AUGUST VOLUME 20 2020 MAGAZINE ® ISSUE 4 Where everyone goes for scripts and writers™

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Big Apple Film Festival M – Demon Killer (Fantasy – Feature) Screenplay Competition Mark Hammond An Asian adoptee, working as a waitress in New York A Little Sedated (Drama – Feature) Joseph Sanders City, gets a fast lesson in her family history when demons A coming-of-age stoner dramedy about two flawed high school begin to show up, and she’s the only one who can stop teens struggling through insecurities, drug abuse, and loss. Hell on Earth.

(Animation – Feature) Thomas Pace Norah’s Ark Time Hustlers (Comedy – Television Half-Hour Pilot) In 2125, 12-year-old Norah and her family become stranded Andrew Hopps on a remote Pacific Island. They learn the island is actually Time Hustlers is a half-hour comedy series that follows two a secret wildlife sanctuary, kept safe by an order of monks, street hustlers, armed with a makeshift time machine, as where many animals, long thought extinct, still roam free. they travel through time and dilemma in hopes of chang- But will the island remain secret? And can they keep it safe? ing their fate.

One Last Wish (Fantasy – Television One-Hour Pilot) Alan Alleman Together Apart (Romantic Comedy – Feature) Christopher Sullivan A man with no memories discovers that he is the king of a large nation. As he struggles to fulfill this role, he is con- A “cli-fi” romantic dark comedy in the vein of Black Mirror fronted with supernatural threats from his past, and his only meets When Harry Met Sally. In a climate-changed future weapon to fend them off is a genie with one wish remaining. where holographic technology revolutionizes the way peo- ple date, a man and a woman navigate the tricky territory of a long-distance relationship. Renaissance Man (Romantic Comedy – Feature) Robert Tolz A Renaissance Faire actress, staunchly proud of having Occupied Wall Street, falls for a Faire visitor, until she dis- New York International covers he’s got more money than Mr. Monopoly. Screenplay Awards Mid-Lifers (Comedy – Television Half-Hour Pilot) Fresh Voices Screenplay Competition Heidi Segal Dealing with personal life-changing events, four women Henrietta (Horror – Feature) Harry Aspinwall embark on mid-life career changes to follow their long-for- Ohio, 1887. A multiracial family is devastated by illness gotten passions and become close friends in the process. after 11-year-old Rhett believes she has summoned a demonic power. While her doctor stepfather quarantines the house for cholera, Rhett must fight through an other- Mirage (Comedy – Feature) John Robert Franklin worldly dreamscape to protect her mother and brother. The dark comedic free-fall of a drug enthusiast who is frus- trated by his art and distracted by his Mafia obligations Inroads Screenwriting Fellowship chases an insatiable high that can only be obtained by the one thing he fears most – honesty. Diary of a Madman (Drama – Television One-Hour Pilot) Ryan Brennan WriteMovies Winter 2020 A rockin’ drug-fueled roller coaster through the life of a man whose batsh*t genius gave voice to a generation: Ozzy Screenwriting Contest Osbourne. The founder of heavy metal with Black Sabbath, the Do You Take... (Romantic Comedy – Feature) Prince of Darkness, and the family man whose real-life deci- Louise Geraghty sions beg the question: how the f*ck did he live to tell the tale? When a strait-laced accountant’s fiancé wants a week apart before their fairy-tale wedding, she meets a bohemian musi- Gator (Crime/Murder/Mystery – Television Half-Hour Pilot) cian with whom she has a chaste but undeniable connection. Sam Zehr With the dream wedding back on, a happy ending seems After being betrayed by his girlfriend, a young man moves assured. Until the musician turns up to declare his undying in with his uncle and begins to unearth secrets of deceit love – three days before the ceremony. (Represented by Ian and murder that are linked to a 1989 bank robbery. Kennedy, TalentScout International Management) Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 5 Feature Scripts – Grouped by Genre

Action/Adventure kids have to call a truce to their war and plot to keep their parents from walking down the aisle. No matter what the The 13 of Glory Georges Salo kids do, love conquers all! The quest for El Dorado by Francisco Pizarro takes the conquistadors, known as The 13 of Glory, to a land rife Black Thunder Joe Wenborne with gold. Their altruistic start spirals into the subjugation of the Inca nation and the genocide of its people. His spirit was unbreakable. His triumph legendary. His story inspirational.

Above the Earth Kenneth Taylor Blood Journey Dennis Shepherd Mr. President, a terrorist has hijacked the shuttle; they claim to have a nuclear bomb and will destroy Washington. A low-level government employee bucks the Trump child separation policy, freeing a girl (13) and her brother (6) from a child detention center, embarking on a journey through Accelerate Jamie Rauch Mexico and Guatemala, looking for their mother, encoun- Adversity pushes a world-famous alpinist to climb the tering a mystical man on the hill, fighting a drug cartel and, Rockies, only to fall 150 feet. What should’ve been his climactically, facing the corrupt Guatemalan special forces, death ends up being his story that inspires the world. aka the Kaibiles, who hold the children’s mother captive.

After Wolf Richard Humphries Blue in Green Shokai Ku As humanity tries to survive against a pandemic of were- An Irish cabin boy of a capsized ship is rescued by the wolves, isolated paratroopers team up with a noted escapee ninjas offshore Izu Peninsula, Japan. Holding onto zoologist as they and the pack they’re fighting become the the hope of returning home, he learns the ways of ninja to targets of a primordial Apex predator. survive in the strange East Asian country.

The Ankh Wilfred Akasi Boomer Kesari Bhattacharya A CIA agent on a mission to find a secret treasure in Egypt A father saves democracy to win respect from his daughter. gets a curse where everyone he touches dies, and he uses his skills to get the treasure and save his kidnapped family. Bring the Children Michael Wormald In the Yugoslav war, three women from the opposing Anthem Sean Mick and Don Wells sides, a Serb, a Croat and a Bosnian, must band together In the year 2094, global mega-corporations control every- to escape. Alone and with no military training, they flee thing. When the top security agent in the old United States Bosnia on foot, horseback, and whatever vehicles they is betrayed by his former mentor, he must join forces with can find, battling the armies of all three sides, escaping his enemies in the Resistance to unravel the mystery of a besieged city, and ultimately must reconcile the differ- his parent’s death and restore freedom to America. Blade ences between them. Runner meets Total Recall. Liberty or death. It’s up to you. Crackerjacks Henry Kana The Ballad of Yael and Job Jerald McClain America’s first Top Guns implement a complicated and Babylon – 2021 AD. God lost the bet, Lucifer rules Heaven, tricky plan to defeat German spies and a saboteur. and God blames Job! Former Sgt. Yael St. Job hides in New York City because the Detroit Mafia killed her family. So, Yael kills the Detroit Mafia! Little does she know about Desert Galleon Don Taylor the impending Apocalypse! The only one who can stop the A 21st-century soldier of fortune fractures time in a doomed Apocalypse is Yael’s ancestor Job, but first he has to escape quest to find a legendary Spanish Treasure Galleon lost in from Hell! the shifting sands of the Southern California desert.

Beebee and Josh Edward EmanuEl Desperation Implant Tom James Bee and Josh are at war. These two kids have been fighting Together, they search for a lost statue of a falcon made for years and loving it. Now their lives could be changed for a movie in 1941 stuffed with diamonds, unaware one forever as their two single parents have fallen in love. The will die. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 6 Action/Adventure The Divine Nine Jody-Lynn Reicher Icelander Damon Fields Nine well-educated progressive women from different A chance meeting in Iceland transforms two young, ethnic backgrounds train together in martial arts, taking free-spirited guys from simple surfers to combat-hard- care of business on the criminals that the law has been ened military contractors, drafted into a suicide mission unable or unwilling to punish. few could survive.

The End of Evil Jamie Robinson Kids in Space Tom James James Cole suffers the unholy wrath of Lucifer when he Alien teenagers crash on Earth, alone and afraid, and have refuses to use the powers of his previously unknown only 24 hours to recover their spaceship and return to Mars. angelic bloodline for evil. Cole vows to settle the score, but can he alone rid the world of evil and defeat Lucifer? The Last Journey of Noah Mark Rigoglioso Part 2 of a trilogy, this is the amazing story of Noah the Gabriella Gigabyte: Secret of the King Cobra great builder and prophet, leading his family in a time of Tom Sims fallen angels and worldwide conflict. A surprise visit sends Shot exclusively on device-based cameras and video him on a global journey with the fate of humanity hanging chats, this quarantine-style mystery focuses on the talents in the balance. (This screenplay made the quarterfinals of of a young girl who can solve crime through computer the 2018 Finish Line Script Competition.) forensics, social media, and other online detective work. The Last Salvation Willie Stanfield Girl with the Erotic Gun Michael Aston On the eve of the last world civilization, a swashbuckling After her gangster father is murdered by a scary black ghost archaeologist races against the reptilian humanoids to in a snuff film, his erotic ,charged daughter struggles to find deliver the spiritual artifact of the Secrets of Secrets tab- the killer’s identity and uncover family secrets. Bad enough lets to save mankind. her family is engaged in a gangland war, and her family stands in her way in solving the sicko murder of her father. Match for the Darkness Garrett Craig Judah’s supernatural insight and searing wit cut through Pavel Cerny and Nicholas Jackman Golem X2 the world’s outrageous chaos, until he splits the seams of Ben (14) discovers the Shem, a medieval computer chip, spiritual warfare. Angels fight to reignite the spark of his from the mystical Golem. The Shem is stolen by the evil faith in the closing Darkness, before the end of all he loves. scientist Amir. For the next 10 years, Ben, his father, and a secret society operative pursue Amir and the Shem, culminating in a battle between a new Golem and Amir’s Miracle Kids Philip G. Neri huge AI robot. When the world is under attack and they need a miracle, they call on the Miracle Kids. Grumpyman’s Luck Geoffrey Alexander When a teenage orphan is chased by an armed gang, his Mission Santa Cruz Gary James Dougherty escape plunges him into a series of adventures through A group of modern-day knights from an old military order which he has to unravel the mystery of his origins. are sent to America to find a relic which was thought to have gone missing and destroyed during the Crusades. Hell’s Apprentice Georges Salo A female operative posing as a reporter must assassinate Moon Dragon Richard Humphries a U.S. Army colonel who’s gone rogue and is taking on At the height of World War II, friendships are shredded I.S.I.L with his band of devoted followers. over the night skies of Germany as a lone British bomber is stalked by a relentless German fighter. Honor in the Son George C. Lukas Two brothers, one with secret skills and burdened by a ter- Night Watch Georges Salo rible family obligation, seek retribution for a violent crime Integrity, honor, and discipline are the hallmark tenets of in the Florida Keys, where they must navigate a dangerous any soldier protecting his family and nation. Can one put network of drug smugglers, hired killers, crooked cops, the needs of the many ahead of the needs of the one or the and Cuban MiGs and gunboats in order to persevere. But few? And could a man overshadow his morals, doing what even if they succeed, the family debt still remains. he knew to be wrong, if his family needs him to continue? Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Action/Adventure 7 Night Watch: The Vow Georges Salo Poacher Jonty Acton A former elite Special Forces commander, Georges Howe, A young African orphan has to smuggle a rhino horn across enlists the aid of his former military unit to destroy the a dangerous safari park pursued by ruthless anti-poaching nefarious shadow government organization Night Watch rangers. Befriended by the calf of the rhino he killed, he’ll responsible for the death of his family. need to choose between avenging his father’s death by delivering the horn for financial reward or honoring his Nightfall David Halligan father’s memory by protecting the life of the calf. A small-time hood and his ex-hooker girlfriend inadver- tently steal a priceless art object. Only after losing it do Precursor Gary McKinnon they discover its true worth, and stealing it back leads A former World War II ferry pilot draws upon all her skills them on a trail of deception and murder. to aid a defecting Soviet astrophysicist in a flight to free- dom during the height of the Cold War. Ninja Noire Kerwin McLaughlin Vampires are taking over the world, starting with Princess Revealed April Ancel Hollywood, but on the verge of world domination and in A princess, her half sister, and their best friend must preparing for Satan’s arrival, the creatures of the night travel across treacherous terrain, with unknown allies and are faced with an enemy they can’t scare, can’t smell, and enemies, to save an alliance between their kingdom and a can’t hear coming. A robot built to play the comic book young warrior king. superheroine, Ninja Noire. She’s an unstoppable force and she’s programmed to kill all vampires. Prodigal Son David Oas and Michael Lanahan Blind since birth, 14-year-old Katy falls to her death in a Nobody’s Heroes Michael Elliott Rogue River accident, while younger brother Mark and Nobody’s Heroes captures the deep divisions that character- friend Camila take drastic measures to atone for their ized the Vietnam War. Two lifelong friends, Mike, a combat complicity in the drowning. Marine, and Roger, an anti-war activist on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List, cross their philosophical divide when Mike Protect Our Streets John Ravitz decides to help Roger escape to Canada. FBI agent Frank Bonner pursues them through New England, cornering them A former Marine, haunted by the war he fought in Iraq, in a small Vermont village, ending in a violent confrontation. finds himself fighting a new battle against a deadly white supremacist organization who are intent on destroying his family’s criminal empire. Outcast Sarah Bellwood An orphaned Roman youth, banished by the British tribe Kevin Carroll who raised him from birth, is marked as a barbarian for Rain From Heaven his naïvety and Celtic tattoos. Kidnapped and enslaved in Chinese Communist Party controls Chinese in America the cynical, sophisticated Roman world, he must fight to through Buddhist temples. survive in his quest for freedom and a place to belong. Redemption Georges Salo Outlined in Chalk Karinthal McCray After a powerful drug lord wipes out his competition, he An ex-criminal and his friends try to put crime behind goes after the only people that stand in his way of taking them to pursue rap careers; but, unfortunately, some of over Manhattan: a decorated New York City detective and his friends don’t share the same desire, which leads him his equally competent female partner. to a violent rap beef between two labels and a deadly love triangle that leads to an unplanned pregnancy. Resurrection Run Sean Mick When a troubled ex-cop takes a million dollar payday to Pacific Violent Micah Lockhart reunite a dying billionaire with his estranged daughter, Maya, a young woman thirsty for adventure, fights for her he must risk it all in a desperate attempt to rescue the life against a deadly hurricane and a bloodthirsty cartel woman after uncovering the real reason behind this when a sabotaged deal to save her father leaves her and deadly family reunion. The Transporter meets Chinatown. her boyfriend stranded in the Pacific Ocean. Money changes everything. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 8 Action/Adventure Robyn Hood Outlaw Princess John Reynolds Swan and Crow: The Tulum Machine Robyn Howard, a rebellious senior school student, after Vera Neverkevich and Katherine Eyres clashing with Matthew Ratcliffe, her school principal, is A reluctant pairing between an unorthodox British spy and transported back to medieval Sherwood Forest where she his specially skilled governess, who must race across the becomes Robyn Hood, leader of a band of outlaw women continents and against the clock to prevent the Bolsheviks fighting the evil Sheriff of Nottingham, who bears a strong from unleashing a deadly weapon on the world. resemblance to Ratcliffe. The scene is set for action and adventure, with a touch of romance. ThunderKids Andrew Hopps Two estranged friends reunite and launch their makeshift Savior Brett William Wickman investigation squad they had from their youth to solve a A construction manager runs for his life when numerous missing person case that still haunts them today. Little do nefarious parties and mysterious agencies discover his they know, this case will unearth a much larger drug and blood contains the cure for a deadly disease and will stop murder scheme that is plaguing their town. at nothing to get it. Underwater High William E. Dyson III Scorpion Bay Francisco Rojas Detectives Steele and Stacey are involved in a high-tech Three surfers go down to Baja for a Spring Break surf trip. drug smuggling operation involving drones from Colombia After a few days of fun, they have a bad run-in with some to the U.S. Steele must overcome his feelings for a local ruffians and a corrupt policeman. The surfers are Caribbean singer, Sheila Johnson, who controls half of the drug operation. Things become unglued when terrorists helped by a grizzled ex-patriot with a score to settle and become involved as war breaks out between drug smug- hatch a plan to bust their friend out of a horrible prison. glers and them in the Caribbean.

Seductive Abduction Tom James Utopia Adil Zbir A young socialite is abducted then rescued and captivated John, a retired ex-marine, will try to restore the UTOPIA by a handsome young man, changing her life. system by accepting a secret mission entrusted by Adam Spencer, chairman of the Council of Wise Men murdered by The Slingshot Brigade Leo Sopicki a gang of unscrupulous mercenaries and hired by Michael, The introverted teenage son of a survivalist must defeat a a crooked politician working on behalf of the lobbies. psychotic psychiatrist and foment a rebellion in order to escape reform school and save his father from execution. Venture Ivan Efremov Real event: Russia announced a reward of $50 million for The Stepney Crew Paul Sexton help in capturing terrorists who blew up a passenger air- plane. Driven by the reward, an armored vehicles tester Four criminal lads from London get caught on a heist and and a linguist attempt to ambush the head of ISIL. Instead are press-ganged into the army. They see action in The of him, they find an American couple, heroin, and mafia Falklands then go their separate ways. A reunion of sorts money. They journey to China where Narcotics Control years later leads to re-enlisting in the army. Here they and the mafia hunt after them. learn that war and politics are not what they seem.

Virulent L. D. Summer’s Kiss Georges Salo During a devastating pandemic, a female CIA firebrand con- When a former government-sanctioned assassin is framed scripts a skeptical medical researcher to hunt a man behind for the murder of a lobbyist, she attempts to discover who the most ambitious terrorist plot in history, his twin brother. besmirched her name and, in due course, uncovers a con- spiracy involving an illegal international arms ring tied to a clandestine government agency. Vitar the Legend Katrina Walia An epic tale, a son’s fight to right wrongs set into motion Go to www.InkTip.com by his overzealous father and villainous grandfather, a man who knows many secrets except one kept by his and search by title or author for co-conspirator. Vitar the Legend is a saga of treachery, lust, the scripts that interest you! greed, and attainment of power by ruthless women and men across two continents at a time when Viking tyranny is vanishing by oracle prophecy. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Action/Adventure – Animation 9 The Wall Street Pilot Barry McMullan In the 1980s, a gutsy airline pilot for the Eastern Airlines La Guardia-Washington Shuttle works a secret second job as Recent Successes a stockbroker and illegally gets rich trading on information from a hidden tape recorder that he puts under the seats Sebastian MacLean Options The Lost of his Wall Street deal-maker passengers. Sebastian MacLean with Brawnson Entertainment found the script The Lost through InkTip and optioned it from writer Wayne Johnson. Sebastian has worked in The Warden’s List Karinthal McCray various capacities on films like Kodachrome and Dark In order for a mercenary trained ex-cop to regain his Phoenix, among others. In addition to screenwriting, badge, he is assigned to “secure” a prison and exterminate Wayne is also an award-winning playwright. He has certain inmates, which includes his estranged son. been promoting his work through InkTip since 2012.

