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11th Annual StoryPros Awards The Golden Script Competition A Father’s Son (Drama – Feature) Early Retirement (Romantic Comedy – Feature) Michael Harriel Becky MacDormand A father and son, estranged due to a family tragedy, battle When a spoiled former child star destroys what’s left of to resolve their differences as they find forgiveness for the her career with a poor publicity stunt, she decides to unfortunate events that haunt their past. check herself into a retirement home and live as an elderly person to prepare for an audition she believes will save City of Trees (Drama – Feature) her career. Christian Lybrook Bobby Burnham’s life is best described as “the one that Inroads Screenwriting Fellowship got away” – the girl, the career, the family. Returning to White Trash Heroes (Comedy – Television ½ Hour Pilot) his hometown to care for his dying mother provides a Peter Stallo chance to rewrite the past, but a rekindled romance with White Trash Heroes is the story of an ambitious federal his now-married high school sweetheart and resurfaced agent forced to fuse his elite CIA training with the intoxi- resentments with his outcast older brother push Bobby to cated ingenuity of a white trash family in rural Alabama to confront hard choices about love and family. save the world from alien invaders.

Barnstorm Fest Latino Screenwriting Competition The Bad Habits of Unhappy People (Comedy – The Countertenor (Romantic Comedy – Feature) Feature) Chantal Massuh Andrew Gomez Frances, a troubled young adult who runs her life on sex, In 1800s Mexico, peasant Emilio tempts fate to win true drugs, and bad decisions, attempts to find happiness love in a national singing competition. He enlists a rag-tag despite her troubling past. In the wake of the #MeToo band of misfits who help him discover he has a beautiful movement, where glass ceilings and misogyny have been voice and a chance at stardom! There’s just one problem exposed, this film is about a woman’s treacherous journey – he sings like a woman. Before The Voice, before American from dysfunction to success and self-discovery. Idol there was The Countertenor!

The Tea Room (Drama – Feature) Terrie Anderson Long Island International Film Expo A merger announcement begins to unravel the lives of Jamie and Sophie in ways they could never imagine. The Until the End of the Ninth (Drama – Feature) Russian Mob has been the invisible hand in their lives and Beth Bollinger now that hand is about to reveal the truth. The 1946 Spokane Indian baseball players know how to be a team and know how to win, but when their bus crashes Tobacco: An Offering of Fire (Crime/Murder/Mystery – midway through the season and nine of them die, their spirits must learn how to die too young and, even in death, Feature) Nicholas Gillam stay together as a team. (Inspired by the true story of the After his hick uncle comes back to town with a job offer, worst professional sports accident in U.S. history) Jeff finds himself a part of a strange crime that will cost him his girlfriend and his arm. New Renaissance Film Fest (London, UK) Harm for the Holidays (Comedy – Feature) Go to www.InkTip.com and Jonathan LaPoma After his brother attempts suicide a few weeks before search by title or author for Christmas, an unrepentant asshole with a heart of gold the scripts that interest you! moves back in with his comically dysfunctional family to help his brother, only to discover that his brother is the sanest of them all. (Silver Linings Playbook meets Bad Santa) Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Action/Adventure 5 Feature Scripts – Grouped by Genre

Action/Adventure Black Friday Matthew Sorvillo An aging ex-con hopes to spend Thanksgiving reconciling The 13 of Glory Georges Salo with his estranged daughter, but his vindictive ex-partner The quest for El Dorado by Francisco Pizarro takes the forces him to reattempt the same botched bank heist that conquistadors, known as The 13 of Glory, to a land rife sent him to prison and broke up his family to begin with. with gold. Their altruistic start spirals into the subjugation of the Inca nation and the genocide of its people. Black Pearls Robert Miles and Leslie Mitts Two kick-ass women break the rules in a male-dominated Across the Divide Dennis O’Flyng world by choosing the pirate life, becoming history’s most A despondent backpacker on a wilderness pilgrimage infamous pirate women. A true story. reluctantly rescues the injured sole survivor of a plane crash, a woman of clandestine purpose, and confronts the Blind Vector Charles Beale anti-government militia who sabotaged the plane. Three U.S. Naval airmen hijack a Boeing 777 in mid-air by remote control from the ground and hold it for ransom. Adama Alvin Berger A top secret agent with a dark past must overcome his Broken Wings Robbert Marcel Snijder fear of failure in order to stop a powerful DNA computer from falling into the wrong hands. His task is fraught with A U.S. bomber pilot, bringing a battered B-17 to base, danger from deceptive friends and enemies alike. takes a desperate and unheard move against a deadly, threatening enemy, saving ship and crew. But WWII won’t pause for him to prove he isn’t a storyteller, a barefaced Af*ckinstan Jim Maceda liar. War isn’t in his favor. In a war where nothing is as it seems, a U.S. Marine squad hunts for a fugitive Taliban bomb-maker set on mass mur- der – only to discover that they are the hunted. Cleto Randy Zuniga Abi, daughter of a powerful political figure is kidnapped American Fighter Ryan Flynn by an extreme separatist group to try and force the Spanish government into negotiations. One of her guards Rhino O’Neill goes from a homeless bodybuilder who sells his is actually an undercover operative who befriends Abi until dog to survive, to badass U.S. Marine all in hopes of regaining political pressure tightens and he is ordered to kill her by custody of his son, Patrick. After an honorable discharge, he the government. He now has to decide – betray his morals begins sparring boxers for extra money but finds himself or betray his country. competing on the Olympic stage – all on a prosthetic leg. Code: Red Scorpions Robert W. Daniel Angelica’s Touch Jan Dalby A Pearl Harbor redux for this Navy SEAL Team who must With the power to mystically end one’s evil desires, an capture and destroy a rogue North Korean nuclear-armed innocent young woman agrees to help the FBI uncover submarine which issues a 48-hour ultimatum to annihilate an event supposedly “bigger than 9/11” by assuming an Pearl Harbor and start World War III. alias and meeting the alleged mastermind in his home, only to be discovered – but her gift finagles her escape and prevents disaster. The Cossack Ronald McQueen A young girl joins dispossessed Cossacks as they flee Assume Nothing Ronald Johnson Stalin’s tyranny for the freedom of the West at the end of the war. But they are betrayed by the Allies and must fight If you have ever read a book or seen a movie you wish to avoid being repatriated to Russia. were true, you’ll love Assume Nothing, the story of journalist trying to find out why he was given the name of a dead baby 40 years ago. Neither the Russians nor CIA are able The Crossing of The Elbe Mark Mackenzie to identity the name of his Russian father, spying against An American platoon is ordered to capture a Nazi scientist Russia. So how can the journalist? (Book for adaptation) before the Russian secret police reach him first: as one war ends, another begins. The Bardo Realm C.V. Herst An ex-P.O.W. must defeat his battlefield nightmares and Death, and to All a Goodnight W.T. Shot enter the spirit world to stop the reincarnation of an evil Bobby has a stack of cash and heads to Vegas with no military genius hellbent on triggering a world war. cares in the world – except for the gangster who wants his Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 6 Action/Adventure money back, the hitman the gangster hired to kill him, his Grumpyman’s Luck Geoffrey Alexander scheming wife he left behind, and the exotic dancer who The ambitions of a murderous “freedom fighter” are walked out of his hotel room with all of the cash and won’t thwarted by a teenager who, unknowingly, has the task of give it back. reversing his wrongs and restoring the happy family life which he destroyed. (No swearing, nudity, or vulgarity but Don’t Tread on Me Ronald Kelly lots of colorful action) A young sheriff reluctantly joins forces with a by-the-book, female, African-American FBI agent to solve the murder of Handwriting on the Wall Candyce Petersen a liberal talk show DJ and 12 federal agents and fights an 1948. Asked to find and deliver a living tool to the new State oil cartels conspiracy to control a gubernatorial election in of Israel, a cynical veteran declines until he learns his avowed an oil-rich state. enemy wants the tool. Seeking revenge, he experiences mercy, delivers the abnormal creature, and prevents war. Final Flight Roy Edmondson A pilot must choose between saving the lives of his wife Hell’s Apprentice Georges Salo and daughter or crashing a plane he’s forced to hijack into An operative posing as a reporter must assassinate a the White House. rogue U.S. Army colonel taking on ISIL with his band of devoted followers known as Hell’s Apprentice. Finding Sarah Rick Showman and Bonnie Showman Haunted by his daughter’s unsolved abduction, Lyman Honour Richard Sloggett Keeler descends into an alcoholic downward spiral through A young New Yorker goes to England for a large inheri- life only to find his atonement on a desert road in Iraq. tance, but to collect he has to fight an 1815-style pistol duel, geriatric assassins, the police, and most ruthless of Firebird Stephen Colley all – the British class-system. An intransigent young woman, pursued by a goddess, must survive wilderness exile to find the Firebird and Insurrection Rick Showman and Myles Furlong, and return fire to humanity. William O. Boggs America is in societal meltdown stemming from dire eco- Fleet Week Theodore Carl Soderber nomic conditions while the president of the United States has sold out to global interests. Violent revolution is in the A new female helicopter pilot faces unknown fiery objects air as Jake Adams and his family attempt to reach a safe from the sky in San Francisco Fleet Week with rumors of haven only to be caught up in cataclysmic events. North Korea launching ICBMs but prove poorly matched with Blaze’s energy and will. The Last Responders Doug Shear A group of retired first responders create their own rescue Fox Chase Ethel Winter team in an attempt to relive their glory days. After handling When Alicia (25) discovers her fiancé plans to sell her a series of increasingly dangerous emergencies, they grow invention of an automobile that uses solid fuel, she enlists utterly exhausted and decide to quit, when they learn they her ex-husband to help steal the prototype and work to are the only ones who can prevent a horrible catastrophe. overcome their volatile relationship while avoiding deter- mined killers on their trail. Launched Victor Rappoport The U.S. president had two giant secret computers made. Girl Out of Time Jay J. Falconer He loaned one to the Russian president because he once An orphaned street girl with uncontrollable time-traveling saved the American president’s brother’s life. The giant abilities takes on maniacal future humans in a knock- computers could disable any nuclear devices worldwide. down, drag-out fight for not only her life, but for humanity’s However, someone destroys the Russian computer which future. (Multiple award-winning script) causes the American computer to stop working. The ele- ments that can make the computer run are injected into The Gray Guardian Anthony DiChiara the skull of Trishka. Hank O’Brian is a retired, hard-as-nails, NYC police com- missioner with one foot in the grave. He gets a second Laurentic John Lennon Cohen chance at life when he gains superpowers and gets his Laurentic is the beautiful story of John Boyle, a very real youth back. As the Gray Guardian, Hank uses his powers young Irish boy who went to sea to help his poor family to clean up crime and corruption in his neighborhood and and for adventure. However, WWI broke out in 1914 and the rest of New York City – including crooked city and he got caught up in this most bloody conflict. Based on police officials. true events. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Action/Adventure 7 Lethal Injection James Manion from her mob boss boyfriend and it’s a high seas hijinks With time running out, a down-on-his-luck young prison romp on a merchant ship. doctor fights to the death to save the lives of his family and the state’s inmate population after uncovering a Night Fighter Jonathan Schriber massive conspiracy involving a lethal flu vaccine and the A combat veteran who is half Chinese and half Italian- California Governor’s race. (A film festival winner. 2018 Page Quarter-Finalist.) American returns home to Los Angeles to find that his kung fu teacher has been murdered. He uses his skills as a mix-martial arts fighter to infiltrate a vicious Chinese gang Lionfire G.C. Schop to find the killer. Along the way he gets involved with a A present-day Nigerian-American teenage girl gets beautiful but deadly woman as he seeks revenge. snatched away along with 276 schoolgirls from Chibok. It is up to her hearing-impaired boyfriend and another friend (synesthete and marine) to bring her back, but they all end Night Watch Georges Salo up in the hands of Boko leader Abubakar Shekau. With ill- Integrity, honor, and discipline are the hallmark tenets of timed help from the Nigerian president’s mercenary army, any soldier protecting his family and nation. Juggling them, they escape only due to the ancient power of “Lionfire.” though, is tumultuous. Can one put the needs of the many ahead of the needs of the one or the few? How long could Manaus W.T. Shot a man last doing what he knew to be wrong, if his family The Amazon jungle offers danger, adventure, and romance needed him to continue? to an Italian contessa determined to fulfill her deceased mother’s legacy by bringing opera to a remote Amazonian Larry Martin boomtown in 1890s Brazil. Out of My Storm A severely distraught Marine veteran returns from Iraq to a Martian Twilight & the Niche of Time worse condition at home and considers ending his personal Mary Jane Vermillion storm in the mountains of Colorado. However, he finds God To start a rebellion against the evil Celestials, the First has other plans for him over Christmas week when it turns Ones of Mars need a place of safety to plan, train, and out he has the skills essential to help the residents of a execute it. One will rise above the rest to lead. remote mountain inn survive a massive blizzard attack.

Massacre Clayton Emery Pearl, Secret Agent Ethel Winter Chesapeake Bay, 800 years ago. An outcast shaman, a Ten years after the birth her son, Pearl (35) returns as a lovesick girl, and a weary war-chief reluctantly team up to secret agent to seek revenge on Hal Holden, a billionaire solve a murder and save their tribe from invasion. (Based illegal drug lord she believes is responsible for her hus- on NYT bestselling series by K&M Gear, 20+ million sold band’s murder. worldwide in many translations. Feature or mini-TV series.)

Precursor Gary McKinnon Massacre John Kane After three tours in Iraq, Kate Hubbard’s new world in In 1957, a female World War II ferry pilot becomes the piv- Houston is disrupted when her father’s life is threatened otal factor in a high-stakes Cold War game. on his remote Guatemalan coffee farm. Once there, she survives a massacre, only to discover the oil conglomerate Redaction Michael Spence responsible is actually in league with a terrorist network A Cold War tale, inviting “what-if” speculation regarding planning an attack on her homeland. hitherto-unexplained historic events. It opens with Helen’s journey from London to Alaska in 1979. A time-shift takes us Me and my Cello in Paris Derina McLaughlin to 1999. A chance encounter with an Australian family visit- Brad dreams of being the youngest boy to ever busk ing London kick-starts an investigation of two U.S. landmark through Europe on his cello. He runs away from England events of 1979 by three trainee investigative journalists. Is to Paris to try making a living by busking. Family and police what they discover fact or fiction? Explanation is redacted. are in pursuit, but innocent Brad is always one step away, protected by a guardian angel, a large dog. (Assessed by critics as Walt Disney-style, feel good, family script.) Redemption Georges Salo After a powerful drug lord wipes out his competition, he Mob Chick Theodore Carl Soderber goes after the only people that stand in his way of taking Sailor Jack meets Blaze, a data recovery expert at Coney over Manhattan, a decorated New York City detective and Island working as a high-end call girl. She steals a rare coin his equally competent female partner. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 8 Action/Adventure The Revolt of the Whales Michael Rhodes inventor of a sub cloaking device spar until a traitor lets When her activist sister is killed by whaling ships, a concert other terrorists onto the vessel. Chafing under the thumb violinist explores the mysterious sound universe of the of a deranged terrorist, the scientist and the captain man- whales, then joins in their desperate struggle for survival. age to save the crew – based on a coded message drawn from an opera. The Rise of Moto Stephen Edmonds Through a series of events Moto repeatedly becomes Silent Partners: Absinthe of Desire Georges Salo at odds with evil villain Grostopo. After Moto is called to Two wealthy men are deceived into service by a clandes- London to help police Commissioner Mowry, Moto again tine government agency, the vanguard of international faces evil Grostopo. Moto prepares himself for a final con- counter terrorism. Will the agency’s gamble on these frontation with Grostopo. men’s skills, charm and ingenuity prove to be the lethal combination that stops a crime lord hellbent on revenge? Runaway Ship Theodore Carl Soderber A recovering alcoholic is given a second chance to work Silent Partners: Fragrant Water Georges Salo a simple job on the ACL Singapore, one of the world’s Two wealthy men recruited by a clandestine international biggest commercial shipping vessels – but finds himself in government agency must prevent ultra-modern subma- charge of a runaway ship when a mysterious white cloud kills most of the crew and sends the ship hurtling out of rines from falling into the hands of Yemeni and Omani control towards San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. pirates. If left unchecked the pirates would have the whole world to ransom as a large portion of global trade passes through the Gulfs of Oman, Aden and the Arabian Sea. Savior Brett Wickman When a construction manager’s blood is found to contain the cure for cancer, he must go on the run to escape his Silent Partners: Razed Capital Georges Salo death, as numerous parties attempt to exploit him, and Two wealthy men recruited by a clandestine international his blood, for their own benefit. government agency must prevent an activated North Korean sleeper agent from bringing the global financial Settle for a Grave Colton Bose and Noah Kemp system to its knees. Economic sanctions imposed on After his teenage nephew overdoses on heroin, a veteran North Korea force its regime to execute this plot – destroy suffering from PTSD seeks revenge on heroin dealers led U.S. facilities that print and store money. by a crooked cop. Silent Partners: Scorched Earth Georges Salo Seven Came to Sevan Richard Lawson and Nazo Bravo Two wealthy men recruited by a clandestine international A female undercover agent charms and convinces a dis- government agency must stop a criminal from using Earth illusioned Hollywood screenwriter with a military past to Penetrator Warheads from setting ablaze U.S. Air Force help rescue seven Russian scientists and help their families bases housing nuclear silos. defect to the U.S. who are working against their will at a top secret Chechen military facility in Grozny. What ensues is Son of Star Ronen Tregerman and Jack Snyder an amazing international spy thriller. Based on a true story. When one man raises his sword against the world’s big- gest empire in a quest to free his land, he embarks on an Shoah to Shogun Michael Mendershausen heroic battle against all odds and carves it into the pages A 15-year-old, obstinate Jewish girl who wants to live long of history for millenniums to come. enough to become a Rabbi, escapes from the infamous Nazi Klaus Barbie to the Philippines just in time for the Japanese invasion – and is caught in the Bataan Death March. Spirit World (The Unseen Realm) Damone Bester A university professor must face and overcome his child- Side Job Albert Tevanyan hood fear of the supernatural, when he discovers an evil It was just a game – until the murder. A high-maintenance angel killed his father and is now after him. woman begins an intriguing mind game, when she discov- ers that the hit man she hired to take out her soon-to-be Summer’s Kiss Georges Salo ex-husband is a psychiatrist with a mission to “treat” her. When a former government-sanctioned assassin is framed for the murder of a lobbyist, she attempts to discover who Silencer Jamie Smith besmirched her name and in due course uncovers a con- Global nuclear war is the result if a traitor succeeds in spiracy involving an illegal international arms ring tied to a hijacking a U.S. sub. The sub’s captain and the female clandestine government agency. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Action/Adventure – Animation 9 Sumo Football Scott Jacobs An NFL lineman injured in the twilight of his career goes to Japan on a junket to observe sumo wrestling and returns Recent Successes to lead the Seattle Seahawks to the playoffs. David Wade Options Proximity The Teeth of Mine Enemy Lou Gaines David Wade with 1906 Productions found Proximity The wife and son of a drug enforcement agent are machine-gunned to death over the possession of an on InkTip and optioned it from Richard Currie. David’s incriminating notebook. The cartel messed with the wrong feature credits include the upcoming drama Songbird, agent, who now feels that his oath of office no longer starring Cobie Smulders of the Avengers films. Richard applies. Unfortunately for the bad guys, he’s the direct hails from Scotland but has now lived in Cambodia for descendant of a notorious 15th-century pirate, whose several years, and this is his first option through InkTip talents pale in comparison to his. to date. In addition to his writing, he also appears in the horror/comedy Attack of the Herbals among other Tiger Poppy Todd Lowery acting credits. Richard has been an InkTip member since 2015. Follow along with a debonair colonel and a brilliant bota- nist on their nail-biting covert journey through Taliban-held backcountry to recover from ruthless thieves the rarest Byron Loker Options I’ve Had Better Days of poppies, with such unique DNA it’s capable of making Byron Loker with Sanchopix found I’ve Had Better Days anyone invincible. on InkTip and optioned it from Clint Morey. Byron’s credits include the short film Irregardless, which was The Vichy Refugees Mark Mackenzie shot from a script he found on InkTip and is currently After Dunkirk, hunted by the Gestapo, a diverse group under consideration at numerous festivals. Clint of young refugees and a downed RAF crew try to escape Morey has been with InkTip for over a decade and from fascist France. this is now his fifth success as a result. He is a Nicholl Semifinalist as well as a published novelist whose The Watcher Donald Tamborine work has reached #12 in the Kindle Store. An unfaithful man must save his daughter from a drug lord and a kidnapping hoax only to find himself saving Richard Clark Options Stan the Man her double. Richard Clark with Manifesto PictureHouse found Stan the Man on InkTip and has entered into an agreement Whales Gone Wild Theodore Carl Soderber with Rick Blackwell. Richard’s feature credits include When an oil spill affects the whale population, and one the sci-fi/thriller Nowhere and the family comedy whale targets his father, a sea captain, a young boy fig- Savannah Sunrise, starring Shawnee Smith (the Saw ures out how to communicate with whales with help from franchise), among others. Rick is a published author his guilt-ridden Japanese teacher from a town who once as well as a produced screenwriter. His script Special slaughtered whales. Agent Kids was discovered through InkTip several years ago and has since been released. This is now Animation Rick’s fourth success through InkTip since he became a member in 2005. The Dirt Squirts Chuck Bradford A group of vintage motocross bikes become alive because Bruce Lucas Hires Marie D. Jones of a boys wish, and go on an adventure to save their favor- Award-winning director Bruce Lucas discovered Marie ite motocross track from becoming a golf course. D. Jones on InkTip and together they have co-writ- ten and are shopping an adaptation of Gertrude Luna: Hope of the Moon Zaigham Abbas Friedberg’s science fiction book The Revolving Boy. Luna, found abandoned, is taken in to complete a proph- Also an accomplished producer and an optioned ecy to end Lord Helsa’s reign of terror. screenwriter, Bruce has collaborated with Marie on numerous projects since they first connected through The MicroCosmic Cartoon Show InkTip several years ago. Marie is a bestselling author, Prema Rose, Hugh A. Rose, and Suryananda Rose screenwriter, and producer who has been with InkTip “Who am I?” “Why am I here?” “Where is here, anyway?” On since 2008, and this is now her sixth success as a result. a perilous quest to discover The Circle of Gold, a curious Continued on page 11 young boy embarks on an unforgettable journey through Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 10 Animation – Comedy the Circus of Life, revealing ancient secrets while confront- hope within the community of handicapped people who ing devastating deceptions that seek to destroy a mission pilgrimage to his hideaway in Georgia. that will forever alter the destructive course of humanity. Chef Tell ~ Biography of America’s Pioneer TV Nickerbacher Terry John Barto Showman Chef Ronald Joseph Kule A friendly dragon finds his road to stand-up comedy A master chef wins an audition and becomes America’s bedeviled by dragon-slaying princes, a magical forest, first syndicated TV chef. Within weeks, fame, fortune, and and a demanding princess. (Based on the Amazon #1 40 million fans follow Chef Tell’s exploits. Off-camera, he Bestseller, Nickerbacher is the winner of the ScreenCraft seeks a woman who trusts him, flaws and all, as he blazes Family-Friendly Screenplay Contest.) a trail no chef ever walked before. (“Chef Tell started all this television-chef madness.” – Regis Philbin Biography – One Eagle’s Journey: To Glory Skyhorse Publishing, NYC – Oct 2012. Book for adaptation.) Gerardo Solorzano Garc A golden eagle and a race to be called the “Aztecs” take Flying into the Ozone David Patrick Stearns on a very dangerous adventure from a sacred land called Famous but reviled, celebrity-turned-politician Charles “Aztlan” to the south to finally meet at a specific and Lindbergh campaigns for a more orderly America as it magical moment set forth by the gods, to give birth to a veers toward World War II. He is booed for anti-Jewish new civilization. Each has to go through an ordeal before rhetoric he doesn’t actually believe, grieves the kidnap- accomplishing the goal. ping death of his son, and longs for a new life with his pregnant German mistress who disappears amid the war. PippitySnye and Her Band of Fireflies Ultimately, he learns to live with wounds that don’t heal. Betz Hill Hooper and Stuart T. Hooper Endangered by chemical pesticides, teenager PippitySnye Jesus and John (The Early Years) Pelham Mead and her band of fireflies set sail on a fantastical adventure This story tells of the early years of Jesus and his second through space and time, with the human woman proph- cousin John and how as infants they avoided Herod’s esied to save them, and help her to find her smile and soldiers. The second part of the story is how Jesus and rescue her from the darkness that threatens them all. John came to adopt the prayers and ideas of the Essenes which according to the Dead Sea Scrolls became the core The Show Lesley Manuel of their ministry. Two dogs follow their dreams of being a police officer and a show dog. Rocky goes through the police academy and The Last War Chief Michael Mendershausen Molly through beauty school. Once childhood friends, The Last War Chief is a biopic of Dr. Joseph Medicine Crow the two buddies reconnect when Molly gets dognapped detailing his early life and WWII feats that led to him because of her beauty and congeniality. Rocky and his become the last Crow War Chief. police squad must save his friend, so she can fulfill her dream of winning the dog show. The Youngest Hero: A True Story Charles Harper A young boy runs away from home hoping for adventure. A Sweet-Smelling Skunk Claire Knopf Instead, he learns the hard lessons of war. Wide eyed, he A rock hits a skunk’s scent glands, transforming his spray. also learns the ways of the world and coincidentally earns He’s bullied for being a freak, but he meets a girl at the the Medal of Honor. zoo who has a perfume spray. She rejects him, but when a storm damages their town, she agrees to bottle their Comedy sprays. The profits from the sales repair the town, and the bullied skunk becomes a hero. Alpha Male Julian Awoonor Renner A petty theft sets off a wild, absurd chain of events – forc- Twinkle Dust Ethel Winter ing Ivan to battle corrupt cops, thieves, drug dealers, and What if for every good deed or loving gesture, an invisible all the dog-eat-dog denizens of urban Africa in a quest to magic dust, which spreads love and joy, is produced and win the hand of his lady. what if an evil villain steals it? Any Way You Slice It Biographical Paul Côté and Constantina Mitchell It’s 1985. When suburbanites Rick and Marcy attempt to After the Storm Richard Willett salvage their foiled vacation plans, they are plunged into Stricken with polio in his 30s, Franklin Roosevelt resists a series of unexpected adventures triggered by a motley identifying with the “crippled” but then finds new life and assortment of characters: their wannabe actor son and Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Comedy 11 hamster-obsessed daughter, obnoxious neighbor, coer- cive client, and a gang of mobsters hellbent on getting their hands on priceless jewels they suspect hidden in Recent Successes Rick’s and Marcy’s home. Continued from page 9 Jonathan M. Black Options Young Muscle Attorney at Law Tom Birschbach Jonathan M. Black with Chair 10 Productions found A sleazy, disreputable criminal defense attorney rises to Young Muscle on InkTip and has entered into an agree- prominence after springing a notorious serial killer sus- ment with writer Roger Stone. Jonathan’s producing pect only to start listening to a voice every lawyer dreads credits include the family comedy Unleashed, star- – his conscience. ring Sean Astin, among many others. This is already Roger’s first success through InkTip since he began Aunty Christmas Jim Clarken and Isabella Codd promoting his work on the site in February. Roger is a Christine is a Christmas planner who hates the season, veteran screenwriter with produced credits beginning loathes the songs, abhors the decorations, and has issues in the ‘80s with such titles as Lethal Pursuit and A Night with trees. When she is forced to accept a new client on 24th at the Magic Castle. of December, she finally realizes what the holiday means to others and maybe, even, herself. (Holiday comedy) Phillip Epps Options Korean-set Drama

