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Comedy
My Totally Bad Day in Hell
Comedy
After a down on his luck used car salesman ends up in hell, his “Valley Girl” guardian angel manages to set him free on a technicality. He returns to Earth where he has 24 hours to redeem himself and win back his family. If he fails, he will return to hell forever.
By Eric Carlson
The Kingmaker
Historical Comedy
Based on a true story, the “Father of Public Relations” recalls, in exaggerated glory, the day he saved the Republic at a White House breakfast.
By Brian Lee Weakland
The French Apartment
Romantic Comedy
Emma Jackson, a Texas beauty and barrel racing champion, learns her fiancé has possibly cheated on her six days before her wedding. On the same day, she also finds out she’s inherited a French apartment – even though nobody in her family is French – that she knows about. In Paris, Emma meets a handsome French appraiser and learns of her French Grandmothers love stories which intertwine with her own love story to help her decide which man to choose.
By Helene Wagner
The Marriage Tale
Romantic Comedy
Think of this romantic comedy as a fable about the restoration of a heart, a marriage and a 1968 Camaro. The notion of an ideal romance in the form of a James Dean-type of blue collar over–the-hill-hot-rodder sweeping a woman off her feet is both absurd and hilarious. The lighter side of infidelity and aged – craziness that spurs it is used metaphorically in The Marriage Tale the same way as it was in Moonstruck. With a small town setting, the ambiance of classic car rallies and games of chicken by over the hill rebels, it follows the trials of Lorraine Evens and her stud-gone-to-seed husband, Tom, and an equally fallible, albeit- dashing Hollywood stuntman, all vying for the big prize – true love. Will Lorraine’s heart ever sing again after 30 years of marriage? Or, will the handsome Hollywood stuntman (with a death wish) visiting in town to film a Hollywood movie steal her heart away? But most importantly, can these characters and “us” their baby boomer/senior counterparts ever really find true love again – even if it bites us on the ass? This story is great fun, filled with universal truths of love and would appeal to everyone on the planet who has ever seen Grease.
By Helene Wagner
Devil Catchers
Satire
This satire takes place in a magical borough of New York City called Brooklyn, where many such battles of good and evil often occur. Our battle revolves around Laura Cannelli, a young -Catholic – inexperienced – Brooklyn-lawyer, who’s chosen by legal aid to defend a 19 year-old boy accused of attempted murder. She soon comes to realize her defendant is possessed – because the Devil keeps popping up showing himself to her and referring to her as “Little – Miss – Goodie – Two – Shoes.” To win her case, she must prove to a jury the Devil exists in order to save her client’s soul, along with her own soul – which the Devil happily intends to take since he knows first-hand the chance of her winning really is as extinct as a snow ball in hell- or is it? After all, this is a Brooklyn story, so anything can happen – and it does. So, Little – Miss – Goodie – Two Shoes Laura is trumped by her inner ” Little- Miss -Street-Wise” Laura who starts to wonder. HEY! Why is this boy possessed? Why was I chosen to take this case? Why the hell (pun intended) is this trial so damn important to the Devil? And the fun begins…
By Helene Wagner
#17
Action-Comedy
* Official Selection, Best Feature Screenplay, Genre Blast Film Festival
* Quarterfinalist, Fresh Voices Screenplay Competition (top 40 in Comedy)
A security guard at a secret facility soon discovers he’s actually a faceless henchman for a conglomerate of evil.
By Tom Sanchez Prunier
Downtime
Action-Comedy
A criminal kingpin’s trusted assistant must chose between the lucrative life of running his own crime syndicate or a quieter life with the woman he loves.
By Tom Sanchez Prunier
Retail Emeritus
Comedy
A smart(ass) son of college professors who chose a dead-end department store job over a free education pretends to be a student to date a coed he met at his cash register..
By Tom Sanchez Prunier
Disconnect
Romance/Short
A young techie discovers that the best connection is human.
By Robin Farmer
Without A Net
Comedy/Short
Two young circus performers pressured into following their parents’ footsteps create their own second acts.
By Robin Farmer
Dramedy
The Audition
* Best comedy screenplay at the 2016 Richmond International Film Festival
Dramedy
The Audition is a coming of age story about a high school musical prodigy who receives a request to audition at the prestigious Curtis of Music in Philadelphia. But before he leaves home, his mother persuades him to take a detour to pick up his recently paroled bank-robbing father (a man he thought was dead) and deliver him to his assigned halfway house, with the hope the father will reveal the whereabouts of the missing bank robbery cash.
By Eric Carlson
Franz Kafka: Golf Pro
* 2016 PAGE Screenwriting Contest finalist
Dark Farce Mash-up
One putt away from capturing the Prague Open championship, a brooding young golfer suffers a mysterious disqualification. His efforts to rectify this indignity cause his downward spiral from social outcast, to prison, to the gallows. Part anger, part angst, 100 percent Kafkaesque.
By Brian Lee Weakland
Drama
Untouchable
Sports Drama
*2021 Top 10, Final Draft Big Break Competition
*2023 Jury Award, Northern Virginia International Film Festival
To save her fencing club, a rookie coach partners with an NCAA hopeful and his imperialistic father to conquer the tournament sphere and become untouchable.
By Adam Lapallo
Last Waltz of Vienna
Historical Drama
A young chemist is drafted by Nazis to control the assets of Sigmund Freud after Hitler’s army overruns Austria in 1938. But after becoming the unwitting subject of Freud’s psychoanalysis, the chemist disobeys orders, hides assets and pulls off Freud’s daring escape on the Orient Express.
