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Big Apple Film Festival Jefferson State Flixx Fest Just Listed (Horror – Feature) Stuart Creque Amertia (Sci-Fi – Feature) The real estate agent wonders why the young couple Martin Medina and Luke Medina insisted on seeing the new listing after nightfall – and how In the future, capitalism fails and people are given Merit they know all about the horrific deaths that happened there. Numbers to determine their worth to society and what resources they are allowed to have. Some capitalists remain and wish to return to the old ways; so, when one Creative World Awards plans to drug society’s undesirables to fight back, a mem- The Fall (Drama – Feature) Tamra Teig and Michael Lipoma ber of law enforcement goes undercover to stop him. East Berlin, 1989. A single mother is forced into espio- nage when her son is framed for murder. After a deadly Las Vegas International Film and betrayal, she turns double agent to exact her revenge, and her actions, woven into historic events, become the Screenplay Competition catalyst that leads to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Legacy (Fantasy – Feature) Danielle R. Erlich A bullied teenager seeks refuge by an Irish castle and Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards travels to a magical world he never knew existed where his long-lost father turns out to be king. He’s told that an The Boys Are Back (Comedy – Television Half Hour Pilot) unknown assailant has kidnapped the king, and now the Jay Mullings responsibility to rescue him falls to his resentful and clue- Brotherhood – what else matters? The Boys Are Back fol- less teenage son. lows four close male friends (Scottish, Welsh, Irish and English), three of whom are helping the fourth get back on his feet after a tough divorce. Together they learn from Mike’s Place Pilot: Bringing Sexy Back (Comedy – each other, stumbling through life at an age when they Television Half Hour Pilot) Brie Wilson “ought to have had it figured out.” The sometimes fun-loving and always smack-talking club promoter, Mike Johnson, navigates his way through the misadventures of his roller coaster-esque life with the Rudy’s Christmas Revenge (Comedy – Feature) help of his attorney and girlfriend – the stasis in this duo. Joanne Bellew When a hardcore Christian’s hopes of becoming a musician are destroyed and he publicly destroys the reputation of Moondance International Film Festival the rock star who was responsible, he must find a way to undo the public humiliation of himself and the rock star The Beneficials – Heroes of the Soil (Animation – when he discovers that the now extremely ill musician is the Feature) Paul Piccirillo love of his pregnant daughter’s life. (Multiple contest wins) A small worm with big dreams ventures beyond the boundaries of his homeland to preserve his family’s legacy and defend a community of cornstalks from savage envi- Huntington Beach Film Festival ronmental threats. The Coldest Horizon (Action/Adventure – Feature) Jeffrey Howe Cottage for Rent: Body Optional (A Dear Dudley After an accident leaves a scientist stranded alone at the Mystery) (Crime/Murder/Mystery – Television One Hour South Pole, the ghosts of four explorers appear to help Pilot) Sable Jak her endure the loneliness – and, when she discovers she’s pregnant, to help her survive the-thousand mile trek A lottery winner, a mummy, a thieving cousin, a drone, and across the ice to safety. a thriving gossip train. What else would you expect from a small Midwest town? (Represented by Neil Sussman, Law Offices of Neil Sussman) Inroads Screenwriting Fellowship A War on Terror (Drama – Feature) Peter Haig Dylan (Drama – Feature) Dianne Gardner After being ambushed by a group of Taliban insurgents, a An autistic young man whose magic is his only security handful of U.S. soldiers wake up in a room unsure if they are is devastated when his uncle dies, his aunt puts him in a dead or alive – unbeknownst to them, their fate becomes home full of strangers, and his abusive mother stalks him. tied to an Afghan grandmother and granddaughter Running away is his answer until there is nowhere left to determined to free souls from their hellish fate. run. (Magical realism) Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 5 The Goblins and the Gravedigger (Fantasy – Feature) Spoon Fed (Drama – Feature) Scott LaFortune Kenny Chumbley A young nutritionist with a sweet tooth is hired to curb the It’s Christmas Eve. A wretched gravedigger stands on the obesity crisis, then battles USDA corruption as she brings brink of doom, and his only hope is a band of goblins. down an unscrupulous sugar lobby. Based on a true story. (2019 PAGE Awards Gold Prize Winner. Represented by Jeff Belkin, Zero Gravity) PAGE International Screenwriting Awards Buck and the Angel (Drama – Feature) James Schlicker The Sweet Spot (Comedy – Television Half Hour Pilot) A young boy, Buck Lynch, fatherless and living with his Harriet Beaney dying mother in his grandparent’s home, has a strong An embittered ex-tennis star becomes the reluctant coach belief in the power of prayer. But his faith is tested when to a socially awkward teenager whose mother mysteri- a mysterious stranger claiming to be an angel leads Buck ously disappears. to believe he has come to make his mother well when he has actually come for his mother’s life on Christmas Eve. Texas Poetry (Crime/Murder/Mystery – Feature) David Milwee The Delivery (Drama – Feature) Gil Seltzer In this dramatic thriller, a drug cartel and an FBI investi- A Jordanian history professor turned radicalized terrorist gation descend on a small Texas town, and all hell breaks is tasked with delivering a car bomb from Dallas to New loose as the owner of a local bar, a trucking company York City. His cover – an unwitting 12-year-old boy who operator, and a crooked sheriff begin to turn on each joins him for the tenuous drive through the American other. But not everyone is who they appear to be. heartland. (Silver Winner – 2019 Page Awards; Coverfly’s Red List – Top 10 Drama Features 2019; Semifinalist – Bluecat Screenplay Contest; Top 10% Nicholl Fellowships.) Script Summit Lineage (Suspense/Thriller – Feature) Kathy Patterson Muscle and Bark (Action/Adventure – Feature) The defiant son of an immortal killer clashes with Scotland Gina DeAngelis Yard and his tragic past when he comes out of hiding to An aging Alaska mailman takes a newspaper editor’s $10,000 save his kidnapped family from his father. bet to deliver a letter to the White House by dogsled, while his crotchety sidekick and an ambitious heiress-reporter butt heads to make him and his dogs a national sensation Scriptapalooza Fellowship – all unaware he was never supposed to win. Boy Most Wanted (Drama – Feature) Tuck Tucker Physically and emotionally abused 7-year-old Tim has the Not My Emergency (Comedy – Feature) Matt Conlin unusual ability to locate missing people. Tim teams up After their supply of government-monitored narcotics is with FBI Agent Green to find the FBI’s Most Wanted. But a stolen, two hapless paramedics must team up with the corrupt agent doesn’t want his target found and must kill town junky to reclaim their drugs by morning or face Tim to stop him. Agent Green not only saves Tim but also prison. (PAGE comedy feature Silver winner) becomes what Tim wanted all along – his new dad. (Top Winner Scriptapalooza) On Probation (Comedy – Television Half Hour Pilot) Sergio Cámara The Girl Who Collected Sound (Drama – Feature) After her marriage ends, an old-school housewife has to Steven Benedict start over as a social worker in a rowdy parole office. Her A young, mute musician must use her obsession with only weapons: please and thank you. sound to help her dying mother reconcile with her estranged family in a remote island community. (The Girl Who Collected Sound received “recommend” from Saving America (Comedy – Feature) Michael Lederer Scriptapalooza and placed third in its 2019 international With the United States warming fast and splitting apart competition.) at the seams, a would-be hero takes it upon himself to save America. He enlists the help of a young stranger, convinced this will definitely be a two-man job. Comps: StoryPros Awards Nebraska meets Green Book. Blue Mustang (Action/Adventure – Feature) Devin Lucas In 1986, a washed-up but charming Florida moonshiner Six Shooter (Action/Adventure – Feature) Sean Nichols Lynch finds a whole mess of trouble attempting to protect his Clive, a swamp tour guide and degenerate gambler, finds estranged young adult daughter from the FBI and mafia in himself in grave danger after an arms deal in the Louisiana New York City. A tribute to the early films of Burt Reynolds, bayous goes horribly awry. Blue Mustang is a sort of Smokey and the Bandit meets Logan. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 6 Feature Scripts – Grouped by Genre

Action/Adventure Assassin – The Algorithm Man Bryan Murray When a U.S. computer expert, the nephew of The White The 13 of Glory Georges Salo House Chief of Staff, stumbles onto a cyber attack by The quest for El Dorado by Francisco Pizarro takes the Chinese hackers, aimed at controlling world financial conquistadors, known as The 13 of Glory, to a land rife markets, he is killed in a fake accident. Top White House with gold. Their altruistic start spirals into the subjugation security experts, Jake Harrigan and his wife Sarah, track of the Inca nation and the genocide of its people. the killers and find themselves racing against the clock on Christmas Eve to avert an international financial holocaust. 7 Days Henry Mitchell, Jennifer Lynch, and Calvin Cox, Jr. A mysterious young man enters the lives of a dysfunctional Assassin – First Son Bryan Murray family that’s been targeted for destruction by a dark force. When the president’s and vice president’s sons are kidnapped by terrorists on a college ski trip to Italy, their captors demand the release of their leader in Guantanamo Adama Alvin Berger or they will execute the boys in seven days. The president’s A top-secret agent with a dark past must overcome his security team heads to Italy to find the captives and even- fear of failure in order to stop a powerful DNA computer tually realize the kidnapping is merely a deadly plot to end from falling into the wrong hands. Two women play a the current presidency. strong role in saving him and this country.

Assassin – Sleeping Dogs Bryan Murray Amber Waves Bob Peak Following a series of Arab terrorist attacks on Israeli Two brothers sacrifice everything to keep the five-genera- organizations in the U.S. and Israel, a team of U.S. secu- tion farm in the family until crooked cops seize their land rity specialists work with the Mossad to try to bring the under an obscure drug law. They’re prepared to do battle culprits to justice. They finally realize that the terrorists are in court, but are forced to wage war against the Midwest not Arabs but from a bygone era as they race against the crime syndicate. (Inspired by true stores stemming from clock to prevent a world-shattering attack on Jerusalem. the Reagan-era 1984 Illegal Acts Seizure and Forfeiture Law still in force and abused since inception) Assassin – The Valley Bryan Murray The Mexican Drug Cartel steals an EMP nuclear warhead And Darkness Fell Phillip Frydendall from a Navy convoy in California and delivers it to a A time warp in The Great Pyramid captures four antag- rogue Chinese admiral in return for fentanyl drugs. The onists in a love/hate relationship who then relive the Americans immediately panic when they realize that the carnage, greed, and woes of mankind throughout history admiral’s evil plan is to launch the warhead in a Chinese as Satan attempts to usurp Earth but fails. One male char- missile to wipe out all the electronics in a major U.S. com- acter finds love only to lose it in the Roman Coliseum. In munications target. the end, Satan is destroyed. At peace, mankind colonizes the stars. (256-page graphic novel available) Assassin – The Wrong Man Bryan Murray When Jake Harrigan and his partner Sarah visit the UK for Anthem Sean Mick and Don Wells his grandmother’s funeral, an old IRA terrorist adversary, 2094. Governments have fallen. Global mega-corpora- wearing a 3D mask to look exactly like Jake, attempts to tions run everything. When the top security agent for the assassinate The Queen. The attack fails but Jake is mis- rulers of the former United States is betrayed by the CEO takenly identified as the attacker by the Brits, forcing him he once served, he must join forces with his enemies in and Sarah to avoid a nationwide manhunt and bring the the Resistance to unravel the mystery behind the death of terrorists to justice. his parents – and restore freedom to America. “Liberty or death. It’s up to you.” Assassin’s Quandary Ralph Sawyer A neophyte physician who is compelled to undertake an Apache Echo David McCartney assassination mission for the ruthless state of Qin wres- A feisty, big-city editor turned small-town newspaperman tles with love and his conscience in China’s intrigue-filled struggles with moral dilemmas and his own fears while Warring States period. investigating a series of grisly, primitive-style killings to stay on the bloody trail of a fierce, Geronimo-like warrior who emerges in this day and age and leads a small band of Baltimore Tony Bryan renegade Apaches on deadly raiding parties in a rural part Moorish raiders wipe out a village, taking the young into of southern Arizona. captivity, bound for the slave markets on the Barbary Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Action/Adventure 7 Coast. What fate lies in store for the captives or those left The Boy Who Painted Pictures Robert Graziano behind? This sweeping tale reaches the far corners of the On the run from the law and the ghost of a violent, abusive earth. Is it possible our survivors will meet again? father, an outlaw attempts to reclaim his earlier cowboy life. But old blood and revenge compel his former gang to The Beasts of Ramree Alastair Collinson derail those plans. When they kidnap his estranged (autistic) son, a “mysteriously” gifted artist, the outlaw must join Inspired by true events. During WWII, a pacifist British forces with his ex-lover, the boy’s pioneer tough mother, marine is captured by a Japanese garrison that never sur- to rescue him. renders, and while evacuating a tropical island they have to cross ten miles of swamp – but hundreds of deadly saltwater crocodiles lurk in the depths. It has been called Call Out Nir Shelter perhaps “The Greatest Disaster Suffered (by humans) Call Out, a Page Award finalist (2019), is a found-footage from Animals.” military thriller in the vein of The Hurt Locker meets The Blair Witch Project. After a sniper shoots a civilian mother behind enemy lines, two female army medics must carry Better Off Dead John Paul Carinci the orphaned baby back to base under the threat of a A life insurance salesman gets mixed up with a Mafia kingpin hidden killer. who gives him people to sell insurance to. Who knew the restaurant owner, who had been feeding Frank people to Camarilla Commanders of the Sky Pelham Mead insure, was in the mob? Frank’s clients start dying, he knows something’s wrong, and realizes the Mafia is connected to The world is destroyed by nuclear explosions and the the deaths. He knows soon he will be better off dead. rich flee in space ships seeking a new world. Left behind are millions of people who are exposed to high levels of radiation. One group of scientists had developed a The Beverly Hitmen Randy Gore method of modifying the human body to have wings. Two hitmen are hired to rescue their boss’ daughter after Eventually, cities are set in the clouds for these winged she is kidnapped by a neo-Nazi criminal organization, forcing humans called Camarilla. them on an explosive, violent, bloody, bullet-riddled journey. Camerone Gordon Roback Blacksnake Douglas Booth Given the choice between the guillotine and the French Permeated with bayou folk magic, Zydeco music, and Foreign Legion, former Montrealer Pierre Trudel chooses a strong infusion of bonafide supernatural energy, the Legion. His lawyer tells him he made the wrong choice. Blacksnake, Louisiana is the kind of spirit-haunted place “The guillotine is faster, cleaner, and more honorable.” that, once it gets a hold of you, will not let go. Which is Trudel asks, “How bad can the Legion be?” At Camerone, what a recently discharged Army veteran discovers when he is about to find out. he comes back to make his final farewells. Charlie Three Frank Hurford Blood Journey Dennis Shepherd¡ At an isolated oil camp, two British and two American crew A low-level government employee bucks the Trump child are abandoned when they become a target at the start of the 1967 Six Day War. They lose outside contact and don’t separation policy, freeing a girl (13) and her brother (6) realize their situation and are more excited at the arrival of from a child detention center, embarking on a journey a female engineer. The mobile medic attempts a rescue as through Mexico and Guatem•ala, looking for their mother, she knows it’s personal; her boyfriend is the target. encountering a mystical man on the hill, fighting a drug cartel and, climactically, the corrupt Guatemalan special forces, aka the Kaibiles, who hold the children’s mother The Clancy Kids David Kitching captive. The year 2000 sees four teenage brothers protect a Bolivian judge from being captured by a drug lord seeking The Blue Pearl Larry Martin revenge. Sons of a wealthy American businessman, each has a special skill that is used to bring down the drug deal- There’s nothing like a relaxing cruise to reinvigorate tired er’s empire. bones: soak up the sun, lots of drinks with those little umbrellas, a little body-guarding. What could go wrong? That is, until Al Shabaab decides a hundred American The Cool Kidz Jamal Macon women would be worth a C-130 full of gold. (A best-selling When a teenager and his friends discover that his father is thrill/action/adventure novel on sale 10/22. No. 10 in The linked to a psychotic terrorist, they use his father’s super- Repairman series. Book for adaptation) hero tech to save him and the world. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 8 Action/Adventure Cowgirl James Syring The Easy Way Stan Weisleder Picked up by the cops for fighting and taken in by a ranch After his wife left him, his dog died, and the studios turned family, a spirited young woman is given a chance to use down his last script, Howard Farrell decides to become a her love of horses to turn her life around if she can sub- cop and learn to write police stories that are realistic. What due her greatest enemy: herself. he didn’t expect was the rigorous training and his instruc- tor at the academy, Sergeant Bridget Dexter. (Based on the author’s being the oldest graduate of the LA Sheriff’s Crown Jewels Sean Freelon Department Academy) The prestigious Louvre Museum has decided to sail its most precious pieces of art on a public tour around the Echoes of the Hunt Stanley Corvin globe. A retired group of misfit felons get back together for one last heist. But things take a turn when they end Sitting on a wind-gnarled stump, the hunter looks through up protecting the gallery from an onslaught of the world’s his binoculars for the hawk whose shrill call echoed around most ruthless and craftiest thieves. him and sees the distant shape of a helicopter. Solitude days while stalking the legendary deer “El Viejo” trigger other “echoes.” Recollections of long-ago family hunts and Crystal Bella Marty Christopher memories as a combat helicopter pilot in Vietnam affect his An alluring college professor profoundly affects her final encounter with the elusive deer. (Book for adaptation) student when he discovers he can astral travel to a new world, only to find it reveals his future death. Eddie’s Back Russell Vitrano May 1963, Eddie, a popular teenager, is intentionally hit The Cull Murray Woodfield by a car, which leaves him in a coma. 2019, Eddie wakes When a Zimbabwean female game ranger on a revenge up. He is shocked and disappointed at what he sees. Until mission against poachers and tusk-traders uncovers the ghost of JFK visits Eddie and inspires him to make a who’s behind the trade, corrupt police must silence her difference. Now Eddie realizes why he was kept alive and what he has to do. for good.

Euthanized Don Stroud Dark Evangelist Giordano Diambrini A grieving animal control officer becomes an unlikely After his girlfriend is murdered by a local gangster, a young social media hero when she embarks on a vigilante cru- man dons a costume like his favorite superhero and sets sade against animal abusers, but her violent actions trap out on a personal quest for bloody vengeance. her between friends on the police force and the leader of a citywide dogfighting ring. Death to the Prosecution John Paul Carinci Death to the Prosecution places you front and center in the Expedition Brendan Cody courtroom of a mob boss’ trial. The meticulous planning, An ex-Marine hunts the savage Yeti – but soon discovers the courtroom drama, all unfolding at a heightened pace, that the billionaire that hired him is the true monster, with will keep you guessing and holding your breath to its plans to weaponize the creature’s DNA. astounding finish.

Fire and Water Ralph Sawyer The Dogpatch John Long Two young Bostonians try to prevent an imminent suicidal A narcotics cop puts everything on the line to bring down war with Britain in 1811 by resorting to deception, theat- drug kingpin “Snowman” before San Francisco is overrun rical facades, sabotage, and the “ploy of suffering flesh” to with his deadly product. undermine British resolve in a tale of intrigue and broken romance that plays out in England itself. Don’t Tread on Me Ronald Kelly A young, local sheriff reluctantly joins forces with a by-the- Firebird Stephen Colley book female, African-American FBI agent to solve the An intransigent young woman, pursued by a goddess, murder of a liberal talk show DJ and 12 federal agents. They must survive wilderness exile to find the Firebird and fight a British oil cartel’s criminal attempt to control a guber- return fire to humanity. natorial election in an oil-rich state. Billions are at stake. Four Champions Osman Zardkouhi Double Skyjack Julius Kohanyi Four Olympic champions from India travel to the U.S. On When the Mob went head on with Mideast terrorists, it their way back to India at the airport, they are kidnapped sent shock waves throughout the world and spawned a by Mexican cartels and taken to Mexico. The cartels force love story. (Note: Novel version also available.) the martial arts champion into a death fight where only the Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Action/Adventure 9 winner survives. The champions’ quest to save themselves from the cartel becomes a terrible nightmare. Recent Successes Girl Out of Time Jay J. Falconer An orphaned street girl with paranormal abilities battles a Harvey Lowry Options The Robinsons gang of superhumans across time and space in a deadly Harvey Lowry with Ascension Media found The fight for not only her future, but the future of humanity. Robinsons on InkTip and optioned it from Kenneth (Multiple best screenplay award winner) Lemm. Harvey’s credits include Gothic Harvest, Deadly Sanctuary, and The Competition, starring Thora Birch, Gower Gulch James Syring Claire Coffee, and Chris Klein, among others. Kenneth is a multi-award winning screenwriter whose credits Two Depression-era Montana cowboy brothers head to Another Tango Saved by Grace California where they find dangerous work as stuntmen also include and , star- in the “B” western movies produced by Hollywood’s pov- ring Joey Lawrence, among others. Kenneth has been erty row studios. Resentment threatens to destroy their promoting his work on InkTip for over 10 years. brotherly bond as they rise through the studio ranks, one as a “B” western star and the other as a respected James Carter-Johnson Options Dog Tag Messenger stunt coordinator. James Carter-Johnson with Leap Film found the action/ thriller Dog Tag Messenger on InkTip and optioned it Grandpa’s Dear Old Girl Felicity-Fair Thompson from writer Russell Bush. James’s credits include the When the island’s lighthouse is automated, Millie is very drama feature DJ, among others. Russell wants to tell worried. What will her grandpa Big Frank do without the his fellow screenwriters, “Never doubt your writing abil- tall, round tower he calls his dear old girl? But a big storm ities.” Russell has been an InkTip member since 2013. is brewing and the fishermen will really need Big Frank’s help when the storm sweeps in, and he, in turn, needs Millie’s when the lighthouse lamp goes out. Tony Armer Options Engagement Season Independent producer Tony Armer found the roman- The Grave Tapes of Blossom Hill tic comedy Engagement Season through InkTip and Brian French and Peter Downing has optioned it from writer Kristen Crocker. Tony’s In the mid-’80s, four misfit teenage boys experiment credits include the family-friendly feature Bernie the with a tape recorder and an open grave to prove once Dolphin, starring Kevin Sorbo and Patrick Muldoon, and for all that ghosts aren’t real. (Coming-of-age among others. In addition to writing features, Kristen adventure-dramedy) is currently developing a TV series. Kristen has been promoting her work on InkTip since 2018. A Great White Christmas Mark Des Londe and Nancy Ogrosso Thien A. Pham Options The Goombah Kid After a shark kills Santa and absorbs his powers, a group Thien A. Pham with 3388 Films discovered Brent of unlikely and broken heroes fight to stop the shark as it Jordan on InkTip and optioned his script The Goombah embarks on a bloody holiday feast. Kid. Thien’s credits include the psychological thriller Actress Wanted, starring Long Nguyen. Brent credits Grumpyman’s Luck Geoffrey Alexander InkTip’s articles on writing effective loglines for the When a self-styled “freedom fighter” serial killer is exoner- dramatic increase in requested scripts. Brent has ated and released from jail, he hijacks the world’s banking been an InkTip member for over 10 years. system; however, those whom he had wronged do everything they can to force him to make amends. Lauren Hannum Options The Windigo Lauren Hannum with Gylden Productions discov- Hammer and Blades Patrick W. Hatten ered the horror/thriller script The Windigo through An ex-cop turned private eye seeks revenge for her part- InkTip and optioned it from writer Brent Jordan. ner’s death – and to find the killer, she must team up with Lauren’s credits include Hope Springs Eternal and The her mortal enemy, a female bodyguard that worked for Remarkable Life of John Weld, among others. Brent the criminal organization they were investigating. credits InkTip’s articles on writing effective loglines for the dramatic increase in requested scripts. Brent has Helius Legacy Phil Olson and Jim Staahl been an InkTip member for over 10 years. A retired French Foreign Legion special ops soldier, Continued on page 11 who lives in a secluded cabin in California, is hunted by Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 10 Action/Adventure mercenaries employed by a large energy corporation her mother, the uprising of an evil witch, and an epic battle when they learn he is the sole heir to a billion-dollar prop- within the kingdom. erty they own. The special ops soldier is in the fight for his life to find out who is trying to kill him and why. A Killer of Lions Stan Weisleder In the last century, there were two experiments at Hell’s Apprentice Georges Salo Tuskegee, Alabama. The first gave the syphilis virus to An operative posing as a reporter must assassinate a indigent blacks and gauged the effect it had on them. The rogue U.S. Army colonel taking on ISIL with his band of second dealt with the creation of four squadrons of black devoted followers known as Hell’s Apprentice. fighter pilots during WWII that had to fight two air forces before they could be recognized, the Luftwaffe and the U.S. Army Air Corp. Hi-Falutin Sharon Collins Hi-Falutin is a western crime/drama where Little House on the Prairie meets CSI: Tombstone. Sharpshooter, Annie Ortiz The Last Journey of Noah Mark Rigoglioso lives with her children in Tombstone. She assists Sheriff Part two of a trilogy, this is the amazing story of Noah Dever, solving crimes along with Apache medical examiner, the great builder and prophet, locked in a centuries-long Henry Ahiga. Henry is a medium/medicine man and reaches struggle to bring mankind back to the peaceful ways of out to the descendants of dead spirits to solve crimes. Enoch in a time of fallen angels and worldwide conflict. A surprise visit sends him on a global journey with the fate of humanity hanging in the balance. High Prescription Octane Rick Eager The son of a legendary, incarcerated Tennessee whiskey runner supplies the country with deadly, fake opiate, pre- The Last Swordsman Peter Kaufman scription drugs by way of fast cars. (Think buddy cop/Bad An American ventures to Japan to find the last known Zen Boys meets Fast & Furious with a touch of Smokey & The master. He meets the daughter of a powerful gangster Bandit and 1950s Thunder Road) and trains to become a Zen master. Their relationship cat- apults them into the middle of the largest gang war Japan has ever seen. The Hippocratic Coercion Rugare Nyakunu Over the course of one night, a young doctor is plunged into the criminal underworld by his estranged brother, Lethal Injection James Manion who demands he use his prodigious medical talents or A young prison doctor kicks ass to save his family and the risk losing everyone he cares for. state’s inmate population after uncovering the embattled governor’s diabolical plan to fix a massive budget deficit and soaring crime problem with a deadly vaccine. (An The Hostage Chris Britton award winner) In a race against time, the kidnapped son of a billionaire industrialist running for president sparks a manhunt. The chase forces a decorated army officer to confront his worst Master Zek Karen Hemmerle fears on board a passenger ferry loaded with explosives: When a university professor unexpectedly develops super the same ferry that carries his wife and son. powers, she must learn to use them to defeat her ex-husband’s plot to enable artificial intelligence to hijack human brains, and do it with no spandex, no utility belt – just a Human Rights Research Tae Sun Chung woman cleaning up the mess and saving the world. Five American college students are hunted by a North Korean death squad after they befriend a 7-year-old North Korean girl in Beijing. The Mâr Chronicles A. S. Templeton A Kansas teen, unaware that she belongs to an ancient race of legendary beings, finds herself hounded by a fed- I Cowboy Francisco Pastrana eral agent obsessed with space-alien invasion. After recovering from a high noon shootout, a cowboy journeys up a mountain in search of a cave. Before he reaches the cave, there are people he meets, some good, Mohawk Boys Thomas Galvin some bad. When he reaches the cave, he disappears. It’s Abandoned by his parents, a city teenager is sent to an in the ‘80s and the cowboy comes out of the cave to find agricultural reformatory where he befriends a Seneca sha- three children that he must guide back to the cave. man teenager and discovers the spirit world.