Birthday Magic George Spicer Phillip Epps with Cilium Film & Los Angeles Beijing Studios found Princess Turandot on InkTip and Two children’s birthday party entertainers suffer a messy optioned it from Janet Duignan. The two are now bromantic break up while doing battle with a legion of local collaborating on a second, as-yet-untitled feature entertainment rivals in an attempt to score a dream gig. which is one of two Korean-set dramas currently in development at Cilium. Janet is based in rural France, Blame Hollywood for All the Mess but thanks to InkTip has been promoting her work to Randall Montgomery producers in Hollywood and around the world since What if Hollywood movies re-materialized into strange 2012. This is her second success through InkTip. lifeforms, juxtaposed plots, bizarre realities, party-crazed babes, and COMPs – Crises of Monumental Proportions. Christina DeRosa Options The Connection Follow two 23rd-century aliens as they creatively solve perplexing galactic COMPs. Each sci-fi episode challenges Christina DeRosa with Kingvigor found The Connection viewer’s perception of sex, social values, politics, science, through InkTip and optioned it from Mark Daniels. technology, religion, and abnormal comedy. With several projects currently in development, Christina’s producing credits include the recent thriller Breakfast in Bedlam George R. Flowers Campus Caller. As an actress she has also appeared in numerous features such as Bad Moms. Since joining Shortly after a lottery win gives a young father the resources the site in 2006, Mark Daniels has had over two dozen to run for Congress, his wife inadvertently becomes sales/options through InkTip, where he also found the leader of a Mafia family, which could undermine his his manager Sherry Robb. Recently, he was a finalist campaign. The two worlds collide during a badly-timed for two short horror scripts at the Crimson Screen breakfast, but everything turns out well in the end. Horror Film Fest. Brooklyn Beasts Russell Pontone Sylvia Caminer Options 30 Night Stand A family must win the funeral rights to bury the wife of a low-level mobster, but there is a catch! They first need to Sylvia Caminer with DolGer Films found 30 Night Stand “wack” the beneficiary of her fortune: her beloved dog. on InkTip and optioned it from Curt Wiser. Sylvia is a prolific producer with many feature credits to her But, It’s Tradition Brenda Cregor name, including the crime/thriller Aftermath, starring Anthony Michael Hall (The Breakfast Club, Foxcatcher). When your superstitions become your traditions, there’s Curt has been with InkTip since 2009. He recently nothing to be fear in life but – everything! wrote and directed the suspense feature Cam-Girl,” now available for streaming and on DVD, and has a Chinese Speaking Vampires David A. Williams crime biopic in development with his co-writer Al A desperate actor becomes a vampire and uses his new- Mauro. This is Curt’s first option through InkTip. found powers to land a movie role and the girl but then Continued on page 13 must choose between life and the undead. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 12 Comedy Comazone Ciriaco Griego and ends in a wild “Chaplinesque” shoot out between the After a high-speed car accident, Rick and Mike wake up in IRS, hired hitmen, and geriatric bank robbers as they all try the Comazone. Here they get caught up in some unusual, to claim the money. twisted dreams. But with the help of a taxi driver, a wizard, Rick’s pet Chihuahua, and Linda, Rick’s mother, they find Hal, the Spud King of Japan John Thibault their way back home. Along the way they find love, life, and A hard-driving MBA graduate must forsake the riches of the true meaning of friendship. Wall Street and save his humble family farm by compro- mising his integrity and reluctantly learns that life is not all Dead Cargo & Family Theodore Carl Soderber about cutthroat business. A sailor brings his family aboard ship to save his marriage amidst a zombie outbreak, and the ship’s crew must Hash House Frances Emerson fight for survival as the ship heads full speed towards the Having been kicked out of college for cheating, young Golden Gate Bridge. Harlan Treadmore Cuppernell the Third is forced to learn a tough life lesson (while falling in love) from a motley crew of False Flag Kevin Gustafson co-workers when he goes to work at his aunt’s restaurant. After learning about Homeland Security budget cuts, a hotheaded CIA agent and a bumbling data analyst team up Homemakers, Inc. Brenda Cregor to save their jobs by blowing up the Golden Gate Bridge. A labor of love can be capitalized upon, but there is no greater compensation than a job where you cannot easily Father Wishes Tuck Tucker be replaced. An unorthodox, yet entertaining young Irish priest assigned to an American hospital one Christmas encounters a frail The Homemakers Brenda Cregor little girl, who not only begs him to find her a husband, but Because motherhood is the job where a woman cannot provides a detailed list of odd specifications. easily be replaced, she who rules suburbia rules the world.

Foreign Relations Steven W. Johnson Huck and Tom Go West Steph Lady Chester Butterman travels to a foreign country for a mail-order bride but when he meets her, she demands he Inspired by a fragment of an abandoned Mark Twain story, lead a revolution because he looks like a hero who died Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer head out to Texas in search of 100 years ago. Judge Thatcher and his daughter Becky’s missing wagon train.

Free Tom Demar The Impostor Paul Maritato Bonnie, a dreamer, leaves Clyde, a broken-down rapper, Don’t want to attend an event, a wedding, a funeral, and gets a real job at a bank. She embarks on an unimag- whatever? Ask The Impostor to cover it. He’ll look like inable escape from her past, revealing her millennial power you, talk and move like you. No one will know it’s not you. for the ages. But when Phil hires The Impostor to take his place at a boring office party with his fiancé Liza, The Impostor per- manently tries to take Phil’s place in Liza’s heart. The Glory of Xi Joe Basara The president of China does not trust the People App on Jackpot Tina Barnes his phone that always assures him the people love him; in disguise, he one day ventures out into the streets of Winning a lottery ticket brings on trouble for truck Beijing to find out what they really think and returns home driver Chuck. a changed man. Jewy Jacqueline Kopito and Jess Raymondjack Gonif with the Wind George R. Flowers A story of a dysfunctional, Jewish Long Island family: a son A geriatric detective and his associate use logic, deter- wars with his siblings over their deceased father’s dining room mination, and hard work to foil the efforts of a deranged chairs, a grandson grapples with his budding homosexuality, scientist (who emits distinctive colonic gases at crime and the widowed matriarch does her best to hold it together scenes) to blackmail businesses worldwide using bizarre as her fastidious new boyfriend joins the clan. science, black magic, and Santa’s reindeer. Life Without Jane Kevin Gustafson The Great Bank Robbery of 1934 Pamela Milton After a devastating breakup, an obsessive cynic struggles A bungled bank heist in 1934 by the Chutney Gang leads to to rebuild his crumbling reality by pursuing a relationship an investigation in 1980 by an ambitious, female IRS agent with his ex’s sister. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Comedy 13 The Littlest God Barry Steven Kohl Six California Supreme Court jurists attempt to murder the seventh because he is in collusion with former appellate Recent Successes Continued from page 11 court jurists to rig cases. Elizabeth Snoderly Hires Lisa Chapman Luck Is on My Side Charles Whorry Elizabeth Snoderly with G It’s Entertainment discov- A lazy man purchases an antique magic lamp from a ered Lisa Chapman on InkTip and has hired her to garage sale. A genie grants him seven days of good luck, write the upcoming feature The Holly Day Inn. Elizabeth but she punishes him in the beginning by bringing him has numerous produced credits from scripts and hardship, extreme bad luck, unforgettable nightmares and writers found on InkTip, including Accidentally Engaged, turns his world inside out for two days before she thinks starring Brant Daugherty (Pretty Little Liars, Fifty Shades about granting his wishes. Freed). Lisa became an InkTip member in 2014. She has previously been hired for work on a Lifetime MOW, and this is now her sixth success through InkTip. The Monke Tower Queens Jacqueline Levesque Karma for a woman who has earned it. Two women and a Jacob Smith Options Dancing on the Elephant male administrative assistant in red pumps, who dreams Jacob Smith with Old North Productions found Dancing of being a femme fatale, put together a sting to return on the Elephant on InkTip and optioned it from Lisa the business from their paranoid boss who stole it from Hagen along with his producing partner Julia Myers her ex-husband with the help of her two conspirators, a with GreenRobe Productions. Jacob’s credits include bun-wearing sneaky bitch, and a shady lawyer. the acclaimed documentary Waking the Sleeping Giant as well as several narrative shorts including Chasing No Way Out Georges Salo Rabbits. Lisa has been with InkTip since 2006, and this When an arrogant African-American executive fails to is her third success as a result. Her credits include the get a promotion, he’s transferred to Singapore where he award-winning crime/drama feature Fortune Defies undergoes a journey of self-discovery and finds an unlikely Death, which she was hired to co-write after being Asian love. discovered by director Jennifer Hulum on InkTip.

Gene Loveland Options Choices The Not Ready for Prime Time Family Richard Willett They say gay parents will inevitably turn their kids gay, Gene Loveland with Green Trailer Productions found Choices on InkTip and optioned it from Sean Ryan. right? Well, Bert and Martin are about to go on national TV Originally a short drama/thriller, Gene went on to to prove them wrong. The only problem: all four of their produce the film which earned several awards on the kids appear to be gay. festival circuit. The two are now collaborating on a fea- ture version. Since joining InkTip in 2005, Sean has had Nudie Mag Kevin Dembinsky numerous options and several produced credits as a After losing his brother’s most prized Playboy magazine, a result, including the sci-fi/thriller feature Weaponized, horny teenager and his friends must embark on a shenan- starring Tom Sizemore and Mickey Rourke. igan-filled quest to find a replacement. Duo Films LLC Hires Travis Lemke The Odyssey of Homer Ledbetter Don Willis Lauren White and Tracie Love with Duo Films LLC dis- A comedic portrayal of an aging action star who discovers covered Travis Lemke through InkTip and have hired he’s dying. Not wanting an agonizing end, he decides to him to write their upcoming thriller Due Unto Others. go out with a “bang” by making a pact with two fan-girl The connection came about as the result of producer Christopher Sergi with Dark Matter Media, who read filmmakers to kill him while making his last film. Travis’ work on InkTip and referred him to Duo Films. Lauren and Tracie’s credits include the award-winning The Pirate King James Pasternak horror short The Candle, among others. This is Travis’ A timid college film professor turns into an action hero fourth success through InkTip since he joined in 2007. teaching a ruthless Malaysian pirate how to direct his first feature film. Brad Douglas Options Grisly Brad Douglas with Barbed Wire Films found Grisly The Problem Shopper Charles Warden on InkTip and optioned it from Clint Lawrence. Brad Boyd Simmons, the ultimate super saver, is addicted to recently finished directing his latest feature Between scoring deals, but the adrenaline rush takes a hit when Continued on page 15 he’s forced into rehab to save his marriage. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 14 Comedy Punctured Shari Hamrick Grewal and Karl Williams The Size of My Desire Jose Luis Azcarreta A famous horror writer finally decides to start dating again Marc and Julius are twins. The first has a huge penis. The after grieving for years over the loss of his wife, only to second, a tiny one. For better or worse, the size of their discover that all the creatures he’s been writing about are penises will condition the rest of their lives. Can you imag- real and he just started dating one. ine how your life would have changed if the size of your penis had been different? Reality Cheque Georges Salo A brilliant non-conformist and computer coder works at Soldier of Missed Fortune Georges Salo dead-end jobs in a way that forces his contemporaries to The U.S. government creates a modern-day bionic man on face their failure. Until one day he meets a woman that can a shoestring budget. match his intellect and his whole world changes or does it? Spark! Gerald Fried Rebound Warren Paul Glover Spark! is a double courtship comedy: 1) a pretty, highly A successful, romantically conflicted young woman intelligent but over-imaginative college co-ed (she believes chooses career over love in a desperate attempt to avoid she’s the custodian and administrator of the Divine Spark) the mistakes of her mother; but you never know what’s and her equally good-looking, intelligent but tight-assed around the next corner, or who! associate professor, 2) a prototypical human ovum {Lady Egg} and the prototypical sperm who ardently court her. The Registry Morley Shulman and Christine Autrand Mitchell It’s also a guide to “feeling good about one’s self.” A lifelong bachelor, about to face sudden unemployment, decides to make money by faking his own wedding. Still in the Game George R. Flowers To make retirement more fun, two elderly widowers – a comic and a salesman – become roommates and business Road Trip #1 Salvatore Sperazza partners. The comic wants a sex life again, and the salesman A retired mobster and an ex-moll escape from the old wants to sell. They enjoy success, but not as they had envi- folks home and go on a nationwide treasure hunt for lost sioned. (Note: This script garnered 25 film festival accolades.) money while being chased by a corrupt federal agent. Enough psycho drama! Let’s have some fun! Cocoon meets Suck My Deke Ritchie Arthurson and Jack Sandberg Romancing the Stone with a touch of The Thin Man and It Happened One Night thrown in for good measure! When a misfit hockey team signs a seizure-prone goalie, the dumb-ass captain must rise to the challenge of uniting the team to save their season – and the world. Rocco and the Aliens Laura Macy and Larry Haney Rocco is a newly discharged mental patient, the sixth child Super Drunk Trevor Meyer and William Sharkey in an impoverished family, influenced by “The Alien Hunter Kit” infomercial, who needs to be a noticed, respected, Following an accidental chemistry explosion, a group of appreciated hero after recruiting “troops” (also discharged comic nerds discover they have super powers, only catch patients) to grapple with aliens either in his head or real, is – they have to be drunk in order to use them. saving the world with total chaos! Table for Two? Warren Paul Glover Rock and Roll Dream Chi Hsiu Chen A predatory secretary, a high-maintenance mistress, A confident girl, one of Taiwan all-girls idol group Lucky and an ultimatum-demanding wife turn the tables on an Shamrock members, who sacrifices love for her dream, unfaithful husband. has the courage to challenge authority, and holds a tre- mendous rock concert on a college campus. S.H.E starts a Taking the Fall Sean Flaherty journey together, rebels against their mothers who make When spunky archangel Lucifer keeps God’s dark secret sacrifices for their families, and women depend on their only to get banished as a devil to Earth, his fight to change super strength are applauded by fans heartily. God’s mind by helping humans actually changes him, because God knows Satan is just what the universe needs. Saving King Chavez Steph Lady An urban comedy capturing the frustration and absurdity Testosterona Chris Canning that a teacher faces going into a failing high school in East Two retired filmmakers on holiday in Spain and staring Oakland about to be shut down by the state and turned down old age while nursing resentments and long-held over to a for-profit corporation. Given the most incorrigible secrets that threaten their friendship are prodded into students in the school, and harassed by a cynical principal, re-examining their lives by the arrival of a contemporary he fights for the soul of the school. who has found the elixir of youth. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Comedy – Crime/Murder/Mystery 15 The Transfer Student Tom Birschbach and Monte Christiansen A mysterious, introverted surfer-werewolf wreaks havoc Recent Successes Continued from page 13 and mayhem when he transfers to a university in an upscale beach community. the Trees, which was also shot from a script he found on InkTip. Based on the East Coast, Clint is a prolific The Underwater Jesus W. Lee Miller, Jr. screenwriter with a dozen titles to his name. He has After a lonely, wealthy woman is rescued by a man named previously sold a script through InkTip, making this Jesus, she believes that it is a God-send – only God didn’t his second success and first option since he began send him. promoting his work on the site in 2015.

