fair deal and free her folks of the iron grip of the coffee traders. Script Excerpt

PICKET CHARLIE

PICKET CHARLIE is an ecco-action thriller about a US Forestry Ranger that must defend her precious island reserve of trees from a band of brutal timber pirates in a dystopian, near-future, world devastated by climate change.

Dangerous Ground

Following Germany's victory in World War Two, a risk-averse student in modern-day Edinburgh is thrust into joining a rebellion against the Nazis when his family is threatened.

BEYOND HOLLYWOOD

True story of movie star-turned-inventor Jon Hall and the infamous Howard Hughes who together secretly build a revolutionary auto engine that runs on water. A tale of a tempestuous friendship between two remarkable dreamers, risking the wrath of an automobile and oil industry that unleashes all its power to stop them. One man a legend, the other an unsung hero who aspired to go "beyond Hollywood". Script Excerpt

Major Players: Ray Ray vs The Monster

After a five-year prison stint, a recently-freed boxer must defeat the undefeated champion of Atlanta 'The Monster' to save his cousin from drowning into deeper debt. But the real fight lies outside the ring, where his steps are laden with betrayals, gunfights, and narcotics. Script Excerpt

NORTH 40

A Special Ops soldier, whose grief over the loss of a son has torn his family apart, takes them on a vacation hoping to relive happier times, when a perilous situation forces them to pull together to survive. Ordinary People meets Straw Dogs in this Hitchcockian thriller.

The Cowbird

Marion Duke always struggled to overcome poor life decisions - some inherited, some self-inflicted. When the disparate elements of Duke’s life converge at his funeral, deeply buried secrets threaten to destroy his carefully cultivated image of a devoted father and war hero.

SETTLING THE BOOKS

A cautious investigator is none the less drawn in, along with four other heirs, by the reading of a billionaire rare book dealer’s will, they’re sealed in an airtight panic room, and with only four hours air, must solve the centuries-old mystery contained in the book ‘The Castilian Cypher’ in order to escape. Script Excerpt

Moment of Clarity

A man on a path to nowhere must make a change to not only to save himself, but those he holds most dear.

Motherkiller

Based on a true story. Two young boys watch their mother's boyfriend beat her. On her deathbed, she says he didn't do it. He goes free. Twenty years later, a rookie prosecutor - a young woman - fights to revive the cold case.

Without Apology

In 1944 England, a 16-year-old orphan just beginning to discover her true self is cast out of her best friend's home, ending up in the employ of an aging aristocrat who infamously had an affair with Oscar Wilde.

The Desert Shrine

Elizabeth, a beauty shop owner in an Arizona border town, investigates a nun's murder after receiving erotic phone calls from a mysterious stranger. When the murder causes racial division and violence around her, Elizabeth can no longer trust anyone including her own husband. Tired of living in his shadow, Elizabeth becomes drawn into a spiral of sexuality, betrayal, violence, and finally, spiritual awakening.

The Joy Circuit

After her divorce, a truth-seeking woman tries to find herself, but ends up finding God all the while being haunted by an unceasing, hypnotic soundtrack that inspires her to rethink her own destiny.

Code Red

A seventeen-year-old high schooler is frustrated by flaws he sees in the educational system and in his peers so he decides to commit a school shooting in order to lash out against them.

Anatomy of a Town

The Chief of Police investigates the murder of a young woman while confronting the Sheriff, who blocks his every move for jurisdiction, in order to protect himself from the Chief finding out about his ties to both the murder victim and the killer. Script Excerpt

Six Hours to Santa Monica

A failed NASCAR driver looking for redemption uncovers a sinister plot involving his ex-girlfriend. With the help of a prototype car, he must defy the odds to get her back.

My Father's Worst Nightmare

With his boyfriend in tow, a college sophomore takes a weekend trip home for the express purpose of “coming out” to his family and all hell breaks loose until a near tragedy triggers a father’s journey towards acceptance. Script Excerpt

One Child Born

A Rwandan Tutsi farmer's third child is coming. As he waits on his front porch for the midwife to do her work, his oldest son arrives home with the news that a Hutu mob is also coming.

There is a Season

Two families, one Israeli and one Palestinian, must find a way to break the cycle of violence that has locked their fates together.

In Between The River

Kyle and Katie think their interesting life is normal but their dad hides a devious secret that separates the family and influences their fates. Script Excerpt

GHOST I.T.

After the tragic death of his identical twin brother, he feels guilty and tries to find redemption through an unsuccessful suicide! Then he comes across Hig, a demonic ghost, which promises everything, but only to trick him, so Hig can escape his own hell.