Kallico Khan Earl R. Joseph Monster Hunters Eric Bachmann The defiance of a princess triggers the murders of her Mysterious Uncle Carlton is a freelance monster hunter brothers, the assassination of her father, the distress of about to win the battle against evil but, when an efficiency Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Action/Adventure 11 error on evil’s part drags his brother’s family into the fight, he must rescue them before the NetherKingdom freezes over, trapping them inside forever. Recent Successes Continued from page 9

Moon Dragon Richard Humphries Sherry Robb Discovers Mark Daniels 1943, a lone British bomber crew on its way home is Sherry Robb from The Robb Company discovered stalked by a relentless German night-fighter. Mark Daniels on InkTip and landed him an assignment to adapt the novel Gracie’s Gone into a feature script. Both a producer and a manager, Sherry represents Night Watch Georges Salo multiple InkTip clients and scripts, several of which are Integrity, honor, and discipline are the hallmark tenets of currently in development with The Robb Company’s any soldier protecting his family and nation. Juggling them, production branch. Mark landed representation with though, is tumultuous. Can one put the needs of the many The Robb Company several years ago via InkTip. He’s ahead of the needs of the one or the few? How long could been an InkTip member for over 10 years. a man last doing what he knew to be wrong if his family needed him to continue? Ty Mapp Hires Donnalyn Vojta Ty Mapp with Ty Mapp Films discovered Donnalyn Night Watch: The Vow Georges Salo Vojta through InkTip and hired her to write the psy- A former elite Special Forces commander enlists his team chological thriller 21 Questions. Ty mentions that he’s to destroy the nefarious shadow government organization had a wonderful time collaborating with Donnalyn Night Watch, responsible for the death of his family. and loves her professionalism and work ethic. Ty’s credits include the thriller feature The 1 Closest 2 U, among others. Donnalyn is excited to be working on No Lights After Sundown Louis Stannard three feature scripts at the moment. She has been A farm kid, his genius friend, a prom queen, and a super- promoting her work on InkTip since 2018. smart goth girl survive an EMP attack and discover who did it. In their now-world of the 1800s, each overcomes Eric Tomosunas Options Just Another Christmas personal demons to stop a follow-on attack. Eric Tomosunas with Swirl Films found the dramedy script Just Another Christmas on InkTip and optioned No Mercy Sean Mick it from writer Brent Jordan. Eric’s credits include Love A brief memorial trip into the California redwoods becomes Won’t Let Me Wait, For the Love of Ruth, and Mr. Right, a desperate fight for survival when a young musician, his starring Columbus Short and Erica Tazel, among oth- pregnant girlfriend, his Marine Special Forces brother, and ers. Brent credits InkTip’s articles on writing effective loglines for the dramatic increase in requested scripts. their friends uncover an illegal marijuana farm run by a Brent has been an InkTip member for over 10 years. gang of vicious Mexican cartel killers. “Survival of the fit- test.” (2nd Rounder 2019 Austin Film Festival – top 20% of almost 12,000 scripts) Steven Adams Options Allegiance Steven Adams with Buffalo 8 Productions discovered The Only Flight Simon Morton and Eric Vale Ali Sheikh through InkTip and entered into an agreement with him on the script Allegiance. Steven’s credits A group of strangers wake up on an airplane in mid-flight include Burning Shadow and God’s Waiting List, among to discover they’ve been deemed “enemies of the state.” others. In addition to writing, Ali is an actor and pro- As they overcome their differences, a vast conspiracy ducer. Ali has been an InkTip member for five months. behind their kidnapping is uncovered. (Award-winning proof-of-concept available) Paula Landry Options Community Property Operation Bloodshot Mike Prongue Paula Landry with IdeaBlizzard Productions discovered Bob Bowersox on InkTip and optioned his romantic A veteran DOJ special agent suspects a wealthy widow comedy script Community Property. Paula’s credits and her nefarious bodyguard are conspiring with the KSC include the feature comedy A Cat’s Tale. Besides being director to sabotage the space shuttle at KSC. As the cell an award-winning writer, Bob is also an accomplished is eliminated, the director flees the country, but karma actor with over 20 credits to his name, including intervenes in a surprise ending on the Adriatic Sea that Continued on page 13 ensures the safety of America’s space program. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 12 Action/Adventure Phoenix Rising Mike Kendal Revolt Ronald Kelly A teenage girl’s life is turned upside down when she dis- The House of Representatives impeaches the president. covers that she is the reincarnation of an ancient Chinese The country is thrown into chaos. A group of businessmen demon hunter. A visit to relatives in America is hijacked conspire with right-wing militia and alt-right groups to shut by the arrival of a demon that emerges once every 1,000 down the media, target minorities, and take control of years. Phoenix Rising is a cross-over Chinese/American entire cities. Out of this turmoil rises one man, Lt. Colonel fantasy action/martial arts adventure. Eastman, USMC. Can he restore law and order, or is a new Civil War upon us? Pirate Gold Mike Prongue Two business partners unearth a mysterious artifact that Roaring Rampage of Revenge Susan Vermeer transports them to a gold-filled pirate cave, circa 1602. Rosa, a mid-30s Latina housewife, takes revenge on her Their simple mission to “get the gold” becomes compli- deceitful husband Lucho: She chases after his blonde cated as they stage a rescue mission to save a local boy lovers through Texas and Mexico, shoots their hearts out, before “Mission accomplished” can be declared! and frames him for the bloody kills. Killing him would just be too easy. Plan D-estiny Momchil Dimitrov A nerdy college boy makes his plan to escape to commu- Robyn Hood Outlaw Princess John Reynolds nist Cuba, feeling repressed by American capitalism. He Robyn Howard, a rebellious senior school student, after doesn’t know that he inherits billions from the Mafia and clashing with Matthew Ratcliffe, her school principal, is that they, the CIA, and the influential father of the Cuban transported back to medieval Sherwood Forest where she girl he falls in love with, want them. He makes his plan A, B, becomes Robyn Hood, leader of a band of outlaw women C, but in the end he needs to accept plan D-estiny. fighting the evil Sheriff of Nottingham, who bears a strong resemblance to Ratcliffe. After a series of adventures, cul- minating in a trial for treason, she is returned home. Precursor Gary McKinnon A former female World War II ferry pilot becomes the cru- cial factor in a tense 1950’s Cold War game. Rock Tarpeian Salvatore A. Bono An archaeologist transforms into a Cherokee spirit warrior to destroy a shape-shifting demon set on consuming his Quest for Light – Adventure of the Magi heart – becoming invincible. Byron Anderson Three warrior priests journey through Persia in pursuit of an incredible star, enduring bandit attacks and the super- The Runaway James DePaola natural powers of dark magic, until they are transformed In a desperate quest to find her hospitalized mother, by God on their way to Bethlehem. a young girl runs away from her abusive step-father, embarking on a modern retelling of The Odyssey and facing suburbia’s incarnations of the ancient trials and monsters. Race World Mike Prongue The adventure to win $100k begins as two quirky high school friends qualify for Race World’s virtual “24-hour Salem’s Illusion Giordano Diambrini Enduro” season finale. A devious rich kid who will stop at A mysterious Illusionist seeks revenge on the crime boss nothing stands in the way of their dreams, and it’s up to an that murdered his family as a child. eccentric hacker to pull off a programming miracle. Second Chance Davey Hall Smith Red Seven, Out Jim Maceda A lonely, embittered mercenary is violently evicted from At the height of the U.S. surge in Afghanistan, a Marine his farm by terrorists. He is forced to return to his birth- squad leader uses all of his ex-cop savvy to track down an place with a lifetime of war, violence, and conflict following escaped prisoner, an al Qaeda-trained explosives expert, him like a doting puppy, threatening to destroy a fabulous before he triggers a series of stealth bombs, which could treasure he wasn’t aware he had. change the course of the conflict. Seeker of Destiny Gursharan Singh Redemption Georges Salo A young boy seeks his destiny but ends up fighting After a powerful drug lord wipes out his competition, he the bad guys who abducted his parents so they could goes after the only people that stand in his way of taking use him for evil purposes. Later on, the boy discovers over Manhattan, a decorated New York City detective and that he is a “Robot” created by the secret society to his equally competent female partner. eliminate disorder. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Action/Adventure 13 Shadowplay David Morris and A.K. Abeille When a role-playing game’s horrifying monsters are pulled into reality, a teen must join forces with his friends and Recent Successes family to save themselves and their town. Continued from page 11 appearing in such films as the Coen Brothers’ Burn Silent Partners: Absinthe of Desire Georges Salo After Reading. Bob has been promoting his work on Two wealthy men are deceived into service by a clandes- InkTip for over 10 years. tine government agency, the vanguard of international counter-terrorism. Will the agency’s gamble on these Anthony Caldwell Options Cold Day in Hell men’s skills, charm, and ingenuity prove to be the lethal combination that stops a crime lord hellbent on revenge? Anthony Caldwell with Barabe Group found the script Cold Day in Hell through InkTip and optioned it from writer Brent Jordan. Anthony’s credits include numer- Silent Partners: Fragrant Water Georges Salo ous short films like Dead Dreamers and Sith Tradition. Two wealthy men recruited by a clandestine international Brent credits InkTip’s articles on writing effective log- government agency must prevent ultra-modern subma- lines for the dramatic increase in requested scripts. rines from falling into the hands of Yemeni and Omani Brent has been an InkTip member for over 10 years. 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. Anthony Caldwell Options Timeless Attraction Anthony Caldwell with Barabe Group discovered the Silent Partners: Razed Capital Georges Salo sci-fi/action script Timeless Attraction through InkTip Two wealthy men recruited by a clandestine international and optioned it from Steve Dornburg. Anthony’s cred- government agency must prevent an activated North its include numerous short films like Dead Dreamers Korean sleeper agent from bringing the global financial and Sith Tradition. Steve’s writing has received mul- system to its knees. Economic sanctions imposed on tiple awards and recognitions through contests and North Korea force its regime to execute this plot: destroy festivals. Steve has been promoting his work through U.S. facilities that print and store money. InkTip since 2015.

Silent Partners: Scorched Earth Georges Salo Stephanie Rogers Signs John Whetstone Two wealthy men recruited by a clandestine international Stephanie Rogers with Stephanie Rogers & Associates government agency must stop a criminal from using Earth discovered John Whetstone on InkTip and has entered Penetrator Warheads from setting ablaze U.S. Air Force into an agreement to represent him. Stephanie rep- bases housing nuclear silos. resents multiple InkTip clients. John’s credits include co-writing the upcoming feature film Baby Bulldog, Singletrack James Syring starring Tara Reid and Dean Cain. John has been an Self-centered mountain bike racer Tommy Riordan has a InkTip member since 2013. chance to discover there is more to life than racing down a singletrack trail when a former champion woman racer Phil Newsom Options Devil’s Reflection who now teaches on a Navajo reservation helps him recover from a training accident. Phil Newsom with MiLa Media discovered David Bryant through InkTip and optioned his horror script Devil’s Reflection. MiLa Media’s credits include the upcoming The Slingshot Brigade Leo Patrick Sopicki horror feature The Unborn, and the film Every Time I The introverted teenage son of a survivalist must defeat a Die, starring Marc Menchaca, which was released the- psychotic psychiatrist and foment a rebellion in order to atrically earlier this year through Gravitas Ventures. escape reform school and save his father from execution. David is an award-winning writer/director with credits including Victims and Drunk on Love. David has been Smell of Death Bryan Murray an InkTip member since 2010. When a homicide detective pursues a vicious, random serial killer who carves images of jailhouse bars on the Shaun Goodman Options Rogue foreheads of his victims, she is devastated when her hus- Shaun Goodman with Brookwater Films discovered band becomes a victim of the demented murderer. When the killer, a pedophile, also kidnaps her young daughter, Sean Wathen through InkTip and optioned his script she has to race against the clock to find the murderer Continued on page 15 before her daughter also becomes a victim. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 14 Action/Adventure Special Needs Revolt! This Is Madness Giordano Diambrini Adrian Esposito and Bill Weeden Braden Harper blazes a trail of violence in a quest to In a future dystopia, a man with Down syndrome joins a kill the man responsible for murdering his high school rebellion against America’s cruel dictator. An action-ad- sweetheart. venture comedy starring people with disabilities. This R-rated feature has the anti-establishment spirit of movies The Time-igrant Ira Buckman like The Toxic Avenger. In 2042, a stunning woman emerges from the Times Square timeport, having fled from the year 3318. She is St. Kate AKA Scraps From Heaven John Klawitter a “Time-igrant,” and this is the era of routine commuter Kate sees visions and hears voices, yet is as sane as any- time travel. When she is discovered by a brilliant fashion body else. designer, she presents him with an ultimatum: to keep her, he must travel to the year 3076 to battle the Hitler of the future. Steam Robert Languedoc Two inner-city boys befriend an elderly man over a mutual The Unborn Trouble Gajendra Babu Santhanam interest in trains, then embark upon an adventure to save A fetus threatens his mother to do what he wants or he’ll a forgotten steam engine. abort.

Sting of the Twin Serpents Edward EmanuEl The Underlings Molly Cargas Sting of the Twin Serpents, a martial arts/action film featur- A disenfranchised woman, struggling in a man-child’s ing an orphaned child saved from death by a mysterious world, is bestowed with a planet-shifting karmic power, character, the “Ancient,” teaches the youngster the mys- allowing her to make bad things happen to bad people teries of special martial arts that can both heal and kill. while uplifting goodhearted people, a superhero’s dream. The youngster, aka Dr. Z, sets out to find the murders of This ultimate buddy-story fantasy tests the limits of right his family. By night he prowls the dark alleys, a predator and wrong. But karma’s a bitch. hunting his prey. Van’s Best Friend Henry King Suit of Steel Simon Parker In Hawaii, an almost 18-year-old orphan connects to a An overprotective museum janitor steals a medieval suit of shark that acts like a dog, and together they evade the armor after his son is stabbed and almost killed. Seeking schemes of a man trying to steal his inheritance. revenge against those who did it, he’s now on a collision course with an evil drug lord for the very soul of the city Waking the Fox Thomas Snow he calls home. Putting on the armor, he goes into battle After a dashing, young ex-Marine is assigned to the U.S. with knife-wielding gangsters – transforming himself into Embassy in Mexico City, he rescues a friend’s alluring a superhero. daughter from an oppressive cartel, drawing him into assuming the role of “The Fox,” the people’s prophesied Summer’s Kiss Georges Salo hero destined to rid them of the city’s corruption and When a former government-sanctioned assassin is framed treachery, especially within his own department. for the murder of a lobbyist, she attempts to discover who besmirched her name, and in due course uncovers a con- Wildflowers Corey Lee Wilson spiracy involving an illegal international arms ring tied to a A divorced Playboy Bunny loses custody of her two boys for clandestine government agency. being deemed an “unfit single mother” by the Department of Social Services in 1968, then kidnaps them from her Thabiso Murray Woodfield and Alfred Allen parents’ protective custody, where the threesome hitch- hike from San Diego to Miami and escape to the Bahamas Set in 2011. The true and moving story of a Lesotho youth to flee justice and a private detective determined to who, held captive underground as a migrant worker in an apprehend them. illegal South African mine, struggles for freedom and justice.

World Upside Down Victoria Brewer That Can’t Be True Nicholas Szegedi When genetically superior individuals are fitted with Based on a true story, two lovers devise a cunning plan processors to gain instantaneous access to information, using high technology of the 1980’s era to destroy a life- it comes at great cost as the memories of who they are time nemesis. gradually disappear. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Action/Adventure – Animation 15 Zodiac Fighters – Origins Marc Saez In the barbarian Land of Armor, a magician marked 12 newborns with the signs and powers of the Zodiac. For Recent Successes Continued from page 13 generations, Zodiac Fighters have been living in secret and fighting against evil. 2019, the global balance leans Rogue. Shaun’s credits include the documentary The towards evil between violence and war. The power of Heart of Man. In addition to his writing, Sean has the 12 will awaken but a 13th banned sign will make his worked in various capacities on TV series such as appearance: The Snake-holder. House M.D., 24 and Scrubs. He has been promoting his work through InkTip for over 10 years. Animation The Argonauts Tamar Makharoblidze Devin Fei-Fan Tau Options Sisters This full-length animation screenplay is a new fairy tale Devin Fei-Fan Tau with No Sunrise Wasted discovered story about The Golden Fleece and the love of Jason and the script Sisters Will Be Sisters through InkTip and Medea. (This is a universal, high-concept story for the dif- optioned it from Joe Leone. Devin’s credits include ferent types of audience.) numerous short films like Malignant, which he discovered through InkTip and has since screened at multiple festivals around the world. Joe’s produced Doom Lagoon Douglas Booth credits include the films Meant to Be Broken, Death of Searching for the “perfect wave,” Matt and his board-rid- a Fool, and Blood Falls, among others. Joe has been ing pals fall through a dimensional portal – and splash promoting his work on InkTip since 2011. into the Monster Island homeboy surfers’ turf of Doom Lagoon instead! Phil Newsom Options Devil’s Reflection

The First Delivery Tae Sun Chung Phil Newsom with MiLa Media discovered David Bryant through InkTip and optioned his horror script Devil’s Teamed up for the first time, Santa and reindeer have one Reflection. MiLa Media’s credits include the upcoming day to deliver the very first Christmas present. horror feature The Unborn, and the film Every“ Time I Die, starring Marc Menchaca, which was released the- Julie and the Light (Part 1 of the White Light Trilogy) atrically earlier this year through Gravitas Ventures. Trevor Gustafson David is an award-winning writer/director with credits A young orphan street girl follows a mystical white light including Victims and Drunk on Love. David has been across Canada to save her mother from a secret martial an InkTip member since 2010. arts commune that no one believes exists. Anoop Rangi Options Short-Term Rental The MicroCosmic Cartoon Show Anoop Rangi with Formula Features discovered Prema Rose, Hugh A. Rose, and Suryananda Rose Kirstie Myvett through InkTip and optioned her “Who am I?” “Why am I here?” “Where is here, anyway?” On drama script Short-Term Rental. Anoop’s credits a perilous quest to discover The Circle of Gold and defeat include the Lifetime movies Who Stole My Daughter? the Shadow, Chaos, Josh, a young boy, embarks on an and Twin Betrayal, which was shot from a script found unforgettable journey through the Circus of Life, revealing on InkTip. In addition to screenwriting, Kirstie is also a ancient secrets while confronting devastating deceptions published author. Kirstie has been an InkTip member seeking to destroy a mission that will alter the course of since 2018. humanity. It’s an animated/live action musical.

Tommy Stovall Options Condition The Orange Chihuahua Kelly Ann Guglietti Tommy Stovall with Pasidg Productions found the A humble chihuahua assumes an exciting alter ego by night, horror/suspense script Condition of Return on InkTip thanks to a pair of magic slippers. Narrowly escaping discov- and optioned it from writer John Spare. Tommy’s ery by a motley crew of skeptics, he is caught by his amigos. credits include the films Aaron’s Blood and Room for Rent, starring Lin Shaye, among others. John wants all Pocket Mouse Felicity-Fair Thompson writers to know that, “Patience is truly a virtue!” John Meet Pocket Mouse – not just a pocket mouse to help with has promoted his work through InkTip since 2012. school homework, but a mouse who is brave and kind and Continued on page 17 full of purpose! Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 16 Animation – Biographical Psychic Dog: The Adventures of Pete and the Pixie Big City Nights Tyriek A. Murphy Sharon Collins A biopic drama about the real life greatest under-appreci- Psychic Dog is the story of Pete, the extraordinary husky ated sports figure in history – secured victory-after-victory dog, and his ability to communicate with Yvette and Jayden while society was engaged in equality struggles and his Lopez, two children that live in the barrio of Tucson, own personal battles – led to him being the world’s “only” Arizona. Pete is the family and community protector. African-American professional billiards world title winner We follow him and his best friend Mia, the garden pixie and BCA Hall of Fame inductee. through daily adventures with their backyard friends, stat- ues that come alive at night. Buchanan’s Crisis: Fort Sumter Hoke Kimball The Show Lesley Manuel A frustrated President Buchanan refuses to surrender Federal Fort Sumter to a seceded South Carolina sparking Childhood dog-friends Rocky and Molly part ways to follow their dreams of becoming a police officer and a show dog a flash point for civil war. until Molly is kidnapped and Rocky’s squad becomes her only hope. The Eagle in Spring Leo Patrick Sopicki A young girl, the only woman in history to become queen of A Sweet-Smelling Skunk Claire Knopf France and queen of England, struggles against kings and Funky Skunky has a big problem. His spray smells sweet, popes to find her true calling and release her passions. making him an outcast in his skunk community. After several failed attempts to hide his perfume spray, he sets out The Last Days of John Wilkes Booth Stephen Don on an adventure to find his smell mate, discovering along the way that being unique has its advantages. Winner of the Empire Award 2019 in the Biographical/ Historical section of the New York Screenplay Contest, The Last Days of John Wilkes Booth is no insipid docudrama or Tinker’s Christmas Sandra Cropsey costume drama. Extensively researched, this brings the When Poppy reads Tinker’s Christmas to his grandsons, sweat and strain of the manhunt following Lincoln’s assas- the story comes to life: Tinker, a clumsy elf, yearns to find sination vividly to life, showing the struggles and torments where he belongs. When the reindeer develop chicken of Booth as Union cavalry close in on him. pox, Santa turns to Tinker to find another means to deliver the toys. A feel-good story about belief in ourselves, in each other, in something greater than ourselves – with a Likely Lad Liz Janzen sprinkling of music and romance. An ambitious young Canadian opens his own publishing house in the highly competitive world of 1930s London The Yellow Sea Lioness Kelly Ann Guglietti publishing. Hits and misses ensue, along with massive While on retirement, a shy sea lioness gains self-esteem celebrity throughout Britain for the Canadian author and through a dream of her life and abandons her fear of woodsman Grey Owl – all in the shadow of a second war singing. She sings with gusto and sass. (Placed as a quar- looming in Europe. Based on the autobiography The House terfinalist in the StoryPros Screenplay Contest, 2018) of Words by Lovat Dickson.

Biographical Mary Davies, the Grosvenor Heiress J. Philip Carr 1665 – Mary, the one year-old daughter of a humble legal Above and Beyond, A True Story clerk, inherits land which will become London’s Mayfair, Barbro (Ask-Upmark) and Aramis Fontenol Belgravia, and Pimlico. However, slowly her privileged life Perpetrated evil events trigger explicit past-life memories starts to unravel, and she falls victim to a scandalous plot in a Swedish police woman’s story of survival. to steal her inheritance. Based on Charles T. Gatty’s biog- raphy, this is the tumultuous true-life story of the woman After the Storm Richard Willett who founded London’s Grosvenor Estate. Stricken with polio in his 30s, Franklin Roosevelt resists identifying with the “crippled” but then finds new life and Stagecoach Mary Fields Georgianne Landy-Kordis hope within the community of handicapped people who After emancipation, Mary Fields, a spirited, gun-toting, pilgrimage to his hideaway in Georgia. cigar-smoking slave, finds it difficult to remain close to her white childhood friend and struggles with life and employ- Aren’t You the Family? Angelise Milton ment until she becomes the first woman mail carrier at An ordinary family living in poverty suddenly enters into a age 60 and a well-loved citizen of Cascade, Montana. supernatural battle over a million-dollar estate. (Based on true accounts) Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Biographical – Comedy 17 Stevi’s Sweet Secret Christopher Harmon Based on a true story, a sheltered wife, now left broke by her husband, needs money quickly and she-reluctantly Recent Successes enters the world of nude cabaret dancing. At first she Continued from page 15 is a fish out of water and hates men, but with time, she Stephanie Varella Options The Devil’s Bite finds her own style then has numerous raucous and crazy adventures before hanging up the stilettos. Comparison: Stephanie Varella with The New Entertainment discov- Hustlers, Showgirls, Striptease. ered the action/horror script The Devil’s Bite on InkTip and entered into an agreement with writer Ervin Anderson. Stephanie’s credits include the comedy When I Grow Up Elizabeth Rossi Inland Empire, starring Eric Andre and Eric Balfour. Based on the true story of Elizabeth Blackwell, who strug- Ervin is a freelance writer based in San Francisco. Ervin gles against sexism, circumstance, and outrageous fortune has been promoting his work on InkTip since 2010. to follow her passion and become the first female doctor.

Amir Valinia Options Carol Who Can Divine the Messenger? Lawrence Rothfield Amir Valinia with AV1 Productions, in association with True story of a visionary painter in Gilded Age New York, Briley Media Group, found the coming-of-age drama driven mad by critical neglect, who emerges from a har- script Carol on InkTip and entered into an agreement rowing ordeal in the asylum decades later to find himself with writer Susan Polk. Amir’s credits include Alternate acclaimed as America’s greatest artist. His delusions of Realities and The Bay House, starring Sean Faris, Barry grandeur are confirmed, but his paranoia turns out to be Corbin, and Lesley Ann Warren, among others. real too, for his rescuer is not the angel she seems. Susan’s work has won and been a finalist for dozens of screenplay contests/festivals. Susan has been an Comedy InkTip member since 2016.

365 Days Without Sex Rocio Pulido Joe, traveling from Sydney to Perth, their journey takes on Maria is a sex addict who is trying to go one full year with- a whole new adventure. out sex. She runs into some problems along the way but makes it through with the help of her friends and God. Maria ends up finding peace and self worth. Aunty Christmas Jim Clarken and Isabella Codd An inept Christmas planner may just make Christmas happen for a client who has a Christmas tree emergency, Adults Only Yulia Papashvili despite the trail of destruction she creates along the way. A successful business woman with a clear “no kids” lifestyle (Holiday comedy) gets the shock of her life when a teenage girl shows up on her doorstep informing her she’s her daughter. Bad Dog Phil Olson and Beverly Graf Annie N Tess Kathleen Knox A hapless guy, Andy, must prove he’s responsible to win back his ex-girlfriend, so he gets a job walking a seemingly A former wedding planner who hasn’t spoken to her busi- good dog that tries to kill him. When the dog’s rich owner ness partner and best friend in almost 20 years finds out dies, her will states that if Andy cares for the dog for a year, her daughter is engaged to her ex-partner’s son. In order he’ll inherit $1,000,000. Andy just has to stay alive for a to keep the peace, the two women try to plan the wedding year to get the million. together. ultimately putting both the wedding and their children’s future marriage in jeopardy. The Bean Counter Charlie Gillette Another Life Gilberto Migliorini The Bean Counter is a crime comedy about a young, straight A rich client falls in love with a high-class escort. The con- corporate accountant who is recruited by a ruthless mob trast is not only that of the ex-wife and her lawyer who to be their new bean counter as their previous accountant plot against him. Even the female protagonist is in conflict dies unexpectedly. Everything goes wrong for Lenny, but between her professional role and her feelings. The con- in unexpected twists, everything might go right in business trast is resolved through another girl, a maid. In another and love. life, the solution of the mystery of love. Beer Nuts Richard Anderson Audrey Hepburn’s Last Ride Rachel Lorkin Five middle-aged, beer-drinking basketball buddies con When a young Aboriginal boy, Billie, hitches a ride in the their wives into letting them go on one last road trip in middle of nowhere with a loving elderly couple, Rosie and search of a fabled craft brewery. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 18 Comedy Before and Hereafter Steve Rubin and Billy Riback Dress Coded Jennifer Carol O’Brien When he’s accidentally killed before he can propose to the A determined and love-struck teen hides her boyfriend love of his life, a young man arrives in Heaven determined from her parent-noid dad by disguising him as a girl, but to get a message to her at any price – a quest that is both her world flips on its axis once she discovers her father is helped and hindered by some pretty famous dead people. secretly cross-dressing. Here is a screenplay that’s a mix of Tootsie, The New Girlfriend (Une Nouvelle Amie) by Francois Benny B Michael Hogan Ozon with a sprinkle of Monty Python. A curmudgeonly retired baseball play-by-play announcer must find a way back into the game to save the world from Dystopian Punk R.B. Clague an evil alien invasion. In a near-future dystopian society, where social austerity laws and severe penalties have been introduced, Billy Big of Me Bob Peak Wilde inherits a beachside mansion and a huge cache of Two surfers collide on a wave and strike up a bromance illegal music and illicit substances from his late, estranged sharing everything, including the same wife/ex-wife. These grandfather. Dystopian Punk is a comedy that satirizes surfers, friends, and lovers make strange bedfellows as present-day society and the overuse of surveillance by they discover the true meaning of friendship. (Read by government. Jerry Zucker, “Funniest thing I’ve read in a long time.”) The Fish Stephen Baluzy Boomerangst George Johnson He’s no road warrior. A naïve ladies’ man, indebted hook, After his wife kicks him out, an impulsive baby boomer line and sinker to a dangerous loan shark, attempts to skip forms a retirement commune in remote Toad Valley with town for the safe haven of his brother’s church. After his his former high school rock band mates to get back to the car is totaled, newfound friends and enemies (i.e., a noble garden of his youthful ideals. They dig up more dirt than trucker, a crazed skinhead) complicate his escape. The they can handle before uniting against a mining company loan shark beating would have been easier. threatening their land. The Big Chill meets The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Fourscore Erik Falvey Fourscore is an action/comedy about four struggling and Bowling Geek Strikes Back Steven Strange charismatic musicians who are plagued by a series of mis- A naïve and eternally optimistic, small-town bowling geek taken identities on their journey to win fame and fortune trudges his way through the merciless world of dead-end at the “1996 Battle of the Bands” musical contest. jobs, then ventures out to the big city to prove his worth to himself and his degrading father. Full Moon Over the Nudey Bar Daniel Bridges and Emily McGuiness Buck Justice Philip Aldred Two sick veterans head down South in search of their This full-on, quirky comedy sees two justice department conspiracy theorist buddy only to find him in a seedy small witnesses, who have been protected and relocated, town overrun by a pack of ‘80s-clad stripper werewolves. marooned on an isolated island for two years, having to take on one last daring mission to defy all odds to get justice – one way or another. G.I Bro Peter Whiting When a popular teenager and his friends are inadvertently Bullyproof Tim Keen kidnapped by inept bank robbers, the teenager’s younger To save his son from being bullied at school, overanxious and not-so-cool army cadet brother engages his under- father Drew reaches out to the two bullies who picked on dog cadet friends to undertake a rescue mission. him as a child to teach him how to make his son bully-proof. Genie in a Bong Ramzy Sweis Camp Funny Kids Steve Rubin and Billy Riback Three high school seniors mistakenly summon a genie on A down-on-his luck comedian takes a summer job teach- 4:20 AM on April 20th. After three wishes and a dawn that ing comedy to nine preteens. Think School of Rock for transforms their lives, they must smoke weed precisely at stand-ups. 4:20 PM to extricate their friend from the bong!

