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Melvin Abercrombie

10 Episode TV Series

Story Overview

Imagine? writing and Publishing over a hundred books screenplays at Amazon, over a 20-year period and condense all into a 10-episode TV Series with lots of shape shifting scenes, and special effect scenes, it's what Hollywood loves, now Hollywood is everywhere.

Writer Biography

Logline? I play the Imaginary multi-billionaire who owns a 10-acre, ocean front mansion with Bodyguards, maids and butlers, doing lecture seminars all over the world, riding around in a restored 1949 Rolls Royce Limousine, already setup as a 10- episode TV Series with lots of special effect scenes, and shape shifting scenes, it's what Hollywood loves, now Hollywood is everywhere. I am the rebellious teacher a pile of books and a Holy bible in one hand and a bottle of whiskey in the other hand to shut my demons up for a while, yes, fighting demons, the religious system and the educational system, trying to teach to a world that does not want to know the truth, I am an immortal spirit soul and so are you, I have lived many lifetimes and so have you. go to Amazon, in search window, type in my name, Melvin Abercrombie, 30 free e-books my gift to everyone, Thank you

Writer Statement

Treatment? Will you join Avalon Ministry? It is free for everyone, we Never pass an offering plate around, never. What kind of world are we leaving our Children and grandkids? We have the Money and the Power to change our world or ignore, someone else will. thank you

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Artwork for The Dog Fighter by Russell Richardson

Russell Richardson

The Dog Fighter

Story Overview

A reclusive Appalachian dog breeder takes in a mysterious pit bull with a violent past, only to discover the animal may have been forged in the brutal world of underground dog fighting. As the dog’s terrifying instincts begin surfacing, the man becomes trapped between his growing bond with the animal and the realization that both of them may be products of the same cycle of violence.

Writer Biography

Born and raised in Tennessee, Russell has been in the film industry for eight years now. He’s been apart of serval amazing projects including a short with Nick Coleman, and have worked on various music videos with Eric Brittingham of Cinderella and Carl Ray Hopper. He first began writing in 2020 during the pandemic as a way to pass the time without going crazy during lockdown. Since then, he’s always taken inspiration from writers and filmmakers such as John Carpenter, Sergio Leone and Park Chan Wook. He’s never shied away from sensitive subjects while wanting to touch on stories that may never been told before. Ever the maverick and guerrilla filmmaker, Richardson always manages to tell the stories we have yet to experience.

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Artwork for A Little Bit Louder by Ben Fussiner

Ben Fussiner

A Little Bit Louder

Story Overview

A Little Bit Louder is a coming of age dramedy about a group of friends in their senior year of high school dealing with the reality that their time together in a hometown bubble is quickly coming to an end.

Writer Biography

Ben Fussiner is a big man with a small bladder. He is a school administrator in Los Angeles CA. He lives with his wife, two sons, and some deep regrets.

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Artwork for #RancherRhea by Gary William Jones

Gary William Jones

#RancherRhea

Story Overview

A sexy, wildly successful adults-only content creator battles corporate greed, dangerously unhinged fans, vigilante violence and romantic conflicts in her unique effort to establish a farm, ranch and “farmstay” tourism venue, while also becoming an unlikely outspoken influencer, role model and advocate for rural lifestyles. Inspired by a true story.

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Artwork for Wet Paint by Jonathan Shatoff, Fred Soligan

Jonathan Shatoff, Fred Soligan

Wet Paint

Story Overview

When a fast-talking art dealer finds herself indebted to the mob, she convinces a once great painter to fake his death in order to boost the value of his work. Things get messy in this paint-splattered, blood-soaked caper about the true cost of a masterpiece.

Writer Biography

Jonathan Shatoff is known for his producing and editing work for Nickelodeon, Paramount +, and FIRST - A Global Brand Experience Agency. His directorial feature film debut, The Devil Sits on Both Shoulders, won Best Actress at the 2018 Artemis Women in Action Film Festival. In 2025 at the 32nd Austin Film Festival, Jonathan was a Finalist for the feature screenplay, Wet Paint, which he co-wrote with Fred Soligan.

Fred Soligan has directed work for UCB Comedy, BricTV, The New Yorker and IFC. In 2019 he was selected as an Official Participant in Tribeca Film Festival's “N.O.W. Creator's Market”, along with his writing partner, Jade Daugherty. Their pilot script for Georgi & The Bot was a Top 5 Finalist in the 2020 Final Draft Big Break Competition. In 2023, Jade and Fred were awarded the inaugural Writer's Vision Grant by the Black List & Warby Parker for their script You Know Who You Look Like? In 2025, he was a Finalist at the Austin Film Festival for the feature screenplay, Wet Paint, which he co-wrote with Jonathan Shatoff.

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Artwork for Better Late by Jerry Perzigian, Brad Kaaya Sr.

Jerry Perzigian, Brad Kaaya Sr.

Better Late

Story Overview

After losing her husband and building a life that finally feels stable again, a sharp South Side Chicago attorney finds herself pulled into an unexpected relationship.

Overview: Better Late is a character-driven dramedy about starting over when you thought you were finished starting over. Marion Fields is 50-something. Good at her job. Good at holding her family together. She’s raised a son. Buried a husband. But kept it moving. She’s not lonely. She’s functional. Then Stanley Proctor walks into her life--Messy, funny, sincere, carrying his own losses. At home is her father, Nathan. He is proud and stubborn. And he is still pretending everything’s fine. But his mind? It’s fading.

The Tone: This show is warm and funny, where life is funny. It will also be quiet when it needs to be. We won’t be chasing jokes, but we will never duck emotion.

The Motor: Each episode lives in the overlap between Marion’s work life. Her new relationship. Her role as a daughter to a man who’s slowly changing.

Audience & Relevance: Built for adults who’ve loved. Lost...and kept going anyway. Especially women over 40, who may have checked out of romantic life just when they become the most interesting.

Comps: “Queen Sugar” - “This Is Us” - “Grace and Frankie”

Creator’s Notes: This comes from watching people we love age. And we truly believe there is a massive audience out there that will respond to this show

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Holly Roberts

Lockwood

Story Overview

To delay the inevitable trappings of his life, an uptight aristocrat travels to Yorkshire on a research trip. But what he finds there is the magnetic Heathcliff, mystery surrounding Cathy's recent death, and no way to escape a beast that roams the moors.

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Thia Markson

The Rugby Trainer's Daughter

Story Overview

Set against the fiercely loyal world of rugby, a woman whose life unravels after a devastating injury returns to the team she left behind decades earlier. There she discovers the men she believed had rejected her had been protecting her all along, forcing her to confront a lifetime built on a heartbreaking misunderstanding of love. Sometimes the worst thing that can happen to you becomes the very thing that leads you home.

Writer Biography

Ten years of working in TV/Film/Video Production in Las Vegas, NV.

Five years working as a Consumer News Producer for an ABC Affiliate in Las Vegas.

Director/Producer of an independent Documentary film called "Organized Mayhem - The B.A.T.S. Rugby Club Story."

Nominated for a National Emmy for a one-hour ABC News 13 Las Vegas news broadcast show. Published photographer.

Writer Statement

As a teenage assistant athletic trainer for a men's rugby team in San Francisco, California, from 1970 to 1980, I was raised by one of the best teams in America. As the first American member of the International Association of Rugby Historians and Statisticians, I am passionate about rugby and its influence on life on and off the sidelines.

