PROJECT SUBMISSION PACK FILM: My Daddy’s in Heaven DATE: December 2016 1. Submission Form p2 2. Budget p3 3. Sales Estimates p4 4. Script Report p5‐7 5. Script p8‐104 PROJECT TITLE: My Daddy is in Heaven DATE: 11-10-16 SHORT SYNOPSIS / LOGLINE When Becky Smith’s picture-perfect family life ends in a tragic accident that kills her husband, she leaves her 5-year-old daughter with her father Ben and reunites with an old friend so she can take some time to herself. But when her friend’s best intentions become bad influences, Becky must right herself and her Christian values or her family life will continue to spin out of control. APPLICANT DETAILS NAME: Dureyshevar TEL: 1818-613-4796 COMPANY NGN Productions Inc. EMAIL: [email protected] CONNECTION 11350 Ventura Blvd. Studio City Ca Producer ADDRESS: TO FILM 91356 PROJECT DETAILS PRODUCER/S: Jack Nasser CREDITS (1 or 2) Stagecoach & Final Girl LINE PRODUCER: Dureyshevar CREDITS (1 or 2) Stagecoach and Fiinal Girl WRITER: Noelle Nelson CREDITS (1 or 2) Dearly Departed PRODUCTION GENRE: Daddy’s Girl Film Faith COMPANIES & USA BUDGET 615,443 USD NATIONALITY: NAME: CREDITS (1 or 2) Proposed Approached Confirmed LOI DIRECTOR: Waymon Boon The Devil’s in the Details CAST 1: Jenn Gotzon Frost/Nixon, Doonby CAST 2: Corbin Bernsen LA LAW, Psych CAST 3: TC Stallings War Room, Courageous CAST 4: SHOOTING SCHEDULE – Prep, Principal, Post, delivery Prep Dec 5th t2016 o Jan 3rd 2017 Shoot Jan 4th to Jan 18th 2017 Post Jan 20th to April 21st 2017 Delivery May 5th 2017 FINANCE DETAILS FINANCIER NATURE OF INVESTMENT AMOUNT £ BUDGET % Proposed Approached Confirmed LOI Nasser Group Inc. Advance 311,383 64.25 Nasser Brother Studios Music Rights Advance 19,718 3.25 Investor Equity Rebecca Crownover 157,747 32.50 Contribution SALES INFORMATION SALES AGENT: Studio City Pictures Inc. SALES ESTIMATES: CONTACT: Jacob Nasser LOW: $ 1,749,377 USD TEL: 1-818-505-8030 MEDIUM: $1, 881,050 USD EMAIL: [email protected] HIGH: $ 2,213,000 USD PRESALES TERRITORY: DISTRIBUTOR: MG: RIGHTS: EXCLUDED / WITHHELD TERRITORIES: DETAILS: Daddy's in Heaven Script Dated : Producer: Budget Draft Dated : 8/17/16 Line Producer: Production # : Director : Start Date : Prepared By : John Mehrer Finish Date : Total Days : 12 Acct# Category Description Page Total 1000 STORY RIGHTS 1 31,050 1300 DIRECTOR 1 25,000 1400 CAST 1 187,503 1500 SUPPORTING CAST 2 22,500 1600 PRODUCERS 2 45,000 Total Above-The-Line 311,053 2000 PRODUCTION STAFF 3 19,050 2100 CASTING 3 8,000 2200 ART DEPARTMENT 4 11,650 2500 SET OPERATION 4 4,700 2800 MAKE UP 5 6,650 2900 WARDROBE 5 16,050 3100 LIGHTING + GRIP 5 10,600 3300 CAMERA 6 32,650 3400 SOUND MIXER 7 4,675 3500 TRANSPORTATION 7 19,450 3600 LOCATIONS 8 27,235 Total Below-The-Line Production 160,710 4500 EDITING 9 12,330 4600 MUSIC 10 10,200 4700 POST PROD. SOUND 10 20,000 4800 PICTURE POST 10 28,000 Total Below-The-Line Post 70,530 6600 ACCOUNTING 10 4,600 6700 INSURANCE/OVERHEAD 11 13,550 6800 CONTINGENCY 11 45,000 6900 LEGAL 12 10,000 Total Below-The-Line Other 73,150 Total Above-The-Line 311,053 Total Below-The-Line 304,390 Total Above and Below-The-Line 615,443 Grand Total 615,443 Daddy's in Heaven PROJECT COVERAGE FORM TITLE: My Daddy Is In Heaven AUTHOR: Noelle Nelson SUB TO: – SUB BY: Durey Shevar / NGN Productions FORM: Screenplay LENGTH: 97 pages BASED ON: – LANGUAGE: English BUDGET: $615,443 GENRE: Faith-based drama LOCATION: America PERIOD: Contemporary READER: Lucy Barrick DATE: 19/12/16 ELEMENTS: DIRECTOR: Waymon Boon PRODUCER: Jack Nasser WRITER: Noelle Nelson CAST: Jenn Gotzon, Corbin Bernsen, TC Stallings LOGLINE: A woman turns her back on religion after the death of her husband, and leaves her young daughter to go off enjoy life. Will she be able to find a way back to her family and her faith? COMMENT SUMMARY: A simplistic moral fable with a straightforward narrative of faith lost and found. Characters are generally weak, plot is fine (if heavy-handed with the religious symbolism), dialogue is acceptable. This would find a ready audience in niche religious programming and channels but has little to recommend it beyond that. Excellent (4) Good (3) Fair (2) Poor (1) PREMISE X STORYLINE X CHARACTERISATION X DIALOGUE X STRUCTURE X PACE X ORIGINALITY X AUDIENCE APPEAL X TOTAL 16 OVERALL SCORE: 16/32 = 50% CHARACTERS: BECKY SMITH (30s, widow) BEN ADAMS (60s, Becky’s father, a rancher) JUNE (30s, Becky’s high-school friend) ACIE (5, Becky’s