Dead, But Whatever Boris Coll Ghettocyrano Marcia McNair Annoyed by her accidental death, a woman blows off Too many lies and too little money lead to deadly conse- ghost orientation and rushes back to Earth, attempting to quences for a young rapper and his ghostwriter pal when re-engage her old life without having received her training. they both fall in love with their high school English teacher. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Comedy 19 A Ghost Story of Christmas Eddie Yaroch In Search of Walter Laura Hamley Married ghost hunters attempt to save their struggling While searching for a long-lost love, an elderly widow carnival, owned by Scrooge, by investigating Ebenezer’s transforms her life, as well as those of four men she meets apartment on Christmas Eve. The catch: the married clair- on a West Coast journey during the summer of 1968. voyant was once engaged to Scrooge. Jury Duty Jack Bethel, Brian Derrick, and Chip Kessler A Glimpse of the Moon J.T. Tuttle A randomly selected, pragmatic, New Englander becomes Down on his luck, a scrawny exotic dancer tries to revive president of the United States but must survive the his career by dancing at the most famous strip club in New treachery and minutia of Washington and a venomous England, but the club’s emcee ridicules him and sabotages national media. his act, causing him to fail his audition. With much determination and the help of another dancer, he battles the Just Married Corinna Jill odds to achieve his dream. A marriage-phobic wedding planner accidentally marries her best friend while high on mushrooms, only she has no Good Luck Dan Michael Marceau idea it happened. A portly, bearded man, now in his late-30s, hopes to win another big jackpot. Unfortunately, he’s unlucky in love The Loser’s Club Jonathan Turner Smith and is married to a cheating wife. A group of high school outcasts, known as The Loser’s Club, kidnap their high school’s most notorious bullies, the star Grounded Jennifer D’Angelo Kircher and Gregory D’Angelo quarterback and the head cheerleader, and put them on trial for crimes committed against their fellow classmates. An 11-year-old gamer joins forces with two buddies to defend themselves against a home invasion on Thanksgiving morning. While flexing his tech skills, he Lost in Cupidity Erica Owens learns that family is more important than video games. When cornered by a grammatically pugnacious reporter (PG/family/holiday) after finding her philandering fiancé’s corpse, a high-strung starlet is bamboozled into unraveling a career-catapulting tale narrowly avoiding those chasing a knickknack buried Hal, the Spud King of Japan John Thibault in her knapsack. (2019 Portland Comedy Film Festival top Can entrepreneurs spark a trade war? Three whacked-out 5 finalist for Best Comedy Screenplay) guys go to Japan and try to sell them the solution to world hunger with aphrodisiac but sterilizing potatoes. Merry Freaking Christmas Gregg Fidelibus A child-averse, Christmas-hating actress must foster a High School Loser Harrison Fowler 7-year-old girl for the month of December to help her get A high school misfit takes a Russian prostitute to the prom the movie role of a lifetime. to upstage the snob mob. Monkey Trap Philip Aldred High Steaks Jesse Christensen This full-on, quirky comedy is centered around two private In the 1940s, Orville is falsely imprisoned and exposes the detectives who find themselves stumbling into conflict truth about the warden killing off prisoners and selling with bureaucratic, supernatural beings; eventually, they must step over into the Gloaming to find the Vammy: part their body parts. vampire, part mummy.

Hit Boyz Daniel Dombrowsky and Adrian DeLude A Mother’s Christmas Gift Phil Olson To stop a deadly terrorist group, a stubbornly solo CIA Mom’s been dead for 11 months and shows up back home operative must face his most challenging mission yet – as a ghost with a mission. Like Clarence in It’s a Wonderful reuniting with his former boy band. Life she has to complete a task to earn her wings, and the only person who can help her is her daughter, who’s been The Impostor Paul Maritato ordered by the court to spend Christmas with Dad as part of her anger management program. Don’t want to attend an event, a wedding, a funeral, whatever? Ask The Impostor to cover it. He’ll look like you, talk and move like you. No one will know it’s not you. But when The Mover Michael Quintero Phil hires The Impostor to take his place at a boring office In this comedy of errors, a moving man is pursued by a cast party with his fiancé Liza, The Impostor permanently tries of unsavory characters after he is hired to move a mixed-up to take Phil’s place in Liza’s heart. lot of stolen mob money and extraterrestrial debris. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 20 Feature Article Bringing Apartment 413 to life with Director Matthew Patterson by Chris Cookson

Matthew Patterson started his filmmaking journey like many Chris: As director, what do you look of us growing up before cell phones – with a VHS recorder and for in a script? a gang of middle school friends. He went on to Pepperdine Matthew: As a director, I’m looking University to study theater directing and eventually to LA for a few very important details in any script that I read. Firstly, I know Film School for directing and cinematography. After grinding the writers don’t want to hear this through LA as a first assistant cameraman, he founded his own (usually), but when I go looking for a production company in Austin. There, he had his “biggest kick” script, I have a budget I have to stick to. I don’t expect the writer to know so far in his career after selling his feature Bindlestiffs to Kevin how budgets work, and that’s OK; Smith and hanging out with him at the announcement party. that’s my job. Write a good script. Period. It might not be the right bud- Recently, he produced and directed Apartment 413, a single- get for me, but it might be perfect for location written by InkTip writer Ron Maede. The film is someone else. currently on the festival circuit, and it was a Staff Pick at the Secondly, I’m going in knowing that Austin Film Festival. If you have the chance to catch a screening if I make this movie, it’s a 3-4 year process from option to sales. I’m of the film, you’re in for a treat of twisting story lines, artistic living and breathing this story for 3-4 cinematography, and memorable performances – all shot within years. So I have to ask myself if it’s a a 600-square-foot space. story that’s worth that amount of my life, time, money, sweat, etc.

We sat down with Matthew to talk about his career, Apartment Thirdly, I’m not an auteur. I don’t 413, and the importance of making material instead of waiting. need to be both writer and director,

Nicholas Saenz as Marco Reyes in Apartment 413. For these scripts and many more, go to our website: www.InkTip.com Feature Article 21

Marco (Nicholas Saenz) and Dana (Brea Grant) relax before the baby comes. but I do write. A lot. So, formatting and the best they can be and was eager also helps me speak in shorthand to overall competency is important. I to learn how to get the script into my cinematographer. know that if I option a script, I have shooting format. He’s challenged me to work with this writer. Based on in such great ways every time he’d As far as elevating the storytelling, it how well it’s written, I can get a clue quiz me on why I made certain direc- even helped all the way back at the about how easy or hard developing tion decisions, editing decisions, or script development phase. Ron and the script with them to get it ready to even marketing choices. I were able to rethink a lot of the shoot will be. scenes in a way to “show instead of Working with Ron Maede on devel- tell” because of how I knew we would Lastly, the most important thing oping the script and then the film (or could) shoot them. It also helped about any script is how interesting it has been a real treat. He’s a sweet- us keep things interesting by offering is, how much I believe the characters heart and just so excited to be a part new and engaging angles and looks and situations, and do I care what of this whole experience. Ron was throughout the film. happens to them along the way. always eager to talk about this baby, Does it ask a question that I care pushed back appropriately on notes Chris: Did you face any challenges about, challenge me in some way? and rewrites, but never failed to shooting essentially in one location? I care way more about characters deliver the goods with a smile. than plot. One of the greatest highlights Chris: What attracted you to the was to have him there for the Make as much as you can, script Apartment 413? table read the day before we Matthew: Oh man, it was a combi- started principal photography good or bad, and learn nation of the characters, the simple and watch his face light up like a complexity of how the story unfolds, kid on Christmas. from all of them. and the fact that it could be all that Chris: The cinematography in and produced for a shoestring the film is great. How has your budget! Ron had a great style in the Matthew: We had a ton of chal- script and a sly dark sense of humor past experience as a cinematographer elevated your storytelling? lenges shooting in one location. It’s that pervaded the action but also in great for the budget, but really tough his descriptions that hooked me. Matthew: I can’t take all the credit on the crew, morale, and odors. Chris: How was working with screen- on the cinematography. My longtime Cramming 15-20 people into a 600 writer Ron Maede? friend and DP Rocky Conly and gaffer square foot apartment for 12 hours David Atkins really made something a day gets really stinky! You start to Matthew: First and foremost, Ron’s great with such a small space. My run out of places to hide the camera super-talented and knows character background helps me not only think and lights, and all the people helping. and walking a tightrope of fun and cinematically, but also practically. I But in the end we made that a check tense moments. He’s also really know what it will take to get a shot mark in the plus column. We bonded, engaged in wanting to make things with the time and budget we have. It had fun, and moved quickly. Register Today at www.InkTip.com 22 Feature Article

Marco’s (Nicholas Saenz) disbelief intensifies.

The biggest challenge was chang- What do you hope audiences take Chris: What advice would you give ing up the way we shot the film away from the film? writers who are looking to get their constantly, so that it never felt scripts produced? boring on screen. Matthew: That’s the question: what does it all mean?! What really Matthew: Answer this question Chris: The cast gave wonderful happened? I hope that audiences before posting a script: is this a story, performances. What’s your secret walk away feeling like they had fun, or is it still just an idea? for bringing the script alive through and if they get in arguments on the your actors? drive home because they disagree Most of the scripts I read are just on what they think happened, even really long ideas that never devel- Matthew: The cast will be thrilled to better! The delicious part is that it oped into actually being a story. Ideas are great, they’re the hook. But the hear you say that, and I agree they shifts from person to person, which story is the struggle I’m interested were amazing. My job was to cast tal- to me is what art is about. We digest in. Beginning, middle, end, character ented people that could bring their it differently. own gifts to the performances. Once development… that job’s done, it’s playtime. I trust What’s one thing you abso- Chris: Tell me a good story and, even if the them, and, hopefully, they trust me. lutely love about the film? script isn’t right for me, I’ll pass it along I don’t really have a secret weapon Matthew: The one thing that I love to someone else. We love seeing for working with actors. I listen, I about Apartment 413 is the fact that good stories get made. There’s so few of them. play with them, and we rehearse. we pulled off an interesting, tense, Every new take we’d add or change unfolding story in 600 square feet And…Embrace the rewrite! something we learned from the that never fails to shock the audience. previous take. The script provided Rewrites are real. And important. a strong and cohesive backbone, Chris: What’s the one thing you wish and we rarely deviated. But exciting you knew earlier in your career? If you get a good director and/or pro- discoveries and little moments ducer, you will have to do rewrites. happen on set that add an extra Matthew: This is easy. Don’t wait Period. Nothing written is ever ready level of depth that, when added to for permission and don’t wait for the to actually shoot. It’s only ready to what Ron wrote, elevate it to a new right, perfect project. Make as much read. If someone says it doesn’t place that neither Ron nor I could as you can, good or bad, and learn need to be tweaked, run away! Go anticipate before filming. from all of them. You’ll only get better in knowing that your script will be each time and might make something re-written three times: Development, Chris: The film lets audiences draw great along the way. Either way you’re during production (by circumstance their own conclusions to the psycho- doing what you love and having a blast of involving a bunch of people!), and logical mysteries of Apartment 413. while doing it. during editing. For these scripts and many more, go to our website: www.InkTip.com Comedy 23 Mr. Christmas Peter Gardner Red Pill Philosophy Jerald McClain A group of senior employees of the United States Post “I don’t date ____ guys.” “You’re too ___ for me.” “Let’s just Office decide to make and deliver toys on Christmas Eve to be _____.” Tired of being friendzoned, fellas? Take the Red children who write to Santa to say that they never get any. Pill. #Mgtow

Never Repeat Jokes Ramzy Sweis Rehab Matt Johnson An impoverished 12-year-old Muslim girl enters the “Never Two strong, opinionated, inseparable best friends (played Repeat a Joke” Comedy Contest causing uproar among by renowned drag queens) ditch their failed relation- her family while her fans and friends believe that she is ships and jobs to check into rehab. They soon realize it’s the truth. (Adapted from Manifesto) no free vacation.

Newport David Lettis The Return of Stewie Stein Stan Weisleder After the death of his estranged wife leaves him with a large Stewie Stein, a Hollywood producer in exile for 50 years life insurance payout, a man embarks on a cross-country with his servant Ramses Macalevy on an island off the road trip with his wacky friends to go surfing at Newport coast of Central America has been preparing for his come- Beach. back and exact revenge on those broads, bean counters, and sexual misfits who now rule Hollywood. But as fate The Not Ready for Prime Time Family Richard Willett would have it, the best-laid plans of mice and men often go astray. Conservatives say gay parents will inevitably turn their kids gay, right? Well, Bert and Martin are about to go on national TV to prove them wrong. The only problem: Rita Reiter, The Meter Maid Arianne Peterson They’re beginning to suspect all four of their kids are gay. The famous tulip town of Mittenville is in jeopardy as the new corrupt mayor plans to transform their humble small Nutcrackers Chrissy Lessey town into a money-making metropolis. Only their town hero, the meter maid, with her strict law-abiding charac- When his Instagram post goes viral for all the wrong rea- ter can save them along with the aid of her quirky band sons, a disgraced author attempts to forget his troubles of meter maid associates; they make a plan to save their by spending Christmas with his eccentric family. (2019 Nicholl Semifinalist) beloved town.

Darren Pirozzi The Odyssey of Homer Ledbetter Don Willis The Road Home A comedic portrayal of an aging action star who discovers A college graduate sets off with his three childhood friends he’s dying. Not wanting an agonizing end, he decides to on a cross-country road trip to escape a broken love affair go out with a “bang” by making a pact with two fan-girl and the future that’s been expected of him from a very filmmakers to kill him while making his last film. demanding New York Italian family.

Out There Jason Howard The Shakespearean Siren Songs of Slime Molds and Drones Lynn Getman After discovering a mysterious purple substance from a crashed meteorite, four geeky friends find themselves The prime minister’s security girl prodigy accidentally con- stuck aboard an alien spaceship which leads them on a tacts a captive Russian Mafia moll with resonance-sensing, crazy adventure across the galaxy filled with inadvertent orgasm-triggering violin, co-developed by military engineers: outcomes. husband missing after drone attack, wife scrambling to intercept parallel multiple leader assassinations. Husband “reappears” as hologram, or is he Russian “twin”? Humans’ Puppy Love Pip Karmel hearing disabled, wife’s drones cooperate with prodigy’s Killed in an accident only hours after winning a bitter cus- Shakespearean family’s trick animals, saving leaders. tody battle, a woman is given a second chance to protect her young children from their irresponsible father – when Esther Geller she’s reincarnated as a dog. She’s Got Cojones A Tootsie reboot: When a struggling female filmmaker can’t get work, she disguises herself as a man and lands a job Reality Cheque Georges Salo directing a crap action flick with a notoriously difficult male A brilliant non-conformist and computer coder works at star to launch her career. dead-end jobs in a way that forces his contemporaries to face their failure. Until one day, he meets a woman that can match his intellect and his whole world changes, or Smiling Inside Thomas Brian Scott does it? Ashley is sentenced to a year in a mascot costume. Click eachRegister title above Today to atsee www.InkTip.com the synopsis and script. 24 Comedy – Crime/Murder/Mystery Soldier of Missed Fortune Georges Salo Crime/Murder/Mystery The U.S. government creates a modern-day bionic man on An Affair of Honor Jon Jefferson a shoestring budget. A Southern gothic thriller set in Bourbonville, Tennessee, in 1953: War hero Hope Kirby kills his adulterous wife and Sumo Football Scott Jacobs her lover, but he spares an eyewitness who swears to An NFL lineman injured in the twilight of his career joins his keep silent. But the witness talks – and the double murder Samoan teammate on a junket to meet their sumo coun- proves to be only the beginning. terparts in Japan and returns to lead the Seattle Seahawks to the playoffs. Based on a true story. Athens Ron Maede A cheating wife seduces a high school boy and lures him Craig Fones and Larry Coulter That ‘80s Guy into a plot to kill her abusive cop-husband. Southern gothic A middle-aged man trapped under hypnosis still thinks genre in the vein of Cape Fear or The Postman Always Rings it’s the 1980s as he believes his 30th high school reunion Twice. (Guns, sex, and deceit) is the homecoming dance of 1988, and he pursues his now-divorced, old high school crush. The AuPair Iluta Urka Harding’s family welcomes a new au pair, Nora Abbot, Watch and Learn Jack Boyd in their unorganized family. As her stay progresses, her In 1980, a long-retired ace director of black-and-white “B” charming and loving facade crumbles, revealing revolting Westerns chances onto a fine script by a female Native- psychotic urges that had been hidden behind her inno- American writer, but he’s too old to get financing. So, he cent act. uses his long-retired crew, a handful of undocumented visitors, and a class of green film school students as cast and crew and shoots in digital, which he hates. Then the Bad Karma Timothy Fried-Fiori old girl friend shows up. While trying to outwit a brilliant and violent killer, a female bodyguard and her rich boss fall madly in love – until The Wedding Kimono Jim Clarken and Isabella Codd she uncovers his dark family secrets that put everyone’s motives into question. When Akiko, a jilted, Japanese bride, decides to hon- eymoon alone in Ireland, her grandfather tags along, turning an act of defiance into an unexpected adventure. Before the Thin Man Christopher Allen (Comedy/drama) Before the Thin Man is the prequel to the original work based on The Thin Man characters created by Dashiell Hammett Western Star, Bus 11 Robert Gibson in 1933. This story introduces who Nick and Nora are and After a nearly disastrous bus accident, a jaded school bus how they met in what would become a murder mystery to driver and a rebellious high school student engage in a go on to become the iconic detective couple created by battle of revenge schemes, devised to bring ruin upon the Dashiell Hammett. other, and almost drag the school and the superintendent down with them. Blackballed Phillip L. Hollins A white supremacist leader on the run must rely on Where the...Is My Brother? Georges Salo those he once despised when his daughter unexpectedly A well-known enforcer works for the mob to snuff out their receives a donated heart from an African-American FBI enemies. His brother, although developmentally chal- agent’s son. lenged, is a natural locksmith and considers his special gift as just another magic act or parlor game. The enforcer Boat Train to Calais Sterling Emory Moore uses his brother’s ability to gain access to places where enemies reside, and he’ll go through anyone and everyone In this late 19th-century English mystery, played out in a to get his kidnapped brother back. local pub and on board the boat train to Calais, can the old sea captain survive his illness as well as an abused wife determined to be free? Within the Walls Eric Bachmann A disgruntled ex-children’s book writer gets trapped in an amusement park-like world based on his books. The town Chasing the Chord Max Bornstein and Nick Galotti has a magical life force all its own, which he must appease A washed-up “one-hit wonder” gets a chance to make a with his writing in order to free himself and the rest of the comeback, but when he starts dating a mysterious woman, town’s captive inhabitants (who happen to be his biggest, danger follows, jeopardizing this opportunity – and his most annoying fans). brother’s life! For theseClick scripts each and title many above more, to see go theto our synopsis website: and www.InkTip.com script. Crime/Murder/Mystery 25 Dark Hollywood Jim Thompson I Wonder What the Vintners Buy Lillian Savage A celebrated student actor chases his dreams of fame and A pair or wandering winos overhear plans to commit fortune, only to find the dark underbelly of Hollywood – two murders and can’t agree on whether they should do and one of its darkest secrets in the process. something about it or not.

Diamonique Richard Bemand Ian Simon Teal Georges Salo Female detective Monique Grey investigates two brutal Two master thieves mentor a down-on-his-luck amateur murders and illegal diamond smuggling by an unscrupu- thief in his craft. To show his gratitude, he’ll accomplish lous, revenge-seeking jeweler, whose ruthlessness turns upon his sexy blonde assistant, who knew too much. For the one task his mentors couldn’t complete – steal an item her successful involvement in the diamond smuggling illegally usurped by a private collector and return it to the case, Interpol nickname her “Diamonique.” museum. He devises the scheme with such complexity as to also gain the love of his life. Easton Drive Linda Rose A young movie star and a studio executive fall in love. Ian Simon Teal Too: The Savage Heist Georges Salo But their happiness is marred by the mystery woman in To save his kidnapped lover’s life, a master forger and art her new husband’s life. Mystery, murder, and a cover-up thief must steal a famous Gauguin sculpture and hatch a ensue by the biggest movie mogul in cinema history, who daring plan to rescue her. intends to keep his best money-making asset out of scandal, no matter what truth or cost. Based on actual events. In Mysterious Ways Lee Martin The Evening Alan Harrington A young widow who grew up in foster homes finds herself and her small son stranded at a certain truck stop, forcing Frank hires a connected and motivated image consultant to revive his crime family’s fear factor, and she takes her her to begin work at a certain nearby restaurant where she job deadly seriously. meets a retired and surprised sergeant, triggering a startling chain of events that leads to great danger, romance, murder, renewed faith, and amazing revelations. (Adapted The Giggling Barracuda Larry Ziman and Aaron Long from Lee’s novel) A detective returns to Florida to help his old department and his former lover track down the serial killer who recently murdered his brother. Incall Phil Hwang When a respectable family man is lured into a sleazy motel The Girl Who Wrote the Bible Ken Callaway room by an escort, he is thrown into a nightmare of murder and blackmail after a botched robbery attempt. When a destitute 18-year-old discovers her “dead” father is alive and wealthy, she hunts him down and unwittingly leads a manipulative killer to his door. Justice Down Ian Greenham The quiet murder in his study at home of a provocative Greenbacks David Murphy and Elliot Diviney arch-conservative Supreme Court Justice, on the verge of In 1987 after Dean Nolan loses his job, he provides for his overturning the most controversial liberal precedent his wife and children by going into what landed his father of all, leaves the FBI with any number of suspects but a in jail – counterfeiting. After a close call with a prison sen- dearth of clues. tence, Dean drops the scam until the reappearance of his paroled father which sparks a cross-country adventure that brings both back to crime. Based on a true story. La Isla Pablo Thomas Young sisters who co-run a family dive shop discover A Hitch in the Plan Robert Wooldridge a sunken drug stash that draws them and their father into a tense struggle with drug cartels – in the proc- A bookstore owner offers her help to catch a serial killer ess, forcing the young women to confront secrets of who is replicating scenes from Hitchcock movies to stage their father’s past. his killings.

I Once Knew a Cop Erin King Love, Happiness, Hell, and Revenge Jim Thompson A black female rookie cop and her new partner, a seasoned white male veteran cop, discover more than they The ultimate suspenseful story of love, betrayal, redemp- bargained for when they unveil the sadistic crimes of a tion, and vengeance. A modern American tale in line with police officer in their department. The Count of Monte Cristo. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 26 Crime/Murder/Mystery Macabreball Artemio Diaz Pacific Anti-Terrorist Unit: Nectar of Passion A group of high school students and two teachers are Georges Salo shot by a classmate. Their souls reach the waiting room The Pacific Anti-Terrorist Unit is created under the- aus crowded by demons before entering heaven, hell, or pur- pices of the department of Homeland Security. A tsunami gatory. Their souls transform in live players in an indoor washes bodies on shore, and PATU is asked to assist in stadium to play Macabreball, a new sport. It’s three adven- solving this bizarre set of murders which unveil a nefarious tures in three dimensions. and sinister plot in the making. Can PATU decipher and terminate the plot in time? Making News Felicity-Fair Thompson A media story to die for. Will the public appetite for reality Pacific Anti-Terrorist Unit (PATU): Drug Habit TV and dramatic news reporting allow ambitious Hildy Georges Salo Shine to push the boundaries too far? Cancer, “the scourge of modern man,” is yet incurable, although French and American scientists have discovered that in part viruses and retroviruses cause it. No cure is The Malandrini Salvatore M. Fusco available as it may be that drug companies stand to make An unexpected knock at the door sets into motion a chain more profit from abating the symptom rather than curing of events that hurls independent loan shark Bull Foscatino the disease, thereby perpetuating a drug habit. directly into a war between two rival mobs in the Italian South Bronx of the 1950s. Bull puts his wiles and steely determination to the test as he outmaneuvers the warring Pacific Anti-Terrorist Unit (PATU): Resolute Strike factions set on his destruction and not lose his soul. (Book Georges Salo for adaptation) When he receives a cryptic warning, the head of the Pacific Anti-Terrorist Unit in Hawaii must assemble his team to stop a group from detonating a nuke on his island. Meat Queen Alan Harrington Newly-minted Ben’s Detective Agency is hired by the Meat Queen herself, prime suspect, to investigate the disap- Pacific Anti-Terrorist Unit: Reap the Harvest pearance of her boyfriend – all amid a battle between Georges Salo real-estate speculation posing as orthorexia and the Meat A criminal, needing an entry point for his weapons and Queen’s omnivorous empire. drugs, finances a Honolulu mayor’s re-election campaign. Upon winning it, the mayor reneges on his deal. He is dis- patched, replaced with his compliant deputy mayor. PATU Millions Acts Donnalyn Vojta must solve two seemingly unrelated events in order to Penitent unhappy pizza delivery guy David happens upon stop the proliferation of weapons and drugs. Are they too $2 million which he hides for safe-keeping, but when he late; does he reap his harvest? discovers it’s gone, David embarks on a wild search with several vultures closing in, including one beautiful woman who takes his breath away. Puppeteered Michael LaRue When children are targeted to commit homicide by a master hypnotist, a seasoned detective on his last case finds Minnesota Murder Mystery Phil Hwang himself investigating and discovering a personal attach- Department store detective Sheila Rasmussen graduates ment to the lead person of interest. from catching shoplifters to chasing killers when a beautiful co-worker dies under suspicious circumstances. Spywatch Trilogy-Part 1-The Watch and the Cowboy Lori Johnson Napa Noir Peter Eichstaedt Daniel Burke/Slim, a California cowboy, transforms from A journalist digs into a deadly vineyard shooting in north- a mild-mannered camera guru/tech to a quasi CIA agent, ern California’s Napa Valley and finds himself entangled in helping solve an international case involving terrorists, a world of wine and crime where the stakes are lethal and illegal arms, and the world’s most expensive watch ($30 he needs more than words and wits to survive. million), after becoming involved with a woman who was trying to find the watch and stock certificates her mother inherited when her grandfather died. (Movie #1 of a trilogy) The Night is a Child, (Usiku Ni Mtoto) Pelham Mead A retired nun takes a job with the CIA to investigate the murders of three nuns in Africa. She finds out that inves- Switchcraft Larry Ziman tigating a murder isn’t as easy as it seems after three false A famous mystery writer, with far too many women in his leads. She meets a handsome CIA agent in Italy who helps life, is stabbed to death by a jealous lover whose chances her in finding the murderer. The story takes many false for escape fade when his possessed twin sister goes after leads due to Tutsi and Hutu tribes violence. his killer. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Crime/Murder/Mystery – Drama 27 A Taste of Cold Steel Barry Voss 9/10 Richard Willett A gangster seeks to recover the journal that gives him Four interwoven multicultural stories that take place in the power over Chicago as his estranged son’s efforts to World Trade Center on the night before September 11, 2001. reunite with his brother threaten the organization. He’s falsely charged, convicted of murder and imprisoned where he’s marked for death. From his hospital bed, he A-Chord Cherie’ Brackett plots his revenge, unaware of the price he’ll pay. Four courageous women use their humor, faith, and misfit friendship to fight both racist attacks and family traumas as they take a woman of color on board to sing Tentpole Bruce Gibeson with them, and then attempt to compete in a “Whites When an up-and-coming art director meets a young aspir- Only” quartet contest in 1959, Oklahoma. (Semifinalist, ing actress who used to live in his house, she tells him a Top 25, in both the 8th Annual StoryPros Awards and the ghost story that leads to an unsolved 50-year-old murder. 2015 KAIROS Prize) They use the new science of genetic genealogy and the ancient psychic arts to reveal that his boss, a legendary production designer, is the killer, threatening his career Against the Grain Stephen Colley and his life! In the 1901 Midwest, an overachieving young lady races to build a huge grain elevator that a Wall Street clique, the local railroad, and the project’s labor leader don’t want built. Three-Eighty Julius Wachtel Beverly Hills cops discover a rich teen’s body stuffed in the trunk of his BMW. Two years later, an LAPD officer is Align Above Kristin Hagen murdered at a dingy hotel. Based on a true story, a chilling A highly acclaimed, award-winning, original artist finds account of guns – and death – on the streets of L..A. herself in a precarious position, not just once but twice, as the original survivor of the internationally recalled airbags, and uses her tenacious and infectious spirit to overcome Toxic Kevin Gill some of life’s greatest obstacles where modern science A toxic lake can claim the life of any fool that enters it. and modern miracles, unknown to mankind, collide. When a million-dollar package is lost to its depths, an inept treasure hunter and his low-life accomplice attempt a perilous recovery. Americans’ Invasion of Canada Wayne Johnson A Harvard law student’s obsession to end British tyr- anny in Canada leads to an innocent American boy on What Has to Be Done Shane O’Connor trial for murder. While on a hunting trip to the Northern California coast, two brothers make a most unusual discovery – a narco-submarine washed ashore along the coastline. And it’s Angel of Rain Lawrence Kennon not only what the brothers find inside the sub that alters An eccentric California youth joins the Muslim faith and their lives forever, but rather who they find inside, spark- unwittingly gets connected with the Taliban. In the wake of ing a CIA cover-up that sends Freddy on the run and Jay to 9/11, he is jailed and his mother must fight to prevent his cover their tracks. death sentence. Based on real events.

