Rat-A-Tat-Tat (Noir Crime) by Robert Fleet

Logline:

Generation Y noir: Four robbers, each has his own dark-humored or violent story as he heads to the bank they plan to hit: one is for the money, two is for the glow, three is for the ultra-violence - and the fourth... we just don't know. Yet.

Synopsis:

Friday, 1:30 PM - Four masked men rush a corner bank to rob it. Action stops as the door is opened.

The night before the heist - Gathered around a TV, four young men quickly go over the plan. Talkative smartass ALFIE HAWKS leads the group: immature and giggly BILLY LANG, quiet co-worker JEAN-LUC HUSTON, and thuggishly terse CLAUDE WELLS. The plan is simple: wear "Lone Ranger" masks, arrive separately, rush in, rush out, change clothes, separate.

Friday, 1:30 PM - Four masked men rush a corner bank to rob it. Action stops as the door is opened.

1:10 PM - Billy Lang runs from his crappy apartment, late. In a comic race, he catches a bus - and is almost thrown off by a Driver who wants exact change. He strikes up a conversation with IDA SEBERG, pretending he is Clyde Barrow to her Bonnie Parker. Ida, it turns out, is a teller at the bank to be robbed. CORNELL BELMOND enters the bus - a cop detective who uses Billy Lang as an informer. He puts the screws on Billy, promising several return visits if nothing valuable comes out of Billy's mouth. The bus lets Billy off at the Bank. It is 1:29 PM.

Friday, 1:30 PM - Four masked men rush a corner bank to rob it. Action stops as the door is opened.

1:10 PM - Jean-Luc Huston helps his older lover, SIDNEY JAFFE out of their house: they are both Cajuns, sparring familiarly to cover up concern that Jaffe is dying. Huston is helping with the robbery, in fact, to buy a farewell "vacation" to Acapulco together. They walk the short blocks to the bank. It is slow-going, and Jaffe must stop behind a strip-mall to rest. He sends Huston on - then, out-of-sight, Jaffe collapses. Huston arrives at the bank just as Billy Lang gets off the bus. They pretend they do not know one another. It is 1:29 PM.

Friday, 1:30 PM - Four masked men rush a corner bank to rob it. Action stops as the door is opened.

1:10 PM - Alfie Hawks, cocky and self-assured, calmly shaves himself and dictates the "brilliant" details of his plan into a micro-recorder: Friday at 1:30 banks are filled with cash for weekend merchants, take $100s only, Express Mail it to an offshore "no-questions" account on the Isle of Jersey, etc. With occasional flashbacks, Hawks is still smarting from the cynical put-downs he and Huston must endure daily from BOGART, their manager at the probably-corrupt shipping firm they both work in for day jobs. Hawks drives to the rendezvous point, proudly noting (and dictating into the recorder) Billy Lang's and Jean-Luc Huston's arrivals. He plans on erasing the tape, but puts it off till later. Hawks parks far from the rendezvous, leaves the micro-recorder in the car - and unknowingly leaves the door unlatched, slowly swinging open. It is 1:29 PM.

Friday, 1:30 PM - Four masked men rush a corner bank to rob it. Action stops as the door is opened.

1:10 PM - Claude Wells rises from a bedroom tryst with LAUREN ASTOR, a woman who is both terrorized and aroused by his silent physicality. Calmly destroying a breadbox, Wells prepares a meal in her kitchen, then leaves - carrying a gym bag full of guns. Using a hammer, he smashes open a car window and steals the vehicle. Driving towards the bank he sees a bus - and through the window catches sight of Billy Lang talking to Belmond, the detective. Wells pulls to a side street and tensely observes: Belmond leaves the bus before Billy Lang, goes to a waiting car - but drives away from the bank. Reassured, Wells uses his hammer again to steal a second car, drives it by the bank - the other three are "casually" approaching - then stops his car in front of the bank, motor running. It is 1:29 PM

Friday, 1:30 PM - Four masked men rush a corner bank to rob it. Action does not stop -

Wells shoots out one security camera; Lang tries to shoot the second, misses, smashes it with his gun. Only Alfie Hawks is supposed to talk, but Billy Lang keeps muttering smartass comments - and the bank teller, Ida Seberg, begins to recognize him from the bus. Meanwhile, Wells and Huston are successfully looting the vault, while Hawks keeps customers and employees down on the floor.

Billy Lang giggles at the "power" they have - which causes Ida to accidentally say aloud "I know you." Wells and Huston hear her. Wells starts to raise his gun - but Huston shoots Ida first, shouting at Billy Lang, "No witness! NO Witness!"

They leave. Hawks, Lang and Huston crouched on the floor of the stolen car, Wells (unmasked) driving. As they drive, Hawks starts to equally divide the money into Express Mail envelopes - but Wells insists Billy Lang's share be cut in half because he screwed up. Billy disagrees, but is punched out by Jean-Luc Huston.

1:45 PM - At a post office, Huston mails the Express Mail packets to numbered accounts in Jersey, then walks away. Hawks, Lang and Wells drive the car away in an opposite direction. All have changed jackets.

2:00 PM - The guns are dumped down a sewer chosen at random.

3:00 PM - The clothes and masks are buried in an empty field. Billy Lang tries to ingratiate himself with Wells to get back his half-share of the money. Wells says simply "No witness" and picks up his hammer.

4:30 PM - Wells and Hawks dispose of Billy Lang's body in a dumpster at a deserted construction site, leaving it open for the coyotes to scavenge. They separate.

7:00 PM - Wells leaves the stolen car, license plate removed, in a neighborhood where it will be stripped or stolen again.

9:00 PM - Huston returns to his house, finds out that his lover Jaffe is dead.

9:00 PM - Belmond, the detective, pounds on Billy Lang's door, demanding information. He is let in - and shot to death - by Wells. "No witness."

9:00 PM - Alfie Hawks cannot retrieve his car from the parking lot: a security guard, noting the open door, has discovered the micro-recorder - and is replaying Hawks' plan of the robbery, detail by detail.

Tsantsa (Horror) by Leslie Streit

Logline:

An unscrupulous art dealer is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse and soon becomes the #1 suspect in a series of grisly
murders.

Synopsis:

David Starbird will do anything for a buck. He buys and sells tribal art for very rich clients but is not able to make ends meet. He owes a nasty
loan shark a lot of money. He resorts to shady business practices. He also drinks too much.

Starbird is hired by a wealthy client to procure a shrunken human head. The client, a cripple, believes that these heads have tremendous
restorative powers. He offers Starbird a huge sum of money, enough to end all of his financial woes.

Starbird’s search for the shrunken head takes him to a mysterious old man, Papa Bahasa, who exists in a subterranean dungeon underneath a
peculiar herb shop. Papa Bahasa forcibly extracts a drop of Starbird’s blood as part of the payment.

Almost immediately, Starbird experiences terrible visions – fire, the flash of machete blades, strange gyrating shadows.

Starbird goes back to his client but finds he has been murdered. He was decapitated and his head is missing. The police think that Starbird is
the number one suspect.

Starbird seeks help from various people – an expert on magic, an upscale gallery owner. All of the people he contacts continue to die in horrible
ways.

Starbird sets out to prove that Papa Bahasa is the murderer and he needs the “tsantsa” in human heads in order to stay alive.

As Starbird discovers more about Papa Bahasa’s powers of black magic, he realizes that he is fighting for his very existence and that the real
evil may lie deep within his own soul.

Honor Camp (Psychological Suspense Thriller) by Robin Sen

Logline:

To save his own life, a street-wise teen is forced to use the survival skills taught to him by a boot camp for troubled youths when he stumbles upon another boy's murder and the group's dark secret.

Synopsis:

Ryan Sole has a secret. He killed someone. Everyone's got problems in their lives, but Ryan doesn't know if he can handle this. He's only sixteen years old. A street-wise, troubled youth craving acceptance, Ryan is lured into a local boot camp for teens. After learning outdoor survival skills and being empowered with trust, Ryan is put to the test when he discovers that the boot camp he belongs to is a front for narcotics dealers training and using kids as drug runners. When Ryan stumbles upon another boy's murder and the camp's dark secret, Ryan is hunted by the very leaders that taught him the skills he must now use to survive. In pursuit, the camp leaders soon employ Lucy, a teen drug addict, to play on Ryan's raging hormones and draw him from the cover of a dense forest, to his death. Ryan faces the dangers of the wild, being hunted by his mentors, and betrayed by his peers only to encounter a Jamaican drug posse at the center of his uncertain fate. Honor Camp follows Ryan's prematurely forced journey of willpower from adolescence to adulthood, his struggle for acceptance and against authority, while simply trying to survive nature, and three people trying to kill him.