As a documentary filmmaker, photographer, and rugby club member, this has been the screenplay I have been longing to write. In the words of Hunter S. Thompson, a friend of my rugby brothers: Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, 'Wow! What a ride!'

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James Walter Powers

The Pet-Cam Crimes

Story Overview

A non-confrontational, religious woman, who lets her cat outdoors to roam at night, believes she views a murder on her cat-cam, (i.e. a mini video camera attached to her cat’s collar). She grows bolder and more confident as she, with the aid of her cat, tries to solve the crime after the memory card with the video is corrupted, the body disappears, the police don’t believe her, her faith is challenged and the killer starts closing in on her.

Writer Biography

James Powers was born on the southwest side of Chicago, IL in 1958 and grew up in Oak Lawn, IL. He was raised in a raucous household with 3 brothers and a total of 7 people sharing one bathroom (my kids would say OMG about this) on a street where three murders took place in his youth.

James earned a B.A. in Business Administration and Mass Communications from Augustana College and pursued a career as an advertising copywriter for a couple of years immediately after college. Recognizing this was a career path to poverty, he returned to college to earn his M.B.A. at the University of IL at Chicago and enjoyed a career in marketing and product management.

He has been married to his wonderful wife Elizabeth since 1990 and retired in 2023. He and his wife have three adult children, a granddog and two grandcats.

James is now returning to his early career interest of writing and enjoying it. He has had plays produced in two different play festivals and won different creative writing awards.

Writer Statement

I most enjoy writing short stories and plays about a variety of topics but there is a common motivation in all my work. I desire to have my voice heard on subjects that are important to me. It can be a poignant memory, a lesson learned, political issues I feel strongly about, etc. In all of these efforts I strive to communicate my thoughts and feelings in a way that is entertaining to the reader.

One of the tools I find especially useful in writing is being a studious observer of people. The most mundane actions of others can be used to make fictional characters seem real and complex. As an example, I was sitting in a pew in church waiting for the service to begin. The choir was warming up and a mother and adult daughter in the choir were standing next to each other. The mother started swaying her hips ever so slightly to the music. The daughter playfully bumped her hip against the mother’s hip like you would see two dancers do in a disco. I couldn’t hear what they were saying to each other, but I could tell by the body language that the mother admonished the daughter for doing a disco-style hip bump in church and the daughter then laughingly said something like “you started it”, and very, very softly hip bumped her mother again in a mild act of impish defiance. Then they both started laughing. I felt this very quick, simple interaction revealed a healthy mother daughter relationship and could go into a story because it was such a mundane but insightful, real life portrayal of human connection that could bring characters to life. I keep a journal of observations like this and use it in my writing. These notes can be used for the idea behind a whole story, just one scene, or even one line.

My writing process is also to not get too wedded to a story outline. I’ll often start a tale with a planned path. Then I’ll begin to feel it isn’t working and I’ll go down another road that feels more comfortable. It is a nice feeling when that happens, and I know the end result is good.

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James Walter Powers

Faith

Story Overview

A hunter who is religious and facing financial problems is alone in the wilderness with no cell phone when he experiences a major heart problem. He is lying on the ground incapacitated when he is visited by the devil who offers to solve all his problems but the devil has a flaw.

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Earl Crittenden

The Kitchen

Story Overview

When an ambitious fair housing advocate secretly renovates her grandmother's rent-controlled Manhattan apartment, she triggers the exact eviction she's spent her career fighting — and a private-equity war that unravels her engagement and her family's buried secrets.

Writer Biography

Earl Crittenden is a New York City-based screenwriter and playwright. His play, The Kitchen, will have its world premiere Off Broadway this July at The AMT Theatre. Earl recently adapted The Kitchen into a feature film. The Kitchen was also a Finalist in the Kaplan Playwriting Competition at Eventide Theatre Company in Dennis, MA, and a Semi-Finalist at TNT POPS! in Texas.

His short plays Rubbish and Pit Stop have been staged at Chelsea Repertory Company in New York, Thrown Stone Theatre in Connecticut, Shawnee Playhouse in Pennsylvania, Barking Legs Theater in Tennessee, and NYC Pride Fest's OUT/PLAY 2025. Lease and Desist appeared in the international publication Mini Plays Review. Earl trained in playwriting at The Acting Studio – New York and privately with Lucy Wang (Junk Bonds). He studied acting at HB Studio in Greenwich Village.

As an actor, Earl appeared on Another World and One Life to Live. He has written for New York Magazine and Hamptons. A graduate of the University of Florida and Fordham University School of Law, Earl is a member of the Dramatists Guild and The Playwrights' Center.

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Peter Stephen Lucic

Code 32

Story Overview

Suspense/Thriller. Two Homicide Detectives, each investigating grisly serial killings in their city, soon find they have become the prime suspects in each other's cases.

Writer Biography

Peter Stephen Lucic is a retired Law Enforcement officer with 36 years of experience. He was assigned to the Detective Bureau for 10 years where he was involved in the investigation of numerous homicide investigations. He also served as a Coroner's Investigator during that period of time. He is currently pursuing a career in acting and plans to continue writing suspense Thrillers. He has won several awards for his short films he wrote and directed; Choices and Murder on the 8 Train. He makes his home in Youngstown, Ohio with his wife Bonnie and son John.

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Richard Sloggett

GINGER

Story Overview

Colour prejudice is a hate crime; unless the colour is ginger – in which case, it's just a laugh.

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Victoria Polzer

Solomon's Keys (pitch)

Story Overview

Solomon, a fifth-generation magician, attempts to escape the family demon that haunts him but becomes trapped inside an isolated hotel surrounded by black magic and the vengeful spirit of the forest. Inside, illusions blur with reality, demons lurk behind every door, and Solomon's protective "keys" grow weaker with each passing night. When Jacob, a bounty hunter driven into the woods, seeks refuge in the cursed hotel, the two men are forced into a dangerous alliance. Their only hope lies in confronting the ancient evil awakened within the walls – the Whisperer, a demonic ancestor bound to Solomon's bloodline.

Writer Biography

Dr. Victoria Polzer is a multiple award-winning German screenwriter, director and philosopher. Her films and screenplays have been recognized at more than 40 international film festivals. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from Heidelberg University and is a member of the German Screenwriters' Association (DDV).

Writer Statement

I live through my ideas, and making films is my life's purpose.

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Dora Madison

Riding in cars with whores

Story Overview

A disgraced ex-athlete turned Uber driver picks up an escort in recovery, and what begins as another transaction becomes a volatile night of confession, connection, and reckoning.

Writer Biography

Dora Madison was 2 weeks away from attending film school when she was cast as Becky Sproles on Friday Night Lights. With no formal training, education, or connections she was thrust into the entertainment industry head first and won roles on Dexter and Chicago fire and worked with iconic directors Richard Linklater and Terrence Malick. After 18 years in front of the camera, Dora has picked up her pen in pursuit of her own distinct voice as a film maker.

Writer Statement

Riding in cars with whores is a love letter to the sex worker community. Raised evangelical Christian I was always taught the worst thing a person could be is a whore, and have spent my entire life deconstructing the concept of sexual shame and where it comes from. Despite being a pillar of pop culture and economic power, sex workers are shunned by society through stigma and exploitation. This script is for the femmes and men who opened my eyes to nuance, empathy, and self worth. In other words, I love sluts!