Drama Angie Anthony F. LoPresti, Jr. A guardian angel works as a waitress to save the future of 3 Hours Elle de Champagne a child. After the sister she had disowned is kidnapped, an avoid-conflict-at-any-cost waitress must overcome her vic- timhood in order to deal with gangs, wannabe spies, and An Astonishing True Urban Tale Andre Orr an ex-con’s payback so that she can get the money she In a young boy’s mercurial mind, he was the pillar of his needs to rescue and finally mend ways with her sister. A neighborhood until two brothers moved in and pushed #MeToo/#TimesUp story. him aside. It takes some years for this delusion to grow in his mind, but his life will soon be predicated on righting 52 Weeks Darla Brown the wrong – and in the process destroying his life. After finding herself arrested on domestic violence charges, 33-year-old Girlie Brown must navigate through Go to www.InkTip.com an unjust court system and an abusive past. With 52 weeks of mandatory anger management classes, Girlie and search by title or author for has to reach deep inside to get back to the one thing she the scripts that interest you! knows – herself. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 28 Drama Augustus and Ophelia Greg Wishart The Blast Trip Payne and Brian Collier A preliminary cancer diagnosis sends an eccentric man A black man with supernatural human strength, and an into a tailspin where he crosses paths with a despondent equally strong anger at God, enters the Jim Crow town of woman. A series of explosive encounters and a “kid- Texas City in the year 1947 and becomes the savior of the napping” ensue until, despite opposing motives, these town’s white citizens from the worst industrial accident in deeply troubled people find common ground. An aspiring American history. friendship blossoms. However, a serious accident and the opportunity for revenge threatens to end any chance of a The Bottom Line Brenda Guiled shared future. High school kids teach an old-dog dad, who logs old-growth forests, a lesson in sustainability and profiting from nature Bader Field: How My Family Survived Suicide by sneaking to make toilet paper in their school storage Carl David room – yeah, the world is ready for this – from fallen decid- The emotional story of an idyllic American family who uous leaves. After everything blows up and goes off the loses one of their sons to a shocking suicide and how they rails, stunningly unexpected win-win-wins unfold. struggle back to life with no answers – only the endless nightmare. Stunningly realistic; will save lives in a visual Brahms Douglas Schofield format with its positive inspiration. (Book for adaptation) 2010. Two years into the recession, a paraplegic curator teams up with Santa’s magical cat to unite his dysfunc- A Ballad for Syria Annie Macdonald and Robert B. Mac tional family, save a failing museum from bankruptcy, When a Syrian violin prodigy and a timid lute player from and bring joy to a dispirited nation’s Christmas. (Festival opposite sides of the Syrian Civil War meet in London, they Finalist; A-list talent attached.) become mortal enemies and their faith in the power of music is put to the test in a final public showdown. Break Shots Yolanda Ferraloro As Josie goes through a messy divorce and custody battle Believe Jose L. Rodriguez over her young daughter, she uses her unexpected skills A drug-dealing bellhop with suppressed Hollywood at playing pool to hustle opponents for some extra cash, dreams faces story problems in his own life and must only to realize that she could have what it takes to become rewrite a new ending before his life fades out. a pro.

Beneath the Badge Bob Bowersox Brewing Kane Omar Daniels A young homicide detective with an extraordinary artistic An assassin leaves the game only to be pulled back in talent has hidden his abilities from his colleagues and his to save the one he loves the most from the people he’s by-the-book police captain father for fear of appearing always known. less than the tough man they expect him to be. But his two worlds collide when a series of deadly home invasions brings him face to face with a beautiful art gallery owner The Bridge Greg Wishart who discovers his secret. A young woman makes a momentous decision. A confused man takes a spectacular risk attempting to save her. In each other’s arms, they survive a fall off a bridge. Best Interest (registered as Kicked) James Freeman Psychologically and physically damaged by past and Accused of leading a protest against abusive conditions in present traumas, they alienate each other and push them- a Hong Kong detention center, a street-smart, screened- selves deeper into darkness. The light at the end of the out, teenage Vietnamese asylum seeker must evade camp tunnel lies in accepting an unresolved truth. authorities while convincing a hostile appeals board to resettle her and close the camp. To win, she must act like her namesake in Nguyen Du’s narrative poem, The Tale of Bringing Down the Cartel Chris Feistl Kieu, true to herself no matter the trouble. The true story of a DEA agent and a cartel operative who form an unlikely alliance and devise a dangerous plan to bring down Colombia’s brutal Cali drug cartel. Bitter Beans Grietje Lolita Fortuin A young Mayan woman tries to free her village from the iron grip of local coffee traders searching three continents Brutal Awakening Becky Altringer for a fair deal. The coffee dealers are like the Bengal tiger Molested, divorced, institutionalized, raped, and broken, in Life of Pi. (A fairy tale-like drama/road movie. Won four the true story of one woman’s fight to reclaim her life and awards and four nominations.) her sanity. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Drama 29 Canary BetteLou Tobin who is rescued from a cocoa plantation with the help of a A child vauDeville performer, orphaned in the early 1900s, visiting American businessman. overcomes traumatic hardships and blossoms into an adult as she heads to New York seeking fame and love. (This is a The Choice Image Richard Winzeler and Scott Morgan story with lyrics and music. Most of the action takes place when she is an adult and ends after World War I.) A coming-of-age/coming-out story set in the Midwest in 1993 about a high school football star who ventures into his first love experience with another “old soul” student, in Car Heroin Train Virginia Austin which he learns the importance of truth, integrity, and fol- A recent college graduate tracks down the 4-year-old lowing his heart, even at the expense of his perfect image, girl his father rescued from a car crash 18 years back. football scholarship, and future. Devastated to find out his father died saving a girl who grew up to become a heroin addict, the discovery still isn’t Christmas with My Father David Apostolico enough to keep him from getting involved with her. Lou, a troubled lawyer who defrauded his firm and over- looked his family, winds up in a coma after a terrible car Casino Intrigue Georges Salo crash before Christmas. In the immediate aftermath, Lou Inspired by a true story of a casino security guard who is has the supernatural experience of living a day as his own passionate about his work, but disrespected by his wife. He hard-working father which teaches him invaluable life eventually finds his true calling as a result of his wife’s extra- lessons and a new-found respect for his honorable dad marital deceit. Their struggle is set against the backdrop of whose first name really was Santa. a casino, showcasing the true nature of that business. Crash Site John Thibault Characterization John Bourke Is it really safe to fly? A powerful prosecutor faces off with An author’s wife is murdered as the author and his main her old lover when she discovers his company is responsi- character compete for control of the story that the author ble for a devastating airplane crash that she is investigating. is attempting to write. Crazy Paula J. Caplan Child of Miracles Brian Edgar and Robert T. Fertig Norma Rae meets Patch Adams. Based on a true story. A True story of the Padre of Guadalcanal, who saves a girl young woman, Harvard psychologist discovers her older of six found near death in the jungle. The child recovers psychiatrist husband, head of a top psychiatric associa- and becomes responsible for many miracles. She provides tion, heads a cover-up of vast harm his association causes new hope for desperate Marines during deadly battles. patients. Leaving him, risking and temporarily losing her The mother’s faith overcomes incredible obstacles search- children and career, while unexpectedly reuniting with a ing for her lost child. former love, she leads a victorious exposé crusade and helps more people heal. Chilocco Philip Lombardi William Miller In this award-winning screenplay, a Cherokee girl, held Crazy Mary Woods hostage in a government Indian boarding school where After a teenage boy establishes a haven retreat deep in runaway children are hunted for bounty, realizes that a the woods to escape from his abusive father, his love for white male teacher, a sexual predator, is stalking her. In a his close friend leads to him revealing an embarrassing world that treats her as a savage and white men as saviors, secret. what are her options? Crossing the Red Line Michael Alberstadt Chinaware-Fragile A closeted hockey player kills his abusive father and covers Christine DeSmet, Peggy Willaims, and Robert Shill it up. Three years later, when the league hires a Hollywood Inspired by a true story set in the early 1900s during the producer to film his team’s season for a documentary, the advent of phones and cars, missionary Donaldina “Dolly” player’s secrets come out. Cameron, her Chinese friends, and a police captain fight a ruthless matrix of San Francisco gangs, business people, Shane O’Connor and politicians in order to stop the underground slave Cruce – A Narco Western trade of immigrant girls and women. (Script and TV limited Rosa is a Mexican teen who supports her family by work- series full bible available.) ing as an assassin for a local cartel in Mexico. Luis is a Native-American who makes his living as a cross-border gun smuggler. After a chance encounter in Mexico, Rosa Chocolate Boy Caroline Koivisto and Luis strike up a friendship that soon blossoms into The tragic world of child slavery in the cocoa industry is something more. Power, morality, and love collide viciously seen through the eyes of a kidnapped boy named Masud in this drug-trade thriller. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 30 Drama The Curse of the Ancient Greeks Faris Nejad labor and brutal assaults in hopes of saving her sister from Panos is a journalist writing stories no one wants to read, with the same fate. (Cynosure Screenwriting Awards, Toronto, a wife who’s left him, children who don’t need him, bills that Socially Relevant Film Festival Winner) can’t be paid, and a heart attack about to happen without health care. Welcome to the nightmare that is Greece during Eddie the King Philip Lombardi the financial crisis and judge whether he or the country went wrong and if either can be saved. (Book for adaptation) In this award-winning adaptation of Oedipus the King (public domain), a professional killer, plagued by waking nightmares and unable to kill himself, seeks the solace Dance with Me Michael Mercer of a transgender prostitute who, unknown to him, is his Six teenage girls go through the most intense emotional younger brother who wants him dead. roller coasters of their lives – because of the one handsome, fun, very affectionate guy they all adore. Elsa Lorenzo Colonna After causing a road accident that injures her daughter, an Deal Me In Jacqueline Murray Loring and Bunny Wingate A-List actress loses parental privileges and is sentenced In the 1980s, after beating a notorious card player for the to community service at a nursing home. The pampered $10,000 buy-in to the World Series of Poker, a compulsive star is appalled when she is assigned to an elderly African- Malibu gambler moves to Vegas to play high-stakes Texas American widow, but this unusual relationship forces them Hold’em with card sharks, tourists, and movie stars, and to face their fears and inspiring the actress to win back her struggles to control her addiction while concealing her daughter’s love. (PAGE Awards quarter-finalist) gambling losses from her mob-boss father. The Emperor of San Quentin Dennis Jones The Dearly Belovéd James DiLuzio Self-made music-biz millionaire, Dennis Casey Jones, A Catholic priest strives to remain faithful to his calling wrongfully convicted of murder in 1976, spends 23 years amidst Church scandals and threats to his relationships in San Quentin. While in prison, Jones reinvents himself as with his twice-divorced sister and a gay priest – both in crisis. a rock ‘n’ roll impresario producing prison concerts with major recording artists, as well as creating a national organization for wrongfully convicted criminals – all the while Distant Thunder Michael Marchessault fighting for his freedom. 1966. A traumatized soldier returns home from Vietnam and begins a path to healing with the help of psychedelics Empty Earth Richard McManus in nature. This epic tale spans decades, criss-crosses the continent and intersects with defining historical events. A In a post-climate-change dystopia, a man and a woman timeless journey of redemption and a timely story of one escape compulsory labor in the thawing Arctic for an odys- man’s quest to raise consciousness by healing his own sey across North America to find a safe haven. spiritual and emotional wounds. En Garde! Todd Senturia The Dreamer Jeffrey Liggens An angry black and Asian teen deals with the shock of his A recent parolee is overheard sharing a dream premoni- mother’s death and a move to L..A. by training to become tion with his co-worker about the murder of his boss, only a champion fencer. It combines the teen coming-of-age to be prosecuted for the murder as suspect number one sports drama, and the flair of swordplay, and places these when his dream materializes. traditional story elements squarely in the multi-ethnic urban youth culture of 21st century America. Dryland Jennifer D’Angelo Kircher An American champion swimmer, living as an outsider in Eternal Heart R. Barnes Abu Dhabi, is put to the test over three days where she A young woman, who has never left the trailer park com- must confront her father issues, her alcohol addiction, and munity, finds a letter from an estranged grandfather and her Olympic trial disappointment, or risk losing everything decides to leave and visit him before he dies, freeing her- she loves – her young son, husband, and career. (2019 self from the clutches of a landscaping boyfriend and an Writers Lab/NYWIFT Finalist. Based on the book, Dryland alcoholic mother. She meets her half-sister, and together by Nancy Stearns Bercaw.) they seek out their real father and start new lives.

Dukkha Rachana Suri Every Day of My Life Andre Orr Set against the tragedy of the 2013 Rana Plaza manu- African-American teen from Chicago gets himself into big facturing plant in Bangladesh where over 1,000 laborers trouble and is sent to rural Alabama to live with relatives. were killed. An impoverished Indian farmer arranges his He falls for a white classmate creating angst in his life and daughter’s marriage abroad; now she must face slave at his new high school. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Drama 31 Families Alvaro Mendes Fire and Glory Timothy J. Gerage What do a Chinese smuggler, a Muslim girl, a French activ- A rising, young, biracial football star faces his fears and ist, and a pedophile have in common? People from four insecurities to breathe new life back into the New Orleans different families and countries casually meet at a rock Crescents football team and inspires the comeback of a festival, and they realize that they all have something in city ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. common.

The First Day of Spring Howell Hurst Family Playbook Michael Kenner High Noon for high school students. All one day, the high A busy, successful commercial director must drop every- school hero anticipates an after-class “High Noon” fight thing when his widowed mother has a paralyzing stroke. with the school bully over a young girl, where both eventually lose the duel, but gain insight about life. (Based on the Family Values Margrethe Christensen and Ada Stein writer’s short story of the same name published by Alfred What do we as a friend, neighbor, or care-worker know; Hitchcock Mystery Magazine) what is going on behind closed doors? Can we really judge what has happened when a child “falls down the stairs?” The Flid Show Richard Willett Did she really fall? Did somebody push her? Isn’t the step- father always the bad guy? A charismatic, belligerent English nightclub singer, born with flipper-like arms because his pregnant mother took the drug thalidomide, believes his deformity will keep him A Fatal Cure Grietje Lolita Fortuin from ever finding love – until he falls for a pretty young A loyal PR consultant rudely awakens when mysterious American doctor, with intimacy issues of her own, and deaths confront her with the fiercely saved secrets about must confront his own dark past in order to win her. Big Pharma’s happiness pills. A story about a psychological warfare between the protagonist’s awakening conscience Flowers Thomas Norton and unscrupulous manipulations to silence her. A switch- back ride from admired hub to stigmatized plague. A bisexual florist struggles to face her willfully buried past But what can bend, does not break. (Won one award as she falls for a lesbian tattoo artist, whose bubbly nature and one nomination) is at odds with her own wretched situation.

Fault Lines Mindy Leisure Fontana Ian Feldman In 1940s Oklahoma when a grieving bar owner takes in a A dramatic mystery unfolds when a rotting corpse washes young pair of bi-racial traveling companions, she discovers up during a rare spillway release at a massive dam – just how far she will go to protect the two as the unlikely leading to a conspiracy involving a secret government trio comes together to help each other recover from the agency formed during the Manhattan Project. past and face the future. Based on a true story.

For Art and for Love James Pendergast Fever of Ghosts John Gist A painter begins an affair with an operatic soprano who is When a mining conglomerate lays claim to sacred lands, the former wife of the painter’s longtime best friend, a New corporate greed locks horns with a woman of faith in a York playwright, who still wants her back; trouble ensues. battle of Biblical proportions.

For Her Own Good Thomas Marrier Final Blow Simon Iliopoulos A mysterious abductor imprisons a humorous obese The subject of one of the largest and most highly publi- young lady and compels her to lose 120 pounds. Released, cised prison escapes in Australian history, a charismatic rogue criminal eludes the State’s police force for 37 days she gradually falls in love with the police officer who had while hiding out in rugged and impenetrable terrain, unsuccessfully investigated her disappearance. She is winning the hearts of an entire nation and the love of a shocked when she accidentally uncovers the truth about courageous woman who sets out after him. Based on her abductor. a true story. Frankenstein, Part II David D. Begley Finding Motherland Jennifer Carol O’Brien Following the death of his creator and alone in the world, A woman, devastated by her narcissistic husband’s affair the civilized Frankenstein’s creature is determined to find and a miscarriage, seeks solace at an Indian ashram and is a mate and love despite being pursued for murder by transformed by the unconditional love from an orphan boy. obsessive London private investigators. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 32 Drama Gat John Anthony Coyle Guardian Knights Damon Collins A girl’s red wallet comes into the possession of a boy While investigating an attempt on the mayor’s life, a retir- through a tragic accident. Twenty-six years later, unknown ing cop must choose whether to take down his best friend to each other as they pursue their goals in the U.S. Open or not after finding out he is a government assassin. cup competition, events unfold when he hands the wallet into the police and says, “it’s just one of those jobs you never get ‘round to.” The Heart of a Tiger S.R. Kuy The Heart of a Tiger is the true story of a woman who escaped the Cambodian Genocide in the 1970s. It fol- Gentleman’s Agreement H.I. Silverman lows three generations of women struggling against the When antisemitism travels from the Middle East to the boundaries placed upon them, each ultimately emerging Midwest and from the battlefield to the ivory tower, an triumphant to achieve their dreams. This is my family’s idealistic professor must rely on his faith and street smarts story of survival. (Received 38 awards) to survive. Hell Is NO Party; You Don’t Want to Go The Girl Left Behind Kyle Price D. Scott Mackey Abused and abandoned by her homeland after World War Through a series of events, both high school students II for being the child of an American soldier, a talented and inmates ponder the reality of Heaven and Hell as German girl spends her life escaping poverty and search- they encounter death through car wrecks, murder, and a ing for her father. Based on a true story. suicide.

Girl on the Riptide Lynn Maree Page The Hole in the River Philip Lombardi An attempt to sell cocaine back to her father’s dealer In small-town America, a Muslim man is hounded by a results in Reagan and her foster sister witnessing a sheriff who intends to run him out of town. Four misfit revenge killing and being in possession of 30kgs of the boys (think Stand by Me) who have befriended the Muslim drug. The girls are on the run, and the cartel’s ruthless have second thoughts when the sheriff reveals his crime. henchmen are hunting them down. Betrayal and murder But what will the boys do when the man is accused and are an everyday occurrence in their domain. They must jailed for a crime they know he didn’t do? stay one step ahead. Home Roger Maxson Glass Angel Lea Ann Vandygriff Roy Williams comes home to see his family. At 28, he’s A prominent family is torn apart by a deadly accident. smart, dapper, a jazz musician, and student of classical Sir Andrew turns away from his crippled daughter, slips violin. Not much has changed in the eight years he’s been into a depression, and turns to alcohol for comfort. gone, and after three months, he’s ready to return to Paris Edward, the butler, does the unthinkable. He contacts Sir and to his young wife Sofia. But this is Jim Crow Missouri, Andrew’s estranged sister for help. Lady Amelia restores 1935, and this is an anti-lynching story. the family and has a plan to bring true love back into the heart of Andrew. Honor Killing Angeles Perez After an arranged marriage to the future clan chief and Going Solo Mark Gerlach brother of her true love, a passionate young woman must Mark, a failed musician, dreams of being a rock star. But attempt to live with the now tormented fierce warrior when he’s ditched by his band, The Obsessions, he must when he returns from a long, self-imposed exile. walk away from his old life and go solo. Hope for the Holidays Rachel Handler The Great Hunger James Kearney After a tragic accident takes her leg, her dance career, Oliver Flinn left Ireland in 1847 for New York to escape and the life of her new husband, Jessica struggles to find The Great Hunger (1845-1851). Oliver, a lad of 23 sum- a reason to live. This Christmas Eve, three spirits appear mers, sallow-skinned, dark, unkempt hair, handsome and to show her what would’ve happened if she died instead standing in tattered clothing outside his home, a dilapi- of him. dated cabin. He walked to Belfast to board a ship bound for New York. I Met Her at Birkenau Laurie Maier A Jewish teen is the object of a female Nazi guard’s sexual Grey Matter Elizabeth Hrib desires, and she barters herself to keep friends and family A quirky, depressed teen starts caring for her aging Nan alive. But when the Allies liberate the camp, she is forced recently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. to choose whether to save the guard or to exact revenge. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Drama 33 Imbroglio John Bourke Just Another Girl Sharon Cramer, D.L. Torrent, A skydiver survives an unfortunate “accident,” and a hitch- and Michelle McCammond hiker is on the run from the police. The two people writing I’m 17, albino, wrongfully convicted of assaulting a cop, and this story strongly disagree on where it will end. on my way to prison. In a freak car wreck, both officers, one who molested me, are killed. So, I walk away, into the In the Shadow of the Night John Reoli, Jr. wilderness of no return in Idaho. But when an Indian kid A young, gay branding executive accidentally kills a ran- bent on suicide invades my isolation, I learn to love again. dom sex partner in his apartment and then escapes into a Oh, and three serial killers show up. night of denial and partying before he succumbs to doing what he knows he must do. Kaltenhouse D.R. Thompson The final days of the bloodiest battle of World War II. Like In the Void of Lies Kirby Freeman All Quiet on the Western Front, Kaltenhouse depicts the war Politics and healthcare are hot. When a former lobbyist from the infantry’s point of view with irony, pathos, and takes a position as a senator’s assistant, he’s charged with humor. Based on true events. pushing through a healthcare bill while covering up his new boss’ adultery and lies. (Politics/scandal/healthcare/ redemption) Kindred Candidates Bryan Beasley and Carol Carson A Republican governor father and his Democratic senator Integrated Offender Kathy Krantz Stewart son run for U.S. president against each other, continuing their lifelong competition. A middle-aged man struggles to overcome his criminal lifestyle and become drug free. He is institutionalized by prison, but when released, he accepts the help of a police Knotting Non Sense to Sense Zizi Rincolisky officer to rehabilitate and resettle him in the community. The character-driven film takes the viewer on a colorful He finds the strength of will to continue along a tumultuous path to recovery from his drug addiction, but will he journey through different continents and countries, chal- ever set himself free? lenges him by a critical stance towards two very opposite cultural mentalities and how they can be reunited at the end. Humor and sadness, art and adventure, beauty and Jackie Rae. A San Francisco Story Kip Pearson ugliness, confinement and liberation are the poles through JR, a rebellious young lesbian, comes of age in San which the film gains its strength. Francisco during the LGBT civil rights era of the ‘70s/’80s. She evolves from activist cab driver to civil rights lawyer only to realize she can’t really change the world. (2019 Labyrinth of Destiny Ernestina Juarez WIFF Silver Award Winner; 2018 Circus Road Screenplay During the Mexican-American War, Lieutenant Ulysses Competition: Finalist; 2019 Lonely Seal Film Festival Grant falls in love with a Mexican woman who helps Finalist; 2019 Artemis Film Festival: Official Selection.) American slaves escape bondage. The war separates them. Years later, they meet again when the woman is dis- Joe Likes Mary Rob Wallace patched to the United States to seek an alliance to prevent In the turbulent summer of 1968, a 19-year-old boy battles the French from conquering Mexico and becoming an family obligations and religious opposition as he struggles ally of the Confederacy. (Finalist – 2018 Academy Nicholl to win the heart of an unwed, pregnant girl being clois- Screenwriting Competition) tered in the basement of a convent. Last to Fall Jim Maceda Jonno Stephen Don The tragic, true story of a young man from Baltimore With a mask of facial tattoos, Jonno is a troubled man who known forever as the last soldier to die on the battlefield struggles to keep his life on track. When a teenager goes in WWI – just one minute before the end of that nightmare missing in his local area, Jonno’s problems rise to the sur- – and how a former comrade uncovers an ugly truth: the face, and he is pushed to the brink of suicide. This gritty, conflicted German-American didn’t have to die. contemporary drama has dysfunctional individuals caught in a web of deception. There is danger at every turn. Go to www.InkTip.com The Juggler Chris Trowell and search by title or author for Take a naive accountant and mix him with a shrewd, conniving businessman. A cocktail that breeds contempt, the scripts that interest you! greed, and character assassination. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 34 Drama Let There Be House Andre Orr and Chris Orr Mean Carla Miles A DJ in the 1980’s Chicago music scene is passionate A man on the run from the law after committing a crime of about starting his own club to play a new style of dance passion unwittingly carjacks a suicidal woman with nothing music that will become the worldwide phenomenon, to lose. House Music. But a callous rival continues to manufacture deceitful attempts to stop him. Middle-East Quicksand Robert Fertig and Brian Edgar An American IT executive seeking meaning in his life Liberation Stephen Colley gets tangled in a love affair with a mysterious woman in When an animal activist starts freeing factory farm animals, Monaco and is sucked into a secret plot against Saudi and Homeland Security comes after him and a slaughterhouse U.S. military assets, code named “Sword of Allah.” goes after the escaped cow he rescued.

Mightier Than the Sword Ernie Hernandez Lift Me High Denice Martin and Mark Staufer True story details the growth and character development 1977 Australia: In the peak of summer, a young woman of a teen Latino gang member into an educated man who survives the worst rail disaster in Australia’s history – comes back as a camp probation officer, facing significant Granville; she falls for the paramedic who saves her life, obstacles, trials, and tribulations as he works with similar but their love is tested as violent memories from her past sentenced camp gang delinquents and a nemesis camp threaten to tear them apart. Based on a true story. director who thinks he cannot possibly be a reformed good probation officer. Like Father Like Daughter Ian Greenham For years, a mother hides from her daughter that her Miguel Lorenzo Colonna father was a vigilante killer, but she becomes alarmed Inspired by a true story. After a skyscraper collapses, when her daughter discovers her father is still alive and is a guilt-ridden undocumented Mexican immigrant risks drawn into his dangerous web of vigilante killing. his life to look for survivors. But the deeper he crawls, the more his past comes back to haunt him, forcing him Losers Weepers Rob Wallace to relive the fateful choice that changed his life forever. (This script placed among the top 15% of all entries of the Tormented by his cowardice, an aging alcoholic desperately searches to make amends with the biracial daughter Nicholl Fellowships this year.) he abandoned years before. Mileva Rudolf Zaras Love and Insurrection Ernestina Juarez In 1896, at the Zurich Polytechnic, an ambitious teen col- Though haunted by the memory of the lynching of his laborates with an exotic and brilliant woman to develop father for leading a slave rebellion, an African-American groundbreaking scientific theories, then cruelly casts her slave risks his life to join in Mexico’s struggle for indepen- aside after he selfishly reaps worldwide fame. dence after witnessing the execution of the author of the first law against slavery on the North American continent. The Morocco Tapestry Michael LaRue (Based on true events) The hell of living through World War II is only half the battle for a veteran when he returns home only to discover that The Lunch Counter Mindy Leisure life isn’t quite as he remembered it. In racially challenged 1950’s small town Oklahoma after a woman’s husband is killed, she takes in an Asian widow The Mortician’s List John Rosans and her mentally challenged daughter who help her keep her small grocery store alive in a controversial way that When a small-town mortician finds himself in dire financial becomes life altering for all involved. straits and unable to pay his sick wife’s medical bills, he resorts to the unthinkable to drum up business: killing the town’s elderly residents. Maiden Flight Thomas Jannetta Depression-era teen girls use sex, guns, and a stolen Mrs. Chesterfield Molly Cargas biplane to rob a bank and escape to Canada. An embittered old woman accidentally pushes her only son away with dire and regrettable consequences. Once Manga Zone Mario Cammareri a charming Midwestern social queen, anguish trans- A Los Angeles salesman embarks on a business trip to forms her into a terror with an acid tongue and stubborn Europe, and his world is about to be turned upside down demeanor, foretelling an angry and lonely death, exactly by events he cannot control, caused by international what she wants. But it’s not the Grim Reaper who comes cocaine traffickers. knocking; it’s redemption. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Drama 35 My Friend Bruce Mark Powell North Star William Gebby After a boy bullied for being autistic volunteers at a nursing An emotionally damaged Quaker woman risks everything home, he befriends an elderly Asian man skilled in martial to save a runaway African-American boy from slave hunt- arts who may be lying about the fact he is the legendary ers in 1850’s Indiana. (Winner of The 2018 Kairos Prize) Bruce Lee. Now That Underpants Aren’t Blythe Smith My Garden A bad-ass hip hop dancer overcomes her kleptomania and Tania Meneguzzi with story by Maclovia Martel drug use, symptoms of lifelong panic, and low self-esteem Still struggling years after her husband’s tragic death, a through the revelation of a horrific family secret, allowing stylishly disheveled and disgruntled woman entertains the her to fulfill her dream of becoming a dance teacher. advances of a mysterious and bold new neighborhood gardener and embarks on a tangible journey of self-discovery. On the Corner of Eden and Grace (aka Small Steps) Marsha Rosenzweig Pincus My Name Is Lily Isaac Altman Between the moon walk and Woodstock, a 17-year-old The story is a romance tragedy. It’s about a teenage girl aspiring photographer struggles to save her boyfriend from named Lily who loses her best friend Jack in a car acci- slipping into heroin addiction without destroying herself. dent. The story begins prior to the car accident and tells the story about Lily and her struggles to fit in, although Once Again Greg Wishart she may be a very attractive girl; she struggles to find what she’s looking for in life which is complete happiness. Consumed with grief, a mother battles addictions, culmi- nating in the custodial loss of her two young sons. Her embittered father-in-law manipulates his way into being Natural Resistance Ian Greenham the boys’ custodian. She begins her fight back. Personal After a retired French power worker is discovered to have a crises test her strength. Her unwavering desire to be natural resistance to nuclear radiation, offering a lucrative reunited with her sons propels her to resolve a key mys- cure for radiation sickness, threats to steal the discovery tery. With secrets revealed, she finally gets her day in court. close in from corporate competitors and governments around the globe. One Nation, Under God David Midget America is falling apart, and Utah’s leaders believe they New Man on the Hill Jack Boyd have the answer: secede! But what seems like a simple solution to a nation in crisis quickly morphs into its own A charismatic U.S. president dies early in his first term, dystopia filled with street violence, religious persecution, forcing his green, past middle-aged academic vice presi- and federal intervention. dent to fight everyone, including his turncoat chief of staff and a cartel who kidnaps his daughter. This forces him to use his very old ‘Nam buddies and three Secret Service Online Interview Gilberto Migliorini agents to rescue his daughter. The brain in a vat, the protagonist kept alive with a medical-scientific experiment, is interviewed in a TV format. A New World New York James Kearney science fiction story? A horror movie? A thriller? Perhaps a love story, a marketing strategy, a condition that affects In 1914 Giacomo, a son of the Marsalla family is excited but everyone. The problem for the brain in the vat, and for the confused as he sails out of Palermo with his parents for interviewer, will be how to pull the plug. New York to begin a new life. To avail of this opportunity, giving him a better future, he must master the language and culture. The Opposite of Hate Yowanda Russell A strong-willed African-American woman discovers that a No Way In Georges Salo co-worker she’s close to but has never seen is a member of the KKK. After the devastating revelation, they try to When an African-American falls in love with a local Asian rebuild the valued friendship they once had. and is intent on marriage, he must obtain her parent’s approval. He’s forced to undergo a journey of self-discovery in order to prove his mettle and win her hand. The Script You Need

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Out Pranked Jim Evry The Poets Jack Schudy and Madison Holloway A troubled 18-year-old prankster uses his ailing father’s A revolutionary drug with near-infinite use and uncertain cyber cell phone invention to blackmail a Congressman psychological side effects threatens to alter the lives of colin order to pay hospital bills and save his foreclosed-on lege poetry students April and Will, and their friends. The home. Suddenly being chased by someone wanting to kill Poets chronicles the chaotic five-month period between him and discovering his only friend’s parent is involved, he the drug’s release and eventual recall. turns to a more dangerous crime, but someone has been cyber-monitoring him, too. Power Play Colin Stewart and F. Ethan Repp A cancerous political suspense cocktail based upon Overgrown John Bourke deceit, revenge, and envy. The viewer becomes a friendly Overgrown chronicles the lives of twin sisters, Rose and Violet, intruder or someone who gets to see the inside polit- as they cope with challenges that include their brother’s ical mechanisms. (Brussels International Film Festival, battle with alcohol and drug addiction, the suicide of their August 2019, Award Winner Best Unproduced Scripts; mother, and the murders of their father and Rose’s husband. Fusion North Europe Film Festival, London February 2019, Award Winner Best Unproduced Script; St. Tropez International Film Festival, Nice, France, Award Winner – A Passage for Angus Michael LaRue Best Unproduced Scripts.) When a reckless chair car driver accepts a bribe from a desperate nursing home patient to take him across country, he realizes there are worse things than being a fugitive Pride of Love Kevin Dwyer from the law when learning some valuable life lessons After being a victim of a hate crime, a young, broken, gay from the eccentric old man. man moves in with his mother where he tries to overcome the event when a goth emo outcast comes into his life. Peace Pledge George M. Johnson A disillusioned First World War veteran, challenged by a reck- Prince Jim Stramler less Anglican priest, reluctantly fights for peace against fascists A famous racehorse desperately wants to race and win in 1930’s Britain, losing both friends and family but gaining again but was born with what he considers a birth defect. a second chance in love. An award-winning script based on He recruits a young boy to help him realize his dream. the true story of Canon Dick Sheppard and the Peace Pledge Union, the strongest pacifist movement in history. A Prince Among Men Kirk Wilson The true story of a Russian aristocrat who gains legendary Permanent Record Perk Perkins rugby sporting fame in England prior to World War II – and When revenge porn turns civilian life upside down for a of the woman who turned his world upside down and of newly separated Marine, she joins forces with the FTC to the war that brought it all to a tragic end. seek justice – and revenge. Based on a true story.