Where the...Is My Brother? Georges Salo Sherry Robb Options Tangled Fear A well-known enforcer works for the mob to snuff out their Sherry Robb with The Robb Company found the hor- enemies. His brother, although developmentally chal- ror script Tangled Fear on InkTip and optioned it from lenged, is a natural locksmith, and considers his special writer Pamela Beach. Sherry optioned the script along gift as just another magic act or parlor game. The enforcer with Marc Martinez of Picture Ventures. Both a pro- uses his brother’s ability to gain access to places where ducer and manager, Sherry represents multiple InkTip enemies reside, and he’ll go through anyone and everyone clients and scripts, several of which are currently in to get his kidnapped brother back. development with The Robb Company’s production branch. Both a screenwriter and author, Pamela has been promoting her worth through InkTip since 2018. Animation

Birdland Larry Friedman Kelley Reynolds Options Snowville Think La La Land set in an animated world of birds, about Kelley Reynolds with Reynolds Entertainment, in a little turkey with dreams of making it as an actress in association with Marina Cordoni, found the romantic Birdland. She finds that the big city is a chicken-and-hen comedy script A Snowville Christmas on InkTip and kinda town, but overcomes the odds with help from a crew optioned it from writer Linda Johnston. Reynolds and of “others” just like her. (Based on Gollywood, Here I Come! Cordoni’s past projects include Hallmark’s Christmas by Terry John Barto) Getaway and Love on the Air. In addition to screenwrit- ing, Linda has recently published a children’s book. Linda has been an InkTip member for a year. Doom Lagoon Douglas Booth Three surfing buddies, searching for the perfect wave, fall through a dimensional portal and find Doom Lagoon Yvonne Chotzen Options The Christmas Break instead. Faced with hostile, rock-n-roll, hip-hop surfing Yvonne Chotzen with Chotzen/Jenner Productions monsters who really dislike humans – as well as their own found the romantic comedy script The Christmas Break fear of these creatures – a shared love of surfing finally through InkTip and has entered into an agreement enables them to see themselves in each other and band with writer Sharon Leyne. Yvonne’s credits include I together to defeat their common foe. Am Somebody’s Child: The Regina Louise Story, starring Ginnifer Goodwin, and The Rosa Parks Story, star- ring Angela Bassett. She also will be producing the Lemmings David McPete upcoming A Place Called Home, in cooperation with Leaping Lemmings! The truth about the myth! Young Leo Robin Roberts and ABC Productions. Sharon’s work Lemming discovers that the community’s Celebration has placed in the Austin Film Festival and Final Draft Leaps are not into the Ultimate Lemming Party, but rather screenwriting competitions. She’s been an InkTip a diabolical plan by the evil King Lemming to keep control member since January 2020. over his kingdom. Will Leo and Marni (a young Arctic fox) be able to stop the leaps before it’s his dad’s turn? Sherry Robb Options C-Ward Sherry Robb with The Robb Company, in association Little Miss Rylee-Belle Suzanne Varney with Marc Martinez, found the horror/thriller script Rylee-Belle is a foot tall due to a wizard’s spell gone wrong. C-Ward on InkTip and optioned it from writers Mark She dreams of life as a normal-sized teenage girl. When Continued on page 11 she learns of a magical spell that may have something to Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 10 Animation – Biographical do with her predicament, she hopes that a dangerous trip Socks David McPete to a mystical mountain will make her dreams come true. It has perplexed humans for decades: Why do we always Or is it her dream? (Recommend by Scriptapalooza) seem to lose socks in the dryer? The answer? Because they are alive and our only hope in stopping the Evil Sock The MicroCosmic Cartoon Show Organization and its band of sock monkeys from taking Prema Rose, Hugh A. Rose, and Suryananda Rose over the world. On a perilous quest to discover The Circle of Gold and defeat the Shadow, Chaos, a curious boy, asks his burning Sophia and the Stellar Solar System Judy Maharaj questions, “Who am I?”, “Why am I here?” and “Where is When an evil alien lands on Earth targeting a young girl, here, anyway?”, propelling him on an unforgettable journey through the Circus of Life, revealing ancient secrets while a celestial guardian from space helps her escape the confronting devastating deceptions that would destroy a planet, and they embark on an amazing journey through mission, altering the course of humanity. the solar system.

A Moment in the Blossom Kingdom A Sweet-Smelling Skunk Claire Knopf Barbro Karlen and Aramis Fontenol Funky Skunky has a big problem. His spray smells sweet, Lonely, angry, and bullied, a 12-year-old child prodigy making him an outcast in his skunk community. After sev- blames it all on her fame when, in fact, she’s quite snotty eral failed attempts to hide his perfume spray, he sets out and has forgotten how to be humble and kind. Taken to on an adventure to find his smell mate, discovering along the Blossom Kingdom, where no evil exists, she leaps the way that being unique has its advantages. into never-before-seen magical adventures with amazing, otherworldly beings while reluctantly learning that true change can only come from within. Biographical Above and Beyond, A True Story The Orange Chihuahua Kelly Ann Guglietti Barbro Karlen and Aramis Fontenol A humble chihuahua assumes an exciting alter ego by Always secretly remembering her past life as Anne Frank, a night, thanks to a pair of magic slippers. Narrowly escap- Swedish mounted police woman, and once a child prodigy ing discovery by a motley crew of skeptics, he is caught author, is victimized by discrimination, sexual assault, and by his amigos. (Best Scene video reading from WildSound media assassination, which triggers new, more explicit Festival for Family Drama available.) memories matching past-life faces with her enemies of today. Surviving, she writes her story and is reunited with Paulie the Pigeon Manuel Tinoco Anne Frank’s last living relative. A curious New York City pigeon will be forced to confront his true nature, and he will have to choose between two After the Storm Richard Willett worlds: the city or the wilderness. Stricken with polio in his 30s, Franklin Roosevelt resists identifying with the “crippled,” but then finds new life and The President’s Dog Gary Green hope within the community of handicapped people who pilgrimage to his hideaway in Georgia. When the president’s daughter’s dog is kidnapped, the Feds employ the abilities of a kitty with a major attitude and her insect companion to return the pooch, in this Baby Face Nelson Joshua Chaffin sarcastic look at today’s politics. Corrupt police officers extort law-abiding citizen Lester Gillis, loving husband and father, during the Depression, The Secret Life of Balls Gregory Bonds forcing him to leave town and change his name to the When an unathletic little boy wakes up with the ability to infamous Baby Face Nelson. All Nelson wants is his old life hear and see balls talking, he foils a corrupt sports com- back, but when officers assault him, torture his wife, and missioner’s scheme to rig the upcoming championship murder his friends, his idea of police reform earns him the games by “ball-tampering.” title of Public Enemy #1.

The Show Lesley Manuel The Eagle in Spring Leo Sopicki Childhood dog-friends Rocky and Molly part ways to follow A young girl, the only woman in history to become queen of their dreams of becoming a police officer and a show dog until France and queen of England, struggles against kings and Molly is kidnapped and Rocky’s squad becomes her only hope. popes to find her true calling and release her passions. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Biographical – Comedy 11 The Hemingways Selma Karayalcin The Hemingways is the true story of Ernest Hemingway’s last years and of his tempestuous relationship with his Recent Successes Continued from page 9 fourth wife Mary as they struggle to deal with his declining powers as a writer. Daniels and Sarah Cryprunski. Both a producer and manager, Sherry represents multiple InkTip clients A Man Called White Randy Hines and scripts, several of which are currently in develop- Walter White, a troubled yet single-minded African American ment with The Robb Company’s production branch. who “passes” for white, struggles to defeat lynching in 1930s Mark landed representation with The Robb Company America as he takes leadership of the fledgling NAACP and several years ago via InkTip. He’s been an InkTip mem- becomes a Civil Rights pioneer. The dilemma of his racial ber for over 10 years. identity is mirrored by his estranged son, Pidge, who must grapple with his own identity while reconciling with his father. Barbara Bitela Signs Lynn Beck Barbara Bitela with Silver Bitela Agency discovered Ponzi Kelly Crawford writer Lynn Beck through InkTip and has entered A penniless Italian immigrant pulls off a brazen financial into an agreement to represent her. Ms. Bitela reps scheme in 1920 Boston that lives in infamy. numerous talented writers and often comes to InkTip to find more. In addition to writing, Lynn is also a pro- Rock, Paper, Scissors, Queen: The Wendy O. fessor for Pepperdine’s MFA Screenwriting Program. Williams Story Edward Chersevani and Nick Clemons She has been promoting her work through InkTip for over 10 years. A true story of a rebellious and depressed punk rock singer who escapes the stronghold of her parents to work her way up the music world and become the most recogniz- Dmitry Torgovitsky Hires John Fraser able and unruly performer of the late 20th century before Indie filmmaker Dmitry Torgovistky discovered writer her untimely death. John Fraser on InkTip and hired him to co-write an as-yet-untitled feature project. Dmitry’s credits Thaddaeus David Maddox include numerous short films like Assignment and A young apostle plagued with panic attacks shares the Milieu. Dmitry and John have previously collaborated gospel with an Armenian princess, whose conversion stirs on the short film Rock, Paper, Scissors, which was also her king’s vengeful wrath. discovered through InkTip. John has been an InkTip member since 2017. Comedy Kevin Carraway Options Blue Hawaiian 65 in 67 Frank Hurford Kevin Carraway with Clear Lake Entertainment found A young American is set up to take suspicion off his manager the crime/dark comedy script Blue Hawaiian on InkTip who is having an affair with a married woman. Despite not and optioned it from writer Brady Brown. Kevin being on the same planet, the quick-witted American and optioned the script along with his producing partner his know-it-all English buddy attempt to evade the out-of- Allen Yates. Kevin’s credits include the films Chain of control husband, while elsewhere the manager mistakenly Command and Way of the Wicked, starring Christian believes he’s also found refuge. (A black comedy) Slater and Vinnie Jones, among others. Brady’s work has placed in multiple contests and festivals. Brady has Alvie and the Daemon Phil Davey been promoting his work through InkTip for one year. When a librarian translates an ancient book, she becomes the target of a demon-worshipping cult and must join a Karen Brakenridge Options Santa’s Chairs band of hopeless misfits to defend her library and prevent the apocalypse. Karen Brakenridge with Superstylin Productions found Santa’s Chairs through InkTip and optioned it from writer Thomas Stohlgren. Karen has worn many hats The Amazing Christmas Fiasco Shaun Delliskave in the industry, including credits on films like Speed A whole town makes bets on whether they can marry off Racer and Batman Begins. In addition to screenwriting, one of the two most independent women around to an Tom is a novelist, playwright, and scientist. Thomas equally independent visitor, only to find out that they all has been an InkTip member for over 10 years. have a surprise for the whole town. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 12 Comedy Amy, the 14-Year-Old Girl Who Saved America ship, whereby he learns the importance of inclusion and Scott Erickson that you’re never too old to change for the better. As ecological and financial disasters threaten the country, a teenage girl creates a bold proposal to create a sustain- Characterization John Bourke able society. That’s what America wants, right? An author believes his main character to be real and allows him to offer ideas for writing a murder mystery novel. The Attack of the Non-Union Ninjas Guillermo Centeno main character dictates the story line to a point where the Attack of the Non-Union Ninjas is The Odd Couple meets author’s wife is murdered. Who shot her is a mystery that Enter the Dragon. It’s also a hilarious trip through 1980s needs to be solved. Los Angeles with an action-packed martial arts twist for an ending. Covid & Me Dee Kline The support a teacher wins with “You’re safe from corona- Bandology Steven Duff virus because the Chinese invented it to infect old white men” disappears just before his hearing. Faced with the twin obstacles and a failed marriage and an unscrupulous rival, music teacher Ken Jackson battles his way to eventual resolution against a background of dark Dan of the Dead L. D. comedy and chaos. In the process, he becomes involved Intolerant middle school teacher Dan Newman, a disgrun- with a series of ill-advised love affairs, but finds the love of tled new entrant into the fellowship of the talking dead, his life completely unexpectedly. persists in lecturing wide-eyed inner-city school kids on why they will never fit into polite society – until one of them Beer Man Joe Moran teaches him how he still can. (It’s A Wonderful Life – in reverse) After being accidentally abandoned as a child during a semi-pro basketball game and subsequently living in the Drag Queen Ninjas arena basement for 20 years, a young “Beer Man” is tasked Michael Van Patten and Jason Fedusenko with saving the place he calls home by helping the local Three drag queens secretly protect their community from b-ball team win the championship. bullies, bigots, and one outrageous villain determined to take over West Hollywood. They sing! They dance! They kick ass! Beyond Their Years Patrick Langille Eccentric criminals mistake a gifted teenager for a deceased Drone Resonance: Crouching Music, Hidden Assassins man that once betrayed their boss. Now on the run, the kid Lynn Getman must clear his name before they put him on ice. The prime minister’s security girl prodigy accidentally contacts a captive Russian Mafia moll via a resonance violin, co-devel- oped by a military engineer whose husband disappears after a Black Quarantine Bryan Hammond drone explosion. The husband, or Russian “twin,” “reappears” The whole city is in quarantine and everybody is losing their as an annoying hologram. Humans’ hearing is disabled by minds; so, you know what that means: people are arguing Chinese tech, so the wife’s drones and the prodigy’s trick ani- and fighting over toilet tissue and hand sanitizer in stores, mals save world leaders from synchronized assassinations. crooks are robbing everything, and family members are trying to kill each other. But, one man must survive the madness and bring to justice a ruthless gang. End of Line Paul Hunt An awkward, movie-obsessed teen finds out that romance doesn’t follow the Hollywood formula when a girl and her Bonspiel – A Curling Comedy for the Ages! troubled mother move into his neighborhood, forcing him Allyson Simon to come to terms with his mother’s death and find love. After a privileged Aspen housewife’s scheming husband abandons her in the Canadian outback, she joins a curling team and sweeps her way to a new life. Fluzzies Gregory Charlton Three older women besieged by relationship and work issues due to Covid decide to use their masks to rob banks Caribbean Cruise Vacation Jonathon Douglas and ex-husbands’ businesses. Each woman has a story to A white boomer must overcome his culture-centric com- tell. Eventually, they become local heroes as they donate fort when he is forced to take a black teen on a family money to different families and charities in need. Love, cruise in place of his estranged son and discovers the humor, and the important message of staying strong in youth has the connections needed to bring his son aboard adversity drives the story forward. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Comedy 13 The Frontman Alyona Lemeleva Incubation Davin Affrunti and Tom Botchii She is a teenager, and she is strong. So, when the leader In this dark comedy thriller set in 2016, a fetish-addicted of the underground band fails, she steps up and becomes germaphobe unravels a poultry outbreak conspiracy with the front man. But she lives in the world where you have a headstrong scientist who believes his DNA mutation and to pay dearly for your passions: it’s the ‘80s so with union compulsive nature might just be the antidote the world and they’re singing in an iron cage. needs. (Overall Winner – Filmmatic Awards; Best Thriller – Filmmatic Awards)

A Guy with a Sense of Humor Michael Anderson The Last Santa Michael Rhodes A rejected accountant will lose his job and any chance at A quixotic, strip mall Santa searches for the spirit of the girl of his dreams if he does not get a sense of humor. Christmas in a post-pandemic world that’s lost hope. Desperate, he hires a troubled comedian with a hidden past to teach him to have one. The Loose Quarter Bill Thomas Two Texas women find a rare coin in a San Antonio, Texas, Gym Beanies E. Elizabeth Franklin bus station and play a cat-and-mouse game with three Three quarrelsome, retired stepsisters accidentally buy thieves as they try to find out the origin of the coin. a gym together. They have to overcome their differences and flaws in order to survive two days of secrets, lies, bag- Meet Me at Maxim’s Adam Korbitz and Anastasia Korbitz gage, and even danger. (Dramedy, buddy comedy) A selfish and impulsive man gets himself, his boyfriend, and a small group of culturally clueless Americans hopelessly Hit Boyz Daniel Dombrowsky and Adrian DeLude lost and stranded their first night in Paris, plunging them A CIA assassin has to return to his boy band roots to thwart all into a disorienting and farcical adventure of cascading a large-scale terror attack while dealing with the drama of action which forces everyone to rethink their assumptions being surrounded by washed-up divas. about the City of Light – and about themselves.

Honky Tonk Woman Mrs. Claus Takes Off Barbara Pacelli and Ko Pacelli Robert Jones and Desiree Jones An overworked Mrs. Claus takes off for the Caribbean. Can Santa and the elves get her back before the evil Dr. The wife of a college professor (up for tenure), secretly Crane E. Numm hypnotizes her into believing that they, joins a rock-and-roll band and suddenly becomes an over- and Christmas, don’t exist? night sensation.

North Pole Confidential Robert Husted How to Date a Stripper David Rorie When Santa’s factory mysteriously burns down, a group On the eve of his 40th birthday, a henpecked husband of criminals are hired to hijack a train filled with his mag- falls for a stripper named Jasmyn. ical presents. But when it’s revealed that Santa’s been replaced by an impostor – and the train’s cargo was part Icons Are People, Too Scott Erickson of his secret plan to take over the world – it’s up to heist- leader Ray and a rogue female elf to save Christmas. Four American icons (Elvis, Marilyn, Janis Joplin, and Kurt Cobain) discover that their iconic characters are being written into the world’s worst film script. To escape the The Not Ready for Prime Time Family Richard Willett horrible script they must rewrite the internal scripts of Conservatives say gay parents will inevitably turn their their own tragic lives. Will they succeed before the horrible kids gay, right? Well, Bert and Martin are about to go script gets turned into a horrible movie? on national TV to prove them wrong. The only problem: They’re beginning to suspect all four of their kids are gay.

The Impostor Paul Maritato Don’t want to attend an event, a wedding, a funeral, what- The Script You Need ever? Ask The Impostor to cover it. He’ll look like you, talk Is at InkTip.com and move like you. No one will know it’s not you. But when Phil hires The Impostor to take his place at a boring office Register at www.InkTip.com party with his fiancé Liza, The Impostor permanently tries A free service to the industry to take Phil’s place in Liza’s heart. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 14 Comedy Oh-Oh! Another Kids Movie Matthew Barch Reality Cheque Georges Salo Jack Morgan, a mischievous 10-year-old, and his online ava- A brilliant non-conformist and computer coder works at tar friends must unite in real life to save a nutty professor, dead-end jobs in a way that forces his contemporaries to and the world, from the boy’s ambitious stepmother who face their failure. Until one day, he meets a woman that can kidnaps the professor and steals his mind-reading helmet. match his intellect and his whole world changes or does it?

Out of the Ditch Charley Vance Rita RPM Janet J. Lawler Macy, battling her drug problem, is bailed from jail by her Rita RPM is a story about reinvention. Life begins anew sister, thrown out of the home she shared with her mur- when an out-of-shape, middle-aged, widowed woman dered boyfriend’s dying father, hounded by a manipulative takes up road cycling as a way to combat the empty nest pusher, befriended by a mother who killed her sons’ kill- syndrome she suffers after her daughter leaves for col- ers, tries to turn her life around to be a better mother to lege. (Great for a Melissa McCarthy-type actor) her son, who seeks revenge on the pusher using his goat. Road Dogs Aaron Bennett and Vanessa Leigh The Paul Bearers Jonathan Hall When three stand-up comedians hit the road for a sim- ple weekend showcase, their plans become derailed by a A Gothy teenage girl and her suicidal neighbor have till crooked club owner and her homicidal bouncer. dawn to cross Montreal and dump Paul’s body in a wheel- chair into the St. Lawrence River. The thing they don’t know is that Paul’s not quite dead. The Road Home Darren Pirozzi A college graduate accompanies his three childhood A Perfect Life Ganea Tiberiu friends on a road trip to L.A. so they can get their dream jobs, and he can escape a broken heart. What they dis- A different story about an ordinary man that hates his life, cover along the way will change their lives forever. his job, being his mother’s servant. He wants to live like a Hollywood star, and finally he got that chance; he enjoyed his new life for a while, but soon he found out that having a Role of a Lifetime Steven Fortuna life like a Hollywood star was not the life he dreamed about. A struggling actor befriends a group of struggling unem- ployed men and offers to lend his services to help them improve their interview performances, which eventually The Pleasure of Losing It Dmitry Sheynin leads to him going on the interviews as them. A misfit sophomore charged with making a terroristic threat at his public high school embarks on a journey to discover Seventeen and Turning Into a Zombie Scott Erickson himself at a private academy for troubled kids, only to end up a third wheel in two teachers’ secret love affair. A teenage girl on the verge of turning into a zombie falls in love with a boy. Should she tell him her secret before she tries to eat his brain? Will she experience the embrace of Power Move Michael Ellis his loving arms before she tries to rip them off? A beleaguered middle-age White House speechwriter with relationship issues meets the king of Ulanda, who has Shrew’d L. D. temporarily moved in next door. The king has two wives, a son who is the NBA #1 pick, and a kingdom where a rare A painfully shy HR temp recruited to create a series of earth metal has been discovered that will change global reality TV love advisories confronts a flurry of romantic challenges by embracing her inner shrew. (The Taming of battery technology, for which he is about to award the the Shrew meets Pretty Woman) exclusive rights.

Soldier of Missed Fortune Georges Salo Re-Evolution: The Rise of the Land Sharks David McPete The U.S. government creates a modern-day bionic man on a shoestring budget. A satire of good and bad shark movies. Professor Pat Gallaher believes that nature is about to experience another evolution. Her worst nightmare is realized when Superheroes Forever sharks acquire legs and feet. Now, whether it is land or Elliott Woolrich and Lucas Woolrich sea, nowhere is safe. Can Professor Gallaher and her crew, Elliott, a multiple sclerosis sufferer, and his obsessive-com- including Wes, a hero’s hero, stop an evil genius’ plan to pulsive-disordered twin brother Lucas decide to fight take over the world? against a sadistic and murderous surgeon despite their Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Comedy – Crime/Murder/Mystery 15 afflictions. (The script is based on my own real-life strug- Death Dose Gerry Yukevich gles living with multiple sclerosis. The script is a dramedy On a deserted Martha’s Vineyard beach, a beautiful young that draws in some elements from the popular comic artist is found overdosed. The police rule her a suicide, but book film genre.)​ her shrink suspects murder and sets out to find her killer.