Unaccompanied Minor

A man accidentally uncovers a pedophilia ring and rescues a young sex worker. When his attempts to get help from the authorities fail, he struggles to smuggle the girl to safety before they are both arrested or captured.

The Demon of Hope Street

A homeless vet, haunted by the war, discovers that a deranged street preacher is murdering his followers to send them to heaven — and if he doesn’t stop him, he might be next. Script Excerpt

THE TORTOISE AND THE HEIR

A huge will, big enough to pay off the national debt, will belong to one heir, if a lone wolf, technology resistant San Francisco private investigator can outwit a corporation’s unlimited high tech and resources. Script Excerpt

Mate Matcher's Match

When a godless, seemingly carefree bachelor sets course to win a feisty, virginal Christian matchmaker, he collides with a righteous blockade that buckles only when she uncovers the personal trauma that cracked his moral compass.

A Sacrifice to the God of the Blues

An impressionable young man struggles to make sense of the alternating good and bad advice he receives from a much older friend as they travel through the heart of Mexican drug territory on a cursed trip to a remote Pacific coast beach [Ranked 10th in the Drama short script category of MovieBytes.com's "Top 10 Contest Winning Scripts"].

Blood and Loyalty

A botched jewelry store hold-up, a fatal hit-and-run getaway and two brothers with a harrowing secret, hidden in the night.

Morality Games

An alien civilization tests the morals of humanity through a series of ethical games in order to develop a perfect moral system of their own.

Cadicle

When a teenage girl from Earth begins training as an elite officer in the galactic military, her instant connection to a gifted young man places her at the center of a secret interdimensional war.

Ravine

A lonely school teacher who discovers his deceased father’s closeted homosexuality finds he is unable to cope with his own insecurities and his family’s prejudices—prompting an all consuming obsession with returning his father’s ashes to his British birthplace. Script Excerpt

The Puzzle People

Berlin 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.

Caravaggio

Caravaggio, an unrepentant rogue with a penchant for violence, becomes the most famous religious painter in Rome until forced to flee across Italy to escape Vatican assassins, leaving a trail of broken lives and beautiful paintings in his wake.

A Time to Remember

The number one pop star in the world puts his blazing hot career on hold to attend his senior year of high school and play football - much to his record label's dismay. Script Excerpt

E Pluribus Unum

Virginia 1861 - a highly profitable, free plantation supported by Abolitionists in political, intellectual, and artistic circles is attacked by pro-slavers. Two former slaves - one a fighter, the other a pacifist, head out to seek help from President Lincoln Script Excerpt

Grrrls Drool

A sexually repressed Catholic girl who secretly writes erotica meets a riot grrrl hell-bent on getting her voice heard in the punk scene; they join forces to create zines and kill shame. Script Excerpt

Second Dance

An American college student discovers that she's the reincarnation of a 19th-century Middle Eastern belly dancer, and she has an unlikely destiny she must fulfill.

A Noble Truth

Two estranged best friends set off on a road trip to explore what truths unite people in a modern America dominated by apathy and discord. It is soon clear, however, that truth is the last thing either man seeks. [20 awards/honors, including first place in the 2016 London Film Awards, the 2014 Awareness Film Festival, and the 2014 West Field Screenwriting Awards].

The Passage of Sun

Three Alabama brothers challenge the Convict Leasing System of forcing African American men into prison in order to continue providing slave labor and county revenue following the Civil War. Script Excerpt

The Way Back Home

A young boy who loves animals must cope with his father’s insistence that he will someday work in the slaughterhouse that has employed the men of his family for the past several generations. [21 awards/honors including, Grand Jury Prize winner of 2014 Hollywood Screenplay Contest, Grand Jury Prize winner of 2015 Las Vegas Screenplay Contest, and Grand Prize Winner of the 2014 London Film Awards (Feature Screenplay Category).]

On the Boulevard

Recently deputized U.S. ICE agent, Stella Arroyo, a first generation Mexican-American is getting closer to the American dream that her immigrant parents wanted for her, but to fulfill their wishes she must expose a corrupt system and keep others from obtaining their own American dream.

FINAL STATUS

When a Mossad agent discovers he has assassinated a Palestinian politician falsely accused of terrorist ties, he risks his job, marriage and ultimately his life to help the man's family. QUARTERFINALIST, NICHOLL FELLOWSHIPS WINNER, AMERICAN SCREENWRITERS ASSOCIATION

THE FAT LADY SINGS

A broke private investigator, who uses the public librarian as his free secretary, is forced to take on an impossible case of a politician‘s neglected wife: find a plumber that she only met on the internet years before, and so the P.I. travels to the wilds of Ohio in search of the elusive plumber. Script Excerpt

Fish Fetish

What happens when you mix compulsion with alcohol? A horrific, fast paced story of abuse and revenge inspired by "Tales From The Crypt" Script Excerpt

The Consultants

In 1920s Hollywood, two amateur forensic scientists -- a buttoned up Midwestern do-gooder and a fast-talking Angeleno who's one step away from being a criminal himself -- open a consulting detective agency with the help of a disgraced cop, a flapper and a morbid nurse fresh from the front lines of World War I. Think CSI without all that pesky technology.