Multiple (Drama) by Robert Rosenthal

Logline:

A well-meaning psychiatrist risks his career, his marriage and ultimately his life when he attempts to treat a young woman with multiple personality disorder. This is the first accurate portrayal of this condition since SYBIL (1979). Written by a psychiatrist, based on true clinical material. Optioned twice.

Synopsis:

Psychiatrist VIC PERLMAN wants to rebound from the humiliation of a malpractice suit for undue familiarity by taking on the treatment of LIZ, a disturbed
young woman who cuts herself and suffers episodes of amnesia. Liz becomes increasingly intrusive in Vic's personal life, but Vic finds himself totally out of
his league when she turns out to have multiple personality disorder.

She wants to remember what happened to her as a child when her psychotic mother jumped out a window. Her seductive and violent alter-personalities have
other ideas. So does her powerful physician father. Even Vic's wife would rather he just dump the case, however unethical that might be. As the story builds to
its thriller-like finish, Vic must risk his career, his marriage, and ultimately his life to uncover the mystery behind Liz's different personalities.

Rational Panic (Suspense/Thriller) by Robert Rhyne

Logline:

A college professor believes a student in his play writing class is involved in the disappearance of his wife after the student writes a play with a similar character.

Synopsis:

Professor Marc Fisher's wife, Michelle, vanishes from a New Orleans hotel during Mardi Gras. Michelle suffers from panic attacks that have left her unable to walk across a room without assistance, making foul play a certainty in her disappearance. After months of fruitless searching, Marc returns to his job, teaching play writing at a New Orleans college. His worst fears play out when a student, Lynne Rambeaut, creates a protagonist who weirdly mirrors Michelle. As Lynne reveals things about her character, details that match Michelle's every quirk, Marc becomes convinced she abducted her. And when Lynne kills off her play's heroine, the mind games really begin!

Is it drama or reality? A play or plan for murder? Marc Fisher plays the ultimate mind game in a city where the line between illusion and reality is never clear, ultimately leading him to a truth that's way stranger than any fiction.

All Exclusive (Horror/Thriller) by Joseane Brunelle and Tristan Tondino

Logline:

When an obnoxiously demanding executive on an all inclusive beach resort vacation progressively fades from reality, she discovers she can no
longer communicate with the very people who can save her from the horrifying ghosts threatening to tear her away forever.

Tagline: The ultimate leave of absence.

Synopsis:

Margaret Benton decides to celebrate her 34th birthday with her latest flame Brad Taylor in an all inclusive club on an island - a well
deserved rest for a high strung workaholic about to burn out.

Margaret can't help but bark orders to everyone near her - unfortunately, that also includes Brad, who happens to be not so tolerant of her imperious
personality, despite the fact that she's paying for his vacation. Even in bed, she's overbearing.

However, the symptoms that drove Margaret to taking some time off are intensifying - what seemed at first to be routine anxiety is slowly turning
into the beginnings of a nightmare. Gradually, she feels herself becoming nearly invisible and inaudible! No one appears to acknowledge her demands.

One night, the young executive suddenly finds herself having horrific visions of tortured spirits haunting the island - as she tries to express
her terror to Brad, it is as though he completely ignores her and walks away, leaving Margaret alone and vulnerable on the beach. As she decides
to make her way back to her hotel, Margaret is dragged into the ocean by a terrifying force which tries to drown her. She struggles, frees herself
form her supernatural assailant and runs screaming through the party of hotel guests. NO ONE SEES HER! Her all inclusive vacation has become all
exclusive.

Margaret is on her own, pursued by unrelenting ghosts that allow her no rest. She discovers Brad has already moved on, assuming she also has found a
new lover in this promiscuous hot tropical paradise.

Margaret, the domineering executive used to giving orders to a huge web of subordinates has to face horror - all alone. Until she encounters a strange
local elderly woman, Sophie, who is already disturbingly aware of Margaret's plight. Sophie's secret will make your skin crawl...

The Ghost Horse (Animation/Children's Adventure) by Auguste Dinoto

Logline:

A one-eyed Wizard Horse, an owl, and a coyote, go on a quest to help a young Mustang free his mother from a tribe of Indians, and get his
father's herd back.

Synopsis:

As the Indians attacked the Mustangs in a dead-end canyon, ROOKER, a jealous horse, steals the herd and leaves Diablo’s father and mother to be captured.
Diablo’s mother hides him in a cave. His mother is captured by the Indians. Alone and frightened in the desert, Diablo finds himself being chased by a
pack of wolves. He meets ONE EYE, the wizard horse, WINK, the wise old owl, and SLIVER, the coyote. The four go on a quest to free his mother from the
Indians, and get his father's herd back from Rooker.

Surf Doctors (Comedy) by Mike Teitelbaum

Logline:

Two California surfboys rollercoast thru a tropical medical school farce, foiling the scheme of mad doctors creating the world's most powerful
aphrodisiac.

Synopsis:

RANDY BLUE and SPENCER BOLLES are a couple of Huntington Beach surf locals. One day, while out on the waves, they see a beautiful woman, LABIA LUSCIOUS, in a tiny dingy, being chased by a huge yacht manned by WEGO, YUGO and IGO, latter day Marx Brothers. Spencer and Randy save her life and cause the yacht to crash into the rocks. Randy brings Luscious home to meet his father and mother, BOBBY and ANNETTE BLUE, ex-1960's beach movie stars.
Bobby Blue is now a U.S. Senator. Before dinner, Luscious sprays an atomizer full of "lust gas" at Senator Blue. Luscious explains that she works for a small medical school on the Caribbean island of Provincia. Overpowered by Luscious, an agent for sinister characters, and her lust gas, Senator Blue agrees that Randy and Spencer should go to St. Catherine's medical school.

Randy and Spencer cause havoc on the plane ride over to the island. They are welcomed at the school by the GO Brothers, musical bumpkins who survived
the yacht's demise. They meet the school's headmaster DR. SCHMENDRAKE, a sinister German. Back in the U.S.A., Senator Blue receives a call from
SENATOR COTTONMOUTH, an evil politician. Cottonmouth warns Blue that if he ever wants his son back alive, he'd better hand over the original film stock
from all his old beach blanket films.

Randy and Spencer discover that the campus looks disappointingly unlike the brochure and more like an abandoned veterinarian school, which it is. They
meet the school's resident manager, SCAROUCHE, a Jamaican with a refined British accent. At the school, the boys meet up with FLEUR DE LIS, a
representative of the French perfume industry, who is spying on Schmendrake. After Schmendrake's ridiculous first day of orientation, Randy and Spencer
begin to suspect that this place is a fraud.

Schmendrake is the inventor of the "lust gas" and works for Senator Cottonmouth. Spencer, Randy, and Fleur decide that the school is evil and
that they better get off the island. Senator Blue flies into Provincia with film stock to get Randy and Spencer off the island. Blue is captured by
Schmendrake's thugs. Randy, Spencer and Fleur set off to escape. While running from Schmendrake's thugs and their pig bloodhounds, they again meet
up with Scarouche. He explains that he is a C.I.A. agent and that Schmendrake is an evil scientist. Schmendrake's lust gas requires a special
ingredient, XP90, that is a catalyst and is only found in certain old film stock - specifically the films of Bobby Blue - and that Schmendrake plans to
use the lust gas to conquer the world. He is financing his scheme through the sale of Gatorsnaps, a snack food made with a mysterious ingredient. Our
young crew decide to stop Schmendrake's evil plan, but Scarouche is captured by the singing Go Brothers. Spencer and Randy break into Schmendrake's
castle and discover Blue, totally incapacitated by the lust gas. While seeking to escape to get help from the Marines, Spencer is captured by the
thugs and their trained pigs. Randy and Fleur regroup and form a plan to invade the castle.

Fleur distracts the guards while Randy dresses up like a pig and sneaks into the castle courtyard. But he is attacked by sex crazed pigs who find him
attractive. At a huge scientific convention in this castle, SCHMENDRAKE explains to his colleagues that he is planning to release the lust gas in
America. The gas causes sex cells to multiply so fast, people will have an insatiable urge for sex. They will literally copulate themselves to death.
With America as his example, the world will capitulate to him. His benefactor, Senator Cottonmouth, will be the new President of the United
States of Schmendrake.