Taming Holden Caulfield Virginia Austin Death Spiral Sandra McClinton Snatching Holden just before he can begin the original In an alternate Victorian universe, pioneer aviators Orville Salinger odyssey, Goth girl extraordinaire and headmas- and Wilbur Wright and a balloonist help beautiful Harriet ter’s daughter Selma Thurmer is determined to find the Quimby solve a murder mystery at Long Island airports one antidepressant that will put a smile on his face. And where women pilots are in jeopardy, as Quimby fights to armed with an endless supply of alcohol, one-liners, and become the first American woman to earn her pilot’s license. an arsenal that would make even a warrior princess weep, nothing will get in her way. Doing a Bertie Roy Vincent Cash, crime, and corruption is all in a day’s work for armed Til Death Do Us Pay Lance C. Hendrickson robber turned supergrass, Bertie Smalls. With the underworld An estranged older Jewish couple, newly broke and code now in pieces, life on the run is easier than going to jail. on the run from the law, flees to an Indian reservation and teams up with a juvenile gangster to arrange the The Dreamer Jeffrey Liggens husband’s accidental death, so the wife can collect on his life insurance policy. A recent parolee is overheard sharing a dream premoni- tion with his co-worker about the murder of his boss, only to be prosecuted for the murder as suspect number one Til I Come Home Elizabeth Pier when his dream materializes. So, here I was in the middle of cows and cornfields. What possibly could be so difficult or interesting about banking Estranged Michael Anderson in the “North Country?” Sure, I was a bit out of my element. Growing up in New Orleans, then working as a commercial He promised payback, and overnight bad things began banker in San Francisco and New York City, I thought I was to happen to people connected to her. Now, to save her prepared for anything – so I thought. (Book for adaptation) abducted child and stop a psychotic killer, a renowned psychologist and two mismatched detectives race to uncover the killer in her husband. Tres Hombres Bill Thomas The rock band Tres Hombres are jailed in Laredo, Texas Family Secrets Stacy Talus and seek to make it in the music business with the help of A faithful husband’s life is thrown into chaos when his best influential politicians and music connections. friend is murdered and his wife is arrested for the crime, leading him to uncover a web of family secrets as he hunts The Vagina Whisperer Bill Foley for the truth. After a routine flu shot, a likable loser grows talking mutations with Extra Vaginal Perception and still manages Full of Grace Shane O’Connor to find love. John, ex-baseball star turned LAPD detective, returns to his New England hometown after receiving news that his Crime/Murder/Mystery father (a retired police officer) has died. While home, he reluctantly takes on the case of a missing local girl, who not Behind the Veil Gene Gwynne only is the daughter of John’s high school sweetheart, but Film Noir. Los Angeles, 1947. In an era of prejudice, intol- also a case John’s father had been trying to solve shortly erance, corruption, and political intrigue, private detective before his death. Vic Manning’s search for a young gay man leads to his dis- covering a secret cloak-and-dagger world that preys upon human weaknesses for money and political gain. Every month an average of 25 scripts are purchased or optioned Dante’s Island Georges Salo Register at www.InkTip.com A free service to the industry A wealthy eccentric orchestrates a reality show to find and exact his revenge for those that killed his family. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 16 Feature Article Q& Awith Adrian Milnes For some screenwriters trying to break into the industry, it may seem like only the same people get ahead, and living in Hollywood is the only location for success. But that’s not the case for writers using InkTip. Once again, I had the pleasure to talk to another screenwriter with his first produced feature credit thanks to a connection through our site. Adrian Milnes, the screenwriter of Bridge of the Doomed, grew up in Merseyside, England where he worked as a civilian technician for the Air Force for a decade. He then moved to Hong Kong and now resides in Australia, over 13,000 miles from La La Land. As a self- taught screenwriter, Adrian believes that he may have saved time if he took a screenwriting course or two, but everything seems to be working out fine now with the release of his first feature and another writing project in the works.

Chris: Do you prefer to write in one the command structure, group genre over another? dynamics, and with military dialog. It helped also with adding elements to Adrian: Action, thrillers and hor- the personalities of the characters. ror are my favorites. I could never The character Sharrock, however, see myself writing something like was inspired by the bass player in a Downton Abbey or a rom-com. band I used to play with, so inspira- Chris: What is the story of Bridge of the tion can come from anywhere. Doomed, and how did it come to you? In some zombie movies the military are shown as being in a wild panic, Adrian: During a zombie outbreak, and I always felt that was wrong. a group of soldiers have to hold a The military are trained to hold it bridge against an expected undead together no matter what. Robert horde but then find what lives under- LaSardo was excellent in his por- neath the bridge to be just as deadly. trayal as the general, somebody In some zombie movies I wanted to write a contained military who is always in control and dealing horror but do something a bit differ- with the problem, no matter what he the military are shown ent. I remembered how when I was feels inside. He’s ex-military so he a kid my dad had taken me around had plenty of experience to draw on. as being in a wild the locations of the WWII landing Eight of the actors in this movie are Operation Market Garden (filmed as ex-military, so it does feel authentic. A Bridge Too Far). I only appreciated it Wesley Cannon was able to answer panic, and I always felt over ten years later, how something any of my questions about the U.S. of little importance can be absolutely Army, and we had Lance Caver on that was wrong. vital at one point in time. set as the military advisor.

Chris: How did your background Chris: Who was your favorite charac- working with the Air Force help with ter to write for Bridge of the Doomed? the story and characters? Adrian: Private Sanders was a great Adrian: Working for the Air Force cer- character to write. He’s a decent man tainly helped me with understanding who is torn between following orders For these scripts and many more, go to our website: www.InkTip.com Feature Article 17 and looking out for himself. The influence is pretty obvious, but I’m Chris: What’s one thing you wish you actor portraying him, King Jeff, did an also a fan of Hong Kong gangster knew earlier in your career? amazing job of bringing out the char- movies, and their influence is there Write a movie producers acter’s humanity, and I’m sure great in a subtle way. Adrian: things will happen for him when the will want to make, not the movie you movie gets released. Chris: You are currently working on want to see. Bloodthirst with Michael. Can you tell What was the most challeng- Chris: You’ve been using InkTip since Chris: us about that project? ing part of writing the script? 2016. What’s your advice to writers who haven’t had their break yet? Adrian: Right from the start, the Make sure you have a script attracted a lot of investors, Adrian: Apart from being aware of and we were able to broaden the what producers are looking for and scope of the story. It went from eight Plan B and try to have writing scripts that can be filmed on characters to over 60. So, taking a small budget, I’d say make sure something intentionally small and a part of your life you have a Plan B and try to have making it a lot bigger was the hardest a part of your life separate from part. I received a lot of support from separate from movies. movies. I know some people that have nothing else. Michael Mahal and director Michael Su, both of whom saw things in my Adrian: The director Massimiliano Chris: Pancakes or waffles? script that I didn’t. Cerchi approached me through Facebook. He needed a writer and Adrian: Waffles, especially the Dutch Chris: Bridge of the Doomed is your ones with syrup. first produced feature. What went had seen my name mentioned in through your head when you real- connection with Bridge of the Doomed. Chris: Thank you for chatting, Adrian. ized your script was going to camera? After agreeing to work together, he Anything you would like to add? asked me about Michael and Sonny Adrian: When I heard it was going to Mahal and ended up approaching Adrian: I hope a lot of people will be filmed with Robert LaSardo and them to work on Bloodthirst together, see the movie when it comes out. Michael Paré, I thought it was too and that’s when I got hired. Kate Watson is excellent in this, and good to be true. I’m a big fan of both I’m sure it will be a breakthrough role of theirs, and I didn’t totally believe it Chris: What has been the most for her. was all going to happen until the last challenging skill for you to develop in day of filming. your writing? Chris: What are your favorite Adrian: Learning to write fast has films, and how has that influenced your writing? been really hard. I used to take about two months to write a script, Adrian: I’m a big fan of movies like but now I can write one easily in a Predator and Dog Soldiers, and their couple of weeks.

Robert LaSardo as General Vasquez and Michael Paré as Colonel Charon Register Today at www.InkTip.com 18 Crime/Murder/Mystery Greenbriar Clarke L’Amoreaux attorney seeks to prove her innocence and solve the victim’s The wisdom and perspicacity of age is a hard combo to final secret message, which provides a clue to the killer. The beat – especially when there’s a souped-up wheelchair unsuspecting collaborators are finally revealed with dramatic and a Castilian robot in the mix. new evidence in a conflict-ridden courtroom battle.

HeadHunters Cameron O. Crisamore Lighter Than Air Michael Rees Who’s Carlos is what P.I. Danny Marowski is after. Along A man walks into a bar for a glass of milk, comes out the way, he encounters an old friend who helps him on tracking down a killer, with his town’s sanity at stake, and his journey. After searching for leads and coming close, stumbles into love. tragedy struck with his friend’s murder. Now Danny, after falling into deep depression and becoming alcoholic, is A Living Sacrifice Michelle Cutler given one last chance to get revenge. Will he take it? Based on a true story, a pregnant woman investigates the nearly fatal crime against her as an infant by piecing Hotties K.C. King together witness accounts, police reports, and her father’s When a film student watches the subject of her senior traumatic memories with the hope she hasn’t inherited project go up in flames, she presses rewind in order to her mother’s mental illness. discover who burned down the strip club, killing two in a small North Dakota town. Memphis Tango Joseph B. Atkins A down-on-his-luck reporter meets an Argentine activist Human Rights Defender Arhur Strogov in a Memphis bar and learns he’s investigating the same Miraculously surviving a terrible accident, Alexey, a young local business tycoon who ruined the reporter’s career irresponsible rich man, decides to completely reconsider years before and now harbors a fugitive general of the old his life and moral values. Alexey boldly enters into battle Argentine Junta. The activist turns up dead on a riverbank, with lawyers, bankers, collectors who are ready for the and the reporter is on the case. most heinous crimes to cause people suffering. He is invulnerable after an accident; he reveals unique abilities The Missionary Stephen Sandoval that make him stronger and more permeable than any The Missionary is a crime thriller about a self-righteous pas- enemy. (Book for adaptation) tor who embarks on a cross-country killing spree to meet the end of a corrupt televangelist. I Once Knew a Cop Erin King When an eager black female rookie cop with a troubled Never Again Kenneth Taylor past is partnered with a prudent white male veteran cop FBI bastards, I told you to leave Della alone; she had noth- in Queens, NY, their evolving relationship forces them to ing to do with the bank robbery. Yes, we hit three banks in confront the painful truths of their profession as they track one day with the help of the FBI. the past actions of a brutal fellow police officer.

Pacific Anti-Terrorist Unit: Nectar of Passion I Wonder What the Vintners Buy Lillian Savage Georges Salo A pair of homeless winos overhear plans to commit two The Pacific Anti-Terrorist Unit is created under the- aus cold-blooded murders, but they can’t reach a consensus pices of the department of Homeland Security. A tsunami over what they should or should not do about the situation. washes bodies on shore, and PATU is asked to assist in solving these bizarre set of murders which unveil a nefar- The Invisible Ink Conundrum Richard Bemand ious and sinister plot in the making. Can PATU decipher A terminally ill father is murdered after making a new will. His and terminate the plot in time? daughter is found standing by the body and arrested. The Pacific Anti-Terrorist Unit (PATU): Drug Habit The Script You Need Georges Salo Cancer, “the scourge of modern man,” is yet incurable, Is at InkTip.com although, French and American scientists have discovered that in part viruses and retroviruses cause it. No cure is Register at www.InkTip.com available as it may be that drug companies stand to make A free service to the industry more profit from abating the symptom rather than curing the disease thereby perpetuating a drug habit. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Crime/Murder/Mystery – Drama 19 Pacific Anti-Terrorist Unit (PATU): Resolute Strike Sicarios-Juego de Ninos Jaime Velez Georges Salo A hitman and a diamond thief cross paths to pay a debt to When he receives a cryptic warning, the head of the Pacific a drug cartel boss. Anti-terrorist Unit in Hawaii must assemble his team to stop a group from detonating a nuke on his island. There Was a Killer Among Us. The Day Chantilly Changed. William Mark Clarke Pacific Anti-Terrorist Unit: Reap the Harvest On March 8, 1979, in Chantilly, Virginia located west of Georges Salo Washington, D.C., a murder took place. The case would A criminal needing an entry point for his weapons and be looked at again after 40 years due to a short story on drugs finances a Honolulu mayor’s re-election campaign. a Facebook page that was created to jog some memories. Upon winning it, the mayor reneges on his deal. He is dis- There is a confession that happened in the spring of 1982. patched, replaced with his compliant deputy mayor. PATU There was a killer among us. The day Chantilly changed. must solve two seemingly unrelated events in order to stop the proliferation of weapons and drugs. Are they too late; does he reap his harvest? The Tormented Dale Janda A hard-nosed, Latina detective and her newly appointed, The Post Justin Hunt gay, white male, rookie detective partner must overcome A frustrated father in a football-crazed Texas town seeks their differences and work together to outwit a ruthless revenge at all costs after a video is posted on social media serial killer before becoming his next victims. of his teenage son being beaten by unidentified classmates. Tramp City Tony Pana Retribution Has a Name Georges Salo A troubled detective goes undercover to investigate a An assassin, at the top of his game, continues about series of homeless people being murdered, which leads his work watching with passing interest as the financial to a major conspiracy where homeless people are forced markets crumble. When his friend’s elderly aunt commits to kill each other. suicide after losing her life savings ... well, it just got per- sonal. He now dispenses his brand of retribution to those Michael R. Saunders few whose greed created the crisis that caused the dis- Woman on the Edge tress and grief of so many. An undercover agent with discipline problems trying to find her way back to normal life goes undercover to eliminate a syndicate drug dealer. But when she’s nailed Revenge & Shoes Terence Hammond for the murder by her lover, a cop wanting a large reward, A reformed criminal regains consciousness and struggles she must decide to become the victim of the truth, to remember who he is only to discover he has a wife and or survive the lie. child who will die if he doesn’t follow orders to kill.

Saving Harry Snow David Zeller Drama A combat vet, fresh out of prison for a bar room man- 1074 Women’s Airforce Service Pilots slaughter rap and dealing with PTSD, has a chance to get J. Thomas Peterson, Theodore P. Vanos, his life back on track when he finds himself involved in a and Christopher M. Barnes fake kidnapping scheme involving a dissipated, rich-kid Margaret Smithfield and her friends answer the call to be former college buddy who has been cut off and disinher- part of the Greatest Generation on the Home Front. As ited by his billionaire military industrialist father. Women Airforce Service Pilots they face danger, death, and discrimination at the hands of the men they’re helping Shadow Crew Valorie M. Taylor only to have their story buried until now. Los Angeles drone-assisted Police Detective Jack Renshaw commands four 20-something techs turned executioners 26 Stabs A.L. Adams assigned to clear lifers and death row prisoners from California’s only remaining prison. It’s 2036. A lot has With a nod to Old Hollywood, lust, second chances, and changed; drone-assisted executions and racism is illegal murder play out in a small desert community when a according to the newly implemented Equality for Everyone fashion design student hooks up with an ex-convict while Law. But when the law enforcers use crimes to maintain visiting her grandparents over Halloween. (This three-time peace, do we really have peace? award-winning script takes place during the early ‘80s.) Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 20 Drama 40 Days to Freedom Jeremy Brown American Teenage Runaways Brian M. Gelinas, A man who is falsely accused of a crime finds himself on Ken M. Benoit, Nick Bradford, and Amy Green a spiritual 40-day journey while being on the wrong side Attempting to leave their troubled pasts behind them, of a very corrupt law officer. What looks like a common three teenage boys set out on a desperate cross-country tragedy could turn into a powerful revolution. journey which results in an unplanned murder and for- ever changes their lives. (Stand by Me meets Rebel Without a Cause) 58 Sycamore Road Jeffrey Boyd A widow of 50 and an architect of 70 occupy two very unusual houses, separated by more than the swimming Angels of Darkness Jackie Macgirvin pool between them. She unexpectedly inherited the prop- A depressed, elderly widow’s salvation unleashes a erty that once belonged to him. He wants it back. demonic counterattack. When prompted by God to sell her rural land to a company building a jail, the demons manipulate the ambitious young pastor to rally the town 9/10 Richard Willett against her. Angelic reinforcements clash against dark Four interwoven multicultural stories that take place in forces, seen and unseen, in a fight to the death. the World Trade Center on the night before September 11, 2001. Augustus and Ophelia Greg Wishart A preliminary cancer diagnosis sends an eccentric man into Ace Tania Meneguzzi a tailspin. Along the way, he crashes into a vengeful woman. The true story of a 21-year-old janitor struggling with every A series of explosive encounters and “kidnapping” ensue aspect of his life who unexpectedly becomes a father and until, despite opposing motives, these deeply troubled Silicon Valley millionaire. people find common ground. An aspiring friendship blossoms. However, a serious accident and the opportunity for revenge threatens to end any chance of a shared future. Adjusting the Mirror Jeffrey Liggens A college girlfriend of a neighborhood thief influences him into going to college, only later to face her own Bader Field; How My Family Survived Suicide social challenges. Carl David The emotional story of an idyllic American family who loses one of their sons to a devastating suicide and how The Advocate Denise Bryant they struggle back to life with no answers – only the end- When her mother is shot to death and her aunt dies from less nightmare and persistent pain. As a film, it will have neglect, a determined young woman sets out to challenge a powerful positive influence and save lives. (Book for the public policies that let her family down. adaptation)

Af*ckinstan Jim Maceda Banjo Ned Rae Rodgers Afghanistan, 2010. At the height of the U.S. surge, a Marine Is NYC ready for another version of Mick Dundee? A rough- squad leader uses all of his ex-cop savvy to track down an cut Aussie gold miner causes chaos on Wall Street as he escaped al-Qaeda explosives expert before he triggers a attempts to rescue his headstrong, floor trader daughter series of stealth bombs, which could change the course of from a New York State prison. the war. Inspired by a true story. Bayou Juju Janet Wise April Ancel Always Something Missing The daughter of an environmental lawyer attending Never fall for a patient, so they said. But Kate didn’t realize an elite university is drugged and raped by the son of a that a patient could save her life, find her mother, and wealthy oil magnate. In seeking justice, a family secret is keep her father from taking everything, including her life. exposed that irrevocably fractures her family.

American Myths of Black & White Aaron Yarber The Benjamin Kelly Crawford Caught in the crosshairs of a murderous cop and hunted Follows a $100 bill that is interwoven in the life of an by a rival gang leader, an emotionally damaged urban teen overworked attorney in the days leading up to a terrible on a path to ruin is transformed by vivid dreams of his accident in which the attorney is confronted with his mor- ancestors from the distant, and not-so-distant past. tality and love of money. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Drama 21 The Best Boy Mark Setlock ensues. Will their unique father-and-son bond tear them When a teacher at a Catholic boy’s school is arrested for sex- apart or tie them closer together? ual abuse, the life of his most beloved student is torn apart. Bono Calling Will Francis Bethesda A Place of Hope William Mark Clarke Edinburgh, 1989. A preacher’s son and aspiring rock A senior non-commission officer who’s about to retire musician has fallen in love with an art student. They share from the USAF is at The National Naval Medical Center a passion for Irish rock group U2. She opens his eyes to when he’s assigned to a hard-charging female Marine love and French culture. However, his relationships are major who was injured in Afghanistan by an I.E.D. The challenged when mum is rushed into hospital and Bono is daughter of the senior non-commission officer meets the rescued from the beach. major and follows her mother’s dreams that were dashed by her death when her daughter was very young. The Boys in the Machine John Reoli A homesick newbie on his first submarine deployment Betrothed: A Crusades Romance Ruth Finnegan longs for his girlfriend back home. He struggles to fit in A girl’s story, a haunting, impossible love triangle, a wan- with the salty, erratic crew as well as conquer specialty ton female “of uncertain age,” and a sweet, unexpected training for an important, dangerous mission. friendship between two men of opposed religions bring a cataclysmic clash of cultures to life. Brenda’s Got a Baby Aurielle Hinson Based on Tupac Shakur’s iconic song, Brenda’s Got a Baby. Beyond Forever Pierre Robinson A young teenage girl sacrifices it all to break down all bar- A man that tragically lost his wife and son decides to leave riers set against her in order to survive the ghetto. his remaining family, friends, and successful career behind by signing up for a one-way trip to Mars as part of an experimental, volunteer space exploration program. The Bridge Greg Wishart A broken woman makes a momentous decision. A The Blast Trip Payne confused man takes a spectacular risk attempting to save her. In each other’s arms, they miraculously survive a Inspired by actual events, a black man with supernatural fall off a bridge. Psychologically and physically damaged, human strength, and an equally strong anger at God, both fight against past and present traumas. In seeking enters the Jim Crow town of Texas City in the year 1947 answers, they alienate each other and push themselves and becomes the savior of the town’s white citizens from deeper into darkness. the worst industrial accident in American history.