Private Dancer Sandra Cropsey Play Tai Chi Murray Suid and Chris Anderl Like birds with broken wings, Sam collects people with bro- A stressed-out, billionaire Chinese-American gaming ken dreams. Bartender Sam along with friend Carmen find entrepreneur in search of balance meets a Caucasian- fulfillment helping those in their employ whose life dreams American Tai Chi master struggling financially to promote have gone awry. Like the song Private Dancer, many of us health and harmony in a materialistic world. Despite the are “dancers for money” – we dance and sing to survive as extreme differences in their worldviews, each man has we strive to keep the dream alive. important life lessons to learn from each other on the way to personal and social integration and harmony. The Promise Bob Bowersox Go to www.InkTip.com A driven, self-absorbed TV reporter on the cusp of gaining national prominence is sidetracked when a surreal series and search by title or author for of seemingly disconnected incidents with a young cancer the scripts that interest you! survivor leads them both into believing they were involved in a past life 100 years ago. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Drama 37 The Prosecutor’s Witness Rogue Gentleman Wilfred Cheng Donald Ray Schwartz A middle-level office worker unexpectedly becomes an An attorney who recently lost her father/mentor, now in-demand escort, but once the founder of his company administering probation cases, is diagnosed with cancer. She becomes a client, he slowly uncovers a criminal network. then agrees to represent an odd client accused of homicide, contending with various twists, the client’s mysterious and Rooms of Experience Steffany Sommers voluptuous wife, and an aggressive prosecutor. An up-and-coming district attorney must confront her own painful past during the prosecution of an elderly woman Razor True Norman Winter who took the life of her severely disabled adult son. A famous DJ, enraged at corporate radio, quit, then finds four disenfranchised youths of the ‘80s and, seeing their Safe Conduct Liz Janzen plight, rallies them to help him start a radio station that A U.S. Special Forces soldier falls in love with an American turns the music programming over to the people through medical doctor he meets briefly in El Salvador in 1981, a ballot system. It’s the radio revolution. only to lose her and then find her again four years later – on the eve of his deployment on a mission during the Soviet-Afghan war. There he is faced with an impossible Refugees Ruzena Zatko decision that will jeopardize everything. In the 1980s, a family risks everything to escape communist Czechoslovakia. Their strength and marriage The Santa Line James Newton continues to be tested as they wait to be granted refugee A widower journalist attempts to restore the meaning of status and immigrate into the United States. Inspired by Christmas through his annual column but, in doing so, falls true events. in love with his boss and must balance love, his career, and an awkward suspicion. Ride on My Right Paul Hart Keith, a man who had a life full of fast motorcycles and Saving Simon Joanne Bellew wild living, gets involved in a severe accident and receives When a reckless 18-year-old’s father goes to prison, she a tragic diagnosis. He relies on his loyal friend and recall- must prove to Social Services that she is responsible and ing his passion for motorcycles to help him face the end savvy enough to care for her hyper-intelligent, OCD little of his life while trying to reconcile with his estranged brother or face losing the 11-year-old she didn’t realize had, for most of his own life, been saving her. evangelical mother.

Scorecard Jack Runchey Riding the Adrenaline Wave Richard Willett A ninth-grader living with Asperger’s dreams of pitching When real-life hotshot motorcycle racer/bull rider Lance for his high school baseball team and receives help from Norman becomes a quadriplegic following a terrible crash, his feisty grandmother, who tells him of a clandestine he struggles against family, addiction, medical reality, and family record of an integrated game on the family farm his own memories to find a new life of redemption through during the segregation era that featured Major and Negro Christ and through using his story to help others. League All Stars.

Rip City Graham Rich and Frank Bourne A Scottish Gem Yvonne Condrau Haunted by his Vietnam experience, a young veteran fails An inspiring true story of a Scottish woman. Overcoming to win back the love of his life from her new fiancé until the an abusive childhood and struggling with her marriage ending, she faces a devastating diagnosis: breast cancer underdog ‘77 Portland Trail Blazers NBA championship while raising her two kids. Rather than seeing her illness run inspires him to solve an environmental crisis and win as a problem, she chooses to inspire and help others. Her her back. spirit, wit, family, faith, and hope to heal the cancer help her conquer an unimaginable roller coaster. The River Chris Britton Indigenous children are torn from their families and forced to attend a Native American boarding school. A novice priest begins teaching at this school, but his ideals Every month an average of 25 scripts quickly become engulfed in brutality and sexual abuse are purchased or optioned while stripping the children of their identity and heritage. Register at www.InkTip.com Escape becomes the only means of survival for a young A free service to the industry Ojibwe brother and sister. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 38 Drama Seasons TV Lea Ann Vandygriff Sound Ronald Keeven Seasons follows a young teen, Aubree, and her friends as life A physicist discovers how to recover sounds and conver- begins to chip away at their innocence. Daily life in a small sations from the past. town is anything but ordinary. A town riddled with secrets, gossip, devastation, deception, and violence cause the young teens to grow up too fast. They are forced to make decisions Sports Booze and Infidelity Marc Henderson daily that will change their lives and challenge their faith. When the widow of a popular football player discovers what was a murderous plot against her late husband, she A Secret Vaughn Allen struggles to unravel the truth before a nefarious TV host seeks to destroy her credibility. A boy in his teens is psychologically confused about his sexual identity and forced to spend his youth in a mental institution, caused by the secret that his grandmother A Star on the Horizon Janet Wise has kept from him and his twin sister for years. This An Afghan struggles to travel west in order to realize his causes him to go on a psychological binge, nearly loses dream of studying medicine only to arrive in the U.S. and his life trying to learn the horrible truth that his family collide with an ICE agent whose prior military career he hid from him. ruined by reporting him for murder.

Seraphim’s Miracle Jeremy Storey The Steamfitter Bruce McIntosh and Joseph Fee A cynical reporter investigating a supernatural mystery uncovers a powerful truth that could change the world. A Long Island working-class kid in the ‘70s tries to follow his true path, taking decades to leave tradition of con- struction work to finally become a sculptor in New Mexico. Shades Paula J. Caplan Light awaits those brave enough to lift the shades. Each Streets Frank Jeffreys of four people – an ardent, Jewish woman pacifist, her WWII veteran father, her Vietnam vet brother, and a black Streets is a family/inspirational story about a high school woman paralyzed in Vietnam – longs to overcome (con- boy who jeopardizes his college scholarship to find his cealed) isolation and connect with others while struggling grandfather. His quest to mend his family takes him to overcome differences of race, sex, deep political beliefs, around the world and into the gritty street performer sub- and fears of revealing painful secrets about wars and love. culture where he learns about life, love, the true meaning of family, and that life is best when you follow your bliss. Shaking the Tree Georges Salo A woman’s journey of self-discovery at the behest of her Strung Tight Arianne Peterson soldier husband who died as a result of wounds sustained Beloved all-American #1 in the world women’s tennis star in Afghanistan. Shayla Martens takes on the men’s #1 tennis champ in a historical match of a lifetime. Her path to this match is Shechem Trip Payne painfully wrought with her imploding relationship with her coach and father as she begins to weigh the cost of win- Newly elected Senator Tyler Harrison only wanted to pre- ning with having love and a life. serve the knowledge of God’s hand in American history, but he may have just buried it when he crafts a bill to ban the motto “In God We Trust.” The Subutai Project Anthony Truscello A marketing campaign goes tragically wrong as two women The Siege of 57th Surg Robert Joseph exploit a PR man as they take a mystical journey back in Experiencing everything from humor to sheer terror and time to ancient Mongolia, or did they? even a little romance, somewhat naïve draftee physician Dr. David Stone learns the ins and outs of survival Surviving Sally Einar Gunn in a M*A*S*H-like U.S. Army surgical hospital during the Vietnam war with the help of tough, rebellious – but expert A man loses his pregnant wife to suicide and returns under surgeon – Dr. Steve Argonese and compassionate army an alias to the farm where they met as children to kill the nurse Sheila Barnes. man who raped her years ago.

Snowbird Janet Wise The Sweeper of Santa Fe Bruce McIntosh The daughter of a reverend in the Christian Patriarchy- A young woman goes home from college seeking a Identity movement sold to an older man as his wife to bear place that will perform a funeral ceremony for her baby many children for the Army of God makes a desperate who died shortly after birth and has no luck until an choice to save her sisters from a similar fate. odd helper appears. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Drama 39 Sweet Dreams Dianne Janis years apart, only to be pursued by the demons lurking When her young daughter runs away, a desperate mother inside her mind. He was her dream; she was his quest. defies her family and risks her own life to find her daughter. Three generations battle as mother, grandmother, The Two Lives of Everett Quinn John Paul Carinci husband, and sisters all fear losing not just one loved one A troubled teen with no father befriends a homeless man, but two. Will she find her daughter alive or die trying? (Two- Everett. But there’s much more to this very philosophical time Nicholl Quarter Finalist, Black Scripts Matter Finalist, and exceptional homeless man. And what is that dual per- and several other awards.) sonality and accent Everett has? A mysterious man with secrets we soon find out. Everett Quinn is someone that The Talent Lesley Manuel will astound, surprise, and inspire. After being recruited to play for one of the nation’s top universities, a talented quarterback starts to party and Two Nights at the Pine Street Inn J. Christopher Haslip soon becomes addicted to cocaine. When he’s eventually After suffering childhood clergy abuse, a 19-year-old college expelled, with both his career and his relationships on the drop-out uses drugs heavily for a long period of time. In an line, a discovery about his deceased father’s identity sud- LSD-induced “trip,” he decides to give up all his personal denly changes his course and helps him begin the process belongings and go out onto the streets of Boston as a home- of reclaiming his career. less person in a search for and eventual discovery of “God.”

The Teenage Wars Jo Fulkerson Under the Eye of God Bob Bowersox Teenage boys band together to bring down drug suppliers When an emotionally-unbalanced African-American poet who are targeting a special-needs boy in order to prolifer- hiding on the streets from her family is mistakenly thrust ate their drug business. into the world of a Nobel laureate, the unwanted heat of the spotlight threatens her desire to hide from her family This Close Randy Steinberg and past, forcing her to come to terms with that past, herself, and her talent. Jeremy Pearl intends to shoot high school classmates and take his own life. He comes “this close” to proceeding, but the plot is thwarted before he can act. Seven years later, Unsightly John Bourke after coming out of prison a repentant man, Jeremy returns An unscrupulous detective coerces a father and his to his hometown and family to try to make a normal life. 14-year-old daughter in order to force the daughter to assist the police by using her unique ability to telepathi- This Is the Day Jo Ann Fulkerson cally see a crime and its perpetrators. Two business moguls’ venture into foster care parenting brings them face to face with the horrors abandoned chil- Unwise Wilfred Cheng dren must face. When two old women kill a homeless man to collect an insurance policy, they soon embark on a revenge tour to rid their Three Bridges Alan Wynzel city of evil men and collect as much money as they can. A mutilated German soldier and a Jewish GI race to save the woman they both love from the Nazi onslaught in the Vow of Silence Jason Fredregill Battle of the Bulge. Childhood demons come rushing back as a man is torn between his incredible talent with the electric guitar and his chosen profession as a Catholic priest. The Time of Killing James Freeman A disillusioned Calcutta gangster, drawn into a secret Hindu extremist organization, must assassinate Gandhi and Muslim Warnings on the Water Ian Greenham leader Suhrawardy by Partition/Independence Day or the Images of future events on the surface of a rural pond guru who raised him will kill his girlfriend. The confrontation enable a teenage girl to avert tragedies, but not the pre- with Gandhi challenges the gangster to reexamine his mature death of her father, the return of her estranged behavior while remaining true to his character. dysfunctional mother, nor the challenge of giving her own life to save her cherished younger sister. Trapped In Time 11:11 William Strickler, Denise Costa, and Joe Costa The Water Way Bruce McIntosh A heartbreaking and inspiring love story of a modern-day A 60-year-old criminal steals money from fellow thieves Romeo and Juliet that follows the life of a beautiful, strong and gets lost in the desert where a Native woman guides and yet fragile woman that reunites with the love of her him on a life or death ritual journey. (2nd Rounder – AFFl life, a famous music producer and entertainer, after 25 2017; Selection – Oaxaca Film Festival 2018.) Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 40 Facing Down the Blank Page with Screenwriter Ron Maede It’s never too late to start writing, but Ron Maede wishes he’d me to tone it down in the rewrite taken his first steps into screenwriting sooner. Living in the phase. Also, I didn’t have enough sense of the production process heartland of America, he dabbled in stand-up comedy, improv, to know that Matt would be able to and took writing classes, but waiting for the perfect script idea keep the thing humming even when to crystallize didn’t help his screenwriting goals. there were no major moments. When he finally hunkered down and wrote his first script, Chris: What was your favorite part of making Apartment 413? The Organ Grinder, about a man who auctions off his organs online, it became a top-ten finalist in the Chicago Film Office Ron: By far, the best part of making competition. He decided to take his new career further by a movie is working with a crew of people that are bringing your vision moving to Los Angeles and using InkTip to market his scripts. to life. The creativity and dedica- tion they brought to the project is Director/producer Matthew Patterson discovered Ron’s single extraordinary. As an example, at location thriller Apartment 413 on our site, and it’s now making one point in the script, I wrote: “The its rounds through the festival circuit. Most recently, it was kitchen is a mess. Coffee cups, toast nominated for Staff Choice at the Austin Film Festival! crumbs, and left-over Thai contain- ers.” And what do I see on the first Ron shared his thoughts on waiting so long to follow his dreams, day of filming? This exact tableau perfectly rendered, all the way down the challenges of writing limited-location scripts, and more. to the crumbs! Really blew me away. I had always assumed they would Chris: How did you come up with the think. Maybe. Maybe he just picked treat my words like suggestions, but idea for Apartment 413? up somebody else’s phone. It’s a mis- no! They treated the script like holy communication. It comes out slowly. writ! Newsflash: be careful what you Ron: I got out of the shower on It’s a thoughtful, brooding piece. write. Words matter! January 16, 2015 and wrote down an She’s not there in the beginning.” I idea that popped into my head. “Idea started writing it formally about 11 for a tense, suspenseful feature that months later. I had a note taped over my that takes place in an apartment between mostly two characters. Man Chris: How hard was it to limit computer that read, “Don’t yourself and the script to essen- and a woman. In a relationship. She’s tially a single location, and why did pregnant. He’s ordered to kill her. We you make that choice for the story? be boring!” That was my

Ron: Yes! By far the most difficult biggest fear. aspect of the story was keeping it contained. I had a note taped over Chris: I’d love to delve into a my computer that read, “Don’t be debate about what truly happens boring!” That was my biggest fear; in Apartment 413, but I don’t want to that I’d be stuck in this apartment give anything away to readers. What and it starts to drag. Interestingly, it do you want audiences to take away looks like I might have compensated from the film? too much in the other direction. I use a lot of arguments and fighting Ron: There are a few thematic mes- to keep the tension turned up. Well, sages that stand out, but for me the some early readers wondered what main one is, “Don’t be afraid to seek these characters saw in each other help.” I think men especially have a that made them fall in love and have knee-jerk reaction to ignore their a baby. “All they ever do is fight!” So needs when it comes to mental Brea Grant as Dana. Matt [Patterson] very quickly asked health. There’s a built-in stoicism that For these scripts and many more, go to our website: www.InkTip.com Feature Article 41

Dave Buckman as the Mechanic and Nicholas Saenz as Marco Reyes in Apartment 413. comes with being a guy. We are wired has the knowledge you’ve garnered changes once you’ve faced down a to “tough it out.” Super unhealthy from being in production benefited blank page 500 times. attitude. I would be happy if audi- your writing? ences walk out of the theater just Chris: What other projects are you feeling like they had a good time, and Ron: Some friends have awarded working on? we lived up to their expectations. We me production credits on their proj- gave them their money’s-worth and ects for basically being a glorified Ron: I’ve been working with didn’t take their time for granted. production assistant. It has been a Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine, fantastic learning experience. The Zombieland) on a vehicle piece for Chris: Can you tell us about your biggest takeaway is to always be her. I was recently asked to write a writing process and when you know there for your pals in the business. horror pic for a couple of producers your script is ready to post on InkTip? If you can be the guy who shows up from The Bachelor. And I’m putting and makes sure lunch is taken care the finishing touches on my best Ron: I have become a dedicated out- of or whatever, you should do it. spec so far which should be done in liner! I’ve done it both ways. Rushing These people will all go on to do big a couple of weeks! Look out, world! through it because I’m super-excited things in town, and you want them to or slowly building out the story beat return your calls. by beat and deliberately not writing Always be there for your until you’re ready. The latter is far Chris: What’s the one thing you wish superior! Also, don’t talk about it! Your you knew earlier in your career? idea is like a big balloon. Talking just pals in the business ... These pokes holes in it and weakens it. It’s Ron: Oh, my God, great question! also a way of negating one of your So glad you asked this. I spent people will all go on to do big prime motivational drivers because it years trying to think of a concept satisfies your desire for an audience. that was “good enough” before I things in town, and you want DON’T TALK! Also, I’m not a fan of wrote a word! This was a huge mis- notes either. I like to think for a long take. I wish somebody had told me them to return your calls. time before I start writing notes to to just write it. Heard of it a million myself. When I get into the car to times? Write it. Too expensive? Write Chris: Apartment 413 is making the drive to work, I’ll ask myself, “Okay, it. Too dumb and nonsensical? Write festival rounds now, and we encour- so then what happens?” Oh, and it. Warner Brothers’ just greenlit a age everyone to check it out—and very important, make sure you ham- project that’s exactly the same? Write clean their air filters ASAP! mer out act two. Virtually all of your it. Do not wait! Waiting is the real exciting ideas are either act one or killer because you’re never getting Ron: Thanks to everybody at InkTip act three. Everybody ignores act two. those years back. Nobody is going for highlighting Apartment 413. We Always have act two totally mapped to make one of your first scripts any- really appreciate everything you’ve out before you start writing anything. way, so it doesn’t matter how cliché, done for us! expensive, or out-of-fashion it is. Get Chris: You’ve also worked on the those first few under your belt. You You can find Ron’s logline for Athens producing side of the industry. How won’t believe how much your writing on page 24. Register Today at www.InkTip.com 42 Drama – Fantasy Wer Will Der Kann Pierre Castonguay Family I prefer a painful truth to a convenient error. Truth heals Candy Kid and the Hobo King the harm which it might have caused. Johann Wolfgang Kari Floren and Flora Doone Von Goethe (1749-1832) It’s 1952, 13-year-old Alex sneaks out to follow his beloved uncle and hops a freight train full of hobos going to The Where’s Stephanie? Jo-Ann Wilhelm Crowning of the Hobo King. His uncle wants to be king, but An adoption story about a woman putting clues in Social Alex quickly realizes he’s a bum. With the help of his new Service files, hoping her granddaughter who was placed friend, John Rich, he must stop his uncle and save the hobos. for adoption will follow the clues and find her. Flashbacks of rape make her face her fears and follow the dreams Klone Kid J. Christopher Haslip that the rapist stole from her. An 12-year-old boy dreams of space travel but gets in trouble at home and school. After running away to his tree The White Jaguar of the Amazon Pelham Mead house one night, he is abducted by aliens and replaced Save the Amazon forests. This movie exposes the with a clone. His mother enjoys the positive change in behavior but realizes something is amiss and with the help ranchers, loggers, miners, and road builders that burn of a detective must solve the mystery of her “missing” son. down forests. In this story, a Brazilian man becomes the savior to the Awá after being attacked by a jaguar and saved by an Awá chief. The Awá nicknamed him “The The Music Scrooge Jim Evry White Jaguar.” When an emotionless and scrooge-like music producer tries to kill himself just before Christmas, he’s visited by The White Picket Fence Party Craig Phillips a groovy young ghost who tempts him into his past using an old jukebox. Through songs and experiences, he’s A political demagogue is pressed urgently by an improb- reminded of what’s important in his life, but is it too late? able object of his desire to rise above the bluster that won him election as president and, given the country’s immense opportunity vested in him according to his own Sophie and Scottie’s Adventures of the Monarch conceit, embrace it, yet in a way truer than he’d thought. Mystery Cindy Murray After entering a picture frame that becomes a portal, William the II Virginia Austin fraternal twin sisters find themselves in Mexico and must solve an epic mystery regarding the vanished monarch The story of a homeless 11-year-old boy quoting lines of butterflies. Self-empowered for this task, the girls interact Shakespeare as he wanders the streets of Chicago after with a talking toucan, a cat-like creature, and other magical the loss of his father. In a sudden turn to comedy, William characters during a hike full of obstacles where getting meets a sarcastic 12-year-old girl on the playground of an caught by an evil professor is a treacherous reality. elite private school who decides to run away and help him search for new parents. Yawm Jamiil Peter Vivarelli Nuclear build-up and wars, terrorism, uncertainty. This The Wind Blows North Ronald Keeven screenplay is suited for our times. Yawm Jamiil is a story Based on the true story of the trial of the century as the about true human love. Situated in the outskirts of Dubai best attorneys fight to spare the life of an infamous bandit and Oman. Hedaia, a local in his early 50s, comes across a while the capable prosecutors seek the gallows. young English boy laying on the desert sand dehydrated. Taking the boy to his shack, Hedaia cares for him as his own. Wurttemberg Shepherd Joan Lask When Wurttemberg German Shepherds become prized Fantasy police dogs to the Third Reich, a German man endangers Stuart Schulz his life to keep his dog and is sent to a concentration camp Agelina’s Feather while his dog is trained as a killer. An American military officer is sent to Germany to investigate the disappearance of another officer and finds himself in the middle of an Al-Qaeda terrorist cell. Despite the danger, he is aided by a beautiful German girl and his The Script You Need family’s guardian angel. Is at InkTip.com Register at www.InkTip.com Bad Seeds Sean Nash Dragged from the city to the Australian Outback by super- A free service to the industry natural forces, a teenage girl and her friends risk their lives solving a 100-year-old mystery. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Fantasy – Horror 43 The Beautiful Lands Peter Gardner The Minstrel Todd Sorrell A college student discovers that three authors may have A young man is imbued with supernatural powers after believed that Oz, Neverland, and Wonderland were real. briefly dying. He discovers he is the new Minstrel, bearer of the “vocus imago,” Heaven’s healing song. He wrestles with this new designation, struggling to juggle his own per- Born with the Soul of a Firefly sonal goals and this new calling which draws him directly Betz Hill Hooper and Stuart T. Hooper into conflict with a new rival: the mysterious Dark Minstrel Adrift, a 50-year-old executive, born with the soul of a with powers contrary to his own. firefly, must overcome her despair and complete her first novel to save a teenage band of plucky fireflies who pro- Nyobaywa Forty Tribez claim her to be their prophecy savior and shrink her into their fantastical world, embarking on a comical metaphys- A civil war threatens predynastic Egypt after a cadre of ical adventure to find her smile and rescue her from the spiritualists “resurrect” a king they once betrayed. darkness that threatens them all. Ponder Wonder: Throne Wars Part 1 Charles Okika Darkness in Paradise James Pendergast A fairy princess must discover her inner magic to fight powerful malevolent forces. An emotionally fragile actress and her actor husband move into a new, never-before-lived-in house and find it haunted by the spirit of a female silent screen star who Second Star Gregory Mandarano draws the actress into her influence, which could end in A vengeful Peter Pan journeys halfway across the world disaster. Will the actress survive? to find his absent father only to discover Skull Island, the corrupted ruins of Neverland full of reckless pirates, mon- E. Bunny Dayle Dodds strous creatures, and the remains of King Kong himself. An aging Easter Bunny must face the challenge of finding a new and worthy successor. The Spear of Destiny Jerald McClain Las Vegas – 1986. End of Age. God divorces Lucifer for The Virgin Mary and, in a jealous rage, Luci unleashes Hell on Flail Peter Fitzgerald Earth! By the way, this is a romantic comedy. A wayward son discovers his inner steel and ESP when he journeys through Ireland’s past. There he fights to rescue his mother from a supernatural curse and learn the fate of The Webster Victoria Brewer his lost sister Niamh, who was abducted from the hospital While stranded at a secluded all-girls school, a tormented as a baby. girl’s future is changed by a chain of paranormal events.

Ghostdancing Frank Jeffreys Horror Doomed to return each day to the haunted lake where she The Apex Erick Freitas drowned as a young girl and dance her dance of death, the ghost’s only hope of freedom rests on a crippled redneck Survivors of a post-apocalyptic world residing in a bunker boy learning to dance ballet. notice bizarre new phenomena with the arrival of a young boy from the outside.