Randy bursts into the meeting and releases a tube of lust gas before escaping. The gas malfunctions, and all of the doctors turn green, blow up
like balloons and float up to the ceiling. Blue explains that he gave Schmendrake Abbott and Costello films for the XP90 extraction instead of his
original beach movies. Using their surfboards, the crew escape from the castle. The PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES shows up at the island with the
Marines and proclaims Provincia a U.S. colony. Senator Cottonmouth is hauled off by the Go Brothers to be fed to the alligators. Randy re-unites
with his father, who has gained respect for Randy. Randy and Spencer decide to stay with Fleur on the island. Randy to manufacture and sell Gatorsnaps
and Spencer to head the tropical medicine department.

Odyssey (Thriller) by Lori Queirolo

Logline:

A team of retrieval experts, led by a biblical archeologist, race to find the scattered pieces of an ancient prophecy written by the Great Betrayer, Judas Iscariot. Pilot.

Synopsis:

Far beneath the surface in Egypt, two young explorers venture through an ancient pharaoh’s tomb in search of a fascinating prize; a piece of the legendary Judas Scroll. Believed by biblical historians and archeologists to have been written by Judas Iscariot, the Gospel according to the Great Betrayer offers up a powerful 2000-year-old prophecy that some would kill to possess.

These two individuals work for an organization known as Odyssey, a special taskforce created and designed explicitly for the purpose of retrieving the pieces of this dogma-shattering document. Another shadowy organization, comprised of religious zealots, opposes them with murderous force. And with this tragic clash we begin our tale, one that will merge fanatical faith, science, archeology and a little bit of Indiana Jones meets the Da Vinci Code.

In 1947, legend has it that a Bedouin shepherd boy, in search of his lost goat, tossed a stone into the blackness of a cave he had just discovered in the Qumran hills near Jerusalem. Hearing the sound of pottery shattering, the shepherd boy went to investigate and discovered what many biblical experts consider to be one of the greatest document related finds in all of modern history- the Dead Sea Scrolls.

The scrolls discovered at Qumran contained original copies of almost every book of the Old Testament. Other excavations along the course of the Dead Sea revealed an even more tantalizing prize: the so-called Gnostic Gospels- previously unseen written accounts of Jesus' life and the turbulent times following His crucifixion. These discoveries dramatically altered the historical record and sent shockwaves through the religious community in a way not seen since the Middle Ages and the Crusades.

In the years to follow, many historians, archeologists and biblical experts would travel to the Holy Land in search of more of the scrolls and the explosive secrets promised within them. Secrets some wanted hidden for all time.

Secrets others would kill for....

In the pilot we meet Dr. Dana Sahntay, a Professor of Biblical History and Archeology at ASU. She leads the Odyssey team, a group of complex and often troubled individuals brought together by the mysterious “Foundation”, Their mission is simple: locate and obtain the scattered fragments before they can fall into the hands of those who would use it bring about the End of Days.

Her leadership skills forged by the tragic familial losses she has endured, Dr. Sahntay leads her team, comprised of a former Marine, a professional cave explorer, a technical wizard and a reluctant grad student against a brotherhood of religious Zealots, fanatics who will do anything and everything to obtain the seductive power of prophecy that the Judas Scroll promises.

This is that story….

Dakota Frost and the Fall of Rainbow Sherbet (Animation) by Richard Dane Scott

Logline:

A young girl ventures to a land covered in eternal ice cream to stop a despotic king from using children as the key ingredients in his own blend of Rainbow Sherbet!

Synopsis:

Experience the epic adventure of thirteen-year-old DAKOTA FROST as she crusades into the glorious ice cream-filled land of Spumonia. Meet the hilarious pint-sized MARSHMALLOW MEN who hunt and gather like tribal warriors. Meet their pesky nemesis THE GUMMI BEARS as they flock across the land in search of the elusive rodent-like CHOCOLATE CHIPS. But brace yourself for Dakota's chilling revelation, when she learns of the diabolical plot concocted by Spumonia's very own tyrannical KING NEAPOLITAN NUTTGANGER: he's using children as the special ingredient for his own blend of RAINBOW SHERBET! Dakota and her new friends must race against time to save others. They cross flowing rivers of pineapple topping, battle a mythical yogurt beast, and have a showdown of the ages with THE FANGLINGS - the spoiled milk-curd army of the King. After a hard fought battle, they are victorious. The King is overthrown. Peace is restored. And Dakota unravels her own personal mystery: she is the rightful heir to the kingdom of Spumonia. Taste the adventure. Live the sweet dream.

Cockfight (Comedy) by Leslie Scott

Logline:

'There's Something About Mary' meets the 'Horse Whisperer' in Tijuana.

Synopsis:

“Spare change?” the bum asks him. He pulls the money clip stuffed with hundred dollar bills from his pocket and responds gleefully, “No thanks, I’ve got plenty”. Thus begins the thirtieth birthday of Charles Nelson Van der Hoven III, the egocentric sole heir to the world’s most successful condom company. But when his parents decide their son has been suckling at the teat of the trust fund for too long, his playboy lifestyle soon goes the way of the Dodo. So what if his parents kick him out of their Beverly Hills address, take his Ferrari, his phone and his bank accounts? He can still count on his model-girlfriend Tiffany who has stuck by his side faithfully through all his selfish, self-centered, inappropriate comments and actions, in the hopes of one day becoming his blushing trophy bride. But when he tells her he’s broke, she drops him on the side of the road like a hot burning coal.

In a search of a drink, Charles stumbles across some amigos who want to help relieve him of his remaining dollars, and his day goes from bad to badder. Hoodwinked into Tijuana during a tequila stupor, he’s left for dead in a puddle of his own vomit with no money, no shoes and no ID to get across the border. Much to his chagrin, if he’s going live long enough to see his inheritance he’s going to have to get a job. Thus his new life begins.

He’s sells chiclets at the border until the local kids (tougher than teamsters) kick his ass. A local artist uses him as the model for his series of Pedestrian Crossing signs (as both the man and the little girl). He has a brief stint as a butcher until a small mistake leaves his boss a few fingers short. Luckily, he runs into Carlo Velasquez (21), a young and very successful trainer of cockfighting cocks and darned if he couldn’t use a smart gringo like Charles in his operation. Charles sees himself as the front man, pressing the flesh, mingling at parties but Carlo has other ideas. Charles finds himself cleaning chicken shit from the hundreds of cages at the farm and if it wasn’t for Carlo’s unbelievably sexy sister Maria (25), he wouldn’t make it a second day. Soon, Carlo sees something in Charles no one else possibly could and he gives him the opportunity to train his own cock.

With the help of Carlo and Willie Johnson (40s) a black, ex-boxing promoter, Charles becomes a sort of cock whisperer, training his cock (Maria’s named Muffin) in scene for scene recreations of the Rocky movies. Muffin becomes “the chicken that crossed the road, to kick Colonel Sanders’ ass”. Unfortunately, Charles falls in love with his little chicken and refuses to let it fight for fear of his little friend being killed. Maria laments it’s too bad there’s not some form of protection for his cock. The son of a condom magnate, he quickly devises a rubber suit to keep his little buddy from getting hurt.

Enter Maria’s jealous ex-boyfriend, Vicente Quartnay, Mexican mob boss and the owner of the very successful “Quartnay Cocks”. When he sees the suit, he realizes that a PG version could legalize the currently X rated sport of cockfighting and therefore cut him out of this very lucrative industry. And before long,
Charles, Maria and Muffin find themselves in a showdown the likes of which hasn’t been seen since the OK Corral in which the fate of the cocks lie in their
very hands.

The First Gentleman (Comedy) by Mary Kay LaBrie

Logline:

A popular two-term president becomes The First Gentleman when the former First Lady is elected president.

Synopsis:

When First Lady and Congresswoman Marcia Stone Davis is elected President of the United States, her controversial two-term president husband, Dale Davis, is forced to assume the traditional role of "First Spouse" so that he won't get in the way. But, as we soon find out, playing second fiddle to anyone has never been Dale's thing.

After being accused of trying to maneuver a third term by his adversaries and bumbling his way through his first few events, Dale's staff assigns him a mentor. She is popular former First Lady Margaret Riley. Her husband was president in the 1980s. She is adored by the nation as a national treasure. In reality, Mrs. Riley is anything but a sweet old woman. She's a tarot-card-reading spitfire who orders Dale around like she's a drill sergeant. As it turns out, Mrs. Riley has her own agenda, and she expects Dale to carry it through to the House and Senate.

Can a popular former First Lady talk a former President into supporting a controversial issue that even his wife, the current president, can't support? Can Dale keep out of the way as Marcia fights her own political battles? Will the Davises ever sleep in the same bed again? But most importantly - Will America ever be the same now that Dale Davis is "The First Gentleman?"