Broken Shoes Amrita Baines Blues for the Father Barry Kohl, Joseph Harrison, and Marcel Wilson A delivery man for a child-trafficking operation forms an emotional bond with a girl, forcing him to reconsider the Marion, a music scout buying black music to sell to white artists and record companies, travels the 1957 South, liv- course of his actions. ing as a white man while hiding his mixed race heritage and juggling his two families, white and black, as the Civil Cadenza Mark Nahuysen Rights era struggles into being. In 1955 Paris, a violin shop owner uncovers a family curse, which can only be stopped by finding two Stradivarius The Blues David McPete violins that were lost by his ancestors. He races against Two teenage sisters help their father and his gang rob time to find them before the curse claims the life of his banks so that they can raise enough money to escape his new love. criminal lifestyle. The gang doesn’t want anyone to leave but know they risk a showdown with petite 14-year-old Canary BetteLou Tobin Cassie – an expert gunslinger and the most dangerous (and feared) member within the gang. A child vaudeville performer, orphaned in the early 1900s, overcomes traumatic hardships and blossoms into an adult as she heads to New York seeking fame, love, The Boar Brandon Larson and acceptance. (This is a story with music. Most of the Trapped in the Michigan wilderness, a remarkable child action takes place when she is an adult and ends after visits his self-destructive father, unknown to what danger World War I.) Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 22 Feature Article with Michael Mahal Leading an Old Genre to New Lands

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Michael: We just started filming another movie called Numbers with Michael Madsen and Costas Mandylor. We are also in the process Rich R. Rendon as Private Sharrock of shooting Adrian’s script Bloodthirst. Register Today at www.InkTip.com 24 Drama Carmen Mia Cinzia Gagliardi The Color of the Evening Sky Linda Kampley When a successful, handsome nightclub owner and man- In a busy chemotherapy office, there is a growing feud ager, suffering from a serious amnesia, meets the woman between the main nurse who worries about the patients of his life in the London underground, he realizes he can- and the new office manager who only cares about statis- not live anymore without memories and decides to face tics and how the office appears, and who also is having an his painful past. affair with the doctor. Into this fight, walks a new patient who badly needs care and attention. A Case of Subtle Beauty Sandra Fox-Sohner A brilliant self-taught mathematician, trapped in the tra- Comet Fox Peter Quinones ditions of 19th-century aristocratic Russia, is denied an After a bad divorce, a successful, aggressively bisexual education because of her gender. Despite a continent female executive in NYC seeks true love by experimenting that would never dream of a woman mathematician, with lovers of both sexes. Sofia Kovalevsky cleverly outwits oppression, shatters old beliefs, and opens doors for women worldwide in this true Court Order Raynard Goodman story. She left a legacy of remarkable mathematical discov- eries and lasting social change. An ambitious black attorney is appointed to defend a racist, white repeat offender for a brutal assault on an interracial couple and soon finds out co-conspirators of a Casino Intrigue Georges Salo resurgent hate group set his client up. Inspired by a true story of a casino security guard who is passionate about his work but disrespected by his wife. He The Crescent Blade – Janissaries Boyan Milushev eventually finds his true calling as a result of his wife’s extra- marital deceit. Their struggle is set against the backdrop of In the year 1393, the armies of the Ottoman Empire a casino, showcasing the true nature of that business. conquered the Kingdom of Bulgaria. The rightful heirs to the throne were slaughtered; the country’s boundaries obliterated. The Turkish sword became the only law of Montgomery Floyd Catch as Catch Can the land. The sky and earth were drowned in blood. The While investigating a serial rape case, a happily married crescent moon darkened the sun for centuries. detective experiencing a mid-life crises has a sexual encounter that embroils him with a manipulatively clever The Dancer on the Roof of the Temple W. Lee Miller trust-fund serial murderer, who he struggles to prove guilty before he becomes the next victim. When a rich account executive risks everything to recon- cile with her father, newly released from prison, she finds redemption with the help of a poor street girl. Catching Baby Moses Anthony Barbera When a 13-year-old middle-class white boy is abandoned by his divorced parents, it takes a retired black NFL football Danton’s Death Kalman Oravecz and Georg Büchner player to redeem him from self-destruction. Neither real- In France, as a frenzied society is ripped apart by ideas of izes that their lives will be enriched by their relationship, political purity and as wave after wave of new victims are then quickly imperiled by the shocking death of the town sent to the bloodstained courtyard ruled by the guillotine, slumlord. Catching Baby Moses tells an interracial story of two men play a game of political chess; the stakes: their friendship and honor. own lives.

The Chair E. A. Ybarra A Date for Christmas Bryan Hammond In a deserted warehouse, the leader of a group of abused Amy is a judge who always seems to need her three friends women sadistically extracts revenge from three captive to try to find her a date for Christmas Eve and Christmas men who have a history of abusing women. day. Although, it may seem like a simple task to some, but to her friends every year, anything that can go wrong seems to always go wrong. Circus Train Billy Jim Baker The Grandest Circus on Earth presents a three-ring rail- road dramedy of a spangled circus soul’s 500-mile odyssey Dead Justice Kelly Crawford to a bad luck town. In August of 1972, a trapeze tragedy An idealistic law clerk exposes a conspiracy to cover up the is born, clown miracles laugh, and gypsy lives change death of a Supreme Court justice until after the inaugura- together aboard the mile-long, silver circus train. tion of a new U.S. president. For theseClick scripts each and title many above more, to see go theto our synopsis website: and www.InkTip.com script. Drama 25 Dinner and Three Vignettes Brady Katzman-Rooks The Farrell Girl Lyndal Simpson What’s cooking? A housewarming party for six longtime Two young sisters, separated following the massacre of friends and an irascible newcomer serves more than their family, must find one another after almost 20 years dinner when they decide to tell stories inspired by three when the chief suspect in the killings hunts them down paintings found in the attic. once more.

Diorbivol Damien Mulvany A Fitzgerald Family Christmas Michael Bernard A Senegalese immigrant is murdered in a hate crime, Michaleen Fitzgerald returns home to fulfill a last Christmas which results in a recently widowed dentist embarking wish and gives his estranged children three bags (red, on a life-changing journey to return his friend’s body green, yellow) to scatter their mother’s ashes at specific to a small African village, where he encounters both locations. The symbolism is not lost on them. Theresa is love and terrorism. angry. Richard is materialistic. Fiona is crippled with anx- ieties. But they’re wrong, and the journey to find the true meaning of family has just begun. Disarmed Justin Lifflander Based on a true story, as the Cold War ends, a single mother in Russia tries to escape her past and out-maneuver a small- Five Soldiers Yowanda Russell town KGB officer bent on exploiting her relationship with Five female soldiers of different backgrounds face an array an American disarmament treaty inspector. Meanwhile, of challenges while serving in the U.S. Army. the missile factory director, whose faith in Communism is shattered, struggles to persevere in the new reality, while The Flid Show Richard Willett the system he believes in crumbles around him. A charismatic, belligerent English nightclub singer, born with flipper-like arms because his pregnant mother took Doctor, Please Simon Parker the drug thalidomide, believes his deformity will keep him A rub-and-tug sex worker reinvents herself as a doctor from ever finding love – until he falls for a pretty young after hitting a handsome stranger off his bicycle with her American doctor with intimacy issues of her own and must car. Nursing him back to health, her fantasy and reality are confront his own dark past in order to win her. about to crash into each other. The Flute Player Gregory Charlton

Escape From the Hood Going Going Gone! A true heartwarming sports story of triumph overcoming Laurie Thomas adversity. A young man living in a broken alcoholic home, Three teenagers desperate to escape from the hood are small-town America, becomes a world champion. inspired by a sports celebrity to create a line of sportswear with global retail potential. Buyers won’t carry it without endorsement. The boys offer to partner with the celebrity The Forge Howard W. Robertson for endorsement, but he turns them down and steals their Isaac McClure is caught between his mother’s Ehattesaht logos to launch his own line leading to a dramatic show- world and his father’s Scottish. Born at Fort Astoria in down with a miraculous ending. 1824, he conceals his Native American identity to come back over the Oregon trail in 1853. He becomes part of racist pioneer society, is outed by chance, and an intense Family Playbook Michael Kenner peripeteia ensues. A busy, successful commercial director in Hollywood must drop everything when his widowed mother suddenly has a paralyzing stroke and needs full-time care. He rejects Forgotten Valor Jeffrey White rest homes and decides to try to keep his mom in her A young American farm boy leaves home to become a soldier own home. Quickly overwhelmed, he unwittingly hires an who fights for his country in the bloody trenches of the First on-the-run African-American streetwalker to help him take World War, but must then fight against his very own country care of his mom. in the battle of his life before he can return back home.

Far Too Far Justin Hunt Freedom Soldier Armelle Lajus The stories of a single mother hooked on drugs and a A disillusioned African-American 18-year-old from Harlem compassionate social worker race recklessly towards each enlists in the Army and is sent as part of the 369th Infantry other until they collide, full force, causing collateral dam- Regiment, a unit that’s comprised solely of African- age to a little girl caught in the middle. American soldiers, to fight in World War I. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 26 Drama Fresh Out of High School Karinthal McCray Hear the Call to God Jamal Johnson A teen father and best basketball player in the state enters Hear the Call to God is the story of America’s crumble, the the NBA draft and doesn’t get drafted, which leads him wall separating America’s Northern and Southern states, to depression and the options between self-pity, crime, or the master race experiment underway in the Southern giving himself another chance to try to make it in the NBA. states and the citizens cry to God for a United States of America again. A Friend’s Betrayal Rodney Benbow There’s one kind of situation that nobody ever likes to be Hell Is No Party You Don’t Want to Go put in. That is having to choose between a family member Douglas Scott Mackey and your best friend. That is what you’re going to see. Set in a south Georgia town, in less than a month, both high school students, inmates, and parents contemplate Geӓndert Edward Chersevani the reality of Heaven and Hell while dealing with wrecks, death, murder, and suicide. A dying C.E.O., being investigated for embezzlement, blackmails the German neurosurgeon that killed her hus- band into transplanting her brain into her unsuspecting Hummingbirds Don’t Fly in the Rain Kim Dickerson C.O.O.’s, then assumes her identity. Christmas. The small plane carrying wealthy hedge-fund owner Michael and his daughter Talia goes missing in The Girl Left Behind Kyle Price Panama. Talia’s mom is frantic. There’s no search party, horrendous weather and family drama. Finally, two men Abused and abandoned by her homeland after World War find the wrecked plane by being led by a mysterious light. II for being the child of an American soldier, a talented Talia’s mom’s heartache and pain are dampened by hope, German girl spends her life escaping poverty and search- ing for her father. Based on a true story. healing, and love when Talia starts communicating from the afterlife!

A Girl Named David Jody-Lynn Reicher The Hypnotist Dawn Nieto A young girl, David, becomes her mentally ill mother’s loyal confidant, thinking she can cure her mother. The mission After visiting a hypnotist, an innocent photographer lands to cure her mother falls short as her mother commits sui- in deep trouble and has no clue why, and it’s up to her cide. David is thus emancipated. David becomes a young friends to prove her innocence before she loses her busi- lady who was never a little girl. ness and guardianship of her brother.

Girl on the Riptide Lynn Maree Page Imbroglio John Bourke An attempt to sell cocaine back to her father’s dealer results in A skydiver has an unfortunate accident and is rescued by Reagan and her foster sister witnessing a revenge killing and a female hitchhiker. When the skydiver regains conscious- being in the possession of 30kgs of the drug. They are on the ness, he learns that the hitchhiker is a murder suspect on run, and the cartel’s ruthless henchmen are hunting them the run, and he is determined to find her before the police down. Betrayal and murder are an everyday occurrence in do. Will he be her next murder victim? their domain, and the girls must stay one step ahead. In Camera Steve Higgins Good and Troubled Teenagers Rodney Benbow Tommy Kennedy is a man who wants to be noticed. He As kids go through life in their teenage years, a lot of times drags his wife unwillingly into a reality TV show, little know- they deal with one of the most unpleasant situations in ing that a new reality will soon await him. school. That is having to deal with a school bully. This has never been an easy thing to deal with and, in this case, it In Ottie’s World David Preece had a very tragic ending. A high school teacher, tormented by childhood experi- ences of deprivation and abuse, returns to his home in Haunted Grounds Johan Svensson Appalachia to confront his disturbed, abusive mother, A messed-up zoo director with lost memory tries to redis- uncovering the story of her own violent coming-of-age. Set cover himself, but when he buys a lion for a new attraction, in the late ‘40s in North Carolina, the true story combines his dark past starts to haunt him, unaware that his life is the setting and dramatic intensity of Winter’s Bone and the in danger. hardscrabble family saga of Moonlight. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Drama 27 In the Shadow of the Night John Reoli Last of the Gnostics Don Durrett Convinced that he’s killed a random sex partner, a young, Last of the Gnostics is based on actual events that took gay branding executive escapes into a night of partying, place between 1165 and 1243 in Southern France. Tens confrontation, and denial before he succumbs to doing of thousands of Cathars were brutally murdered by the what he must. Catholic Church after being labeled as heretics.

Integrated Offender Kathy Krantz Stewart Last to Fall Jim Maceda A middle-aged criminal is tired of his institutionalized life The true, tragic story of the young man from Baltimore behind bars. Upon his release from prison, he skeptically known forever as the last soldier to fall on the battlefield in accepts the support of a police officer with the Offender WWI – just one minute before the end of that nightmare Management Unit to integrate him back into the commu- – and how a former comrade uncovers an ugly truth: the nity, but he struggles to overcome his drug addiction and conflicted German-American didn’t have to die. offending behavior. A tumultuous path towards rehabilita- tion just seems too long a sentence in setting himself free. Lastview Candace Taylor-Johnson Former police officer Teal Tace and all others struggle J.J.’s Journal John P. Travis with the vision of events leading up to a mysterious crime Will justice be served for the deaths of a Native American scene as they take control of a prison called Lastview. reporter and a black teenager? A determined (white) investigative journalist attempts to find out – down in the The Lease of Nature Anderson Boyd bayou town of Bouleville, Louisiana. A woman in search of vengeance infiltrates a dark crime syndicate that traffics in organs and dangerous technol- The Jones Boys Robert Collings ogy. As she pivots to use their weapons against them, her A 14-year-old electric guitar prodigy from the Midwest and gambit hits closer to home than even she could imagine.​ 14-year-old savant musician twins from Harlem team up with a washed-up teen idol from the ‘60s – and, to every- LES Express Jimmie Smith one’s astonishment, The Jones Boys fire up a nation. Inspired by a true story, LES Express is about a young girl with cerebral palsy who has inspired hundreds with her Jury Duty Bryan Hammond attitude and smile. This story is about her and her family’s This story is about a young man who was selected to serve involvement with a youth baseball league leading to a very as a juror in a big murder case, and the person who was emotional ending. charged with the murder is a hit man for the Mexican cartel. Also, the young man and his wife are experiencing financial Letters to Stephanie hardship because of the family business being slow. Jo-Ann Wilhelm and Werner Wilhelm True story: Society forces a man and woman to release Just Like You Richard Parks their daughter for adoption. They and a grieving grand- Rich, arrogant, successful, thoughtless father. Bigot mother are permitted to write letters without identifiable with family. information for the adoption file. Hoping for reunion, one writes clues. (Letters to Stephanie feature and short scripts won twelve top festival awards, plus nine Finalist, Semi- Just Tell Me Why Kevin Rotolo Finalist and Selected, with four of these still in competition.) Seventy-five-year-old Abigail DeVoront hires a ghostwriter to tell her story of how she came to give up her son years before, a story which begins when, as a girl, she is Letting Go While Holding On Joe Favalaro orphaned and forced into a life of both terrible abuse and After being kidnapped by a desperate woman and her unreserved love on her journey to adulthood. family, a young man must find a way to be with the love of his life. Killer, “Made in America” Bryan Hammond This movie is about two families from different races Lies & Mistakes Alexander Simic following the ways of their ancestors, and as a result, the A famous psychologist’s family is falling apart because two families experience loss in a major way. Also, the two of her obsession with dominance. The arrival of a new families’ motives and agendas collide in a major way and, patient will shake her to the core and make her question as a result, innocent friends and loved ones are affected. her perspective. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 28 Drama Like a Bloody Monkey Maurizio Caduto teammates. Can he achieve baseball immortality before A transgender woman struggles to survive in a Malaysian his secret is discovered? male prison where the warden pimps her to other inmates. As violence slowly poisons her soul, she begins LSD Memories Pavel Cerny to plan for revenge. Prague in the waning days of Communism. A young man falls in love with a woman. And a man. Experimental LSD The Lions of Amarula Shirley Sacks therapy. Rich cultural life in Prague. Political Intrigue. He’s handsome and devious and kills his way to becoming Laughter, tears. Romance. Love. the sole heir to his family fortune, which includes Amarula, the well-stocked wildlife reserve. The Mantua William Mark Clarke Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave, works as a mantua for Lizard Man Carl Ameen Mary Todd Lincoln. The story is told through her eyes as she becomes Mrs. Lincoln’s confidante, friend, and eyewit- When a struggling alcoholic witnesses a gruesome murder ness to history. The possibility of an emancipated former but is freed by the killer, he flees to a small town to escape slave may have given President Lincoln the idea of The his old life and start anew. Emancipation Proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862. A Long Awaited Day Mary Kate Allen When a WWII plane wreckage is discovered, it begins a Marisol and Sheila Maribeth Fromm journey home that unites a group of strangers and turns After witnessing the acts of racial and social injustice at the them into a family. Based on actual events. hands of her son’s manipulative lover, a mother struggles with co-dependency as her son turns against his family The Long Road South and his own reality. Paul Minx, M. Beddoes, and K. Heaney The true story of Andre White, a quiet, young African- Mickey Dawg Alvin Fritzke and Janiece Adams American gardener who is forced to fight for his wages While evading the relentless pursuit of a revengeful family being unfairly withheld by his bigoted boss, so he can join that wants Mickey for their mean, spoiled daughter, Devon the civil rights marches in Alabama. Rose, a dying veteran and his precious pug Mickey take us on a journey of loss, commitment, and extraordinary love Love and Insurrection Ernestina Juarez as they search for a loving home for Mickey. Though haunted by the memory of the lynching of his father for leading a slave rebellion, an African-American Middle Passage Jack Flower slave risks his life to join in Mexico’s struggle for indepen- Kojo and his African tribe are abducted and sold into dence after witnessing the execution of the author of the slavery, but on the ship traveling to America, the tribe first law against slavery on the North American continent. fight to keep themselves free and Kojo must steer his (Based on true events) people home.

