scripts | 2026 |
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Jill Thrussell
Bamboo & the Song of Friendship Harmony
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
Robert Hirsch
The Happiness Lottery
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.
Jill Thrussell
Sarah, Doey Deerheart, the Hurt Pup and the Daily Care Map
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.
Jill Thrussell
The Broken Toys Rescue Crew: The Merry Christmas Trail Hunt
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
Barry Brock
Killing Juliet
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.
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.
Kostiantyn Mishchenko
Waiting: Update
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.
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.
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.
Jill Thrussell
Suzie, Cardy & the Rainbow of Hope
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.
Rodrigo Brand
Kill me softly
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.
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.
Leslie Anne Lee
Child of Dawn
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.
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.
Jill Thrussell
Connor, Courage Bravesaves & Operation Bravery Hunt
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.
Trisha T Pritikin
This is How He Survives
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.
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.
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.
William Osinski
Victoria The First
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).
Michael Weiskopf
Sharp Turns
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.
Jerry Perzigian, Brad Kaaya Sr.
After Dark" a/k/a "The N-Bomb
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.
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.
Tally Yong Knoll
Escape from Love Lake
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.
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.
Elijah N Hawston
Forty
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.
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.
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.
Kraig Michael Butrum
Crimson Gold
The story of a pioneer family in the California Orange production company sit in the 1920s in southern California.
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.
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.
Mukesh Gandhi
Birth Cycle Of The Dying Artist
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.
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.
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.
Monte Albers de Leon
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
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.
Ivanhoe Flighter
Final Timefall
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.
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).
Timefalling – the shortcut to the future.
Brahim Ourtelli
The soulmate
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.
Arystanbek Yeszhanov
Pensionator
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.
Robert Hirsch
The Happiness Lottery
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.
Jill Thrussell
Sarah, Doey Deerheart, the Hurt Pup and the Daily Care Map
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.
Jill Thrussell
The Broken Toys Rescue Crew: The Merry Christmas Trail Hunt
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
Barry Brock
Killing Juliet
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.
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.
Kostiantyn Mishchenko
Waiting: Update
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.
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.
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.
Jill Thrussell
Suzie, Cardy & the Rainbow of Hope
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.
Rodrigo Brand
Kill me softly
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.
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.
Leslie Anne Lee
Child of Dawn
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.
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.
Jill Thrussell
Connor, Courage Bravesaves & Operation Bravery Hunt
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.
Trisha T Pritikin
This is How He Survives
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.
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.
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.
William Osinski
Victoria The First
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).
Michael Weiskopf
Sharp Turns
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.
Jerry Perzigian, Brad Kaaya Sr.
After Dark" a/k/a "The N-Bomb
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.
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.
Tally Yong Knoll
Escape from Love Lake
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.
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.
Elijah N Hawston
Forty
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.
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.
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.
Kraig Michael Butrum
Crimson Gold
The story of a pioneer family in the California Orange production company sit in the 1920s in southern California.
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.
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.
Mukesh Gandhi
Birth Cycle Of The Dying Artist
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.
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.
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.
Monte Albers de Leon
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
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.
Ivanhoe Flighter
Final Timefall
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.
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).
Timefalling – the shortcut to the future.
Brahim Ourtelli
The soulmate
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.
Arystanbek Yeszhanov
Pensionator
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.