The Daffodil Field

A young Irish patriot returns wounded from the First World War at Easter 1916. When his little brother joins The Rising, the patriot must decide where his loyalties truly lie.

The Dumb Ox Bellows

A 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.-

Long Path To Peace

A drug lord's alienated and incorruptible son, hiding in the Montana wilderness for his protection, saves his mentor - “the father he always wanted” from a living hell. Script Excerpt

PAPER TRAIL

An Army brat without a home town grows up, leaves his Army M.P. job to become a P.I. working out of his Grandfather’s storefront in Colorado gold country, his first case revealing a small town full of secrets including one that destroyed his family years before, and a new secret that he must forever keep from his fiancée. Script Excerpt

THE ORGANIC SVENGALI

A young woman haunted by lost memories falls in love with a mysterious, scientific-minded music professor, whose secret experiments help her recall her devastating past - but also start stealing memories of the present. Script Excerpt

Generational Curses

After a bitter middle aged alcoholic saves the life of a broken teenaged sex slave, they lift each other from the depths of despair.

Free Sports Radio

Two Filipino-American brothers purchase a radio station in a small city, dreaming of commercial free sports talk, but their ambitious younger sister has more bigger plans for them and the station. Script Excerpt

Hold Fast

When a gang war threatens to spill into her county, a Texas Sheriff uses unconventional methods to protect it.

Fighting Johnny O'Brian

For a parole board hearing, a cocky young civil rights attorney gets appointed - despite his protests - to represent a white man who's been in prison twenty years for killing two black police officers.

GIDEON

When a mysterious boy with Christ-like powers brings together a racially charged town in the 1940's healing a black boy and a white boy, the mayor's jealous son determines to kill him.

The Waterwheel Forest

The Waterwheel Forest is a fantasy drama short about the young boys working in a turn of the century steel mill and what happens to them during a mill disaster.

A FATAL CURE

A loyal PR consultant rudely awakens when mysterious deaths confront her with the fiercely saved secrets about BigPharm’s happiness pills. Script Excerpt

SEE JANE RUN

A young teacher moves back into her hometown. An unknown stalker disrupts her life over and over and almost succeeds to kill her. The investigating officer and preacher's son turns out to be more than a protector of the law and her. "See Jane Run" is an adaptation of Gail Gaymer Martin's inspirational suspense titled "A Love for Safekeeping."

The Chain - Francisco Pizarro

A West Indies Native and a Franciscan Friar embark on an Amazon expedition with legendary conquistador Francisco Pizarro in search of a city of gold. But instead of finding riches, they unleash a curse that affects centuries of historic leaders and trailblazers.

Broken Cycle

After witnessing the cold blooded murder of his best friend, a young aspiring music producer must decide between revenge or a chance of a life time.

Main Drag

After the death of her mother, a down and out drag queen travels from New York to Nebraska to find her estranged, abusive father and break the news to him.

Shadow of Despair

A Chicago homicide detective specializing in behavioral psychology and analytics, pursues a serial killer who extracts body parts from his victims. Script Excerpt

Beyond Forever

A man that tragically lost his wife and son decides to leave his remaining family, friends and successful career behind by signing up for a one-way trip to Mars as part of an experimental volunteer space exploration program.

Shiva

When an innocent, young man is arrested and tortured in Sri Lanka, he escapes the pain through his film fantasies.

PURSUE PEACE

In the midst of destruction and pain, a young boy yearns to stop violence however not with violence. 5 pages

ELIJAH

The king of Israel marries a Phoenician Princess, who is consumed by Baal worship, wanting to kill all devout Hebrews. God’s prophet challenges the king to repent in spite of the threat of death.

JET LAG

Morgan Campbell is a bored teacher looking for adventures she can control without disturbing her carefully arranged life. When love and passion arrive with musician Scottie Lane, the two are almost destroyed by his heroin addiction and her alcoholism. As the world discovers their secret affair, she fights to keep her career, her privacy, and the man she loves.

Panama Fever

When the Army sends a young doctor to Panama, his adventures- and misadventures- with the natives, the Army and his wife come fast and furious.

Population: One

A nineteen-year-old drops out of film school in New York City following a tragic accident and returns to his small Pennsylvanian hometown, only to be confronted by an array of quirky small town folk, including his detached best friend, his alcoholic single mother and a free-spirited cross-country traveling girl.