Love U Like I Do Bryan Hammond Miraculous Robert Fertig and Brian Edgar News reporter Leslie always thought that she never had Communists are battling with Nationalist Chinese for time to fall in love because of the demands of her job. But, complete control of China and Taiwan. During the conflict, unexpected love and a new assignment threw her life into an American missionary priest saves a girl of six found in a whirlwind of pain and turmoil. Now she must deal with the jungle. She becomes an instrument of miracles and an overbearing boss and a family member who just so motivation for hopeless Marines during the battles. The happens to be a part of her story. child’s mother overcomes incredible obstacles searching for her lost child. Low and Outside Michael Jefferson While Major League’s stars are off fighting in the war The Murder Trial of the Century John Neill in 1945, an enterprising scout signs a black man with Why would jurors in Scotland in 1844 take so long to reach Native American blood to play for the lowly Washington a verdict on a woman accused of poisoning her husband Senators. Pretending to be a full-blooded Native American, when she had twice bought arsenic surreptitiously and Moses Whitehorse single-handedly drives the Senators she had fled to America only to be extradited – the first toward the pennant while battling both bigotry and his one under the Ashburton Treaty? A true story. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Drama 29 Murphy’s Law of Deployment Marilyn H. Hegefeld No Way Out Georges Salo Three military spouses stare down the barrel of 180 days, When an arrogant African-American executive fails to each bracing themselves for the trails of deployment. get a promotion, he’s transferred to Singapore where he undergoes a journey of self-discovery and finds an My Garden Tania Meneguzzi and Maclovia Martel unlikely Asian love. Still struggling years after her husband’s tragic death, a stylishly disheveled and disgruntled woman entertains the Northern Lights Bert Pigg and Greg Gross advances of a mysterious and bold new neighborhood gar- A determined widow enlists her disillusioned son to travel dener and embarks on a tangible journey of self-discovery. cross-country to help her rescue the man she loves from confinement in a memory care facility. Mysterious Ways Jamie Roberts In this tale of two Southern misfits, a sensitive church Once a Hero... Richard Bemand secretary, forced to keep a disgraceful secret about her A group of neglected and frightened evacuee children, pastor, struggles with her husband and her very own sanity whom some consider thieves, are living in a derelict as the angry and disillusioned pastor’s son, just returned farmhouse with an elderly carer and are desperate for from the Vietnam war, searches for his life’s true direction help. Against local threats and hostility, a battle-weary in a Georgia mill town in 1970. WWII fighter pilot and his wife apply their Christian beliefs as Good Samaritans, even though the pilot soon Narrow Is the Gate Jamal Johnson suffers near-fatal injuries. (Quarter-finalist – Miami Narrow Is the Gate is the story of the devil and his rally Screenplay Awards) of the gods and lords to thwart the good course of the Guiders, an up-and-coming, well-to-do family who know Once Again Greg Wishart nothing about the reality of God’s protection from evil. Consumed by grief over two traumatic losses, a mother battles addictions. Tragic flow on effects culminate in the National Road David Christian Zeller custodial loss of her two young sons to her embittered Intersecting stories of last-chance hook-ups, stolen guns, father-in-law. Personal crises test her strength, but her and abandoned cars set the backdrop for Henry and his unwavering desire to be reunited with her sons propels buddies as they get more than they bargained for when her to resolve a key mystery. With secrets revealed, she they set out to score a bag of pot from a local criminal in finally gets her day in court. the days before graduating from a small liberal arts col- lege in Indiana. The Opposite of Hate Yowanda Russell

New World New York James Kearney A strong-willed African-American woman discovers that a co-worker she’s close to but has never seen is a member In 1914, Giacomo, son of the Marsalla family, is excited but of the KKK. After the devastating revelation, they try to confused by events as he sails out of Palermo, with Mother rebuild the valued friendship they once had. and Father, bound for New York to begin a new life. He must avail himself this opportunity to give a chance of a better future. First, he must master the language and culture. Other’s Other Woman Panayanparambil K. A No Second Prize Michael Wormald A young, dynamic executive makes four trips in various When 14-year-old Kalina Bolic flees the Yugoslav war to continents with different women. He could only enjoy the the U.S., she must overcome racism, a damaged and over- beauty of nature. Each and every trip, his wife got screwed protective father, and her own demons as she follows her from home, and finally both realize their mistakes. impossible dream to win the U.S. Open. Inspired by the true story of a legend. Overgrown John Bourke Overgrown chronicles the lives of twin sisters from birth to No Way In Georges Salo death as they experience family upheavals and tragedies When an African-American falls in love with a local Asian that include their brother’s battle with drug and alcohol and is intent on marriage, he must obtain her parent’s addiction, their mother’s suicide, and their father’s mur- approval. He’s forced to undergo a journey of self-discov- der. On her deathbed, one sister reveals a dark secret that ery in order to prove his mettle and win her hand. she has kept hidden from the other. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 30 Drama Paul’s Lie Judy Vann Punk Snot Dead Stuart Newman A young Jewish student forges papers to join Hitler’s army. England,1981: A disillusioned teenage punk runs the tribal Why, to save his family. After the war, this secret part of gauntlet in this traumatic, rite-of-passage road movie. his life is revealed and he’s charged with Nazi war crimes. Quarantine Emmanuel Yoka, Grace Samba-Yoka, and Pearl Fisher Suzanne Birrell Nancy Chenard-Coulon Two stories of loss link a pendant to a sunken sailboat and A married woman diagnosed with COVID-19 is forced the search for survivors reveals a knot that ties a young into quarantine and falls in love with her hypochondriac orphan to a grieving woman. neighbor.

People Get Ready Donald Iverson The Reconciliation Jonty Acton During the next Great Depression, a dying man must A young, mixed-race couple, James and Kay, have to help decide whether to follow his teenage daughter’s lead James’ suicidal white mom move on with her life by suc- and join a group of terminally ill political assassins in an cessfully hosting Christmas Day for her recently estranged anti-capitalist revolution. racist husband and his new girlfriend.

Philia Marilyn Hegefeld The Red Robe: A Tale of the Cardinal’s France A not-by-the-book therapist must treat a difficult-to-deal- Ruth Finnegan with drug addict despite having little confidence in herself. A swashbuckling braggart duelist can only save his life, his All while hoping to finally stand up to her scheming, tem- honor, and his bed-ridden mother by cruelly betraying the porary boss. woman that, against all his instincts, he has come to love.

Polynia Vera Neverkevich REDemption Mary Kate Allen and Mista Martel and Daniel Libman To combat being “unemployable” due to having Native In a remote industrial city in Siberia, a family fights to sur- American blood, Jimmy Coleman takes up running moon- vive the collapse of the Soviet Union as everything they shine during the 1930s. This sends him on a journey filled know changes forever. with dangerous consequences and big rewards.

Portrait of a Marriage Eric Weinthal Relentless Love Sandon Yahn In the midst of relationship turmoil, a couple pose in the A wife who is an atheist dies from a terminal illness caus- nude several times for an artist. It’s an escape from the ing her devoted Christian husband to go back in time troubled city occasionally glimpsed outside the door, but to prevent her from contracting the disease in hopes of facing the many naked truths about each other is the giving her a second chance at salvation. In doing so, he hardest thing this man and woman will ever do. alters events, jeopardizing the love they once knew from ever occurring. The Prosecutor’s Witness Donald Schwartz An attorney who recently lost her father/mentor, now Remake Gerald Fried administering probation cases, is diagnosed with cancer. An over-eager, 18-year-old, super-talented jazz/rock trum- She then agrees to represent an odd client accused of pet player causes a backstage accident, which scars the homicide, contending with various twists, the client’s mys- beautiful face of the 16-year-old girl singer he loves, who terious and voluptuous wife, and an aggressive prosecutor. loves him. Twenty-five years later, at the remake of that now famous/infamous concert, despite all precautions, the same destructive scenario starts to happen again. The Public Defender Michael Tewell An ex-Navy-SEAL lawyer must overcome depression and a bitter divorce for a second chance at the public defender’s Ride Seamus Leger office and confront a power-mad judge who has created a When a broke, hapless Uber driver’s life intersects with a foolproof way to get rich called “Special Mitigation.” For Judge world champion surfer who is secretly dying of cancer, the Harlan Hardcastle and his group of corrupt lawyers run the two embark on the road trip of a lifetime. A funny, moving criminal justice system in Sawgrass County, Florida; murder drama about friendship and the guts to ride life’s most is an out-of-court-settlement and hearings can be deadly. unexpected waves. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Drama 31 The Ride Home Cole Depner The Serum Thomas Thorpe A star high school baseball catcher is driven to a mental After a biochemist is murdered, a reporter searches for the breakdown that ultimately ends in his suicide due to his remaining dose of a serum that extends human life many father’s insurmountable expectations and relentless pur- times and which Big Pharma is determined to destroy. suit to live out his dream of playing professional baseball through him. Shaking the Tree Georges Salo A woman’s journey of self-discovery at the behest of her Ride on My Right Paul Hart soldier husband who died as a result of wounds sustained A man who had a life full of fast motorcycles and wild living in Afghanistan. gets into a life-threatening accident and receives a tragic diagnosis. He relies on his loyal friend and his passion for Shechem Trip Payne motorcycles to help him to reconcile with his estranged Newly elected Senator Tyler Harrison only wanted to pre- evangelical mother and face the tough path ahead. serve the knowledge of God’s hand in American history, but he may have just buried it when he crafts a bill to ban Roman Falcone Joe Putnam and Tatyana Putnam the motto, “In God We Trust.” Based on a true story of a veteran police officer who finds his boss in a compromising situation and he coins a demean- Skin Deep Khiray Richards ing nickname for him based on the indiscretion. The chief A white woman ignorant to her own sense of racial privi- learns of it and takes revenge, setting up a war between lege wakes up one day to find herself mysteriously in the himself and the officer which leads to a surprising end. body of a black woman.

Rusalka Revenge A.L. Adams Snowbird Janet Wise Olena, a troubled, young woman with “the sight” returns The daughter of a reverend in the Christian Patriarchy- to her father’s small town to visit his grave and discovers Identity movement sold to an older man as a wife to bear a haunted lake where the Rusalkas possess her. Olena many children for the Army of God makes a desperate enters a dark world of family secrets, loss, and the super- choice to save her sisters from a similar fate. natural, when she learns about the girls who have died violently at the lake, and her new lover may be a ghost. Sound Ronald Keeven A physicist discovers how to recover sounds and conver- A Scottish Gem Yvonne Condrau sations from the past. A vibrant, witty Scottish lady, quite a real gem, struggles when her fairytale marriage is coming to an end. Thrust A Star on the Horizon Janet Wise into single parenthood with young children, she must face An Afghan immigrant struggles to travel west in order to a devastating diagnosis of breast cancer. Amongst life’s realize his dream of studying medicine, only to arrive in chaos, she finds true love in an unexpected way. Her pas- the U.S. and collide with a corrupt ICE agent whose prior sion for life and family helps her bravely battle her illness, military career he upended by reporting him for murder. hoping to beat all odds.

Stickup Kids Matthew Halla and Morgan Halla The Search Rodney Benbow A former prostitute escapes her exploiters and rescues the The one thing that a woman would never expect in her women they trafficked. She robs the traffickers and uses days of living is for her husband to become missing and the money to support the women while helping them get vanish without a trace. This is not a normal thing to occur, their lives back on track. But her greatest obstacle turns but in a situation like this, a person would be worried, very out to be the one person she least expected, her mother, nervous, and wonder why something like this has hap- who does everything she can to support the efforts of the pened. You will see why it did. city’s biggest sex-trafficker.

Semiotics Jeff Walkley Stronger Than Steel Donald Burton Based on actual events, an impressionable inner-city A conflicted woman psychologist wages war to save a teen uses graffiti as an escape from his violent, drug- former Recon Marine with severe PTSD, her ex-husband, infested world, only to find out that the graffiti world is fighting to save him from a war long dead, only to discover just as dangerous. his war is not over and her battle has just begun. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 32 Drama Strung Tight Arianne Peterson A Trip to Rome Joe Petricca Beloved all-American #1 in the world women’s tennis star A Trip to Rome is a love story. A story of two people, both Shayla Martens takes on the men’s #1 tennis champ in Catholic priests, who can’t live with each other and can’t a historical match of a lifetime. Her path to this match is live without each other. They find themselves in a danger- painfully strained with her imploding relationship with her ous situation. A Trip to Rome is based on a true story. coach and father as she weighs the costs of winning with having love and a life. Two Once Removed Jeffrey Curry A privileged woman jeopardizes everything she has and Sultana – America’s Maritime Disaster believes in when empty-nest loneliness and stale mar- Wayne Johnson riage leads her to snoop on her long-lost, first, true-love who now lives in a small beach cottage a short drive Black lives matter. As the Civil War ends, at the request from her mother. of President Lincoln, a Union Army doctor is sent to escort an African-American physician to a Confederate prison camp to patch-up Union prisoners for a return Unsightly John Bourke trip home, unaware of the fate that awaits them aboard A 14-year-old girl is able to telepathically see murders as the U.S.S. Sultana. they happen. When a detective becomes aware of the girl’s ability, he coerces her and her father in order to force the girl to help solve other investigations. Will the detective’s The Summer Everything Went Sam Macneil dishonest tactics lead to more killing? A teenage girl struggles to define her sexuality to herself and her family as they grieve the loss of her sister. The Valley Boys W. Timothy Wright In the basketball-mad state of Indiana in 1957, four dirt- Michael Ritter A Tale of Reckoning poor high school boys and their young coach must join Inspired by a true story, a famous frontiersman tells a forces with the rich kid from the hated neighboring town journalist an epic tale of love, hate, and bigotry as his day to forge a new team. The team seems unbeatable, and of reckoning looms in this story of a man of two worlds. the two feuding burgs begin to come together. Romantic entanglements and tragedy threaten the winning streak on their journey through an epic inaugural season. The Talent Lesley Manuel A phenomenally gifted but troubled football player whose Vernal Michelle Cutler, determination to win on the field might cause him to lose Ed McCulloch, and Benjamin Thevenin everything, including his life. A trusted midwife notes a spike in infant deaths in her small Utah fracking town and fights personal backlash Tell Me Why You’re Beautiful Jeremy Brown when her controversial suspicions go public. A woman who was sold into a life of prostitution at the age of 13 by her parents find the strength to escape. With Vow of Silence Jason Fredregill the help of a few friends, she risks freedom going back Childhood demons come rushing back as a man is torn to rescue and help rehabilitate others who suffered the between his incredible talent with the electric guitar and same fate. his chosen profession as a Catholic priest.

The Thursday Whaler Damien Mulvany What We Leave Behind David Duty A young sailor’s passion for the sea drives him to become After returning home from duty in Iraq, a troubled vet- an Australian naval officer but his recklessness combined eran is visited by the ghost of an Army staff sergeant with naval negligence results in a tragedy, a court-martial, and is tasked with looking after the dead man’s widow and a government scandal. and young child.

Tillie David Chester and Blake Pinter When Evil Surged Jamell Jovan Ponder When her tyrannical father forces her to leave school to A troubled male falls in love with a grieving widow of two work on the family farm, a gifted girl secretly embarks on children. Battling evil birthed in childhood, he must choose a life-changing journey to follow in the footsteps of her between love and indifference, forgiveness and righteous beloved teacher. indignation, preserving life or taking life. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Darma – Fantasy 33 When I Was Seventeen Zach Abdallah Hughes romantic comedies to gain acceptance and win Seventeen-year-old singing sensation Jack Fevers dreams over the girl of his dreams. The Breakfast Club meets Being of being greater than his hero Frank Sinatra. His bright There. future is within his grasp until he meets a girl who manipu- lates him into choosing her over his lifelong dream. Winston Road Laurie A. Borland After the loss of her brother, a feminist teenager must The White Jaguar of the Amazon Pelham Mead find a way to fit into her male-dominated neighborhood This movie exposes the abuses by the Brazilian govern- or spend the summer at her grandmother’s painting ment in not enforcing the protected zones in the Amazon her toenails. and allowing ranchers, loggers, miners, and road build- ers to burn down forests. In this story, a Brazilian man Fantasy becomes the savior to the Awá after being attacked by a Jaguar and saved by an Awá’ chief. The Awá’ nicknamed Attack of the Oregon Green Zombies him “The White Jaguar.” Joseph H. Beelart, Jr. When a businessman takes away their beloved coffee, the Widows’ Song Jeremiah Munsey Oregon Green Zombies attack! In a small West Virginia town, five widows question their faith and demand justice after a coal mine explosion kills 27 Black Ink Pearl Ruth Finnegan miners, but their husbands’ bodies were never recovered. Is love instant strike for eternity, or long struggle, sacrifice, and suffering? God favors the first, his feisty feminist wife Will-o-the-Wisp Leila O’Shea the second. Which of their opposed interventions will pre- Sometimes the doctor is in and then he is out, which is all vail as two mortals work out their sweet and complex love quite maddening. story over the years?

William the II Virginia Austin Darkness in Paradise James Pendergast The story of a homeless African-American boy quoting lines An emotionally fragile actress and her actor husband of Shakespeare as he wanders the streets of Chicago after move into a new, never-before-lived-in house and find it the loss of his father. In a sudden turn to comedy, William haunted by the spirit of a female silent screen star who meets a sarcastic 12-year-old girl on the playground of an draws the actress into a violent web of the past, which elite private school who decides to run away and help him could end in disaster. search for new parents. Full Moon Blues David Wolff The Wind Blows North Ronald Keeven It’s 1983. The secret race of dog people, first depicted Based on the true story of the trial of the century as the in the famous dogs playing poker paintings is suddenly best attorneys fight to spare the life of an infamous bandit dying. Three unwitting young friends are selected by while the capable prosecutors seek the gallows. them to perform a ritual at midnight on the next full moon that will change their lives forever and, hopefully, save the dog people. Winter Diane Schmitz A witty, urban taxi driver struggling to grow her business Glory Everlasting Bryan Bakker thinks her ex-boyfriend has gone straight and agrees to an overnight driving gig reuniting him and his young son. Little Two lovers, trained in an ancient monastery, make their does she know, her ex-boyfriend is actually an escapee on way through a darkly magical world sealed off from the the run and the kid in her backseat isn’t exactly a choir boy. afterlife by an evil god king. (This script received a “Consider” from an industry reader.) Guests of Claymoor Manor Katrina Walia Family A fun steam-punk musical set in a dreary mansion, where three children go to stay with their peculiar aunt, near a Coming Attractions Michael Bernard whimsical village of wild urchins who help; they pinch her When a teenager raised in his family’s video store and eccentric professor neighbor’s flying machine to rescue home-schooled on a strict curriculum of ‘80’s movies is their parents from fierce renegades assisted by the pro- suddenly thrust into the complicated world of a modern fessors’ outrageous valet while avoiding the diabolical Mr. high school, he must resort to his knowledge of John Snodgrass on a quest. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 34 Fantasy – Horror The Incredible Tale of Mr. Wogglebug The Three Souls Bill Thomas Cynthia Hanson and T.C. De Witt A Texas truck driver is wrongly convicted of a robbery, and In a fantasy kingdom, a wise professor creates he is sent to prison where he meets two inmates who he Mr. Wogglebug, a tall, lovable bug with human DNA, and feels are reincarnated artists as they seek to escape the he helps a tailor and his family find hidden leprechaun wrath of the ruthless warden and save their lives. treasure so that the family can pay rent to an evil landlady. Voyagers of the Fijian Pearl Ruth Finnegan Jingle Jingle Michael Barilla A piece of driftwood magically transforms into a boat, a A gifted toymaker, whose life has taken some magical and boy and girl become unlikely (cross-racial) friends, the per- extraordinary turns, promotes the Christmas spirit of a ilous, monster-ridden waves beckon, and they set out on a charming village and becomes Santa Claus. near-impossible voyage to locate his missing mom.

The Orbs of Annwn Betti Patterson Horror The fate of two Eternals hangs in the balance as they attempt to thwart the dark magic of a deranged wizard The Beach Joey Newfield and Oscar Lemus obsessed with the secret to their immortality. If they can’t When a teenage girl finds out her parents are getting stop him, they will lose everything – including the world divorced, she becomes haunted by a demonic creature that depends on their protection. hellbent on destroying her family.