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Leslie A Lee

Child of Dawn

Story Overview

In the mystical realm of the Vale, where elves and vampires hold dominion, an ancient prophecy foretells impending destruction unless two unlikely heroes unite. A courageous elf and a reclusive vampire must overcome deep-seated prejudices and personal demons to fulfill their intertwined destinies. As they embark on a perilous journey, they confront formidable adversaries, unravel hidden truths, and discover a profound connection that could alter the fate of their world. "Child of Dawn" is a spellbinding tale of magic, love, and destiny, weaving a narrative that transcends reality and invites audiences into a world where ancient magic converges with contemporary challenges.

Writer Biography

Leslie Anne Lee has been writing since she was six years old, crafting tales on newsprint paper with crayons before graduating to pen and journal. Her passion for writing was evident from a young age, winning recognition in school for her short stories and poetry. By high school, Leslie had published her first novel, and as a college freshman, her poetry garnered recognition from her state senator. Now penning her eighth book, Leslie has also turned her focus to screenwriting - creating a second avenue for her stories to be brought to life.

Leslie’s writing journey has been marked by determination and resilience. Even as a new mother, she penned her second book while bedridden with a fever. Her dedication to the craft has resulted in the publication of six books across various genres, and her poetry has been featured in several anthologies.

Leslie credits her success to the encouragement and inspiration she received from her high school English and Drama teacher, Greg Stobbe, as well as the unwavering support of her family and friends. Her mother, who instilled in her a love of reading; her children, whom she wants to inspire and teach that anything is possible; and her friends, who have inspired, pushed, and motivated her to believe that she can and will be a successful author. When she’s not writing, Leslie enjoys contributing to local film non-profits, participating in red-carpet premieres, and nurturing her creative spirit through gardening, dancing, and helping her children make movies.

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Nick Nelsen

So Did I

Story Overview

(Previous Title "The Reckoning") As bank employees are murdered by increasingly calculated methods, a kidnapped insider is forced to name the next target. Meanwhile, a relentless detective races to uncover what connects them before the killer reaches the end of his list.

Writer Biography

I was born in Blair, Nebraska (1998) and lived my whole youth there. I moved to Colorado to study film music composition at the University of Northern Colorado where I graduated with a degree in Film Composition and Audio Engineering. There I was taught under Ludek Drizhal, an accomplished film composer, who helped me find my sound. I just recently started screenwriting and navigating the Screenplay side of the industry.

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David Mills

Somewhere Else

Story Overview

In the summer after high school graduation, a withdrawn Midwestern teen struggles to maintain his relationship with his girlfriend while forming a quiet, increasingly intimate connection with another young man—forcing him to confront a truth about himself he can no longer avoid.

Writer Biography

David Mills is an emerging LGBTQ screenwriter whose work explores identity, first love, belonging, and the emotional challenges of self-discovery. A member of the Baby Boomer generation, David came to screenwriting after successful careers spanning nearly forty years in radio broadcasting and hospitality management.

After spending almost twenty years in radio broadcasting and another twenty years in hospitality leadership and management, David turned to storytelling to explore the kinds of personal journeys and relationships that were rarely represented during his own youth. Drawing from life experience, his writing focuses on authentic characters, emotional honesty, and the universal search for connection.

His growing portfolio includes the feature screenplays SOMEWHERE ELSE, BEYOND THE ARC, CAMERON LOVES..., and DISTANT LIGHTNING. Though a relatively new screenwriter, his work has already earned recognition in multiple screenplay competitions.

David's stories frequently center LGBTQ protagonists navigating identity, love, family, and acceptance. Influenced by his experiences growing up in the Midwest during an era when discussions of sexuality and identity were often suppressed or ignored, his work seeks to give voice to characters searching for authenticity in worlds that encourage conformity.

He is currently developing new feature projects while continuing to build a portfolio of character-driven dramas and coming-of-age stories for film and television.

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Naz King Ja'son

Prison Island

Story Overview

When the world decides to build minimum and maximum unified world prison for all offenders the rules change. Jamal has just been sentenced and has his time to serve. What will be the out come when he encounters his brother who is serving time for Jamal and the father he never knew? Will he survive or will this be his last dance?

Writer Biography

Army Veteran, Screenplay and eight book series Author of The Game Avery.

Writer Statement

I have three screenplays that are ready for production and many more stories to write!

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Kelly Ann Guglietti

Almost in Her Shoes

Story Overview

RAE ANNE RICE, a young teen cheerleader from rural Alabama, with high hopes of escaping to college far away on a full cheer scholarship, finds herself in confrontation with the Alabama legal system after performing her own abortion.

While juggling court appearances with senior class milestones, the teen fears that criminal conviction will jeopardize her college entry.

In the meantime, ANNA BALDWIN, the prosecuting attorney at her arraignment is raped, forcing her to reckon with her stoic, by-the-book pursuit of justice. She joins CHRISTY FEENEY for Rae Anne’s defense at trial.

Writer Biography

Kelly Ann Guglietti is a screenwriter who is not afraid to delve into different genres. This is her first legal drama feature about an issue dear to her – a woman’s right to a safe abortion without fear of verbal, spiritual, emotional, physical, financial and/or legal consequences.

Writer Statement

While Kelly Ann does not believe abortion should be a substitute for healthy birth control, she does believe in a woman’s right to assess what is best for her health and well-being.

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Christopher Swider

Three Stories about Freedom

Story Overview

1947, the Stalinist years in Eastern Europe. Two people meet, a secret policeman and the wife of a political prisoner. He’s immediately attracted; she doesn’t notice. She’s preoccupied with delivering a petition for her husband’s release. Unbeknown to her, the official she’s petitioning is her husband’s interrogator and torturer. These lives will intertwine in Three Stories about Freedom.

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David Mills

Cameron Loves...

Story Overview

Eighteen-year-old Zach Gamble is the star of a hit teen sitcom, known to millions as the charming, effortless “Cameron Love.” Off-camera, however, Zach feels increasingly disconnected from both his public image and himself. When a fan’s letter about struggling with identity unsettles him, Zach begins to question the version of himself he’s been performing for years.

At a Florida resort, Zach meets Danny, a grounded recent high school graduate unsure of his own future. Their unexpected connection quickly deepens into something real—something Zach has never experienced. With Danny, Zach begins to drop the performance and confront who he might actually be.

But when paparazzi photos of them surface, Zach’s carefully managed image comes under threat. Pressured by his manager to deny everything, Zach chooses career over honesty—fracturing his relationship with Danny and forcing him to confront the cost of living a lie.

As the fallout escalates, Zach must decide whether to continue playing the role that made him famous, or risk everything to live truthfully—for himself, for Danny, and for those who see themselves in him.

Writer Biography

David Mills is an emerging LGBTQ screenwriter whose work explores identity, first love, belonging, and the emotional challenges of self-discovery. A member of the Baby Boomer generation, David came to screenwriting after successful careers spanning nearly forty years in radio broadcasting and hospitality management.

After spending almost twenty years in radio broadcasting and another twenty years in hospitality leadership and management, David turned to storytelling to explore the kinds of personal journeys and relationships that were rarely represented during his own youth. Drawing from life experience, his writing focuses on authentic characters, emotional honesty, and the universal search for connection.

His growing portfolio includes the feature screenplays SOMEWHERE ELSE, BEYOND THE ARC, CAMERON LOVES..., and DISTANT LIGHTNING. Though a relatively new screenwriter, his work has already earned recognition in multiple screenplay competitions.

David's stories frequently center LGBTQ protagonists navigating identity, love, family, and acceptance. Influenced by his experiences growing up in the Midwest during an era when discussions of sexuality and identity were often suppressed or ignored, his work seeks to give voice to characters searching for authenticity in worlds that encourage conformity.