FOR LIFE

Edged on by his incestuous sister-in-law, the president of a leading euthanasia group faces-off with his estranged anti-euthanasia daughter over the fate of his aged mother.

TOXIC TIDE

A young nurse and her fellow Florida refugees attempt a daring escape from an environmental disaster brought on by greed and political corruption. Script Excerpt

REMAKING MARTIN

A genius scientist diagnosed with cancer has to be cloned and then befriend his replica to examine whether they are identical; however, if he approves the clone, he will die himself. Script Excerpt

Cast To Kill

A respected casting director with a wandering eye for the ladies must fight for his life and reputation after being framed for murder by a vengeful psychopath. Script Excerpt

The Strange Reality of Sally Parker

PILOT: A rebellious member of the alien race known as "The Custodians", launches a mission to rescue his friend and bring closer to home his beloved, human-cyborg daughter. SERIES: A teen human-cyborg helping to perfect a mind-altering computer game capable of saving humanity, battles a psychopathic CIA operative and a gang of alien marauders - both intent on enslaving Earth. Script Excerpt

A ROSE BY THE DOOR

A God fearing woman finds herself burned out by hurtful tragedies in her life. By trying to hide secrets from the past, she comes to the place where faith seems gone. But she overlooks, that old wounds must be touched and tended before they could be healed for good. A ROSE BY THE DOOR is an adaptation of Deborah Bedford's inspirational novel with the same title.

Supernatural - Intervention

Sam sets up an unusual intervention to address Dean's alcoholism.

Funny Boneyard

A young entrepreneur plugs his last dime into Heaven-Wise Acres, a cemetery-of-the-absurd theme park. To everyone's surprise it's a huge hit...until things go horribly wrong.

Believer

An alcoholic with a history of mental illness escapes a murderer and then fights to make sense of her fragmented “visions” in order to save the next victim before the killer’s twelve-hour deadline. Script Excerpt

Rod Knock

A newly divorced man tries to fit in to the singles world doing handyman work for the ladies he dates. Depressed from his many mishaps, he must find a way to prove himself worthy. Script Excerpt

MIRDAD, A LIGHTHOUSE AND A HAVEN

In the late 1800s, a mysterious Man is admitted at a Middle-Eastern monastery, where he reveals new concepts of God, life, and love, which turns the monks into disciples, but also arouses the furious reaction of the local materialistic abbot. Script Excerpt

RED BANDANA

A repo man on the run from a Mexican drug gang sets up his twin brother to take the hit for him, only to have a change of heart and try to save his life - The Talented Mr Ripley meets The Usual Suspects in No Country for Old Men in this gritty and fast-paced suspense thriller.

The Sub

A dramedy, spotlighting the realities--comical, tragic, and inspiring--of the grossly overcrowded public school system and one off-centered substitute teacher’s journey through the bureaucratic, educational circus of urban public education. Script Excerpt

Hy-Brasil

Four lifelong friends go on a search to find a mythological island, which is rumored to grant immortality.

Between the Salt and the Sky

A Portuguese fishing village in 1942. She has nothing to lose, and he has nothing to live for. Two little Jewish girls change everything. Script Excerpt

Unarmed and Dangerous

A downtrodden teen takes charge of a botched bank robbery, and is then assisted by her hostages, reveling in the excitement and keen to frustrate the gung-ho detective outside from arresting anyone. Script Excerpt

Into the Sunshine

A Naval Officer returns to his hometown Washington, D.C. to lay his younger brother to rest and bring the killer to justice. Script Excerpt

SHEILA'S WEB

A psycho-sexual thriller about a Key West sculptor, yachtsman and society drop-out who falls in love with the troubled daughter of a powerful Tennessee Williams-styled family and becomes embroiled in a complex web of madness and murder. A twisted, Hitchcockian tale of a single man's nightmare of sex, romance and paranoia based on Patricia Highsmith's theme in "Strangers On A Train". Script Excerpt

CARE PLANS

A closeted nurse from a dysfunctional family struggles with love and the meaning of life while working in the gay community during the emerging AIDS crisis in 1970’s New York City. Script Excerpt

Mephisto's Torment

Mephisto has “supped with the Devil” and now she wants payment - the eternal servitude of their innocent love-child, so Mephisto hides him in another time and place, but when Ryan starts emulating his evil step-father, Mephisto's compelled to deliver a painful lesson. Script Excerpt

Cotton-Pickin' Heroes

As the close of the Civil War nears, three disparate black Union soldiers become trapped behind Confederate lines and are forced to hide out on a cotton plantation, trying to blend in and not be noticed by the addled owner of the plantation and his harsh black overseer. But when the Colonel's eldest son declares he's taking the slaves to Brazil -- where slavery is still legal - our heroes decide they have to escape... and plan to take all the plantation slaves with them.