Passáre: The Third Voyage of Ulysses Charles Beckwith Blamed: Angela’s Nightmare Michael R. Saunders The Iliad, The Odyssey, and Pássare... the lost story of the A gifted interior designer inherits her father’s estate where third voyage of Ulysses. Inspired by Alfred Lord Tennyson’s unresolved childhood terrors reside. Memories and horrid poem Ulysses. nightmares of her father’s sexual abuse and mysterious death haunt her. With the townspeople accusing her of murder and plotting against her, she is forced to confront The Sphere of Time James Pendergast her horrors and fears or be trapped in the house forever An anthropologist goes, under protest, to Central America by the memories of her father’s abuses. to try to stop a gang of Mayan-artifact looters who are damaging and destroying archaeological sites. The gang’s mastermind is a greedy, villainous antique dealer in Blood Atonement David Oas and Michael Lanahan Canada. His gang members are under orders to kill the During a weekend retreat to Bad Medicine Lake, eight anthropologist, who therefore faces unexpected perils paranormal seers, seekers, and deniers challenge Dr. and adventures, culminating in a deadly battle. Manion, a research psychologist, on whether the power of faith and prophecy can defy reason and validate that we Stolen Angels James Pendergast exist in a parallel universe. An American artist visiting Florence, Italy, to view art encounters two mysterious women, is drawn into a mul- Borrowed Time Paul Hart tidimensional struggle for the future of humankind, and Studying near-death experiences, a statistician finds cases finds he has unsuspected powers. of people in New Orleans driven to violence, murder, and suicide. She and a paraplegic hypnotherapist seek to find Sylvie and the Wogglebug the cause, leading our heroes into a life-and-death strug- Cynthia Hanson and T.C. De Witt gle with a demonic force. Sylvie is a lonely young orphan who absolutely loves bugs. When her teacher gives her a book that transports her The Butt Faced Vampire Scott Bell into a magical forest, she teams up with the six-foot tall, Two best friends must use their oddball skills to save lovable and intelligent insect, Mr. Wogglebug, to save the their friends, their rock idol, and their town from a rare Enchanted Forest from an evil gnome. type of vampire.

Go to www.InkTip.com Cellblock Hell Claudio Martinez-Valle and search by title or author for In the Louisiana Bayou circa 1955, a moralistic C.O. and the scripts that interest you! his corrupt co-workers find them-selves trapped inside an abandoned prison as a horde of voodoo demons swarm Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Horror 35 upon them, seeking revenge for the institution’s history of Hunter’s Moon David Harvey murdering black inmates. When a downed female pilot is found by two enigmatic hunters, the harsh brutal winter will be the least of her The City on Seven Hills Jacques A. Philippe concerns when one man claims her as his own. A vicious serial killer causes a pandemic in the city, leaving behind taunting enigmas for the FBI. The investigation Juggernaut Damon Fields leads the agents to suspect several students from the Three hardened survivors: a burnt-out U.S. Army veteran, Monroe University campus, who find themselves caught a Japanese soldier, and a secretive young girl converge to in the midst of mayhem. #TrustNoOne survive savage zombie hordes and hostile remnants of the government in an apocalyptic near-future gone mad. Crawl Away to Die Nick Pollack When two diametric opposites – one a werewolf, the other a Killer Summer at Camp Fly Creek Patrick Langille vampire – become shackled together for 24 hours, they dis- A sensible, yet free-spirited, young counselor investigates cover their greatest fear may not be the horror that awaits in a number of disappearances of children and adults. She the outside world, but the realization of just how similar they must deal with the headstrong camp owner who does truly are. A twisted fairy tale for the post-COVID era. everything in his power to keep it open no matter what the cost. Edwick Michael LaRue A new beginning is jeopardized for a dysfunctional family of The Lamprey Adam Cook four when their summer getaway is plagued by a 300-year- A new terror has emerged in the waters of Lake Michigan old curse, headed up by a top-secret military operation. that makes Jaws look like Finding Nemo!

Empty House Raynard Goodman Life Blood Jay Gutierrez Five high school teenagers break into an empty house for A Los Angeles detective finally catches up with the beau- fun and drinking, but when it’s time to go, they find them- tiful female vampire that killed his mother when he was 7 selves trapped inside with a deranged killer. years old.

Ghosts Anonymous Kari Wolf Lil Bruh Lance Powell Desperate to stop a vengeful spirit from terrorizing him, An unarmed black male is gunned down by four white a phobia-addled young man starts a support group for sheriff’s deputies at his family reunion. The family grieves. ghosts addicted to haunting and, for his troubles, gets his But, one by one, the deputies die horrific deaths by the body stolen. He has six hours to reclaim his body or he will hands of the family or the deceased? remain a ghost forever. Mandibles Rudy Gray Gingerbread Curtis Harris A scientist and his teenage son must stop a giant freak, An African-American teen with mental disorders is pos- wasp-like man-eater from starting a colony. sessed by his deceased grandmother, a voodoo queen, who manipulates her grandson into believing white peo- The Morpheus Experiment Zoltan Zilai ple are devils. A brain-injured Army veteran agrees to help a world- renowned neurosurgeon solve a cold case serial murder Growling Bill Millstein by undergoing a medical procedure in Morpheus, a device When demons escape from a frozen prison, a teen- that allows him to relive the memory of the neurosur- age female gymnast is transformed into a possessed geon’s slain younger brother. beast by a mysterious shaman, her father, to kill her teammates who assault Earth’s environmental balance. Nightmare Features Chris Haifley and Clayton Gardner (Supernatural horror) After his late-night horror show, Nightmare Features, is can- celed, TV host Tom Filkins attempts to return to normal life, He Is Risen Matthew Avant which proves impossible when he meets a bizarre array of Suffering depression after her husband’s suicide, a woman characters that threaten to destroy his life. In the course of travels to the remote wilderness in search of answers and a few days, Tom is ravaged by Frankenstein’s monster, falls becomes haunted by terrifying visions of Jesus Christ. in love with a mummy, and battles the Atomic Age Monster. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 36 Horror – Non-Fiction/History A Pound of Flesh Georges Salo group of fashion models shooting a swimsuit spread for a A criminal boss exhausts all avenues including whatever magazine. An assignment that turns into a nightmare after his wealth provides in order to save his terminally ill wife. one of the models removes a baby’s skull from an ancient In a last desperate attempt, he offers the most valuable burial ground. items in his possession, his morals and his soul, to the devil for the life of his one and true love. Whoever Fights Monsters Michael Fine An insecure wheelchair-bound college girl spends the Prayers of an Atheist Tomislav Kluiser weekend with friends at a cottage where they are attacked An atheist must reconcile his differences with his brother, by female zombies. They don’t know why until she discov- who is a Catholic priest, when he releases a horrifying ers that the zombies were all murder victims of her friends demon upon us that pulls him deep into the history of – and she was next. religion, blood, and pain. Winter Bird Stephen Treacy Psychotics Rajiv Kachappilly A former physician is slowly drawn into the world of a A timid plumber, with aspirations to become a cop, inves- paranormal owl-woman where she forces him to relive his tigates her father’s murder but instead confronts an evil wife’s assisted suicide. scientist who can control hordes of zombie-like creatures. Musical Manuel Gay Red Arrow It Sounded Better in My Head Michael Bernard People from all over the world come to Spain to walk El When an obsessive-compulsive musician from Boston and Camino de Santiago. It’s peaceful and beautiful: you just an overworked medical student from Puerto Rico meet have to follow the yellow arrows that indicate the path. and fall in love, they struggle with their passions and men- But Ivan and Maria, two friends in their 20s, are about to tal health and must decide if the pursuit of their dreams discover another “camino,” one with red arrows that takes will ever allow them to be together. La La Land meets Silver the pilgrims right into a bloody cult led by a killer. Linings Playbook in this inspired true story.

Shadow Pines Richard Warren Riding the Adrenaline Wave Richard Willett An ambitious director intends to revive a small town with When real-life hotshot, motorcycle racer/bull rider Lance her portrayal of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. However, as acci- Norman becomes a quadriplegic following a terrible crash, dents increase during rehearsals, she slowly uncovers the he struggles against family, addiction, medical reality, and gruesome history behind the abandoned theater. Can she his own memories until he finds a new life of redemption save her troupe before it gets them all? through Christ and through using his story to help others.

The Shadows Todd Sharp Trout Mask Replica Chelsea Zotta and John French Following the murder/suicide of his parents, a grieving Under very tough conditions, the enigmatic and influential teenager takes a job selling fireworks off a rural Mississippi singer-songwriter Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band highway. But when the abandoned diner next door starts create the most radical avant-garde album of all time. to flicker to life from the ghosts of the victims of afive- year-old massacre, he begins to question his sanity. Non-Fiction/History Stay Awake Alana de Freitas Affirmed & Alydar Kyle R. Thomas A survivor of childhood trauma begins having dreams of An ambitious attorney opens an investigation into the her own brutal death only to discover that these visions mysterious death of a horse-racing legend, and she dis- depict the murders of other missing girls. As the night- covers that the greatest rivalry in history went far beyond mares escalate, she tries desperately to avoid sleep, the track. sending her into an erratic spiral that lands her at the center of the investigation. Alta California Lynn Elliott During the turbulent California mission era, a half- Taboo Kermit Davidson breed guard, haunted by his murdered mother’s ghost, A makeup artist dealing with a recent breakup and unex- struggles to find his true identity. (Multiple international pected pregnancy goes on location to a remote lake with a award winner) Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Non-Fiction/History – Romance 37 The Assassin’s Shadow Bert Pigg My Name Was Icek Ron Modro What really happened after John Wilkes Booth assassi- After 65 years, a Holocaust survivor, stripped of his identity nated Lincoln. at the age of 10, searches for proof of his existence and must come to terms with memories of violence and rape at the hands of the Nazis and their collaborators. The Capitulation of California David Lovret On the eve of the Mexican-American War, President Polk sends a secret agent and his African-American servant Oktober’s Fire Aaron Bennett and Vanessa Leigh to California to deliver messages to a colorful gallery of In WWII, a vengeful Russian widow sells everything she owns characters. The secret agent becomes a leader in the war in exchange for her own tank to drive against the Nazis. that follows in an epic spanning the length of California. This epic of the Golden State is a true story, yet untold on Please, Gentlemen, Ask Me Who I Am Cinzia Gagliardi the silver screen. A mysterious woman comes back to 17th-century Restoration London and struggles to earn a living writing for the lewd Conversation with a Kleagle theater of that age, against the king’s will and the contempt Rudy Gray and Sandra Nordgren of the whole society who want to see her name deleted for- A white black reporter interviews a Klansman after ever while a famous libertine urges her to claim the fame she a lynching. deserves as the first English woman playwright.

Grynszpan/Thompson Hal LaCroix Romance When his family is brutally persecuted in 1938, a teenage A Christmas Play to Remember Nick Marley Jewish refugee in Paris kills a Nazi diplomat. As a political Maggie Jones goes back to her hometown, Spruce pawn in prison, then set loose in war-ravaged France, he Mountain, after being let go from her TV producing job struggles against Nazi domination, while across the ocean in California. Soon she’s falling for the carpenter who’s a famous American newswoman champions the boy’s working on the set of her new gig, as the director of the cause in her obsessive, self-destructive crusade to expose elementary school’s Christmas play. fascism at home and abroad.

The Holiday Edition Susan Maguire Johnstown Raymond Leech After a major magazine owner passes, she leaves her mag- The deadliest flood in U.S. history. Seventy-foot-high azine and legacy to her son. The magazine is at a “make or waves crush a valley of small towns in Pennsylvania. A break” stage to get the holiday edition published on time, beautiful, talented singer from Johnstown and her dashing or the magazine will fold. Fortunately, there’s a spunky and new beau, an heir to a Pittsburgh steel fortune, are caught knowledgeable co-editor, and they fall in love through the up in this disaster, in so many tragic ways. An epic story process of getting the publication to press on time. that should be told.

Inherit a Marriage (I AM) Georges Salo The Last Hanging Traditional and modern values collide for an Indian lesbian Oscar Speace and Paul A. Hernandez who must return to India to attend her father’s funeral. You’re invited to a hanging. The last public execution in the Upon arriving in India with her partner, she discovers State of California of the notorious Dr. Frederick Vincent. that she must marry in order to uphold her family’s rank It’s the social event of the season in Fresno in 1893. The and stature. anatomy of a capital crime. Little has changed in 125 years except the method of execution. Back then, it was by Labyrinth of Destiny Ernestina Juarez hanging in front of the invited public. During the Mexican-American War, Lieutenant Ulysses Grant falls in love with a Mexican woman who helps The Muleskinner Ricky Acker American slaves escape bondage. Years later, they meet In a journal written for posterity, a World War II soldier again when the woman is dispatched to the United States recalls volunteering for a special ops mission behind to seek an alliance to prevent the French from conquering enemy lines in Burma and how the experience forced him Mexico and becoming an ally of the Confederacy. (Finalist to face his own mortality. – Academy Nicholl Screenwriting Competition) Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 38 Romance – Romantic Comedy Magic Portal Simon Parker direction of the U.S. relationship with apartheid South Fighting in the trenches of World War I, an artist discovers Africa. One of those students was a beautiful, 20-year-old a magic portal that transports him from the war zone of Chinese American woman from an upper-middle-class France back to his peaceful garden in England. family, Molly Zee. Beaten and jailed.

The Perfect Sunset Mary W. Buchanan Ward Zoe Blake After college, a photographer plans her wedding to her A young American actress is kidnapped and held captive best friend. When the groom skips town, the bride-to-be by a ruthless British billionaire playing a twisted game of escapes to Summerfield to begin a journey of self-reflec- obsession. An erotic psychological thriller where the anti- tion and start her career. When she takes a stand of “no hero male lead tries to convince the female lead she is men in her life” and faces other life challenges, she meets a living in the restrictive world of Victorian England under dedicated police officer who proves he can keep his word. his protection as his ward. 356 DNI meets Downton Abbey. (Book for adaptation) A Picture Worth Every Word Patrice Stone An adopted big-city ad exec travels to sell her childhood Romantic Comedy home only to find herself teaming up with an old boyfriend in search of the story behind a necklace inherited from her Baby Makers Fiasco Elizabeth Franklin mother, discovering a much bigger story, her birth mother. A heart-on-her-sleeve advertising consultant is infuriated when she catches the business owner next door amid his POTUS and FLOTUS William Mark Clarke hilariously inappropriate, yet innocent, business promotion. A newly elected POTUS-elect travels to Los Angeles where he meets the future FLOTUS who did not vote for him. He Blue Spanish Eyes David Maddox invites her to the inauguration and later that night in the A 39-year-old, lonely job hopper, who never left home, Oval Office he proposes to her. While giving a state of the receives assistance from his guardian angel, Frank Sinatra, Union, catastrophe strikes the West Coast and he is tested to help him break through his ruthless rut. to the limits. They’re together for a lifetime.

Born to Pull Orso Vesperini A Rift That Lies Between Us Nasiha Muna After losing his eyesight in an ironic accident, a famous A Muslim woman develops an emotional attachment with author spirals into a slump, until his new guide dog leads a recovering Christian man during the course of a college him to true love and an unexpected adventure: taking part art project and must decide whether to follow her feelings in the Iditarod, the world’s toughest dog-sledding race. or to respect her traditional family’s wishes and have an arranged marriage – before she runs out of time. Cambridge Marilyn Hegefeld Sleepwalker Time Linda Kampley A young historian who is constantly on the lookout to find ways to prove herself, earns a spot at a competitive sum- A waitress in an all-night diner is told that a young man she mer program at Cambridge University. For there is nothing secretly cares for was murdered by a motorcycle gang. As she is trying to hide her feelings, the young man appears more important in her life than gaining acceptance, and to briefly, and for the first time, speak with her, this same she will keep going until she gets it. shy, overly sensitive waitress, who he loves. Christmas Bonus Judy Maharaj A Sparkle & Spice Christmas A money-hungry sales agent has the opportunity to make E. Elizabeth Franklin a large Christmas bonus, but when he falls in love with A gift specialist volunteering at a Christmas retreat redis- the customer who is the key to achieving this bonus, covers the personal touch she lost as the caring man in chaos ensues. charge tries to win her heart. A Christmas Lesson Tom Hawgood and Lexi Rose Two Hearts Beating Robert Hanson Heartlands’ school is being threatened by developers and In April of 1986, a student clash with the administration could be sold by Christmas. And things get even more com- of Cal Berkeley resulted in the most successful student plicated when the school’s most dedicated teacher and demonstration in history and in a complete change of fiercest advocate begins to fall for the developer himself. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Romantic Comedy 39 Feeding Lyons to the Christians David McPete Mr. Crossing Guard Jody-Lynn Reicher Holy mismatch! All hell breaks loose when an atheist tells A cantankerous man retires from his high-paying career his new gorgeous Christian fundamentalist girlfriend that upon his dying wife’s insistence. Convincing him to become he is a pastor, before accidentally agreeing to attend a a crossing-guard and to live his life ever fuller, after her week-long Christian fundamentalist family camp with her. passing. As he becomes a widower, their oldest daughter falls in love outside of their culture. Finders Fee Richard Morton Matt Clark re-locates to Los Angeles and buys a fixer-upper My Three Future Husbands Robert Osorio house. After moving in, he discovers that Terry, a beautiful After her husband leaves her for no clear reason, mischief but upset young lady, says she has also bought the house. angels visit a heartbroken divorcée and offer her the They agree to share the house until they can sort things out. chance to see her future with three different men as her When Matt reports to his new job, he discovers that Terry future husbands and pick one future husband – but it’s is his new boss. (Story by Robert Jones and Desiree Jones) unclear if she’s really over her ex.

He’s Here Somewhere Richard Willett No Place I’d Rather Be Steven C. Martin A young single woman is told by a psychic that she’s The worlds of an altruistic nurse and an egotistical actor already met the love of her life, but the psychic can’t tell collide when they inadvertently ruin each other’s careers her which guy he is. and become each other’s only hope for redemption.