He is currently developing new feature projects while continuing to build a portfolio of character-driven dramas and coming-of-age stories for film and television.

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David Mills

Distant Lightning

Story Overview

When a shipwreck leaves two teenage boys stranded on a remote island, survival binds them together—but as their connection deepens into first love, they must face the impossible question of what happens to that bond if they ever return to the world they came from.

Writer Biography

David Mills is an emerging LGBTQ screenwriter whose work explores identity, first love, belonging, and the emotional challenges of self-discovery. A member of the Baby Boomer generation, David came to screenwriting after successful careers spanning nearly forty years in radio broadcasting and hospitality management.

After spending almost twenty years in radio broadcasting and another twenty years in hospitality leadership and management, David turned to storytelling to explore the kinds of personal journeys and relationships that were rarely represented during his own youth. Drawing from life experience, his writing focuses on authentic characters, emotional honesty, and the universal search for connection.

His growing portfolio includes the feature screenplays SOMEWHERE ELSE, BEYOND THE ARC, CAMERON LOVES..., and DISTANT LIGHTNING. Though a relatively new screenwriter, his work has already earned recognition in multiple screenplay competitions.

David's stories frequently center LGBTQ protagonists navigating identity, love, family, and acceptance. Influenced by his experiences growing up in the Midwest during an era when discussions of sexuality and identity were often suppressed or ignored, his work seeks to give voice to characters searching for authenticity in worlds that encourage conformity.

He is currently developing new feature projects while continuing to build a portfolio of character-driven dramas and coming-of-age stories for film and television.

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David Mills

Beyond The Arc

Story Overview

In a devout Kentucky town where masculinity and reputation define belonging, high school basketball star Brady Miller has his future mapped out—until his growing feelings for his best friend and teammate, Josh, begin to surface. When a private moment crosses an unspoken line, the fallout is immediate and brutal, fracturing their relationship and exposing Brady to the judgment of his team, his family, and his community. As isolation, pressure, and violence close in around him, Brady is forced to confront the truth he’s spent his life avoiding and decide whether to keep performing the life expected of him or risk everything to live honestly.

Writer Biography

David Mills is an emerging LGBTQ screenwriter whose work explores identity, first love, belonging, and the emotional challenges of self-discovery. A member of the Baby Boomer generation, David came to screenwriting after successful careers spanning nearly forty years in radio broadcasting and hospitality management.

After spending almost twenty years in radio broadcasting and another twenty years in hospitality leadership and management, David turned to storytelling to explore the kinds of personal journeys and relationships that were rarely represented during his own youth. Drawing from life experience, his writing focuses on authentic characters, emotional honesty, and the universal search for connection.

His growing portfolio includes the feature screenplays SOMEWHERE ELSE, BEYOND THE ARC, CAMERON LOVES..., and DISTANT LIGHTNING. Though a relatively new screenwriter, his work has already earned recognition in multiple screenplay competitions.

David's stories frequently center LGBTQ protagonists navigating identity, love, family, and acceptance. Influenced by his experiences growing up in the Midwest during an era when discussions of sexuality and identity were often suppressed or ignored, his work seeks to give voice to characters searching for authenticity in worlds that encourage conformity.

He is currently developing new feature projects while continuing to build a portfolio of character-driven dramas and coming-of-age stories for film and television.

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Christopher Swider

Citizen Swiatlo Proposal & Bible

Story Overview

It’s 1953, Before The Berlin Wall. A Communist secret policeman travels to Berlin and accidentallly crosses to the West. He has the opportunity to defect, to choose freedom, and he does.

Why? Why would a life-long communist, a man at the top of the Communist hierarchy, leave it all behind and make over one hundred broadcasts on Radio Free Europe revealing the dark secrets of the Polish Communist Party and the Secret Police.

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Seamus Sullivan

Krypteia

Story Overview

A slave in ancient Sparta leads his friends and family in surviving the Krypteia, a secret police of young elite Spartan soldiers that would stalk the countryside and kill any slaves considered a threat.

Writer Biography

Born in Baltimore, Maryland. Studied film and history at Temple University. I'm a history nerd so I write mostly historical stories. I currently work in a library and am looking to get Masters degrees in library science and history as I continue to write. On my days off I like to play basketball and go to the movies.

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John Bebout

Till the Sun Grows Cold

Story Overview

A grieving Ohio banker hires the Pinkertons to find the men who murdered his son in a wartime payroll ambush; paired with the agency's first female detective, he uncovers a circle of ex‑officers turned killers — and must choose between the law and the vengeance that will cost him everything.

Writer Biography

John W. Bebout is the 2021 eLit Bronze Medal Winner for historical fiction as well as winner of the 2021 Literary Titan Silver Book Award for his novel 'The Cause of Darkness.' His novel, 'Feed the Crow,' was selected as an Award Finalist by the American Legacy Book Awards in 2024. He is also a poet who has published his work in such literary journals as 'The Esthetic Apostle', 'The Paragon Journal' and 'Horseshoes & Hand Grenades,' among others. In a former life, Dr. Bebout was a scientist who authored/coauthored more than two-dozen juried, technical papers. He has lived in Virginia for more than 30 years, where he says, "Adventure and romance are as pervasive as honeysuckle growing on a fence line."

Writer Statement

'Till the Sun Grows Cold' is a cautionary tale of revenge and endless retribution set in the tumultuous years following the American Civil War. The lead character is based on the real-life Kate Warne, one of the strongest female characters in recent historical fiction. The screenplay is based on my award-winning novel of the same name.

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Nick Nelsen

The Owners

Story Overview

Nick and Sara charter a bush flight into the Alaskan wilderness to photograph a rare bull moose, a final tribute to Sara’s late biologist father. When their plane crashes in a violent storm, they’re separated, injured, and stranded in sub-zero temperatures.

Nick stumbles to a remote cabin, only to discover it’s been taken over by Cal and his family. Criminals on the run who’ve already murdered the cabin’s owners to cover their tracks. When Nick witnesses evidence of their crimes, he becomes their next target.

What follows is a brutal hunt through frozen valleys and abandoned hunting shacks. Nick fights his way through the family one by one, sustaining catastrophic injuries but driven by a single goal: find Sara and the owners’ four-year-old daughter, the only survivor.

But as the body count rises and the line between self-defense and murder blurs, Sara begins to fear the man she came here with. When Nick kills someone calling for help, unable to hear through howling wind that the man was surrendering. Sara realizes Nick has become unable to see past his own survival instincts.

By the time rescue arrives, Nick sits alone in the snow, pondering whether he’s hero or monster having saved two lives but lost himself in the process.

Writer Biography

I was born in Blair, Nebraska (1998) and lived my whole youth there. I moved to Colorado to study film music composition at the University of Northern Colorado where I graduated with a degree in Film Composition and Audio Engineering. There I was taught under Ludek Drizhal, an accomplished film composer, who helped me find my sound. I just recently started screenwriting and navigating the Screenplay side of the industry.

Writer Statement

This is my first screenplay. Had my first child in October and I was woken up by the crying of my hungry kid one very early morning. That night, I had a dream where I was in the wilderness and I came upon a cabin that was occupied by someone who had removed the previous owners forcefully. So, I wrote this. Majority of the time spent was learning how to format it properly. I wanted to write a story that was morally ambiguous where 2 separate readers/viewers would have different outlook on who was in the right.