The Kingdom to Come Jennifer Ball Atomaton Rising Randy Gore After a tenacious prince of the kingdom of Merrhius falls In the year 2040, two teenagers are kidnapped and experi- in love with a mysterious woman from a hidden kingdom, mented on by a dangerous cyborg prototype who escapes tragedy strikes and he vows to fight against his warmon- from an android factory. gering father and a supernatural evil, both who are seeking to rule all the kingdoms. The Bereaved Casey Geisen and Jamie M. Fox The Last Perception Brenda Cregor A group of estranged siblings gather in their childhood home and unwittingly unleash an entity that’s haunted their family An afterlife, the difference between creators and the for centuries – after an attempt to contact their deceased damned is an inner space free from perceptions. Sohala father via séance in order to hear the reading of his will. is still holding to one perception from her mortal life and descends to the degree of consciousness where her last untruth was forged, struggling against evil while surren- Blood Bash Matt Ashe III dering her final illusion, sacrificing everything for an evil An Army Reserve private is hired to drive for a debauch- realm, not knowing if she will remain there forever. erous SVA bachelor party, but his gig turns into a terrifying Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 44 Horror struggle when a local preacher and his posse of psychotic they’re sane when everyone’s crazy, but crazy when every- meth heads intervene on the abused stripper’s behalf. one’s sane – and that the end of the world is also their last chance to save their estranged families. Borrowed Time Paul Hart Studying near-death experiences, Janis, a statistical ana- Fallout Andrew Marshall lyst, finds that many people are driven to violence, murder, When two women awake to find themselves trapped by a and suicide. She and Richard, a paraplegic hypnotherapist, madman in adjoining rooms with only half the information seek to find what drives these people to such violence. needed to escape, they soon discover that only one of What they encounter are subjects that lose control of their them can make it out alive and that working together will faculties, sending our heroes into a life and death struggle be very dangerous. with a demonic force. Field Trip Claudio Martinez-Valle The Buggyman Brian Salay A group of kids is forced on a field trip in lieu of deten- On the anniversary of his legendary demise, a vicious tion, and soon they find themselves fighting for their lives monster returns to the local supermarket to prey on against a very real mythical creature. its workers, forcing a lowly comic book nerd, his longtime crush, and a ragtag group of store employees to band together and escape before they’re all turned into Fins Gene Helfman slime-dripping creatures. Following a series of puzzling shark attacks that suggest sentient sharks are cooperating to exact more than revenge, a brilliant, beautiful, beleaguered forensic tech- Bunnyman Bridge Colin Stewart nician discovers details that help solve the mystery behind A small town is terrorized by the resurgence of a grisly the attacks, revealing much more than was bargained for. 32-year-old town secret. Fractured Wes Eastin Consumed Don Stroud The Babadook meets Insidious when Lucy begins dat- Trapped in a basement after an apocalyptic earthquake, ing sweet and mysterious Charlie whose parents were a betrayed wife grudgingly struggles to keep her helpless recently lost in an accident. As the two work to tie up loose husband alive, praying for rescue before a relentless ends at his family home, Charlie’s troubled past comes horde of undead parasites dig through the rubble to back to haunt them with fatal repercussions. Often funny devour them. and always terrifying, Fractured brings compelling characters in contact with supernatural forces that pushes them beyond their limits. Dare to Be Scared Arthur Payne In order to survive, a brother and sister must take on a legendary virtual reality game played in a real haunted The Funny Farm Robert Ward house. A game that kills its players one by one using their After a cocky demon in the form of a wise-ass, beer-swig- worst fears against them. ging surfer dude brutally murders the parents of a teenager, she battles to destroy it but discovers everything isn’t what it seems. Dead Cargo Theodore Soderberg On 12 August 2015, a series of explosions killed 173 people and injured hundreds of others at the Port of Tianjin, Gaud’s Call John Long China. Mutants boarded the ship, and a sailor with a A Christian group’s pleasant weekend retreat takes an dead-end past and his computer genius son are the last unexpected turn when they find themselves at the mercy hope for a ship out of control headed for San Francisco’s of a diabolical kidnapper who refers to himself as “Gaud.” Golden Gate Bridge. Green Light Red Light Michael Alberstadt Death Masque Thomas Huggins An inventor’s servants try to kill G.A.L.E., his aware and A black ops cold warrior gets the fever for an MK Ultra sex malicious Internet of Things, on a remote island before it slave and battles Satanists of the New World Order, and can escape to the mainland and infest the world. ultimately the Devil himself, to rescue her from a living hell. Growling Bill Millstein Don’t Let Us Kill You Tim Keen When demons escape from a frozen prison, a teenage The world’s population is gripped by a recurring cycle female gymnast is transformed into a possessed beast by of violent psychotic blackouts. Humanity’s last hope lies a mysterious shaman, her father, to kill her teammates who with a homeless ex-cop and a teen girl who discover that assault Earth’s environmental balance. (Supernatural horror) Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Horror 45 Head/Dead Andre Thierry Octopad K. John Iskander Outbreak. Unrest. Collapse. Head/Dead is 8 Days Later Squishy, slimy, kill! A small-town sheriff must take on an meets Trainspotting, a day in the life of the undead inva- eight-armed and dangerous menace when girls at a sion of New York City. college sorority house start disappearing in the middle of the night! Intended Joe Vallese In the tragic aftermath of yet another miscarriage via Oh Deer Krista Crawford surrogate, a gay man desperate to become a father finds An underachieving park ranger and her enthusiastic himself haunted by a horrific past trauma – and pursued trainee must defend themselves and their small town by a sinister force that has other plans for him. Think: Boy against zombie deer with a taste for humans. Erased meets Rosemary’s Baby. Our Social Playground Chris Sun and Brendan Byrne K. John Iskander Jowls A group of social media influencers are forced to stay Bam! Crash! Boom! Hellhounds are unleashed into the overnight at an out-of-the-way mansion occupied by a world after a freak scientific accident, and a student biol- magnetic young man, unaware that they are being stalked ogist, a privateer, and a government scientist must stop by a sadistic serial killer hellbent on revenge. these genetically engineered monsters!

A Pound of Flesh Georges Salo Kimberly Matthew Edlin A criminal boss exhausts all avenues including whatever An insomniac painter struggles to turn the obsession of his wealth provides in order to save his terminally ill wife. his dead wife into inspiration, as he finds an unusual com- In a last desperate attempt, he offers the most valuable panion to keep her memories alive. items in his possession, his morals and his soul, to the Devil for the life of his one and true love. Little Hunters Bob Peak Man-made eco disasters in the Pacific Northwest give Restoration Don Stroud and Winter Mead rise to a Chinook Indian myth that embodies all the killing Discovering a centuries-old religious painting that forces of Mother Nature. Once bitten, you become a Little shouldn’t exist, an introverted art restorer slowly suc- Hunter. (Installment #1 of a potential trilogy/franchise) cumbs to the evil temptations of the mystical canvas, even as otherworldly forces strive to prevent her from revealing Mandibles Rudy Gray the artwork’s unholy secret. A scientist-farmer, his teenage son with his friends, and others must destroy a large hybrid wasp man-eater before The Retreat Steven Bolia it starts a colony. When six young co-workers go to an isolated cabin for what they think is a company retreat, they end up being Misfortune Cookies Don Stroud possessed by the cabin’s original inhabitants who died 30 years ago. Accidentally killing an elderly Chinese chef during a botched robbery, an oafish redneck teenager and her misfit friends begin dying one by one when the chef’s ghost A Revel with the Devil Michael Marceau returns from the grave, killing them in gruesome fortune The muscle-bound head of security at a posh nightclub in cookie-themed ways. NYC becomes possessed by the Devil bringing the city to its knees. Monstrosity Eric Vale Trapped in a remote mountain cabin by an ax-wielding Sandmen Robert Madia maniac, a group of strangers accidentally catch the killer. A group of hikers are targeted by ghostly Native American With the tables turned and a blizzard snowing them in, the warriors after an Indian casino robbery where at least one killer is now at the mercy of his would-be victims. of the hikers is a suspect.

The Myriad Andre Orr Go to www.InkTip.com A brazen hip-hop music producer found the impeccable band to manage until strange and utterly evil things began and search by title or author for happening. Did he choose them to manage or did they the scripts that interest you! choose him to assimilate? Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 46 Horror – Non-Fiction/History Shawnee The Illuminati Killer Jerald McClain Trouble Inherited Harish Kumar V I rose from the ashes of the World Trade Center three A family of five moves into a house built from the wood of days after 9/11, undead. Bin Laden was a “decoy.” “They” a tree which had grown on the grave of a notorious witch did it. I used to work for the CIA when I stumbled across “Desdemona.” She seeks revenge on the descendant of “their” plot for the New World Order. “They” tried to silence the one who sent her to the grave, a nerdy, bullied high me before I could expose “them.” My name is Shawnee. I’m school senior. going to kill The Illuminati. The Vicious Eric Vale Snarl Mark C. Spera When a mythical creature begins slaughtering people in When a dead-stop, three-and-a-half-hour, three-mile- a small Texas town, a rookie border patrol agent violates long traffic jam turns a family’s scenic drive through the his vow as an officer by sneaking illegal aliens across the Appalachian Mountains into their worst nightmare, a border in an effort to catch the monster. group of stranded motorists, a DNR officer, and a local recluse mountain man must band together to help res- Winter Bird Stephen Treacy cue the family’s teenage daughter from the clutches of a A former physician, remorseful over his wife’s assisted vicious urban legend monster. (Inspired by actual events) suicide, meets a paranormal owl-woman whose sudden disappearance inspires a science student to help him Stitched Up Ronald McQueen track her down and, hopefully, to survive the encounter. Learning of an illegal prison trade in human body parts, one inmate plans to escape a piece at a time. Once free, The Witch Roberto Gerardo Niño de Rivera he invites the recipients of his organs to a gala party. They When Clara inherited her new house, she and her unborn bring wives and girlfriends; he brings a chainsaw. baby never expected they would be living in constant danger. An evil presence of a witch hunts Clara to kidnap her baby. Things take an unexpected turn when they discover The Telephone Linda Rose why the witch is after her and her baby and the real rea- After the death of her father, a woman follows her dream son behind Clara inheriting the house. and buys an abandoned country pub to renovate and start her own business. But why does the jukebox keep playing the same old song? And who keeps calling on the old pay Witches Are Real Keith Latham B.S.C. phone in the hallway? Because the telephone company Three witches burned at the stake in the Salem Witch Trials says the phone has been disconnected for years. are reanimated by an Egyptian spell and wreak vengeance on the teenage descendants of their tormentors.

Terminal Michaelbrent Collings An unseen force imprisons ten late-night commuters in Musical a bus terminal and tells them they must unanimously Jingle Jingle Michael Barilla choose one among them who will live while the rest die As Christmas Eve approaches in a charming mountain at the entity’s hands. Things get worse when they realize village, a magical elf helps a timid but hopeful toy maker the best way to ensure a unanimous vote is to kill the prepare to become Santa Claus. other voters.

Phantom Blues: The Legend of Robert Johnson There Was a Crooked House James Pasternak John Roth-Imsdahl and Michael Gossette An aspiring architect confronts the dark forces of the Racked by self-doubt, a 1930’s delta sharecropper and Crooked House and the crooked cops who use it as a bluesman, Robert Johnson, makes a deal with the Devil death machine. and achieves immortality with his music upon his murder. His worldwide legend lives on today with his musical con- Three Birdz Samantha Brennan tributions to Rock & Roll. (Based on a true story) Three teenage outcasts wake up every day to the start of the same event: a zombie apocalypse. Non-Fiction/History American Snake Pit Dan Tomasulo Three Blind Mice Kerry Douglas Dye Based on a true story about an experimental project at When an ex-con and his two sons invade a farmhouse Willowbrook, the worst asylum in America, a young doctor to collect an old debt, they run afoul of the one person with his own issues helps a group of psychiatric patients more dangerous than they are: the farmer’s wife. (From a discarded by society move into an unfriendly town that BloodListed writer) wants them out – or dead. The doctor, along with the staff Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Non-Fiction/History 47 and patients, use their unique abilities to gain respect and Johnstown Raymond Leech make the impossible happen. Over 2,200 souls were lost in the Johnstown Flood in May 1889. And were the richest men in the country to blame The Capitulation of California David Lovret for this horrible tragedy? Could it have been prevented? Fictional characters and historic figures tell the story of the On the eve of the Mexican-American War, President Polk worst flood in American history inJohnstown . sends a secret agent and his African-American servant to California to deliver messages to a colorful gallery of characters. The secret agent becomes a leader in the war The Kid on Slapton Beach Felicity-Fair Thompson that follows in an epic spanning the length of California. Christmas 1943. Three thousand people forced to leave The epic of the Golden State that is also true, yet untold the Devon Coast, when U.S. forces plan secret D-Day on the silver screen. rehearsals on Slapton Sands. But what if 12-year-old Harry goes back for his most precious possession? What if he’s on that beach? Conversation with a Kleagle Rudy Gray and Sandra Nordgren Passing for white, a black reporter interviews a Klansman King’s Evidence Felicity-Fair Thompson after a lynching. What if they find out? 1862. How could the most expensive, best-equipped expedition ever sent to Australia’s undiscovered territories have gone so fatally wrong? In the blame game afterwards, The Emperor of the United States David Francis imagine being the sole survivor. The true story of a bankrupt businessman in Gold Rush- era San Francisco who declares himself Emperor of the The Last Hanging Oscar Speace and Paul A. Hernandez United States, battles against ridicule and powerlessness, but finally earns great respect through his courageous You’re invited to a hanging. The last public execution in the stand against racism. State of California of the notorious Dr. Frederick Vincent. It’s the social event of the season in Fresno in 1893. The anatomy of a capital crime. Little has changed in 125 years Fleet: A True Story Robert Reid except the method of execution. Back then, it was by In 1884, Fleetwood “Fleet” Walker was the first to break the hanging in front of the invited public. color barrier in Major League Baseball. He was charged with murder in 1891. Biopic period piece. Officer X Michael Joiner After a white sheriff brutally blinds a proud, innocent Greely’s Rescue: Escape from Cape Sabine African-American soldier, Hollywood firebrand Orson George Cagala Welles leads a passionate crusade for justice in a Southern Based on a true story: The long-awaited rescue from an courtroom. Inspired by a true story. ill-fated U.S. mission to the North Pole in the 1880s turns into a nightmare for survivors when revelations of murder The Reluctant Hero Rudy Gray and cannibalism emerge on the voyage home. (Greely’s A distanced black draftee in a segregated tank battalion Rescue is a Semifinalist in 2019 Screencraft Public Domain helps push the Nazi war machine back to its Fatherland. Screenplay Contest!) Liberating a concentration camp, he finds his till-now slighted humanity. The Hammer Raymond Reboulet The decree is read, and now each must choose between Scrum Frank Jeffreys faith and death. Yet, one man refuses to bow. His chosen This is the contest that almost ended the modern Olympic son leads the rebellion to victory against impossible odds, Games. Scrum follows the five rugby players who played in restoring their way of life for generations. A historical the 1916 and 1920 Olympics for the U.S. and won gold for account driven by a love story. (Semi-finalist at the 2018 their country but left a tragic legacy in their wake. Scrum Nashville Film Festival) shows how teamwork can make the impossible possible.

The Heroes of Hosingen Alice Flynn Sea Witch Frances Pope The untold true story of 300 American soldiers ordered Captain Robert Waterman, rising from cabin boy to ship to “hold at all costs” at the beginning of the Battle of the captain and designer, displays uncanny sailing skill in this Bulge, sacrificing themselves for time to slow the German 1850 world clipper ship voyage. Profit drives him and crew advance on Bastogne. Abandoned by the division, to risk all and gain a still unbroken sailing record. Will skill they fight to their last bullets until they are forced to and spirit triumph against pirates, typhoon, and mutiny? surrender, only to endure the unimaginable to survive Will his brave wife Cordelia remain at home or face her as Nazi POWs. own danger to meet him? Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 48 Non-Fiction/History – Romance UN-Culpable Donald Ayer ownership to his protégé/factory manager, a native My beautiful 38-year-old daughter walked into cosmetic Hawaiian. Trying to harvest the sugar cane crop, in spite of surgery. She didn’t walk out. Coma. (Each episode is fol- sabotage from Japanese property developers and crooked lowed by an episode equally egregious. The documentary bankers, they both find themselves falling in love. film based on the book is completed, and I wrote a song for a feature film. Documentary film will make the film -fes Death’s Hidden Love Ernestina Juarez tival circuit in winter 2020.) A teenage girl views her father’s struggle with depression as a sign of weakness. Her attitude toward him changes The Valley Boys W. Timothy Wright when an ancestor seeking a lost love appears from beyond Four “dirt poor” boys and their young coach from “across the grave to protect both of them from an assassin in a the tracks” join forces with the “rich kids” from the neigh- drug cartel. boring town to create an unbeatable basketball team when two high schools consolidate. Surviving two sepa- rate tragedies, the team brings the two feuding towns The Ellsworth Christmas Tree Kathleen Knox together, teaching strength in unity on their rough and A single mother must decide whether to give her high school tumble journey through this epic inaugural season. sweetheart a second chance all while trying to save the town’s holiday tree festival before it ends for the last time. When I Was a Child Terry Needham A mother’s tragic death and a bootlegger father’s incestu- Extra Innings Kathleen Knox ous abuse of a daughter tears a rural Kansas family apart A widowed Major League Baseball star has his new as the youngest son goes from an orphanage to 82nd romance scuttled by his dead wife’s ghost. Airborne paratrooper on D-Day. (An award-winning script based on an award-winning book.) The House on the Hill Lee Martin Why We Must Die So Young William Gebby A young woman, who runs her disabled mother’s corner store, has secretly yearned since childhood for the out-of- During the darkest days of WWII, a handful of German university students – armed with typewriter, hand-cranked reach “political prince” who lives in a mansion on the hill duplicating machine, and courage – distributed thousands where Christmas lights are seen for miles, but when he of anti-Nazi leaflets and worked toward unifying resistance falls for her, will he risk everything, including a senate seat across Germany. Their ultimate goal: remove Hitler from and the ire of his family, for a reluctant Cinderella? power. Their name: The White Rose. Inherit a Marriage (I AM) Georges Salo Romance Traditional and modern values collide for an Indian lesbian who must return to India to attend her father’s funeral. Upon Christmas at Hidden Brook Farm Megan Breen arriving in India with her partner, she discovers that she must A Hallmark-friendly script. Elyse Rudolph has three weeks marry in order to uphold her family’s rank and stature. vacation from her L.A. law firm. Longing for a Christmas with snow, glitter, and sparkle, Elyse travels hundreds of miles to help a friend’s aunt with her Christmas prepa- A Patchwork Christmas rations. Elyse’s days are full of Christmas magic, with two Peggy Williams and Christine DeSmet handsome suitors, snow angels, a fancy ball, and a sleigh Quilt making is the last thing on the mind of robotics ride her dreams are made on. specialist Holly Lundgren. And when she’s called home to help her injured foster mother with a Christmas The Crystal Legacy Bryan Murray fundraiser, she knocks heads with physical therapist Nick. But Holly discovers quilts are the key to helping Nick patch The patriarch owner of a sugar mill in Hawaii dies, leaving the rift with his grandfather and to bringing back the the majority ownership of the company to his grand- magic of Christmas. daughter a Hawaiian/American in Dallas and the minority

Romeoville Christine DeSmet and Peggy Williams The Script You Need Fortuneteller Jula Byrd, who predicts everyone else’s love life but doesn’t have a clue about her own, is look- Is at InkTip.com ing for someone whose aura meshes with hers, who will Register at www.InkTip.com cause the proverbial earthquake in her soul. That’s when straight-laced government employee Clint Kowalski, who A free service to the industry doesn’t believe in magic and suspects her of illegal activity, walks into her life. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Romance – Romantic Comedy 49 A Second Chance on Kilimanjaro Yves Garceau Carpool Lane Brian McQuery and Luke Miller Emma travels to Africa to probe into her family’s A handsome tech millionaire is tired of the gold-digging deep-rooted ties to Mount Kilimanjaro and in the process women he meets as a bachelor in the Hollywood battles the elements, finds herself, and falls in love at club scene, so he tries some new ways to meet the 19,340 feet. right woman and settles on a bold idea: using an alias to find someone he can connect with through the Share-a-Ride program. Sleepwalker Time Linda Kampley A waitress in an all-night diner is told that a young man she secretly cares for was murdered by a motorcycle gang. As Carry On Jonathan Dorfman she is trying to hide her feelings, the young man appears An autistic teenager must learn to control his emotions if to briefly, and for the first time, speak with her – this same he is to land the opportunity of a lifetime. shy, overly sensitive waitress who he loves. Christmas in Snowville Linda Johnston Sophy’s Journey Kathy Robinson A screenwriter who hates cold, Christmas, and romance In 1867, a beautiful, deaf and dumb, 19-year-old longs to movies agrees to write a Christmas romcom. But first, escape her isolated circus life and find others who sign, she must overcome a bad case of writer’s block. Think, a not knowing that such a world exists. Hallmark movie about a Hallmark movie.

Stockings Full of Love Close to Perfection Margaret Smoot Christine DeSmet and Peggy Williams Romantic sparks fly when a granola girl innkeeper takes A big-city artist and gallery owner famous for the color in a superstar country music singer who’s losing his voice. blue, for the holidays finds her artistic heart and organi- zational skills challenged when a small Wisconsin town’s A Crystal Christmas Joanna Evans banker asks her to save the Christmas holiday celebration involving a “12 Days of Christmas” theme and the promise An ambitious woman must persuade a laid-back of handmade Christmas stockings stuffed with gifts for businessman to relocate his factory up north to save the every child in town. company money, but her Christmas plans are turned upside-down when his casual attitude runs counter to her work ethic, and his fierce loyalty to his town challenges Romantic Comedy her to redefine what it truly means to be rich. (Similar to The Most Wonderful Time of the Year.) Among the Wildflowers Brian Logan Fate brings together a buttoned-up businessman facing an existential crisis and a free-spirited young woman Finally! Sean Nash always on the move for one fun-filled night they will In this screwball comedy about people ‘n’ pooches gun- never forget. shy of love, GAD-suffering (General Anxiety Disorder) Ro and her late mum’s poodle Fifi have their world rocked when loner landscaper Guy is adopted by their Australian The Beat! of Bel Air Mark Nahuysen Shepherd Max and the foursome turn canine-carer Ro’s For legendary jazz guitarist Herb Aeoli, opening a jazz club market garden inheritance into an adventure wonderland in Bel Air in 1977 was never going to be easy. His musical for dogs. career is on the skids, jazz is in decline, and his world is falling apart as opening night looms. But help just may be Perk Perkins at hand in the person of Barbra Streisand. Flea Market Mavens A woman looking for love buys a martial arts booth in the flea market. She masters a new weapon and meets a new Cadenza Mark Nahuysen guy each week. The weapons work out OK, but – she’s a In 1955 Paris, a violin shop owner discovers an ancient freak magnet. family curse, which can only be stopped by reuniting two lost Stradivarius violins. He races against time and rising Linda Johnston odds to find them, before it claims the life of his new love. Get Me Through December Three women who have sworn off men forever purchase a home together in order to be there for one another as Cambridge Marilyn Heather Hegefeld they age. But when two of them find love again, will the A young PhD candidate who is desperate to prove her one who has gained the most be the one left behind? A worth to her father applies to a competitive summer pro- story of love and friendship. (Quarter finalist – Fresh Faces gram at Cambridge University. Screenplay Competition) Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 50 Romantic Comedy He’s Here Somewhere Richard Willett beautiful but apprehensive neighbor. But just as the trio A young single woman is told by a psychic that she’s begin to blend into a family, the discovery of her secret already met the love of her life, but the psychic can’t tell past threatens to tear them apart. her which guy he is. Moonlight in Capri Sari Akhavan Heart and Soul Steve Hrehovcik After she’s fired and discovers her boyfriend is cheating on A fun-loving spirit seen in a mirror inspires an ambitious, her, a young Englishwoman learns her biological father was poetic salesman to rekindle the romance in his marriage an Italian man who has just passed away and bequeathed to a frustrated concert pianist. her a parcel of land In Naples – as well as debt, a legal battle, an entire wonderful Italian family and romance. My Big Fat Greek Wedding meets Under the Tuscan Sun. It Didn’t Go as Planned Holley Phelan and Marc Phelan Naïvely, a lingerie designer and her artist husband trust Need a Little Christmas Joe Doran their faithful dog walker – big mistake. Left broke and in debt, they desperately conspire with a man of dubious A charity fundraiser can score a big donation from a crusty reputation, create dual identities, forge a masterpiece, and Vietnam vet if she can find one person in town who truly double-cross the mob for a fat cash reward. (Quarterfinalist needs Christmas. But her biggest holiday hitch might lay in in The Script Lab 2019 screenplay contest) her own past.

It’s Not About the Label Elizabeth Rossi A New Dawn Jack Weyland Realizing that her 30th birthday is just a week away, a suc- Lisa Salinger, a graduate student, discovers a theory which cessful NYC fashionista returns to her rural hometown to eluded Einstein. Her adviser accuses her of stealing his reverse a childhood wish to never grow old. work. Lisa creates a new identity and moves to a small college, and falls in love with Cody, a cowboy. Before she can reveal her true identity to him, she wins a Nobel Prize. The Love Shuttle Dave Trottier Cody breaks up. Will they ever get together again? A bomb threat stalls an airport shuttle, forcing six desperate people to reveal deep secrets, resolve conflicts, and find romance – and one of them is the bomber. And it’s Out of Reach Bryan Murray funny! (PG and just two locations. Very low budget.) Following her mother’s death, a rebellious teenager, a computer nerd, goes in search of her estranged grandfather in L.A. She discovers that he is a gardener for a rich Mariah’s Chrismas Wedding Steve Bensinger tycoon, and he gets her a job as his assistant where she Mariah’s Christmas Wedding is a Hallmark-like movie that learns all about high finance and also falls for the hand- also is very funny. Mariah is a widow and a veteran wed- some son of her boss with exciting consequences. ding planner. She is recruited to be the art director for a limited series and dates three men. One is potential husband material. She also helps her daughter through a The Perfect Lover Michael Christopher complex engagement. The movie ends when her daughter A woman who fails at relationships gets a robot lover to is married on Christmas. solve her problem. But instead, his antics take her on a journey she never imagined. Mojo Joanne Bellew When a voodoo loving-spiritualist tries to save her grand- The Perfect Match, Rev 4 Francis McDonnell mother’s home by accepting a job in a law firm owned by Jim, a divorced casino attorney looking for lasting love, her childhood crush, she must choose between her crush tries to navigate the strange and wacky online dating and the home she loves when the firm’s most important world at the age of 60. He soon begins a bi-coastal search clients are conjured into buying it. from Philly to Newport Beach, filled with laughter, sorrow, shock, rejection, heartbreak, and a surprise ending. Fasten Mom Jordan Champagne your seat belts! Unaware that she’s an ex-con, a single father out of options leaves his precocious daughter in the care of his Pier 47 Bob Peak A dashing San Francisco executive is fired for sexual Every month an average of 25 scripts harassment and being, well, too “Italian.” Blacklisted in the are purchased or optioned city, he must take a job with a lecherous boss that requires gay boot camp. Unaware that one of his female accusers Register at www.InkTip.com still carries a childhood crush, they must reconcile conflicts A free service to the industry in their lives and come together to find the hearts they left at Pier 47. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Romantic Comedy – Sci-Fi 51 The President to Beat Heinrich Landolt A Sunny Hockey Christmas Tim Stickler What if a third-rate boxer dresses up his fights as a presi- A few days before Christmas, a star hockey player’s play- dential campaign? What if he wins? His name is Justin. He’s boy lifestyle changes when his “maybe” young teenage desperate. He lost his wife, and now he’s losing his child daughter from his home country of Finland is dropped off to foster care. But he’s a boxer; he fights. And everybody on his Miami, Florida doorstep. turns against him: establishment, the media, and especially his VP. She has her own agenda. Two Once Removed Jeffrey Curry A lonely, newly empty-nested, 50-year-old married woman, Pursuing Piper Jennifer Ball who seems to have everything, secretly drives to snoop Adelaide, a hopeless romantic, seeks to find Piper, her one on her recently divorced fiancée from decades ago after true love, according to her late mother’s fairy tale; but when she’s shown his Facebook invitation to friends to visit his she teams up with an intriguing stranger in her quest, she beach cottage near her mother’s home. Her unintended realizes she’s put a twist in her happily ever after. time with him, shaken by ongoing family interruptions, unearths heart-rending truths about their feelings, sacri- fices, and her future happiness. Santa’s Christmas Angels Linda Johnston Two people, reeling from the heartbreak of past relationships, make a pact to avoid their growing affection for Unfinished Business Lee Stephenson Birkhold one another, but well-meaning friends plot to bring them An ardent feminist resorts to old tricks in order to attend together anyway. a writers’ retreat in Paris. She deceives her husband, misleads her teenage daughter, and invites her traditional and critical mother-in-law to move in. Sex Machine Fred Melchiore When a wanna-be teenage stud develops erectile dysfunc- tion, he secretly abuses Viagra to impress his oversexed The Wedding Dress T.N. Robbins girlfriend, until he’s forced to learn what is most important Chet Finley sets out to carry his best friend’s wedding dress is his heart, not his hard-on, or lose everything. with him from New York to L.A. The Wedding Dress is about all that can go wrong – and does – when a guy and a gown go on a cross-country trip. And how true love has a funny way of So Vein Adam Hersh finding those who deserve it the most but expect it the least. A brash South Florida attorney meets his match when phlebotomist, single mother, and registered nurse Jessica Chandler draws his blood and ire in equal measure. As the Sci-Fi two fall in love during a high-stakes medical malpractice case, a sports injury endangering Jessica’s daughter puts 7 Days Before Dominique Debatisse their relationship to the test. After having tried to bomb the repressive government’s TV tower, Alicia and David, young rebels, must flee from their pursuers, who are their former colleagues. Faced with Something in Common Julie Navarrette other failures of computer-based attempts, Alicia decides A co-dependent American Muslim music teacher accepts to use an alternative of fantastic nature, suggested by a her dream job at a private school in her small Alabama strange man, whom only she can see. This new approach hometown hoping to find acceptance, but when she opposes the two rebels. changes the annual holiday show to include songs from a variety of religions, the town’s conservative residents push back, forcing her to end her friendship with a younger man Alien Man Georges Salo and return to New York “where she belongs.” Twelve thousand years ago, according to the Piri Reis map, modern man existed and was regarded by the indigenous population on Earth as “gods,” hence the title “Alien Man.” Speak English Kieran Angelini These different groups of “gods” along with their indige- A commitment-averse, prejudiced cardsharp is black- nous, less-evolved people (who in the future became us) mailed into marrying a ruthless Peruvian gangster’s French went to war for each other’s resources. mistress to keep her from being deported – then puts his life in even greater danger by falling in love with the guy’s hot-blooded Mexican wife. The Alien Mission Sam Griffin Future. Mankind is isolated from the planets of the Commonwealth. Ex-cop Jack Markoff agreed to lead a Storybook Love Tom Durham group whose task is to stop a human maniac, committing An aspiring romance novelist gets feedback on her writing heir atrocities in the security worlds. Easy mission – in from a dashing author and an intense agent – only to dis- Markoff`s opinion – turns for him into a deadly struggle cover mystery and true love in her own life. It’s a poignant, not only with a maniac, but also with members of a truly funny, Hallmark-ish romance designed for a modest budget. galactic conspiracy. (Book for adaptation) Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 52 Sci-Fi Alpha Chase Chuck Gordon young American geologist and her small team of Russian In a world ripped apart by nuclear devastation, a teenage miners must co-operate and use unconventional thinking soldier races against time to avenge his slaughtered com- to destroy the creature before it kills them all. mander and save what’s left of the Earth before time and his luck runs out. Dream Filler Anat Golan In a world where only same sex marriage is allowed and Arianrhod: A New Beginning Phillip L. Hollins dreams are filled by dream fillers, a complaisant male After the deleterious mutation of the Y chromosome medical researcher who’s dream to be with a woman is decimates the male species, tribes of female warriors are granted, must face a ruthless government agent threaten- forced into conflict over the world’s remaining cryobanks ing to kill his dream to get the doctor’s biggest discovery to protect what’s left of humanity. yet. (Political, grounded sci-fi.)