Henry and Mom John Reoli Not So Kosher Wedding Scott Blumenthal After a visit from his dead mother, a handsome successful After graduating college debt-free from gambling and on a businessman must marry his secretary and negotiate a dating site looking for a Jewish wife to appease his mother, high-stakes international business deal in his favor. Lenny falls in love with a Catholic girl. A church wedding with a priest and rabbi. A honeymoon from gambling and In Like with Jayda Maggie Lawrence getting robbed. While raising a mixed ethnicity family their After Cory, an animal whisperer, wins a fortune, his beau- son is sent to Bar Mitzvah boot camp to become a man. tiful, but money-hungry, ex-girlfriend wants him back and his blind attraction for her is rekindled, threatening to ruin Operation Riveting Nuts Michele True his promising new relationship. Shevie Weaver transforms from disabled mouse to kick- ass powerhouse in this rom-com where girl meets guy, girl It Didn’t Go as Planned Holley Phelan and Marc Phelan stumbles into nest of Russian spies, girl falls in love, spies Just home from vacation, a couple discovers they’ve put a hit on girl, guy reveals he’s FBI, girl dumps guy, saves been robbed. Broke and desperate they naïvely conspire her country and her BFF’s Queen of the Bronx Beauty with a persuasive ex-hitman who proposes a dangerous Pageant, kisses a snake (real), and finds HEA (not with scheme to recoup their money: catch the bad guy, and aforementioned snake). double-cross the mob. (Quarter-finalist in The Script Lab 2019 screenplay contest) Santa Fell Asleep Kerwin McLaughlin A millennial woman gets stressed out every year around The Jewish Journal Tere Albanese Christmastime, so her elderly landlord leaves a plate of A 30-year-old Sicilian-American, Roman-Catholic woman brownies to relax her. When he comes home from an decides she wants a Jewish husband and puts a personal impromptu first date, she finds Santa Claus sleeping on ad in the Jewish Journal. When a wealthy conservative, her futon. It’s up to her and the guy to save Christmas Jewish man asks her to marry him, she convinces her fam- because Santa fell asleep. ily to pretend they are Jewish. Everything unravels at the engagement party, and everyone’s life changes. The Secret World of Stacy Cooper Victor Bravo Stacy Cooper, a hip columnist with a sexy alias, risks an A Merry “Little” Christmas Jimmie Smith alliance with an outlaw street artist to investigate city cor- Bob is searching for love but is unable to find it. Being a ruption, but her dizzy underground lifestyle, including a dwarf, it is hard for him to see the forest because of the tall swarm of ex-flames, threatens to derail her pursuit of the trees, unaware that his true love is only an arm’s length away. big story. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 40 Romantic Comedy – Sci-Fi Seph & Saraswati: Of Karma and Happenstance These different groups of “gods” along with their indige- Harry Mudaliar nous less evolved people (who in the future became us) A chance encounter on a snowy New York street brings went to war for each other’s resources. a lovelorn attorney and a budding veterinarian together, but clashing cultures and family traditions seem destined Alien Persuasion Jonathan Carder to keep them apart. The script celebrates diversity and A crafty alien implements a scheme to befoul the Earth’s inclusion with characters of differing ethnicity and sexual atmosphere to prepare it for colonization, using “Extreme orientation. Ultimately, it is a tale of tolerance and follow- Wellness” to turn healthy humans into smog-sucking ing one’s heart. Based on a true story. mutants. Only a hard-core architect and a bad-ass reporter stand in his way. Snowbirds Sandra McClinton When a bungling rocket scientist and his wife struggle to adjust The Antieran Underground Kari Wolf to their sunset years in the sunshine state, their boomerang When his wife is murdered, a fireman uncovers her secret children return, and they end up having misadventures when life and her involvement in a network of allies who risk a Latin dance contest pits them against their former spouses all to protect a group of alien children, and now he finds who now live next door and an approaching hurricane. himself faced with the impossible – he must figure out a way to save his stepson, the Antieran children, and Earth. The Soul Elevator Marilyn Hoffman In 1987, a famous, chauvinistic rock star tragically crashes Assurity Anthony Barbera his motorcycle along Mulholland Drive before reuniting Veronika Taylor Morgan knows interstellar mining like the with his long-lost love, he must now travel through time and back of her hand. But leading an expedition into deep space to merge with his younger self, change their uncertain space is another matter. With a mind-devouring pandemic future, and learn that love is more important than fame. sweeping Earth, the discovery of an alien craft leaves humanity hopeful. Except Veronika’s aging frigate Assurity Speak English Kieran Angelini is the only ship capable of reaching Nemesis, where aliens hold ransom the cure for humanity’s continued existence. A commitment-averse, prejudiced cardsharp is black- mailed into marrying a ruthless Peruvian gangster’s French mistress to keep her from being deported, then puts his Biosphere Chance Ruffino life in even greater danger by falling in love with the guy’s In the latter half of the 26th century, man’s evolution with hot-blooded Mexican wife. science and history has produced the greatest Global Legislative Membership. A man above all millenniums before him is faced with his improbable solution to attempt to save Suite 1010 Katrina Walia and Gia Beaumont us all. Will all be lost and forgotten? Will this man do what no A womanizing photojournalist and a prim interior decora- one before him ever attempted? Human extinction? tor get coerced to help a mutual friend in financial trouble with a casino boss unbeknownst to each and must deal with their dislike of each other in a most peculiar way. (In Black Water T.J. MacGregor and Rob MacGregor the vein of Pillow Talk) When a psychotic kidnaps a woman’s daughter, she pur- sues him back to 1968 and must rescue the girl before the portal closes, trapping them in the past. Wabi Sabi Love Nelson Beltran A romantic coming-of-age of Asian-American students set at Michigan State University and college experience with Celestial Grace Keith Canty an eccentric professor of psychology, also known as “Dr. A man hopes to save his dying mother and seeks medi- Love.” “Wabi Sabi” is the Japanese distinction of finding cal help from advanced extraterrestrial beings. He soon the perfect inside the imperfect world. Love is a high fre- learns that looking for clues to contact such beings are far quency wave relationship. more dangerous from a multitude of sources from either side of the law. Sci-Fi Dead Future Shaun Graham Alien Man Georges Salo An inventor jumps back three years in his glitchy time Twelve thousand years ago, according to the Piri Reis map, machine in an attempt to prevent the future zombie modern man existed and was regarded by the indigenous apocalypse. (Sci-Fi/thriller. 9 out of 10 on first Black List population on Earth as “gods,” hence the title “Alien Man.” evaluation. Interest from Black Summer producers and Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Sci-Fi – Suspense/Thriller 41 12 Monkeys feature film producer. Nothing signed and no abducted princess to return to her royal family, and actually attachments. Strong female co-lead. Rave reviews from falls into the midst of a great geopolitical war of empires for Zoetrope.com’s screenplay workshopping website.) controlling the strategic resource of the Magmatite ore that drives spaceships, lasers, and robots, almost everything. Gods, Demons and Other Things Nick Marciano God’s other son convinces God to allow him to visit Earth Suspense/Thriller in order to make things right. Things don’t go well for him, Act of God Gary Rowlands and, upon his return to heaven, he is devastated by what awaits him. A religiously bankrupt homicide detective investigating the brutal murder of a former nun begins to question his own beliefs when the killer appears to be God. Hubris Neva Sanders-Dewey, Ph.D. and Seth Dewey, M.D. In the cutthroat world of stem cell research, neurosurgeons Apart Hunter Davis compete to publish first in a race that is more twisted than a DNA double helix, causing some to lose their moral com- Set during the peak of the Corona pandemic, a young pass, some their dignity, and others – their lives. bartender moves into a dream apartment only to discover that seven years earlier a former tenant went missing – and she might be next. Kepler 22b Kevin Reem and Paul Plamondon A deep-space Earth vessel crash lands on a dangerous, Georges Salo unforgiving planet inhabited by humanoid robots, giant Beleaguered Proof carnivores, and killer apes. An avalanche of events forces A French prosecutor family’s life is in danger when she inves- the crew to embark on a daring mission of survival or death. tigates an unscrupulous military shipping deal between a French corporation and the Nigerian government. Lilith Dennis Gallagher Jonathan Marballi and Jeremy Michaels An ambitious young medical doctor and a biblical archae- BlackCar ologist join forces to destroy a vengeful demoness that is An app-based driver for a rich clientele goes on a murder wreaking havoc on humankind. spree to prove a point about those who live in undeserved wealth, and a young couple who own a successful start-up are his next passengers. Mind Clone Brian Connolly The shy son of a scientist, 20s, falls in love with a beautiful android that has been installed with a digital copy of a Blood Snow Sandra McClinton real girl’s mind only to discover that the android is to be During an international space race, a group of astronauts permanently “mated” to one of her authoritative creators. train at an Arctic crater that is Mars-like but find their operations threatened by saboteurs and are quarantined on an island by an ancient virus. Saucers & Rayguns Oscar Speace and Paul A. Hernandez Saucers & Rayguns is a sci-fi story about the Garrett family, government workers who are charged with investigating Blood White Ernest Farino the unexplainable. When a toy raygun used by a home- In 1964 Los Angeles, a con man whose failed schemes less man obliterates a couple of gang members who were squeeze him from all sides takes drastic action by planning to harassing him, Mrs. Garrett is sent to the scene to retrieve murder his loving wife to collect her trust fund. An ally from the weapon and learn its secrets. his criminal past agrees to do the deed but makes a deadly mistake, spiraling things out of control, escalating a final con- frontation into a violent climax of revenge and retribution. 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 Cassandra’s Ghost William Caldwell an unspeakable fate in their underground laboratory. A young American couple visits the family castle and are drawn into an ancient curse. Wars of Empires Part One: Secrets of the Golden Planet Naser Rizk Dead Play Terence Hammond Young space smuggler accepts the seemingly light mission Speeding back to the small town where she grew up, a young of stealing military blueprints for a devastating weapon mother has no idea that within 12 hours two killers will use her from the Empire. Accidentally, he helps a long-time-ago 5-year-old daughter in a deadly game of cat and mouse. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 42 Suspense/Thriller Dead Rose Blues Goran Mojsin Jack Lesley Manuel In 1973, a Secret Service recruiter is held responsible for the An endearing story of companionship turns violent when a death of his recruits in a Belgrade bomb incident. Instructed loyal and loving Boxer contracts rabies and terrorizes two by his superiors to commit honor suicide in return, he fights young teens, who now must fight for their survival. to escape the path he was ordered to follow. Leahcim Trip Payne Deadstination John Melena III A deist begs for the divine righting of wrongs, only to be A former soldier stumbles into the path of a rogue encountered by a spirit named Leahcim intent on holding government experiment turning its victims into a solo rebellion against the devil. ravenous berserkers. Local Curse Bryan Bakker The Doll Thief Brian Connolly Set in 1987, a group of teens go on a camping trip looking for the secrets behind a 200-year-old local curse. Quickly, When a kidnap attempt is made upon her 4-year-old they realize the greatest dangers lie in the secrets they adopted daughter, a young mother flees with the child to bring in with them. the refuge of her isolated lake cabin only to be terrorized by the kidnapper who is delusionally convinced that the child is hers. Love and Fate Michael Saunders An exec is accused of rape by his fiancé’s mother. Later, The First Encounter Benjamin Roussey an unexpected reunion with his ex-fiancé brings hope of redemption and a life the way it should have been if he’ll It started centuries ago – religious doctrine twisted to murder her husband. But his ex lies to save herself when benefit a few – a young officer in America’s infantile Navy the attempt fails, and he realizes he has to save her from emerges to confront this serious threat emanating from him to save himself or die. The Barbary Corsairs.

Mayhem in Forest Suhail Shaikh Fractured Mirror Ricky Acker Joshua teams up with his friends to save the Amazon rain A broken man enters murky psychological territory follow- forest from a mysterious animal and an eccentric antagonist. ing a tragedy when his attempt to cope by starting over places him on a collision course with a corpse and the Money or Blood Scott Taylor and Yvonne Bornstein grisly attempts to dispose of it. Yvonne and Danny are international traders who are kidnapped in Moscow after a multi-million-dollar shipping Friend Request Richard Pierce deal goes wrong. The couple must survive betrayal, torture, After a bitter high school journalist creates a fake social and murder to secure a ransom for their freedom but tell media profile using racy photographs of a girl found online no one they’ve been abducted, or both will be killed. to bait and expose cheating guys in her class, she struggles to keep her life from being picked apart by a mysterious Murder on the Fly Sandra McClinton new transfer student who looks suspiciously like the girl A Vietnam pilot dies in an airplane crash before a reunion from the profile. flightseeing tour of Alaska with his Caribou brothers and his wife and his daughter; but his headstrong daughter, who is Ian Simon Teal Georges Salo also a pilot, vows to find her father’s killer before it is too late. Two master thieves mentor a down-on-his-luck amateur thief in his craft. To show his gratitude, he’ll accomplish My Brother’s Killer Richard Willett the one task his mentors couldn’t complete – steal an item A criminal law student is assisting his profiler professor in illegally usurped by a private collector and return it to the a study of serial killers and the investigation of a series of museum. He devises the scheme with such complexity as local murders, when long-buried memories begin to sur- to also gain the love of his life. face of his late brother, who was himself a notorious killer.

Ian Simon Teal Too: The Savage Heist Georges Salo Opposition Research Tracy Schumer To save his kidnapped lover’s life, a master forger and art When a brilliant young law grad with a talent for thief must steal a famous Gauguin sculpture and hatch a speed-reading takes a well-paid gig scraping bulk data for daring plan to rescue her. dirt on a rival political candidate, his idealistic naïveté and Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Suspense/Thriller 43 misplaced loyalty land him in the crosshairs of powerful Rise Up Little Girl Matthew Avant enemies, the FBI, and his murderous boss. When grave robbers terrorize a small mountain town, the new sheriff begins to unravel a secret history of local Photographer’s Eye William Wonders III witchcraft. He soon discovers a pair of reclusive young women in the black hills with a passion for the occult, and After Adele, a war photographer, has a brutal encounter with an African dictator, General Faruq, she is forced to go an ancient stone that brings souls back from the dead. back to America. As she struggles to get her sanity back, she has no idea she has been targeted by the general Rolling Blackouts Eric Owen and his American cohorts. She must fight to stay alive and Suspicions run high when members of a 24-hour gym thwart the general’s rise to power. start disappearing from their locker rooms. Who will make it through the night when they start turning up dead and The Portrait John Roth-Imsdahl and the power goes out? Michael Thomas Gossette A world-famous Machiavellian painter abducts a talented Saving Me Ed Silva female art student, drives her to the brink of madness in The scientist who discovered the cure to COVID-19 is the hopes she will be inspired to paint his portrait in the found murdered in Town Square Park in Cathedral City. macabre way he envisions himself. Four students tried, Two police detectives will embark on a hunt, searching four students died. for clues to where he left it – before it’s forever destroyed by an assassin. Someone who has a personal vendetta Reflections Lori Howell and Manuel Freedman against the U.S. president. Revenge breeds murder. Forensic anthropologist, Dr. Bailey Fairchild, rises to international fame by solving Seesaw Rachael V. James unsolvable murder cases. The one she has the most trou- A single mother suspects an unearthly connection between ble with is when she realizes that she is the prime and only her son and his strange friend. While the community suspect. It all comes to a head when she starts to believe closes in around her, she must battle her own sanity and she is the serial killer she is hunting for. uncover dark truths before it’s too late for her son.

Responder Steve Jacques Shadowed Brian Connolly A survivor of a high school shooting creates an algorithm An affluent housewife helps a charismatic thug cover up a that tracks closet psychopaths across social media in an killing only to discover that she was the person that he was attempt to prevent mass shootings. originally trying to kill.

Restless Patrick Lazzara A Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing Anthony Truscello After a home invasion, a bank manager recounts her harrow- An avenging alpha-lesbian plots a hostile takeover of ing ordeal to detectives investigating a robbery at her bank. her heartless father’s corporation, using her inner circle of girlfriends, by murdering her twin brother and living a Review Jonathan Zarantonello dual-life as both twins. In a video message, a girl invites other women to have sex with her boyfriend, but only if they leave her a review after. Silent Partners: Absinthe of Desire Georges Salo Two wealthy men are deceived into service by a clandes- Rigged Alan J. Field tine government agency, the vanguard of international A hardened FBI interrogator must learn the locations of a counter-terrorism. Will the agency’s gamble on these nerve agent to be released in New York City by a domestic men’s skills, charm, and ingenuity prove to be the lethal terrorist group, but struggles with her unreliable, fractured combination that stops a crime lord hell-bent on revenge? memory after a head injury until she discovers it’s her FBI colleagues, and not her memories, that are unreliable. Silent Partners: Fragrant Water Georges Salo Two wealthy men recruited by a clandestine international Rise of the Murder Hornets Grayson Wolfe government agency must prevent ultra-modern subma- A strain of super-hornets threaten to decimate the U.S. rines from falling into the hands of Yemeni and Omani population and bring about the apocalypse. pirates. If left unchecked, the pirates would have the whole Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 44 Suspense/Thriller – Western world to ransom as a large portion of global trade passes the serial killer is receiving help from evil forces and the through the Gulfs of Oman, Aden, and the Arabian Sea. FBI agent is receiving help from an unseen being from the Third Heaven. Silent Partners: Razed Capital Georges Salo Two wealthy men recruited by a clandestine international Time to Go Lesley Manuel government agency must prevent an activated North A man struggling to cope with losing both his baseball Korean sleeper agent from bringing the global financial system to its knees. Economic sanctions imposed on career and best friend in a tragic car wreck 15 years earlier North Korea force its regime to execute this plot – destroy goes back in time to see what could have been, though U.S. facilities that print and store money. staying may cost him everything.

Silent Partners: Scorched Earth Georges Salo Unity Benjamin Roussey Two wealthy men recruited by a clandestine international A persevering Georgetown grad student concocts a novel government agency must stop a criminal from using Earth idea on how to deal with North Korea. His idea alters Penetrator Warheads from setting ablaze U.S. Air Force American foreign policy and changes the direction of mil- bases housing nuclear silos. lions on the Korean peninsula for the better.

The Stain Dove Ricky Jones and Wallace Jones Wounds Christian Hearn A third-grade teacher, and daughter of a slain police con- stable in Kentucky, becomes one of America’s first female After the black sheriff of a small town loses her gun, SWAT cops. Her transformation and journey in defining she finds herself investigating a series of shootings. But her as a skilled street cop and bad-ass on the streets of when she discovers the victims are members of a white Los Angeles. To her journey to find her way back from near supremacist group, the sheriff suspects the shooter is her death at the hands of her fellow SWAT cops. own son.

The Steel Lotus Jeff Walkley Instead of going to college, a teenage girl stays home Western to care for her eccentric father, only to find out he is a Blaze of Glory Jimmie Smith deranged serial killer. Terror is spreading across southwest Texas as raiders capture the women folk of a small town. Some old war Systems Jesse Blaskovits buddies join forces and rescue them, but realizing that When the events of a screenplay begin to unfold in his real they do not have the time to beat the marauders back life, a writer suspects he’s inside his own film. Knowing his across the Rio Grande, they spin their horses around and character’s tragic fate, he desperately tries to prevent the end of his existence before the credits roll. charge head-on into the raiders in a final blaze of glory.

Think Tank Phil Davey The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost Tim Bogg When the CEO of an influential think tank is forced to par- An exiled highwayman must ride with his crack-shot fore- ticipate in a live debate being broadcast to the dark web, woman and the gang he betrayed to find the outlaw priest he must win or be killed. who killed his son.

The Third Bryan Hammond The McLean Gang Frank Scott This movie is about a female FBI agent who is after a serial It’s 1864, the frontier, the Gold Rush era. Wagon loads of killer who is murdering women and kidnapping their chil- dren. Also, this movie is about good versus evil, because settlers quickly head west. Governments scramble to take control of the last frontier – the Indian Territories. Donald Every month an average of 25 scripts McLean, Hudson Bay’s chief fur trader and Sophie Grant, are purchased or optioned his Tsilhqot’in wife are now caught in the middle of harsh, Register at www.InkTip.com unforgiving, changing times. Vengeance quickly spreads A free service to the industry through the lands leaving blood stained deep into every- one’s hands. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Western 45 Mescalero Anderson Boyd a Few Dollars More meets John Wick. There’s nothing more To fulfill a dying wish a former U.S. Marshal embarks on an dangerous than a man with something to prove. odyssey across the Southwest. A band of fearsome out- laws shadows his every move, promising a final showdown Two Thousand Grueling Miles Larry Martin with worldly implications. Eleven graves line every mile of the 2,000 mile Oregon Trail. Jake Zane turns 16 and becomes head of the fam- No Reward Sean Mick ily when his father fills one. Wild weather, animals, and A dangerous young bounty hunter searching for his wilder men confront the family. Jake fights to stay alive and father’s killer joins forces with a beautiful widowed rancher keep his family safe, helped by an escaped former slave. to rescue her kidnapped daughter when he discovers (Young-love, conflict, coming-of-age. Six months No. 1 on they’re seeking the same ruthless bunch of outlaws. For Amazon’s young-adult bestseller list.) Writers Represented by Agents/Managers

Adam Fisk, Adam Fisk Co. time, and trying to break free of the boxes she’s being put in through class and culture. The Methuselah Doctrine (Sci-Fi) Paul Whitehead In the near future, the government uses the Methuselah Chamber to instantly age offenders the number of years Linda Saint, Saint Agency, Toronto, Canada they were due to serve for their crime and releases them John Hancock’s Chest (Biographical) Guy Hallifax instantly – time served. You do the crime – you lose the time. Founding Father John Hancock survived the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, and the Battle of Lexington Estrella Gunstrom, EG Literary & Talent before he signed the Declaration of Independence. A present-day couple find his oak chest and, in researching Katharine to Tesla, Faithfully Yours (Biographical) the story of the man, they discover the love of his life. Natalie Paige Bentley The late 19th-century true story of a New York City mar- ried socialite, Katharine Johnson, who falls in love with the Sean Gascione, United Agents London electrical wizard, Nikola Tesla, amidst the risk of scandal Pursuit Horizon (Action/Adventure) James Weedon and Tesla’s quest for wireless telegraphy. A desperate fugitive teams up with a teenage runaway, Mia Mackenzie, in a high-octane chase across the Nevada J.D. DeWitt, 5x5 Productions desert. The fugitive is far more than he seems. With the local sheriff’s department and a division from NASA clos- Necessary Detour (Suspense/Thriller) Kim Hornsby ing in, time is running out fast for them both. Humanity is An internationally beloved rock star suddenly quits show on the brink, but is Mia the key to its salvation? business after a murder attempt onstage and hides from a deranged stalker at her lake house only to find new danger across her small bay in the form of mysterious neighbors. Sherry Robb, Robb Company Revenge Status (Drama) David Seader Jack Cavanagh, JW3 Ltd. A guy awakens from a six-month coma and does a com- plete Kill Bill to a town, and everyone in it who helped to Wide Open Spaces (Romance) Joe Wenborne injure him and rape/kill his girlfriend. (Inspired by a real life An emotionally crushed city girl finds hope, inspiration, coma and TBI I had.) and love under the big skies of Montana. Stephen Greenwald, Kat McEntee, Katalyst Talent Agency Stephen Greenwald Agency Boxes (Drama) Shawn Michael Maus S.T.A.N.E. (Action/Adventure) Frank Mancuso Invited to spend spring break at a friend’s lake house, Abby When two ex-military buddies become cops and when his Stafford must come to terms about being homeless while partner is killed working undercover with the DEA, he and applying for college scholarships, falling in love for the first his team won’t let anyone get in their way. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 46 Teleplays

Half Hour Pilot doesn’t have one of those, so she decides to follow a faerie into Hell to find out the truth – and gains bizarre powers Adulting (Comedy) as a result. Jeremy Cohen and Catharine Daddario Eight 20-somethings living in New York City struggle to Gransassin (Comedy) Vanessa Leigh and Aaron Bennett adapt to a changing definition of adulthood while they mess up every personal and professional relationship After decades of contract killing, a grandmother of two they have worked to establish. Is this adulthood? trades in her brutal past for a simple, suburban routine, in hopes that her former life as a top-tier assassin doesn’t come back to haunt her. And Still Champion... (Comedy) Jackie Letkowski After a series of unfortunate events, an underpaid It Takes a Village (Comedy) Adriane Marcelle receptionist finally snaps on a mugger which lands her a career as an MMA fighter (despite her lack of experience). It Takes a Village reflects a proud African-American work- (Represented by Jordan Imiola, Better Management LLC) ing-class family, whose world gets turned upside down when their daughter returns home from college with an African husband. The series presents a clash of values Boosters (Drama) Shawn Decker between the traditional African culture and its African- When members of a professional shoplifting ring are American counterpart. It reflects the diversities, similarities, busted during a police sting, the leader suspects his top and contradictions within the African-American experi- booster may be a snitch. ence through classism, colorism, religion, and sexism.

