SUGAR LAND (TV series or feature) Based on my award winning southern novel 1924. Rural Texas. After Miss Dara’s forbidden, gay 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. SUGAR LAND went through the Sundance "Mapping the Series" Co//ab and Stowe's Filmmaker Lab. 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! I found Miss Dara to be such a unique yet unpredictable figure. It's a character 
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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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THE LIFE & ASSUMED DEATH OF THE BARONESS (feature) ___ SEMI-FINALIST 2024 ACADEMY NICHOLLS FELLOWSHIP A deliciously subversive, queer fairytale: 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! |
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DIPSO MANIAC (feature)
___WINNER 2023 PORTLAND SCREENWRITER'S AWARDS
A Surreal thriller: Yellow Jackets meets The Sandman
DIPSO MANIAC weaves a darkly poetic tale of cosmic justice, twisted romance, and the price of redemption.
In DIPSO MANIAC, a murdered barfly faces an impossible choice: forgive his killer and move on, or condemn them both to yet another lifetime together in an eternal dance of destruction between soulmates.
Guided by a mysterious, non-binary Case Worker ("the Bartender") - who may be engineering more than they reveal, Dipso discovers that revenge and love are two sides of the same tarnished coin. As he unravels the truth about his past lives and his connection to his killer, Dipso realizes that breaking their cycle of suffering might require a sacrifice greater than forgiveness.
___WINNER 2023 PORTLAND SCREENWRITER'S AWARDS
A Surreal thriller: Yellow Jackets meets The Sandman
DIPSO MANIAC weaves a darkly poetic tale of cosmic justice, twisted romance, and the price of redemption.
In DIPSO MANIAC, a murdered barfly faces an impossible choice: forgive his killer and move on, or condemn them both to yet another lifetime together in an eternal dance of destruction between soulmates.
Guided by a mysterious, non-binary Case Worker ("the Bartender") - who may be engineering more than they reveal, Dipso discovers that revenge and love are two sides of the same tarnished coin. As he unravels the truth about his past lives and his connection to his killer, Dipso realizes that breaking their cycle of suffering might require a sacrifice greater than forgiveness.
THE CYCLE OF SOIL (TV series based on two completed novels, pilot IN PROGRESS)
A near future, psychological horror series: Little House on the Prairie meets Severance
THE CYCLE OF SOIL explores the illusion of free will in a world where evolved souls conduct The Orchestration - a cosmic manipulation where evolved beings compete for humanity's future. As The Orchestration unfolds, three lives intersect: a community leader who tries to save their people by betraying them, an unstable mystic with a heartbreaking delusion, and an elegant scientist's who all play critical moves in this game of free will versus fate.
A near future, psychological horror series: Little House on the Prairie meets Severance
THE CYCLE OF SOIL explores the illusion of free will in a world where evolved souls conduct The Orchestration - a cosmic manipulation where evolved beings compete for humanity's future. As The Orchestration unfolds, three lives intersect: a community leader who tries to save their people by betraying them, an unstable mystic with a heartbreaking delusion, and an elegant scientist's who all play critical moves in this game of free will versus fate.
PUNCHING DEAD HIGHWAYS (feature IN PROGRESS)
A dual reality, psychological drama: Gone Girl 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: Gone Girl 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.