Original stories for the screen
Genre: Thriller
Notable competition placings: Finalist in Breaking Walls, QF in Scriptapalooza, StoryPros, GASC, LAIS comps.
Logline: Wanting to regain custody of her daughter, a young woman gets a chance to escape addiction and homelessness when she's offered a job with an obscure department inside the EPA. But the "environmental hazards" she's asked to quietly neutralize turn out to be individuals threatening national security.
Genre: Drama
Notable competition placing: Nicholl Fellowship semi-finalist.
Logline: Facing the possibility of her own sudden death from a rare genetic condition, a young student considers eternity and how to be remembered for millions of years.
Genre: Sci-fi, Romance, Thriller
Logline: A young woman from another planet crashlands in Area 51. An ER doctor at a Las Vegas hospital falls in love with her just as evil arrives from across the galaxy to steal the precious cargo she was transporting.
Genre: Thriller
Pages: 5
Production requirements: Two actors and a hotel room with bathroom.
Logline: After a business traveler checks into a Stockholm hotel, a young woman knocks on his door to provide some prearranged services but her visit doesn't go as expected.
Genre: Drama
Pages: 5
Logline: Needing a scary Halloween costume for a first date, a college student rents a wedding dress from a hospice charity shop. With one condition: she must put the dress on and visit the original owner, a patient in the hospice.
Link to script PDFGenre: Drama
Pages: 5
Production requirements: Three actors, a meeting room.
Logline: Hoping to finally land his first career position, a recent college graduate is interviewed for an internship at a company where all the employees only pretend to do work.
Genre: Drama
Pages: 5
Production requirements: Four actors and a meeting room.
Logline: Four company directors hold a corporate board meeting but dealing with the challenging business environment of the biblical end times isn't taught in MBA courses.
Genre: Drama
Pages: 6
Production requirements: Four young female actors and a coffee shop.
Logline: In a world where health insurance can cover the prevention of ageing, a group of female friends, all seemingly young, meet for coffee. The consequences of the insurance they signed up for soon become apparent.
Genre: Political thriller
Pages: 8
Logline: Given immunity from prosecution by the Supreme Court, the US President takes extreme measures to rid himself of his nemesis and stay in power.
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