Cowboys & Indians Smoke Signals (Comedy) Nicky’s Place (Drama) Shawn Decker and Carrie Seidler Rick Koenig Sick of harassment and being ridiculed for her sexual Colorado dairy farmers (cowboys) must now grow mari- naïvete, a young woman embarks on a journey of self-dis- juana on their ranch to stay afloat financially. They became covery, leaving the corporate world to become an erotic successful beyond their wildest dreams. The wife and dancer and is thrust into the realities and absurdities of in-laws (Indians) are from New Delhi, India. A one-of-a- the sex industry. kind comedy where Bollywood meets Mayberry as they go from milk to marijuana. The Rash (Comedy) Tony James Moore Four slackers in New Zealand struggle to find a roommate Dirty Mats (Comedy) Mary Griffitts and Michelle Valen who will stick around. Shh... After her rideshare business implodes, a fitness instructor is going underground with a podcast on the body-shaming tactics happening at her gym. The gym’s Scared Stiffe (Comedy) Olivia Harvey run by some half-baked, criminal-based, neurotic owners. When a scaredy-cat slouch inherits his grandmother’s AKA her family. (Placed in Stage 32 Comedy Contest and bankrupt haunted house attraction, he must overcome Austin and Houston Comedy contest) his fears and work with a chaotic crew of ghouls to bring the place back from the dead and save his family from financial ruin. Escape From 1977 (Action/Adventure) Jerald McClain New York City – 2077 A.D. To stop people from “altering history,” the U.S. Congress has declared time travel illegal! Somewhat Luck (Comedy) Brandon Sharpe After four college students stumble onto the assassination An accidental millionaire assumes several aspirational but of inventor Cain Footlander, they escape in a “prototype” plausible identities to hide his sudden wealth, only to learn back to NYC 1977, but there’s a problem: the time machine the hard way that sex, lies, and falling in love with different is locked! Only one man can unlock it: Cain’s brother Abel, women, well, that rarely leads to a fairy-tale ending. who rots in Alcatraz. Unelected (Comedy) Joe Moran The Faerie Tale of Trinity Cross (Comedy) Keith Planit A small-town city hall is home to an ambitious legislature College student Maya Ramachandran is annoyed to learn president, imposing her will on the assembly members, her real dad may be The Devil, especially since her religion staffers, and interns with often disastrous results. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 47 Up Your Dukes (Comedy) Tim Bellen Designated Drinker (Drama) Young Jessica Dukes is put in charge of her mother’s live Richard Willett and Linda Lili Anderson day-time soap television show on the same day her cine- Annie, a tightly wrapped accountant with an empty nest ma-legend father insinuates himself back into her life and and a husband losing interest, and her new best friend makes big plans. Brian, a gay N.Y. playwright forced back to L.A. to escort his wacko aging parents into oblivion, belly up in a legendary Wonks (Comedy) Valerie Levett Hollywood bar with a colorful assortment of drinking bud- dies coping with their own deferred dreams and absurd What happens when two young, female policy wonks from new realities. D.C. join a Mississippi task force to overhaul the criminal justice system? Sparks fly between the mentor wonk and her naïve, impulsive associate, and between the liberal Dirty Deeds (Comedy) Rex Austin Barrow Northerners and conservative Southerners. Also, unlikely Sick of being the butt of every joke, the dweeb, geek girl, bonds are formed. pot dealer, and dork go into the revenge business to take on the high-school elite. One-Hour Pilot Disposable People (Suspense/Thriller) Alex Moreno Aging In (Drama) Howard Pearl A vengeful mother teams up with seedy criminals to Psychiatrist Jesse Middleton, although secretly battling expose a black mystic for the death of her daughter. severe depression, struggles to remain the glue amongst the unique characters of this over-55 community, The Mayflower. (Represented by Otto Vavrin, SMC Artists) The Dusk Chronicles Episode 1: The Arrival (Drama) Vicki-Ann Bush and Samantha Alban Bad Hand (Western) Natalie Paige Bentley One love to transcend eternity; one dusk to steal it away. A notable U.S. Army colonel and his buffalo soldier cavalry regiment on the Texas frontier are ordered to bring peace The Element (Sci-Fi) Erin Dinsmore and resolution to settlers and Natives amidst Ulysses S. A childlike young woman wakes from years of pain to Grant’s failing peace treaty, political corruption, racial out- discover she’s lost her only caretaker and becomes casting, and guerrilla warfare during the historical events the legal ward of his two elitist sons, all while confront- of the violent, tumultuous period of the Plains Indian Wars. ing the quantum supremacy her billionaire caretaker (Represented by Estrella Gunstrom, EG Literary & Talent) implanted in her mind.

Brushwork (Suspense/Thriller) Catherine MacDougall The Evangelical Cell (Horror) Timothy O’Neill A young female auctioneer battles a global forgery art ring An agnostic reporter is drawn into a dark and supernatu- facing corrupt European royals, dubious sheikhs, a myste- ral conspiracy when a woman who is hiding more than she rious American heiress, the KGB, and a heretical religious reveals forms a partnership with him to stop a Satanic cell. sect that nurtured Rasputin, in a world where only paint- ings don’t lie. The God-King’s 100 (Drama) Katheryn Haddad The Calvary Incident (Sci-Fi) Lt Col James Sladack The God-King, disguised as a carpenter,​ challenges the Evil One and chooses 12 aides destined for Africa, India – the Green Berets and Marines time-jump to save the 21st cen- world. You know about his Christmas birth and his Easter tury from obliteration by killing a rogue SEAL team bent on rescuing Jesus from the Cross and inadvertently upending death. This is what happened in between to 100 losers he history with catastrophic results. turns into winners.

Cheechako (Drama) Reid Barwick Every month an average of 25 scripts Nurse Paula Porter should be happy. Good husband. Her are purchased or optioned son is soon to graduate. At 35, that’s it? She wants an Register at www.InkTip.com adventure and discovers the new state of Alaska is offer- A free service to the industry ing free land to homesteaders. She and events around her husband are about to go in different directions. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 48 Heavy (Drama) Collette Legault Libertine (Drama) Heavy is based on the true story of a 500-pound black man Michael Mizrahi and Stephanie Zoe Warncke who unwittingly becomes the de facto father of two white A talented young civil rights lawyer with unresolved issues boys being raised by their racist, addict mother, Janet. As from her abusive childhood is ill-equipped to cope with the series unfolds, he calls the boys his sons and guides the relentless demands of work, love, and family, when them through a world full of racism, addiction, and poverty she takes a seemingly irrational step into an underground while shouldering the impossible task of keeping their kinky society to moonlight as a dominatrix. Based on the mother sober. life of attorney Stephanie Zoe Warncke, a.k.a. Domina Hera.

Hidden Blood (Fantasy) Seda Anbarci Lights Out (Sci-Fi) Kenny Chisholm When an ordinary girl gains magical powers on her 18th When he is forced to leave his orphanage, a teen raised birthday, she’s thrust into a secretive underground world during the Second Great Depression turns to the barbaric of myths and monsters, where her mysterious parentage sport of bare-knuckle fighting so that he can provide for puts a target on her back. himself – and also the two children who have been aban- doned by a despondent young waif. Hotel Real (Drama) Peter Hatch After initiating a project to house the homeless, a Los Lord of the Senate (Drama) Montgomery Floyd Angeles CPA is compelled to confront forces that threaten The historically based Roman-à-clef set in 1959 centers on not only the project, himself, and others, but potentially a corrupt, amoral U.S. senator, who leverages his power the nation. to advance agendas and even scores, while struggling to stop an obsessive retail tycoon from derailing his political Internal Affairs (Crime/Murder/Mystery) dynasty. The senator’s aide is set up in a tearoom arrest. Shawn Decker He must find the culprit and locate a missing classified file before his nemesis. A new detective unit tasked with criminal justice reform faces obstruction when they investigate police corruption and brutality, starting with an officer-involved shooting of Mama Dallas (Drama) Danna Doyle, an unarmed black celebrity. Benson Simmonds, and Jody Fasanella The true story of love and survival that turns a wife Just Super (Comedy) and mother into a gangster competing for turf with Aaron Bennett and Vanessa Leigh Lucky Luciano. A team of once-renowned superheroes must come to terms with aging out of the spotlight, while managing Manifest Destiny (Drama) Alexander Stalowski declining health, finances, once-super abilities, and their The funeral for a murdered emperor, the investigation love lives. into his assassination, and the ascension to the throne by his unstable son is fraught with treason, shifting alliances, La Sirena (Drama) Natalie Paige Bentley and murder. A mysterious woman, taking refuge in a quiet beach town, finds herself entangled between a missing person and The Marked (Sci-Fi) Byron Marsh classified NOAA investigation, taking place in the waters The disappearance of a Tomorrow’s News Today reporter of the Gulf of Mexico. Cosmic and scientific forces collide, reunites a frustrated small-town sheriff with his big-city forcing her to flee into a world beneath the sea, exposing a high school crush, now 10 years later an investigative world of federal and local corruption in and out of the sea. journalist, and together they uncover a White House con- (Represented by Estrella Gunstrom, EG LIterary & Talent) spiracy to microchip every American with life and death consequences for all. Never say it can’t happen here!

Go to www.InkTip.com Naked Ambition (Drama) Candice Edwards-Marchrones and search by title or author for When Zarah, a kingpin stripper, loses her job, she decides the scripts that interest you! to pursue her life-long dream by auditioning for a boujee acting school, but ends up having to fight for her old job back when she realizes she’s broke AF. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 49 The Observer (Drama) Justin Hunt survivor groups, and experience firsthand the horrors of a The Observer is a one-hour serial drama focused around society struggling to emerge from anarchy. John Burgess, a young, idealistic newspaper reporter working in a struggling medium in a mid-sized American Sins and Memories (Drama) Robert Mann city, Colorado Springs. He’s an Edward R. Murrow living in Crimes, secrets, and dreams are visualized on screen as a Megyn Kelly world. (Pitch deck available upon request.) a young Asian-American psychologist, fleeing her own sins and crimes, enters the memories of her patients. Old The Pink Champagne: A Gentlemen’s Club with crimes and secrets create new dilemmas, and old dreams Class (Drama) Frances Rice never die. Inner space is as breathtaking as outer space. Join our hero as she copes with the challenges of the pres- A disgraced war veteran returns home and decides to ent and the chaos of the past. work in and renovate a local gentlemen’s club to clear his name and revive his hometown, but finds he can’t prevail without coming to grips with his own past and battling the Sk8 Club (Drama) Christopher Sullivan town’s corrupt politicians. After falling in love with both a boy and a girl at his skate park, a young skateboarder must confront his bisexuality Really Gone (Comedy) Wendy Rodley in the macho world of early 2000s skate culture. Through email, four friends have reunited to share their irreverent, poignant, funny, and searching experiences of Sol (Sci-Fi) James Fox looking after their aged mothers. After a shocking assassination, citizen and soldier alike plunge into a sinister interplanetary civil war between a corrupt Earth government and a Martian colony that has The Redacted (Crime/Murder/Mystery) earned its independence. Aaron Bennett and Vanessa Leigh Twenty years after surviving the Vietnam War and vicious CIA experimentation, a Los Angeles private investigator Split Decisions (Drama) Layla O’Shea struggles to embrace his terrifying transcendental powers When oppressive morality laws are instituted to combat in a last ditch effort to solve a series of brutal crimes. crumbling marriage and pregnancy rates, an attorney wrestles between publicly upholding these laws and secretly fighting against them as they threaten to destroy Rematch (Comedy) Bret Angell his own family’s existence. A gay attorney discovers an app on his phone that enables him to relive memories and romance “the ones Strawberry Plains (Crime/Murder/Mystery) who got away.” Elvis Wilson A college professor desperately searches for his pregnant The Revolution (Drama) Adriane Marcelle wife who is being held captive by an unstable ex-lover who A cunning death row inmate weaponizes a volatile political plans to take the baby as her own when the child is born. party to protect his family from malicious political conspir- (A nine-part dramatic thriller TV series) ators, and his prime enemy. A Study in Scarlett (Crime/Murder/Mystery) Ritual (Suspense/Thriller) Amanda Nitsa Oz Jennifer Woldman and David Maddox Non-conformist Xander is recruited to join a new FBI unit, In a re-imagining of the legendary sleuths, the brilliant, enig- led by Ella, a stickler for protocol. Their first case is investi- matic, and bi-racial Scarlett Holmes and former Civil War gating the kidnapping of a boy by a human trafficking ring. doctor Joanna Watson challenge social norms and solve But the last thing Xander expected to find in the cult was mysteries amid the cultural upheaval of Reconstruction his identical twin. (Screenplay writer is a therapist and a Era America. survivor of such a sect.) Every month an average of 25 scripts Salvage and Reclamation (Drama) are purchased or optioned Patrick Emralino Register at www.InkTip.com After a cure ends the zombie apocalypse, a former zombie A free service to the industry must secure a safe haven for his son by joining a blue collar clean-up crew as they mop up bodies, encounter vicious Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 50 The System (Drama) And Call Me in the Morning: The Story of Aaron Bennett and Vanessa Leigh Thalidomide (Drama) Richard Willett A social worker haunted by the memories of her past In this limited series based on true events; six very differ- abusers becomes the toughest advocate for change in Los ent people around the world in the early 1960s – doctors, Angeles County, rescuing countless children and lament- scientists, mothers, fathers – are confronted with the ing those she could not protect. (Based on a true story) birth of deformed babies and struggle to find out why this has happened, eventually pitting them against the pharmaceutical giant whose prescription medication Vampires vs. Zombies “Blood for Blood” (Fantasy) caused the epidemic. David Vierling When Delroy kills a vampire in self-defense, the vampire family vows revenge, forcing Delroy to fight back with zom- The Ecstasy of Demons (Suspense/Thriller) bies created with his voodoo magic. Percy Lallemang The woman he loves has disappeared. Desperate to find her, private eye Sam Miller’s investigations become a (Crime/Murder/Mystery) What Happened to Flynn descent into hell. (Award-winning 4-part noir psychothriller John Neill mini-series, sequel to award-winning The Agony of Angels.) Detective Shanisha Adams investigates missing man Flynn while competing for the sergeant position. She encounters How to Ruin a Pearl (Crime/Murder/Mystery) forgery, money laundering, and murder before discov- Jody-Lynn Reicher ering what happened to the missing man in a surprise ending that shows she fully matches the capabilities of her As the law pursues the young woman’s attacker, there is white peers. Her investigation is complicated by personal a twist as the case goes cold. The woman pursues martial problems, including her son dating an older white woman, arts training. Becoming close friends with another victim related to her boss. and two martial arts instructors. It is then found out some cases, including hers, were sabotaged.

The Wrong Candidate (Action/Adventure) John Ravitz I Could Never Say Goodbye (Non-Fiction/History) A well-financed terrorist organization has trained oper- William Boland atives since they were children; when they finally have a viable candidate to run for president, the current presi- The untold story of Coast Guard Squadron One in Vietnam. dent sets into motion a plan to put his own successor in After 20 months of terrifying and stressful combat, a young the Oval Office. commanding officer of an 82-foot patrol boat battles his inner emotions to become the leader of his men and then at home tries to find peace with the beautiful woman Youngbloods (Drama) Y.J. Ha he left behind. A faux family of coveted high school sophomores is guaranteed sovereignty under their umbrella of elite and Rapture of Elle Divine: Episode 1 – Reboot wicked parents in an unsuspecting Midwest suburb. (Action/Adventure) Reid Barwick The Black Angels syndicate council to the pandemic and ZigZag (Suspense/Thriller) Keith Planit what new opportunities and threats have arisen. Elle Ocean’s 11-style con artists concoct a carefully developed Divine and her three disciples begin Elle’s plans for disci- heist of a pot dispensary, but just as they’re escaping pleship and strategies for change. Elle accidentally crosses with their spoils, three crooks burst in with guns, inciting path with a Black Angel. Her mission is altered and must violence and bringing police. The group of con men and now find the three archangels for her quest. women must make up for the lost cash, avoid the police, and settle scores after their big grift goes terribly awry. Rapture of Elle Divine: Episode 2 Boardrooms (Action/Adventure) Reid Barwick Mini-Series The Black Angels syndicate meets to discuss the pandemic and what new opportunities and threats have arisen. Elle The Agony of Angels (Suspense/Thriller) Divine and her disciples are in Chicago to begin Elle’s Percy Lallemang change strategy. Elle has an accidental crossing of paths The suicide of a former friend sets an alcoholic private eye with a Black Angel. Her mission is altered and must now on the trace of a child killer linked to his own violent past. find the archangels to battle for believers and non-believ- (Award-winning, 3-part noir psychothriller mini-series) ers in her quest. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 51 Sisters of Venus – Part One (Biographical) proportions when one’s long-distance love surprises her David Patrick Stearns with a wish to get married on Christmas and chooses the Before the Kardashians, the Gabor sisters – Zsa Zsa, Eva, other’s high school nemesis as his best man. Magda – left wartime Hungary, vowed not to reveal their Jewish heritage, and improvised talent-optional celebrity, Solomon the Accountant (Romance) redefining money-motivated marriages, cosmetic surgery, Edward M. Krauss and public volatility. Zsa Zsa terrorizes Tiffany’s, Magda Solomon has fallen for a young, recent widow. He gently, bullwhips her husband, and Eva points a pitchfork to mom tenderly tries to win her, with amusing but heartwarming on the set of TV’s Green Acres. The wildest immigrant story stumbles. Widow Molly struggles with leaving behind her ever told? old love, accepting new love, while tugged and pulled by her family’s expectations. A sweet story of love lost and MOW found. (Based on the novel Solomon the Accountant. Copies of the novel available to interested parties.) Broken Souls (Non-Fiction/History) Doris Beaulieu A young girl in the 1950s must leave her strict, shel- Soap Pilot tered home and face the cruel, harsh realities of the modern world. In the process, she learns to overcome Twenty-Fore (Fantasy) Mark Renfro tragedy and to find her place as a true woman of today. A beautiful girl possessing the power of seeing the future (Book for adaptation) of only the 24 hours after the sunrise of each day gets the power from a spell conjured by an old hag and fore- Christmas Castaways (Drama) Ernest Farino views all the incidents every day before their occurrence, unaware of the fact that the witch is remotely trying every- Sailing to New Zealand to surprise her heart surgeon thing to take back the power. husband at Christmas, a violent storm maroons a woman and her two children on a tropical island. A reclusive artist living on the island aids their desperate struggle to sur- TV Special vive the natural and explosive man-made dangers on the (Musical) Reid Barwick island and be rescued by the Coast Guard in time for a Neon Rainbow Christmas family reunion. A musical based on Country Music Hall of Famer Alan Jackson’s rise to stardom and the trials of his failings in his marriage to Denise Jackson. It profiles Mrs. Jackson’s Exchanging Christmas (Romantic Comedy) autobiography about her finding redemption for their Robert Pokrywka marriage through faith and a support group around them. A disheartened young customer service rep finds a renewed sense of Christmas when she gets a phone call from a customer that changes her world.

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