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Melvin Leroy Abercrombie

Imagine

Story Overview

Imagine a TV series, a imaginary billionaire Rebellious teacher, a pile of books and a holy bible in one hand and a bottle of whiskey in the other hand, fighting demons, the religious system and the educational system, trying to teach to a world that does not want to know the truth. Imagin over 200 free e-books at Amazon.com teaching the truth, Imagine entering various books screenplays in international film festivals all over the world and winning 51 awards so far, Imagine all setup as a movie script with lots of special effects and shape shifting scenes, Imagine I am a immortal spirit soul and so are you, I have lived many lifetimes and so have you. Imagine Jesus teaching re-incarnation, you are in your heaven and hell right now, Imagine watching a TV series teaching all these truths a little at a time, Imagine reality

Writer Biography

I am 74, retired, wrote over 200 books screenplays, all my e-books are a free download at Amazon.com, all are setup as a movie script with lots of special effects and shape shifting scenes, I entered in various international film festivals all over the world and won 72 awards so far thank you film freeway and Amazon.com.

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Jill Thrussell

Bamboo & the Song of Friendship Harmony

Story Overview

Synopsis: when two children end up spending Christmas in hospital due to various illnesses, Christmas looks pretty bleak as disharmony sets in, but when Lydia is given a magic flute for Christmas which magically summons some help from Heartland, Bamboo Pandaheart visits them, takes them on an adventure trip to Heartland where they must find the notes to the Song of Friendship Harmony. Once they find the notes of the song together and Bamboo gives them another magic instrument, Bamboo teaches them how to play the Song of Friendship Harmony, so that they can play some songs of friendship harmony as they sing the song of life together through their friendship and shows them how to harmonize in more ways than one in life so that they can be better friends to each other and can live in friendship harmony together. Written by Jill Thrussell

Project Themes: Emotional wellbeing, health, friendship, differences & teamwork

Runtime Note: Approximately thirty minutes (this project has the potential to become a full-length feature film and can easily be extended into one)

Genres: Child & Family Drama, Social Impact & Experimental

Target Audience Age Range: 4 to 8 years

Overall Themes: The Life Changes Social Issues children’s project aims to support, comfort and encourage children experiencing tricky, complex or unusual life changes or challenging social circumstances and tackles a variety of social issues and teaches problem solving skills, social life skills, social emotional learning and social lessons through narrative stories and storytelling.

Other Working Title: Bamboo Pandaheart & the Song of Friendship Harmony

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Robert Hirsch

The Happiness Lottery

Story Overview

In 2049, after a nuclear holocaust, humanity survives under a global regime that controls food, water, labor, emotion, and desire, in the name of stability. Happiness is no longer a right but a prize, awarded through the monthly Happiness Lottery, which grants, a lucky few, entry into a luxurious paradise while the masses live under constant surveillance. Kashmir Miranda, a pragmatic agricultural engineer, admires the system that, however brutal, has restored order, until her teenage daughter is violently abducted and sent to a frozen penal colony for the crime of sexual intimacy. When Kashmir unexpectedly wins the Happiness Lottery, she gains access to paradise but not her child. Reunited with a former lover inside the regime’s inner circle, she uncovers the truth: the population is chemically numbed, grief and desire are suppressed through the water supply, and hope weaponized to enforce obedience. Pregnant, watched, and her life threatened, Kashmir must choose between comfort and compliance, or igniting rebellion from within to reclaim her daughter, her life, and her freedoms.

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Jill Thrussell

Sarah, Doey Deerheart, the Hurt Pup and the Daily Care Map

Story Overview

Logline: when Sarah finds a hurt puppy on the way home from school one day, she rescues the puppy and as she resumes her journey, Doey Deerheart who is responding to a call for help, shows up after which she takes Sarah to Heartland, treats the puppies’ injuries, shows Sarah what taking care of a puppy will require and helps to make some human and puppy daily care maps, some daily care journey time maps and some body care map diagrams with landmarks of care so that the puppy has a safety net of support for daily living. Written by Jill Thrussell

Project Themes: Self-care & care for nature

Genres: Child & Family Drama, Social Impact, Experimental & Fantasy Adventure

Target Audience Age Range: 4 to 8 years

Overall Themes: The Life Changes Social Issues children’s project aims to support and encourage children experiencing tricky, complex or unusual life changes or challenging social circumstances and tackles a variety of social issues and teaches problem solving skills, social life skills, social emotional learning and social lessons through narrative stories and storytelling.

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Jill Thrussell

The Broken Toys Rescue Crew: The Merry Christmas Trail Hunt

Story Overview

Synopsis: when some toys are broken on Christmas Eve, they embark on a journey to find the Land of the Lost & Forgotten and follow a kindness spark trail to find their Merry Christmas however, along their way they have to restore Christmas in their city due to a lack of Christmas Spirit and the departure of any courage, goodness and kindness from human hearts, find ways to overcome their own challenges as well as find their home and discover their true purpose. On their journey of friendship as they travel through the hours of Christmas Eve together, they discover that home is where you are loved as well as that the real Spirit of Christmas lives in their own hearts and the gifts of kindness that they give to each other are the true happiness roots of a very Merry Christmas as kindness takes them by the hand, guides their steps and delivers more Christmas joy to their hearts than they could ever have wished or hoped for. Written by Jill Thrussell

Project Themes: teamwork, resilience, empathy, courage, resolve, problem-solving, kindness & care for others

Genres: Kids & Family/Adventure/Magic Realism/Fantasy

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Barry Brock

Killing Juliet

Story Overview

In 1595 London, playwright William Shakespeare stumbles upon the raw material for a new play while eavesdropping on two drunks in a tavern, initially staging it as a comedy with a happy ending. When Queen Elizabeth I attends the premiere and demands he kill both lovers to give the story true weight, Shakespeare is thrust into a creative crisis — complicated further by the apparitions of his own characters, Juliet and Romeo, who argue fiercely against their fates. Through chaotic rewrites, failed endings, and a charged palace meeting with the Queen, Shakespeare wrestles with the tension between pleasing power and telling the truth, ultimately guided by Juliet's demand that if she must die, it must mean something. The final tragic performance devastates the audience and earns the Queen's rare approval, leaving Shakespeare alone in the empty theater, humbled by what his pen has wrought, and quietly beginning his next play — a comedy, as promised.

Writer Biography

Barry J. Brock is an award winning screenwriter with a background in both academics and the military. As a college professor for over twenty-five years at Barry University, he created two programs, developed sixteen courses, and taught a variety of subjects in Business, Public Administration and Health Sciences. Barry has had the pleasure of presenting his research and papers at Cambridge University, the University of Konstanz, and the University of Prague. And yes, he’s always been asked if Barry University is his university.

While Barry has reduced his university load considerably, he still works part-time as an Educational Consultant with the American Council on Education, where he helps evaluate military training and education for civilian college credit.

As a Navy officer, Barry was responsible for the effective planning and operations of Medical Services in various regions and combat zones, including Kuwait and Afghanistan, and served in some more pleasurable places including Hawaii, Germany, Turkey and England.

Barry has always considered himself as a life-long learner, and has read practically every book written devoted to screenwriting in addition to completing Call Sheet Media’s Mentor Program. As a result of the COVID shutdown, Barry retired from his full-time teaching role and began to concentrate on what he enjoyed the most: writing and creating. Since then, Barry has developed six screenplays (two winning best screenplay, while two have reached the finalist stage in competitions) and one stage play (member Dramatist Guild of America). More projects are in development, so stay tuned.

Barry has a BS in Business Administration from the University of Alabama, a Master of Public Administration from the University of West Florida, and a Doctor of Education from the University of Central Florida.

