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The Stylite - Christmas in Alexantine
The country and world are returning to normal after the defeat of the Daemoklos demons by the stylites and the Saracen. Now at Christmastime in the rising city of Alexantine, Teresa Amadei is mourning the loss of her old friend Alice Marion, and meditating on life and death as Christmas Day approaches.
But while she and her cousin/fellow stylite Matthew Abbate meet friends and family, an old threat looms again with the return of the Azdharkins, descendants of humans raptured from Earth by the Daemoklan Azhgok 1500 years ago. Teresa and Matthew, on the advise of their mentor, the desert hermit Father Simon, befriend the four Taishis, vigilantes who fought and defeated the Kingdom of the Red Sun crime syndicate using ancient and modern technology. This group of six must prepare to face Azhgok in the wilds of Turkestan before he can re-establish his demonic kingdom on Earth.
The Stylite
Adapted from my novel "The Stylite" now out on Amazon.
Teresa Amadei is a young stylite, a wandering, ascetic demon hunter, trained in the Way of Fire. Her teacher, Father Simon, a Byzantine martial artist monk, sends her on a journey to the city of Alexantine in the Midwestern US, where many are moving to escape the growing chaos in the world. Along the way she stops at towns and cities and battles the Daemoklos, demons who have escaped from their prison, to seal them away by writing them back into their eponymous grimoire. She is aided by her older cousin and fellow stylite, Matthew Abbate, and crosses paths with the mysterious black knight, the Saracen, with his own agenda.
Gold Mine
Writers: Robert Reeves
Number of Pages: 100
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
After several friends get trapped in a gold mine, an accidental death triggers a cycle of scheming and murder.
The Animated Christmas Special
Writers:
g.Michael Nicolosi, David Hyde, J. Nicolosi
Number of Pages: 144
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
A Canadian Moose and his pals set out on a journey to find the North Pole ... and Santa. Moose desires to pull his sleigh.
The Underground
In 1905, John, an Irish immigrant tunnel digger and bare-knuckle boxing champion on the run from New York City after killing a cop and haunted by arrives in burnt down Havre, Montana. Haunted by Dagda the giant Celtic earth god following a traumatic head injury, and down to his last dollar amidst joblessness, he enjoys a subterranean world of brothels, speakeasies and opium dens. He takes a job as bodyguard for Sing Lee, a polarizing and eccentric Chinese entrepreneur who shares tales of supernatural treasures hidden beneath Death Valley. Escaping an ambush by a racist cowboy mob, John kills the sheriff during an all-night gun battle, before they steal a train and skip town.
The two co-dependent outsiders are joined by Michael Murphy, an Irish ex-NYC cop, Lita and Erin, a pair of exotic prostitutes in love, Lisa Jefferson, the slain sheriff's fifteen-year-old daughter, and Maria Magdalena, a New Mexican dominatrix, among other odd outliers of the weird and dying wild west. Hunted by the sadistic Deputy Jefferson seeking vengeance for his father, the scheming caravan of fugitives encounters new enemies at every turn across strange and unforgiving stolen lands, navigating vast criminal underworlds raging amidst cities along the Pacific coast, descending toward their Death Valley fortune.
This uncanny tale, inspired by surreal history and the ambitious stories of downtrodden characters turned against each other, reveals mysterious lives and forgotten societies, lost but thriving in The Underground.
The Fifth Ring AKA Vagabond Samurai
BOOK 1: EARTH. The story opens on The Divine Ruler, a paranoid schizophrenic oligarch hermit living in his penthouse office and looking down upon his city that doesn't know what's coming. From under a bridge on the 4th of July, Native American Specialist Sam tries and fails to meditate. His gruff mentor, Master Sergeant, states the impossibility of peace and teaches samurai lessons of Musashi as told in The Book of Five Rings. Master Sergeant sleeps, but while Sam keeps watch, he pops pills and falls asleep too. Sam awakens to find a trio of masked men beating Master Sergeant. He reveals to Sam before dying that Sergeant Hollis is responsible. He gives Sam a tanto blade and commands Sam to avenge him. Sam escapes police arrival on the scene. A flip switches in Sam and he goes from addict with PTSD, to single-minded killing machine. He prowls the streets, scouring homeless camps for the Sergeant Hollis. He finds Captain Hollis, an eccentric older black vagabond, who Sam accuses of murder, before realizing the case of mistaken identity. Cop lights flood the scene and Sam runs deeper into the Underground Mall, reaching a dead end. Concealing himself under his robe and feigning sleep, Sam listens as two undercover officers, Officer Musa, an idealistic rookie, and the power-hungry Officer Vasquez, discuss their mission of killing Sam as part of their boss’s operation to rid the streets of crime. Before discovering Sam, the cops get a call from Sergeant Hollis who orders them to meet at their rendezvous. The shame almost pushes Sam to suicide, but the spirit of Master Sergeant appears to remind him the mission is unfinished. He tells Sam to go to The Warrior’s Forest. The sun rises upon Weelaunee People’s Park, as Sergeant Hollis waits, fantasizing about Cop City. The others arrive, and he chastises them. Fed up, Musa goes home to his family. Vasquez assures Hollis but also leaves. Hollis, left alone, leaves a voicemail for his wife to let him come home. He decides to sleep in his car and upon getting in, Sam is waiting in the backseat with blade drawn. Demanding answers, it’s revealed Sergeant Hollis is a foot soldier in a master plan already set into motion. Sergeant Hollis hits the squad alarm. After plunging the blade into Sergeant Hollis’s brain stem, Sam is locked in the backseat as sirens move in. Sam raises the tanto high above his abdomen preparing to commit seppuku.