Indra Bartona Options West of Earth The Wedding Kimono Jim Clarken and Isabella Codd Indra Bartona with Planet 9 Pictures found West of Akiko finds herself alone in a strange land when her Earth on InkTip and optioned it from R. Smith. Indra’s grandfather steals her identity, credit cards, and honey- producing credits include the thriller feature Frenzy moon. She has only one hope. Unfortunately that’s PJ. and the comedy short The Set-Up, which won the Jury (Comedy/drama) Award at the Las Vegas International Film Festival. R. Smith just joined InkTip earlier this year, and this is What da fu--? Michael McPherson his first success as a result. He has also previously A priceless painting belonging to the Mob gets tossed optioned a graphic novel for adaptation. into the garbage after a wife catches her husband having an affair. Gene Loveland Options Angels and Devils Gene Loveland with Green Trailer Productions found When Marilyn Screwed Hitler in Beverly Hills to Angels and Devils through InkTip and optioned it from Save JFK Dave Wollert Sean Ryan. This is their third collaboration since Gene found Sean’s short script Choices on InkTip several As World War II wears on, Adolph Hitler’s attention shifts years ago, which they are now developing as a fea- to other forms of conquest. In this hilarious account of ture. Sean has been with InkTip since 2005, resulting fictional events, Churchill, FDR, General Hermann Goering, in numerous options and several produced credits Marilyn Monroe, and Gloria Swanson pull out all of the including the sci-fi/thriller feature Weaponized, star- sexual stops to rescue JFK and the crew of PT109, and help ring Tom Sizemore and Mickey Rourke. Hitler end the war with the bang of his dreams. Joe Lemmon Options Muti Where the...Is My Brother? Georges Salo Joe Lemmon with Black Diamond Films found Muti A well-known enforcer works for the mob to snuff out their on InkTip and optioned it from Bob Bowersox. Joe’s enemies. His brother, although developmentally chal- feature credits include the crime/thriller Speed Kills, lenged, is a natural locksmith and considers his special starring John Travolta and Katheryn Winnick. Bob is an gift as just another magic act or parlor game. The enforcer award-winning writer who has been with InkTip since uses his brother’s ability to gain access to places where 2008. Also an accomplished actor with over 21 film enemies reside, and he’ll go through anyone and everyone credits, he has appeared in such films as the Coen to get his kidnapped brother back. Brothers’ Burn After Reading. This is Bob’s first option through InkTip. Crime/Murder/Mystery Thadd Turner Discovers Susan Rohrer Abduction John Thibault Thadd Turner with Talmarc Productions discovered A skeptical homicide detective investigates a bizarre murder Susan Rohrer on InkTip and has entered into an and tracks down the strange circumstances but uncovers agreement on her latest, as-yet-untitled feature script. an alien conspiracy that changes his thinking forever. Thadd’s credits include the Western feature Justice, starring Jackson Rathbone (Twilight) and the rom-com Above Justice Paul Johnson 2 Years of Love, which he also directed. This is Susan’s second success through InkTip since joining in 2006. A victim of America’s violent gun culture connects the A multiple award-winning writer/producer/director, decades-old unsolved mystery of his vanished brother to she specializes in bringing redemptive stories to the the unsolved murder case of his valiant father. But after screen. Susan’s previous credits include Book of Days, homicide detectives covertly conspire to ignore his disturb- starring Wil Wheaton. ing discoveries, he grasps what he must truly apprehend: Continued on page 17 the transcendent divine healing power of forgiveness. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 16 Crime/Murder/Mystery The Camp Duval Diary Yutaka Roy Yamamoto gets one in the form of multiple murders and a mythical When an Asian-American intelligence agent is murdered Quetzalcoatl (feathered serpent). in 1959 Manhattan, his commanding officer struggles to uncover the truth as clues encoded in a diary, kept in a For Love of Mama Kari Floren WWII internment camp for American residents of Japanese An emotionally damaged woman finds out that her moth- descent, link the murder to its then camp director, now er’s suicide was actually a murder, and suspecting a shady revealed to be the powerhouse behind a political move- opportunist from the past, she forces a straight-arrow cop ment spawned by McCarthyism. to cross the line to help her hunt the killer down.

The Case of the Feminist Roboticist David Hearne Go for It! Ignatius Bob Garabed One man’s fight for equality in a futuristic, woman’s world A decorated Marine commando of the Korean War, where a feminist roboticist is both his greatest adversary responsible for helicopter warfare, contemplates suicide and his only hope. when his family is killed in a botched robbery by some mob kids while he was a cop – but decides revenge is better. Coiled Sharon Pape Using commando tactics and his combat Jujitsu training, A detective chases himself. leaving bodies behind in a unique robbery he steals 16 million dollars from the underground mob bank vault. Con Job John Roth-Imsdahl and Michael Thomas Gossette A desperate uncle must protect his innocent nephew from Green Lyte Anthony Catino a military prison full of killers before the cons can murder Two scientists team up to use genetically modified insects to him, or destroy his personality forever. Based upon a true extort millions from a marijuana growers association in order story. This is a military version of The Shawshank Redemption to pay back a mobster so one of them can get his wife back. meets The Sting and the1950s film noirConvicted . I Wonder What the Vintners Buy Lillian Savage Dante’s Island Georges Salo Hearing a conspiracy to commit two murders, a pair of home- A wealthy eccentric orchestrates a reality show to find and less winos are in a quandary over what – if anything – they exact his revenge for those that killed his family. are obligated to do to hinder those plans. (Crime/mystery)

Desert Quarry James Palmer Ian Simon Teal Georges Salo Two mercenaries rob a New York jewelry shop to even a Two master thieves mentor a down-on-his-luck amateur score with a former colleague. They make a clean getaway, thief in his craft. To show his gratitude he’ll accomplish the but after the shop’s employees are found murdered, a one task his mentors couldn’t complete – steal an item past crime in Iraq begins to haunt them. illegally usurped by a private collector and return it to the museum. He devises the scheme with such complexity as Disturbing Dreams of Haunting Memories to also gain the love of his life. Patrick William Lingga A surreal, feature-length, psycho-thriller screenplay (inun- Ian Simon Teal Too: The Savage Heist Georges Salo dated with macabre, retrospective, sequential dreams) To save his kidnapped lover’s life, a master forger and art wherein undeterred, psychopathic homicides prevail thief must steal a famous Gauguin sculpture and hatch a within a lowbrow, small-town setting. daring plan to rescue her.

Estranged Michael L. Anderson It Will Soon Be Here Timothy Scott Murphy A renowned psychologist, criminal profiler, and bestselling When wealthy widower Marshall Wrightmann discovers author falls into the dark world of a psychopathic killer that his new wife Lurlene murdered and collected from two with scores to settle when her child is abducted from a previous husbands and is actively planning to kill him soon, TV studio as she promotes her latest book on a talk show. he confronts the ultimate opponent, the woman he loves.

Feathered Serpents Joyce Walsh It’s a Dangerous Game Jacqueline Levesque When a diva’s pet anaconda attacks her, Chief Calderón A beautiful woman in a deep undercover operation and encounters the most interesting case he’s had since mov- a middle-age detective searching for the man responsi- ing from a large police force in Tucson to a two-person ble for the death of his younger brother join forces in an office on Cape Cod. Stuck there while his daughter attends uneasy partnership as they become players in a danger- a prestigious art academy, he needs a challenge – and ous game of brutality and betrayal. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Crime/Murder/Mystery 17 The Masked Man Dan Smith A woman spots a masked man burying something in the woods behind her property. After finding what he buried, Recent Successes she knows it can only mean one thing: the masked man is Continued from page 15 sending her a message. Michael Gray Options The Caterpillar Michael W Gray with Relentless Filmz found The Pacific Anti-Terrorist Unit: Nectar of Passion Georges Salo Caterpillar on InkTip and optioned it from Marc Prey. The Pacific Anti-Terrorist Unit is created under the- aus Michael’s credits include A Birders Guide to Everything pices of the department of Homeland Security. A tsunami with Sir Ben Kingsley, among others. All Michael’s films washes bodies on shore, and PATU is asked to assist in solving this bizarre set of murders which unveil a nefarious have secured distribution and have played around the and sinister plot in the making. Can PATU decipher and world. Marc has been with InkTip since 2002 and now terminate the plot in time? has eleven produced credits to his name, including the action feature Paid in Full, starring Jonathan Bennett Pacific Anti-Terrorist Unit (PATU): Drug Habit (Mean Girls) and another scheduled for production Georges Salo later this year. This is his fourth option through InkTip. Cancer, “the scourge of modern man,” is yet incurable, although French and American scientists have discovered Kevin Carraway Options Masquerade that in part viruses and retroviruses cause it. No cure is Kevin Carraway with Clear Lake Entertainment found available as it may be that drug companies stand to make Masquerade on InkTip and optioned it from Charlie more profit from abating the symptom rather than curing Estrada and Anthony Chavez. Kevin’s producing the disease thereby perpetuating a drug habit. partner and fellow InkTip member Allen Yates is also onboard, with Kevin attached to direct. Kevin’s Pacific Anti-Terrorist Unit (PATU): Resolute Strike previous credits include the action/thriller Chain of Georges Salo Command and Way of the Wicked, starring Christian When he receives a cryptic warning, the head of the Pacific Slater. Charlie and Anthony joined InkTip in January, Anti-Terrorist Unit in Hawaii must assemble his team to and just posted their script for Masquerade several stop a group from detonating a nuke on his island. months ago. This is now their first success as a result!

Pacific Anti-Terrorist Unit: Reap the Harvest Jonathan Cocco Options Bye, Alicia Georges Salo A criminal, needing an entry point for his weapons and Jonathan Cocco with Jonathan Cocco Productions drugs, finances a Honolulu mayor’s re-election campaign. found Bye, Alicia on InkTip and optioned it from Amir Upon winning it, the mayor reneges on his deal. He is dis- Mo. Jonathan’s credits include the feature film F.U. patched, replaced with his compliant deputy mayor. PATU Woody Allen and the award-winning short Ignofear, must solve two seemingly unrelated events in order to among others. This is Amir’s first option through stop the proliferation of weapons and drugs. Are they too InkTip. A writer, actor, producer, and director in his late; does he reap his harvest? own right, his most recent film The *** Addict stars Horatio Sanz (Saturday Night Live), Bryan Callen (The Slip Dan Smith Hangover I and II, MADtv), and Ken Davitian (Borat). Memento meets Jacob’s Ladder when a head injury propels Amir has been with InkTip since 2007. a man to discover his true life. Jon Tierney Options The Avon Man A Song for Leonard Chris Canning Jon Tierney with Jon Tierney Productions found The He was her fantasy and her muse, but was Leonard Cohen Avon Man on InkTip and optioned it from John Collins. also her lover? When Suzanne Finch, a singer/songwriter Tierney’s credits include the action/drama The Job, dies during a 1978 street mugging, her intended victim is starring Daryl Hannah (Kill Bill). This is John Collins’ accused of murder and has only the lyrics of her songs to first option through InkTip. He’s also a writer on the help establish his innocence and the truth about her life, upcoming drama feature Brother’s Keeper, starring loves, and death. Laurence Fishburne and Milo Gibson. John has been promoting his work on InkTip since 2008 and was Timeslip Spencer Brady recently named on The Budget List – The Best Low An urban cowboy in mental meltdown travels to remote Budget, Unproduced Screenplays of 2017. highlands to stop his relentless nightmares and finds him- Continued on page 21 self in a deadly timeslip. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 18 Feature Article Mark E. McCann’s

INSPIRES ON & OFF THE SCREEN “Based on a True Story.” we know people who lived it. Schindler’s McCann’s scripts, which is currently in List inspires us because it recalls a development. Remembering McCann’s We’ve all seen those words in countless real-life example of human compas- talent for dialogue, Allen also brought opening credits. There’s something sion. Patch Adams makes us feel good him on to rewrite Beautifully Broken. powerful about knowing the events because of the effect he had on real The film secured a wide release across of a movie actually happened to people’s lives. Similarly, Beautifully the country and has been well received someone. From thrillers like Captain Broken, co-written by InkTip screen- by audiences and critics alike. Phillips to dramas like 12 Years a Slave, writer Mark E. McCann, inspires us the fact that these films are based because it tells a true story of love and Mark E. McCann took a break from his on actual events gives them a whole compassion. The film tells the story of busy writing schedule to sit down with us other dimension. These aren’t just the three diverse families from different to discuss his career, experiences with brainchild of some clever screenwriter countries, whose lives are affected by Beautifully Broken, and writing process: throwing twists and turns at meticu- the Rwandan Genocide. It’s an uplifting InkTip: Tell us about yourself. How did lously crafted characters. They’re actual story of hardship, hope, and recon- you get your start in screenwriting? histories. The drama, the conflicts, the ciliation. As the three families’ stories intertwine, audiences can’t help but be revelations all happened to real peo- MM: I’m forty-nine, and have worn in awe of the resilience of the human ple. They could have happened to you. many caps throughout the years: spirit and the power of forgiveness. This is why no movies are more inspira- security guard, sheriff’s deputy, police tional than ones based on a true story. Equally inspiring is screenwriter Mark officer, detective, crime scene inves- Remember the Titans hits home because E. McCann’s journey from unknown tigator, and writer. I’ve been writing writer to produced feature writer. The most of my life, making up stories, and Arkansas-based writer has no formal using my imagination. When I was a screenwriting training, but never let little kid, I would lug my grandmother’s that discourage him. McCann did what old manual typewriter around – which any smart writer would do: he read weighed more than I did! But grow- scripts, he wrote scripts, and he was ing up, nobody ever told me I could proactive in getting his material out to actually be a writer. It was only when I producers so that he could achieve his became an adult that I figured that out. goal of seeing his scripts made. This You don’t have to have anyone’s per- year his hard work paid off. mission, certification, endorsement, or blessing to be a writer… you just This last August Beautifully Broken was do it! For the last 20 years, I’ve been released in theaters. This is McCann’s writing screenplays. I have no formal first produced feature writing credit. training, just lots of trial and error. I’ve He was hired by producer Brad Allen read books and magazines, entered of BIG Film Factory to rewrite the contests and received feedback, and – Beautifully Broken is based on a powerful script for the film. The two connected of course – watched LOTS of movies. true story. on InkTip when Allen optioned one of Movies are my passion. My first job For these scripts and many more, go to our website: www.InkTip.com 19 was at a movie theater, where I could watch free movies and get a paycheck.

