Screenwriters Showcase

MATT ACKLEY

MAGELLAN SIX
Action/Drama/Sci-Fi

The year is 2029 and a major corporation prepares to establish the first permanent colony on Mars. Gabe Wilson, 32, a brilliant doctor, competes with other Mars candidates in a remote Arctic facility, where they are intensely monitored and manipulated. When Gabe and the others intercept news that a deadly virus is sweeping across Earth, members of the Magellan Six facility begin to fracture. Self-preservation or save the world? But the Magellan crew doesn't yet know the worst of it.

VICTORIA FALLS
Drama

Ojaji, an African farm hand, grew up along side his best friend Nico, a white Zimbabwean rafting guide, on a sugarcane farm in western Zimbabwe. In 2001, when President Mugabe unleashes a civil war along racial lines, Ojaji and Nico are pitted against one another as the country furiously unravels in violent clashes over the land, putting their friendship to the ultimate test.

Contact:
Matt Ackley
310.422.6174
MATTHEW_S_ACKLEY@YAHOO.COM


JOSHUA BLANKENSHIP

ECLIPSE OF THE BIRDMAN
Coming-of-Age/Comedy/Drama

Leon, 18, tells tall tales of when, as a child, he was kidnapped by a vicious Birdman and forced to be the monster's servant. Todd, an introverted artist, overhears Leon's story and a friendship is formed. A simple story of companionship and the desires of youth, ECLIPSE OF THE BIRDMAN explores what happens when Leon and Todd's friendship is challenged by a blossoming romance between Todd and a mysterious French girl, and the complications that arise when the Birdman buried in Leon's past resurfaces.

REAPER--"Easter Episode"
TV Spec (Drama)

On his 21st birthday, Sam discovers his parents sold his soul to the Devil before birth and he must now work as a bounty hunter for Satan, returning escaped souls to an over-crowded Hell. In this episode, Sam, with the assistance of friends Sock and Ben, must capture a deviant old woman posing as a Sunday school teacher at the local church. The woman had previously been sent to Hell for poisoning Halloween candies and the clock is ticking as Sam and his friends rush to snag her before she can taint the church's annual Easter egg hunt.

Contact:
Joshua Blankenship
203.273.8226
JOSHLBLANK@YAHOO.COM


CHRIS BLUM

THE BONE WARS
Western/Action-Adventure

The true story of two brash Civil War outlaws hired to hijack a train transporting a precious cargo: rare and priceless dinosaur bones. As they race to bring the bones to famed tycoon Andrew Carnegie, they find their loyalties threatened by a sadistic bounty hunter, an adventurous scientist, and a brothel madam seeking her own revenge.

CYPRESS FALLS
Psychological Thriller

A flash flood traps Trent and his sister, Dylan, in the strange and desolate town called Cypress Falls, where Dylan is haunted by visions of her own ghost warning her that something evil will happen if they don't escape.

NEVER SUMMER NIGHTS
Sports Drama

College freshman Vicky Caiden is crazy about ice hockey, just like her superstar older brother, Tommy. When her college cancels the women's team, Vik is determined to make the boys team even though her father, a local legend, tells her she is not good or gutsy enough to even try out. Soon she learns that making the team is the easy part.

Contact:
Chris Blum
303.229.8287
JEBCCHRIS@AOL.COM


ELIZABETH CHASE
*Jack Oakie Memorial Award for Excellence in Comedy Writing (2007)
*Grand Prize--NYC Midnight Movie Making Madness Screenwriter's Challenge (2006)

HELL'S BOTTOM, COLORADO
Drama

Based on the award-winning book by Laura Pritchett, this dramatic tale brings us into the beautiful yet brutal world of modern-day cattle ranching where teenaged Leanne and her family are learning to cope after the murder of her mother, Rachel. As Leanne uncovers details of her mother's death, she finds the courage to continue to pursue her dreams.

MR. HALFWAY-DECENT
Romantic Comedy

Loser-in-love Lucille is tired of dating so-called perfect guys who end up being frighteningly less-than-perfect. With the help of her sidekick BFF and fellow hairstylist, Jo, she decides to date someone who's just "halfway decent," and discovers that a truly perfect specimen--her best guy-friend, Nicky--has been right there, in front of her, all along.

