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RIVER OF GRASS - Indiana Jones-like action in the wild
Florida Everglades.
 Semi-Finalist Chesterfield Writer's Film Project 2003
Top 10% Second Round Austin Film Festival 2003
 ASWANG - A comic book-based modern interpretation of a classic legend featuring a new and sexy heroine in a distinctive blend of horror and action.
Official Selection – 2008 AOF International
Film Festival
Semi-Finalist - 2006 FilmMakers International Screenwriting Awards
Semi-Finalist - 2006 WriteMovies.com International Writing Competition
Lindsay, a struggling actress, gets her first big break playing a sexy 'Aswang' vampire superhero – a leather-clad protector of good and a nightmare of evil - in an action-packed blockbuster based on an ancient Filipino legend being filmed on location deep in the Filipino jungle.
But while the local media are concerned the production might anger the real Aswang avenger spirit, 'The Reverend' - a local Irish Monk who has searched for the reincarnated spirit of the Aswang for many years - believes his search is over and tries to persuade Lindsay she is the object of his beliefs.
The Reverend arranges Lindsay's abduction and takes her to a remote rambling monastery in the jungle. Longtime friend Keri fears the worst while the production company seizes the opportunity to garner free publicity over her disappearance.
The monastery is in ruins - mostly destroyed by fire years earlier. Within, the Reverend begins the process of transforming Lindsay into a living Aswang. For only the Aswang can find the Lost City and the Chalice of Life - sought by the Reverend to combat his own terminal illness, to gain eternal life and superhuman strength... to become an Aswang himself.
RENAISSANCE - The literate and hilarious life and times of Leonardo da Vinci.
Welcome to 15th Century Italy. You are invited to join
Leonardo da Vinci, Machiavelli, Savonarola, Michelangelo
and other monumental shapers of history in an interweaving
and deviously plotted tell-all tale of political
overthrow, religious fervor, creative genius, romantic
intrigue, the Mona Lisa and the flowering of an era - and
one man - into Humanism.
And sex, of course.
SIGNIFICANT OTHER - An anti-romantic comedy.
 Violet, fed-up with her philandering boyfriend’s lies, decides to get even where it hurts most: She tells him she's pregnant. But after agreeing to let her best friend secretly film her 9-month charade for a reality TV show, while simultaneously avoiding her explosively vengeful father, she's soon in over her head.
What ensues is a laugh-out-loud slapstick odyssey through the war of the sexes, as Violet finds herself becoming a martyr. Getting even with all men. For all women.
SIGNIFICANT OTHER draws from over 100 transcribed pages of actual hilarious overheard conversations.
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 SCARLET POPPY - An Afghan American love story.
Top 15% - 2009 Nicholl Fellowship
Set entirely in Afghanistan, SCARLET POPPY explores parallel stories of Nic, a disenchanted American contractor engaged by the military to broker a deal with a powerful druglord, and Shakeila, the druglord's new Afghan widow bride with whom Nic experiences an unspoken connection, which violently threatens both of their existences.
SCARLET POPPY describes a landscape both desolate and beautiful. A metaphor for the unsatisfied human soul, set against the backdrop of clashing cultures, it features lyrical scenes of both startling violence and gentle tenderness.
This simple yet multi-layered narrative about the enduring human condition emerges as a gripping film reflective of our troubled times.
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 ABSOLUTION: THE TED ROTH STORY
- Based on the controversial novel by
Edmund Hulton,
ABSOLUTION is a grisly and dark page-turner
chronicling the life of a nice quiet man whose
reaction to betrayal is... butchery.
Finalist - 2008 Terror Film Festival
Top 10% - 2006 Slamdance Screenplay Competition
"I killed my best friend Charlie with a knife. He was eleven. I was ten."
Thus begins the raw and uncensored narrative recollection with Ted's first shocking, childhood slaughter of his best friend in Catholic school. It continues through the mutilation of the first girl he ever loved in high school. Both betrayed him. And they were just the beginning. An autobiographic diary of the evolution of Ted's psychopathic maturation,
ABSOLUTION presents a chilling and unblinking look at a model citizen's tormented and troubled mind.
The last person anyone would suspect, Ted progresses
through life, raises a family, and flourishes in
business, political, and social circles. Then, one
day, his sordid past and considerable pernicious
talents are discovered by a secret, right-wing
organization. Ted is blackmailed and presented with
two choices: assassinate the President of the United
States, or be publicly exposed for the atrocities he
has committed. His choice leads to a penultimate twist
and an inevitable conclusion.
ABSOLUTION is an unforgettable fable of violent
horror and revenge/justice, bordering on black parody.
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BLUE RIDGE - A twisted noir.
Shortlist - 2008 Gotham Screen International Film Festival
2007 Script Savvy Screenplay Competition says:
"The story moves really fast, hooks us from the beginning with a truly engrossing opening sequence. Writer has a distinct style and a full understanding of the noir genre. It's a real page-turner. Act One sets up the conflict in a crystal clear fashion and has us caring about the protagonist and rooting for him. Protagonist Jim is an incredibly compelling character. He's the victim of a terrible injustice at a young age and we meet him years later, a man bent on revenge. The twist at pg 76 is excellent. We honestly didn't see it coming."
A handsome young stranger, Jim Cole, arrives in the idyllic town of Blue Ridge, Georgia. What the unsuspecting town doesn't know is that Jim is on a single-minded mission of bloody vengeance against their mayor who framed him for manslaughter nine years ago, and the mayor's son, town sheriff, who murdered his sister.
Jim proceeds with a deadly plan of blackmail and execution.
But unexpected conflict walks into his life in the form of a beautiful young schoolteacher, Peggy. What begins as a bar pickup soon becomes, Jim realizes, something much deeper.
Love? A new start? The life Jim has always dreamed of?
Yet Jim has vowed to exorcise his pain and stay true to his mission of vengeance. To avenge his sister's death and his nine years of imprisonment - then get out of Blue Ridge.
What happens next escalates from grisly violence to shocking twists.
Layered with suspense and irony, murder and sex, BLUE RIDGE combines a theme of vengeance and moral ambiguity with the appeal of a keeps-you-guessing-to-the-last-page thriller. In noir tradition, it is a closed and intimate scenario with few characters/locations, and an unforgettable story.
LOUD & CLEAR - Original one-hour drama pilot; a sexy, smart, freethinking single woman - profoundly deaf from birth - gives up aspirations to be an artist and moves to Manhattan to teach deaf students.
 RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER - Original sitcom pilot; the escapades of spiritual-minded singer/songwriter Katie King who pays her bills as a professional clown while awaiting her big break in showbiz.
Semi-Finalist (TV Pilot) - Scriptapalooza TV 2006
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