APRIL VOLUME 19 2019 MAGAZINE ® ISSUE 2 Where everyone goes for scripts and writers™ From Public Relations to Made-up Desperations: Q&A with Acts of Desperation Screenwriter Nathan Illsley PAGE 16 Know Your Craft, Check Your Ego: Q&A with Acts of Desperation Director Richard Friedman PAGE 30 FIND YOUR NEXT SCRIPT HERE! 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It is the only place I go now.” – NANCY CRISS, NANDAR ENTERTAINMENT GROUP 4 Contest/Festival Winners Barnstorm boy on a ship bound for America, but her life is forever changed when the ship is attacked by the notorious pirate Mother Bear (Suspense/Thriller – Feature) Calico Jack and his fiery Irish lover, Anne Bonny, aboard Bryan Watkins the pirate ship, Revenge. Thelma & Louise on the high seas. A single mother in a post-apocalyptic society must protect her two isolated sons from danger after a few strangers show up at their doorstep. The Pitch Now Screenplay Competition Murderabilia (Horror – Feature) Neil Krolicki Big Apple Film Festival The charismatic son of a dead serial-killer profits by hus- Screenplay Competition tling psychopath inmates for bizarre memorabilia, but his Anybody’s Anything (Romantic Comedy – Feature) world is upended when a cop hires him to track down the Jon Lindstrom skull of her father (one of his dad’s victims) and a copy-cat ignites a new killing spree. After surprising his unfaithful wife, Brett aims to get his broken life back on track when he meets an adventurous young woman who leads him into a new, often hilari- Space Captain Smith! (Comedy – Television 1 Hour ous, sometimes dark, world of self-discovery and sexual Pilot) Bruce Hanson and John Palfery-Smith experimentation. (Selected – Beverly Hills Film Festival, In 2119, an alien threat looms over humanity. The British Finish Line Script Competitions; Quarter Finalist – LA Space Empire must send a new hero against the Ghasts, International Screenplay Awards; Gold Script Award – but only one is currently available. Smith must overcome Depth of Field Film Festival. Represented by Gordon every obstacle the universe can throw at him, traverse the Gilbertson, Gilbertson Entertainment) galaxy to rescue humanity’s only hope, give the Ghasts a thrashing along the way, and make it home to Blighty in Oubliette (Horror – Feature) Christina Clark time for tea. A young woman, Freya, is in mourning. She is being haunted by a little girl and is having terrifying dreams. To make it all stop, Freya must confront the causes of her Scription Screenplay Competition nightmares, which call her to a mysterious cottage. The Missing Piece (Suspense/Thriller – Feature) Ifeoma Dike Shapeshifter (Suspense/Thriller – Feature) James Sweeney When a young woman’s long-lost ex comes back to town, she is forced to not only go toe-to-toe with him but his An aging Washington, D.C., police lieutenant must tackle significant other. more than his own demons when a deceased foe suddenly returns, triggering both personal and public consequences in the nation’s capital. Shriekfest Film Festival The P.A.N.D.A. War (Comedy – Feature) Dan V. Shea Big Apple Women’s Film Festival and Screenplay Competition To finally match his awesome family’s super-awesome accomplishments, a perfectly average kid must battle the Rockstar (Romance – Feature) Coraly Santaliz girl he likes in order to win the school’s perfect attendance To battle her depression and anxiety, a Latin rock star award. (Represented by Sonya Gauthier, Woolf + Lapin) escapes from her tour and famous life to a small U.S. town where she is unknown. But instead of fighting her demons, she found love, a love that is now threatened by StoryPros International her stardom status. Junk (Sci-Fi – Feature) Doug Mallette Lake Charles Film Festival Gene, a TV-obsessed recluse, is shocked out of hiding when his favorite childhood actress, Evelyn, reinvents The Lady Pirates (Action/Adventure – Feature) herself as a raunchy popstar. With the help of Katherine, Carey Theresa another delusional superfan, he ventures through a bleak Determined to rebuild her life after surviving a brutal near-future on a disastrous crusade to remind the world assault, a timid young woman disguises herself as a cabin that it needs the old Evelyn back. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Action/Adventure 5 The Royal Nonesuch (Western – Feature) John T. Gross Zed Fest Film Festival & Reports of his death exaggerated, Abe Lincoln goes West Screenplay Competition 2018 where he stands up to a corrupt sheriff and evil banker Among Us (Horror – Feature) Arturo Portillo who plague a town with lies and deceit. (Represented by A military experiment goes wrong in a small Texas town, Aaron Kelly, AK Entertainment) transforming innocent townsfolk into flesh-eating parasites. Unwelcome (Sci-Fi – Feature) Federico Casal The Coldest Horizon (Suspense/Thriller – Feature) After a near-future civil war, a runaway ex-Navy SEAL is Jeffrey Howe sent to a ghost town to retrieve a special device from an After an accident leaves a scientist stranded alone at the underground research facility that mysteriously exploded. South Pole, the ghosts of four explorers appear to help her endure the loneliness – and when she discovers she’s pregnant – to help her survive the thousand-mile trek StoryPros Awards across the ice to safety. Foxed (Animation – Feature) James Stewart The Venusian Chronicles (Sci-Fi – Feature) When the children from a fantastical steampunk town are Lynn Vincentnathan kidnapped by shape-shifting foxes who have been driven When the discovery of a spaceship wreck on the Moon away from their homes, a brave girl and her little brother strikes people with fear of invasion, a meek Venusian pro- must find a way to escape – and bring peace to these rival fessor must reveal his true identity to stop vigilante attacks worlds. (Based on my award-winning short filmFoxed ! Ten on innocent people and steer Earth away from the fate awards, 18 million views online, #1 on iTunes) that ended life on Venus. Feature Scripts – Grouped by Genre Action/Adventure Af*ckinstan Jim Maceda The 13 of Glory Georges Salo A U.S. Marine platoon leader uses all of his savvy as an ex-cop to save thousands of lives – and one of Afghanistan’s The quest for El Dorado by Francisco Pizarro takes the conquistadors, known as The 13 of Glory, to a land rife most powerful hydroelectric dams – by tracking down a with gold. Their altruistic start spirals into the subjugation fugitive Taliban bomb-maker, only to find that the trap has of the Inca nation and the genocide of its people. already been set. A-Man Jim Kowalski After Wolf Richard Humphries It’s the Dark Knight with a supernatural twist when an every- An isolated company of paratroopers and a werewolf pack day guy turns vigilante to help those he loves. Family is find themselves targets of a primordial Apex predator. forever and blood isn’t always thicker than water – or is it? Join Derek and Rick when they become the A-Men as they throw down prison-style to rebuild a very special family they Angelica’s Touch Jan Dalby lost.