The Tutor (Period Drama) by Barbara Kymlicka

Logline:

A young man, spoiled and pampered by his far too attentive mother, falls in love with an older woman of lower class, hired to teach him how to court a lady. Will this be a lesson in love or heartbreak? A Scriptapalooza Top Ten Runner-Up & FEFF Good To Go Winning Script

Synopsis:

London, England 1850. Jack Ashton (18), a spoiled, lovable rascal of the upper class, spends his leisure time playing at pranks and riding about the countryside with his best friend Henry. As her only child and only connection to her beloved deceased husband, Jack’s mother Catherine has doted upon and spoiled Jack beyond measure. As a result, Jack has grown up without proper manners and etiquette and is completely ignorant in the ways of courting and charming a lady. And Jack has his eye on quite a lady. Lucy Langley, a spoiled demanding young woman with very high standards. When Jack turns to his mother for help, Catherine hires Claire Touchett (38) to tutor Jack in the art of courting a lady. Due to her age and having never been married, Claire is considered an “old maid”. Jack is horrified and is embarrassed when he learns of his mother’s plan, but for once, Catherine puts her foot down and Claire stays. Embarrassed by his mother’s decision to hire Claire, Jack is at first obstinate and rude but eventually develops a friendship with Claire, who is charming, headstrong and honest. Not unattractive, Claire’s decision not to marry has been her own, since she has chosen to wait for true love.

Meanwhile, Jack’s friend Henry finds true love with one of Lucy’s visiting cousins, Emily. Henry and Emily fall head over heels for one another and as such, Emily hides that fact that she is already engaged to wed someone else. When Henry finally learns that Emily is promised to another, the pain of heartache is too much to bear and, to the horror of Jack, he takes his own life.

Catherine struggles through her second marriage to philandering husband, Richard, whom she discovers has impregnated another woman, the young niece of her dear aunt Isabel. Jack despises Richard and sees him for who he truly is, a greedy womanizer who has no love for his mother. Feeling very alone, Catherine turns all her attention and love onto her son. Her need to be loved is so strong it unleashes unwanted desires towards Jack which sicken and frighten her.

As Claire’s tutoring begins to work, Jack manages to charm Lucy off her feet. The problem is, Jack is no longer interested in Lucy. Instead he finds himself falling in love with Claire. Though she attempts to resist, Claire too falls in love with Jack as he makes her feel young and full of life. They desperately attempt to keep their love a secret from those such as Lucy, who now has her sights set on Jack, and Lucy Langley does not take no for an answer. Knowing his mother would condemn the affair due to their differences in age and class, Jack struggles to become a man and stand up for himself and the woman he loves. Will Jack and Claire win the battle for their love, or will their differences in age and class tear them apart?

The Script Writer (Horror/Thriller) by Ron Aberdeen

Logline;

An unsuccessful writer throws his computer out and replaces it with an old Underwood typewriter, once used to write “Psycho”. With his typewriter, his screenplays come to life.

Synopsis:

Alasdair Andersen is an unsuccessful screenwriter, until he buys an old Underwood typewriter at an auction. The typewriter once belonged to the creative horror screenwriter, Joseph Stefano, the man who penned ‘Psycho’.

Alasdair hates his successful novelist wife, Katia Jordan. Not because of her independent income but because she’s a better writer.

Anyway, he has his father’s legacy, so he can afford to live in his own dark world, full of improbable characters, who now with his typewriter, seem real.

Gradually they become real. Taking over his life as he finds he can control his characters by what he types. Getting them to carry out acts from his abysmal scripts.

When his wife is stabbed to death in the shower, the police charge Alasdair with her murder.

He says he didn’t do it, Norman Bates did.

He is found criminally insane and sentenced to spend a minimum of twenty years in an institution. That is until he is given his old typewriter to help with his rehabilitation.

THE BOX (Horror/Thriller) by Ron Aberdeen

Logline:

Seven college friends find the gateway to Hell, when they open the box.

Synopsis:

What should have been a great day out by the river for seven college friends, turns into one of fear and murder when they decide to explore an island, where they discover a derelict colonial mansion.

It’s spooky but not deadly, until they enter the loft and find the old clothes, which they all put on.

Then they discover THE BOX.

Opening THE BOX releases a dark swirling mist that engulfs them, sucking them into it.

They emerge in 1863 not knowing where they are.

Eventually, six of them work it out, when they see the colonial mansion in all it’s glory but in George’s mind, he’s a Union Officer fighting for a cause.

And his friends are dressed as his enemy.

One by one he eliminates his quarry, then leaves the island. Only to be confronted by the local Sheriff and his men, searching for seven missing college friends.

The Sheriff’s investigation leads to the discovery of six bodies and the arrest of George, for murder.

The police are baffled. The mystery draws them deeper and deeper until, they too, discover and open - THE BOX!

Then all is explained. . . or is it?

George knows!

Lisa Strata (Comedy) by Regina Marubio-Weith

Logline:

Girls Gone Mild. Sex is funny. Abstinence is a riot. To stop the draft and end the war, Lisa Strata, a sorority co-ed, leads a sex strike protest. Like Animal House, Fandango and "The Contest, Master of My Domain" episode of Seinfeld, it is irreverent, sexy, sassy and political. Winner of the Spirit of Moondance Award for Comedy.

Synopsis:

The script has good coverage/analysis from Cynthia Butler through the Moondance International Film Festival. Winner of the Moondance International Film Festival Spirit of Moondance award for Comedy, Lisa Strata is a modern day version of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata. This modern adaptation could be called Girls Gone Mild.

Lisa Strata, determined to stop the impending revival of the military draft, devises a scheme to have all the women on campus withhold their sexual favors from the men until this goal is accomplished. They take over the campus Student Union dressed in their sexiest attire and declare a sex strike on campus by affixing the letters Nu Phi and Sigma Epsilon Chi (No Sex) to the Student Union.

At first, their battle of the sexes is limited to the men on campus. The women empty every porn shop in a fifty mile radius of the campus. Over beers at Tappa Tappa Kegga, the men devise ways to lure the women out, including an Alpha Male "beefcake" contest, suit and tie serenades and buying every battery in town. Lisa must advance her cause nationally while anticipating the moves of the fraternity men and preventing the women from abandoning their cause.

Her movement gains momentum and soon all college women all over the U.S. are abstaining from hitting the sheets, driving the men to petition their congressmen to defeat the draft bill. The movement spreads to older women, causing the revenues for condoms and male enhancement drugs to plummet. The major pharmaceutical lobbyists join in the assault on congress. Eventually, the President’s own wife cuts him off unless he plays ball, so to speak.
Lisa enlists the aid of a DC madam who shuts down the sex trade to the Senate. Even the Streetwalkers Local 69 goes on strike! When the draft bill comes to a vote in the Senate it is unanimously defeated. Furious, the President declares that he will sign the draft bill into law by executive order in three days.

Unwilling to accept defeat, Lisa and her cohorts find women and one man in Washington who have had encounters with the President that would make Bill and Monica look like an innocent flirtation. Backed into a corner, the President declares that the draft will not be reinstated.
An excerpt from Cynthia Butler’s coverage follows:

“The story is very well structured… The dialogue is … very well written. The repartee between Lisa and Troy and between Lisa and Matt... is clever and brisk; it crackles and pops… The script contains a wonderful balance of dialogue and action; it's not just talking heads philosophizing about war. Some of the scenes where each of the sexes up's the ante are very funny indeed-- the guys with their on-stage beefcake performances and their coat-and-tie romantic serenades, the women emptying out the local porno-sex toy shop. The humor is priceless… Lisa Strata is a very funny take off on the Greek classic comedy about war and the war of the sexes. Although there are some critics who will compare it to the Greek original, it's more likely that audiences will compare it to campus classics, Animal House and Fandango, especially with the merciless satire of fraternities and sororities in House and the anti-war sentiments of Fandango. "

Three Iron Doors (Horror/Thriller) by Peter Arneson

Logline:

A young man wakes up alone in a locked vault. He has no food or water, no clue how he got there, and no way to get out.

Synopsis:

MARK JOHANSSON (early 20s) is unhappy with his life. He is a year past college, stuck in a dead-end job, tired of bars and bad TV, and missing his glory days as an athlete. He is foul-mouthed, short-tempered, cynical, and sarcastic. In short, he is like many young men.

As the film begins, he wakes up on the floor of a locked and empty bank vault. His only companions are a locked steel cabinet, a swarm of flies, and a dead rat.