By Brian Lee Weakland
Klaus The Great
Family Drama
A profoundly old philosopher, struggling to survive a book-selling war with a brash Ivy League professor, follows the advice of his savvy 17-year-old adopted grandson and, in the process, finally discovers the meaning of his life.
By Brian Lee Weakland
Reach for the Sky
* Top Award at the 2016 Virginia Screenwriting Competition
* Winner of the 2016 True Story Screenplay Competition
* Official Selection in the International Family Film Festival
* Top tier Finalist in the Festival for Family: Family Films and Writing Competition
Drama
In the fall of 1964, a young industrial arts teacher, teaching in a small rural high school in the impoverished Ozark foothills of Missouri, offers his students an opportunity to do what his fellow teachers and school administrators thought impossible – build an airplane. Based on a true story.
By Eric Carlson
If A Monster Comes
Drama
Set in a time of heroes and courage, during World War II, a small Texas border town is poised on the brink of receiving an invasion of 8,000 German Prisoners of War to be housed in the Army’s Enemy Interment Camp and tells the story of 10 year-old T.C. Phillips’ stormy relationship with his father, Roy, who tries to teach his son courage does not come from pulling the trigger of a gun.
By Helene Wagner
Canada Waites
Drama
* Official Selection and Winner, ReelHeart International Film Festival
Based on a true story. When Indians attack a small frontier village and take hostages, a frontiersman must face the consequences of his past as he struggles to retrieve his family.
By Laurie Brand
COATS
Drama
A Revolutionary War Widow decides to take control of her life and the cause of liberty by spying on the British high command.
By Laurie Brand
Just Desserts
Drama/Short
A philandering detective investigating the death of a cheesecake heiress soon learns that revenge is a dish best served frosty.
By Robin Farmer
Suspense/Thriller
Lady Justice
Thriller
Detective Mary Megan Sullivan struggles to balance the hatred she carries for the serial killers she hunts since her youngest sister was murdered by one. Knowing those who fight monsters can easily become one, she realizes she’s turning into one as she takes the law into her own hands to tip the scales of justice in her favor.
By Helene Wagner
Gray Matter
Thriller
A smart- fast- paced -thriller that pits man against mind. Two Secret Service Agents link the deaths of high-ranking government officials to a deadly assassin, created by CIA Para Psychological experiments gone wrong in the cold war and must find him before he kills them and the President of the United States.
By Helene Wagner
Under Pressure
Historical Action/Suspense
When, during a risky test dive, the Navy’s newest submarine floods and sinks with no chance of outside rescue, a young, untested skipper must convince his skeptical crew to follow his bold but dangerous plan that could save their lives…or hasten their demise. Based on a true story.
By Eric Carlson
Crazy Woman
Psychological Thriller
A Georgia public defender, battling voices and visions in her head, succumbs to a mystical woman who promises to reconnect the young lawyer with her dying son.
By Brian Lee Weakland
Words of War
Historical Thriller
An Irish writer, drafted into the military in the last days of World War II, loses contact with his unit and faces a harsh test of his humanity: whether to accept death or kill a 14-year-old German sniper.
By Brian Lee Weakland
Amulet
Thriller
*Winner, Best Feature Script, Poe Film Festival
*Semi-finalist, Genre Blast Film Festival
Two sisters grieving the loss of their father – and their fractured relationship – discover the farm they live on has a deadly history they may not be able to escape.
By Tom Sanchez Prunier
Sci-Fi/Surrealism
Trackback
Sci-Fi
Travelers from 2044, imprisoned in a NATO facility in Europe, vanish one by one. Suspecting murder by the commanding officer, an American doctor rescues their mysterious leader and risks her life to save them by traveling to a dark moment in time.
By Brian Lee Weakland
On Trees
Magical Realism/Short
A young environmentalist learns that nature is a gift that keeps on giving.
By Robin Farmer
A Moment Of Your Time
Sci-Fi Romance
*2021 Second-Rounder, Austin Film Festival
*2022 Quarterfinalist, BlueCat Screenwriting Competition
Two lost souls search for meaning in a time-stopped oasis.
By Adam Lapallo
Action
Strong Enough
Action
Pound for pound, Sergei Karpov is the strongest man in the world. But when the Bulgarian athlete learns of his parents’ deaths and the destruction of his home by a ruthless uranium mine operator, he gains strength from Anne Donovan, a State Department agent, and together they hunt down the killer before nuclear fuel hits the underworld market.
By Brian Lee Weakland
Bikers vs. Zombies
Action
*Official Selection, Fantasmagorical Film Festival (Louisville), Albuquerque Film Festival
*Semi-finalist, Table Read My Screenplay (Austing), Genre Blast Film Festival
An Outlaw motorcycle living off the grid is the last hope for a world overrun with zombies.
By Tom Sanchez Prunier
Red Light, A**hole!
Action
A man recovering from a serious car accident uses his insurance settlement to build a fleet of indestructible vehicles and exact revenge on every idiot on the road he can find.
By Tom Sanchez Prunier
Horror
Wisteria
Horror Drama
Three siblings’ decision to sell their family homestead after the death of their deeply religious mother angers the ancient pagan entity that has haunted them since childhood.
By Adam Lapallo
Kaleidoscope
Sci-Fi Horror
*2020 Grand Jury Award for Feature Screenplay, Richmond International Film Festival
A photographer’s expedition into to witness the Northern Lights becomes a fight for survival when an elusive predator hunts them through Norwegian countryside.
By Adam Lapallo