Contact:
Elizabeth Chase
818.620.2208
ELIZABETH.CHASE@ME.COM


KEVIN CHATUPORNPITAK

COAT OF MANY COLORS
Coming-of-Age/Comedy/Drama

Becka Lee can't stand her Dolly Parton wannabe mother. But when their Chinese takeout restaurant goes south, they have no choice but to compete for $10K in a Dolly Parton pageant. The money is practically theirs, if they don't kill each other traveling to Dollywood.

COCKPITS
Romantic Comedy

Two weeks shy of his wedding and his captain's test, Milo, a commercial airline co-pilot, learns he has trouble keeping more than just the plane up.

DANIEL ON ART
Comedy Webisodes

Since nobody can appreciate his art, Daniel's left to curate the work of those less talented at a small private gallery. He knows he'll be discovered one day if Finn, his pansexual "art-nemesis," doesn't get in the way.

HELVETE PARK
Comedy

When a scandal causes Wilfred Yau, a Hollywood action star, to come back to his small hometown, he decides to use what's left of his fame to settle a score with an old bully. * Second runner up for the 2006 CAPE Foundation New Writers Award sponsored by Fox

Contact:
Kevin Chatupornpitak
626.532.0847
KEVINWCHAT@GMAIL.COM


ANDREW CHIANG

INTERSTELLAR
Sci-fi/Action-Adventure

An alien, pre-destined to be the savior of his race, flees his home world in shame after failing to prevent the death of his mother. He lands on Earth, looking for a new family, but has to become the savior of humanity when his people threaten to invade.

JUDGE MAX--"ALL RISE"
TV Pilot (Drama)

Max, an aristocratic lawyer, down on his luck, and in serious debt because of a gambling problem accepts the position of judge on a PEOPLE'S COURT-type show in order to make child-support payments. He struggles to maintain a civilized relationship with his ex-wife, Dina, as the two attempt to balance their hatred for each other with their love for their children. Guiding Max through his trials and tribulations is Ron, Max's therapist, who also happens to be Dina's father.

A LONG TIME
Drama

A 120-year-old man, who looks as if he's 45, is compelled to examine his many years when his secret is revealed to the world. With the help of the journalist who first exposed him, he fights for control of his life and is forced to decide what he's willing to sacrifice in order to escape the media and the government, which both want to exploit him for their own gain.
*Top-ten finalist in Francis Ford Coppola's 2007 American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest

PICTURES OF YOU
Romantic Comedy

In search of a grand romance, Nathan, a disillusioned, action-movie director, goes to Paris believing it to be the City of Love. Through a series of calamitous encounters with the women he meets, Nathan finally discovers that he has to figure out what love is before he can fall head over heels.

Contact:
Andrew Chiang
310.709.4689
ANDREWCHIANG82@GMAIL.COM


DAVE DITTELL
*Recipient of the Philip and Patricia Barry Scholarship: awarded to a talented and deserving AFI Conservatory Fellow in the Directing or Screenwriting disciplines, in tribute to award-winning producer Philip Barry, Jr.

8 DEADLY ASSASSINS
Action/Comedy

Bored, suburbanite dad "Win" Torsten gets jolted out of his humdrum existence when a mysterious gunman makes a violent attempt on his life. As Win pieces together why a diverse group of assassins are relentlessly trying to kill him, he fights for the life and family he comes to value once again.

MIA
Thriller

Still scarred by an investigation gone wrong, detective Tyler James pursues a killer with a single MO: he takes an organ from each of his victims. James soon realizes it's not just the organs that the killer is after; it's James himself. (Co-written with Nidhi Verghese)

SIX FEET JEEP
Comedy

When freshman spaz "Jeep" Porcelli inherits his cousin's 1957 Pontiac Superchief--which looks like a hearse and smells like a pastrami fart--he doesn't expect much to change in his frustratingly asexual life. What he doesn't know is that his cousin Kit's ghost haunts the car's interior, and his spectral efforts to get Jeep laid have set into motion the ticking clock of the apocalypse.