BOOK 2: WATER. Officer Vasquez opens the car door as a smoke grenade goes off. Sam escapes, evading bullets in his sprint to the woods. Vasquez finds the body of SGT Hollis along with recorded instructions left by Hollis on his phone. Vasquez flees the scene to avoid implication and calls mercenary Private Hawk, an Australian degenerate speed freak military experiment with dissociative personality disorder, to kill Sam. Deep in the woods, Sam struggles to get food. After resting and washing the blood from his hands in the pond, Hawk approaches Sam, engaging him in a disturbing revelation about the illusions of identity. They engage in a fight and after becoming disarmed and playing a game of cat and mouse along the Dolls Head Trail in the woods, they fight, with Sam fatally wounding Hawk, who reveals that he was a PMC who went to Vietnam and was the subject of Project Montauk, mind control experiments and time travel. Hawk takes his own life with a hatchet strike to the jugular.
BOOK 3: FIRE. Sam returns to the city to get food from the shares and discover who orchestrated the offensive. Dahlia, the social worker who runs the food shares, offers Sam and Fox, a trans sex worker comedian, a place to sleep. Fox accepts and Sam declines. Captain Hollis joins and offers his services as a scout, giving Sam a phone. Vasquez calls Musa, who is annoyed that the repercussions of their actions have been so severe. Musa vows to help bring in the cop killer Sam in the name of justice. Vasquez gets no answer from Hawk, so calls another mercenary, a Yakuza assassin, Rikomi, to kill Sam. Sam walks back toward the woods but as a shadowy figure pursues him, he spots a garbage bin fire and a houseless guy on the way. Caught off guard, the houseless guy is Rikomi the ninja assassin, who reveals himself to be a clone of Master Sergeant, attempts to slice his throat but Sam dodges and their fight commences. The shadowy figure is Captain Hollis, trying to warn Sam, but get incapacitated by a throwing star to the face. Eventually, after the tanto gets knocked into the fire, Sam wields the flaming blade in the last minute to throw blinding ashes at Rikomi and kill him. Rikomi reveals that Master Sergeant was most likely also a clone of the original soldier they cloned in Tokyo.
BOOK 4: WIND. Vasquez finds Rikomi’s corpse, while Sam and Captain Hollis hide behind him. Vasquez calls a third mercenary, Big Bro for "overkill". Captain Hollis’s phone rings and Vasquez pulls a gun but is caught by Sam’s blade. Vasquez reveals that all of them were PMC soldiers together in the First Water War building a pipeline in the Amazon for Total Power, a multinational energy corporation. Sam’s memories of Afghanistan are implanted, while the commander, Captain Hollis, lost his memory due to a lobotomy after he went AWOL. Vasquez moves to take Sam out first as a traitor. Sam slices Vasquez’s throat, before Musa enters. Sam and Captain Hollis flee. Sam shows up at Dahlia’s house and passes out, requiring a blood transfusion, which Dahlia provides. The doorbell rings, and paranoid, Sam answers it. No one there, he steps out on to the porch, and before going back inside, is attacked by Big Bro. They get into a knife fight on the porch, which comes to a halt once Sam recognizes his assailant as his actual older brother who he thought died in Syria. They reconcile and are then approached by Officer Musa, who comes in peace and reveals the final messages of Sergeant Hollis, revealing the plans of mastermind, The Divine Ruler.
BOOK 5: NO-THING. Musa and Big Bro bring Sam in to the Total Power energy corporation skyscraper as an offering for The Divine Ruler, along with Dahlia and Fox. Musa takes Dahlia and Fox to a dungeon, where the lower guard kills Fox for outing him as one of the johns she pegs for crypto. After Musa kills the guard in a shootout, Dahlia breaks out fifty houseless individuals including Captain Hollis kept in group holding cells. Sam and Big Bro are stopped on the elevator up to the penthouse, and in an outgunned firefight, the brothers take everyone out, but Big Bro catches a bullet to the neck and dies. In the penthouse office, The Divine Ruler gets frustrated that his ritual is now late and they are going to miss the window of the solar eclipse. Musa calls and says he has brought Sam, and to grant them access. Sam enters alone, and reveals his scheme for becoming God upon the earth by channeling every god of every religion that ever existed, offering his body as the ultimate avatar. They fight and Sam moves in for the kill, as The Divine Ruler offers a place by his side, a military commander in the divine new world, heaven on earth and immortality. Sam declines, but instead of killing The Divine RUler himself, allows the mob to enter and tear the oligarch to pieces. Dahlia, Musa and Captain Hollis enter as Sam leaves, resisting Dahlia’s urges to stay and rebuild the city and heal together. As some of the rescued captives begin to eat The Divine Ruler, Officer Musa reveals his plans to build a better more equal city, where no human goes this hungry again. Sam walks the street out of town, but stops at the underpass where Master Sergeant dies, seeing that Dahlia had made a memorial for him with a photo of Sam and his mentor. He meditates, at peace.