Mark has no idea who kidnapped him, or how, or why. At first, he assumes that his buddies are playing a prank. He spends the morning dreaming up retaliatory pranks and waiting to be let out.

But no one comes.

In the afternoon, he gets worried that he’s been forgotten, and makes noise to alert people in the building.

But no one hears.

By evening, he is hungry and thirsty and furious. He shouts threats at the walls, refusing to spend another night in a room that smells like piss (his own).

Guess what, dude.

Next morning, he starts to take more drastic action. He opens the steel cabinet in a surprising way. Inside are tools: a small sledgehammer, a hand-drill, and an acetylene torch.

These tools have no effect on the hardened alloy of the vault door.

Mark realizes then that he is in a struggle for his life. It is not a prank by friends, but slow torture by some enemy (still unseen). And he must face it alone. Childish tantrums and waiting will not save him. He leaves them behind. His anger hardens into deep rage and a vow of revenge.

He attacks the wall beside the vault door.

It takes all day to drill, burn and smash through the thick concrete and steel. Mark narrowly escapes death by asphyxiation and by explosion of the torch. As the first act ends, he finally squeezes through a jagged hole in the wall. On the other side, he finds...

I won’t tell you and spoil the surprise. But I promise it is VERY unexpected.

This script will cost little to produce because of its short length and few locations. It is scary and funny, with a deeper layer of meaning under the entertaining surface. And the happy ending will leave the audience feeling good.

Calling all Ushers (Romantic Comedy) by DonnaMarie Vaughan

An unmarried 30-year-old woman finds herself “looking for love on a deadline when she volunteers her 'fictitious' boyfriend to be an usher in her sister's wedding.

Script was previously known as A DATE FOR THE WEDDING and was the 2003 WINNER of the DTA Screenwriting Competition.

The Armor (Thriller) by Robert Petrecca

Logline:

An attack on Jerusalem leaves a foreign correspondent buried alive in the tomb of Christ. Emerging with miraculous abilities beyond his control, he is caught up into a deadly conspiracy designed to manipulate the "second coming" - now the correspondent of heaven - like it or not. (2004 Christian Screenwrite 3rd Place Winner) (2003 Screenwriting Expo 2 quarter finalist)

Synopsis:

A foreign correspondent forgoes his career in favor of rescuing survivors when he is caught in the ambush of four rouge stealth fighters on the city of Jerusalem. Deserted and disheartened in the war torn ruins, he takes cover within the walls of an ancient church, only to be trapped in its confines when it is shelled. He is buried alive in the tomb of Christ and left with only three nails with which to dig his way out.

Days later, when an elderly, blind Israeli man stumbles over him on the banks of the Jordan River and immediately receives his sight, Simon Tanner unknowingly awakens to the first in the terrifying line of events that will ultimately turn his sense of reason inside out.

Sidetracked by the military while departing the Holy Land, Simon confronts the grim reality that he is the soul survivor of the onslaught and knowledge of the attackers is still anonymous to apparently all.

His return to New York brings a relentless barrage of demonic encounters, prophetic visions and uncontrollable miracles; besieging his every attempt at regaining his former lifestyle and clearly pointing the way toward the inevitable - Simon must become the foreign correspondent of heaven, whether he likes it or not.

Now the zealous target of someone who would prefer him to be made very publicly dead, he confronts the revelation that a baleful conspiracy is at work in high places. The violent assault on the world's religions has been set into motion to bring forth the Messiah and usher in "the end of the age" - even if it means destroying most of mankind to get Him here.

"The Armor" is the astounding story of one man's personal conflict to abandon his own free will in order to save the free will of the world.

© Robert L. Petrecca
All rights reserved

Ralton House (Horror) by Lizanne Southgate

Logline:

Ralton House has everything Katie ever wanted: huge greenhouse, isolation and a very sexy gardener. But Ralton House already has a master and Katie's dream come true is about to become a nightmare from which there is no waking.

Synopsis:

With the help of friends Lisa and Gillian, Katie moves out of the city to her newly purchased home, the beautiful and isolated Ralton House. As they lug boxes, Gillian (on anxiety medication) thinks she sees a figure in the upstairs window, but there's no one there. When Gillian finds herself locked in the basement with something that whispers to her, Katie chalks the experience up to nerves and sends her friend home.

Armed with a glass of wine, Katie explores her new home, finding only photos of ex-residents, a strange wedding ring...and a photo of herself that couldn't possibly exist. Exhausted, she falls asleep into a strange, erotic dream, and when she wakes, the ring and photo are gone.

Happily she begins to set up her basement darkroom when the power goes out and she finds herself locked in with something moving in the darkness around her. Smashing her way out through a window, gasping and bloody, Katie collides with Dorian, the very sexy former gardener. Once Katie is bandaged and her nerves temporarily soothed, Dorian takes on responsibility for a garden where every plant is lethal.

Katie resumes work in the darkroom, attempting to rationalize the increasingly strange happenings in Ralton House. But when someone, or something, scares her in the greenhouse and then tampers with her negatives, Katie blames Dorian and sends him away, leaving her alone with the whispers and dreams. In town the Sheriff wrestles with telling Katie the truth about Dorian, while Lorna, the Realtor, does her utmost to conceal the history of Ralton House from Katie.

Back in the city, Gillie tries unsuccessfully to reach Katie while Lisa conducts a web search on Ralton House that brings its hideous history to light. Dorian returns as Katie's off again, on again lover and it's he who discovers the body of a former owner in the greenhouse. But Dorian's nowhere around when Lisa arrives, Ralton's history in hand, and pushes her way through the greenhouse's lovely blossoms in search of Katie. There, briefly, Lisa comes face to face with Ralton's secret before she dies and is left under the flowers in the company of a long dead child. Katie's dreams turn ugly and her life grows worse when she goes to town and discovers Dorian's secret. At the same moment, Lorna prowls Ralton House, hoping to tell Katie the truth. But she too dies, secret untold. Unable to reach Lisa or Katie, Gillian speeds through the night toward Katie. Meanwhile Katie fights for her life against a dark intruder, killing him only to discover she's destroyed her only chance of ever leaving Ralton House.

Urban Grace (Comedy) by Ed Schultz

Logline:

They tried to save New York from itself.

Synopsis:

Grace Stuyvesant is fleeing a failing suburban marriage to find herself and happiness in New York City. What she finds is a job on a weekly newspaper and a homeless man who thinks he's the original purchaser of Manhattan Island. She sees a story, while he sees someone to help him find a permanent burial place. "They keep digging me up!" he claims. Together they discover Manhattan's not for the timid, and soon find themselves fighting to save their city from the powerful forces seeking to plunder the city's substantial riches -- and spoil its magic.

Ed Schultz is a multi-award-winning filmmaker and two-time EMMY Award winning writer who has had several of his theatrical works produced in New York. He is a member in good standing of WGA/East and The Dramatists Guild.

©2002 Ed Schultz

Tradition (Drama) by Danny Esposito

Logline:

Italy, 1942: Spirited young woman awaits her secret lover's return from war to defy her "traditional" society, but discovers she is pregnant.

Synopsis:

Christina’s lover, Antonio, must leave for his tour in World War II. He promises to marry Christina and take her away from her suppressive town when he returns (they secretly meet at Christina’s deceased father’s secluded cabin). Christina is impatient, and furious at the war taking Antonio from her.

Christina alleviates her frustrations on the only person she confides in, fourteen-year-old Filomena. Filomena loves Christina, but envies the fact that Christina speaks with a man by herself when she is forbidden to.

This leads Filomena to spy on boys playing soccer in the town. One boy from out of town spots her and cons his way close enough to her to be able to kiss her on the cheek. He walks away triumphantly, while Filomena laughs in elation at the experience. Two young boys from the town have seen everything, however.

Lucia – Christina’s mother – has been a business partner with Lorenzo, the town mayor, since her husband passed away five years ago. Lorenzo collects the produce from her farm and sells it in the city, because women from the town are forbidden to
participate in the city market.

Lucia sternly warns Lorenzo that his wife, Victoria, suspects them of having an affair (which they are not). However, Lorenzo seizes every opportunity to touch Lucia’s arms and rub his face in her hair. Lucia has grown to care for Lorenzo, but keeps him at
bay because should the townspeople find out, it will cost her the inherited land. Because of this fact, Lorenzo promises to rectify the situation with Victoria.

The news of Filomena’s impropriety spreads like locust. Filomena’s mother – angered at the shame brought on her family – banishes Filomena from her home.

When Christina hears, she rushes to Filomena’s and her secret meeting place. There she finds the crying Filomena, and sneaks her into Lucia’s barn.