Assurity Anthony Barbera and Jim Bickford (Space & Elvis vs. Buddy James Hume Science Advisor) Elvis vs. Buddy is a rockabilly sci-fi action-adventure com- A reluctant captain and her rookie crew must race to a edy in which the two famous rock ’n’ rollers battle across a planet deep in our solar system where celestial beings post-atomic war America in a fight to the death to see who hold ransom the cure for humanity’s rapidly plunging is the true King of Rock ’n’ Roll. lifespan. Garveyland 2020 Christopher Harmon BirthdAI James Gaskin In 2020, a filmmaker is given the task of creating a doc- An undergrad AI whisperer helps the world’s first self- umentary about the last 100 years of Garveyland, an aware AI choose her own destiny rather than become a African homeland founded by Marcus Garvey. Due to the slave to industry or the military, while staring down the filmmaker’s rebellious actions, he finds his life is in danger barrel of an M-1 Abrams tank, all in a single evening. from the newly re-elected Donald Trump. (Political sci-fi. Alternative history. Strong humor element. A touch of Wakanda.) Callers to Our World Salvatore A. Bono Treasure hunters battle a corrupt executive over alien In the Lagoon Francisco Pastrana technology, threatening Earth with a celestial war in an altered timeline. A professor is called into investigate a fishman in a lagoon.

The Children of Time – The Beginning Indigo Child David Leidy and Greg Paul Chaiene Santos and Carlos Rocha When searching for a cure to a hallucinatory disease A college student with special physiology wants to know she’s contracted from her patients at a cognitive research other planets and succeeds when he heals a princess agency, a psychologist stumbles across a mass cove-up. from an exoplanet and saves all mankind. But a traitor will Or are these her hallucinations? try to stop him for a chance to take the throne. The Khalee Mystery Frances Rice Cosmosis of Worlds Richard Trask An intrepid young woman with special powers and her A bright young couple discovers a hidden quantum family in futuristic America and Africa attempt to discover dimension that reveals continuation of individual human the truth about what happened to one of their own while consciousness in successive lives, but they find this knowl- trying to avert a disastrous civil war with an alien mystery edge is highly dangerous to themselves and to humanity. at its center.

Crypto Frank Jeffreys Last Chance Cafe John Rice Crypto is a sci-fi action script about a monster hunter who Last Chance Cafe: only the polite survive. is convicted of being a monster himself, convicted in the murder of three colleagues. He must escape, prove his innocence, and exact revenge on the true killer: a denizen The Last Iceberg Anne Ousby and Colin Stewart of another dimension. First, he has to convince his friends In this gripping dystopian drama, a troubled teen discov- he is not a maniacal killer. ers the identity of her mother’s murderer and sets out to avenge her death. However, it doesn’t take her long to discover that the culprit’s maniacal plans reach far beyond The Devil’s Hole James Musselman any personal vendetta. This man won’t be content until Trapped two miles underground in a remote Russian mine he has global dominance and claimed the dying world’s with a flesh-eating alien, an ambitious but inexperienced diminishing resources. The last iceberg belongs to him. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Sci-Fi 53 Light Years From Home Red Crater City Debra Karr Aaron Pope and B. Gautham In the far future, a tough, gun-slinging, female starship When four misfit kids are accidentally taken to an alien captain uncovers a sinister plot to give time-jumping tech- planet, they’re forced to get over their own personal hang- nology to her nemesis, a fearless bloodthirsty outlaw. They ups and learn how to fit into their own place in the world must steal the tech back at all costs, even if it means their in order to find their way home. (Sci-Fi/family) lives. (Red Crater City has won “Best Ambitious” script in the AOF MegaFest and Hollywood DreamZ.) The Man from the Meadow Matthew Pundzak Sara, a pragmatic and skeptical CIA operative observing a Remembrance of a Man Forgotten Scott Nelson time-travel project, falls in love with a dashing gentleman Upon the death of their estranged father, six siblings from 1805. When he asks her to return with him to the recount his life via his stories and come to realize past, she refuses. Regretting her decision, she’ll need the there was more to the man than they had given him help of a friend turned rival and a crippled time-portal to credit for. join him in an adventurous new life in the 1800s.

Ringers Sigal Holdeman Mars – The Last Message Gilberto Migliorini A family man and a homeless teen find themselves caught The Earth is in agony. Cities have been built in space. The in a battle for survival between escaped animal-human settlers’ adventure on the red planet reveals something hybrids and the private lab and government men that happened in the past. The heroes by chance become want to recapture them. the protagonists who defy power, discovering that the moon of Mars (Phobos) hides the key to our whole history ... starting from the myth of the earthly paradise ... Our Saucers & Rayguns destiny is decided there. Oscar Speace and Paul A. Hernandez Saucers and Rayguns is a skiffy story about the Garrett Meat Anthony Castellano family, government workers who are charged with inves- Besides terrorism and illegals, what else should Americans tigating the unexplainable. When a toy raygun used by a fear most? How about a six-story-high, 200-yard-long mass homeless man obliterates a couple of gang members who of living protein that is ambulatory and vicious? In the U.S. were harassing him, Mrs. Garrett is sent to the scene to of the 2030s, meat is produced from protein plants, not retrieve the weapon and learn its secrets. animals. Sloppy genetic engineering results in some meat plants going renegade. GMO wranglers Sledge McCracken Save the Butterfly Keith Mallory and Missy Slice will save the day. Bon appétit. A young and naïve Time Research Institute apprentice must take a one-way trip back in time to stop an evil U.S. Only for Gods Ernesto Maurer president who illegally misused time travel to change the What would you do if you knew you were a slave to the outcome of an election. laws of causality? Would you fight for your right to free will? The Save Your Planet Show John Klawitter Our New Home Franciscus Antonius Storimans A slick alien show host from the other side of the galaxy After three-hundred years, a once-dead planet is brought enlists a feisty bunch of retirees from Southern California back to life, an over-achieving army brat’s ambition to to appear on his deadly game show representing the be the first mother of an intergalactic species is being planet Earth. 30 Planets, 50 Days, 1 Winner! threatened by war between the Rebels and the world’s Elite, jeopardizing her dreams and the very survival of the human race. Sloane William Caldwell Genetic vampires capture an ex-biker’s new lover. Now he must return to the hardcore life in order to save her from Paper Chain Graham Mole an unspeakable fate in their underground laboratory. A bug from space wipes out America’s forests and risks turning the States into a third-world country. Can our hero stop it happening? Go to www.InkTip.com Populous Michael Quintero and search by title or author for In the near future, a young woman works for a corrupt the scripts that interest you! committee imposing radical parental exams on couples to control population growth. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 54 Sci-Fi – Suspense/Thriller Sorridi Michael LaRue Video Dream Todd Bunger After his anti-gravity unit malfunctions and causes a Jerome Jolson’s invention Video Dream, which allows the rip in the time/space continuum, a high school geek public to watch their dreams on television, erupts in tur- finds himself decades in the past getting romantically moil and murder when their dreams turn into nightmares! involved with a humanitarian who holds connections to his future daughter. Virtual Steeles A.S. Templeton Twelve-year-old girl-boy twins and their combat veteran Splashdown Don Stroud mother enter an immersive virtual reality video game, only A mysterious space capsule adrift in the Pacific Ocean to encounter a vengeful presence with sinister designs on pulls a disillusioned Air Force pilot into battle against a the real world. shadowy paramilitary force hellbent on utilizing the astro- nauts’ otherworldly cargo to enslave humanity. VRW (Virtual Reality War) Phillip Kruger Virtual reality creators face charges of war crimes in a par- Star Transit Thomas Thorpe allel cyber universe, whose setting is the early 1970s. Mankind’s first interstellar passengers set off for Alpha Centauri, but only an empty spaceship arrives five months Whit’s End Frank Jeffreys later. Four years pass before a distress signal is received The world in environmental collapse. A world government at Earth where Captain Richter and a crew of fact finders blind to its own transgressions. Thousands of govern- blast off to find out what happened. ment storm troopers against a ragtag band of only an old environmentalist, a young techno-wizard, a body-building Time in Tilley Ted Fryia witch-woman, two telepathic dogs, and a mutant cat. Can they possibly win one for the world? Think: Johnny When coerced by her mother to keep watch on her eccen- Appleseed as an environmental commando. tric great uncle, 13-year-old Sophie attempts to find out if stories of his befriending an alien from another galaxy and hiding him in plain sight for decades are true. The Year 2075 Bad Moon Rising Thomas O’Hara The U.S. goes bankrupt and fragments. Most of the U.S. military and wealth relocate to the North West Union. The Trajectory Michael LaRue leader of Space Command dreams of retirement and fish- A local farm boy turned genius discovers a way to travel ing when 90 percent of the world’s population perishes. He back in time to stop a high school kid from a future where is driven to kill off most of the survivors to save humanity. he becomes president and will eventually cause the end of civilization. Suspense/Thriller

Transference Mark C. Spera Assume Nothing Ronald Johnson Circa 2039: When the creator of an advanced technology Assume Nothing is a spy mystery about a journalist who that transfers powerful physical and mental abilities from wants to know why he was given the name of a dead a person’s past life to their present consciousness learns baby 34 years ago. Raised by Thomas Snow who was not that everyone wants a piece of him – an alluring doctor, a his real grandparent. Thomas Snow was a U.S. spy and wouldn’t tell the CIA the name of his Russian contact. Will government agent, and a nefarious operator who wants learns about his birth and meets his mother. (Book for to control him – his very survival depends on outwitting a adaptation) revolving door of betrayers.

Bad Guys Kids Momchil Dimitrov The Venus Syndrome Lynn Vincentnathan А down-on-his-luck former ‘80s-’90s action-movie super- A history professor-turned-soldier from the future in which star has starred in a movie in the past which turns out to the Earth is on the brink of life-annihilating runaway warm- have been based on a true story. The ones affected by ing travels back in time to stop the American president it demand revenge, threatening the life of his family. He from enacting the polices that unleashed the devastation. is forced to play a life-and-death game, where past and present come together, leading up to many twists and The Venusian Chronicles Lynn Vincentnathan turns and an unexpected ending. When the discovery of a spaceship wreck on the Moon strikes people with fear of invasion, a meek Venusian pro- Beleaguered Proof Georges Salo fessor must reveal his true identity to stop vigilante attacks A French prosecutor family’s life is in danger when she inves- on innocent people and steer Earth away from the fate tigates an unscrupulous military shipping deal between a that ended life on Venus. French corporation and the Nigerian government. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Suspense/Thriller 55 Blaine Randy Schultz Dante’s Island Georges Salo The first genetically engineered child becomes an Einstein- A wealthy eccentric orchestrates a reality show to find and like genius at four, a world-class soccer player at nine, and exact his revenge for those that killed his family. a Nobel Peace Prize winner at 21 with movie star looks. But hidden deep inside is a white-hot anger, a minuscule, yet genetically significant fragment of animal DNA, and a The Day the Sun Died Harrison Fowler dark side yearning to set him free. A schizophrenic scientist must win a nuclear showdown anticipated to happen during the next total solar eclipse. The Blonde with Half a Face W.J. Reeves Once you’ve been beautiful, being made ugly can burn a Dead Rose Blues Goran Mojsin hole in your soul. In 1973, a Secret Service recruiter is held responsible for the death of his recruits in a Belgrade bomb incident. Instructed by his superiors to commit honor suicide in return, he fights The Bones of Mary Elwes Ron Mitchell to escape the path he was ordered to follow. A small paranormal team investigating an old abandoned London underground station encounter a malevolent entity after discovering a gruesome secret that has The Decisions of Doctor Faustus Dav Freedman remained hidden for well over a century. Doctor John Faustus, the descendant of a notorious nec- romancer, has a desire for knowledge and power that is so strong he will do anything for them, and give up everything Borderland Peter Eichstaedt to keep them. To find the killer of his borderland developer father, a journalist must tangle with a drug cartel capo and rogue DEA operatives and ultimately takes down the rising star in U.S. Deserted Scott Seagren politics who controls them. When a crime family’s money disappears, five strangers’ lives are set on a violent collision course in the middle of the desert. Capricorn Crossing Lori Ross An ex-CIA agent is pulled back into the field to find out if his old lover is a double agent and discovers a nuclear bomb is Enemy of the People Peter Eichstaedt about to implode Washington, D.C. at Christmas time. When the U.S. president is taken hostage by Islamic terrorists at a secretive political summit in northern New Mexico, a journalist and his special forces commando Cards to Die For Derrick Garland Coy cousin disrupt the plot and help capture the conspirators. A tough, resourceful 11-year-old boy, trapped hundreds of miles from home, must outwit his kidnapper and serial killer to escape with memory cards full of incriminating Escalate Richard Currie images of murdered children – before he becomes one Five strangers who are competing against each other for of them. a $5,000,000 prize are horrified to learn that the only way to win the money is to be willing to mutilate themselves in the worst possible way. Cassandra’s Ghost William Caldwell A young American couple visits the family castle and are drawn into an ancient curse. Executed and Risen Salvatore Bono A rock musician, raised from the dead, finds himself in a supernatural battle with Satan over his daughter’s life. Cheap Action Mark Gunnion A bottoming-out Chicago bartender is the sole survivor of a botched gangland ripoff, and he skates with a cool Faber Susan Vermeer two million. But his Florida beach-bum reboot is disrupted Peter, an over-organized tax consultant, and Frank, an when the burned gangster’s widow shows up, looking for impulsive plumber, find out the SS officer who killed both her piece of the action. Remember: Not everything cold is their fathers is still alive. On a quest to punish him, Peter dead. (Crime thriller/action) and Frank end up imprisoning Faber in his own flat to serve the life sentence he escaped from. Faber’s Nazi friends find out something is wrong and come to his rescue. Clone 178 Richard Currie In a future where executed death row prisoners are legally cloned and then killed by bereaved families looking for Final Exam Michael Leider retribution, a widowed salesman is horrified to discover When things go south on a road trip the night before grad- that his dead wife has been cloned by a mysterious figure uation, college friends risk their lives to get back a friend seeking revenge. kidnapped by murderous thugs. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 56 Suspense/Thriller For Love of Mama Kari Floren The Last Hand Denis Crampton An emotionally damaged woman finds out that her moth- When a mysterious, youn, compulsive gambler turns drug er’s suicide was actually a murder and, suspecting a shady dealer to save the love of his life, it leads to death and the opportunist from the past, she forces a straight-arrow cop resurrection of a violent world he left behind. to cross the line to help her hunt down the killer. Leahcim Trip Payne Ghost Ride the Vic Benjamin Sarno A deist begs for the divine righting of wrongs, only to be A rookie cop suffering from PTSD learns that his patrol car encountered by a spirit called Leahcim intent on holding a is haunted by the ghost of a slain officer. solo rebellion against the Devil.

Harsh Learning Isaac Sweeney Leveridge Hall Karen Kumor When a troubled student breaks into his teacher’s house An attractive teacher with a damaged reputation joins to take hostages, he learns the harshest lessons of all. the faculty of exclusive Leveridge Hall prep school and is threatened by a disabled student predator who manipulates everyone. Haunted Grounds Johan Svensson When a zoo director suffering memory loss buys a lion for a new attraction, his dark past starts to haunt him. The Maze Liz Janzen A successful entrepreneur’s life is capsized after her husband deserts their seemingly perfect marriage and she Honey Sweetie Baby Larry Ziman must decide whether to trust the mysterious stranger After selling out her fiancé/partner-in-crime, a reformed who arrives at her door claiming to hold the key to her thief must survive against a legendary assassin called out husband’s secret criminal past. of retirement as well as her own vengeful ex determined to handle the job himself. Movement Disorder Kenneth Bruce Van Gross, MD Movement Disorder takes a Cuban exile to Miami in a Insanity Renee Miller self-identity struggle amid a blood disease and involuntary After discovering her grandfather’s journals, psychiatrist movements. Grooving with a street band, then duping those Lina Dewitt goes undercover at the clinic where he died who support him including his neurologist while colluding to discover the truth about his tragic death. After arriving, with a criminal element promising him wealth, he and she starts to experience supernatural occurrences that cohorts land in Venezuela seeking disease solutions, mur- test her sanity and must trust in Quinn, a resident and der for cash or revelation of lies to save the neurologist’s ass. unlikely ally, if she hopes to put a stop to the unspeakable evil within the walls of the clinic. Murder on the Fly Sandra McClinton After a man’s death in a small plane crash, his grown Jack Lesley Manuel daughter seeks his murderer among his fellow Vietnam An endearing story of companionship turns violent when a War pilots on a reunion flight in Alaska. loyal and loving boxer contracts rabies and terrorizes two young teens, who now must fight for their survival. My Brother’s Killer Richard Willett A criminal law student is assisting his profiler professor in The Judas Kiss Robin Rickards a study of serial killers and the investigation of a series of When a plant which produces a seed of immortality is local murders when long-buried memories begin to sur- found, one researcher will stop at nothing to find its home, face of his late brother, who was himself a notorious killer. analyze its chemistry, and eliminate all competition. After centuries of waiting, the protector of the seed begs for Erick Freitas mercy and death. His youth having disappeared, a doctor New York Scout Story returns home to his young wife as an old and dying man. A New York City location scout who moonlights as a photographer to expose dark secrets stumbles upon a conspiracy after an actress who hires him is murdered. The Script You Need Is at InkTip.com Night Games Shawn Knox James and Erica arrive at his place for a one-night stand. Register at www.InkTip.com During their tryst, they are abducted by an intruder. Erica escapes, only to discover that the whole thing is a twisted A free service to the industry game with James and his wife. Erica will have to fight back to survive a deadly night of cat and mouse. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Suspense/Thriller 57 The Organ Donors Robin Rickards Quarry Matt Nish With the cost of organ donation bankrupting America, Wrongfully dismissed ex-policewoman Kate Thompson is the government sends a geneticist to use her skills to on the cusp of a fresh start – until a catastrophic detour steal the secrets of a foreign organization. On the edge into the underworld leads to her aiding a young man in of death, anyone will accept a replacement heart from an rescuing his brother from a fearsome gang, and facing animal, from another human, or from any other source. down the abusive man that ruined her. (Blacklist coverage When a subspecies of human beings is discovered, called the script “Highly entertaining, downright harrowing genetically altered baboons become a source of organs and a rollicking good time – a superb crime thriller.” for donation. Raul from Hell J.R. O’Hara Overcoming Blood Donnalyn Vojta A cadre of neighborhood vigilantes accidentally murders In a murder-plagued town, college student Nicole Kouris an escaped convict who is the brother of a South American is in denial about her lurking mental illness, but when drug kingpin, forcing a straight-arrow detective to choose her sweetheart’s tagged a murder suspect and her sister between bringing the killers to justice or protecting them considers suicide, Nicole must face childhood demons to from the kingpin. prevent imminent personal tragedy. Retribution Has a Name Georges Salo Pacific Apocalypse & the River Ocean An assassin, at the top of his game, continues about Peter Fitzgerald his work watching with passing interest as the financial Partly motivated by secret facts and disaster prediction markets crumble. When his friend’s elderly aunt commits by a vulcanologist killed in a hit and run, the story of two suicide after losing her life savings...well, it just got per- warring brothers engulfed by major events and of the U.S sonal. He now dispenses his brand of retribution to those journalist girlfriend of one of them, and their daughter, few whose greed created the financial crisis that caused who becomes a Law of the Sea Attorney and a reluctant the distress and grief to so many. player in a looming Pacific catastrophe. Events parallel rural fracking war. Ricky the Teen Demon Slayer Cheryl Reene Johnson Abused as a child by his alcoholic father, a young man The Poop Chronicles: Tales from Giardia wanted a loving, happy family again. As a spiritual war- David Zambrano and Christine Sadler rior, he unites his dysfunctional immediate family back together. A young adult encourages them to fight their A campy thriller following a small group of people who own demon’s to survive. (Book for adaptation) band together to battle the threat of parasites that infest the wildlife and the people of a small town, when a barrage of chemical runoff pours into a natural water source. Road to Paradise Tatiana Marcovitch With the final spiral of Earth’s destruction, the human form The Portrait of a legendary mountain spirit kidnaps a young, idealistic John Roth-Imsdahl and Michael Thomas Gossette woman and falls for her, but they struggle to escape to an extra-dimensional paradise while pursued by an angry A gifted art student is chosen to be mentored by a sheriff and his rangers. world-famous artist who abducts her to paint his portrait. He brings the student to the brink of insanity in the belief that the painting will convey the artist internal rage that is Sanguine Michael Fine his muse. Only one will survive the portrait. A disgraced cop transfers into a picture-perfect small town with her young son, only to stumble upon an insidious, Process of Elimination Sigal Holdeman occultist plot with innocent children in its deadly crosshairs. Thrust into a perilous game of cat and mouse, a woman must fight to stay alive and one step ahead of a ruthless Simon Sees Othello Bach-Grant killer. When a new foster mom takes a clairvoyant child and tries to help him find his missing mother, they are both quickly trapped in a deadly situation. Project Mars Sandra McClinton In the near future as population growth has stripped Earth’s resources, countries around the world compete to Star Names Preferred Steffany Sommers be the first to colonize Mars. But someone is sabotaging An aspiring actress is crushed to discover her film idol’s their efforts, and an American commander must discover true character and extracts her revenge by systematically the culprit to save the future of us all. destroying the woman’s life. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 58 Suspense/Thriller – Western Streamweavr Kendall Castor-Perry Violation Michelle McFarland-McDaniels When she discovers that her reclusive ex-lover’s A powerful man is obsessed with identifying his wife’s rap- dream-streaming service conceals a murderous mind-con- ist and bringing him to justice, but his wife is determined trol plot, a brilliant doctor with a dark pyromaniac past leads to stop him from doing so in order to keep her own shock- a suicidal attempt to prevent a nationwide “hypnocalypse” ing secret from being revealed. – and to find redemption for her terrible guilty secret.

White Crows T.J. MacGregor Sweet Eve Giovanni Basso A reluctant psychic discovers that invaders with terrifying A depressed violinist must escape a psychotic late-teen abilities come from a future devastated by climate change, girl who holds him captive and tortures him over a day of and the heinous leader is her descendant. To defeat him, brutal madness. she must embrace her full power.

Ten Little Guppies Scott Douglas The Zombie Game Ten Silicon Valley yuppie types all stand to become billion- Daniel Bridges and Emily McGuiness aires if they can survive the winter train between Quebec A group of college students led by a Green Beret-turned- and Montreal, but murder is afoot. freshman head to an end-of-the-year “Apocalypse” party to blow off steam and forget about their troubles, only to A Text of Magic Anthony F. LoPresti, Jr. find they have unwittingly become players in an elaborate A 15-year-old boy inherits a magic book giving him incredi- multilevel game where they not only have to survive the ble power and forcing his family to band together and fight beasts that have been unleashed but also the monsters for his soul. who are playing.

Thirteen Matches A.C. Maki Western After being swallowed by a sinkhole only miles from sub- Fast Ride to Boot Hill (The Legend of Ben Hawks) urbia, one woman uses her remaining 13 matches to burn her material items, in order of importance, to escape her Lee Martin sealed, dark death in a cave. (9/10 Coverage from Coverfly) Tricked into believing his fiancée had died in a stage robbery, a vengeful Texas Ranger trails the gang for years as he becomes a legend in song and dime novels before end- Lesley Manuel Time to Go ing up on the side of a former outlaw with a sharpshooting A man struggling to cope with losing both his baseball niece, even as the startling truth unfolds in a violent climax. career and best friend in a tragic car wreck 15 years earlier (Based on Lee’s novel) goes back in time to see what could have been, though staying may cost him everything. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost Tim Bogg Time’s Up R.L. Hadley An exiled highwayman must ride with the outlaws he betrayed and a crack-shot forewoman to find the fanatical When a businessman wakes up in his office after a drunken priest who killed his son. Christmas party, he finds the power is out, the phones are dead, and he’s trapped like a modern-day Robinson Crusoe. Then he discovers a female employee is also trapped with Fury at Cross Creek Lee Martin him – and she’s been raped. With one location and a cast of In 1876, when a young scout learns his true identity, he two, this is Hard Candy for the #MeToo generation. becomes a living target as he and the scout who raised him charge north into the deadly feud that had killed his Two Evils Meet Peter Vivarelli family, only to find themselves allied with a secretive lady The president of the United States and the president of barber and a young woman rancher under siege by the Russia. Due to their pride and stubborn behavior, their same ruthless clan. (Based on Lee’s novel) countries are on the brink of nuclear war. However, the two presidents are captured by a well-funded secret orga- The Girl I Left Behind Me (Boots & Saddles) nization who have a secret base in Papua New Guinea. Lee Martin The presidents are made to fight their own battles and taught the lesson of pain. Captain Steele’s lonely outpost in Arizona Territory is invaded by a martinet major and his sickly daughter, a testy Irish spinster, and Cayote, a renegade Apache and Vampyre Heat Anthony F. LoPresti, Jr. his band of misfits hated by their own people, and who A vampire cop must protect his human family and partner pretends great medicine while terrified of a Buffalo Soldier from his crazed ex-girlfriend. who refuses to die, even as his real target is Captain Steele. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Western 59 Goldsby Georgianne Landy-Kordis Retribution Stephen Don Based on true accounts, George Goldsby accompanies his Family against family and sons against a tyrant of a master in the Civil War efforts where his fight for freedom father, Retribution is a powerful drama set in pre-Civil War thrusts him into becoming a high-ranking Buffalo Soldier, Nebraska. Matt McArdle is a tough, uncompromising Irish- creating new challenges and unforeseen consequences. American ranch owner who knows how to fight for what is his. But when he wrongfully hangs a young Swede, he brings death and destruction upon his own family. Lightning Bender James Pasternak In 1876, a young lawyer frees his long-lost Civil War hero father from an insane asylum to get dad’s multiple person- The Secret of El Salto Harvey Goodman alities home before mom remarries. In 1860, a woman ensnared in a legend of stolen church treasures is helped by a priest, a Texas Ranger, an egg boy, and others of a small New Mexico Village as she No Reward Sean Mick evades the deadly pursuit of Mexican agents bent on 1880s New Mexico. A mysterious bounty hunter on the revenge and recovery. trail of his father’s killer is hired by a beautiful widowed rancher to rescue her kidnapped daughter – both of them unaware they’re after the same vicious outlaws. “There’s Tough Trip Through Paradise J. Alan Hitchens nothing more dangerous than a man with something to 1876: Little Bighorn. 1877: Nez Perce War. In 1878, a young prove.” (2nd Round Austin Film Festival; Finalist Creative man could have the time of his life opening a trading post World Awards; Quarter-Finalist Page International on the Musselshell – if he didn’t get killed first. A true story Screenwriting Awards.) based on the journals of Andrew Garcia, Montana pioneer.