Tolerant Balls
An animated short.
Sweetener
A woman home for college break must outwit a very dangerous intruder.
L'crosse
Writer:
Gregg Marshall Greenberg
Number of Pages: 91
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
1000 - The Sword in the Stone series (Episode #1: The Druid, the Sword and the Raven)
Writer:
Guido Maria Giordano
Number of Pages: 117
Country of Origin: Italy
Language: English
When a woman unexpectedly appears after fifteen years, a man must confront the regrets he has always carried of running away from the only true love of his life
Soul Survivors
- An Obsession Of The Heart Part One
Writer:
Adam Poulos
Number of Pages: 95
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
When a woman unexpectedly appears after fifteen years, a man must confront the regrets he has always carried of running away from the only true love of his life
Scenario - Package
The scenario for the thriller "Scenario - package" in its original form is "I bought Burberry. Come to me".
The interesting and mystical main heroine, Verona Jeronimo, is the daughter of a rich and influential oil magnate, who has everything. Her biggest pastime in the world is the riding horses she raises on her large ranch in Texas and Mexico. She is a frequent guest at horse races, and also sells riding horses around the world. Her favorite perfume is Burberry London.
For those who do not know only the author of this scenario, Dianna Diverno, her favorite perfume has been "Burberry London" for almost 15 years. So, we hope that the company itself will not take for granted that the theme of this perfume is mentioned in this crime story. In case this is considered to be a problem, during the making of the film, the name of the perfume can be easily changed.
Then, let's go back to the description of the "Scenario - package" scenario. Verona has everything in life, a father who loves her, a fiance who adores her, many envious and good friends, wonderful riding horses with which she further built her name under the slogan "Vero-J". However, every time she has a problem in her life, she tells some of her good friends, "I have a new Burberry." Come to me '' or '' I bought a new horse. Come to me' This is a sign that at that moment she may have some unresolved problem or some day whens she is in PMS. However, she once sent her standard message to several different phone numbers: ''The new Burberry has arrived. Come to me' However, it was later determined that she had disappeared by some unusual accident. Is it part of something that cannot be understood at first glance, or did someone want to remove it as an important name and brand "Vero-J"?
Detectives investigate this case of disappearance, and during that time it is revealed that the body of Mrs. Teddy Jeronimo (Verona's mother) was never officially found, although she is presumed dead. Soon, Mr. Jeronimo also experiences a traffic accident due to broken brakes. He dies in the hospital. While one of his associates to whom he had previously lent money, also mysteriously disappears.
Detective Blanco, who is working on the case, discovers that the Jeronimo villa has been under surveillance by a secret organization for a long time, and analyzing the work of the people who did the surveillance, he discovers that everything is run by a mysterious woman under the pseudonym Vani Derr.
Investigating the death of Mr. Jeronimo, he discovers that many wanted to use him for power and money. Interrogating the case, the witness eventually discovers that it is not Barbara Weiss as she presented herself, but the missing Verona Jeronimo. Later, he discovers that all this is actually part of a secret chain led by Vani Derr, that is, in fact, the never found Mrs. Teddy Jeronimo. He reveals that she designed the process of the disappearance of her own daughter in order to continue a peaceful life as other personalities. He reveals that Mr. Jeronimo was the one who paid for the death of his wife many years ago, who managed to survive. She kept in touch with her daughter by sending her secret letters via Burberry London packages or something from the fashion collection the girl ordered. He reveals that Mr. Jeronimo was targeted by one of the people he lent money to, and that young Vero-J would surely be targeted at one of the horse races.
A brilliant thriller and plot takes us into the magical and mystical life of Texas.
Smiley Face
Writer:
Lucas Reinke
Number of Pages: 15
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Language: English
After a business woman discovers a literary site of poems that makes her find herself, she has to choose between following her father's dream or her dream, risking everything to find out a mysterious poet with whom she has fallen in love.
Life.Love.You!
Writer:
Bogdan Nicolae Groza
Number of Pages: 120
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Winner of Winter 2022 Edition "Best Chicago Screenplay"
After a business woman discovers a literary site of poems that makes her find herself, she has to choose between following her father's dream or her dream, risking everything to find out a mysterious poet with whom she has fallen in love.