Lucia and Christina clash in a battle of wills on the fate of Filomena. Christina is determined to face the people and explain how the boy cornered Filomena and forced the kiss upon her. Lucia knows Christina will do just that and so decides to take it upon herself to defend Filomena.

The next day, before the plan can even be set in motion, one of Lucia’s workers discovers Filomena in the barn. The townspeople hear of it immediately, and the focus shifts to Lucia and why she would harbor a whore. Lucia, unknowing to Christina and with great apprehension, forces Filomena from the barn, but counsels her to beg her mother for forgiveness.

Filomena seeks her mother out and finds her at the town well. There, surrounded by townspeople, Filomena’s mother denounces Filomena as no longer being her daughter. Filomena runs around the well, unable to escape the unbearable weight of stares and
the screams of her mother calling her a whore. Filomena jumps in the well.

A month later, Christina confesses to Lucia that she is pregnant. After her outrage, Lucia decides it best Christina stay at her father’s cabin until she has the baby. Christina wants to have the child - in defiance - right here at her farm. Lucia promises to disown her if she does. Defeated, Christina goes along with her mother.

Although the townspeople are unconvinced of the lie about Christina caring for Lucia’s pregnant sister, Lorenzo convinces them it is the truth, even though Lucia has told him nothing. Victoria has had enough: especially since Lorenzo defended Lucia in the
Filomena scandal. She follows Lucia until Lucia finally brings her to the secluded cabin where Victoria sees the pregnant Christina.

That night, Victoria threatens to expose Lucia unless she disposes of the baby and marries Christina off to Marco, a local boy. Victoria’s thinking is once Christina is married; Marco will run the land, ending Lorenzo and Lucia’s business partnership. Besides, Victoria cannot say for certain that the father of Christina’s child is not Lorenzo. Lucia reluctantly agrees.

Lucia helps Christina deliver a baby girl. In Christina’s joy, she explains to her mother how once Antonio returns, they will all run the land together and live in defiance of the people. Lucia can only tell her to accept the ways of life instead of what she wants.

While Christina sleeps, Lucia, in excruciating horror, disposes of the baby in the lake. The next day, Christina goes to get water for their voyage home and discovers the baby (the baby’s blanket is caught by a rock, which prevents it from being swept away). Lucia summons all her strength to act like a townsperson and tell Christina it is for her own good and that they must now move on. This triggers Christina to leap on her mother, force her to the ground and shake her furiously. After recovering, Christina goes to her mother only to discover she is dead: the sand beneath Lucia’s head hid the rock underneath.

Christina tells the townspeople that Lucia slipped on the rocks by the shore, which is not uncommon. During Lucia’s funeral, Christina is told she is to be married to Marco. Christina decides, after burying her mother, that she will kill herself like Filomena.
When departing for the well, she falls to the ground in a moment of weakness, and realizes that the land is now hers.

Christina declares to everyone that she will not marry Marco and that the land is hers by delivering a letter to the town post office addressed to Antonio, whom she announces is her husband. The news spreads like locust, but Christina never looks back.

Prison of the Damned (Horror) by Nicole Jones & Ian Jones

Logline:

"Assault on Precinct 13" meets "Dawn of the Dead" in this story about a jailbreak that goes horribly wrong when the inmates learn that some of their fellow prisoners are no longer human. Trapped between trigger-happy cops on the outside and bloodthirsty zombies on the inside, they must join forces with one of their former jailers in order to stay alive.

Synopsis:

Curtis Thayer, a mild-mannered college professor, is imprisoned for the mercy killing of his wife. He falls in with a couple of inmates who have planned an elaborate jailbreak. A violent riot in the prison yard gives them the perfect cover for their escape.

What they don’t realize is that this maximum-security facility houses more than just drug dealers, killers and thieves; it also holds pure evil. As the rioting spreads throughout the prison, some of the unsuspecting inmates accidentally release the Damned - criminals so evil that when they die, even Hell doesn’t want them. The undead spread throughout the prison, indiscriminately killing anything and everything that crosses their path.

Major O’Conner is head of the agency responsible for keeping the Damned under control. When he discovers they’ve escaped, he calls for immediate backup. The prison is now completely surrounded by soldiers with orders to shoot first, no questions asked.

When Thayer and his buddies triumphantly emerge from the prison, they find themselves in the middle of a warzone. Thinking it is better to be safe in their cells than dead with a bullet in their backs, they go back into the prison, only to find it overrun by bloodthirsty Damned.

Trapped between the Damned on the inside and heavily armed soldiers on the outside, Thayer and his band of criminals must put aside their differences and join forces with O’Conner to stay alive.

Lonely Teardrops (Biographical) by Jennifer Brasher

Logline:

Legendary singer Jackie Wilson (Baby Workout, Your Love Is Lifting Me Higher and Higher, Lonely Teardrops) battles fate and his demons as his turbulent career is threatened by a secret love affair with a married white woman from Illinois.

Synopsis:

A black man from 1950's Detroit, Jackie becomes a rock'n'roll star, but he has the voice of an opera singer and hungers for respect as a singer and a man. When he falls in love with Lynn, there's no place for their inter-racial love affair in a prejudiced world. As Jackie's bitterness mounts, it threatens to end his career and destroy those he loves most.

The Language of Love (Thriller) by Dennis J. Greza

Logline:

An alcoholic therapist becomes the victim of a sadistic client who knows his darkest secret.

Synopsis:

MAURICE SNELL is a therapist assigned to obtain a confession from a suspected child killer -- a priest, FATHER MICHAEL. Maurice discovers the priest is obsessed with another young boy. Maurice’s inquiries into the boy, who may be a victim of the priest, yields an unexpected twist: the information the priest provides about this boy hasn’t happened yet.

The apparent child killer has a unique ability which allows him to prey upon his victims in an unconventional way -- he’s clairvoyant. This leads to a devastating cat and mouse game when Maurice discovers the boy the priest is obsessed with will die unless he intervenes.

Maurice is pushed to an extreme and kidnaps the priest in an attempt to force the truth from him. Only the truth the priest reveals is Maurice’s own dark secret. A secret that will forever change his perception of the world in which he thinks he lives.

The Flesh (Horror) by Lisa Fletcher

Logline:

Mother and daughter menaced by entity.

Synopsis:

After her child is verbally accosted by a frightening old woman in the school restroom, a mother receives ominous visions that something even worse will soon happen to her little girl.

The frightening old woman is actually a supernatural being that wants to help the mother; it just needed her attention first. Though it can't act in the physical world and can only be heard by small children, it uses visions and dreams to warn the mother of a fleshly danger in the neighborhood: a first-time child molester who will panic when things don't go as planned.

And what does the entity want from the mother in exchange for this "help?" Using rudimentary sign language, it tells her. The only thing it wants for saving her daughter's life is, "One night in head."

Contained story: two houses on same street; school (after hours); empty commuter train car (interior only); the woods.

Special effects: makeup/appliances to create "glimpses" of a frightening old woman; a zipper on the face of a small boy.

Murdergirls (Crime/Thriller) by Craig Berger

Logline:

A group of high school girls sets out to prove they are so popular they can get away with murder---and they do.

Synopsis:

Devon Grant is the most popular girl in school. Problem is, she's also a sociopath. Together with her best friend Morgan Chambers, she holds Kennedy High School in thrall, simultaneously thrilling those lucky enough to get close to her, and terrifying any who dare cross their path. When Danni Moore is brought into their group, largely because her father has just bought the biggest clothing outlet in town, she sees both the glory of being worshipped by one's classmates, and the seamy underside of that world, the contempt the other two girls have for everyone and everything.

After Devon gets caught pulling off a particularly mean prank and gets off scot free, Morgan suggests that she can get away with murder. Danni jokingly counters that no one is popular enough for that. The sociopathic Devon is offended, and resolves to kill someone in front of witnesses and escape punishment.

Devon and Morgan dismiss this as empty talk, but when Devon shoots her ex-boyfriend in the middle of the school cafeteria a few days later, they understand it is all too real. Morgan, being fairly unbalanced herself, is excited by the new development, but Danni finds herself caught in the middle of an ugly situation, looking for a way out. A trial commences, and Devon, concocting a story about how her ex-boyfriend was abusing her, does indeed get away with it.

Detective Jack Riggs suspects that Danni is the weak link and goes after her, but Danni, whose popularity only increases as a result of the publicity, won't break. After Devon commits and gets away with another murder, this time claiming self-defense, Danni realizes she's in over her head, and agrees to work with Riggs.