Contact:
Dave Dittell
302.354.1862
DDITTELL@YAHOO.COM


JONATHAN EISEN

THE ADVENTURES OF MOUNTAIN CHARLEY
Historical Action-Adventure

In 1849, a teenaged Elsa Guerin, wrongfully accused of murder, escapes from prison disguised as a man. Now named "Charley," she decides to keep her false identity as she trails the real murderer--the man who killed her husband--embarking on a wild adventure that takes her from New Orleans to California.

THE BRIDE OF FRANK
Comedy

Shy Frank Perry is determined not to attend his 20th high school reunion a bachelor. Time is running out, so he decides his only option is a mail order bride. Luba has all the qualities Frank needs with one catch. She's 65 years old. Is age really just a number?

JUST BUGGIN'
Teen Comedy
The new semester poses more than its share of challenges for junior Christine Newkirk. It's her first since the accident that took the former dancer's right leg. Learning new moves on a prosthetic leg won't be easy, but to Christine, winning a break-dance competition in New York City is the only way she'll earn the respect of her dad and maybe the heart of the local breakin' master.

Contact:
Jonathan Eisen
310.721.4715
HEADLESSJONEE@YAHOO.COM


JEROEN EISINGA

BELGIAN BLUE
Drama

When 28-year-old Lucien, a Belgian artist and pacifist, fights to save his teenage sister from human traffickers, he discovers that justice has ceased to exist in his socially divided country. In despair, he decides to become a neo-Nazi skinhead and violently lashes out, only to find more tragedy in the end.

THE SEX TAPE
Comedy

Two 18-year-old Italian-American kids from New York's Staten Island--who love the movies and imagine themselves to be gangsters--set a friend up with a hooker so they can tape it and extort him. When the tape makes their friend famous, they wonder what they did wrong and decide their only recourse is to become real mobsters at last.

THE WITCHES OF VERACRUZ
Drama
When a 34-year old carpenter from New York's Lower East Side inherits a shipyard in Mexico, he has to choose between his lifelong dream and his brother, who was cut out of the will. When he goes to Mexico to save the shipyard, his brother shows up to demand his share, backed up by a mobster who wants it all.

Contact:
Jeroen Eisinga
323.742.0840
JEROENEISINGA@HOTMAIL.COM


CARA FASONE

HANABADA DAYS
Coming-of-Age

Set in the early 90's in a lower-middle class Hawaii we have never seen on screen, Miki Camacho and her outcast friends Pono, Alice, and Cindy are determined to go on their 4th grade class field trip to Maui. One problem--they don't have the $200 in dues. The kids form a life-long friendship as they together tackle bullies, their dysfunctional families, and head lice.

KATONK
Romantic Comedy

Leiko, a Japanese girl from Hawaii, falls in love with Ryan, a Japanese guy from Los Angeles. When Leiko brings Ryan home for the summer, the couple must survive cultural differences and Leiko's kooky family.

Contact:
Cara Fasone
323.898.5300
CARAFASONE@YAHOO.COM


RUBY FERM
*Recipient of the Tom Yoda Scholarship

30 ROCK--"BAD DAY AT 30 ROCK"
TV Spec (Comedy)

Liz Lemon unwittingly starts a writer's strike that blows way out of proportion. Little does she know Jack is using her little exercise in socialism as a media diversion on behalf of a powerful friend of the GE family. Tracy is (self) nominated as the new show runner, wreaking havoc on and off set, forcing Liz and Jack to remember the good old days and why they like each other (sort of).

BUCK SWORDSMITH, MASTER OF ILLUSION
Comedy

Buck Swordsmith, the king of magic in Las Vegas, gets kicked off his throne by a younger, more cutting-edge magician. Struggling to redefine himself, Buck stumbles into the Mojave Desert, where a shaman (or an illusion) teaches him The Way to true magic. Reinvigorated, he returns to Las Vegas, only to find his life and casino sold out from under him. In the process of defeating a greedy casino mogul, Buck helps old friends and falls in love, learning the way to true happiness in the process.