WAVE MAN
A Mother’s Tragedy
The Quantum Dreamer
Black Whisper
Writer: Debra Karr
Project Type:
Screenplay
Number of Pages: 100
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
LOGLINE: A young Lieutenant living in her mother’s shadow must come to terms with her emerging superpowers as she helps save Earth from the machinations of a madman.
SUMMARY:
Far in the future, First Officer DELANA GARRICK and CAPTAIN BECKER arrive at Red Crater City, a post-apocalyptic desert land, on a mission to assassinate AFANAS MENSER, the city’s cruel dictator. Jana and Captain Becker sneak into the mines and detonate a bomb. The explosion kills Menser as the two heroes slip away in their ship.
10 years later, JARA GARRICK (18) ignores demands from her commander to land her jet safely and crashes. The daughter of the famed Delana Garrick, Jara has lived her life in her mother’s shadow, developing a chip on her shoulder a mile deep. After this particular act of insubordination, her COMMANDER sends her to a desert post in Red Crater City under the leadership of CAPTAIN STRATOS.
While Stratos is frustrated by Jara’s lack of respect and overall attitude, he sees there is something unusual and special about her. And Stratos is right. Jara has visions – lately, she has been consumed by her visions of swarms of bees and a cloaked man.
That cloaked man is RONOS MENSER, the son of Afanas Menser. Ronos, an unhinged scientist, has been cultivating a new breed of killer bees. The bees not only act as a deadly army for Ronos but provide him with the raw materials he needs to cultivate his SuperGene DNA, with which he injects himself.
As Ronos tracks Jara and plots his revenge to regain power over Red Crater City, Stratos summons the help of a mystical friend – CHODAK – to help unravel the mystery of Jara and her abilities.
With Chodak’s mentorship and help, Jara begins to realize her superpowers and transforms into BLACK WHISPER. With a suit of black armor and an array of emerging abilities – from visioning to telepathic powers – Jara/Black Whisper helps Stratos and Chodak track down Ronos and neutralize his swath of deadly bees. Ronos escapes and finds the key to enter the Portal.
But their work to save Red Crater City is not yet done. Chodak receives word that the YangKey, a group of militants, are actively organizing to take away Agione, Chodak’s homeland. Chodak, Black Whisper, and Stratos band together to fend off the Yangkey, not knowing Ronos was in Agione rousing up the YangKey as their divine leader. During the battle, Chodak is struck by a lance in the fight. As he fights for his life, Jara/Black Whisper conjures the ability to heal him, saving his life.
With Ronos leading the YangKey and becoming a super being enhanced by the SuperGeneDNA, the inevitable happens. Ronos and Black Whisper meet on the battlefield. Black Whisper, with her powers at full force, takes on Ronos at last. With the last inch of her power, she defeats Ronos. The YangKey no longer has its evil divinity to lead them. The war is over and the YangKey is destroyed. Red Crater City and Agione are saved as life returns to its serene peace.
The experience of becoming Black Whisper has changed her, and Jara decides to join Chodak in Agione permanently. But before she leaves for Agione, Stratos gives her the option to become a normal person again, by offering the vial to remove her powers. She and Stratos hold a funeral for “Jara” – completing her metamorphosis into Black Whisper in perpetuity.
The Cutting Room
Writer: Toby Smith
Project Type: Screenplay, Short Script
Number of Pages: 3
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Language: English
A censor is given an impossible task - making a family-friendly cut of Psycho - and faces an ultimate question: what comes of censorship, and what will come of him?
You Are My Oxygen
Writer: Toby Smith
Project Type: Screenplay
Number of Pages: 85
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Language: English
When an acclaimed saxophonist, Johan, begins experiencing difficulty breathing, the love of Sara, his devoted wife, is pushed to its limits.
Playground Insults
Writer: Toby Smith
Project Type: Short Script
Number of Pages: 6
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Language: English
Following a political disagreement, two university students decide to settle their differences. Their way of doing so, however, is a tad unconventional.
Baby Blue
Writer: Toby Smith
Project Type: Short Script
Number of Pages: 9
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Language: English
Following a personal tragedy, the relationship between a young couple begins to buckle.
A Woman's Work
Writer: Toby Smith
Project Type:
Screenplay, Short Script
Number of Pages: 13
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Language: English
After seeing an advert for an idyllic holiday resort, a housewife's ordered life is suddenly thrown out of whack.
Playing God's Game
Writer: Teodora Pancheva
Project Type:
Short Script
Number of Pages: 12
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Language: English
Just when God thought life was getting boring, one human being throws him a curve ball, that's not according to his plan.
Pocket Money
Writer: Teodora Pancheva
Project Type:
Screenplay
Number of Pages: 105
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Language: English
Rose leads a double life. At work she's a pick-pocketing burlesque dancer and at home she's the good daughter to a cop. She has it all under control, until Rose finds herself entangled with the city's most wanted criminal. The lies keep building and Rose can't tell if she enjoys drowning in them.