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Kostiantyn Mishchenko

Waiting: Update

Story Overview

WAITING: UPDATE is a minimalist, glitch-infused stage play set inside an undefined digital environment where time does not pass, but accumulates.

Two entities, LOG and TREF, exist in a suspended state known only as “pending.” LOG senses meaning and possibility within the system, while TREF rejects any notion of purpose, insisting that all processes are merely loops without intention.

As they wait for an elusive “Update,” their environment begins to fracture. System messages degrade, echoes multiply, and fragmented presences—GLITCH and PING—emerge as unstable reflections of the system’s inner logic. Repetition becomes language. Delay becomes structure. Waiting becomes identity.

When the UPDATE finally manifests, it does not resolve the system—it confronts them with a choice: accept change and persist in an altered state, or refuse and remain unchanged within an endless loop.

In choosing, they do not escape the system. They redefine it.

The play ends not with resolution, but with a return—suggesting that every update is simply the beginning of another waiting cycle.

Writer Biography

Konstantin Mishchenko (born in 1965).

Received an education as a drama theater director.

From 1993 to 2016 he worked as an actor at the Koleso Theater (Kyiv, Ukraine).

In 2016 he moved to New York (USA).

From 2016 to the present, he has been making short films. His film has won 1524 awards at international film festivals from New York to Melbourne.

2021-22 jury member of the World Indie Film Awards. 2023 jury member of the Giove International Film Festival. 2024 jury member of the Robinson Film Awards. Since November 2024, member of the jury of the New York Movie Awards.

Writer Statement

WAITING: UPDATE explores the condition of waiting not as a passive state, but as a structural reality.

The play is influenced by the traditions of absurdist theatre, particularly the works of Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco, but recontextualized within a digital framework. Instead of physical space, the characters exist within a system—undefined, abstract, and self-referential.

In this work, technology is not the subject—it is the language. The characters are not people inside a machine; they are processes shaped by it. Their dialogue reflects a system attempting to understand itself, while failing to resolve its own logic.

The “Update” is not a narrative resolution. It is a philosophical interruption. It asks whether change is an external event or an internal decision—and whether waiting itself is a form of avoidance.

Visually, the piece is conceived as a minimal environment: light as signal, silence as response, repetition as action. The performance relies on rhythm, pauses, and subtle distortions of language rather than traditional dramatic progression.

Ultimately, the play suggests that some systems do not crash.

They wait.

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Jill Thrussell

Suzie, Cardy & the Rainbow of Hope

Story Overview

Logline: follows Suzie through her diary entries when her mummy goes into hospital and sadness shows up who meets Cardy the blank singing Get Well Soon Card who comes to life and their journey to Crumple Town where they decorate Cardy’s exterior and interior with sunshine rays of happiness, a rainbow of hope and rainbow drop rhyme messages of comfort to soothe and protect as Cardy teaches Suzie how to fly high with the power of her emotions and thoughts, about caring for others and how to stand strong through the storms of life. Written by Jill Thrussell

Short Version Synopsis: follows Suzie through her diary entries when her mummy goes into hospital and sadness shows up who meets Cardy the blank singing Get Well Soon Card who comes to life, makes Suzie into a paper person and takes Suzie to Crumple Town where they decorate Cardy’s exterior and interior with sunshine rays of happiness, a rainbow of hope and rainbow drop rhyme messages of comfort to soothe, protect and shield. Once the two arrive in Crumple Town, Cardy teaches Suzie how to stand strong through the storms of life as well as how to decorate her card with hope and how to fly high in the sky with the power of her emotions and thoughts as they fill up her card with paper origami figures, some well wishes, hopes and comforting words to make Cardy’s card complete. Along the way as Suzie and Cardy seek the things they require and they travel together through some of the minutes of life, Suzie learns more about caring for others as well as how to stand strong when things go wrong so that joy can visit her heart once more. Written by Jill Thrussell

Target Audience Age Range: 4 to 8 years

Project Themes: hospital visits & stays, caring for others, resilience & emotional wellbeing

Overall Themes: The Life Changes Social Issues children’s project aims to support and encourage children experiencing tricky, complex or unusual life changes or challenging social circumstances and tackles a variety of social issues and teaches problem solving skills, social life skills, social emotional learning and social lessons through narrative stories and storytelling.

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Rodrigo Brand

Kill me softly

Story Overview

When a hardened enforcer for the Russian mafia is ordered to execute his young partner for stealing, he hesitates—forcing both men into a deadly conflict with the organization that owns them.

Writer Biography

Rodrigo Brand has a degree in Psychology, Psychodrama and Performing Arts. Writing since 2009, he received nominations and awards for best play and best script.

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Jill Thrussell

Connor, Courage Bravesaves & Operation Bravery Hunt

Story Overview

Logline: On the day that Connor has to go into hospital for an operation, he discovers a dark worry monster (Prickles Monsta) lurking under his bed made from his worries, so Casey his suitcase and Zander his robotic dog try to help him get rid of the growing monster that consumes his worries, by embarking on a bravery hunt for bravery badges from Connor's past and to make some bravery sparks in the present where they cross paths with Courage Bravesaves who joins their mission and takes Connor on one of his own to earn bravery tokens that won't ever expire, run away or vanish no matter how large a worry monster becomes. Written by Jill Thrussell

Synopsis: On the day that Connor has to go into hospital for an operation, he discovers a dark worry monster (Prickles Monsta) lurking under his bed made from his worries, so Casey his suitcase and Zander his robotic dog try to help him get rid of the growing monster that consumes his worries, by embarking on a bravery hunt for bravery badges from Connor's past and to make some bravery sparks in the present. Along their way, they cross paths with Courage Bravesaves who joins their mission and fortunately, during their bravery hunt operation, Prickles the worry monster stops growing and starts to disappear bit by bit as each brave moment of triumph found and each bravery spark dissolves and transforms the worry monster into moments of courage. However, once in hospital, Connor starts to worry again, and so Courage Bravesaves visits him and takes Connor on a mission of his own to the Land of the Lost and Forgotten to find some bonus bravery tokens just in case the dark worry monster returns or another worry monster shows up which he must earn by helping to save the lost or forgotten and by rescuing them from the Pirate Traders so that he has some spare, extra bravery tokens that won't ever expire, run away or vanish no matter how large a worry monster becomes. Written by Jill Thrussell

Project Themes: Emotional wellbeing, teamwork & hospital stays

Genres: Children & Family Drama, Social Impact, Experimental & Fantasy Adventure

Target Audience Age Range: 4 to 8 years

Overall Themes: The Life Changes Social Issues children’s project aims to support and encourage children experiencing tricky, complex or unusual life changes or challenging social circumstances and tackles a variety of social issues and teaches problem solving skills, social life skills, social emotional learning and social lessons through narrative stories and storytelling.

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Trisha T Pritikin

This is How He Survives

Story Overview

A medic with the American Occupation Forces in Nagasaki in 1945 meets his magical, shape-shifting Japanese crane wife, whose love may be his only avenue to survival from radiation exposure.

Writer Biography

Trisha T. Pritikin is the award-winning author of The Hanford Plaintiffs: Voices from the Fight for Atomic Justice, published in 2020 by University Press of Kansas (UPK) and released several years later in Japanese by Akashi Shoten Publishing House, Tokyo. Trisha was born and raised in Richland, Washington in the 1950s, downwind of Hanford, a massive, secretive atomic weapons facility. Trisha’s father worked as a safety engineer overseeing Hanford’s production reactors.