Playing the Field

After dominating youth leagues and high school football, a young woman struggles with womanhood, academic studies, gender expectations, and family tragedy while trying to find her place as quarterback on her new college team.

Screaming Disorder

You think you know a Problem Child? A screamer? A kid gone bananas? Pull out a straight jacket and get a load of this little darling: Script Excerpt

The Other Washington

Another man named Washington surmounts harsh, often violent opposition as he boldly ascends from the illiterate depths of slavery and ignorance to eloquence as an iconic, world-renowned university president and charismatic leader. Based on a true story. Script Excerpt

Sam Fights Back

: An engaging, stroppy 12/13 year-old, having blinded his sister, must save for her eye operation by Christmas. He has to outwit ruthless crooks wanting his computer skills, or disappear.

The Odyssey of John Buchanan

Our young hero is a witness to his father's slaughter at Scotland’s Culloden battlefield. After he is captured by the British, the brutal murder of his wife and mother thrusts him into an epic, dangerous, journey when he is eventually deported as a slave to the colonies. The story lays bare man's inhumanity to man. Script Excerpt

A Risk of Exposure

It’s 1953, and a Russian ballet teacher’s personal mission is to smuggle photos of Stalin's crimes to the United States. With the KGB in pursuit, she finds an unexpected ally. Script Excerpt

Tried By Fire

After a black Pentecostal church burns down, the white pastor of a conservative church tries to take sole credit when the churches merge in a racially polarized town.

Never promised you a Rosegarden

Monologues A theater performance that takes place in an apartment building Three apartments inhabited by four people who all live alone for various reasons Three monologues that are linked together in a criminal way

Rat's Bait Shop, Bar & Grill

Two marines and a Apache bar owner must stop a shoot-out in a hole in the road bar before anyone is killed.

A Journey With Destiny

In 1906, a young man’s journey by automobile leaves him stranded in a remote mining town about to erupt into a battle royale between company goons and radical labor. Script Excerpt

Someone Somewhere Is Listening

Two police detectives, estranged lovers of years past, risk life and career in an undercover attempt to identify the sociopath conducting a campaign of extortion, robbery, rape, and murder based on information gleaned from personal phone conversations. Script Excerpt

The Accomplice

A lovable reform school grad, desperately seeking a fresh start in a small town, unwittingly becomes an accomplice in a murder committed by the most popular kid in town.

THE KITE FLYER

A young widow and her boy, who has Down syndrome, are paid off by her in-laws to disappear. She must learn to cope with life's demands to survive and forgive the people who hurt her to fully live. The Kite Flyer is an adaptation of Gail Gaymer Martin's inspirational fiction, "The Christmas Kite."

A Good Soul

A sitcom actor risks losing his soul for the chance to prove that he can be more than the lovable big brother he played on TV. His quest for a darker role leads him into the world of underground clubs where he is tricked into playing the killer of a snuff film.

Karamazov

The three sons of an influential but corrupt businessman struggle to find their place in a world gone mad. Expanded: Karamazov is a modern day re-imagining of 'The Brothers Karamazov' by Dostoyevsky. Central to the story are the three opposing Karamazov brothers - Ivan, Ali and Dmitri - and their turbulent relationship with their charismatic, yet dominant father. Fyodor Karamazov has problems in abundance with modernising inner city estates, questions surrounding his successful dealings with the local authority and an heir, Dmitri, burdened by grudges and gambling debts with some very shady characters. At the core of both the book and this adaptation is the theme of corruption and how it manifests itself in the lives of the characters. Thematically, the series also explores the younger generation's desire to define themselves independently of their parents/elders. Conflict arises from this battle between generations for control.

A Long Way From Sunday

An edgy, faith-inspired, drama about the relationships of Andre, a mischievous 11year old, and a series of family revelations that lead his grandfather, a working class, Pentecostal pastor, to question his faith, murder his friend, and burn down his church. Script Excerpt

The Longest Goodbye

A poignant look at an elderly mother's battle with dementia and her son's commitment to keeping love alive, as memories fade, and life on the road is rearranged to moments in time. Script Excerpt

Star Crossed Lovers

A contemporary Romeo and Juliet story about a budding romance that becomes complicated for two young lovers from rival New York mafia families. Script Excerpt

SIR HARRY LAUDER TONIGHT!