An Astrophysicists' Picnic
Writer: Teodora Pancheva
Project Type: Short Script
Number of Pages: 3
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Language: English
Cooper, a lover of all things space, spends his evening gazing at the stars peacefully... that is until he spots an unusual speck hurdling towards him in the sky.
The Colouring Book
Writer: Toby Smith
Project Type:
Screenplay, Short Script
Number of Pages: 7
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Language: English
A director is eager to film his daughter with her new colouring book. She, however, is less than thrilled. His constant struggle to capture the "perfect moment" on film is the core conflict of this story, and the twists and turns we take are all as a result of this illicit desire of his.
PARADISE BOUND
Writer: Jay Wheddon
Project Type:
Screenplay
Number of Pages: 115
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Language: English
No politician would be stupid enough to think they could control American voters with the use of advanced technology. Would they?
F.F.S!
Writer: Jay Wheddon
Project Type:
Screenplay
Number of Pages: 106
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Language: English
You think YOU'VE got it rough? Try being a stand-up comedian with tourettes!
HARD PLACE
TUSK
THE CHATEAU
WWII Horror. Not all monsters were Nazis...
Speechless
Queen of Parks
Windy City
Unleashed secrets, sinister schemes, and forbidden desires fuel the fiery feud between the Mancini and Caruso families who are hell-bent on destroying one another in the Windy City.
Series Trailer: https://youtu.be/N2xC5o1s-80
CROWN POINT
Single At Christmas
When his relationship ends just before the holidays, Gio Rossi and his best friend Marci Morgan decide it’s best to be “single at Christmas.” But when Gio
encounters Marci’s sexy new associate Javi Garcia and Marci meets Gio’s handsome boss Clint Anderson, they wonder whether they’ll be able to honor their pact and stay single into the new year.
NOTE: This film has a sequel titled "Married at Christmas."
Home For Christmas
Writer:
Joseph Anthony Francis
Project Type: Screenplay
Number of Pages: 98
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Language: English
Kayla Brennan and Miles Walker discover that attending their ten-year high school reunion offers them a second chance at love and a heartfelt understanding of the importance of being home for Christmas.
GONE
Writer:
Joseph Anthony Francis
Project Type:
Short Script, Television Script, Other
Number of Pages: 30
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Language: English
Lifelong friends cope with relationship issues while searching for a dear friend who has gone missing. (GONE is a micro TV/web series consisting of short, five-minute episodes. The scripts for the first six episodes are attached.)
Dash Away All
Closet Cases
Writer:
Joseph Anthony Francis
Project Type:
Television Script
Number of Pages: 27
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Language: English
In the early '90s when people listen to music on CDs and dial up to enter AOL chatrooms, two closeted gay law students face their families, their futures, and their feelings for each other.
Vinegar and Oil
Writer:
Joseph Anthony Francis
Project Type:
Television Script
Number of Pages: 46
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Language: English
When the Wallace family winery tragically burns to the ground, family members turn on each other, plans for revenge unfold, and a mysterious stranger exploits the chaos to his own advantage.
Christmas Conundrum
Writer:
Joseph Anthony Francis
Project Type:
Screenplay
Number of Pages: 97
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Language: English
When snowboarding superstar Christian Reed takes a bad fall during a run, his future becomes a conundrum. While on the bumpy road to recovery during the Christmas season, Christian crosses paths with Rose Barclay, a charming reporter who trips up his future plans and teaches him that falling can be a blessing...especially when you're falling in love.
The Future's Not Ours To See
- Cassie is a first-year chemistry student who has just moved to Brighton to study with her best friend, Dohna. They are worlds apart in their ideologies – Dohna is spiritual and open-minded, while Cassie is scientific and cynical and often cross swords. However, something that can’t be explained is Cassie’s episodes of déjà vu. Although she tries, along with the help of her equally cynical mother, to explain these phenomena in a purely scientific direction, a chance meeting on the seafront with a fortune teller slowly begins to create a conflict in her beliefs.
The fortune-teller, Madam Savannah, seems to know Cassie very well and tells her things that only she would know. Cassie receives information and warnings to change her approach to life, which gives her much to think about. Cassie’s eyes are drawn to a cheap-looking ring on her finger before leaving Madam Savannah’s booth. A subsequent visit to Madam Savannah the next day leaves Cassie shocked and confused. The booth is rundown and hasn’t been occupied in ages. An adjacent retailer confirms that the fortune teller hasn’t operated there in years.
A confused Cassie starts to walk back to her home when she remembers one particular piece of advice that Madam Savannah gave her - ‘Have a gamble.’ Cassie takes it at face value as she walks past an amusement arcade; she is drawn in and spends a few pounds in the coin drop machine. She wins a small jewellery box wrapped in a five-pound note. To her surprise, the item within is a ring – identical to the one on Madam Savannah’s finger. Everything starts to make sense. Cassie realises that the mysterious medium is her, who had travelled back in time to warn her about her actions and save her from herself.