I got started in screenwriting quite by accident. Back when the Internet was in its infancy (the days of dial-up and “You’ve got mail!”), I ran across a movie producer in an AOL movie chatroom. We were discussing films, and I told him my idea for a movie – completely unaware that what I was actually doing was pitching. To my surprise, he asked me to send him the first act. I didn’t even know what a first act was! Fortunately, a friend of mine had bought Syd Field’s Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting book a few years before, so I borrowed it and got a quick lesson Benjamin A. Onyango and Scott William Winters star as two fathers struggling to save their families. on the craft. I wrote the first act and sent it in, and to my surprise the pro- for me but ushered me in and intro- Wonderful Life. While they certainly ducer requested the entire script. Of duced me around! aren’t real people or events, the thing I course, there wasn’t one yet, so I worked find most appealing is that they could like mad and got it cranked out and InkTip: How did you get hired to write be. People (myself included) love Star shipped off. Ultimately the company Beautifully Broken? What was it that Wars, Harry Potter, and Spider-Man… passed… but… I got an amazing phone made you the right writer for the job? but know they will never duel with a call from one of his people; I believe her lightsaber like Luke Skywalker, or cast MM: The reception of Cabin 6 was name was Kirsten Friedrich. She called stunning spells with wands, or sling quite the surprise, so I decided the to tell me that I should stick with screen- webs while fighting evil supervillains. logical thing to do would be to expand writing. I didn’t realize how monumental BUT… they could find themselves in that was at the time; actually taking time the story into a feature film (now called Crossed Hearts). That script a life-changing situation like Andy to call a new writer and encourage Dufresne, or fighting to escape their him… but now I realize just how signif- was optioned several times; many of which were through InkTip, thank you past like Zack Mayo, or facing a situ- icant that act of kindness was. At her ation where they want to jump off a advice, I continued writing screenplays, very much! One of those producers bridge and have to be shown that they learning with each one – and now I owe was Brad Allen of BIG Film Factory in matter like George Bailey. To me that’s her a career! Nashville. Brad has been absolutely amazing to work with! We mesh so the appeal of drama… it’s something InkTip: How did you hear about InkTip well that it’s downright unnerving at we can all identify with; a commonality. and how long have you been using times… on more than one occasion We all love, laugh, cry, have dreams, etc. our services? we’ve called each other to express a thought or idea, only to find the InkTip: What unique challenges were MM: I’ve used InkTip ever since I can other was having the exact same one! there in adapting actual events into a remember seriously getting into this Unfortunately, Brad wasn’t able to get screenplay? business. I’m a huge fan! My first pro- Crossed Hearts into production (not yet, MM: Most of the script was already duced script was a short posted on anyway… though he’s still trying!), but complete when I got it, so many of the InkTip. Within 24 hours of listing it, I got he later called me and said they had beats were already in place. Still, when three offers to make it! It was called gotten involved in a project that was writing about real events you have to Cabin 6 and was made by Michael based on a true story. Recalling my be careful to balance creativity with McCaffrey just outside of L.A. It com- work on Crossed Hearts, specifically the reality. The imagination kicks in and pletely surprised us by going on to win way I did dialog, he wanted to know if I tends to want to take over everything, awards, getting shown at film festivals, would do a pass on the existing script. even on the big screen at the Arclight I, of course, jumped at the opportunity so you have to be careful about stray- Theater on Sunset Blvd.! It – incredi- and rewrote a version. It had a working ing too far from the base material. You bly – gained distribution on DVD! It’s title of Letters to Rwanda but ultimately can take liberties, of course, but adding currently available for streaming on became Beautifully Broken. too many events that didn’t happen Amazon. These are very remarkable can cause problems. In this case, accomplishments for a short film, and InkTip: What are your favorite one of the people the movie is based I have InkTip to thank for all that… films and how has that influenced on was also the executive producer they put me in touch with Mike and your writing? (Randy Hartley), so that helped us to the pieces fell into place. It was the stay grounded. same with Brad Allen (the producer MM: I’m a drama guy. Some of my favor- of Beautifully Broken). I’ve always said ite films are Shawshank Redemption, InkTip: Beautifully Broken follows three that InkTip not only opened the door An Officer and a Gentleman, and It’s a separate families. Was it difficult to Register Today at www.InkTip.com 20 Feature Article stay on top of the three intersecting piece. And if you disagree, be tactful As far as knowing if an idea is worth narratives when writing the script? about how you tell them. Leave the pursuing, it depends greatly on the drama on the page. idea itself. Sometimes you have an MM: Absolutely! When I first read the idea that seems incredible at the time, script and notes, I was confused by the InkTip: What’s one thing you wish you but when you try to flesh it out it only three storylines because there wasn’t knew earlier in your career? falls apart. What I love is when an idea a traditional protagonist or antagonist. won’t go away. It’s there when you Two of the storylines intertwine early MM: Budget is everything. Writing a wake up… it’s there when you take a on, but the third kicks in almost at the galactic war epic with huge set pieces, shower… it’s there when you’re driving end of the movie in a surprising way. tons of special effects, and a cast of to the grocery store… it’s there when Then it’s like, “Oh! I get it!” I actually thousands may be fun… but it won’t do you’re cooking dinner… it’s there when even addressed the three storylines you much good if it doesn’t get made. you go to bed. That’s when I know I in my draft, comparing them to the Two people yelling at each other in a have to see it through because it just waters in Rwanda; they start out as room, however, could be filmed by most won’t leave me alone. streams, then merge and grow until anyone with a camera. Never forget they eventually become a raging river. that there are maybe a hundred people InkTip: What’s next for you in your It was a metaphor for the characters’ who can make a hundred-million-dollar writing career? lives joining together and becoming film, but there are a million people stronger. The river imagery actually who can make a hundred-dollar film. MM: I’m actually halfway through writ- made the final cut, and you can see As the budget comes down, the odds ing a novel right now. I started it a few them throughout the movie. of getting produced go up. I wish I had years ago when the movie business learned that sooner. wasn’t exactly breaking down my door. InkTip: What advice do you have for I’m about 80,000 words in – much too writers when working with producers? InkTip: Please tell us about your far to quit now! writing process. Do you have a writing MM: When possible, find one that’s a routine? A specific way you approach With Beautifully Broken hitting theaters, good match for you. Making a movie a new script? How do you decide if an however, writing scripts has very much is like getting married and having kids: idea is worth pursuing? returned to the front burner again. I you’re entering into a relationship owe a huge thanks to Brad Allen and that’s going to produce something that MM: I don’t have a routine in that I the guys at BIG Film Factory (Chuck potentially lasts forever. Compatibility is have a set writing schedule – because Howard and Martin Michael). Not only paramount, whether it’s creative, per- I don’t. Some days you sit down and did they give me my big break by work- sonal, stylistic, etc. A bad marriage will the ideas come like a flood… other ing on a produced feature, but they usually end in an ugly divorce, and so days it’s like squeezing water from a also gave me my first feature writing will a bad partnership. If you don’t get rock. This applies to both new scripts credit (both on screen and the poster!) along with the people you’re working and rewrites. Personally, I like rewrit- with, it can suck all the joy out of writing. They’ve opened many doors for me. ing. Facing the blank page and writing Brad introduced me to Kevan Otto (A something new can be daunting. It’s Also, listen to what they have to say. Question of Faith), who I wrote a script likened to shoveling through an eight- Sometimes their ideas are right on the for that’s in development (tentatively foot snowdrift; you’re overwhelmed, money, while other times not so much. called Harmony). Kevan in turn intro- cold, and tired. You don’t know where You may not particularly like a change duced me to Kevin Rushing, whose you’re going, and you sometimes they suggest, but at least let them give script I did some rewrites on before wonder if you’re even going in the it. Again, it’s a relationship, so there has it went into production. That one is to be give and take. Let them say their right direction! Rewriting, on the other called Fearless Faith and wrapped in hand, is like picking up a polished rock June. It should be slated for a 2019 and seeing the potential for cutting out release. Brad also took my latest script the gem inside. and showed it to another production company who was looking for just such When I’m tackling a new project, I start a story. Brad has been a real champion with a diagram on a blank sheet of of my work! paper. I use the Syd Field paradigm so I have a rough idea of what my acts I guess it’s really up to God at this are. It’s kind of like planning a road trip; point how things turn out. If these before starting out you have a rough three films are the end of the line, I’ll idea of what route you’re going to take, consider myself lucky for having even but you don’t fully know what you’ll gotten invited along for the ride at all. see along the way. It’s a balance of If, however, He has more work in store, planning and spontaneity. I also have a then I’ll roll up my sleeves and get to it! place at the end of the script I call the “boneyard.” I write down all my ideas You can find Mark E. McCann’s logline here and pluck them out from time to for Crossed Hearts on page 23. Scott William Winters (left) and Emily Hahn time when I find where they belong (center) as Randy and Andrea Hartley. in the story. By Kevin Gustafson For theseClick scripts each and title many above more, to see go theto our synopsis website: and www.InkTip.com script. Drama 21 Drama 4 Days to Impact Harry Husted Recent Successes When a Russian hacker uses malware to disable NASA’s Continued from page 17 defense system, an imprisoned hacker has four days to Anoop Rangi Options A Targeted Obsession destroy it before an Extinction Level Event hits Earth. Anoop Rangi with Formula Features found A Targeted Obsession on InkTip and optioned it from Jamie Grefe. 600 Days in Hiding Andreas Algava and Daniel Levine Anoop’s credits include the recent Lifetime movie The true story of a Jewish family hiding in plain sight for Twin Betrayal, which was shot from a script found on 600 days during the Nazi occupation of Greece. (Book InkTip. Jamie is a published author and screenwriter for adaptation) who has collaborated on feature-length and TV movie scripts for Jim Wynorski, John Lee, Prince Bagdasarian, 9/10 Richard Willett and Rene Perez. Jamie has been promoting his work Four interwoven, multicultural stories that take place in the on InkTip since 2014, and this is his third success as a result. World Trade Center on the night before September 11, 2001. Carlos Keyes Options Echo Accidental Survivalists Mark Stuart Dresner Carlos Keyes with Carlos Keyes Film Entertainment A stay-at-home mom is forced to reveal a double life when found Echo on InkTip and optioned it from Victoria her genius husband’s cyber-warfare technology makes Brewer. Among his other credits, Carlos’ upcoming him a valuable target. Reluctantly, the family flees to a sci-fi/horror feature Black Wake will be released next survivalist hideaway where the mom battles spoiled kids, week on August 7th. The film stars Tom Sizemore Mother Nature, and foreign spies. (Saving Private Ryan) and Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight). This is Victoria’s second option through InkTip since Adjusting the Mirror Jeffrey Liggens joining in 2014. Her scripts often explore the blurred A college girlfriend of a neighborhood thief influences him lines between science and the paranormal. into going to college, while she becomes beguiled by street life, stops going to college, and becomes an internet escort. Kevin Carraway Options The Tiger and the Sparrow Kevin Carraway with Clear Lake Entertainment found Against the Grain Stephen Colley The Tiger and the Sparrow on InkTip and optioned it along with his producing partner Allen Yates. Fellow In the 1901 Midwest, an overachieving young lady races InkTip member Gregg Simon is attached to direct the to build a huge grain elevator that a Wall Street clique, the film, written by Charlie Estrada. This is now Charlie’s local railroad, and the project’s labor leader don’t want built. second collaboration with Kevin, who is attached to direct his script Masquerade. Kevin’s previous credits Ahmen Gods Lyle Byron Major include Way of the Wicked, starring Christian Slater. Sent directly to Earth from the Creator to raise up their Charlie began promoting his work on InkTip in January, race of beings who have fallen prey. Things get deadly. and this is already their second success as a result.

The All American Girls Timothy Hastings Sherry Robb Signs Jeffrey Kelley Patton meets Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. An army burlesque Sherry Robb with The Robb Company discovered troupe of female impersonators slogs its way from Sicily to Jeffrey Kelley through InkTip and has entered into an the Rhine in fabulous style. (Finalist, Scriptapalooza 2018) agreement to represent him. Both a producer and a manager, Sherry represents multiple InkTip clients and scripts, several of which are currently in development All I Want for Christmas Richard Vadim with the Robb Company’s production branch. Jeffrey A young widower is inexplicably attracted to a woman is the author Vampyre Gold and Monaco Volcano, both who bumps into him while Christmas shopping. By hap- of which are currently available on Amazon. This is his penstance they are thrown together for the holiday in the first success through InkTip since becoming a mem- home of the man’s sister. This warm, happy family con- ber last year. tains a precocious five-year-old, whose subtle ways aid in transforming the two into a couple. Travis Mann Options Eyes Wide Open Travis Mann with Cobalt Pictures found Eyes Wide Open American Cars F.J. Hubert on InkTip and optioned it from Keith MacGeagh & Matt A man from a broken past fights to bring back the heyday Continued on page 23 of the American car against a seductive, greedy woman. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 22 Drama The Andes Project Jose Casado to save her. In each other’s arms they miraculously survive. In search of redemption, a headstrong journalist follows Psychologically and physically damaged, both must over- a gas drilling scandal from New York to Paraguay, but come past and present traumas. A growing resentment instead uncovers a tragic coverup that threatens her life. toward each other adds to their woes. Their shared strug- gle for a resolution alienates those closest and pushes An Astonishing True Urban Tale Andre Orr them deeper into darkness. In Casey’s mercurial mind he was the pillar of his neighbor- hood until two brothers moved in and pushed him aside. Campout Finale Jan Dalby It takes a little time for this delusion to grow in his mind When a terminally ill boy convinces his divorced dad to but his life will soon be predicated on righting the wrong – sneak him from the hospital for a campout, the dad’s ex, her and in the process destroying his life. rich husband, and the police think it’s a kidnapping. But the kid’s nurse finds them first through a massive storm near a Augustus and Ophelia Greg Wishart flooded river. When the police arrive, it’s too late. The dad is A preliminary cancer diagnosis sends an eccentric man accused of kidnapping and murder – but forgiven by his ex. into a tailspin. Along the way he crashes into a despondent woman bent on revenge. A series of explosive encounters Car Heroin Train Virginia Austin ensue until, despite their opposing motives, these two deeply Recently graduated from a prestigious college, Evan flawed people find solace together. An aspiring friendship searches for the girl his father died saving in a car accident blossoms. However, a vicious knife attack and an opportu- 18 years ago. Instead of finding a young woman destined nity for vengeance threaten to end all hope of happiness. for greatness, he discovers Amanda became a heroin addict. Preparing to return home, he befriends a young girl Believe Jose L. Rodriguez fighting cancer. This friendship though soon becomes com- After losing everything, a former bellboy of a swank Miami promised as he ends up becoming involved with Amanda. Beach resort sets his sights on Hollywood with all he has left – promises of God. The Cardiac Kids David Randolph The escape of an exotic cat makes the summer of four Bent River John Kane young boys much more interesting. But the real killer on A gay Apache police chief and his lesbian deputy fight prej- the loose is a man they speak to on a daily basis. udice, each other, and a murderous drug gang in small town New Mexico. Carmen Mia Cinzia Gagliardi The Birdhouse Maker Dale Janda When a successful, handsome nightclub owner and man- Days before a New York City concert pianist plans to intro- ager, suffering from serious amnesia, meets the woman of duce his fiancée to his family, his identical twin commits his life in the London underground, he realizes he cannot suicide, sending him on a desperate search to make sense live anymore without memories and decides to face his of the senseless. painful past.

Bittersweet John R. Sitzenstock Casino Intrigue Georges Salo Awakened by gun shots, a boy runs for his mother and Inspired by a true story of a casino security guard who is finds her dead. The weight of the world is on his shoulders passionate about his work but disrespected by his wife. He through life blaming certain people until discovering who eventually finds his true calling as a result of his wife’s extra- actually killed her and why. marital deceit. Their struggle is set against the backdrop of a casino, showcasing the true nature of that business. The Black Bird’s Eye Edward Donnelly A mischievous teen endeavors to escape his psychotic father The Christmas Clock Larry Martin and find the courage to open his heart to the girl he loves. Christmas films are shown year after year. When a child needs a home it sometimes takes a Christmas miracle and Brandy Roy Vincent a whole town joining hands and hearts. (Adapted from Tragedy strikes a young girl’s life through lies, jealousy, and NYT bestselling author Kat Martin) death. Can her vengeful future finally put the past to bed? The Conductor Kyle Works The Bridge Greg Wishart A woman struggles to keep her marriage together when A troubled young woman makes a momentous decision. A her composer husband is consumed by music he cannot confused young man takes a spectacular risk attempting stop hearing. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Drama 23 Cotton’s Sack Will Sims After the very tragic murder-suicide of a well-liked employee, 50-year-old human resources executive, Cotton Recent Successes Continued from page 21 Armstrong, desperately searches for any semblance of the strong, confident man he once was when he proudly left Kramer. Travis’ producing credits include the Starz! the confines of small-town Mississippi. series Insomnia as well as this year’s hit music biopic I Can Only Imagine, starring Dennis Quaid. Keith and Count the Petals of the Moon Matt’s script reached the finals in last year’s Crimson Daisy Martin Kirby and Frank Prendergast Screen Horror Film Fest and was optioned just months A million seeds of American truth on motherhood, loss, after they joined InkTip in April. As a result, they’ve also and English roots. been signed by JD DeWitt at 5x5 Media, Inc.

Crash Site John Thibault Jeremy Settles Options Space Captain and Callista A newly appointed powerful NTSB chairwoman, faced with Jeremy Settles with Got Films found Space Captain a major passenger jet crash, tracks down the cause of the and Callista on InkTip and optioned it from Lisa Savy. air disaster and is forced to set aside her feelings for a Jeremy’s feature credits include the sci-fi/thriller reckless former lover. Unwritten, which was shot from a script he found on InkTip. Lisa is an award-winning screenwriter who has Crossed Hearts Mark E. McCann been with InkTip since 2015. Her drama script Dreams A couple on the verge of divorce finds themselves stuck in I Never Had was recently produced by Missing Peace a secluded cabin, where they find a journal containing the Pictures starring Malcolm McDowell and Robin Givens. entries of two newlyweds who eloped there in 1935 and their struggles to stay together. The Dearly Beloved James DiLuzio Dagger Three John Kane A Catholic priest’s vocation and his friendship with his An ex-basketball star, Travis McQuarry, just released from twice-divorced sister and a gay priest are jeopardized as he prison, returns to a dying Oklahoma town to reunite with navigates crises in their lives and scandals in the Church. his headstrong son and help him achieve similar fame on the basketball court. But Travis’s violent past intervenes, The Diary of Nick Pope Christopher Stanton and in the end, it is the boy, Kyle, who must decide his Nick, a talented artist teased because of disfiguring birth- father’s fate as well as his own. marks, navigates the fall of his sophomore year at a new high school in 1987 with the support of a pregnant class- Danton’s Death Kalman Oravecz mate and his karate-loving best friend. Fatal Attraction, Ideological hatred, sectarian violence, famine, and the threat Dolph Lundgren and Jean-Michel Basquiat all play a part of invasion drive the French Revolution to its bloody extremes. as Nick reaches a crossroads. (Based on a graphic novel written by Christopher Stanton and Christopher Darling) Daughters Ofer Saly and Kathy Keithley The daughter Julian wanted and never had until he was Distant Thunder Michael Marchessault shocked to learn otherwise. An emotional, tearful, sad and A Vietnam veteran, returning home after bonding with happy, beautiful story of a poem writer. four others in combat and drug use, seeks redemption from the atrocities of war. Reuniting with his comrades, The Day I Decided to Go to Babylon and Get Married he embraces the soul of the American Indian Movement, Haron Esho Black Panther Party, Chicano Movement, and Psychedelic A group of young men born in Iraq and raised in Chicago counterculture. Raising his family on a communal farm, he juggle the traditions of American and Middle-Eastern finds completion and healing. customs as they plan for one of their own weddings. A coming-of-age that explores the refugees of the ’80s and The Dog Walker John Day how assimilation can never change ancient traditions. A disgraced political consultant walks dogs to keep his fabulous apartment until the turret bedroom with a view Dead Before Long Peter Andrew Long becomes the means for a Cuban spy network to black- A seasoned contract killer’s reputation for cold-blooded mail Washington’s cheating power couples. The Three precision and expediency is tested when he is hired to Amigos – Zeus, a Shih Tzu, Winston the Pug and Sonia the carry out a “hit” on a dying man – by the victim himself – and Retriever – rescue J.J. Chamberlain from his fast track to an unexpected mutual respect and friendship develops. murder, mayhem, and treason. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 24 Drama Downsize This Francis X. Fitzpatrick The Flid Show Richard Willett An ex-member of the Weather Underground returns A charismatic, belligerent English nightclub singer, born to his roots in Philadelphia 30 years later to attend the with flipper-like arms because his pregnant mother took funeral of a friend who had been beaten to death during the drug thalidomide, believes his deformity will keep him a strike. The reformed radical becomes a working people’s from ever finding love – until he falls for a pretty young Robin Hood to avenge his friend’s death and to save the American doctor, with intimacy issues of her own, and jobs of factory workers which are threatened by a ruthless must confront his own dark past in order to win her. corporate takeover artist. The Future Takes Its Toll Gregor Neuens Earth & Blood Gregory Tomlin An emotionally unstable artist, who dislikes his fellow men, A WWI hero with a wife suffering from cancer and a family realizes that he can see the future in his dreams and is put he can no longer afford to care for takes an undercover to the test, when he suddenly dreams of strangers who job bringing down bootleggers, only to find himself entan- urgently need help. gled in a corrupt world and unsure whom to trust. Glen Sheldon Shaw Elaine Jack Vandagriff Glen is a nurse’s aide that works in a hospice, who gains At the start of the 20th century, the attempts of African- the power to heal people. American sharecroppers to unionize results in the most violent massacre of African Americans in American history. Gowanus Imrich Razbunare Yomi Akinode A cynical CIA operative’s familial All-American vendetta Every Day of My Life Andre Orr coupled with a coincidental military coup in post-indepen- An African-American teen from Chicago gets himself dent Nigeria wipes out a 60-year-old $600 million trust. into big trouble and is sent to rural Alabama to live with Who the hell is left standing? relatives. He meets a white girl, and his life will never be the same! Hell Is NO Party; You Don’t Want to Go D. Scott Mackey Face the Color Matthew Viscuse While dealing with death, murder, a bus wreck, and sui- An adopted Korean girl’s dream of getting into music cide, both high school students and inmates contemplate school becomes threatened when her addiction to the reality of Heaven and Hell. physical beauty grows stronger and long-repressed thoughts surface. Hostile Intent Michael Mendershausen Contemporary adaptation of Othello with modern dia- Fault Lines Mindy Leisure logue titled Hostile Intent. Most names, and all ethnicities, In 1940s Oklahoma, when a grieving bar owner takes in a nationalities, vocations, and locations are changed, but young pair of bi-racial traveling companions, she discovers the themes of jealousy, revenge, misogyny, betrayal, and just how far she will go to protect the two as the unlikely prejudice remain. trio comes together to help each other recover from the past and face the future. Based on a true story. Hungaria: The Real Story of One Family’s Escape to Freedom James Morris Fire and Glory Timothy Gerage Based on true events during the 1956 Hungarian revolu- In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a budding young tion, a patriot is forced to escape with his family to freedom. football star must overcome his hardscrabble past as he embarks on a journey that breathes life back into the New In the Void of Lies Kirby Freeman Orleans Saints football team and inspires the comeback of TrumpCare failed. What’s next? The fate of millions is in a devastated city. question. Politics is selling. In order to pass the Health Care Bill, Justin Powell has to help Senator Fitzgerald cover up an Fire Season Tim D. Stickler illicit affair but finds himself having to deal with the same True events of a devastating forest fire, along with coun- secrets at home. (Politics/scandal/healthcare/drama) try music, provide the backdrop. Fire Season, finding the meaning of life. Centered on a musically talented run- In-Plainview Ken Belsky away young teenage girl and the childless wife of a star Rustbelt Ohio, 2007. The stock market and job market country singer. Together, they help people sent to an have crashed. Three brave and desperately unemployed evacuation center setup in a small town’s domed high young women seize upon a last-chance opportunity for school football stadium. work and dare to open an all-girls car wash setting off Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Drama 25 confrontations against a virulent, conservative majority LaLa Love Dream Chi Hsiu Chen and quickly learning that all really is not fair in love, war, A brave girl, one of Taiwan all-girls idol group Lucky Shamrock business, and small town politics. members, she looks like sunshine and a rebellious teenager pursues love, has the courage to come forward and for justice Inherit a Marriage (I AM) Georges Salo to protect women who are bullied or harassed by men. S.H.E Traditional and modern values collide for an Indian lesbian sings for love and voices for marriage equality, makes the who must return to India to attend her father’s funeral. dreams of love come true, and the old world is disillusioned. Upon arriving in India with her partner, she discovers that she must marry in order to uphold her family’s Last to Fall Jim Maceda rank and stature. November 11, 1918. A young German-American who faces intense anti-German sentiment in the States is the last Insensible Wilfred Cheng soldier killed on the battlefield in World War One – and a dogged reporter uncovers why he didn’t have to die. When two old women kill a homeless man to collect an insurance policy, they soon embark on a revenge tour to rid their city of evil men and collect as much money as Le Tahitien Wilfred Cheng they can. The ocean swept two Tahitian children away, but 25 years later fate brings them back together. Joe Likes Mary Rob Wallace John P. Travis In the turbulent summer of 1968, a 19-year-old boy leaves Letters Home the seminary and returns home where, now threat- Dual brother/sister leads: Brother is a minor league ened with being drafted, he falls in love with a pregnant baseball pitcher; his sister is distraught but determined teenaged girl being cloistered by nuns in the basement to embark on a road trip to gain release of her mother of their convent. from a mental institution. Disturbing secrets are revealed and violent episodes relived, reflecting on the impact that mental illness has on families. The Journal Charles Rivetto A young woman’s dissolute lifestyle is challenged by the Letting Go David Phoenix 260-year-old journal of another young woman captured by the Abenaki Indians. Alan Goodman, veteran of tours in Iraq/Afghanistan, suf- fers from PTSD. He reveals to his psychiatrist that Perkins, a comrade, intends to kill him for witnessing Perkins’ cold- The Judas Horse Vickery Eckhoff blooded murder of numerous civilians. Institutionalized Mayor Paula Bacon battles Dallas Crown, a notorious and medicated, Alan encounters long-dead comrades and slaughterhouse in Kaufman, Texas that brutalizes horses murdered civilians. When Perkins is admitted to the hospi- and a small black community next door. Against all odds, tal, Alan escapes, pursued by demons and Perkins intent she shuts it down, following a trail of corruption and tainted on murdering him. There’s no escaping fate. horse blood from her East Texas town, through the state capital and all the way to Capitol Hill. Based on a true story. Liberation Stephen Colley When an animal activist starts freeing factory farm animals, Kappa Chains of Love Ellen Orchid Homeland Security comes after him and a slaughterhouse Laura is long-divorced and has just retired from a happy goes after the escaped cow he rescued. career of teaching freshman English. Her two millennials, a son and a daughter, have their own dreams. She’s eager A Life Built from Fear Barry Kohl for her next chapter of freedom. She wants to date, travel, A teen boy in Austria evades Nazi incursion into Austria. and pursue stand-up comedy. Suddenly, her ex-husband Once in America he must save his family. He left Austria gets a surprise diagnosis which changes everything. Will at odds with his father. His brother turns to crime once in he survive? Laura’s stand-up runs throughout the script. America and does well financially. The father’s favoritism comes back to haunt him when the son he favors is arrested. Keiko Speaks – The Untold Story Bonnie Norton The true story about Keiko the orca whale after his starring A Little Sedated Joseph Sanders roll in the hit movie, Free Willy. Despite a gallant attempt Love is in the air, or is that napalm? Brenda and Eddie dive to return him to the wild, a woman who communicates in with all their common sense at the expense. She has an telepathically with Keiko struggles to help him be heard eating disorder, and he, an addiction to every drug under and convince his caretakers that Keiko does not want to the sun. In this coming-of-age dramedy, laughs are rivaled leave the people he loves. by tears; hopefully, the former wins in the end. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 26 Drama The Littlest Hitman Ralph Lucas Mirdad: A Lighthouse and a Haven An L.A. teenager, suspected of killing a local underworld Roberto Junqueira kingpin, takes the law into his hands when he is targeted, In the late 1800s a mysterious man is admitted at a Middle- but his mother is killed. Eastern monastery and starts to reveal new concepts of God, life and love, which manages to make disciples of the The Longest Trail Roni McFadden monks, but also arouses the furious reaction of the local materialistic abbot. The true story of an abused teenage girl looking for a new path in her life, which unexpectedly leads in the direction of horse packing alone in the rugged and perilous Sierra My Summer of ‘67 Michael J. Shapiro and Ed Kaplan high country, bringing her closer to the natural – and It’s June 1967, college graduation, and the dawn of the supernatural – world than she ever could’ve imagined. Summer of Love when Ned Stern (21) – facing the army draft and a feared one-way ticket to Vietnam in the fall – takes a summer job in the great outdoors that teaches Love’s Dangerous Road (Mother’s Day Reunion) him more about war, love, sex, and survival than any jun- Lee Martin gle in Southeast Asia ever could. A struggling young widow’s new suitor, who has secretly discovered her wealthy birth mother, is not against mur- No Way In Georges Salo der and has his own agenda when he takes her and her young son to Spring Festival at a lake resort as her myste- When an African American falls in love with a local Asian rious landlord follows and the truth unfolds, even as it all and is intent on marriage, he must obtain her parents’ backfires when she falls for a deputy sheriff. approval. He’s forced to undergo a journey of self-discov- ery in order to prove his mettle and win her hand. The Magic Room John Kane Noel and The Ram Barry Hart A struggling New York artist enters the “magic room” A young autistic man makes an unlikely friend in an ex-pro where fame beckons and all you stand to lose is your wrestler named The Ram and finds love with a girl who has sense of morality, ethics, and self respect. Here, she a knack for codes. confronts a world or corrupt art auctions, media frenzy, Mafia influence and finally murder before she realizes the magic room will destroy her and she must escape The Nutcracker Joseph Thomas Carberry at all costs. A skilled homosexual fighter seeks to avenge the mobster killing of his beloved dog while trying to help a naive col- The Man Who Killed Hitler Fausto Politi lege student win a crooked boxing match. Axel finds his long-lost father when he hears the story of Holocaust survivor Fritz about his incredible escape from Of Hollowed Ground Ronald Condon Belsen that lead him to assist Hitler’s suicide. Maggie, a young girl raised in the strictest of Amish com- munities, can’t ignore her primal instinct to sing her own songs with her God-given voice. She finds a sanctuary to McCallister Park Steven Harris and Joyce P. King sing in a hidden cave. Her music is released to the world He lost his son, his career in the NBA, and his one true that connects her to her true hidden past. She becomes love. He had one shot to get it all back. the unseen, The Enigma, the first Amish-raised rock star!