Danni learns that the other two girls have made a list and are planning a Columbine-style attack on their school at the end of the week. Danni alerts Riggs, but Devon and Morgan, suspecting trouble, move the attack up to the next day. Danni manages to get the word out to Riggs, but several students and teachers are killed or wounded before the girls can be apprehended. Danni testifies against her friends in the ensuing trial, but miraculously, they are exonerated again, this time using an insanity plea. Devon and Morgan are on top of the world, and Danni has fallen to her pre-popularity status.

Riggs approaches Danni again, but having been burned already, she wants nothing to do with him. Danni approaches Devon and Morgan to apologize, but she has incurred their wrath, and the discussion turns into an argument which leaves Danni in tears. Indignant, Devon insists that those they killed had it coming. Danni mentions a specific girl, Allison Kroft, who Morgan cannot remember killing, but Devon does, having seen the girl's name in Morgan's journal. Devon then recalls that the girl did not actually die, but has been in intensive care.

At this point, Riggs appears. He reveals that while Danni was initially reluctant to cooperate, Riggs' promises of renewed social status convinced her to wear a wire to trap the girls. It turns out that Allison Kroft was in intensive care, but died after the trial, and the girls were never tried for their murder.

Devon and Morgan prepare for a new trial, but when Morgan's incriminating journal is uncovered, it is clear that even they cannot talk their way out, and they agree to a fifteen year sentence. As promised, Danni, for being brave enough to come forward, is lauded as a hero, and becomes the most popular girl in school. Looking back on the events that got her there, she doesn't regret a minute of it.

Three Putt & Shank (High Jinks on the Links) (Comedy) by Steven Lachman

Logline:

A down-on-his-luck golf pro turns to a dog for a caddie to resurrect his game.
(Think "Legend of Bagger Vance" meets "Turner & Hooch")

Synopsis:

Likeable loser golf pro Delwin 'Three Putt' Dalrymple is a gimmie away from parking cars for a living. He's lost it all --
the caddie, the wife, the big screen TV. And then right before the big tournament, a Shank shows up on the practice range.

Oh, did I mention Shank is the name of a caddie. And did I say Shank is a -- dog. Shank likes to bark in your backswing. Shank likes to run through your legs while you putt. Shank likes to relieve himself all over -- Good ol' Shank.

Against all odds they team to beat the fickle fate of golf, romance and life.

It's a heartwarming feature length comedy about a golf pro and his best friend.

For Which it Stands (Drama) by Ryan Gielen

Logline:

When an outcast high school sophomore refuses to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, a vigilante television newsman attacks him on-air, ensnaring the town and eventually the entire country in the drama that unfolds. Satire/Drama. Top Ten: A Feeding Frenzy Screenwriting Competition. Crafted at Jeff Gordon's Writers Boot Camp.

Synopsis:

At certain points in our nation’s history, events and circumstances propel ordinary men to great success. Perhaps to the benefit, perhaps to the detriment of society, men who should never ascend... do.

This is the story of Cam Steel, a vigilante television reporter, hellbent on destroying any liberal pansy socialist scumbag that gets in his way. Though stuck in the quotidian news-vacuum that is Buffalo, New York, Cam is determined to make a name for himself, at any cost.

Cam’s new target is Michael Melon, an outcast high school sophomore who refuses to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, not out of defiance... out of sheer laziness. As Cam pushes and pushes the story, word spreads like wildfire and soon the entire nation is watching the drama unfold, and weighing in on this “possibly treasonous” act.

What follows is a satirization of the conservative news movement in America, and all its participants. With smart, satirical send-ups of major news personalities, the story unfolds quickly and evenly, and ultimately makes a gut wrenching case for artistic and individual freedom.

After ruining Michael Melon’s life, Cam Steel finally gets that promotion, but in the end, Cam gets his when a spurned liberal shows up at Cam’s office for payback.

Smart dialogue, sharp humor, and unforgettable opening and closing sequences make this script tremendously accessible. Top Ten: A Feeding Frenzy Screenwriting Competition. Crafted at Jeff Gordon's Writers Boot Camp.

Still Life (Suspense/Thriller) by Shohn L. Turner

Logline:

A killer paints portraits of his victims as they are dying, then sends the paintings to the police. The hero must find and solve the complex clues, which are embedded in the paintings, while the victims are still alive.

Synopsis:

Still Life is about a killer who paints portraits of his victims as they are dying and then sends the paintings to the police. When Detective Charley Golds sees the magnificent works of art, which have become a media sensation, she brings her friend Jameson Collins onto the case.

Jameson was once a tenured professor at a prestigious Art Academy in New York City, but is now a raging alcoholic racked with guilt over the loss of his wife and daughter. He feels responsible for their deaths and drowns himself in alcohol to avoid the pain.

After several dramatic successes and failures, Jameson overcomes his personal problems to help the police. Then, when the most recent painting is x-rayed and Jameson's own painting is discovered underneath the latest clue, Jameson knows he's a suspect.

Jameson not only has to fight to save the latest victim, but also to clear his name. Then disaster strikes when an impressionist painting arrives with Charley’s badge. Jameson’s only friend is to be the next victim.

In an exciting conclusion, Jameson figures out the impressionist painting just before it’s too late and saves Charley’s life. Then Jameson paints a scene which leads the killer into a trap. Jameson turns the tables on the killer and does so by using the killer’s own modus operandi.

Still Life combines the morbid premise of SEVEN with the character development of AMERICAN BEAUTY. With a quick pace, a flawed hero, and a villain designed for sympathy, this story has all the elements of a commercial success, but with a minimum of locations, no special effects, and the nature of this story being character-driven thriller, this film can be made on a small budget. Still Life has gotten excellent coverage, having placed as a finalist (top 1% of over 2950 entries) in the 2003 Scriptapalooza competition.

Playing by the Rules (Drama) by Arthur Kraft

Logline:

Based on a true story. When a teacher fails a basketball star, he becomes ineligible for the state play-offs. The townspeople make threatening phone calls, sabotage her car, and get her fired. Her husband is almost killed driving her car and her son comes close to suicide. It takes all her stamina to fight back through legal channels--and to win.

Synopsis:

CHARLOTTE AVERY is a high school English teacher in a small, Oklahoma town, a teacher with a dilemma. She should fail EDDIE for excessive truancies, but if she does, he becomes ineligible to participate in the upcoming basketball play-offs--and he is the star of the team.

Charlotte is shaken by a phone call from a man threatening her if she fails Eddie. But her husband and teenage son tell her to do what she thinks best. She gives Eddie an "F."

All hell breaks loose. Students wear buttons to school reading "Wanted: Charlotte Avery, Dead or Alive" with "or Alive" crossed out. Her husband's boss threatens to transfer him across the state. A fire is set by the Avery front door and the family rushes to put it out.

Eddie's grade car mysteriously disappears. The principal asks Charlotte to fill out another, hinting she should pass him. Charlotte is so distraught she runs out of the building. The school board fires her for abandoning her position.
But the town isn't done with her. Her car is sabotaged and when her busband borrows it, he is almost killed.

Charlotte fights on alone. Lawyer after lawyer refuses to handle her unpopular case until she finally finds a young attorney just starting his practice; he appeals her firing in district court.

While Charlotte waits for the court decision, her son becomes so despondent he drives the car onto the railroad tracks and waits there for a train. She races to the crossing, sees a train bearing down, but her son won't move the car or unlock the doors. She jumps up on the hood--and waits. At the last instant he drives off the tracks.

The court orders the school to restore Charlotte's job, yet she still must face her students. She enters her classroom anxiously. One student says he admires her taking a stand. Others agree. Though several students refuse to join in, most of them rise for a standing ovation.

Raining Cats (Family Drama) by Deb Havener

Logline:

A young girl overcomes the death of her pet cat by rescuing all the strays that dwell in the underground sewers - meanwhile, her single mother finds romance with the local mall Santa Claus.

Synopsis:

Rain must fall into everyone's life - but it really seems to pour down on gangly LISA POTTER. This awkward twelve-year-old just can't make friends with anyone - except for the ragged and forlorn stray cats that roam her working-class neighborhood.

When her own cancer-stricken cat has to be put to sleep, Lisa is broken-hearted. She carries the dead animal home to bury it, only to run into a group of popular kids who already regard her as a freak. They grab the bag from her and toss it around, unaware of the contents. One of the boys - RYAN - peeks inside the bag, then hands it back to Lisa with masked emotions. Lisa runs away from them, vowing never to have any friends other than cats - cats who will love her no matter how unpopular she is at school.