ROGUE
Action-Thriller

A murder. New Orleans. The accused: Sean Laughlin. A Special Forces vet. Alcoholic, drinking away PTSD. On the run. Chasing him: Lee Ann Riley. NOPD Homicide Detective, battle-scarred by Katrina. Both on a mission to expose a brutal cover-up by a private security firm, while on opposite sides of the law. The only way to blow the whistle and save themselves is to work together.

Contact:
Ruby Ferm
802.356.6019
RUBYFERM@GMAIL.COM


MICHELLE FRANKLIN

THE GHOST WHISPERER--"A CLEAR & PRESENT STRANGER"
TV Spec (Drama)

Ghost whisperer Melinda attempts to crossover Parker, a ghost with a guilty conscience for causing a car accident that left his five-year-old daughter hospitalized and orphaned. However, a dark spirit that haunted Melinda's ghost whisperer grandmother weeks before she died, appears and torments Melinda, who's also dealing with the arrival of her ex-boyfriend whom her husband discovers is really her ex-fiancé.

MAID IN THE SHADE--"WORKING GIRL"
TV Pilot (Sitcom)

Zelda Royce, a spoiled, Caucasian party-girl heiress (21), is forced by her mogul father to work as a maid for a wealthy African-American family of five, headed by rap star Shade Davis (37). Zelda can barely handle working at all, let alone as a maid, and struggles to contend with Shade's dismissive domestic staff, and his family's difficult personalities.

RUTHIE & SAMORA
Coming-of-Age/Drama

African-American Samora (16) and her biracial half-sister Ruthie (12), forever at odds with each other, are sent by their parents on a bus trip from Queens, New York, to spend the summer with their grandparents in Miami, Florida. When Samora, who has been hiding her pregnancy, tries to ditch Ruthie in Atlantic City to meet up with an online buddy, Ruthie tracks her down, and the sisters end up braving a wild adventure which bonds them for life.

Contact:
Michelle Franklin
323.296.2109
323.633.4196
MFRANKLIN632@AOL.COM


ANDREW GIVENS

THE ROAD TO OMAHA
Sports Drama

The World Series in Omaha is every college baseball player's dream, except for superstar Nate Howell. A dominant pitcher with pro scouts drooling over every pitch he throws, Nate has only one thing on his mind--getting drafted and playing in the big leagues just like his late older brother. However, Nate's hopes are crushed when his ailing arm finally gives way, forcing him to have surgery. Back for his senior year, Nate must put his own dreams second to those of his team and come to terms with the death of his big brother.

Contact:
Andrew Givens
804.380.2231
323.737.3060
AHGIVENS@HOTMAIL.COM


JASON GRAVITCH
*Recipient of the Joseph Stefano Scholarship for Excellence in Screenwriting

HOMELAND
TV Pilot (Drama)

Days before college graduation, James Rahamim needs to save his family's house from foreclosure. Desperate to find a job, James joins the Department of Homeland Security. Although James doesn't take his role seriously at first, he soon begins to lead a dangerous double life in the shadowy world of espionage. Set in Chicago, the series follows the lives of recent college graduates as they encounter the vibrancy of urban life and the underbelly of the American dream.

STRATOSPHERE
Sci-Fi Drama

Earth of the future is a nuclear-ravaged wasteland where the elites have fled into space, while those left behind face extinction. Captain Mekafo is a genetically engineered astronaut on patrol in Washington, D.C. When a revolt erupts, a rebel princess, Aurora, takes Mekafo captive. Aurora tames Mekafo's savage nature, and awakens a noble code that commands Mekafo to stop the extinction. To do this, he must resurrect the Christ-like scientist who designed Mekafo's species.

THE WISE IMMIGRANT
Spy Thriller

A mysterious vagabond, Avraham, wanders through Europe, haunted by ghosts from his former life, hunted by assassins. As Avraham suffers a psychological breakdown, we travel back to his days as an Israeli commando who infiltrates a Palestinian terror organization, and becomes conflicted over which master he serves. In the arms of a forbidden lover, the secret hidden in Avraham's heart is unraveled, one that may bring peace to the Holy Land.