Logline - Even the most cynical mind can be changed. Headstrong university student Cassie meets a fortune teller who appears to know her better than she knows herself.
Out Of Adversity
Deserted and alone on a Belgian battlefield in World War One, two British soldiers are the only ones left alive from an entire platoon. Stranded with only a stolen German grenade to defend them, petty bickering breaks out between them. Private Cavendish is middle-class, detached and seemingly aloof – just the kind of person who gets up the nose of Private Sid Rudge. The Cockney has no time for Cavendish’s type, and the feeling is mutual.
The two almost come to blows before a nearby bomb detonation causes them to take cover. The realisation that they could have died starts to thaw the animosity between them, and they share a cigarette and even stories of the girls they left behind.
They are overjoyed when a British voice blares out from above ground. It appears that they are saved. This optimism is brief, and a single shot sounds out before the dastardly figure of a smirking German soldier appears above, on the edge of the trench, rifle pointed at the Brits. Faced with certain death, they make the ultimate sacrifice and use their only weapon to stop the German in his tracks.
Logline -The bombs cease, but the battle continues. Only two First World War British soldiers remain from their company, and during a lull in hostilities, deep, personal conflicts between them come to a head.
Bell Tolls
‘Bell Tolls’ is a ten-minute drama exploring grief.
Marcus is sitting in his favourite café drawing in his sketchbook. He pauses to look outside the window and sees The Monster across the street. The Monster is not your stereotypical archetype, as this creature is colourful and fluffy. Marcus curiously looks around to check if only he can see The Monster. But when he looks back, The Monster is gone.
The story continues with back-and-forth conversations between Marcus and Will, his therapist, going into more depth on why The Monster appears and where it originated.
The piece finishes with Marcus coming to terms with The Monster and learning that, even though they are connected, it does not define or limit him on where his life goes.
Seven Minutes in Heaven
Writer:
Melinda Marie Core
Project Type:
Screenplay, Short Script
Number of Pages: 37
Country of Origin: -
Language: English
When a young teenager finds herself in heaven after killing herself, she is forced to see everything she would be missing as a consequence for taking her life. Only then is her spirit able to move onto the after life... or is it?
GOOD DEVILS
Writer:
Karpov Krushcheve
Project Type: Screenplay
Number of Pages: 115
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
GENRE: Drama - Romantic Thriller
Logline: Based on a true story, GOOD DEVILS relates the compelling journey of one man through a disabling addiction, escape from the underworld, and reunion with his soulmate.
"If you have an enemy, keep him at the racecourse".
GOOD DEVILS is a story within a story.
Theme: Child, Teen, and Adult Leo conquers his dreams.
Blood Ties
Cruise of the Amberjack
Writer:
E. Lyn Foster
Project Type: Screenplay
Number of Pages: 114
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
New President FDR confronts ghosts of his past by sailing himself back to Campobello, N.B. By facing his own fears he hopes to prove he is strong enough to carry an entire country out of the depths of its own despair.
One Mad Apple
Writer:
Laurie Asbourne and
Tom Pratt
Project Type: Screenplay
Number of Pages: 113
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
A dark comedy feature inspired by a true story and based on the book of the same name.
After a man moves to small town to care for his dying father, he embraces the
community and his new life as a stepfather and husband, until he finds himself in the crosshairs of an unhinged townswoman who challenges him in a school board election and makes him look like the crazy one.
The Changing Station
The Star Thrower
Writer:
Kathleen Welton
Project Type: Screenplay
Number of Pages: 97
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
When a chemical company dumps toxins into the ocean that threaten to destroy sea turtle nests, three friends find themselves in a race against time to rescue the nests and help the sea turtles safely hatch.
Rewiring Jade
Longwood
Writer: Cornell Hubert Calhoun III
Project Type: Screenplay
Number of Pages: 89
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Death of a high school exchange student from South Sudan sets off a series of chain of events for members of the powerful Longwood family
A Picture Worth Every Word
In need of money, a young big city exec returns to sell her small-town childhood home but discovers letting go is complicated.
Revelation
Writer: Carmen Pfammatter
Project Type: Short Script
Number of Pages: 5
Country of Origin: Switzerland
Language: French
As a couple for a few months and not living in the same city, Rachel and Marc meet in Geneva to enjoy their day.
Along the way, they meet Pascal, Marc's father. This unexpected meeting will not go as planned.
L.O.B.E.
Writer: David Hunter Fein
Project Type: Screenplay
Genres: Drama, thriller
Number of Pages: 92
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Imhotep's Secret
Writer: Jorge A Troncone Osorio
Project Type: Screenplay
Number of Pages: 125
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
The amazing story of Imhotep the greatest priest and healer from ancient Egypt who will discover the greatest scientific discoveries of the entire humanity through the most incredible relationship out of this world.