A famed Hollywood actor produces and stars in an Off-Broadway musical about his idle – the acclaimed, world renowned but long forgotten musical hall entertainer, Sir Harry Lauder. A biographical musical extravaganza. All music public domain. Script Excerpt

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”) Script Excerpt

Who'sYourWackyUncle.com

Horrible-tacky golf pants, big-plastic lapel flower that sprays water, big refrigerator-teeth smile, bald, hand buzzer and a Liberty One 24” red oak slapstick. If your uncle isn't like this you can order one through WhosYourWackyUncle.com Script Excerpt

Autumn Blood

Bad Apples Don't Fall Far From The Tree... A social worker, tormented by his own abused past, gives aid to an abused, pregnant teen that threatens to become a taboo relationship. The fact that his live-in mother likes to kill socially irredeemable door to door salesmen only makes life worse. When fate deals him a lottery win, his seemingly mundane life falls apart. Script Excerpt

In Memoriam

The release of his brother from an institution – accused of killing their father as children – opens a slew of secrets, drama and dark truths for a writer and his family.

Harpo's Bike (Can't Find My Way Home)

A young ad artist takes a trip to New Orleans on a Harley inherited from his estranged Marine father to prove to his family that the man was having an affair. Instead, he finds a veteran homeless mute - his father's best friend - who thinks he's Harpo Marx. Script Excerpt

Fool Me Twice

A couple try to save their failing marriage by hiring clones of themselves as babysitters.

BERSERK

It is her sweet 16 Birthday, and it is bring your daughter to Work Day. She never could've anticipated that to save her Dad from a crazed, demon-possessed Scientist, she'd have to commit Murder!

Misguided Illusions

In the world of Drag Queens, there's a fine line between fantasy and reality. When the two collide not even a serial killer can decide.

A Death Without Malice

Marissa Sheldon's husband has been in a vegetative state for two years. She is now forced to ask herself - has the time come to let him die? Gold Remi winner, Worldfest Houston

Haunt for Hire

After a family enlists the help of a ghost to save themselves from a vindictive neighbor, they start a haunt for hire business and learn that even ghosts can be haunted. Script Excerpt

Puzzles

After a crippling injury ends his sports career and costs him his girlfriend, a resolute high school star quarterback seeks a new way to use his abilities in the face of a world determined to keep him down. Script Excerpt

Valentine

A bishop tries to manipulate a priest into visiting his brother on death row by sending him into a troubled parish. Script Excerpt

Compulsory

Inspired by true events: In 1922 Oregon, a lawyer, thinking he’s protecting his family, reluctantly, but covertly joins the KKK and their push for the Oregon Compulsory Education Act, only to throw his family into mortal danger. Script Excerpt

HOSEA

The 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.

FINDING CHRISTMAS

A woman gets threatening emails and anonymous calls about her little girl, who had drowned with her husband three years ago. They never recovered her body. Could she still be alive? Finding Christmas is an adaptation of Gail Gaymer Martin's inspirational suspense.

Spike

A Native American environmentalist is pitted against his logger brother after a botanist whistleblower is pushed too far in the struggle to maintain the forests of Northwestern Montana. As loggers fight for job security, and as environmentalists fight for their cause, the botanist becomes the victim of both sides, and enacts a dangerous retribution. Script Excerpt

The Blues Detective

A small town Mississippi blues guitarist with big musical dreams embarks on a cross-country search for the parties responsible for the death of a fellow musician, along the way encountering corruption, bigotry, and a mysterious nightclub singer who's not what she seems.

WAKE

After three attempts on his life, an ordinary man enlists the aid of a mysterious stranger to fake his death, changing his identity and appearance, but when he attends his own wake to uncover the truth, he gets far more than he ever could have imagined. Script Excerpt

THEATRE OF DEATH

In 1903 Chicago, a crusading reporter exposes of the “Absolutely Fireproof” Iroquois Theatre, as a fire trap. He is proven right. Based on the true incident. No one was ever punished. Professional Coverage: "Recommend” - Dave Trottier (Author “The Screenwriter's Bible")

The Redemption of John Parker

An 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.

Honor to Pledge the Ending of the Solomon Brotherhood

What is there to do when a friendship pledge is the pathway toward turmoil? “Honor to Pledge” is an inspirational movie concerning four men who spent their childhood years together and did just about everything together. They even enlist in the Army together. Their lives are forever changed after making an oath to hold on to many secret that pertained to them, but could harm others.