Contact:
Jason Lomotan Gravitch
917.991.3264
JGRAVITCH@YAHOO.COM


SARAH HOWARD

CELEBEREXIC
TV Pilot (Single-Camera Comedy)

A Berkley grad, Pell Flinn, moves to Los Angeles with hopes of (what else!) landing a reputable industry job. The position she gets: personal assistant to the bratty, over-indulged actress, Ashlee Adams. Pell endures paparazzi attacks, high-speed car chases, a dance-off, and even a name change - and that's just her first day on the job.

CYCLES
Comedy/Drama

An exploration of infidelity from three perspectives--the cynic (other woman), the romantic (man who cheats), and the idealist (woman being cheated on). All three characters weave in and out of each other's lives as they try to navigate their own relationship afflictions.

DEFINITION OF INSANITY
Romantic Comedy

In New York City, every 4 seconds a relationship ends. Every 8 seconds a new one begins. And every 12 seconds an ex-girlfriend gets even. This is a comedy about love lost, love found, love lost again.

THE PARTY GIRL CHRONICLES
TV Pilot (Single-Camera Comedy)

A modern day Svengali, Lauren West is bitchier than Gossip Girl herself as an out-of-control socialite who is disowned by her wealthy parents and forced to find a job and a new place to live. To secure a gig as a publicist, Lauren transforms her pot-smoking roomie, Caitlin Kutcher, into Manhattan's ultimate "it" girl.

THE WEDDING PARTY
Comedy/Drama

A group of out-of-touch college friends meet up for a wedding eight years later and end up sequestered in a Salt Lake City Motel due to a snow storm. A love triangle, a disenchanted wife, and a drug overdose are all par for the course in this poignant tale of friendship and redemption.

Contact:
Sarah Howard
917.202.4833
SARAH.HOWARD@MAC.COM


HYUN BEEN JO

THE BLOW BACK
Thriller

A CIA operative begins to learn that his woman is a secret agent from North Korean Special Forces. The more he pries into her life, the further he is from the truth.

THE FEDERAL PRISON CONSERVATORY
Comedy/Drama

After struggling with unemployment, thirty or so ex-convicts form their own philharmonic orchestra.

PATTY*CAKE
Coming-of-Age/Drama

Two interlocking stories, set in two different parts of Los Angeles, follows two 14-year-olds: a boy entranced by quirky sexual desires, living in Beverly Hills, and a Korean girl lost in melancholy in a working-class neighborhood of Koreatown. The two embark on journeys in search of freedom from their painful adolescence, ultimately encountering each other.

PRINCE CHOW MING
Comedy

A fish-out-of-water ladies man from Hong Kong flounders in LA, but ultimately hooks the title, American Casanova!

Contact:
Hyun Been Jo
213.924.9435
HYUNBEENJO@MAC.COM


JUSTIN LADER
*Recipient of the Jack Oakie Scholarship for Excellence in Comedy Writing and the Joseph Stefano Scholarship for Excellence in Screenwriting

CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM--"THE REUNION"
TV Spec (Comedy)

After a smug remark from a television executive, Larry David agrees to produce a SEINFELD reunion episode out of spite. Through a series of mishaps, the plot of the reunion show begins to mirror Larry's own life.

FIGHTING JACOB
Comedy

Jacob "The Meshuganah" Rosenthal is one of the most promising boxers on the amateur circuit. The only problem is he's an obsessive-compulsive hypochondriac. As Jacob attempts to conquer his in-ring quirks in order to win the biggest fight of his career, he falls in love and realizes that without his anxiety he's not a good boxer. Will Jacob choose happiness over becoming a great fighter? Will he stay a neurotic mess and continue to dominate his matches? Or can he have it both ways?

MISTER ADAM
TV Pilot (Drama/Comedy)

Adam Fisher, a college graduate who feels disconnected and lost, moves back home and starts an escort service in an attempt to find his way in the world. Adam soon realizes that he's in way over his head--hiding the double life from his parents, friends, and the girl he's loved since high school becomes too much to handle. And if things couldn't get any worse, the police become involved, as well as an actual pimp who feels that Adam is encroaching on his business.

