To read a script or request a one page summary, please send an e-mail. Scripts and one page summaries will be sent as attached PDF files (preferred environmentally friendly method), or can be mailed. Scripts for review will be delivered in PDF. Proficient in and owning both Final Draft and Movie Magic Screenwriter, I write in Screenwriter. All scripts are convertible to Final Draft.
Frost on the Pumpkin - (Horror - R) A centuries old ghost, previously exorcised, is resurrected by a gathering of unwitting cheerleaders, and now seeks to fulfill its ancient yearning for revenge, no matter what. 107 pg. More...
Winner, A/Exposure (Write Movies), January 2012.
A Nuclear Option ~ (Action Adventure/Environmental/Thriller - R) When a geologist drunkenly suggests an ill-conceived plan to avert global warming to a high ranking politician, he must immediately race to halt his misguided suggestion from destroying the planet. 106 Pg.
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1st Place, Action-Adventure-Thriller genre, 4th Annual StoryPros Awards.
2nd Place, Mystery-Thriller genre, Woods Hole Film Festival, 2011.
Top Ten Finalist, Going Green Film Festival, 2010.
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Kate ~ (Drama - R) An environmentally friendly ranger is forced to seek refuge with a greedy real estate developer from the hurricane of the century. 113 Pg. More...2nd Runner Up, Flagstaff Film Festival, 2010.
Top 25 Screenplay, Going Green Film Festival, 2010.
More AwardsTwinks ~ (Family Drama - PG or G) When an aging, widowed baseball pitcher for the 1949 Hollywood Stars adopts a spit ball, his precocious daughter and Ms. Hollywood Stars give him the cold shoulder. With the help of Twinks, a stray ball yard cat that possesses lucky charm qualities, the hero figures out another way to stay in baseball, without as his daughter calls it - cheating. Very positive female lead. 120 Pg. More...
This script received a “strong consider” from coverage provided by A Film Writer. Says A Film Writer: “This is an enchanting and engaging family fable that pitches and purrs its way into your heart. The story is based on the real life team of the Hollywood Stars minor league baseball team owned by Rob Cobb. The story will make you smile and cry. It's like magic.”
Semi-Finalist, Creative World Awards, 2010.
Semi-Finalist, 15th Annual Fade In: Awards, 2011.A Right to Arm Bears ~ (Action Adventure/Environmental/Thriller - R) During a political retreat, the daughter of a failed Presidential candidate receives an epiphany from a bear in the forest. Strong female lead. 106 Pg.
Semi-Finalist, 4th Annual StoryPros Awards Screenplay Contest, 2011.
Neon Cactus, ~ (Drama - R) A successful businessman encounters his wartime past in the sweltering Arizona desert. 118 Pg. More...
Semi-Finalist, 5th Annual StoryPros International Awards, 2011.
Quarter-Finalist, Creative World Awards, 2011.Official Finalist, Amsterdam Film Festival, 2011.
Quarter-Finalist, The Nicholl Fellowship, 1990, “Offbeat and inspiring.” The Nicholl Fellowship.The Tie ~ (Romantic Drama, R, short film) When a man is forced to discard his “lucky” tie, his fate changes course, until through a stroke of luck, the tie returns. 31 pg.
1st Place, Short Screenplay Competition, Spirit Quest Film Festival, 2011.
1st Place, Short Screenplay, Screenwriter Takes All, April 2011.
Runner Up, Independent Short Film and Music Arts Festival, 2010.
Semi-Finalist, Vail Film Festival, 2012 (Top 15).The Necessity of Paprika ~ (Dramedy - R) When a woman hijacks a friend to help her disrupt the bachelor party of one of their ex's, their course is diverted by a wealthy bronco rider and their lives changed forever. 110 Pg. More...
Quarter-Finalist, 5th Annual StoryPros International Awards, 2011.
Abby ~ (Children's Action-Adventure, G) A precocious and gifted young girl and her Abyssinian cat apprehend an ATM bandit in Seattle. This could be shot in partial ani (ala Garfield) until the very end to work around some of those uppity cat behavior problems and the necessary wranglers. It's a warm script; children smarter than adults and a true hero's ending. 85 Pg. More...
Billie Rae ~ (Drama - R) A topless dancer in a grim club in El Paso, Texas wrestles with life's lousy hand and her sexual orientation. Quirky with a strong female lead. 115 Pg.
Two Brains Wasted~ (Romantic Comedy, R) Two sincere men truly want to have honest relationships, only to encounter a bizarre flock of contenders. This script is the “good guy” antidote to Sideways and Wedding Crashers. 114 Pg. More...Utsuro Bune ~ (Dramedy, R) A lonely astronomer and an undocumented alien struggle against the odds to make the ultimate geographically undesirable relationship work. 117 Pg.
Mirage ~ (Drama - R) A demoted ballplayer drives to a new assignment and picks up a hitchhiker who leads him to the fork in the road. 114 Pg.
Ghost of a Chance ~ (Dramedy, R) A psychic manages a relationship though her partner expects she always knows what he's thinking. An incisive look at how assumptions paint the landscape of one's relationship attitudes with a unique twist. 109 Pg.
The Climax ~ (Thriller, R) Two borderline personality murder mystery writers hole up in a cabin Colorado to bang out their next blockbuster while conniving to rip off the other's ideas. Sexy and psychologically rich. Strong female lead. 116 Pg. More...
Eye of the Storm ~ (Sci-Fi Thriller, R) - An on-camera meteorologist who also serves in the Georgia Air National Guard gets called to duty with the Hurricane Hunters, and discovers an unimaginable truth in the clouds. 109 Pg. More...
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