Mendel High Damone Bester On the Corner of Eden and Grace (aka Small Steps) A mother’s dying wish for her son to attend college Marsha Rosenzweig Pinc becomes nearly impossible as the young man must quickly Just in time for the 50th anniversary of Woodstock! In learn to negotiate a landscape of bullies and outright crim- the summer of 1969, 17-year-old aspiring photographer inals in a dangerous neighborhood. Rosie Golden’s suburban Philadelphia life is torn apart when her high school boyfriend gradually descends into Mightier Than the Sword Ernie Hernandez heroin addiction. Between the Apollo 11 moonwalk and This true story details the growth and character develop- Woodstock, Rosie must learn how to save others without ment of a delinquent Latino gang boy into an educated destroying herself. man who comes back to work as a probation officer working with similar background sentenced camp gang Once Again Greg Wishart delinquents, and a camp director who thinks he cannot A mother’s resilience gets tested. She must overcome possibly be reformed or a good probation officer; he faces the tragic loss of her husband and unborn daughter. A significant obstacles, trials, and tribulations. vengeful father-in-law separates her from her two young Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Drama 27 sons adding to her grief. A night of long-overdue passion The Platinum Tycoons Charles Katz threatens to derail her desperate efforts to reunite with Action, drama, music, history, romance, lust, and seduc- her boys. A series of setbacks and confrontations ensue tions! A talented blues guitarist teams up with a country until the final face off with her father-in-law. rock group including the beautiful platinum blond twin sisters, creating music history to become icons in the One Nation, Under God David Midget Quebec music scene. The Platinum Tycoons is a sprawling No longer willing to live with what is going on throughout entertaining screenplay tracking the rise of the Canadian the United States, Utah secedes and transforms into a band and how various band members adjust to their new lives of success. theocracy, leaving one reporter and his family to fight for their lives. The Pocketknife Jerry Perez One on One C.V. Herst When an outspoken woman living alone is brutally mur- dered in a 1960s small town, her devoted paperboy, guided When a straight-shooting basketball coach is fired by by visions of his deceased father, pledges to bring her an unscrupulous owner, he makes a comeback with an killer to justice, only to find that all clues point to the town’s expansion team in China by learning to play the game off unchallenged authority, its chief of police, as the murderer. the court. Pride of Love Kevin Dwyer The Opposite of Hate Yowanda Russell After moving from being emotionally and physically A close friendship is threatened when two long-time scarred by a senseless hate crime, a young broken gay co-workers who’ve never seen each other, an African- man must look past the event when a goth-emo outcast American woman and a klansman, discover that they are comes into his life. from two very different worlds. Can their friendship survive? Prodigal Soul Johnny O’Bryant, Jr. Painter in the Storm A man leaves his job as a counselor to bring closure for George M. Johnson and Cameron Grant several families torn apart by addiction; he is injured and A rebellious young man wars with himself and others in almost loses his life. Two friends help him to recover, only his quest to paint the unworthy subject of Canada’s raw to discovery they are secretly part of a much bigger plan. wilderness, but in Algonquin during the First World War he clashes one too many times with its inhabitants. Based The Rape of Lucrece John Archer Lundgren on the true story of Canada’s most misunderstood and Shakespeare’s poem limns a harsh tale: the terrifying rape mythologized painter Tom Thomson, who mysteriously of a chaste and trusting woman, Lucrece, by a faithless died aged 39 at Canoe Lake in 1917. acquaintance, Tarquin, a Roman officer of royal rank and fellow soldier with Collatine, the husband of star-crossed Peace Pledge George M. Johnson Lucrece. Her tragic post-rape suicide ensues from a per- A disillusioned First World War veteran, challenged by a spective of shame to preserve her honor. reckless Anglican priest, reluctantly fights for peace against fascists in 1930s Britain, losing both friends and family The Red Badge of Courage but gaining a second chance in love. An award-winning Fred McGavran and Ilie Agopian script based on the true story of Canon Dick Sheppard A Civil War soldier thinks war is a great adventure until and the Peace Pledge Union, the strongest pacifist he runs away from his first battle. Wounded by another movement in history. fleeing soldier, he returns to his unit looking like a hero with a “red badge of courage.” Now he must die a coward The Pickpocket’s Daughter Neal Ruchman or live as a real hero. After being kidnapped, a funny teenaged girl attempts to forge a family by reconciling with her mom and saving Remember Kent State Cicely Wynne her criminal father figure from himself. Along the way, she The Vietnam War, Kent State, violent student protests. confronts gangsters, a corrupt court, and her own check- Sex, drugs, classic rock. One week in May 1970 that ered past. defined a generation.

Pills, Suicide and Brutal Violence Douglas Lund The Return Home Brenda Riolo A suicidal man struggles to piece together the events lead- When a struggling baseball player returns home to find ing up to the brutal violence that left his wife in a coma, his estranged father suffering with Alzheimer’s disease, while he battles institutionalization, as the same pills that he must convince his father to move into a nursing home caused his insanity are thrust onto him to cure it. before he hurts himself. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 28 Drama Reunion R. Cadell Cook Shaking the Tree Georges Salo Before his class reunion, a lonely social media expert A woman’s journey of self-discovery at the behest of her confronts and accidentally kills a close friend for raping soldier husband who died as a result of wounds sustained his high school crush. Can he learn the truth and win her in Afghanistan. affections while covering up the murder? Siblings Roy Vincent Riding the Adrenaline Wave Richard Willett A millionaire’s life can change in a heartbeat, with the heir When real-life hotshot motorcycle racer/bull rider Lance to it all being his son and witnessing the murder of his Norman becomes a quadriplegic following a terrible crash, mother – controversy, sorrow, and hate soon kick in. The he struggles against family, addiction, medical reality, family will never be the same. and his own memories to find a new life of redemption using his story to help others. Silent Cry Charles Whorry A depressed man who was abused as a child completes Rising Tide Robin Callender Smith and individual counseling. Now, it’s an emotional challenge Valerie Eliot Smith for him to move forward personally. He must travel Time: 1952. Place: USAF A-bomber base in coastal Norfolk, back home and confront his father for abusing him for England. Set in the “hot” period of the Korean War, it sees so many years. a 6’6”-tall USAF bomber pilot conquering his fear of the sea to save a community overwhelmed by tidal flooding. His Silos Rick Showman and Bonnie Showman George Medal-winning heroism is recognized by Queen Elizabeth II. Perspective: two pre-teen girl friends. The farm silo has long been an icon of the rural Americana landscape. Growing up in the 50s and 60s, cousins Davey and Georgie Dick had no inkling that these structures Rogue Gentleman Wilfred Cheng would have such an impact on their short lives. A middle-level office worker unexpectedly becomes an in-demand escort, but once the founder of his company Sisters Thomas Norton becomes a client, he slowly uncovers a criminal network. A mentally troubled young woman lives with her overpro- tective twin sister, unaware that her reality is an illusion A Rose on the Railroad Lester Williams she created to deal with a devastating loss. Laisah and her husband Cash’s marriage ends when Cash takes their son Tim to work with him and Tim is acciden- Sky Blue Daron Weiss tally killed. A transgender man struggles with the fear of being discov- ered while raising a family in rural 19th-century America. The Samaritan Bueno Jack Weyland Dan is asked to deliver food to a needy family. He goes Soul Music C.V. Herst to the wrong house and meets Maria and her two kids. He ends up emptying his savings to pay her rent and for When a brilliant but callous medical student diagnoses food. She also uses the money to commit identity theft. that a woman’s soul is spellbound to a piano concerto, he Dan ends up as a suspect by ICE. His parents are baffled. must open his heart to conjure up the emotional key to set her free. The Sanctuary Dome Sharon Axcell With sanctuary comes tyranny. What if the only escape Sparks Roxanne Andorfer from Earth’s deep freeze is to become an alien’s pet? An alcoholic’s gifted teenage son and a stripper’s rebellious teenage daughter grow up, struggle with their fears of intimacy A Secret Vaughn Allen and adulthood, and come to terms with their dysfunctional parents one summer on the wrong side of the tracks. A young boy in his teens is psychologically confused about his sexual identity, forced to spend his youth in a mental institution, learns the truth later about what the family Stone Tom Foran hid from him, but nearly loses his life while finding out A desperate mother is forced to seek the help of a ruthless who he really is. cowboy/conman who threatens to destroy her world as he seeks his own redemption. Seeking Gold James Newton Diagnosed with cancer, a world-class race walker tries to Submission Charles Painter reconcile with his adult son and help him win an Olympic A woman seduces and coerces her husband to help her medal before it is too late. commit robberies as sexual foreplay. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Drama 29 SuperMax Ernie Hernandez up all his belongings and go out onto the streets of Boston A talented up-and-coming international soccer star must as a homeless person in a search for “God.” overcome sabotage to his career when his jealous best friend seduces his girlfriend and bribes a team opponent Uber Nun Jan Dalby with drugs to injure him. When he finds out, he gets arrested To save a deteriorating children’s group home, a young for viciously assaulting his nemesis, threatening his ability nun secretly takes up nighttime Uber driving and naively to play in the World Cup, which he so much desires. winds up with a permanent driving gig for a drug king- pin. When the FBI asks her to be an informant, she has Tania Meneguzzi The Talent a better plan. After being recruited to play for one of the nation’s top universities, a talented quarterback starts to party and The Ultra Deluxe Joe Camalari soon becomes addicted to cocaine. When he’s eventually expelled, with both his career and his relationships on the Greatly admired. Impossibly strong. Totally cool. That was line, a discovery about his deceased father’s identity sud- over a decade ago. After losing his superhuman ability, denly changes his course and helps him begin the process an ex-superhero struggles with being out of work, out of of reclaiming his career. the limelight, and a nemesis, spouse, and agent looking to frame him as he pieces together the truth behind a new There’s a Baby Elephant in the Pool Pat Doherty superhero taking the city by storm. A little girl finds a baby elephant in her pool; the adventure of returning the baby to her mother begins. Upside Brown Brad Farris Summer, 1954. A bloody battle rages to end school The Three Lives of Angel Fleming William LiPera segregation. A brave black minister’s home is burned. A Angel Fleming, who’s wanted by the police for armed rob- Klansman killed. Fifty years later, on the anniversary of bery and murder, assumes the identity of a dead woman so Brown vs. Board, a blues legend and a Marine redneck that she can search for the dead woman’s abducted child. join forces to destroy the Klan. While fighting racism and revenge, the musician and Marine find respect, friendship, Thriver Sisterhood Nancy Harkrider and the truth about their segregated past. Four women who share the collateral damage of abusive childhoods show extraordinary humanness and bravery in Utopia Adil Zbir search of their individual redemptions. The destruction of Utopia plunges the world into chaos and horror. Good works are no longer counted, and the Throne of God Roxanne Andorfer degree of morality of individuals no longer becomes the James, an African American, believes he is called to build criterion of social success. Lobbies become very powerful a magnificent throne ensemble made from junk but must and pass all the laws serving their interests. The law pro- overcome his resentment against his father and God. He hibiting the carrying of weapons is repealed. Money as a brightens the life of a fatherless little girl with an alcoholic means of payment floods the nation again. mother and helps restore sanity to a mentally disturbed homeless woman, as he obsessively races to complete it The Visa Michael Normand before he dies. An earnest paralegal bins her ethics when she joins forces with an illegal immigrant in a desperate plan to beat the The Thursday Whaler Damien Mulvany system. A true story for our times. A young sailor’s passion for the sea drives him to become an Australian naval officer, but his recklessness combined with naval negligence results in a tragedy, a court-martial, Vow of Silence Jason Fredregill and a government scandal. Childhood demons come rushing back as a man is torn between his incredible talent with the electric guitar and To Be Free Susan Flakes his chosen profession as a Catholic priest. An African-American slave puts her life on the line to save her daughter and to be freed from the master who thinks WASPS Richard Turner he owns her body and soul. Edwina Ellis, the upper-class wife of an executive, learns that an African-American college professor and his family Two Nights at the Pine Street Inn J. Christopher Haslip are moving into her idyllic, suburban neighborhood, and A 19-year-old college dropout uses drugs heavily for a long she will stop at nothing to make certain that it does not hap- period of time. In an LSD-induced “trip,” he decides to give pen, even at the expense of her own marriage and family. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 30 Drama – Fantasy White Vapor Blue Smoke John Little with the help of a detective must solve the mystery of her Shortly after the Civil War, a Union Pacific hired gun kills a “missing” son. railroad official. He then goes on the run from an obsessive U.S. Marshal. Keeping a reluctant promise, he winds up Luck of the Dog Stacia Deutsch in China defending the great house of a young matriarch Three girls find a stray dog that seems to bring them luck, struggling in a malicious land dispute. chaos ensues when they all need that luck at the same time.

The Wonder George M. Johnson My Sister’s Tail Stacia Deutsch An ambitious Edwardian journalist saves from drowning Twin sisters, one a mermaid and one on land, discover an uncannily precocious child, whose theory of life threat- each other and a bit of magic to let them swap places, ens authorities, particularly the local rector, as well as the unaware that they are spotted by an adversary who wants journalist’s sanity. An award-winning script adapted from to rule both land and sea. the first novel about a “superman,” J.D. Beresford’s classic, The Hampdenshire Wonder (1911), praised by H.G. Wells, Graham Greene, and Lester del Rey, among others. Fantasy The Champ and Other Short Stories Jonathan Colon You Are My Sunshine Ryan Curtis A beautiful collection of visual short stories. Two stoner friends decide the ensuing apocalypse is the best time to fulfill their dead friend’s final wish by deliv- Eve of Miracles Mike Schwartz ering her ashes to Drake’s house. On their journey they must fight together through a world gone mad, but their An anti-gravity experiment goes awry, transforming a mission and friendship comes into jeopardy when old famous aerospace scientist and former World War II flying secrets are exposed. ace into the real Santa Claus.

Family Her Name Is Bigfoot William Sowles What would you do if you rescue a young Sasquatch and Candy Kid and the Hobo King the bad guys want to make her into a tourist attraction? Kari Floren and Flora Doone A precocious 13-year-old boy runs off with his free-spirited The Herring Gull Arne Bue uncle for a grand summer adventure and experiences way Terrible dreams enslave a guileless and callow young man more than he ever could have imagined. and stop him from embracing the girl he loves until a Herring Gull offers salvation. The Coach of Little Trinity Kenny Miller The Great Depression ended his chance to play college The Latter Rain Dee Eller basketball but not his opportunity to become a much- loved high school coach. A true story. The restless ghosts of three children begin appearing to a guilt-ridden, heart-broken old man. But what will it cost to help them? Elixir Emilio Corsetti III Two women find patent medicine from the 1900s locked Legacy Sean Davis away in an antique hope chest and soon learn that they may have discovered a modern-day miracle cure. A father of three will be forced to confront the evil inflicted on his family’s kingdom when a talisman sends him and his kids back in time. A Ghost Story of Christmas Eddie Yaroch Haunted by ghosts, a modern-day Scrooge calls on mar- Adam Rogers ried ghost hunters to investigate: think Nick, Nora and Asta. The Light of Xoranthia What they discover about Christmas past affects every- And she will commit one act to thwart the dark forever. one’s Christmas future. (Finalist: New York, Hollywood, She is the light of Xoranthia. World Series, San Diego, Screenplay Festival and Circus Road Films. Official Selection: International Family Film Lost Echo Shaun Delliskave Screenplay Fest.) Making good on her promise to her deceased grand- mother, Giustina agrees to pick up a young stranger, only Klone Kid J. Christopher Haslip to discover that it is her grandmother – aged 20. Giustina An impish 12 year old is abducted by aliens and replaced races to find a way to return her grandmother back in time with a clone. His mother enjoys the change in behavior but without jeopardizing her own existence. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Fantasy – Horror 31 The Old Timer Martin Fox Horror An elderly, dying former Yankee great of the bygone era 3 to Die Mitch Yapko and Allen Rueckert finds an unexpected way to rejoin his beloved team as an active player and have a second chance at inspiring a team In the ’80s, Sean, Charlie, and Will play an arcade game and righting a poor decision from his past. and open up a portal to Hell. With the help of their friend Allison, they think they’ve closed it. Thirty years later they One Sharp Turn Scott Kenyon Barker discover they were wrong, and evil has returned to seek its revenge. Always make sure you’re not opening up a portal A private eye searches for the woman who has been to Hell before you drop in your quarter. haunting a billionaire’s dreams. Affliction Cedric M. Mbokani Pixylations Joe Laudati A family is tormented by insidious supernatural ter- To avoid banishment, and marriage to the sinister, rors in their house because of a malevolent force that shape-shifting Pooka, a mischievous sprite must become has centered its focus on their son. On their journey to “house-fairy” to a grieving home and lift the heart of its find answers, they eventually face unforeseen hurdles youngest child, but temptation looms when she falls in involving a bloodlust demon fulfilling a family curse love with a young man and pursues a romance with him that started with the boy’s grandfather who was part of by possessing the girl’s older sister. a satanic sect.