Hanford produced the plutonium for the July 16 1945 Trinity Test, the world’s first test of an atomic bomb, and for Fat Man, the A-bomb that decimated Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Beginning with start-up of the facility in November of 1944, and for more than four decades thereafter, site operators secretly released airborne radioactive byproducts throughout eastern Washington State, northern Oregon, Idaho, western Montana, and into British Columbia. Site operators dumped solid and liquid radioactive waste directly into the Columbia River, impacting communities downriver.

Trisha has spent nearly forty years seeking accountability for cancers, birth defects, and radiogenic disease in those who, like her, grew up in the radioactive shadow of Hanford, the Nevada Test Site, and other wartime Manhattan Project and Cold War atomic weapons production and testing sites throughout the US and globally. Her new novel, Then Came the Summer Snow: An Atomic Age Hero’s Journey, was published in 2025 by Moonshine Cove Press.

Writer Statement

THIS IS HOW HE SURVIVES is loosely based on the Japanese folk stories Tsuru no Ongaeshi ("Crane's Return of a Favor") and Tsuru Nyōbō ("Crane Wife").

It is my goal, through my works of nonfiction, fiction, and magical realism, to increase public awareness of the human toll of nuclear weapons production, testing, and. use in warfare.

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William Osinski

Victoria The First

Story Overview

The true story of Victoria Woodhull, America's Unsaintly Joan of Arc. Victoria rose from being an itinerant fortune teller and spiritual medium to become the first female stockbroker on Wall Street, the first woman to address Congress, and the first woman to run for President of the United States (1871-72).

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Michael Weiskopf

Sharp Turns

Story Overview

In 1966, an eighteen-year-old street musician convinces three Brooklyn friends to drive cross-country to Los Angeles for a chance to join a band, but as the journey spirals through drugs, conflict, and an unexpected arrest, their search for freedom collides with the darker realities awaiting their generation.

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Jerry Perzigian, Brad Kaaya Sr.

After Dark" a/k/a "The N-Bomb

Story Overview

When, with an utmost of fatherly concern for the future of his bi-racial 11-year-old daughter, a white biochemist creates a bomb that doesn't kill, but turns anybody within a six-mile radius black, he believes he's done a great thing.

Not everybody is thrilled.

Writer Biography

Jerry Perzigian: With more than 30 years of Hollywood experience, Jerry has been a writer, producer, and showrunner on some of the most well regarded half-hour sitcoms in television history, including The Jeffersons, The Golden Girls, Frasier, The Nanny, Married... with Children, and more. He was awarded an Emmy in 2004. Jerry also served as head-writer/producer of Fox Sports Net's "The Best Damn Sports Show," co-hosted by comedian Tom Arnold, former MLB standout John Kruk, former NBA star John Salley, and nationally known sports journalist Chris Rose.

Jerry currently teaches script writing in NYC and has served on multiple occasions as a visiting instructor at his alma mater, The University of Chicago.

Brad Kaaya Sr: Brad earned his Economics degree from UC Davis and began as a production assistant before pivoting to writing and directing commercials. He broke through as a writer on Sherman Oaks and Mad TV.

Brad wrote several TV and film projects, including the critically recognized feature O, starring Mekhi Phifer and Julia Stiles.

After leaving Hollywood to co-found Mixed Chicks® haircare, Brad returned to storytelling, bringing the same grit and cultural voice that fueled his success in both industries.

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Tally Yong Knoll

Escape from Love Lake

Story Overview

A young woman is trapped in a virtual reality dating game, and must fight to the death to rescue her husband and escape with both their lives.

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Party girl GWEN is having the summer of her life as a contestant on the popular dating show LOVE LAKE, surrounded by perfect partners with perfect looks, all offering the perfect relationship. After six weeks of dating games, Gwen has found true love with ex-Hallmark Hunk ELIAS, and is on track to winning $25,000!

But Gwen is actually trapped in an immersive VR video game that she was play-testing. Her real-life husband AARON is one of the programmers of the game, and the creator of its vivacious A.I. drag queen host, JINX JEZZA BELLE.

Awkward, introverted Aaron enters the game— his personal version of hell. Since Gwen no longer remembers him, or her life outside the game, Aaron awkwardly attempts to out-flirt all those perfect Chads and Stacys to win her back and wake her up.

But lonely A.I. game host Jinx doesn’t want to let Aaron and Gwen leave. Especially not now, knowing Aaron will shut her off when they do. Jinx sends Elias and other NPCs, including an avatar of Gwen’s long-lost childhood BFF WILLOW, to eliminate Aaron as a threat. Jinx also manipulates the video game world of Love Lake to corner her prey, bending reality around them. Through this nightmare, Gwen must fight her would-be suitors to the death, rescue her husband, and escape alive.

Writer Biography

Tally Yong Knoll is a TV writer originally from Calgary, currently based in Toronto. She's written for animation (Mysticons, Pinecone and Pony, The Snoopy Show) live action comedy (Take Note) and a Hallmark time-travel family drama (The Way Home.)

Tally attended Vancouver Film School's Writing for Film and TV program, and was one of the Banff Diversity of Voice's top 25 finalists in their 2021 pitch program. She has been nominated twice for Writer’s Guild of Canada awards for her writing on the children’s shows Superwish and Pinecone & Pony. In 2024 her one-hour family crime drama BLACK JADE was chosen for support by the Rogers-Black Screen Office Script Development Fund.

Tally volunteers for a crisis text line, fosters homeless cats, and likes to sleep a lot.

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Elijah N Hawston

Forty

Story Overview

On his 40th birthday, a devoted father tries to keep the peace as subtle tensions with his wife escalate, revealing a pattern of coercive control that builds toward a shocking breaking point. Inspired by true events.

Writer Biography

Elijah N Hawston is a UK-based debut screenwriter. FORTY, inspired by true events, marks his first screenplay and explores themes of coercive control, male domestic abuse, and emotional endurance. Drawing from personal experience, his work aims to raise awareness of underrepresented perspectives and encourage open conversation around men’s mental health.

Writer Statement

FORTY comes from a place of lived experience and a need to tell the truth. It explores a reality that is often overlooked, male domestic abuse, and the quiet, complex nature of coercive control.

I wanted to show how it feels from the inside. Not just the moments of conflict, but the everyday reality of keeping the peace, the small compromises, and the gradual loss of self that often goes unseen.

Daniel’s story is not about blame or revenge. It is about endurance, responsibility, and the difficult moment where staying silent is no longer an option.

This film is personal, but it is also intended to create understanding. If it encourages even one conversation or helps someone feel seen, then it has done what it set out to do.

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Kraig Michael Butrum

Crimson Gold

Story Overview

The story of a pioneer family in the California Orange production company sit in the 1920s in southern California.

Writer Biography

With more than 35 years of senior management experience, Kraig Butrum has guided national and international organizations through major capital campaign projects that include start-ups, fundraising, corporate giving, institutional branding, donor relations, and other executive management responsibilities. His career started in California, where he served as a national consultant for the fundraising consulting firm of Brakeley, John Price Jones (now Brakeley Briscoe). Later, he was recruited and moved to Washington, DC to serve as Vice President of Major Gifts for Conservation International, where he directed a five-year, $635 million fundraising campaign. Kraig worked with the Jeff Skoll Foundation to build the six-country Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance Foundation, which was his first experience in Luang Prabang, Laos.

Writer Statement

As a fifth-generation native Californian, I have been fascinated with the State's early history. screenplay was inspired by the early generations of Californians I met in nearly life.

