YELLOW HEARTS (TV pilot for SUGAR LAND) One-hour Southern fried TV drama based on the award winning novel 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 I found Miss Dara to be such a unique yet unpredictable figure. It's a character |
DIPSO MANIAC (TV pilot for LIMBO) One hour, surreal TV thriller
___WINNER 2023 PORTLAND SCREENWRITER'S AWARDS Yellow Jackets meets Neil Gaiman's The Sandman. In the mysterious realm of Limbo, Mr. Dipso Maniac faces a harrowing decision: forgive the killer of a tormented couple - one of whom is his ex-lover who killed him in a past life - or let them die in anger, condemning them to another life of unresolved pain. Guided by the enigmatic Bartender, his Case Worker with secrets of their own, and aided by Katie, a troubled young woman who becomes the "conduit", Dipso must navigate a path of forgiveness to break the eternal cycle of suffering. LIMBO explores love, redemption, and binding choices that can last across lifetimes. |
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. IN PRE-PRODUCTION. See more at Film Independent! |
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... |