RAGTIME WARRIOR

A FORGOTTEN MUSICAL GENIUS! James Reese Europe fights racism, Army prejudice and the Germans when he takes command of the “Harlem Hellfighters” band, introduces jazz and pop tunes; he revolutionizes military band music forever. A WW1 action musical biopic; all music public domain. Can be adapted to TV miniseries. Professional Coverage: “Recommend” Dave Trottier (Author “The Screenwriter’s Bible.”) OFFICIAL FINALIST - New York Screenplay Competition SEMI-FINALIST - Black Stories and Screenplay Competition SEMI-FINALIST - Page Turner Screenplays Genre Competition QUARTER-FINALIST - PAGE International Screenplay Competition Script Excerpt

The Body and Blood

A priest who is losing his faith attempts to renew the faith of others at the dawn of the zombie apocalypse.

DEEP BLUE: NYC Transit Police

TV Series treatment and pilot script featuring the legendary NYC Transit Police Department, which patrolled New York's vast subway system and was credited with maintaining record low subway crime statistics in the early 1990s. *Series creator, Ben Fiore, is a former NYC Transit Police Officer.

THE WETTEST SPRING

In the late 1980's, Kurt Maxwell battles puberty and locker room myths, a family in the midst of dissolving, and on top of everything else, he must conquer Date Math at middle school.

Marry Me. A horror story.

In this one minute screenplay she really screws him ... but only in a figurative way ... but forever. Script Excerpt

A Dressmaker's Daughter

Romania 1940: A rebellious Jewish girl, 15, falls into a scandalous affair with her tutor. As war erupts, she is taken prisoner but escapes with her lover to join the partisans and sabotage enemy supply lines.

Home Like a Shadow

College girl accompanies her new boyfriend to his decaying San Joaquin Valley home town for his mother's birthday and is pulled into family conflicts and lost dreams dating back to the Civil War.

LAST FLAG ON OAK ISLAND

When a museum curator and his female assistant translate clues in an American Revolution-era journal to a British payroll buried on Oak Island, they must go undercover to unearth the treasure before two rival treasure hunters discover it. Wealth of the century or the island's deft insult? (From the novel Last Assault on Oak Island by Jenn Rekka.)

Betrayal at the Wedding

A young couple gets married, only to find that their single dating parents have their own agendas when attending their wedding reception. Script Excerpt

APPEARANCES

Ronnie, a street-wise teen struggles to overcome scorn from her friends, her school, and her church when she claims to have seen vision in a city park.

Zone Of Fear

Do your friends have irrational behavior or is it you that's crazy? Or, maybe you've past into a special, intergalactic floating zone -- a zone of fear. Script Excerpt

The Schoharie

A volunteer firefighter of Native American descent must convince a small town sheriff with a grudge that a vengeful Indian spirit is bent on destroying their town with the flood waters of a nearby creek. Inspired by the actual Schoharie Creek bridge collapse of 1987. Now available as a novel. Script Excerpt

At the Sound of the Tone

A strange voice on her answer machine confesses to murder, and a frightened young architect enlists an Apache policeman with a troubled history of his own. Script Excerpt

American Monarchy

After 200 years, the American Monarchy is threatened by declining popularity and the growth of movements that claim the Republic. And when a royal member is accused of racism, the country is engulfed by protests and turmoil. Taking advantage of instability, the ambitious California governor sees the perfect chance to lead a daring separatist movement. The old and debilitated King must unite the Nation and guarantee the continuity of the most powerful monarchy on the planet.

BROKEN

A witty, Two-Act dramatic play about mental illness in an African American family revolving around a woman suffering compulsive guilt, drug addiction, alcohol abuse and multifaceted visual and auditory hallucinations regarding the accidental death of her 17-year-old son. Script Excerpt

Death Poem - Part 1

Once a priest, an elderly, suicidal WWI marine meets a serial womanizer on the steps of a cathedral and ends up revealing his role in the deaths of seven men because of his insatiable need to avenge the rape and murder of his beloved Red Cross Nurse. Script Excerpt

Ripples in life

A car crash outcome and how two young women lives collide. About love finding its way into the two young hearts and influencing them to overcome their struggles. Script Excerpt

Young Man Arise

The true story of Brian Warth's journey from convicted murderer to powerful preacher!

SHE WASN'T THERE

A fragile woman, haunted by the past, struggles to write a book exposing the person she feels is responsible for her twin brother’s death twenty-five years prior - their mother.

Demand Greatness

A father pushes his son to the limits, instilling a work ethic to achieve greatness in America's favorite pastime.

THE CHRISTMAS THEFTS MYSTERY

While exploring the Christmas activities of a small town with his daughter, a widowed banker meets a divorced accountant and sparks fly. It seems like the perfect holiday season until the couple fall victim to a local thief and the families take it upon themselves to show the culprit the spirit of Christmas.