Contact:
Justin Lader
954.579.6156
MANONTHEMOON316@AOL.COM


ALLEN LANDVER

THE CHOSEN ONE
Drama/Comedy

While stuck in Israel with his family, 18-year-old Max Moscowitz must quickly figure out a way to escape, and so he does the only thing that he can--steal notes from the Western Wall and make people's wishes come true.

Contact:
Allen Landver
310.736.8184
ALANDVER@GMAIL.COM


DANIEL MEERSAND
*2004 Emmy Award Recipient for Best Writing/Live Event, GAMES OF THE XXVIII OLYMPIAD FROM ATHENS (NBC/Universal)

OPEN CASKET
TV Pilot (Comedy)

A misfit high school junior is forced to take a job at the neighborhood funeral home, where he learns the ropes of the death business, is subjected to cruel, even life-threatening hazing by the staff, and becomes a sexual guru to his inexperienced supervisor. All while facing competition from an upstart funeral franchise.

TROLLEY DODGERS
Coming-of-Age/Adventure

Two 13-year-old boys in 1940s Brooklyn, NY, find a suitcase full of absconded ration tickets. They dream up methods to sell the books for cash before the war is declared over, and the tickets lose all their value... but they run afoul of gangsters looking for the booklets in this (mostly) boys' adventure tale.

WELCOME TO ZION
Comedy

A 27-year-old ner-do-well moves back into his childhood home, where he must sleep on a pool table, live through his mother's Jewish revival, mend long-broken friendships, and put the moves on an attractive female rabbinical student. Oh, and there is that little thing about the teacher he accidentally killed 10 years ago.

Contact:
Daniel Meersand
917.519.9122
DAMEERS@HOTMAIL.COM

Representation:
Agent: Zac Simmons
Kaplan/Stahler/Gumer/Braun Literary Agency
323.653.4483

Manager: Peter Meyer, Meyer Management
310.398.2600


JENNIFER NASHORN

COMING OUT STRAIGHT
Comedy

Gay teen Jason Morell, 17, is the most popular kid in school. He's Class President, set to attend Berkeley in the Fall, and planning to lose his virginity on Prom Night to his awesome boyfriend, Anthony. There's just one glitch in Jason's fabulous life: he might be straight. Ultimately, Jason must decide whether to suppress his heterosexual urges to save face, or risk losing nearly everything and everyone in his life by... COMING OUT STRAIGHT.

NEVER HAVE I EVER
Comedy

Compulsive list-maker and uptight Eagle Scout Mike Beal is 24 going on 104. On his 25th birthday, Mike gets sucked into the drinking game NEVER HAVE I EVER, but Mike doesn't ever drink (his Pepsi) because he's never done anything. That night Mike asks his girlfriend of nine long years for a special kind of present: anal sex. However, instead of granting his birthday wish, she breaks up with him. Single for the first time, Mike generates a new kind of list entitled Never Have I Ever. The list is filled with such illustrious items as "Get a Blow Job Standing Up" and "Do an Ice Luge" and, of course, "Have Anal Sex." Mike has a blast sowing his oats until he meets reformed party-girl, Jenna, the girl who was supposed to merely be a "One Night Stand."

Contact:
Jennifer Nashorn
213.219.MOJO (6656)
JENNIFER_NASHORN@YAHOO.COM


MICHAEL RAPHAN

GRINGOS
Buddy Comedy

J.T. and Bud are the least successful Minutemen in south Texas; despite their best efforts, they never catch any illegal crossers. After confusion on the border turns them into murder suspects, the bumbling Minutemen are left with no choice but to flee to Mexico and become illegal immigrants themselves.

THE KINGS OF CANARSIE
Indie Comedy

1977. Canarsie, Brooklyn. All Warren Winkler ever wanted (outside of getting wasted and watching horror flicks) was to play a live rock show. With his dream just days away from becoming a reality, a mix-up with the local mob puts Warren's life, and more importantly, his show, in jeopardy. (Co-written with Daniel S. Muller)

SNOWBIRDS
Comedy/Drama

Recently widowed and crippled, Flo wants nothing more than to be left alone. Her granddaughter Nora, a recent college grad, wants to save the world, but needs to work on her resume first. And Millie, an immigrant, is desperate to raise money for a Church in her native Honduras. From New York to Boca, these three women's lives will intersect, propelling them on a united, and unexpected, new course.