Rain and Ice Temple Courtney Bowen The Black Wedding Jordan Paree Monika must climb a mountain to reach a temple where she’ll learn water magic as assassins pursue her. Zevin and his Karl Tänzler Von Cosel, an x-ray technician from Key West, father help her as Zevin wants to wield magic, too. Together, Florida, falls in love with a tuberculosis patient named Monika and Zevin solve a mystery at the temple as Monika Elena Hoyos Mesa, works endlessly to cure her, and after learns about her destiny to find the tiger of light. But can they she dies, lives with her corpse for seven years. survive the machinations of the gangster Renrawr? Blood’s Child Steven Bogart Rainbows and Silver Buckles: The Adventures of Joe A coming-of-age story about Frankie, a teenage girl who and Muz Stuart Schulz struggles to understand the lies her father has been telling A framed story based on true events, in which an inde- about her vampire mother he has kept hidden from her in fatigable pioneer couple confront numerous adventures a psychiatric ward from the time of Frankie’s birth. with the help of a mysterious clan of little people on an enchanted island in the icy Strait of Alaska during the early Bunnyman Bridge Colin Stewart 20th century. A small town is terrorized by the resurgence of a grisly 32-year-old town secret. Shrimp Nicole Jones Shrimp’s a 62-year-old introverted woman who has super- Cetebors Gerren Daniels natural abilities thanks to her young polygamist mother A large demon/creature named Leboral is held in a cage giving birth to her in The Great Salt Lake. After her hus- by a team of paranormal investigators. band dies, Shrimp finds the courage to start a new life and share her unique gifts with the world. (Academy Nicholl The Chapel Gustavo Freitas Quarterfinalist – 2018 and PAGE Awards Semifinalist – 2018 and still in the running.) A group of YouTube ghost hunters must survive a visit to a haunted chapel where the secrets of their past come back The Spirts Court Zaigham Abbas to haunt them. A spirt tired of human justice puts his justice into the land of the living, and Thane and Desdemona are pulled into Do. Not. Resuscitate. Richard Long his form of justice. An ambulance is called to a decayed bayou plantation to rescue a mutilated John Doe with a Do Not Resuscitate tat- Three Cool Cats Jennifer Madden-Askew too. A devout Christian nurse ignores the DNR and revives him. Big mistake. After her three cats are accidentally transformed into men, a young executive must rescue them from assailants bent on their destruction to complete a top-secret government Frankenstein Kevin Anthony Ryan cover-up. (New Century Writer Awards – Finalist; Fade in In Shelley’s novel, the monster becomes a thinking and Magazine Screenwriting Awards – Semifinalist; American intelligent creature (“Why am I so solitary and abhorred?”) Accolades –Semifinalist) who seeks to wreak havoc on his creator for a lack of love Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 32 Horror that is both inside and outside the monster’s heart. Like The Night Ghosts Charles Whorry Witch, Frankenstein favors realism and language over special A mother is terrified by night ghosts stalking and beating effects. This is “classical music” – theatrical text on film. her on the freeway while traveling to Las Vegas with her children. She starts fighting back as the sun slowly starts Garden of Delight Paul Grammatico going down and begins to realize that she has to rescue A middle-aged man takes revenge on the people that have the children and arrive at Las Vegas where it’s safe before mistreated him by saving the life of a professional killer. the sun goes down completely.

Ghost Key T.J. MacGregor and Hilary Hemingway Nightmare on Manikin Island Michael Mendershausen A government biologist uncovers the shocking truth behind the quarantine of a Florida island, where inhabi- In supernatural slasher Nightmare on Manikin Island, tants are being seized by ancient ghosts. Civil-War slave owners murdered by their freed slaves come back to life as manikins and slaughter present-day college students during a mixed fraternity/sorority get together on Growling Bill Millstein a deserted swamp island from which there’s no escape. A supernatural shaman brings his half-human daughter back to life as his vigilante to fight against demonic-pos- Obedience Michael Potts sessed ecology sinners and their families. Tempered by her human emotions, she kills to preserve our earthly A demon shape-shifts shape to look like Jesus and con- balance. (Supernatural horror) vinces a preacher that he must kill his daughter to save her soul. She, her closest friends, her mother, and an eccentric neighbor must fight her father and the demon. She strug- House on Fire Jeff Edwards gles to find strength to do what she must, even if it means During a weekend getaway to a remote lake house an inter- killing her father to save herself and her loved ones. racial couple is terrorized by a group of white supremacists. A Pound of Flesh Georges Salo Jigaboo Michael E. Wolfe A criminal boss exhausts all avenues including whatever An educational field trip turns into a murderous rampage his wealth provides in order to save his terminally ill wife. when a demonic spirit executes its plan to regain its In a last, desperate attempt he offers the most valuable strength from the heir of a past enemy. items in his possession, his morals and his soul, to the devil for the life of his one and true love. The Keys Paul Grammatico As a family cleans their dead grandmother’s house, they Red Moon Scott Kenyon Barker come across a jar of keys which reveal each of their dark- In 1881, gunfighter Eli Whitby, ninja Yukari Fujoika, and est and deadliest secrets. Shaolin monk Chih Yee band together to save the mining town of Red Moon, Arizona from the ravages of a beast The Last Sun Warrior: Unstable Home straight from Hell. Zaigham Abbas A child is out for vengeance after she learns of the death of S/he-it Gary Friedman her mother by hands of supernatural psychopath. When a last-minute idea for a school science-fair experi- ment succeeds beyond expectations, an already put-upon Manifest Ronald McQueen teen suddenly finds herself mother duck to a wifi-enabled A covert military experiment goes wrong, and a polar base little-shop-of-horrors. is swept by madness and living nightmares. When one man escapes he returns to civilization and brings the worst of The Seventh Sarah Michael Loren them with him, intent on vengeance on those responsible. A dark mystery unravels when a weary couple looking for a fresh start find their pregnancy has been hi-jacked by a Never Alone Maja Vidrac coven of witches determined to extricate seven babies for To be reunited with her son, a powerless actress (trapped the hive. Can the couple save just one? in a haunted mansion inhabited by the family unaware of the creeping dangers) strives to save the life of a little The Summer House Joseph E. Miller girl by delicately reaching to the girl’s skeptic mother – a A couple and their two children flee their cramped and woman whose fragile sanity attracts an even worse predic- dangerous life in the city and buy an abandoned mansion ament. What the story is about: dealing with loss through in Northern Wisconsin, hoping to turn it into a bed finding faith. and breakfast. But their quest for an idyllic country life Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Horror– Non-Fiction/History 33 plunges the family into the nightmarish clutches of an evil a colorful gallery of characters. The secret agent becomes malevolent menace. a leader in the war that follows in an epic spanning the length of California. The epic of the Golden State that is Triplets Laura Kelber also true, yet untold on the silver screen. A rootless young woman travels to a private island in Maine to assume custody of her identical-triplet nieces, Conversation with a Kleagle only to discover that one of them is the vengeful ghost of Rudy Gray and Sandra Nordgren a dead child. A white black reporter interviews a Klansman after a lynch- ing. He is caught. The Underneathe Ritchie Arthurson and Jack Sandberg When a troubled young man takes a night watchman job Dicey – Harrowing True Story of a Young Patriot at a haunted construction site, he must choose to con- Rhonda Nelson front his dark past and risk his life to unearth the site’s Based on true accounts of Patriot Dicey Langston, a teen- diabolical secret. age girl in the backcountry of South Carolina during the American Revolution, who faced a blood-thirsty renegade The Undertaker’s Children Natasha Le Petit gang, local Loyalists, and the British Army, and swam a Inspired by true events, two orphaned children sent to raging river at night, to spy for the South Carolina Militia, live at a funeral home, discover the house harbors a spirit, to save her brothers’ lives. and they become exposed to an evil beyond anything they could have imagined. Execution of Honor Mark Rashid A legendary mountain man is forced out of retirement to Tracie Jules and Joey Fama Vivisected help track down America’s first documented serial killers Viv-i-sect-ed: the dissection of a living subject. There is in 1860s Colorado. darkness in all of us. Fleet: A True Story Robert Reid Where the Bad Kids Go Sean Elwood A biopic set in racially taut post-Civil War America. “Fleet” When his abusive mother commits suicide, a schoolteacher Walker is the first black player in MLB (1884). Becoming returns to his childhood home in hopes of selling it, only to confused and bitter, he turns to alcohol. A devoted family discover something evil in the house awaiting his return. man, champion, successful businessman, and author – is he also a murderer? Winter Bird Stephen Treacy A former physician, remorseful over his wife’s assisted Indian Billy Ice Jerry Ice suicide, buries himself in library work where he meets a Last of the Mohicans meets Forest Gump. The epic story vanishing woman in white. An ingenious teen helps him to of an American settler kidnapped by Mohawks as a boy, find her and, hopefully, to survive the encounter. escapes as a teenager, and haunted by his past. Indian Billy forges an incredible life fighting side by side with Musical Washington carrying with him the scars, feathers, love and Civil War Aly Lalji heartbreak of his childhood; this sweeping story spans early American history. A musical based on the music of Guns N Roses. Two Marines are manipulated into a bizarre behind-the-lines mission in war-torn Syria aimed at destroying a bare knuckle to-the- The Last Hanging Oscar Speace and death fighting ring raising money for terrorists. Paul A. Hernandez You’re invited to a hanging. The last public execution in the Non-Fiction/History State of California of the notorious Dr. Frederick Vincent. It’s the social event of the season in Fresno in 1893. The 35 Miles from Shore Emilio Corsetti III anatomy of a capital crime. Little has changed in 125 years The true story of a 1970 ditching of a commercial airliner except the method of execution. Back then, it was by in the Caribbean Sea and the efforts to rescue those hanging in front of the invited public. who survived. Scapegoat Emilio Corsetti III The Capitulation of California David Lovret The true story of a commercial airline crew wrongly blamed On the eve of the Mexican-American War, President Polk for causing a near-fatal accident and the captain’s efforts sends a secret agent to California to deliver messages to to clear their names. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 34 Non-Fiction/History – Romantic Comedy Togo Grainne Maguire Marty Zipco’s Ballroom Scott Jacobs An epidemic rages in an Alaskan town. There’s no way Against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, an aging rock to get a lifesaving vaccine. A hero dog leads a team and roll journeyman returns home to run a gravel lot hundreds of miles through treacherous icy blizzards dance-and-drink emporium in Wisconsin, rekindling old saving the town. loves and stirring up new troubles.

When I Was a Child Terry Needham Pride’s Crossing Elliot Passantino A powerful true story of a WWII paratrooper captured on A cross between Rachel Getting Married, Young Adult, and D-Day, who keeps his sanity by recalling the good and Black Swan, Pride’s Crossing is the story of a narcissistic bad times of his tragic childhood. (A true story from an costume designer’s return home to Salem, Massachusetts award-winning book) and the demons she left behind. Between repairing rela- tionships with her family, confronting the death of her Romance mother and meeting a man that challenges her, Christina Bennet shatters her delusions of self, family, and love. Against All Odds James Hayes A harrowing tale of survival against all odds that simply serves A Silken Thread David Larson as a backdrop to an improbable but touching love story. A psychotic wealthy matriarch does anything to keep her daughter from wedding outside of her “approved” circle, Albert Ross Is Lonely Anthony Dalton convinced a 150-year-old curse is to blame. Subversively, The eternal triangle with a twist. A man, a woman, and she plots to destroy her daughter’s betrothed, her daugh- an albatross. Tripp, Amanda and Albert, bound together ter’s best friend’s betrothed, and her husband’s affair – all by loneliness and curiosity on the rugged northwest the while hiding a horrific family secret which must sur- coast of Scotland. A love story with a fantasy ending on face. (Adapted from bestselling author Brenda Jackson’s a faraway island. romance novel. Debbie Allen attached.) GalveStorm 1900: A Story of Twin Flames Ervin Mendlovitz Sleepwalker Time Linda Kampley GalveStorm is the story of Uri Petrokov and Genevieve Sleepwalker Time is about missed opportunities and is a Parker. As successful as he has been, Uri remains unful- love story, with a ghost, which takes place in an upstate filled until the day Genevieve walks into the shop. Their diner on a night of great rain and flooding. (There are four love is instantly recognizable as self, sublime and clair- characters: two waitresses, one cook, and a customer – voyant. The struggle the couple endures to be together the ghost.) tests the limits of their being. When the hurricane hits, the cataclysm changes the young couple’s life forever. Treating Nick Lee Stephenson Birkhol After building a successful practice helping clients The Green Handkerchief Charles Hughes cope with holiday angst, a Christmas-hating therapist is A clubhouse VIP humiliates his live-in girlfriend. Now he forced to confront her own issues when St. Nick winds wants her back, but she’s taken. A jockey’s found dead in up in her office. an empty stall, but the main suspect’s her new boyfriend, a track regular. Tug and Amber: A Novel about Romance, Race, and Religion Ron Karriker Green Mansions Clayton Emery A young, conservative, white Baptist preacher in a small What we love, we destroy. The Amazon rainforest, 1840. town in the South falls in love with a young, liberal, black A wanderer is enchanted by Rima the Bird Girl and seeks Methodist minister. (Book for adaptation) her mysterious origin, but a quest sparks tragedy. Based on the beloved 1904 novel in public domain. Romantic Comedy Jack and Jilted Rhonda Nelson Burden of Proof Joseph E. Miller A jilted bride creates an elaborate scheme to get revenge Rowdy Smith, an irreverent second-rate lawyer, and and learns that revenge is not sweet. Samantha Blizzard, a classic go-getter Assistant D.A., are forced to understand and grow toward each other when Love in the Laundromat Brendon Fehre a case they are on opposite sides of turns out to be rife When a single mother buys a run-down laundromat, she with corrupt public officials and mobsters. The danger in needs the help of her teenage daughter to make it work. the case creates an unforeseen intimacy between them. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Romantic Comedy 35 Dad’s Life Lessons Sean Davis on her lawn. With Homeland Security and a scheming A middle-aged man loses his job and his wife leaves him, blogger hot on their trail, she tries to implement the alien’s prompting him to move himself and their two kids in with technologies before he must bolt out of planet Earth. his mother and grandmother. My Two and Only Ira Buckman Francois Villon, the People’s Poet Susan Flakes A man yearning for love finally finds his dream girl only Fifteenth-century France, a social activist robs from the to discover she suffers from a split personality. To make authoritarian Church and State to give to the downtrod- matters worse, the “alternate” personality has a boyfriend. den poor, while romancing the wife of the sheriff of Paris, Who is she, really – Ruby or Roxie? One of the boyfriends who seeks to capture and hang him. will have his heart broken. It’s inevitable. Or is it?

Hatari Hannah Jerry Allen The Rejects Rasheeda C.H. Garner A newly minted Irish veterinarian must recruit a head- When a divorce attorney is left at the altar, he joins a sup- strong American children’s writer for an Ireland job and port group for the brokenhearted that swear off love while finds romance and adventure during an East African quest exacting revenge on their exes only to find unexpected to preserve endangered species. love with a fellow “reject.”

He’s Here Somewhere Richard Willett Santorini Love: The Fyra Wedding Sotiria Theoharis A young single woman is told by a psychic that she’s A group of international friends are visiting the island of already met the love of her life, but the psychic can’t tell Santorini for a Greek wedding and end up staying. They her which guy he is. explore the island and fall in love. (The script is the first in the series of films on the topic. The script addresses the The Hunt for James Steele Joseph E. Miller issue of gay marriage and sexual/gender orientation while offering straight-like marriage as a plausible alternative for James Steele is the world’s most popular actor. But, James some people.) Steele doesn’t exist. When the American president demands to meet Steele, the studio sends his creator off to find the perfect man to double for James. But the double she finds is Secondhand Heart Amber Nardolillo flawed and her career and the studio’s survival depends upon Reese is a commitment-phobic lesbian who can’t be in the her ability to create a star out of a womanizing roughneck. same room with her homemaker sister Rachel without them verbally eviscerating each other, but, when Rachel’s Inn Love Wendy Urrico marriage falls apart, Reese and her best friend/roommate are forced to take in Rachel and her two kids until they can A regimented businesswoman and an unemployed bache- get back on their feet, really putting a damper on Reese’s lor deny their romantic feelings while stranded at a bed and irresponsible party lifestyle. breakfast during a snowstorm. A Hallmark-oriented story. Sing Ming Xan O’Connor Insanity Way Shaun Delliskave and Cheyenne Green An angsty, American, teen rocker forced to move to China A woman wakes one day to find her biggest nightmare must join a Chinese Pop boyband to win the girl he believes come true – she’s married to her biggest fantasy. is the girl of his dreams. Sing Ming is a fun, coming-of-age love story set against the world of a manufactured Mando The McBrides Erna Mueller Pop boyband in Shanghai. What happens when a feminist editor at a men’s magazine wants to update the mag to include real women – while Speak English Kieran Angelini three of its editors are in pursuit of mail order brides to A commitment-phobic, xenophobic cardsharp is black- pump up sales? The guys also want to find true love, but mailed into marrying a ruthless Peruvian gangster’s French do the brides have a hidden agenda? mistress to keep her from being deported – then puts his life in even greater danger by falling in love with the guy’s Michigan in Me Mark Rashid and Jeff WIlber hot-blooded Mexican wife. The last surviving member of an iconic 70s rock band tries to regain his identity, his life and his music by wooing the A Sunny Hockey Christmas Tim Stickler girl that got away – 40 years ago. A star hockey player’s playboy lifestyle changes when, just before Christmas, his “maybe” teenage daughter My (Brief) Life with Oma Mirav Ozeri from his home country of Finland is dropped off on his A female environmentalist navigates the absurd situation Miami, Florida doorstep. (A Little Havana and Miami of her short, but intense, romance with an alien who landed Beach backdrop) Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 36 Romantic Comedy – Sci-Fi Sushi and Bagels Virginia Mariposa Dale The Calvary Incident James Sladack Yumi’s father, president of Wasabi Enterprises in Tokyo, Green Berets time-jump to save the 21st century by hunt- says she can attend the University of California on three ing and killing a rogue SEAL team trying to rescue Jesus conditions: no drugs, no rap music, and no American from the Cross. fiancé. After attempting a relationship with a Puerto Rican, Yumi yields to her feelings for David Rosen, her American Change Daniel Davis lab partner with whom she’s been developing an amusingly The Bells are almost slaves, but they have some secrets bilingual robot that mistranslates “arigato” for “f*** you.” too that have been kept from the Mars who rules their planet. But June and Mars want to bring about change, TopKnotch Carol Hansen and she is going to use John Smith to bring about that A feisty venture capitalist overcomes her self-doubts, con- change by marrying him, at the choosing place. John is a fronts her domineering dad, and connects with her true Bells who mines the asteroid belt. love helped by her three cunning, chatterbox pooches. Civil Death Zac Loy Sci-Fi A depressed shut-in named Ajay attempts to kill himself, only to discover that he’s the first immortal being on Earth. Above the Smoke Matt Lewis Hailed as a prophet and hunted for the source of his Wizard of Oz in a Blade Runner world. A family sci-fi adven- eternal life, Ajay is forced to battle an obtuse bureaucratic ture with robot bears, flying dragon-sharks, and a world system that declares him legally dead. For Ajay, immortal- formed out of country-sized tower blocks. ity is an incredibly frustrating curse.

Adiona Ian Causer Clockwatchers: Keepers of the Doomsday Clock An astronaut awakes from cryosleep to find his ship lost David Sternfeld and drifting without power in deep space. With a crew When the war between two alien empires puts Earth member dead and the temperature plummeting, he faces in their crosshairs, Frank Ponder and the Doomsday a race against time to restore power and discover the Clockwatchers must learn the secret of life to save the cause of the catastrophe. (Winner of Honorable Mention – world and his soul. Frank, a panicky orphan, must grow New York International Screenplay Awards 2018) from a back-office genius and nerd into the action hero he never was, or die along with life on Earth. Alien Man Georges Salo Twelve thousand years ago, according to the Piri Reis map, Cosmosis of Worlds Richard M. Trask modern man existed and was regarded by the indigenous A “time-travel” event during a surgery exposes a dynamic population on Earth as “gods,” hence the title “Alien Man”. young couple to an infinite quantum dimension that could These different groups of “gods” along with their indige- revolutionize the human world, but their quest to reveal it nous less evolved people (who in the future became us) runs against society’s incomprehension of the primal laws went to war for each other’s resources. of nature.

