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FEATURE SCRIPT - IT GETS WORSE (TRUE CRIME/DARK COMEDY)
A redneck couple and their young children take a shot at financial freedom by kidnapping a billionaire. A crazy-but-true story about the abduction of Elton B. Stephens Jr. on 9/11/20.
Nicholl Fellowship Quarterfinalist 2024
Sidewalk Film Festival Winner 2025
Austin Film Festival 2nd Rounder
PILOT - Gods of Iowa (DARK COMEDY/FAMILY DRAMA/CRIME)
Abel Liebkind saves a bankrupt Iowa meatpacking plant by bending every rule in the book - financial, legal and spiritual - transforming a dying white Christian town into a thriving multi-cultural community. Now with the mob, the FBI and his own conscience closing in, the question isn’t whether it falls apart, but who gets buried when it does.
Nantucket Film Festival Finalist (top 3) 2025
PILOT - NO SAINTS IN RENO (DARK COMEDY/FAMILY DRAMA/CRIME)
A 40-year-old cocktail waitress finds herself in way over her head after partnering with an unassuming gaming commission stats geek, a Russian mathematician and a disgraced FBI agent to bankrupt a casino.
Nashville Film Festival Finalist 2025
FEATURE SCRIPT/PILOT - SUGAR (ACTION COMEDY)
A drug deal goes horribly wrong, and 5 million dollars is found by a trio of homeless people: a brash young woman with more mouth than sense, a wily ex-marine, and a grifter currently between grifts...they must escape the city, and earn a second chance at life as ruthless drug dealers, tweenaged girl assassins and a dirty cop close in.
FEATURE SCRIPT - PERDITION (PERIOD DRAMA/WESTERN)
1830s American South. After a teenage girl is found strangled, her wealthy father pays a unprepared posse of locals to pursue the suspect -- a teenage boy with Down syndrome -- into the dangerous Alabama wilderness.
Ranked #1 WESTERN and #1 PERIOD PIECE on THE BLACKLIST for 16 weeks