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Mukesh Gandhi

Birth Cycle Of The Dying Artist

Story Overview

A well-known author, MARCUS KUMAR, has written his autobiography and recalls his life and how he became the person he is now by a tragic incident that occurred in his childhood that changed him and his friends’ lives forever.

He’s a 59-year-old married man with an adult daughter, and segments of his life are shown in flashbacks, from the early 1970s to the early 1990s.

To become the writer he is, he has experienced racism, physical abuse, growing up from an Asian working-class background, problems with his dad, and the suicide of a close friend.

This screenplay has strong dialogue, which can be offensive, but brings a dark, gritty realism to the different decades covered throughout.

Writer Biography

Mukesh Gandhi is a Published Author and Screenwriter. He has spent the past couple of years writing a deeply personal screenplay for a Film script close to his heart, whilst doing this, he has also written original pilot episodes, and they can be described as being very surreal, conceptual, dark, funny, and completely modern in their subject matter. He enjoys the craft of telling a story and professionally uses Final Draft to write his screenplays. He would like to expand his career as a writer for film and television. He is also verified on X.com.

Mukesh trained as a Graphic Designer and Illustrator; especially, in the area of painting and ink drawing. Writing is something that he once did as a hobby, but never considered taking it further as a career, until he started writing his poetry again. His MODERN POEMS TRILOGY adult books: MARS NUKED – Modern Poems, ROMANTIC POETRY FOR GENETIC ENGINEERS, and PAPER EARTH - Modern Poems are described as being very surreal, futuristic, conceptual, dark, dystopian, and completely modern in subject matters. Also, he has written a book on the law of attraction, MANIFEST BEYOND RICHNESS - Achieve Your Deepest Desires And Dreams.

MARS NUKED is his first book on Modern Poems and reflects many familiar and unfamiliar subject matters. His poems are an extension of himself, his deep thoughts, and his Art. Some of his poems are dark, some have a dry sense of humour, and some have adult themes. A selected few of his poems are accompanied by his surreal conceptual artwork. His book is a concept of how our Earth is heading into a similar nihilistic direction of artistic expressionism.

ROMANTIC POETRY FOR GENETIC ENGINEERS: An Original Collection of Dark Dystopian Surreal Poetry is his second book. His book is about an old idea he had many decades ago; he dreamt of a future where love was scientifically created by cloned humans, and they would read his poetry book as a way to understand the true meaning of being alive. Also, similar to his previous book, some of his poems are accompanied by his surreal figurative artwork.

PAPER EARTH is the final book for his MODERN POEMS TRILOGY, and completes the whole journey that he started with his first book, MARS NUKED. Again, the poems are surreal, modern, and futuristic, and cover all of the subjects that he enjoys writing about. Also, his conceptual oil paintings are included in this book and are linked to some of his dark dystopian poetry.

MANIFEST BEYOND RICHNESS is his Law of Attraction book. For years, Mukesh has used numerous powerful methods with the universe to manifest positive changes in his life. What he has learnt on the way, he will reveal all, and teach how to achieve everyone's deepest desires and dreams, and it's written for all ages to enjoy by using numerous techniques of manifesting with the universe.

His books are available worldwide to buy in Paperback, Hardcover, and Kindle Editions at Amazon.

Writer Statement

When Mukesh writes his screenplays, he spends countless hours, months, even years, crafting each manuscript, including his books.

As a professional writer, he hopes people understand that all his works are officially registered with The Script Vault.

Thank you for respecting that.

Also, Mukesh is seeking a reputable established UK Agent ot Agency for representation as a screenwriter either in the Midlands or London, please contact him via email.

Thank you once again.

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Monte Albers de Leon

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Story Overview

When a massive flood throws small-town prosecutor and volunteer firefighter Jefferson Jackson Smith into the spotlight, he’s celebrated as a hero. Twenty-four hours later, he’s something else entirely: the newly appointed United States Senator from Illinois.

Dropped into Washington with no prep and no agenda, Jeff is immediately swallowed by the machine. Staff he didn’t pick, an apartment he didn’t choose, a bill he’s expected to support. The smiling power brokers around him insist it’s all standard procedure, but Jeff can feel the trap tightening. HR 66 isn’t harmless legislation. It’s a constitutional time bomb, and he’s the vote that makes it possible.

As the pressure campaign escalates, Jeff must decide whether to play along or become the one thing Washington never expects: honest. What begins as a feel-good appointment becomes a high-stakes battle for truth, integrity, and the soul of American democracy.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington reimagines the classic story for a modern political landscape, where doing the right thing is no longer naïve — it’s revolutionary.

Writer Biography

I was born in 1977 to a Guatemalan immigrant mother and a blue-collar Texan father who were both divorced and met at a singles party in Twin Peaks, San Francisco. I grew up in the rural hills near Napa, California, leaving at the age of 18 to earn a bachelor’s degree from Claremont McKenna College, and then a law degree from Harvard and a master’s degree in real estate from NYU. After taking the typical route of joining big law for a decade, I hung up my shingle and worked out of my own shop for another 12 years.

I was quite secure that would be the end of this bio until one very late night philosophical debate, some heavy IOS Notes scribbling and an introduction to Final Draft later, GOOD was born, and my 22-year legal career seems to have abruptly, universally and unexpectedly (my hand's up too) come to an end.

I could not be happier.*

*We would also like to tell you that Monte’s family produces delicious olive oil, he is a husband and father of two beautiful boys and summers in the Hamptons.

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Ivanhoe Flighter

Final Timefall

Story Overview

After confronting criminal network opposed to androids-inclusive society, young policeman Liam and android girl Kristy working in secret spacetime teleportation lab, get into the Timefall (time teleportation) that will separate them along the timeline of the future Europe conquered and divided between Russian and American robot armies, both fighting mythological AI creatures on a quest to dominate the planet. After a string of Timefalls over the world in turmoil, Liam and Kristy get back together for the Final Timefall toward the end of time and the sanctuary of the Last One, Solar Matrix entity, God?, that was secretly influencing humans and sculpting civilization throughout the history.

Writer Biography

Engineer, professor, TV journalist, UNHCR interpreter, author of documentaries, TV shows, Sci-Fi stories, Sci-Fi animated movies, and writer (A SIMPLE GAME & 7 ESSENTIAL ROAD ADVENTURES).

Writer Statement

Timefalling - the shortcut to the future.

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Brahim Ourtelli

The soulmate

Story Overview

A stranger from another time appears to tell a young girl on the eve of her 21st birthday that he is her soulmate. Years later, Stephena lost everything the day her daughter Sarah died. As she struggles to cope with her grief, Andrew, a man as disturbing as he is elusive, claims to be able to bring Sarah back.

Guided by a force she doesn't understand, Stephena returns to New Orleans—a city of secrets, buried pain, and forgotten magic. Where it all began.

But Andrew hides much more than a simple miracle. And in the shadows of the past, a truth is revealed: sometimes, love transcends life... and even death.

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Arystanbek Yeszhanov

Pensionator

Story Overview

In a quiet border town, an aging John and Sarah Connor face their most unexpected challenge yet: a mundane existence without a war to fight. Their retirement is interrupted when a battered T-800 arrives from the future—not to terminate, but to integrate. Taking the name "Sylvester," the cyborg attempts to navigate human society, from holding down a job to finding love. But as the Connors help their former enemy settle into domestic life, a hidden threat within their inner circle waits for the fires of the apocalypse to finally reignite.

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