Contact:
Michael Raphan
516.662.9151
MRAPHAN@YAHOO.COM


JAMES "BEAU" TIPTON

PALEUS
Fantasy

On the fantastic planet of Paleus, Finlay and Sarangerel are outcast children from rival tribes. After a terrible accident upsets the balance of their world, they must embark upon a divine mission to save their people from a tyrannical demon set on destroying all life.

PRICE
True Crime Drama

Struggling gallery assistant, JT Price, aspires to be part of the high society of 1970's Lexington, Kentucky. After he is coerced into working for a murderous drug kingpin, his dreams start to come true, although he soon realizes that his extravagant, criminal lifestyle comes with an enormous price.

TIERRA DEL FUEGO
Family Drama

Set in Ushuaia, at the southern tip of Argentina. Before Felipe Cruz can tell his wife, Paola, his greatest secret, he falls into a coma, left with only days to live. Paola must work with her estranged children to uncover the truth of Felipe's dark past, and a truth that could save her life.

Contact:
James "Beau" Tipton
646.872.3227
BEAUTIPTON@GMAIL.COM


ANDREW TURF

THE MEXICAN MAFIA
Based on a true story. Los Angeles has become the Miami of the 1980s, but a far bigger and more powerful city. Today, that power is centrally located in the hands of America's most notorious and exclusive mafia--the Mexican Mafia (La Eme). Boxer Mendez, a figurehead in the organization for many years, finds out that as the power of La Eme proliferates, the old-school values he's always stood for capitulate.

Contact:
Andrew Turf
310.210.6074
ANDREWRTURF@GMAIL.COM


NIDHI VERGHESE

JALLIANWALA BAGH
Coming-of-Age/Historical Drama

Jusmeen, the daughter of an Indian gardener, and Alison, the daughter of a British Colonel, form a secret friendship in the midst of the Indian Independence Movement. When Jusmeen's father--an underground extremist--forces her to become an informant in the Colonel's home, she must choose between her loyalty to her family and her love for her new best friend.
*Semi Finalist--Nicholl Screenwriting Award
*Quarter Finalist--Blue Cat Screenwriting Competition
*Finalist--Page International Screenwriting Awards

LIFE IN A BOX
Drama

An orphan boy, Apu, who lives in a cardboard box on the streets of Bombay, discovers his home has been stolen and goes on a quest to find it. Fate leads him to Ravi, a teen with a passion for Physics, who takes him into his upscale home. Apu idolizes Ravi and is devastated when Ravi leaves to attend university abroad. Back on the streets, Apu must decide whether he wants to go back to being a nobody in a box or make something of himself, armed with nothing but a passion for physics.
*Recipient of the Alfred P Sloan Foundation Screenwriting Award

MIA
Thriller

Still scarred by an investigation gone wrong, detective Tyler James pursues a killer with a single MO: he takes an organ from each of his victims. James soon realizes it's not just the organs that the killer is after; it's James himself. (Co-written with Dave Dittell)

Contact:
Nidhi Verghese
650.862.7088
NIDHIVERGHESE@GMAIL.COM


DOUG WOLFE

THE DEAD PAST
Science Fiction

On the first time travel mission to the future, Alex Warren, an ex-Air Force pilot haunted by the recent death of his wife, discovers humanity will be destroyed within a few days and must race through time to save the world.

THE GOOD PLAN
Hostage Drama

Matthias and his brother Jamie rob banks. Rich Clark is a surgeon at a local hospital. When Matthias is shot and critically wounded in a botched robbery, the brothers form a desperate plan. They'll follow Rich back to his home, tie up his family, and get the doctor to perform the life-saving surgery on Matthias. But once at the house, the brothers' good plan goes violently, horribly wrong.

MURDER IN AUSCHWITZ
Historical Drama

Akiba Mehring, a German Jewish detective thrown into Auschwitz during the height of WWII, fights to regain his sense of purpose by investigating an apparently pointless murder committed by another inmate.

Contact:
Doug Wolfe
213.446.1273
DHWOLFE25@HOTMAIL.COM