The Bigger Picture Betty Nelle Garner Darndest Thing I Ever Saw Megan Breen Two high-spirited young women stumble upon an injured A quirky story about outsiders mixed with romance and humanoid alien in a desolate canyon. Wanting to help this whimsy – all against the backdrop of a UFO sighting that beautiful creature they risk their lives to rescue his superior turns the city of Seattle upside-down. being from a secret government lab, racing in desperation to save the enlightened aliens and reach the Mothership. The Day the Corn Hatched Susan Boger A teenager considered irresponsible by his father and an Black Ghosts Daniel Davis incredulous goofball by his sister and girlfriend proves them John Smith was put in jail for trying to returning a stolen wrong by saving them and the town from killer corn creatures. necklace. John and his family must find out what the tattoo on Sarah’s back means and then get to the riches before Freethinkers Gino Jones the raiders do. It’s a race against time to see who finds the In the near future freethinking computers are outlawed by riches first. There are some other who are also chasing all governments. Their threat to humankind is judged to the raiders to put an end them. outweigh their immense potential. Now, seemingly in the twilight of their existence, a growing number of high-end Caged Ronald McQueen freethinking computers are showing up across the United The cage is a high-end simulator, but when the company States. Officials in high offices take notice, but it is the recent starts using it to train assassins its designer tries to stop them. unsolved political assassinations that has them scared. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Sci-Fi 37 The God Machine Michael J. Bowler robots replacing human beings, creating iLIFE ROBOT to Using an antique machine, a grieving 12 year old hopes to help people possess fraternity. apologize to his deceased mother, but instead unleashes an interdimensional being that wreaks havoc in San Planet One Benedict Obande Francisco. With the aid of his detached father, some A space explorer is tormented by nightmares about Mars. friends, and a tough female detective, he determines to She jets off to the Red Planet for answers. A mind-bending stop the creature, even at the cost of his own life. (2017 experience awaits her, as the fate of Earth starts to rest on Scriptapalooza 1st Place Winner) her shoulders.

Healing Time John Thibault The Proxim of Light Beam Gerren Daniels A vulnerable yet powerful futuristic female warrior must In the year 2327 a machine called the Oraspace trans- rescue her kidnapped daughter from a vicious time-traveling ports people who are hostile to rebellious worlds as part tyrant and find the cure for a strange off-world plague before of their punishment. the entire planet they live on becomes uninhabitable. Rezzer Zacharia Matheson The House of Madness Jeffrey Bowie, Jr. After having his body cryonically frozen, a Wall Street bank A group of former cops-turned-vigilantes fight their way CEO is revived 200 years later in a society unlike anything through 20 floors of bloodthirsty killers in a futuristic he imagined. skyscraper known as the “House of Madness” in order to retrieve a kidnapped child. Robo Sapiens Terry Joe Coddington Cantor prefers working with robots over people, but now Impulse Control Sheila Warren he must stop robots with emotion and learns that feelings An infectious parasite born of a remote garbage patch and suffering make love and goodness possible. infects a group of adventure racers and makes them act on their inner rage, envy, and desires. Saucers & Rayguns Oscar Speace and Paul A. Hernandez In Her President’s Service William Sowles She’s a government agent sent to L.A. to recover a pow- The president of the U.S. has a super-secret space craft erful weapon before it falls into the wrong hands. He’s a that a mad scientist steals. So, she hires her very special government biologist investigating an encounter with a agent to get it back. strange animal. Their daughter, a newbie scientist, studies a strange robotic fish. Are these events connected? Only Next Stop Canaveral Ash Mallory one family knows the truth, but will secrecy prevent them After a zombie apocalypse, a survivor and her dog will help from connecting the dots? an alien and a vampire cross the country to Cape Canaveral to get off the planet before all nuclear reactors melt down. Save the Butterfly Keith Mallory An evil U.S. president misuses time travel to change the Orion Patrick Donohue outcome of an election, which creates a paradox where When the government weaponizes a technology that nuclear winter is the outcome instead. One brave young enables them to remote view future events, a pre-identified man from the time travel research facility must travel on a U.S. president must change his destiny after he learns he one-way trip back in time to save the future and mankind is fated to be assassinated at the inauguration ceremony. by fixing the past.

The Partner Ronald McQueen Second Lives Michele Ryan A young rookie detective is assigned a strange female Ready Player One meets The Accused: Second Lives is a sci-fi partner as part of an alleged exchange program. What he thriller about a reclusive rape victim who stumbles across her doesn’t know is that his new partner is an alien and that attacker in the virtual world. But when her efforts to uncover she is hunting a rogue member of her own species. his real-world identity backfire, she must conquer her fears and hunt him down before he can strike again. Sometimes Peter Pan Dream Chi Hsiu Chen justice needs a little push, especially when it’s all just a game. Global Top 1 C-pop Taiwan all-girls idol group who is truth, kindness, and beauty incarnate. S.H.E doesn’t wanna grow Sentinels of Tzurac – Retaliation up like a little princess just does what S.H.E is told. S.H.E James Raven and Danielle Kaheaku breaks through the frame, transforms into a game charac- The Sentinel fugitive, Yarron, while still being hunted ter, Peter Pan, survives in the real world, rebels against A.I. by the Tzuracian Federation forces, turns out to be the Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 38 Sci-Fi – Suspense/Thriller unexpected hero. Trying to redeem himself from his Trees Ciriaco Griego serious past mistakes, he emerges in an attempt to help Our planet has suffered through many natural disasters, thwart the Tzuracian’s age-old enemy, the Treldarians, and and now the human race is on the verge of extinction. their massive gathered armies. After a failed mirage, Jesse loses touch with his young son, Max. He drowns it all away with alcohol. With a simple Sentinels of Tzurac – Terra Major Under Threat child’s experiment Max helps Jesse to find balance in his James Raven and Danielle Kaheaku life and bring the equilibrium back to our dying planet. It is 2055. A young graduate engineer, employed by a major interstellar mining company battles a deadly conspirator The Venus Syndrome Lynn Vincentnathan over a newly discovered powerful resource which could A history professor turned soldier from the future in destroy Earth and the rest of the universe. He is unaware of which the Earth is on the brink of the Venus syndrome his real ancestry, until the timely appearance of an alien sen- – life-annihilating runaway warming – travels back in time tinel soldier who reveals the truth and joins forces with him. to assassinate the American president whose policies started the unstoppable devastation. Sentinels of Tzurac – Zarkwin’s Revenge James Raven and Danielle Kaheaku The Venusian Chronicles Lynn Vincentnathan Kyron’s two archenemies escape imprisonment and join forces with an alien army, and now civilization rests in the When the discovery of a spaceship wreck on the Moon hands of a turncoat to thwart the simultaneous attacks on strikes people with fear of invasion, a meek Venusian pro- Earth for vengeance against the Earth-born Sentinel. fessor must reveal his true identity to stop vigilante attacks on innocent people and steer Earth away from the fate that ended life on Venus. Sloane William Caldwell Genetic vampires capture an ex-biker’s new lover. Now he World Upside Down Victoria Brewer must return to the hardcore life in order to save her from an unspeakable fate in their underground laboratory. Nearly a 100 years after the completion of the genome project, a doctor discovers a cover-up that the govern- Starfarers David Hearne ment is willing to kill for. In a hostile galaxy mirroring real nations and world events, standing against the evil aliens known as tharnians, is a Zia Rising Ciriaco Griego reluctant hero named Jarre, his sidekick Ky, and the woman This is where myth meets reality and the mysteries of our he loves, Ganna. Our starfarers also have to battle their world have been unlocked. For thousands of years, man own government in this space opera where everyone is has lived under the quiet hand of an alien race. A young out to get them. It’s apocalyptic, character-driven science man chosen by fate, with the aid of his grandfather and fiction where the twists keep coming. a most unusual ally, the Zia, preserves our existence and frees the human race. Tim and Dana Save the Earth...Again Richard Saputo A right-wing media organization of Neo-Nazis, intends to Suspense/Thriller release a biological WMD that will exterminate half of the Earth’s population. Fortunately, a couple of vacationing, 911 Is Trying to Kill Me Clayton Borders, Jr. Earth-friendly aliens intercede to save their favorite planet After witnessing a murder by the cops, a woman and her in the galaxy. house guests become entrapped by the cops coming to kill the witness. Timescapes Keith Mallory A boy visits a scary dream world every night. He meets up The Agreement Theresa Spruill with other children his own age from varied points in time, After discovering that, as part of a government agree- who are trapped there as well. Together they try to solve ment with an extraterrestrial race, human DNA is being the mystery behind how they got there and how to get out. collected through a bogus “Know Your Ancestry” website, a conflicted scientist must find a way to expose this before the human race becomes extinct. Go to www.InkTip.com and search by title or author for American Bitch Max Kinnings When a young American living in London becomes the the scripts that interest you! victim of a brutal gang rape, he pursues his attackers to exact a shocking retribution. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Suspense/Thriller 39 Beleaguered Proof Georges Salo An Eye for an Eye, a Gun for a Gun Mia Lugli A French prosecutor family’s life is in danger when A group of traumatized relatives meets up to elaborate she investigates an unscrupulous military shipping the grief for the loss of their beloved ones during a col- deal between a French corporation and the Nigerian lege shooting. After trying to find justice in a courthouse government. against the guns sellers involved without results, they decide to sacrifice everything with a desperate action Bloodstream Joseph Miller to let everybody understand their pain and avoid any further tragedies. Two sisters take a Christmas trip to the Bahamas and end up in a deadly game of cat and mouse and one of them is Fallen Out of Love Charles Whorry the bait, but which one? After a dominating woman’s husband divorces her for adultery, deception, control, and abuse, she begins to Cassandra’s Ghost William Caldwell realize that her ex-husband was the only man that truly A young American couple visits the family castle and are loved her. Now, she plans to kill his new wife and anybody drawn into an ancient curse. else who tries to stop her from getting her husband back.

Chimera Janet Thompson Deaver Final Appeal John Thibault The gruesome attempted murders of London doctors lead A rational, pacifist circuit court of appeals judge con- a retired Scotland Yard detective’s investigation into the fronted with a death penalty sentencing must protect his world of shape-shifting gargoyles and avenging chimeras. family and make the right moral decision while calling into (Winner in the 2018 Script Summit contest – Las Vegas, question everything he believes in. Nevada – genre: Best Thriller) Gems Neal MacMillan and Al Benson Chloe’s Crusade! Donnalyn Vojta A young woman gem courier is set up, viciously robbed, The stuffed bears are back, again providing a unique POV then blackballed as a suspect. Afterwards, she and her to the chilling action and confusing human behavior in this seemingly laid back P.I. discover one lie woven into another, sequel where mental illness looms, and an FBI mission in and the further they go into this journey of suspense the Venezuela proves both personally and professionally frus- less likely they’ll survive as they find out they encounter trating and dangerous for more than just Chloe, but also elements of the deep state. for Vol. I’s Richard and Parisian Detective Lucas who get sucked into the dangerous global cartel operation. (Book Ghost Ride the Vic Benjamin Sarno for adaptation) A rookie cop, seeking redemption for fatal misstep in Afghanistan, teams up with the ghost of a slain police offi- Dead Line Dena McKinnon cer in quest of karmic justice. A prosecutor must follow grisly orders coming from a voice on a dying cell phone to save her daughter. He Knows Where I Live Carol Ayer An anxious teenager unwittingly begins a relationship Dead Rose Blues Goran Mojsin with her stalker, never suspecting someone close to her worked behind-the-scenes to facilitate the match. In 1973, a secret service recruiter is held responsible for the death of his recruitees in a Belgrade bomb incident. Instructed by his superiors to commit honor suicide Home of the Devils Steven D’Addieco in return, he fights to escape the path he was ordered After linking the death of a rival high school’s quarterback to follow. to a disemboweled cat, a young new teacher clashes with a devil-worshiping helicopter mom, hellbent on wins and A’s for the football team and cheerleading squad. Destini Riflessi Letizia Lari London. The corpse of a stripper, two twins psychologi- Hope in Paris! Donnalyn Vojta cally tormented, a sensitive agent. A stuffed toy won at a carnival should have an uneventful life, but not if the guy who wins it is a psychopath. If inani- Edgewater Matthew Sorvillo mate teddy bears could talk, they’d have lots to tell about Suddenly waking as a prisoner inside the state mental the people they see, especially in this suspenseful thriller hospital, a loving husband endures a brutal medical in which three sweet stuffed bears provide pieces of a experiment designed to unlock the suppressed memories frightening puzzle as the humans converge and danger of his wife’s murder. rises. (Book for adaptation) Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 40 Suspense/Thriller Hot Bots Anthony Catino A New Order for America Steven Bogart A couple’s sex robot is hacked and reprogrammed to tor- Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Dance with Reality meets ment the family then kill the wife, but before it’s too late Memento. When Martin Diaz, a Mexican-American immi- they must save themselves and find who controls it. gration agent, wakes up in a Boston hospital with a head trauma, amnesia, and nightmarish warnings from his sub- The Juju Anthony Catino conscious, he realizes he must find and save his pregnant undocumented fiancé from the government relocation A young woman seeks supernatural powers for revenge on center – a euphemism for an extermination center. the sleazebag plastic surgeon that killed her mother. Along the way she acquires a juju that reveals deep deceptions The Order Jon Cohen by those she trusts most, forcing her to decide their fate. The Utopia is an advanced civilisation, surrounded by peasant hordes. Defence Force Cadet Katherine Wright Locked Up (Asian Girl Against Racist Macho Men) wants to be the best. Her chance comes when she is Juergen Wohlmuth and Bruce W. Durbin sent to spy on Richard, a scientist who threatens her peo- An illegal immigrant girl on her pursuit to happiness. She ple. She comes to care about Richard and his daughter must survive a bad place till her stranded buddy arrives, Danielle, and when she discovers they are to be executed, and she will get her work permit. As an Asian immigrant, she must decide who’s side she’s on. she is facing humiliation by the Nam-Vet landlord, is attacked by a neo-Nazi gang and the abusive husband of The Point Guard Scott Kenyon Barker her first U.S. friend. Levon “Shorty” Macallister was a standout college and professional basketball player. Returning to his hometown Loin’s Share of a Gravytrain Marc Lawrence at the end of his career, he expects to enjoy peace and A cross between Midnight Cowboy and The Sting, where one quiet with his family. Instead, he is thrust into a nightmare 19 year old is under the tutorship of one Machiavellian, when a criminal conspiracy murders his wife and child and who is gifted with the fine art of seducing and fleecing the forces him into a bloody fight for justice. elite women of Hollywood and Bel-Air while the two even- tually enter into a battle over “love vs. eroticism.” Presidential Peril Steven Oyler In a violent America, a young polarizing anti-gun presi- Losers Weepers Rob Wallace dential hopeful is targeted for assassination by a rogue After an aging, guilt-ridden alcoholic begins a desper- militia on the eve of the presidential election, must outwit ate search to find the biracial daughter he abandoned and outrun the militia, and overcome his own weakness years before, an African-American drinking buddy sud- and fear of guns in hopes of surviving to see not only the election, but his family too. denly starts giving him winning tips for horse races. Soon the Russian mob and the FBI are racing to find both of them. Quarry Matt Nish When a likeable but troubled car thief is abducted by a Loving Derina McLaughlin gang hellbent on recovering the incriminating evidence he stole, his younger brother enlists the help of a vola- Eve realizes that her husband may be hiding an horren- tile ex-policewoman and together they embark on a dous crime. Convinced that he murdered his ex-girlfriend nerve-wracking mission to save him. (Blacklist professional Anna, she starts to research her husband’s past. Anna evaluation called the script “Highly entertaining and a rol- disappeared without a trace, and Eve is fearful she could licking good time, Quarry is a superb crime thriller.”) be the next victim. Retribution Has a Name Georges Salo Mortally Mature Darko Mitrevski An assassin, at the top of his game, continues about A professional assassin wakes up in the body of a teenage his work watching with passing interest as the financial girl – and goes after the sinister organization that trans- markets crumble. When his friend’s elderly aunt commits planted her in there. suicide after losing her life savings...well, it just got per- sonal. He now dispenses his brand of retribution to those My Brother’s Killer Richard Willett few whose greed created the financial crisis that caused the distress and grief to so many. A criminal law student is assisting his profiler professor in a study of serial killers and the investigation of a series of local murders, when long-buried memories Roosters Richard Vadimsky and Brian P. Vadimsky begin to surface of his late brother, who was himself a The heir to the throne of a secret society becomes dis- notorious killer. enchanted with its gruesome rituals, torture, and class Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Suspense/Thriller 41 warfare. A new love gives hope of escape, but his father’s prominent white family and the two-year-old unsolved demonic spirit stands in his way. The “scrotum pull” or the disappearance of a young African-American doctor. White House will be his destiny. (Winner: Cannes 2017 Script – Thriller/Suspense.) Star Names Preferred Steffany Sommers Crushed to discover her film idol’s true character, an Run, Sally, Run and Hide Lee Martin ingénue sets out to expose the actress through a series When she leaps from her stalker’s car as traffic slows on of publicly embarrassing pranks, but the get-even scheme the Los Angeles freeway, Sally is seriously injured, but he takes on an even darker turn. escapes to Mexico where he ends up in prison, leaving her to falsely believe she and her son are finally safe as she The Tremens Daniel McNeill inherits a mountain ranch where elderly one time bandits After the loss of his wife, Isaiah isolates himself in a house and a neighboring rancher may be her only allies. out in the woods, at the bottom of a bottle. With each passing day, his isolation transforms into a nightmare, as The Scarlet Widow Michael O’Daniel he quickly loses track of time – and his mind. Betrayed by an unfaithful husband and with her life now in danger, a politically ambitious prosecutor discovers that Vanity Flare Marc Lawrence her best option for revenge could be to capture a serial Molly Graves has 11 other girls, who’ve poked fun at Molly killer and try to turn him into her love slave. down through the years, who are now perplexed and agi- tated to no end, all because she’s become the center of Sex, Inc. Kevin Gustafson attention after discovering a mystical cream that cleared After joining a company that specializes in legalized pros- up her major acne problem overnight, but unbeknownst titution, an ambitious girl from the slums struggles to to Molly the cream holds supernatural powers and deadly navigate dangerous clients and backstabbing coworkers consequences for the opposite sex. in an attempt to build a better life for herself. The Waters of Remembrance Maja Vidrac Simon Sees Othello Bach-Grant Crusading for the venture to escape an English isle and When a new foster mom takes a clairvoyant child and tries redeem herself, a shame-bound Victorian laundress to help him find his missing mother, they are both quickly clashes with social norms, faces her vicious partner, and trapped in a deadly situation. entangles herself into a web of truth, dare, and mur- der. (This script advanced to the 2018 Academy Nicholl Fellowships quarterfinals, top 5% – 349 of total 6895 Someone I Used to Know entries, and the further judging is still in progress.) Frederick R. Rosenberg and Avrum Marco Turk

A successful judicial career becomes unglued by a glee- What You Don’t Know Matthew Barch fully evil blackmailing ex-professor who seduced the female judge while in college, setting her off on the path A D.C. police chief discovers that the key to unraveling to prostitution to pay her tuition. The judge declares war a massive government conspiracy and cover-up may be in self-defense. This becomes a fight to the bitter end over his own five-year-old deaf mute son who doesn’t know disclosure of their sordid past. sign language.

