YELLOW HEARTS (TV pilot for SUGAR LAND) One-hour Southern fried TV drama based on the award winning novel The series: 1924. Rural Texas. After Miss Dara’s forbidden, queer love is discovered, she is forced to work in a savage men's prison where she meets the soon-to-be-famous blue singer, Lead Belly, who sings his way to freedom (true story!) and inspires her to break free of her prisons—any way she can. Based on the award winning, southern novel. In lingo, SUGAR LAND - which went through the Sundance "Mapping the Series" Co//ab - would BBQ with Fried Green Tomatoes and Shawshank Redemption. The Bible is ready and the short film showcased at the American Pavilion at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, LA Intl Shorts, OUT Atlanta, AGLIFF, DC Shorts, and others. Email me! |
In addition to Finalists laurels above:
2023 Semi-finalist Stowe Labs Second Rounder in PAGE Awards 2023 Semi-finalist LA Intl Screenplay Awards Quarter-finalist ScreenCraft Fellowship 2022 Quarter-finalist Filmmatic - Inroads Fellowship Season 5 Semi-finalist Flickers' Rhode Island 2022 Intl Film Festival Semi-finalist 2022 Vail Script Contest Quarter-finalist The Great American Script Quarter-finalist in Showcase Semi-finalist Writers' Lab 2023 Semi-finalist Scriptation 2023 Top 12 Finishing Line 2023 |
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I found Miss Dara to be such a unique yet unpredictable figure. It's a character |
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DIPSO MANIAC (TV pilot for CAROUSEL) One hour, surreal TV thriller
___WINNER 2023 PORTLAND SCREENWRITER'S AWARDS (out of 1,000+) Yellow Jackets meets Neil Gaiman's The Sandman. Pilot: The souls of two star-crossed lovers are trapped together in different lives during different periods of time until one of them, DIPSO MANIAC, can gain the confidence to break the pattern. Series: CAROUSEL opens on a charming yet a volatile boozehound, Dipso Maniac, who must decide whether to forgive or avenge his own death. And when the mysterious, non-binary Bartender turns out to be his Case Worker with secrets of their own (many they don't even know), things get really bizarre. |
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THE LIFE & ASSUMED DEATH OF THE BARONESS (feature)
A surreal, queer indie: The Others meets Downton Abbey When The Baroness, a regimented recluse, falls in love with her new female butler, she must destroy who she was, to be who she is. |
Two other stories ready for adaptation:
“Racing Josephine” published in 10,000 Pounds of Black Ink "Fetus" published on F(r)iction see full publications... |
PUNCHING DEAD HIGHWAYS (feature)
A dual reality, psychological drama: Memento meets Little Women
Nanette arrives in Paris just after the May 1968 Riots, where she falls in love with real life French radical, Guy Debord - and heroin. Twenty-five years later, Nanette returns to the US to be the legal guardian for her two orphaned nieces: Cedar, the queer introvert, and Sanford, the troubled, manic genius. As Sanford's unspoken grief unravels her, she hatches a plan to use Nanette’s continuing addiction to change Nanette's memories and, therefore, her reality. If all goes as planned, Auntie Nanette will believe she is Sanford’s mother – and they will be a happy family, but when Cedar discovers that she will be left out, things don't go as Sanford planned.
A dual reality, psychological drama: Memento meets Little Women
Nanette arrives in Paris just after the May 1968 Riots, where she falls in love with real life French radical, Guy Debord - and heroin. Twenty-five years later, Nanette returns to the US to be the legal guardian for her two orphaned nieces: Cedar, the queer introvert, and Sanford, the troubled, manic genius. As Sanford's unspoken grief unravels her, she hatches a plan to use Nanette’s continuing addiction to change Nanette's memories and, therefore, her reality. If all goes as planned, Auntie Nanette will believe she is Sanford’s mother – and they will be a happy family, but when Cedar discovers that she will be left out, things don't go as Sanford planned.
WINNER! (feature)
A low budget, comedy horror: Beetlejuice meets Book Smart
An ambitious synchronized swimming coach takes a ragtag team of (mostly) earnest misfits to her old family home in order to do some team building and make champions out of them, but her plans go off-track when one of the team becomes possessed by someone the coach had murdered in a competitive rage.
A low budget, comedy horror: Beetlejuice meets Book Smart
An ambitious synchronized swimming coach takes a ragtag team of (mostly) earnest misfits to her old family home in order to do some team building and make champions out of them, but her plans go off-track when one of the team becomes possessed by someone the coach had murdered in a competitive rage.