ELECTRIC

After being electrocuted on the job, a woman has the power to make everyone around her fall in love... everyone, it seems, except the man of her dreams. Script Excerpt

OVERPASS

When a cement truck driver avoids slamming into a Lexus, only to lose his own life, he haunts the Lexus driver and teaches him a powerful life lesson in the process. Script Excerpt

ONDINE'S CURSE

Detective Owen Murphy is on a mission -- he must clear his name on a murder he didn't commit. But he must do it before he falls asleep... because the next time he does might just be the last time. Script Excerpt

The Greater Sin

After an innocent black teenager is gunned down by a rogue cop who isn’t charged, his mother becomes an activist and runs for city council to change entrenched practices that protect lawless cops.

Pista de Fuego ( Rink of Fire)

Things get heated when a transgender Latino teenager challenges the International Skating Unions rule 302. Ice Pairs must be one women and one man.

Boy Searching For Peace

A young boy experiences an atrocity of war and becomes the man who leads the world to peace.

Tucker

A young boy overcomes the struggles of being black in 1950's Alabama.

CHAMPION OF THE WORLD!

A sledgehammer right fist; Heavyweight Boxing Champion at age 23; the most popular man in America; “boxing reform” activist and a ten-year foe of the Police Gazette publisher who wants him dethroned. And an alcoholic.

Eyes of Fury

A bold eco-journalist on a quest to rescue a pair of trafficked tigers fights to escape the triad determined to end his meddling permanently. Script Excerpt

Covid Doesn't Care About Family

Victoria Johnson AKA Tori rebels against wearing a mask and doesn't believe that the Covid virus is real and her family tries to convince her to get tested but she refuses and thinks she can't catch the "so-called virus".

P.O.I. - Cold Case

Pilot: An abduction on Vancouver Island causes a deadly cat-and-mouse game between a local ex-con, the Detective persecuting him, a corrupt land developer, and a slick sociopath. Series: a vengeful sociopath building an empire abducts two women from remote, coastal Campbell Creek, as the first in a series of crimes. A rogue cop suspects Fury, a reckless ex-con, who must change his ways to solve the abduction mysteries and prove himself innocent or go to jail for life set up by the criminal kingpin. Script Excerpt

Bitter Life Lessons

(on facts) Unequal battle with depression, esophageal cancer, and mother's death. The film tells about situations that stop us in life. About the lessons of life for which we are not prepared. About the fall and loss of everything we love.

Fort Pillow

Two boys ,master and slave, soldiers on opposite sides in a desperate war, meet to resolve their past linked in blood. In spring of 1864, hate has devolved The Civil War from glory to murder, from honor to hate that will find its most brutal expression in a massacre at Fort Pillow Tennessee.

The monument

A man's foot stuck into a hole, passengers treat him with their understanding of his situation, and no one helps him out.

Always Be Human

The pandemic is sweeping the world, but is it the only problem of mankind? Come ... I'll take you through a world full of selfishness, brutality, oblivion.

The Dwarves

A child is born into an aristocratic family in eighteenth century England but to the acute distress of his parents he is born a dwarf. After the death of his parents the young nobleman sets about creating a safe haven for himself and his kind in a world full of ignorance, prejudice and contempt.

Black and White

Two attorneys, one Black man, and one white man look back over their lives and navigate racial tension and stereotypes as they compete for the same partnership position at their prestigious law firm, which has just nabbed the two biggest cases in the firm’s history.

Valley of the Sun

About a boy named Ritchie who witnesses his parents getting murdered by the mob in New York. Growing up in and out of foster care and getting separated from his two brothers at an early age. Ends up working as a club promoter in Scottsdale Arizona. Where he meets Sammy the bull Gravano. Desperate for money to hire a private investigator to help located his two brothers. He goes to work selling ecstasy for Sammy the Bull. Only to find out later the man he works for is the same man who killed his parents. Now he has to decide work with the FBI or take him out himself and get revenge. Script Excerpt

The Other Side of the Bar

A bartender in San Diego tries to navigate the nightlife of booze, drugs, sex, and social media in today's image-obsessive and overly sensitive world. Well intentions mixed with a hedonistic lifestyle ultimately pits a man verses himself. Script Excerpt

Two Fishermen

When a young reporter is sent to cover a hanging, he must quickly come to grips with the bloody and painful realities of life as well as the spontaneous nature of true friendship.

Clara Callan

Clara Callan is the moving story of two sisters and their life-changing experiences on the eve of World War II as Clara battles loneliness in her job as a teacher in the local grammar school and her sister Nora heads for New work and the world of show business.

HARBINGER

Detective Sandy Marone feels the weight of the world come crashing down on her shoulders as she investigates the mysterious disappearance of a senior citizen, one of several over the past few months. This investigation will lead her to a place she's never been... and didn't know existed. Script Excerpt

I never knew the man I married