Don Hood Son of a Serial Killer James Ross Where Dragons Feed A frustrated writer believes his life and work need a jolt of A schizophrenic fights his inner demons to avoid a bloody, excitement and danger. Offering a gorgeous, but vindictive monstrous fate. woman a ride, he’s caught up in a perilous and life-threat- ening nightmare. She lives in chaotic, dictator-filled Central Special Report Joseph Carpenter America, is vengefully tracking down the assassins who When the Second Coming begins to unfold, the fate of killed her government official father, and he finds this out humanity rests with a female reporter and her cameraman way too late to turn back. (True-story adventure/thriller) protector to protect God’s messenger and save humanity from Satan’s plan to assume dominion over Earth. The Script You Need Spirit Fiction Norris Mottley Is at InkTip.com An investigator with a prestigious Manhattan law firm Register at www.InkTip.com conducting a routine political vet in Charleston, SC finds a A free service to the industry troubling connection between the candidate’s historically Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 42 Western Western Hang Town Lee Martin When a young deputy learns the man who beat him into The Adventures of Pecos Pete & Black Bart running away at the age of 12 was not his father, and that Paul Olsen his birth father, an innocent man just out of prison and A volatile gunfighter’s testy friendship with a carefree gam- unaware he has a son, is headed for revenge at Hang bler galvanizes as a railroad baron pits townsfolk against Town, he rides hard to reach vigilante country where a local Indians in pursuit of black gold on a reservation. Butch hanged sheriff’s daughter fights back. Cassidy and Raiders in style, humor, characters, and hom- age. (Tony Scott: “Paul, if I ever make a Western, this will be The Last Stage Bill Lonero it! I loved it!”) They took his livelihood. They took his friend. They took his family. Vengeance was his only option. A true story Bull Picket & The Wild Bunch Anthony DiChiara of the most prolific and intriguing stagecoach robber of Bull Picket and The Wild Bunch is a character-driven Western the old West. about a tough as nails lawman, who discovers the illegal operations of the town’s power brokers. Shot and left James Pasternak for dead in the wilderness, the lawman is nursed back to Lightning Bender health by a pair of Sasquatch. Bent on revenge, the law- An idealistic young lawyer must get his long-lost father, man and his two allies declare war on the town’s officials. a Civil War hero, home before his mother remarries. On the high adventure of their journey, the father’s multiple Fast Ride to Boot Hill (The Legend of Ben Hawks) personalities transform his son into a heroic gunfighter Lee Martin who saves the life of President Grant. Tricked into believing his fianceé had died in a stage holdup, a vengeful Texas Ranger trails the gang for years Rachel Freeman Mark Sanford Mackenzie as he becomes a legend in song and dime novels before When a group of runaway slaves is recaptured and sold ending up on the side of a former outlaw with a sharp by bounty hunters in the Old West, one African-American shooting niece, even as the truth unfolds in a violent cli- woman finds the strength to fight for their freedom. max. (Based on Lee’s novel) Warrior’s Revenge David Larson The Frontiersman Nick Salvo A rival tribe of the Great Plains kidnaps and kills the wife It was long since believed that no white man survived the of an aging warrior in retaliation for his humiliation of a battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. Not true. A young scout, young brave. The aging warrior must fight the elements Benjamin Craig, did. This is his story. and extreme odds to wreak his revenge on the tribe and bring the young brave back to complete the unforgiving Fury at Cross Creek Lee Martin circle of life and death. In 1876, when a young scout learns his true identity, he becomes a living target as he and the scout who raised Whiplash Anthony Dalton him charge north into the deadly feud that had killed his The sexy, whip-snapping Flo Quick and the charismatic, family, only to find themselves allied with a secretive lady hot-tempered outlaw, Bob Dalton, team up to rob trains barber and a young woman rancher under siege by the and banks across the Midwest in the early 1890s with same ruthless clan. (Based on Lee’s novel) often comic and eventually tragic results. Writers Represented by Agents/Managers

Alexander Robb, Barbara Bitela, The Silver Bitela Agency Insignia Entertainment Ten Mile Inn (Horror) Robert Powers Dog Days (Suspense/Thriller) Mark E. Davidson A bloody apparition haunts a teenage girl and her family in an old Western inn they are attempting to renovate, In a small Texas town, invaders from another planet target warning them of impending disaster. man’s best friend as the ultimate sleeper cell. As one man pieces together the bizarre puzzle, his shockingly beau- tiful wife, her show-tune loving attorney, the prejudiced Joaquin Sahagun, Avail Agency town sheriff, and a government agent with questionable The Deserter (Sci-Fi) Ronald Brown credentials desperately try to catch up to him as he races An alien abductee returns to Earth with his baby son after against time to save humanity. a 20-year absence and seeks out an old friend, who is Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 43 now a P.I. on a dangerous case of his own, to help him MaryAnn Amato, evade hostile extraterrestrials hunting him for breaking Legacies – A Literary Agency his “bloodline oath.” Hot Stuff (Action/Adventure) Dan Guardino Diablerie (Horror) Ronald Brown When an American linguist flies to Mumbai, India, to help an art collector negotiate the purchase of the infa- In the not too distant future, two P.I. partners reluctantly mous goddess statue “Saraswati,” she doesn’t realize the join a pair of wanted bounty hunters and go beneath a gem-encrusted statue comes with both a blessing and a militarized Los Angeles in hot pursuit of an urban legend, curse. Unfortunately, there are others who want to get unaware he has a pact with Hell. their hands on the “Saraswati” – even if it means stealing, kidnapping, stabbing, and killing. Ken Sherman, Ken Sherman & Associates Matthew Carnicelli, A Merry Mushy Christmas (Romance) Kris Bauske Carnicelli Literary Agency Can a vivacious young woman who writes for an adventure Erobotica (Comedy) Richard Long magazine save an adventure-loving guy who’s just lost his Tech billionaire Jeff needs an edge in the A.I. arms race and best friend and the use of his legs in a car accident? Is it a new hit product. He finds both in Cher, a super-intelligent possible to find happiness after tragedy? Maybe a team of robot armchair who yearns for freedom and synthetic sled dogs can help! orgasms. Think Ex Machina directed by Judd Apatow.

Kenny Labossiere, Matthew Helderman, Buffalo 8 Black Rabbit Entertainment Company of a Carpenter (Romantic Comedy) Violent Deeds (Horror) Lee Brandt Preston Heaggans After her friend’s tragic disappearance, a determined Oh yes! The most popular guy to ever return from the dead woman and her three friends embark on a manhunt is back, and he’s not a zombie! Jesus has returned and boy that leads them to an unsettling discovery: a secret is he vexed! Armed with words of wisdom, a new do, and haven for criminals. slim-fit Gucci suit, he recruits the least likely of people to help him save mankind – a self absorbed, promiscuous, shopaholic named Mary. Linda Saint, Saint Agency, Toronto Olga Nerey, DapperBird PowerBall (Comedy) Guy Hallifax My Name Is Ana (Crime/Murder/Mystery) Jane Therese A cartoonist has a vision of a ball which supplies endless Over the course of a few days in Arizona, a handful of free electricity and wants to make it. But his wife forbids citizens come to terms with what zero tolerance on immi- him. The man decides to follow the risky strategy of gration means to them in a time when racial profiling, keeping his invention a secret from his wife. That decision political hypocrisy, and greed drive the demand. divides his family and threatens his marriage – until he actually makes the thing work. Then his big problems start. Sherry Robb, The Robb Company Lloyd Robinson, Doc Band-Aid (Drama) Bob Bland and Nancy Revak Suite A Management A destitute, alcoholic war vet finds his former fiancée 12 years later in Venice Beach, California. Although she The Rage of Saint Francis (Action/Adventure) is a shrewd business woman engaged to another man, David Phoenix and Rachel Roy he determines to win back her love by confronting his A retired cop has moved to a village down river from demons and resurrecting his fledgling art career. Mulholland’s “perfect” dam, the jewel of a water system that supplies water for the burgeoning city and outlying The Melrose Jazz Club (Drama) Bob Bland farmers and allows the desert to bloom. Enemies are plot- When a brilliant, dashing jazz pianist bent on defeating ting vengeance against Mulholland as the dam collapses his archrival in a prestigious national competition is faced in the middle of the night, thousands to flee its deadly, with a horrifying, life-threatening challenge, he instinctively careening 80-feet-high wall of water. turns to a plucky, untrained waitress for musical support. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 44 Teleplays

½ Hour Pilot Bertie (Comedy) Betty Dixson and James Dixson A marketing director must align herself with her cosplaying Burger and Chips (Comedy) Lyndon Booth boss to save their firm from a hostile takeover. Police detectives John Burger and Reed Chips’ days of drug busts and takeouts are put in jeopardy when they discover a portal in police HQ’s basement. Can they fight wise-cracking Blood Remnant (Drama) monsters and aliens and still make it to the pub quiz at 6PM? Sarah Weiford and Rachel Weiford A consulting vampire detective struggling with blood addic- Curiosity (Comedy) Tasha Hardy tion must confront his gruesome past when he unearths Curiosity is a quirky off-the-wall comedy about a simple and a citywide conspiracy during the investigation of a wealthy bored janitor, who witnesses the girl he’s secretly in love socialite’s murder. In the vein of Sherlock with a dash of with being kidnapped. Against all odds, he has to drum up True Blood. confidence to save her and execute a complicated plan, along with his younger, cop-wannabe friend, Jared, and his Cartel Cafe (Drama) Sarah Weiford ridiculous dog. A struggling single father and his young daughter wind up in the crosshairs of the cartel and law enforcement after The Domino Club (Comedy) Marla Dean he unintentionally turns a front company for marijuana A small group of rabid and cranky environmentalist senior smuggling into a successful business. citizens have gathered every Thursday for a decade mak- ing plans to save the world. There’s only one problem, they can’t agree upon anything. Today everything changes. Chronicles of Atlantis (Sci-Fi) Abdur R. Mohammed Manatee Towers (Comedy) Eli Brown The fires of a foregone conflict are rekindled, forcing a A diverse and zany group of condo residents in a South corruptible soldier to join forces with a mysterious figure, Florida oceanside condo plan to take on the corrupt condo to seek out a forgotten power. It is the time of the awak- board in the upcoming election, leading to unpredictable, ening, when the ancient gods shall return with vengeance, weird, and hilarious events. for man cannot rule man.

Noire (Comedy) KC Kramer Dark Days (Horror) Benjamin Clark A black-and-white film noir comedy centered around a After finding herself at the center of a secret that’s centu- female private eye in the 1940s as she is faced with the ries old, 21-year-old Paige Blackwood must use her newly case of a woman on the run and a stolen bejeweled egg found abilities, with the help of two warriors, to save the known as the Hamburg Omelette. world from and emerging darkness that threatens their very existence. The Vidiots (Comedy) Sasha Tolmachyov A gay teenager and his misfit friends start a video club to Designated Drinker (Family) climb the social ladder at their school – while the newspa- Richard Willett and Linda Lili Anderson per club tries to knock them down at every turn. Annie, a tightly wrapped accountant with an empty nest and a husband losing interest, and her new best friend 1 Hour Pilot Brian, a gay N.Y. playwright forced back to L.A. to escort his The After-Time (Sci-Fi) Scott Nelson wacko aging parents into oblivion, belly up in a legendary A Chicago detective is transported 600 years into the Hollywood bar with a colorful assortment of drinking bud- future to become the prophesized savior of an anarchistic dies coping with their own deferred dreams and absurd world without technology that has lost all hope. new realities.

The Door (Sci-Fi) Sarah Weiford Go to www.InkTip.com A teenager serves out her probation helping an elderly and search by title or author for woman operate a mysterious bed and breakfast in the Arizona desert, which sits just outside a door leading to the scripts that interest you! other worlds. There’s only one rule: never lock the door. Stargate with a teen lead. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 45 Firestorm (Action/Adventure) Clayton Emery wife as his accomplice. Based on a true story. (Nick Pileggi France, 1944, the City of Miracles. A pacifist sergeant, a attached. Represented by Frank Weimann, FolioLit.) girl playing at war, and a stricken German major uncover a secret to destroy all Europe. Amid mysteries and mysti- Lies Become Us (Drama) cism, fighting rages so fierce that even angels and demons Marcy Schacter and Ryna Schickler join in. Lost meets Supernatural while Saving Private Ryan. An abused actress with intuitive skills escapes her drug lord boyfriend who is telepathically manipulating her. House of the Rising Sun (Horror) Matthew Sorvillo Turning the tables, she demands a producer role at his A secret nation of bloodthirsty vampires exists just beneath newly acquired film studio, a front for money laundering, the surface of our own, and a lone human detective acts in exchange for her silence. as an impartial investigator in mediating the centuries old power struggles of their feuding royal houses. Mama Dallas (Drama) Danna Doyle, Benson Simmonds and Jody Fasanella I Am Law – Pilot Daddy’s Little Girl (Crime/Murder/ The true story of a female Lucky Luciano posing Mystery) Lori Johnson, Peter Russel and Mark Young as Mother Teresa. A security firm owner, Lawrence A. Wallace (LAW), chan- neling his own suicidal urges brought on by his past, Money Matters (Comedy) Peter Hatch struggles with his personal demons when he rescues a young prostitute fleeing a gang hit; keeping her locked Based on the novel Hotel Real (Amazon), Money Matters up until information she has fuels him to use her to take is a television series focused on the partners, staff, and down the prostitution rings in Santa Monica, which helps clients of downtown Los Angeles CPA firm Mason & Co. In tame his predilection for young girls. agitating to repair the delusion around him, senior partner Daniel wonders if he too is deluded. Money addresses a number of themes, from homelessness and inequality, to Ice Dance (Suspense/Thriller) Abigail Moyer political correctness and liberal progressivism. When the Olympic silver medalist in ice dance, Grace Wood, beheads her partner at the closing ceremonies, she triggers an investigation into the circumstances behind the Mordred Rising (Fantasy) Larry Gilmore murder and the corrupt and mysterious Montreal-based When a dysfunctional family finds the lost sword of King training center of her coach, Nadia Popov. Arthur, they are swept into an ageless prophecy and become Britain’s only hope against an ancient enemy and ISS – Alpha (Comedy) Leigh Cantero a new Dark Age. A seriously dysfunctional crew are stuck on the International Space Station, ISS–Alpha, since everyone on Earth is dead Older & Wiser (Comedy) Gail Campbell from the zombie virus. Set in Orange County, California, this female-centric comedy celebrates real women in their 40s, 50s, and 60s Judas (Fantasy) Peter Leighton with careers, 20-something kids living at home, aging par- The most misunderstood man in the history of the world ents and – the mid-life dating scene. Women, men and has returned to save it. A present-day reincarnation of America’s gay population will immediately embrace the Judas Iscariot, intending to clear his name, joins a rogue laughter, disappointments, awkward sexual situations, governmental agency called The Guardians and learns and fabulous fashion in every episode. This is a juicy show to use powers and abilities from his previous lifetimes to for everyone whose time has finally come! prevent a perpetual “Dark Age.” Parker Menlo: Man of Science! (Sci-Fi) Lady of the Lake (Horror) Dawn McElligott Matthew Sorvillo The ghost of a woman drowned a century ago in the lake When a race of alien conquerors invade Area 51 demand- haunts a camp counselor, urging the young college stu- ing his head, Earth’s greatest hero must come out of hiding dent to bring her own boyfriend to justice. and finally face the secrets of his own less-than-rosy past.

The Last Jewish Gangster (Crime/Murder/Mystery) Pawns of Insanity (Drama) Maja Vidrac David Larson Traumatized by witnessing a child abuse that she cannot A retired hit man (godson of Bugsy Siegel), who’s disabled prove and stop, 27-year-old Marianne naively admits and living in San Diego Section-8 housing, receives an early herself to a psychiatric ward for two weeks. As she meets morning call about an unfinished contract from 40 years various characters, problems, agendas, and a possible ago. He must put Christ aside, battle his health, raise money, conspiracy, she unintentionally makes some enemies and get a gun, and take a cross-country trip with his unwitting faces another man-versus-the-system battle. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 46 Pending Investigations (Crime/Murder/Mystery) more powerful Soviet invasion forces led by a ruthless Matthew Sorvillo general who will stop at nothing to see them dead. While suspended from duty and fighting to clear her own name, a homicide cop starts a secret, unlicensed private Tarn & Beck: Pilot – ’The Cursed Coin’ (Fantasy) detective agency to crack the cases her department has Courtney Bowen let fall through the cracks. Tarn and Beck face their past and vampires, bandits, cursed coins, and a deadly stagecoach chase on their Probation Odyssey (Drama) Ernie Hernandez first date/adventure. With family and friends involved, can A new, young reformed probation officer continually faces they survive and stay together as they begin their journey? trials and tribulations to overcome the probation camp Future episodes will feature fairies, a satyr, wizards, director’s negative views of his prior Latino gang member- werewolves, a chimera, zombies, a necromancer’s cult, a ship; yet as he must fit-in with the juvenile gang delinquents, knight, and an enchanted production of The Importance he tries to rehabilitate, still conform to normal expectations of Being Earnest. of his probation co-workers, facing significant obstacles from the belief that a leopard cannot change its spots. Teri and the Pirates (Drama) Virginia Youngren Driven by family trauma, a passionate, inexperienced Project Omega – Nina Blacke (Fantasy) young fraud detective – determined to protect people P. James Norris who depend on her – learns to play cat and mouse with A Catholic retired U.S. Army colonel must deal with memo- professional swindlers. ries of his son’s ritualistic murder and wife’s suicide and his feeling of being betrayed by God, as he, his brilliant experi- Unorganized Crime (Drama) mental psychologist daughter, and a charismatic expert in Kenny D’Aquila and Chazz Palminteri the occult must expose a fraudulent spiritualist before she While trying to hold on to seeds of the past, and teetering swindles a widow while filming their paranormal-busting on the edge of the absurd, the Corso’s, the 5th largest reality TV show pilot. crime family in New York, begin to break down under the strains of modern life and the ever-changing world in Promiseland (Crime/Murder/Mystery) which they live. (Represented by Tina Treadwell, Treadwell Stephen Wallenfels Entertainment Group) A hiker inadvertently witnesses the assassination of a Congressman; she is kidnapped by the killers who threaten War of the Great Houses (Sci-Fi) Scott Nelson her teenage son if she doesn’t cooperate. In the process of investigating the death of a colleague, young scientist Sasha Towson stumbles on a plot to undermine the SkyFire (Sci-Fi) Jeff Whitehead and Mark Morris fragile balance between the ruling houses of the galaxy. As A secret Navy weather experiment creates a massive lightning a result, she becomes swept up in the political intrigue and storm with a deadly purpose – to hunt down and kill the men power politics of an all-or-nothing quest for power. who created it. A resourceful meteorologist and his co-work- ers trapped on an island must outwit Mother Nature’s sentient The Watchers (Sci-Fi) Jason Fedusenko, Edward King III, wrath to survive. Based on the book Sigmet Active. and Michael Van Patten A conflicted man, weary from years of forced service to (Drama) Shaun McCormack Soot a secret society, rebels against his programming and When the brotherhood wars breakout in a notorious risks his life to uncover the cryptic truths that force prison, a young thief must use all his life skills to survive. him to acknowledge his true identity. He never planned on saving humanity. The Soul of Iron (Action/Adventure) Oluf (Ollie) Marshall The Wrong Ticket (Action/Adventure) John Ravitz In an alternative past, a group of rag-tag resistance fighters A sleeper agent controlled by a terrorist organization in Soviet occupied France must fight against the bigger, begins his campaign for president of the United States. The outgoing president leads a group of unlikely allies who will do whatever it takes to stop him. Every month an average of 25 scripts are purchased or optioned Mini-Series Register at www.InkTip.com Casino Tribe (Crime/Murder/Mystery) Don Buzney A free service to the industry An Indian tribe in the American Southwest ventures into casino gaming, only to be the target of a crime syndicate Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 47 intent on plunder. The beautiful tribal attorney, conflicted recently deceased corporate president. With neither train- over her attraction to the white HR director, joins with ing nor experience he blunders along until he discovers the him anyway to mobilize employee power in a dangerous secret of running a shady and corrupt billion-dollar industry. quest to thwart the syndicate. They discover each other and fall in love. Court Ordered Christmas (Family) Sandy Silverthorne The June Rise (Western) William Tremblay After a run-in with the law, Alex Tangent, a cocky L.A. soap Once, on the American frontier, a mountain man mar- opera star is sentenced to direct his estranged son’s ele- ried a native holy woman and found himself and his mentary school Christmas pageant and in the process learns the real meaning of Christmas. Sioux family in the crosshairs between the U.S. Army and the Plains Indians. The Dreamer (Crime/Murder/Mystery) Jeffrey Liggens Lustrous (Drama) Yolanda Ebbs A recent parolee is overheard sharing a dream premoni- tion with his co-worker about the murder of his boss, only A simple act of paying it forward to the man who saved her to be prosecuted for the murder as suspect number one life turns one young woman’s kindness into something she when his dream materializes. wouldn’t ever imagine. Khrushchev aka Nikita Sergeyevich (Biographical) Pharaoh Taharqa – Warrior King (Action/Adventure) Robert J. McCrea Will Sims Festival-winning TV MOW bio drama about Khrushchev, On the heels of the mega-hit Black Panther franchise, the most notorious figure of the Cold War. His dramatic Pharaoh Taharqa – Warrior King (Nubian Pharaohs of rise to become leader of the Soviet Union, and his humil- Egypt’s 25th Dynasty) is the Biblical account of the Nubian iating removal from office. Khrushchev’s determination Pharaohs and the Assyrian Siege of Jerusalem. to spread Communism around the globe almost leads to the destruction of the world during the Cuban Run! Run! Run! – The Lives of Abbie Hoffman missile crisis. (Biographical) Michael J. Shapiro Switched (Romance) Herman Franck When ‘60s/’70s political-cultural icon Abbie Hoffman punks Wall Street, hijacks the Democratic National Convention, Crazier ass Asian story like you never heard before. A saves the Woodstock Festival, and levitates the Pentagon super rich Indonesian goddess marries a handsome USA lawyer. For a million reasons the marriage implodes into – he barely survives years of a secret, brutal government a zero sex forever situation. Until one morning when they mission to annihilate him only to face his most lethal wake up and their sex parts are switched – uh oh. Wait til enemy: himself! you see what happens to them. (Represented by Fred H. Murphy, Emerson-Adams Press) Rush to Destiny (Non-Fiction/History) Larry Martin The life of the West’s quintessential hero, Edward Beale. Ned crossed the country on horseback 13 times, was hero of the Battle of San Pasqual, leader of the great camel experiment, carried first California gold to Congress, and To be removed from our mailing list, write to us requesting to be removed from the magazine mailing list: InkTip.com, PO Box 12418, fought the slave trade. Beale’s exploits eclipsed Fremont, La Crescenta, CA 91224. 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Beautifully Broken is a family drama written by InkTip writer Mark E. McCann and produced by BIG Film Factory. It was released in theaters across the U.S. this August.