However, kept a secret in his tomb waiting to be discovered for almost five thousand years.
Once, it finally happens, a series of events escalate rapidly endangering lives and perhaps, the entire world with thrilled and unimaginable outcomes.
ON THE HARD
Project Type: Screenplay
Number of Pages: 105
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
A group of diverse societal misfits living on boats attempt to like one another, but instead result in multiple cause and effect disasters.
Accident
Ishita is conflicted as her recent years in her marriage to an American and the approach to life with no lies, makes her want to spill the beans but she has her ways with fiction. She believes in hope, she believes that stories can help.
Will her story save her mother?
Dakota Stone
Writer: Alfie Scattergood
Project Type: Short Script
Number of Pages: 35
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Language: English
A troubled sister and former cop tries to find out who killed her sister by any means necessary
Discharged
Writer:
Major Jas Boothe
Project Type: Television Script
Number of Pages: 38
Country of Origin: United States
A mismatched quartet of not-so-honorably discharged veterans unleash the good, the bad and the dark side of patriotism on Hollywood.
A Very Queer Holiday
Absolute Zero
Writer: Bryce Hatch
Project Type: Television Script
Number of Pages :33
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
A young girl with a bumbling passion for science, her fashionista gal pal, and a nerdy culinary neighbor film weekly experiments and exploits for their terminally ill friend.
An Unfamiliar Life
When Margie loses the one person that her entire life seemed to be centered around, this tragedy comes with a wake up call. She takes a hard look at this life that has become something so unfamiliar that she bravely leaves everything behind and ventures into a new world, a new romance, a new life. Her journey of self-discovery turns her unfamiliar life into something she could’ve never imagined. Estranged from her only sister, alone in a strange new place, Margie is surprised by the peace and love she finds in a remote tropical island with unlikely friends and the greatest love of her life. When the two sisters eventually reunite after years apart, a life that was once so unfamiliar to Margie, is a life that is full of possibilities. Some lives are found when everything else is lost.
In the vain of Under The Tuscan Sun, Before Sunrise, The Holiday and Something’s Gotta Give. This is a sincere and pure romantic drama. With sweeping locations all over the Bahama Islands of Nassau, Eleuthera and Exuma, this film will be a beautiful, honest look into a woman’s heart as she re-discovers herself and life she always dreamed of. An authentic journey so relatable, from tragedy and sadness to peace, joy and love, audiences will feel compelled to examine their own lives and if they are as fulfilled as they could be. A surprising and delightful adventure.
THE CHRISTMAS CON
Porcupine
Writer: David Hunter Fein (United States)
Project Type: Screenplay
Number of Pages: 120
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Worth The Weight
Mrs Saxena at the Hotel Grand
I...Herodotus
Writer: Michael Aston
Project Type: Screenplay
Number of Pages: 104
Country of Origin: Australia
A writer goes to greece to write the great screenplay amidst the mayhem and turmoi of modern Greek politics. A journey that will take him to the very heart of himself.
THE PRIEST AND THE PRIVATE EYE
Writer: Michael Aston
Project Type: Screenplay
Number of Pages: 106
Country of Origin: Australia
A ex priest turned private eye tracks down a serial killer murdering students in a ritualistic fashion on a religious campus university, only to have bad cops and church officials stand in his way.
THE BILLY WHISPERS GANG
DREAMS ARE BUT SHADOWS
Writer: Larisa Vödisch-Nikitina (Switzerland)
Project Type: Short Script
Number of Pages: 26
Country of Origin: Switzerland
Language: English
Three crooks create plans to make big money. Instead, they end up getting robbed.
The Three Days of The Lion
LAST ISLAND (former "Big Bang and back")
Writer: Manfred Winter
Project Title (Original Language): Die letzte Insel
Project Type: Screenplay
Number of Pages: 114
Country of Origin: Austria
Language: English
With our greed and stupidity, we will one day exterminate ourselves. -Stephen Hawking.
Machliar
Writer: Robert Kouba
Project Type: Screenplay
Number of Pages: 89
Country of Origin: Switzerland
Language: English
Thomas Machliar is a young and successful writer. He is about to close a great deal with Hollywood. Hollywood wants to film its trilology. However, the third book is still missing. Time is running out and Thomas hasn't finished the third book yet. It turns out that Thomas is not the actual writer, but that his father is the real author of his books. Thomas vehemently denies that. A fanatical fan of Thomas doesn't believe him and feels cheated. The fan tries to shoot Thomas at an event. But it only hits him on the shoulder. All this excitement leads to his father having a stroke and having to go to the hospital. He can no longer write for his son. Desperate, Thomas believes the deal with Hollywood is off. But he finds out that his father has already written the third book and the manuscripts are in his office. Thomas is saved. The deal takes place, so there's a big party going on in Los Angeles. At this party, Thomas learns that his father has died. Desperate, Thomas flies home again. He decides to finally tell the truth and writes a script about himself and his father called "Machliar".
