Scripts
Child Soldier
Feature – Biopic
Based on Deng Atem’s memoir Jumping Over the Ram, Child Soldier is an emotional journey of identity, survival and homecoming.
Thrust into war as an eight-year-old, Deng’s one goal was to become a soldier, get a gun and return home to protect his family’s cows.
Along the way, he walked hundreds of mile through the jungle with a shoe on one foot, the other wrapped in cloth. Crossed rivers, swamps and a desert. Survived animal attacks, gun battles, dehydration and disease while men older than he fell dead around him. Was sent to school for an education where they secretly trained the students to be soldiers. Made his way to a refugee camp where he met two young, white reporters who opened his eyes to the bigger world around him. Became one of the first “Lost Boys of Sudan” to come to the United States.
Upon his return home 31 years later, he found much had remained unchanged. As Deng grapples with the hard realities of his past and painful truths about his homeland, he finds solace in his family, the community he left behind and the rhythm of village life.
And while he did not reach that initial goal nor is able reclaim the youth he lost, he still found his way home. Back to the people he loved.
The heartbreak of BEASTS OF NO NATION meets the humanity of FORREST GUMP.
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Mick Was a Hurricane
Feature – Drama (with splashes of adventure, mystery and romance)
Paul is a big bullshitter. After he reads a sad obituary, he invents a fantastic life for the deceased as a way to reconnect with his wife, Mary. But as he tells her Mick and Molly’s story, it’s almost like she’s heard this one before.
A tale with two timelines that ultimately collide, it begs the question – whose life story is Paul actually telling?
The eccentric stories of BIG FISH meets the never give up attitude of THE NOTEBOOK.
Winner Best Drama Script SHOW LOW FILM FESTIVAL, Second Rounder Launch Pad Feature Competition 11th Annual
Roaming Home
Feature – Drama
Hank, depressed and socially awkward, deserted his family in Phoenix years ago for a flophouse in NYC.
When he gets word that his wife Alice has cancer, he must fight his demons and accept the help of others, including Big Rick, a mystical truck driver, to make his way back to a son he didn’t know he had.
A Solid B
Feature – Psychological thriller
Robby, forever an average Joe, reconnects with a girl from high school. Paige has blossomed from an ugly ducking into a beautiful swan and he loves the attention he gets from being with her.
Until Chet, their shared high school bully, comes back into their lives. Willing to do anything to hold onto Paige, he goes along with a game of revenge that goes too far and shatters everyone in the end.
The revenge obsession of PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN meets the treachery and deception of WILD THINGS.
Quarterfinalist: ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship 2022
Arthur and the Cat
Feature – Drama
Arthur lives under the radar because he’s found a glitch in the video game software that allows him to turn a small win into a bigger payoff. Eddie craves attention, is deep in debt and needs $30k by Friday or else. He thinks he’s found his solution in Arthur’s system, only Arthur wants no part of it.
In most stories like this one, money tears people apart. What if in this case, it actually brings two people together?
The mentor relationship in THE COLOR OF MONEY meets the allure of the game in ROUNDERS.
Quarterfinalist: ScreenCraft Drama Competition 2023, Stage 32 Feature Screenwriting Fellowship 2022/2023
A Rockin’ Affair
Feature – Dramedy
Johnny Rock is rockstar at the top of his game and the most conceited person on Earth. Grace Summers is a young photographer living her life.
When Grace’s pictures from his last concert come to his attention, Johnny first wants the pictures, then Grace. They come together in an affair that makes Johnny long for the old days and shows Grace that the trappings of fame and fortune are real. And we find that maybe neither person is who we first thought them to be.
Dangerous Times – OPTIONED by American Picture House
Feature – Urban Drama
Set in Alphabet City at the turn of the century, Nick is a two-bit New York reporter who dreams of a Pulitzer. When he stumbles upon and becomes entangled in a story of corruption that reaches the highest levels of government, and ultimately leads to 9/11, he must decide whether to break the story or protect the woman he loves.
Based on “Times to Try the Soul of Man” by Kenneth Weene
Quarterfinalist: WeScreenplay Feature Lab 2015