Pearl Hart & the Violent Men Lee Martin In the late 1890s, the legendary Pearl Hart, the only Every month an average of 25 scripts woman known to have robbed a stage, is torn between are purchased or optioned two violent men, the dedicated but vengeful lawman and the clumsy but deadly outlaw romancing her and whose Register at www.InkTip.com vicious brothers are intent on killing the lawman at all cost, A free service to the industry even as justice fails when she’s railroaded into Yuma. Writers Represented by Agents/Managers

Ariel Ciudadno, drama/strong contemporary relevance. (Official Finalist – Acrobatic Entertainment 2019 New York Screenplay Contest. Recommend by Dave Trottier, author of The Screenwriter’s Bible.) Christmas vs Grinchel (Comedy) Paul F. Longo The Christmas and Grinchel families battle it out to win Bully! (Teddy Roosevelt and the Panama Canal) a holiday light show competition in the otherwise sleepy (Biographical) James B. Saunders town of Aurora, New York. President Teddy Roosevelt goes on the attack Rough Rider- style when Kaiser Bill finagles to build a German canal Barbara Bitela, The Silver Bitela Agency through Panama. Based on actual historical facts. (Winner – 2019 New York Screenplay Contest; Winner – 2019 Big (Comedy) The Secret of Question Mark Cave Apple Screenplay Competition; Semi-Finalist – 2019 Fade Dave Trottier In Awards-True Story/Bio Competition. Recommend by A mysterious cave, a long-ago promised sword, and a Dave Trottier, author of The Screenwriter’s Bible.) family stranded without a TV set. (PG hero’s journey for the entire family; recommended in coverage by Hollywood reader.) Explosion at Black Tom! (Action/Adventure) James B. Saunders Barry Perelman, Federal agents pursue German saboteurs planning to attack The Barry Perelman Agency the Black Tom Island Munitions Depot in New York harbor. Based on the actual long-forgotten incident. (Finalist – 2019 Boss Tweed (Drama) James B. Saunders Breaking Walls Thriller Competition; Semi-Finalist – 2019 Big A NYC politician and his cronies loot the city treasury for Apple Film Screenplay Competition; Semi-Finalist – 2019 millions until exposed by a whistleblower, the upstart New Fade In Awards – True Story/Bio Competition. Recommend York Times and a brilliant immigrant cartoonist. Political by Dave Trottier, author of The Screenwriter’s Bible.) Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 60 DJ Dodd, Future Proof Films and his army of shape-shifting warrior monks who seek a weapon that will grant immortality. Looking for Audrey Hepburn (Romance) Michael O’hare Wallace An aspiring actor with a deep love for golden-age Hollywood Mike Dean, investigates his mother’s brief career as an actress in New Brainstorm Warehouse York and her connection to Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Eve of Miracles (Fantasy) Mike Schwartz Elliott Stahler, Kaplan/Stahler An anti-gravity experiment goes awry, transforming a famous aerospace scientist and former World War II flying From the Whorehouse to the Whitehouse ace into the real Santa Claus. (Biographical) Julie Austin and Adrian Colesberry A woman born into a family of gypsies and con artists rises to become the first woman to run for president of the Mike Gerard, United States. (Based on a true story) The Esprit Talent Agency Project Human (Sci-Fi) Garry Dinnerman, Sean McKenzie and Alejandro Leopardi Beverly Grant Associates Forced to help an alien race hybrid themselves for an Danny Angel, Double Agent (Comedy) John Madormo invasion, a doctor’s quest to return to his family becomes jeopardized when the deceitful aliens plot to kill him. He drives an Aston Martin, matches wits with the world’s most notorious villains, and has a license to kill – in his dreams, that is. You see, he’s only 12 years old. Danny Nuala Quinn-Barton, Angelo, a sixth-grader shunned by classmates, but fueled by a vivid imagination, lives a double life. In his fantasies, Mania Entertainment, LLC he’s Danny Angel, government operative – resourceful, Move Over Santa (Comedy) Constance Barr relentless, refined. At school, he’s Danny...the geek. When Santa goes on strike, Mrs. C. takes over and is a stellar success until he demands his job back. She refuses Kelly Andrea Rubin, Signature but challenges him to a Christmas competition. Entertainment Literary Agency Gemmy (Animation) Ed Holzman and Joe Rubin Saira Fazli, Innovative Artists A young kangaroo, disliked by her peers because she was born without a pouch, accidentally finds herself on an Kyle Bell vs the Devil (Comedy) adventure that will win her respect amongst the mob. Matt Scott and Mary Birdsong (story by) When a series of high school mishaps threaten Kyle Bell with expulsion, the only way out is to fake his own demonic Ken Atchity, Story Merchant possession. It’s The Exorcist, only funnier! A Note from an Old Acquaintance (Romance) Bill Walker A best-selling author on the brink of despair revisits the Sherry Robb, city of his youth to find the lost love he left behind. (2019 The Robb Company Filmmatic Screenplay Awards – Finalist) The Cliffs of Portofino (Crime/Murder/Mystery) Bob Bland Starring...John Dillinger (Drama) When a highly successful, but purposefully low-profile tech Bill Walker and Brian Anthony genius discovers his girlfriend gets arrested for a murder When J. Edgar Hoover’s plans to kill John Dillinger are she didn’t commit, he reluctantly hires a famous attorney thwarted by the outlaw’s shocking surrender, he has no only to be forced into the limelight and use his skills to idea Dillinger will have the last laugh as he takes Hollywood expose the utterly improbable killer. by storm and becomes a star. (2019 Scriptapalooza Winner)

Doc Band-Aid (Drama) Bob Bland and Nancy Revak Marti Blumenthal, 59 Management When a homeless Vietnam vet, having hit rock bottom, The Invincibles (Action/Adventure) Don Perez catches a glimpse of his long-lost love from the war but A team of four superheroes from around the globe can’t bring himself to approach her, he is compelled to (America, China, Africa, India) unite to combat a supervillain rebuild his life and maybe get one last chance at happiness. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 61 The Melrose Jazz Club (Romance) Bob Bland Valarie Phillips, Paradigm Talent Agency When a gifted but emotionally detached jazz pianist, Charlie (Drama) Max Yaney prepping for a prestigious competition, decides to conceal A winsome young woman named Charlie, whose father that he has a career-ending degenerative disease, he passed away before she was born, lives life without regret is forced to teach improv to a stand-in strictly trained and discovers that fate is mischievous when it comes to classical woman who, in turn, schools him on how to use love. Set in the late ‘90s. A feel-good romantic comedy the collaborative nature of jazz to manage his illness. along the same line as 500 Days of Summer, Say Anything, and Amélie.

Stephen Greenwald, William Davidson, Grey Eagle Productions Great West Canadian Talent (Action/Adventure) Frank Mancuso S.T.A.N.E. The Girl in the Bathroom (Horror) Amir Khan When two ex-military buddies become cops and when his After her girlfriend’s untimely death, a grieving teen tries to partner is killed working undercover with the DEA, he and make sense of a haunting that may be linked to a growing his team won’t let anyone get in their way. number of missing students.

Teleplays

Half-Hour Pilot My Perfect Man (Comedy) Steve Rubin Cleared to Land (Comedy) Howard Martin A brilliant AI and robotics scientist, fed up with the bla- tant sexism and caveman behavior of the men in her life, Sexually frustrated wannabe pilot Roger starts learning designs, builds, and programs an amazingly realistic male to fly at the Linton Flying Club against the wishes ofhis robot. Based on the 1960s sitcom My Living Doll. domineering wife Alison. He meets Mandy and a group of pilots that bring much-needed enjoyment into his life as the club falls apart under new ownership. My Sunshine (Drama) Netania Allen and Wenlai Kao A modern-day drama about a lonely girl struggles to Comfort Zone (Comedy) Chrissy Lessey keep her damaged musician father away from his addiction to alcohol before her greatest fear of losing him An anxious New Yorker moves to the English countryside becomes a reality. in search of peace – only to find herself living next door to a boundary-ignoring widow with a Robin Hood complex. Rails (Comedy) Craig Miller Dirty Mats (Comedy) Mary Griffitts and A burned-out advertising creative director and his young Michelle Valen team set out to spectacularly self-destruct and bring their A yoga purist battles her faux New Age family for control – hard-ass, number-crunching new boss down with them, and the soul – of their emerging yoga empire. only to paradoxically strike gold by creating a drug-fueled run of rebellious, anarchic, and extremely politically incor- rect ads that send sales skyrocketing. Frozen Specimens (Comedy) Stafford Williamson Sylvia’s dad’s an alcoholic. Two years to live. Sylvia kidnaps Raintree Rehab (Comedy) Joanne Bellew Dad to the far north. No booze? No chance. An Indian chief plots to kick them off “Indian land.” The beautiful When a reckless ex-socialite fights for a high-end rehabil- nudist next door is never shy. Sister Bobby is mysteriously itation center in her property settlement in a bid to win absent days on end. Sylvia works feverishly to cure Dad back custody of her children, she must learn how to keep before his “expiration.” The cure? LSD. The disqualifying five eccentric old people alive when she discovers that the side-effect? LSD. rehabilitation center is actually an old person’s home with no employees – paid for by their field of marijuana. Kiss My Past Goodbye (Comedy) Steve Rubin Determined to go straight after they’re suddenly freed Step Side of the Family (Comedy) from prison, an amiable and colorful family of convicted Norman D. Golden II drug smugglers open a bar in the San Fernando Valley and When two families become one, enemies become sisters constantly deal with temptation and their troubled past. and battle for control of the household. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 62 Used Cars, Hollywood! (Comedy) Todd Richey and evil. (Delivering contemporary thrillers, seasons and He was a daytime television icon, that is until his pompos- episodes are woven within present-day themes and events.) ity finally got him blackballed in Hollywood! Still dashing and charismatic but flat broke, he must call in a favor from Archangel (Drama) Angel Harper a shady friend who owns a less than reputable car lot. If he can survive the torment from his envious, vertically chal- When a gifted young angel destined to be the Great lenged manager, he may survive until Hollywood comes Angelic Protector breaks the rules to save a has-been to its senses! country singer’s life, she unwittingly ignites chaos in the Light Angels’ world and draws the greedy attention of the Great Dark Archangel. The Z (Comedy) Danielle Silverstone In the glittery shadow of the rich, the wannabe famous, Ark & Crucible (Drama) Michael Alberstadt and their cheeky offspring, a young, spirited Jewish woman finds her tribe as she fumbles her way through the unpre- As civilization-ending war ravages the globe, a luxury liner dictable hot-ass mess of Hollywood. filled with international passengers docks at a remote Canadian town. Now, forever marooned, the passengers must join the townies to forge new lives and a new country One-Hour Pilot – even as fomenters of the war among them implement a new world order. 40 Weeks (Crime/Murder/Mystery) Lauren St. George A pregnant, married mother is kidnapped by her incon- spicuous neighbor, who will attempt to convert her to Armed and Disabled (Action/Adventure) Michael Aston his conservative religious beliefs before she gives birth. Three struggling but uniquely talented disabled factory Catherine, her wife, is left reeling by Sadie’s disappearance workers pull off a heist at their disgruntled workplace, and will bend her legal oath to find her wife and unborn which puts its vicious criminal bosses on their trail. child. As deceit is uncovered and love tested, as they will fight to find each other again. Bonheur/Happiness (Drama) Paul Nissman and Lee Eiferman A.I. P.I. (Sci-Fi) Ian Patrick Williams Mini-series based upon the true story of Rosa Bonheur, In the near future, a racist society turns against our newest a 19th-century French lesbian wildlife painter who minority: Andro-Americans. Android cop Raymond 3000 is claws her way out of poverty only to battle fierce forced along with others into a life in the robotic ghetto. misogyny and homophobia in her quest to become a He turns to private investigation, then risks his life for his world-renowned artist. clients while eluding the militant groups that want him and his kind destroyed. C.A.R.E.S.S. The Pit Bull of Despair (Comedy) Mitchell Holden and Rick Garrison And Call Me in the Morning: The Story of Thalidomide (Drama) Richard Willett After foolishly taking the rap for his boss, a greedy, bitter, penniless, ex-con, ex-Wall Street whiz, is forced to move Six very different people around the world in the early back in with his bohemian parents in Omaha and work at an 1960s – doctors, scientists, mothers, fathers – are con- animal sanctuary. The animals are intuitively drawn to him; fronted with the birth of deformed babies and struggle to find out why this has happened, eventually pitting them he is completely oblivious. All he wants is to make enough against the pharmaceutical giant whose prescription med- money to get back to New York and seek his revenge. ication caused the epidemic. The Calvary Incident (Sci-Fi) Lt. Col. James Sladack Animal Lovers Only (Drama) Green Berets and Marines time-jump to save the 21st cen- Tom Ecobelli and Heather George tury from annihilation by killing a rogue SEAL team bent on Animal Lovers Only is a one-hour dramatic series that gives rescuing Jesus from the Cross. an exciting, behind-the-scenes look at the world of emergency pet care, the Humane Society and animal rescue. The Captain From Nantucket (Non-Fiction/History) It’s ER and Grey’s Anatomy for animal lovers. The pilot is Stan Weisleder a festival finalist with strong, recurring human characters and a script based on true stories from the writers’ years Two hundred years ago when Mexico won its indepen- of experience working in the animal care industry. dence from Spain, Captain Henry Delano Fitch met Josefa Carrillo in California. Although she was betrothed to the governor, Fitch and Josefa fell in love and embarked on The Apothecary (Suspense/Thriller) Marshall Chamberlain an adventure against a world in turmoil. Their descen- Dr. Corey Parnevik explores the application of plausible, dants included Leo Carrillo, the actor, and Franklin Delano cutting-edge nanotechnology into a world filled with good Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the U.S. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 63 The Channel (Sci-Fi) Arthur Lee Blum murder a complete stranger of their choosing instead. The A high-school loner with the ability to channel alien spirits series is adapted from the critically acclaimed thriller One accidentally curses his friends, and to save them he must to Go by Mike Pace. (Pilot episode of 12 episode, five year destroy those alien spirits before a government agency show. Full bible available.) destroys him. Fallen Angels (Drama) Patricia Hickman Country Club Caucasian (Drama) Shane Elizabeth Texarkana, 1924. A man on the run from the law finds three Due to debilitating spells of dizziness, an Indian-American abandoned kids are his meal ticket to grifter heaven. Now, girl is forced to return to the Midwest and her estranged he must work fast, masquerading as a widowed pastor, to white privileged family to solve the mysteries of her past keep the fallen angels’ slick scam from unraveling as law enforcement closes in. and current condition while exposing the secrets of her well-to-do adopted family along the way. Forget Me Not (Drama) Shelia Watson The D (Drama) Hokie Bowman One-hour serial dramedy set in a “memory care” unit of a retirement community, the show explores relationships The D is a gritty, dramatic crime series set in Detroit during the with the staff and families, whether friction-laden or heart- bankruptcy-looming time of 2013, about law enforcement’s felt, and delves into the part faith and humor play (where investigation into a highly sophisticated narcotics operation is God in all this, anyway?). The humor typically saves them controlled by a drug queenpin with duplicitous character while the sliver of faith is laughable. behavior. Think Queen of the South meets Power and The Wire.

Free Radicals (Action/Adventure) Alex Lyras Death Deal (Horror) J.D. Oppen After serving time in federal prison, a reformed corporate To keep their souls, a popular heavy metal band must sur- lackey forms an inspired watchdog group intent on using vive living versions of their dark song lyrics after refusing to extreme ingenuity to derail cultural wrongdoers. honor a deal with the Devil.

Green Motels (Drama) Deep City (Drama) Nelson Bullard Linsay Rousseau and J. Francisco Rodriguez An Egyptologist inherits the power from an ancient alien A husband and wife legal team investigate the mys- and finds herself in the middle of an intergalactic nuclear terious disappearance of an 18-year-old female war in order to save humanity. farmworker, further exposing the rampant abuses committed against migrant farmworkers in California and Designated Drinker (Drama) across the country. (Represented by Tabatha Minchew, Richard Willett and Linda Lili Anderson The Green Room Management) Annie, a tightly wrapped accountant with an empty nest and a husband losing interest, and her new best friend Brian, a Hardcore ‘86 (Drama) Chris Pittas gay N.Y. playwright forced back to L.A. to escort his wacko In 1986 Boston, a group of misfit kids, threatened by aging parents into oblivion, belly up in a legendary Hollywood bullies, racists, misogynists, “authority,” and their own bar with a colorful assortment of drinking buddies coping destructive urges, make their voices heard by forming a with their own deferred dreams and absurd new realities. hardcore punk band.

Eco Squad (Drama) Brandon Rosin Heartstrings (Romance) Iluta Urka A small-town Native-American detective launches the After Jess finds out that her life is ticking away by her every nation’s first “Eco Squad” to protect the environment and heartbeat, she is trying to do things that she has never done public health but often finds her vigilant efforts handcuffed before, including, accidentally meeting eccentric musician by an old-school D.A. who shields his corporate cronies. Tristian. Finding haven in his presence and falling in love with him was never in her plans, but so was neither dying. The Eleventh Hour (Drama) Rebecca Stahl ER physician Elizabeth Parker battles to save the lives of her Helstrumm (Crime/Murder/Mystery) Rob Weinstein patients while fighting off ghosts appearing in the hospital. With sharp wit and cutting-edge techniques, detective Gina However, through these spirits she discovers unique heal- Helstrumm can solve any mystery, except where her father, ing properties and the key to unlocking her haunted past. a controversial Nobel Prize-winning scientist, has gone.

The Exchange (Suspense/Thriller) Mike Pace Hopefuls (Drama) Erica Owens Ordinary people are given the opportunity to bring a loved In 1932, a naïve farm girl from Wisconsin is thrust into the one back to life in a “soul exchange” – all they have to do is seedy underbelly of Hollywood’s heyday as she searches Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 64 to find her missing sister and pursue her own dreams of number of themes, including homelessness, maleness, stardom. Joining forces with a discarded African-American solo fatherhood, and the relevance (or otherwise) of U.S. detective turned PI, they uncover the most scandalous foundational principles. secrets Hollywood’s ever hidden. Mordred Rising (Fantasy) Larry Gilmore I Am Law-Pilot Daddy’s Little Girl (Crime/Murder/ When a dysfunctional 21st-century family find the lost Mystery) Lori Johnson, Mark Young, and Peter Russell sword of King Arthur, they are swept into an ageless In their joint quest to rid Santa Monica from its prostitu- prophecy and a desperate struggle as Britain’s only hope tion rings using underage girls and boys, a deeply troubled against the rise of an ancient Arthurian evil and a new security firm owner, Lawrence A. Wallace (LAW) and the Dark Age. girl he kidnaps/rescues from a gang hit, Hannah, become violent vigilantes while at the same time try to heal each others’ suicidal tendencies, addiction, and psychopathic Murder, She Podcast (Crime/Murder/Mystery) urges for sex, arson, and murder. Matt Johnson A true crime podcaster becomes a citizen detective after getting wrapped up in a real murder case in Cabot Cove, The Jew (Drama) Angeles Perez Maine (The same setting and universe as Murder, She Raised by three street boys in the slums of New York, the Wrote TV series) misstep of a young woman drives her right into the hands of the mafia, a place to thrive and where to eventually drag her siblings along with her. Nova: First Flight (Sci-Fi) Rachel Fischer The ceasefire in the war between Earth and the citizens Mama Dallas (Drama) on nearby space colonies is jeopardized when a freighter Danna Doyle, Benson Simmonds, and Jody Fasanella on a diplomatic mission goes missing and former enemies Aleksey Amhail and Benjamin Thomas must put aside The true story of love and survival that turns a wife and their differences to find the ship and preserve the peace. mother into a gangster competing for turf with Lucky Luciano.

The Odyssey of Jesse Irons (Drama) Matters of Survival (Sci-Fi) Jim Stramler James Pendergast Terrified of losing his job and his family becoming home- A former teacher and musician, traveling through the less again in an economic depression, a man’s job and the modern American West on his way to the West Coast, world’s future depend on his and certain others’ abilities encounters a companionable male Native American, a to survive technical, family, corporate, national, and inter- lovely woman he is able to help, and deer hunters with national challenges/conflicts on Earth and in space. whom he has a confrontation.

Mausoleum: A Love Story (Horror) Anthony Castellano Oh-La-La! (Family) Grant Michael Stuart Flora O’Donnell: dead, alive or “deadish”? Medical researcher Dr. Floyd Williams discovers that a vision from Seeking one’s universal desire for love and family, four his childhood is real – and there are plans to offer Flora’s young, diverse, gay roommates celebrate their artistic and macabre “existence” to wealthy buyers. Flora’s existence activist passions during the AIDS crisis in 1989 Chicago. spans several generations. The secretive North Wing of (Represented by Jonathan Gray, Gray Schwartz, LLP) O’Donnell Labs is where Flora has resided for the better part of ten decades. Floyd encounters her there in the Plausible Realities (Suspense/Thriller) pilot episode. Marshall Chamberlain The investigative staff of the Institute for Study of Unusual Miracle Cove (Drama) Al Cool Phenomena (ISUP) dives deep into worlds of frightening In the volatile ‘70s, a college student in need of money possibility and wonder, exploring discoveries of ancient takes a dangerous job logging in the West Coast rain technology, mysterious mental capabilities, conceivable forest, where betraying who he is may be his only science, unusual phenomena, metaphysics, and the super- chance to survive. natural. (Delivering contemporary thrillers, seasons and episodes are woven within present-day themes and events.) Money Matters (Comedy) Peter Hatch Driving to an early-morning meeting, a Los Angeles CPA Poor Relations (Comedy) Lizbett Perez spots a homeless young female searching trash bins. A financially strapped black father’s life is turned upside Because she reminds him of a former girlfriend who down when he moves his family back to his hometown perished in similar circumstances 25 years prior, this and then his white, wealthy, absentee mother shows up is painful. Money Matters, a television series, contains a hoping for a reconciliation. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 65 Prison Planet (Sci-Fi) Sam Higgins Shooting Stars (Drama) Jorge C. Perez Former undercover cop Cayce will have to balance his A selfish, lone-wolf ex-player, who quickly destroyed his desire to retain his integrity with doing whatever it takes to playing career but is now on fire to create an NBA team in survive on a planet full of criminals. the drowning Puerto Rican ghetto he grew up in, fights his demons, the “old boys” network, corrupt federal and local governments – and the Caribbean’s biggest drug dealer (his Project Omega – Nina Blacke (Fantasy) childhood only friend) – to help lift up a drowning island. P. James Norris A Catholic retired colonel must deal with memories of his (Drama) Robert Mann son’s ritualistic murder and wife’s suicide and his feeling Sins and Memories of being betrayed by God, as he, his experimental psy- Crimes, secrets, and dreams are visualized – beautifully chologist daughter, and an expert in the occult try expose staged as shared memories – as a young psychologist, a fraudulent spiritualist before she swindles a widow for fleeing her own sins and crimes, enters the memories of their paranormal-busting reality TV pilot. (Grand Prize – her patients. Old crimes and secrets create new dilem- 2019 International Faith in Film) mas, and old dreams never truly die. Inner-space can be as magical as outer-space. Join Josephine as she copes with the present by way of the infinite past. Realm of 7 (Sci-Fi) Charles Cooper Geeky archaeology professor Dr. Marie Taylor makes the Soup (Drama) Rick Rosenberg discovery of her life on her first professional dig. Dr. Taylor discovers she’s a direct descendant of a galactic warrior An anthology series that occurs during a heavy fog where princess who was killed centuries ago. Her transformation characters’ hidden secrets, deepest desires, and darkest doesn’t come easy as she must now join the band of sister instincts collide. warriors to save the galaxy. Split Decisions (Drama) Layla O’Shea Rescue From the Dead – Chain of Command (Drama) Attorney Oscar Lincoln reaps massive financial benefits Thomas J. Huston from the U.S. government’s oppressive marriage and With a fatal virus affecting the nation, a rogue Coast Guard reproduction laws, including a divorce system where couples can split only on their 25th wedding anniversary, rescue team and a gutsy medical officer defies military while his own family is threatened by these same laws. orders to search for missing civilians and answers. The crew soon become outlaws in their field and are hunted by the military. Strange Case of Dr. Jack and Mr. High (Suspense/Thriller) Rick Beaty Ringmaster (Comedy) Matthew Schutt Retelling of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde set in 1967 during the Summer of Love. A conservative professor at Berkeley is An overthinking soldier in the Philly mob, on the run after slipped an experimental drug awakening his alter ego who botching an attempt to manage his own crew, trains a enthusiastically screams for more: more drugs, more sex, team of unmotivated L.A. children’s party entertainers to more debauchery. But when his secret life is threatened, pull off the heist of the century. his alter ego violently fights back and crosses boundaries from which he can never return. Rock’n’Biscuit (FKA Uncle Ron) (Comedy) Craig Miller and Dustin Chafin TopKnotch (Romantic Comedy) Carol Hansen A young New York City advertising writer is struggling with A feisty, otherworldly woman confronts industrial sab- love, career, and money trouble in the big city, only to have otage and betrayal, stands up to her domineering boss, his life further upended by the arrival of an unexpected and finally meets the right guy with the divine assistance new roommate: his Uncle Ron, a wild Texas outlaw cow- of three chatty and scheming shih tzu dogs as she re-ex- boy-type on a mission to finish his bucket list and make periences her childhood ability to hear them speak. (Book amends for his beer-drenched past. for adaptation)

Sherlee Holmes, Detective, Luna-Base 1 (Crime/ Vapor (Sci-Fi) Eric White Murder/Mystery) Joyce Keller Walsh A young lava fisher returns to her homeworld just as geno- In the year 2080, colonists on the Moon include 15-year-old cidal aliens arrive, so she switches from blade fighter to Sherlee Holmes – an African-American math whiz who hates railgunner and leads the resistance to victory. being named after the famous detective. Nonetheless, when her favorite holograph professor abruptly dies, she and her friends travel to Earth to attend his memorial – and War Serenade (Drama) Jill Wallace become embroiled in a murder investigation and an inter- Inspired by a true story: Divided by war. United by music. stellar conspiracy which puts her life at risk. Endangered by passion. A WWII saga celebrating the Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 66 endurance of the human spirit, the evolution of rich friend- Mini-Series ships, and love’s triumph against incredible odds when an Italian opera star-turned-pilot is captured and thrown into The Agony of Angels (Suspense/Thriller) a South African POW camp 8,000 miles from home – and Percy Lallemang falls madly in love with a local girl. (Book for adaptation) The suicide of a former friend sets violent, alcoholic private eye Sam Miller on the trace of a child killer linked to a secret of his past. (Award-winning three part mini-series. The Wrong Candidate (Action/Adventure) John Ravitz Nordic Noir type psychothriller.) A well-financed terrorist organization has trained operatives since they were children. When they finally have a viable candidate to run for president, the current presi- Ascension (Sci-Fi) Mehul Desai dent sets into motion a plan to put his own successor in When mysterious black pyramids capable of curing the sick the Oval Office. suddenly appear in deserts around the world, two teenagers, Amanda Dorin, a leukemia patient from Michigan, and Saul Dias, a double amputee from Mexico, find themselves The Wrong Side (Drama) Eric Vale thrust into the public eye as the world around them is for- When a U.S. border patrol officer finds his Mexican/ ever changed. American girlfriend murdered, he uncovers her secret life running illegal aliens over the border. In order to hunt down her killers, he must become the smuggler she used to be. Assassin (Action/Adventure) Bryan Murray When a tough, ex-CIA assassin (an American James Bond) and his equally tough female partner an ex-FBI agent form Documentary/DocuDrama their own top-level security firm working exclusively for The White House, they get involved in fast-track dangerous Playing for Blood (Non-Fiction/History) missions all over the world involving terrorists, drug and Michael M. Kloian human trafficking, genocide, assassinations, etc. (Scripts Between 1919 and 1925, the Passaic, New Jersey, High for 1 hour TV pilot and 11 episodes already available) School basketball “Wonder Teams” winning streak ran to 159 consecutive games, thanks to the brilliant tutelage of Coach “Prof” Ernest A. Blood. This incredible basketball Conspiracy! (Drama) Ted Bacino record has never been matched, or beaten, by any high 1593. When England’s reigning playwright, Christopher school, college, or professional team in the history of the Marlowe (gay and a spy), is about to be tried for treason, game – and most likely never will. he fakes his own death and gets a bumbling, unknown actor named Shakespeare to front his writings. The Crown gets suspicious and sends Inspector Maunder to investi- This American and Israel’s Nuclear Whistle Blower gate. It’s a gay love story during an Elizabethan manhunt, Vanunu (Biographical) Eileen Fleming and it’s based on actual people and events. True story of this middle-aged American who realized her childhood dream of being a reporter after a serendipitous encounter in Jerusalem with Israel’s nuclear whistleblower McCoy (Drama) Carol Jeanette Layman who had been freed from 18 years behind bars under A maverick missionary defies establishment to help the continuing draconian restrictions including he not speak American Indians while white men, from his board all the to foreigners or leave Israel. way up to President Jackson, try to stop him.

USS Liberty Love Story (Biographical) The Queen of Hollywood, Episode One (Drama) Eileen Fleming and Donald Pageler Kealy DeWitt Inspired by the uncovering of the CIA-LBJ connection in Facing unimaginable consequences, a large, strong, sex- the cover-up of the attack on the USS Liberty, to honor the ually questioning girl flees her abusers in 1885 and must 34 Americans killed during The Six Day War, to challenge battle producers, predators, and her demons for a chance anti-Semitism, and to establish June 8 to be known as USS to become America’s first superstar of stage and screen. A Liberty Remembrance Day, this labor of love was co-writ- heroic #MeToo tale inspired by a true story. ten by a USS Liberty veteran and a civilian. Right or Wrong (Drama) Ernie Hernandez Game Show A character development and growth epic story about how a jailed Latino teen gang member changes his life, Know Yes No (Comedy) Barry Stringer then becomes a young adult deputy probation officer who You had better «know yes no» when you answer questions makes questionable but often effective unorthodox right- on this game show, because if you don’t and you get the wrong decisions to be successful and accepted, while answer wrong, your opponent automatically gets it right. working for a director who wants to destroy him. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 67 Sisters of Venus – Part One (Biographical) wildlife rescue center she works at to return to her sea- David Patrick Stearns side hometown to help her pregnant sister. Her future is Before the Kardashians, the Gabor sisters – Zsa Zsa, Eva, thrown into turmoil with a job loss and the possibility of Magda, and mother Jolie – left wartime Hungary, vowed not rekindling a relationship with an old flame and the blos- to reveal their Jewish heritage, and improvised talent-op- soming of a new romance. tional celebrity, redefining money-motivated marriages, cosmetic surgery, and public volatility. Zsa Zsa terrorizes A World of Good (Biographical) Willie Nugent Tiffany’s, Magda takes a bull whip to her husband, and Eva Have you ever wanted to help someone in need, then points a pitchfork to mom on the set of TV’s Green Acres. thought, what can I do? Willie felt the same. Drawing on imagination, humor, and determination, he’s raised over £1 million for charity His story will inspire you to do what MOW you can to help others. Willie says, “Giving just a little will #Love (Romantic Comedy) Sandy Silverthorne not solve the world’s problems, but it does make a difference.” (Book for adaptation) As Valentine’s Day approaches, a blogger handling social media for a successful TV chef gets in hot water when she and an assistant on a competing show create a fake online Reality Show romance between their two celebrity bosses. The Great American Competition (Action/Adventure) Sharon Collins Contact at Fiery Cross (Sci-Fi) Louis Rosas America loves America, and as Americans, we embrace A gutsy female fighter pilot and her wingman encounter the greatness of our land. The Great American Competition Unidentified Aerial Vehicles over the South China Sea that gives our states the opportunity to showcase their land, come between them, the Chinese, and a world on the culture, and people. 50 states compete for the honor of brink of war. being the best state in the Union.

A Country Christmas (Romantic Comedy) Katie Main TV Special A working princess, in need of a brand reboot amid falling ratings for her lifestyle show, The Everyday Princess, Santa’s Rockin’ Reindeer (Animation) Tim Fried-Fiori heads to a small town in Colorado for inspiration for her An adolescent elf disguises herself as a reindeer to join Christmas special. There, she rediscovers her creativity the North Pole’s most popular singing trio, Santa’s Rockin’ and develops feelings for a local rancher, forcing her to Reindeer. But when her secret is discovered just a few choose between a life planned with her aristocratic boy- days before the annual concert, it puts Christmas in jeop- friend or her potential soul mate. ardy for everyone.

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