Hybrids
Gimme Shelter Part Three
Broad Shoulders Draft 1
Writer: Samson Ari Ziegelman
Project Type: Screenplay, Short Script
Number of Pages: 21
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
A young adult reminisces on his time spent at a psychiatric hospital in Chicago and the incredible people he met there.
Karma is a Bitch_ Screenplay
Hypertoad
Writer: Virginia Mariposa
Project Type: Screenplay
Number of Pages: 95
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Amphibian-smitten Navy junior develops supernatural powers to defend his father's Cape Canaveral missile launch from his arch enemy, Cobrahead.
Rollers
Writers: RJ Shick, D. P. McCarthy
Project Type: Screenplay
Number of Pages: 115
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
A retro-themed evening at a skating rink gets complicated by four inter-connected stories: -A talented young gay skater longs for a relationship with a 37yo, but the family man is mostly just interested in watching the beautiful skater and fantasizing a life where he made less conservative choices.
-A new employee with a passion for nostalgia learns to change his outlook when he learns the rink is not as cool as it seems.
-A pair of Tiktok prankers cross paths with a teen girl who hooks them into a wild conspiracy surrounding the arcade scores, but she may have more to do with it than she's letting on.
-The party-man and host of the skating event does regular announcements to hype the skaters. When he rudely turns down a come-on from a young girl, his self-appointed crowd worker, he finds out that without her help he can't excite the audience like he used to, so he concocts a sketchy plan to get her back on his team.
The Recital
Writer: Helen Louise Taylor
A former violin prodigy rekindles her love of music and finds the strength to overcome drug addiction and trace her abducted child. Set in present day Venice, the story draws on motifs from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and bridges past and present through a violin once played by one of Vivaldi’s scholars and which now offers a chance for salvation to a young, destitute mother.
A Good Return
Writer: Helen Rana
Lilah’s had three strokes of luck in her life – rape, blackmail and being battered half to death by a VIP. Travelling to her Caribbean island home after seventeen years in London, she finds that life there has changed in her absence. Money's everything now. She needs to find a way to make a good return, and make things right with her family.
Hot Toddy
Writer: Scott Cox
An outlandish trash collector becomes a cult figure in the absurd world of darts in 1970's England. Inspired by actual events.
The Christians - Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile
Writer: Tony Gioutsos
Exploring the harrowing times of Christian persecution in history, a devoted present-day believer answers God’s call to greatness.
The Beginning of the Rest of your Life
Writer: Margot Pitts
Lucy is an overworked, exhausted, and unhappy woman in her early 20s living in NYC. She feels as though her life post-college is repetitive and dull and is struggling to find her purpose. On one particularly wild evening, Lucy reaches her breaking point and overdoses on a combination of drugs. She wakes up in the hospital and is surprised to see both her parents there. She spends the weekend at home with her family. Her father promises her that he will attend a concert with her weekly to get her spirits up. When she returns to NYC she is given a second chance at life and explores new romance, exciting prospects at work, and attends concerts with her father. Lucy learns that your 20s are some of the most defining years in your life and it is important to be present during them.
Lucid
Writer: DeAndre Harris
Stuck in a coma, Lorenzo creates a dream world where he tries to escape with the help of his friends before they all get stuck there and relive the events that unfold.
The Fighting First
Writer: Alex Peter Stephens
An interwoven story of a young Army officer leading his men through the harrowing battles of WWII and his 14-year-old son, 32 years later, wrestling with understanding his ailing father's past and the changing world around him.
The Fallen
Writer: Mark Ramsey
In the fantasy world of Angels, demons and all things mythical it sees a ferocious war rage between the heaven’s armies and the demon lord Satan. In this epic fantasy we see Michael test the might of himself and has to regain Gods faith in order to find the missing Fallen angels and deliver them the justice they deserve but things go wrong and Michael is forced into a place, nobody dare to end up, not even a powerful angel. In this mythical land, painted with farms of Lavender, everyone hides a sin or two. How can such an elegant flower survive in such a harsh place. Well, people need to make a living. Lavender is the lifeblood of these inhabitants; it is the heart of this world. With faith comes the ability to perform miracles.
Desperate Measures
Writer: Helen Rana
At thirty-seven, with the ancestral home falling down around his ears, amenable English Lord Jake is obliged to search for a suitable, wealthy bride who can keep the family estate afloat. Unfortunately, he’s deeply in love with the skint, radical black activist L’Wren, who makes him keep their relationship secret to avoid being seen as a race and class traitor. His friend’s assistant Zola sets him up with an assortment of rich singletons, whilst falling for him herself. And some of his dates have other, more unpleasant things in mind...
Supposed to be
Writer: Dr. Beth-Anne Blue
In purgatory after an attempt to take her own life, a young woman must decide if her life is worth fighting for with the help of an unlikely healer.
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