daughter) PREMISE: Becky and Adam have a perfect, God-fearing Christian life in Texas. But after Adam dies in an accident, Becky neglects her family and her faith. She leaves daughter Acie at home with the girl’s grandfather, and goes to stay with her friend June – a single woman with a lust for life. Becky sheds her good-girl image, but will she be able to leave her responsibilities – and religion – behind forever, or will she see the light? SYNOPSIS: Texas. ADAM SMITH (30s), his wife BECKY SMITH (30s) and daughter ACIE (5) are devout Christians. Adam gives Becky a beautiful cross necklace on the Fourth of July weekend, and they attend the annual party thrown by Becky’s widowed father BEN (60s). Adam drives off to get something, but crashes his truck. He’s rushed to hospital with severe brain injuries. Becky prays by his bedside day and night. But it’s no good – she reluctantly agrees to switch off his life support. At the funeral, Becky drops the cross necklace to the floor. Becky is in bad shape. JIMMY URBAN (50s), comes to the door saying he’s a friend of Adam, but she’s never heard of him. He tells her that Adam met him when he was in a bad place: he was an alcoholic and he drove drunk and killed his son. Adam gave him his family bible, Jimmy found God and turned his life around. Now he’s giving it back to Becky in her time of need. She’s sceptical. At the hospital, she bumps into an old school friend JUNE, a good-time girl who runs her own business). June offers support, but Becky says she just wants to be alone. One year later. Becky has changed: she’s hard and cold, has quit church, and although she still runs her dad’s business, she’s standoffish with the workers. She decides to leave Acie with Ben and go to stay with June in the big city. Becky lets her hair down and June gives her a makeover. They go to a bar and Becky gets drunk and takes off her wedding ring. Becky has a blind date with CHAD (25), but ends up giving him relationship advice. June reveals that she does have a sensitive, caring side – but doesn’t want to show it. Ben gets angry when the business quickly falls apart without Becky. He’s in trouble but too stubborn to ask for help. Becky goes out clubbing with June. Acie calls to tell her she heard grandad crying. Becky gets drunk and flirts with JEFF (30s) but laer he tries to force himself on her. She gets away and runs outside. There she sees a homeless man, EARL, with a sign asking for people to “show God’s mercy”. Becky loses her temper, and screams at him that God didn't show her any mercy. A COP arrives, and tells her to leave. She accidentally hits him and ends up in court. The JUDGE knows her father, and Becky is ashamed. She gets a fine and tells June that she’s going home. June says she will come too. On the bus back home, the women overhear VERNON and his son JAMES (15) arguing. James lost his best friend and girlfriend in an accident, and has given up on everything. He takes an overdose, and collapses. They stop the bus and take him out to the roadside to wait for ambulance. Another passenger JASON prays with James and tells him he's going to heaven. As Vernon desperately pleads for his son to live, Jason makes sure James has accepted Jesus before he passes away, while the women join the prayer circle. Later, handsome police officer NICK (30s) drives Becky and June to Ben’s farm, and commends them on their actions. Becky and Acie are reunited, and Ben’s business is back on track, Becky gives June the family bible, and June lets herself open up to her real emotions. Becky finds Earl and asks him if he's ever worked on a farm. One year later. It’s the Fourth of July party. Becky and Nick are newly in love. June is happy. Earl is a new man. Everybody parties into the night. COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS: This is a straightforward morality tale in which someone’s faith is tested, lost, and found again. It’s a story that might resonate with Christian audiences but is unlikely to reach a wider audience (or convert anybody). It’s also a very specifically American concept. The opening scenes are literally a mother and daughter baking cookies for the Fourth of July and decorating them with red, white and blue icing. In addition, the Texas location and attitude are integral to the narrative. The writer does generally manage to capture the cadence of the characters language, although some of the dialogue feels stagey.