When Lisa's divorced Mom - MADDIE POTTER - learns that her daughter's pet cat has been put to sleep by a well-meaning vet, she guiltily resolves to buy her a new one. She's been so busy working at her cashier's job that it seems she's losing touch with her weird adolescent daughter. But Lisa won't hear of it. She knows her dead cat Buddy is watching her and missing her...

Moved by Lisa's loss, Ryan visits the animal clinic, where his mother works. He is well aware of the sorry beasts that must be put to sleep every few days. Ryan sneaks out a box of death-row strays and leaves them on Lisa's doorstep.

Thinking this is a sign from her late, beloved cat, Lisa smuggles the strays into her room. Maddie, desperate to cheer up her gloomy daughter, agrees to let them stay. The gesture seems to work - mother and daughter start to talk again, and they even manage to have a nice shopping trip together - despite an embarrassing encounter with the mall's Santa Claus (aka, local architect DAVID MILLER).

When "Santa" runs into Maddie at her workplace, he manages to get up enough nerve to ask her out for coffee. It's a little embarrassing for Lisa, but Maddie starts to date him! A chubby, balding man, David is the opposite of the men Maddie usually goes for (and the man she married and divorced) but it turns out she really likes being treated decently for a change.

But, just as things seem to be improving, four cats turn into more cats - and Maddie just can't take it. She throws out the forlorn creatures and locks horns with her daughter again.

Undaunted, Lisa creates a makeshift animal shelter in an abandoned house. Ryan , who has been spying on her, finds a way to help. The unlikely allies form a secret friendship through their rescue efforts -- even risking life and limb in the sewers during a downpour.

Ryan pleads with the socially retarded Lisa to try having people for friends instead of just animals. For starters, he urges her to be part of the school's set construction crew for the upcoming play. She reluctantly agrees and finds she is starting to fit in after all.

But jealous BECCA - the most popular girl at school - spies on Lisa and Ryan's cat rescue operation. Bitter and hurt, she places an anonymous call to the police, telling them that there are a hundred strays in a condemned shack full of feces and urine. She'll do anything to get back at Lisa for "stealing" Ryan away - the boy she's had a crush on all year.

After the school play premieres, the kids gather for pizza and to watch themselves on the nightly news - they have a PSA spot for their play and are eagerly awaiting their 30 seconds of fame. Their high spirits are dashed when the next story shows police and "animal control" workers removing the stray cats from the abandoned shack - so they can be humanely put to sleep.

Lisa and Ryan race from the party to the clinic to intercept the cats. Right on their heels are the rest of the kids who are moved by their plight.

When Maddie gets a call from the police about her "brat, delinquent daughter," Maddie steps right into the fray - first telling the cops off, then rolling up her sleeves to help her daughter with the cats.

Finally, Maddie discovers that her Santa Claus with a heart of gold is much more than that. Being a Santa is only a hobby for the well-off architect. When Lisa and the other kids stand up for the cats, he steps in to help out. With his team, he rebuilds the abandoned house and opens it as a local no-kill shelter.

The other kids jump at the chance to volunteer to be with the animals they rescued, and Lisa becomes, at last, a local hero.

NOTES: Recently requested by Mad Circus Films and Diversa Films

Whispers (Horror) by Dipo Oseni

Logline:

If the night could speak -- it would whisper.

Synopsis:

William Gray is a man plagued by the death of his first wife. An insurance adjuster, he has seen every shape, form and manner that death takes.

But nothing will deter William from his search for an answer -- an answer to the question that will bring back his dead wife.

Like a man possessed he devotes himself to this singular pursuit. Then, in the dead of night, with not a soul around to speak, William's search finally comes to an end. For he is visited by a beautiful, mysterious, eight-year-old girl.

It is this stranger who sends William on a terrifying journey of unexpected twists and truths as she helps him answer the question that has obsessed him for almost a decade - Why do people die?

Animal Instinct (Comedy/Drama) by David Lourie

Logline:

When the animals of the world rebel against humans to save their disappearing habitats, the WarMongers want total warfare. But the PeaceTeam, led by dolphins, understand warfare would be deadly to all. So they race to find their teenage Chosen Ones, a stunning intelligent girl and a gifted boy who astral travels through a mystic Portal to rescue the future.

Synopsis:

The Animals of the world are infuriated by the wanton destruction of their habitats by the upstart young species called "Humans." So they organise a historic gathering of the Animal Kingdom, on a spectacular scenic headland in Tasmania. But there, in a hilarious sequence, they split into two opposing camps. The War Mongers are led by the Lions, who want to attack
the Humans and wipe them out. But the Peace Team is led by the wise Dolphins, who understand that everyone will be annihilated in a war with Humans. So the Dolphins devise a plan to persuade the Humans to live more sustainably with nature.

However, the War Mongers refuse to wait for the Peace Team's plan to kick in, because more Animal species are going extinct every day. So the War Mongers stage a series of bold, imaginative attacks against human developments, in sequences that are as funny as they are destructive. The Dolphins can't stop them, so they have to beat them. Now the race is on, to see which team will be first to turn things around. At stake is the risk an all-out war that would wipe out most of the life forms on Earth, including Humans.

The Peace Team's strategy is to recruit a young Human with just the right sensitivities and aptitudes. The Dolphins will give him special empowerments, enabling him to influence his adult Humans to repair their own damage, and to live harmoniously in the future. To do this, the Dolphins plunge down to the deep ocean floor, where they enter the ruins of an ancient city, and pass through an eerie, mysterious glow zone and go into a giant green Pyramid. Inside the futuristic Pyramid Control Room they seek
out their Chosen One, and bestow upon him the Power Of Unlimited Information.

The boy they choose as their champion is an intelligent, mischievous teenager named Luke, who draws his own amateur comic strip called "Animal Instinct." Luke is contacted by the Dolphins through a puzzling new icon that appears on his computer. It's a glowing green Pyramid. When it blinks, Luke can click on it, and his astral body is transported through a Portal to any real-life situation he is investigating. From there he can bring information back through the Portal into real life. Luke also gains the ability to 'hear' the thoughts of Animals, and to 'speak' his own thoughts back to them.

Luke's stunning 15-year old sister Tammy is a budding high school video journalist, and she becomes his valuable ally. But their mission gets complicated when big trouble suddenly enters the life of their father, John. Trouble for John comes in the form of commercial litter from his groundbreaking Healthy Fast Food chain, a progressive enterprise which once made him a local hero.

But Tammy's investigative journalism project for her school assignment is to find the source of their community's shocking litter problem. Plastic bags in particular are killing off many birds and animals who swim into them or try to eat them. So Tammy is deeply shocked when her investigation leads straight to her father's fast food chain, which accounts for a lot of the harmful litter. When this comes to light, Tammy's visionary, philanthropic father goes from local hero to public enemy overnight.

Luke and Tammy love their father dearly, and they are devastated by this turn of events. When they try to get their father to abandon his plastic packaging and go Green, they learn he is locked into a long-term contract with the giant greedy multinational, IBC. International Business Consortium is a ruthless cartel, headed by an ugly dark force named George W Blanco. IBC wields unethical power over smaller businesses like Tammy's father's fast food chain. These businesses are financially entrapped as unwitting partners in the illegal rape of the planet that fills the IBC corporate coffers.

So Luke and Tammy, with their talking puppy Duke, merge their two missions into one. They embark on an investigative adventure to help their father to get out from under the pressure of IBC, which is forcing good people to be unknowingly part of a larger environmental problem that is killing off Animals and habitats worldwide.

Luke, Duke and Tammy have a fast, humorous romp through some serious issues. Along the way they uncover fraud and corruption in the highest corridors of corporate power. They outwit formidable enemies, and they make a big difference in ways that are surprising, exhilarating and funny. The adventure comes to an emotionally rousing climax, leaving us feeling high
and inspired. And all of this is spiced with a colourful array of wild Animal sequences, which are rich with action, humour and personality.

Long Story Short by Andrew Bennett

Long Story Short is a writer's struggle to tell a series of seemingly unconnected stories with a single stroke. The world is not an endless series of short stories, but one neverending narrative of love and life and death. How do you tell that story?

Cigarette Burns by Jason Jacobson and Michelle Trantina

Logline:

A mute ex-heavy-weight boxing champ and a precocious seven year old girl form an unusual friendship when he reluctantly helps her track down her birth mother. When they run into a number of obstacles along the way, including a hit-man, deviant twins, and her suicidal father, their bond is tested in this raw, humorous tale of love and redemption. In the vein of Pulp Fiction meets Paper Moon.

Synopsis:

Cigarette Burns is comprised of four interweaving stories that lead to a fateful conclusion at a remote motel in the Arizona desert. A little girl searches for her mom and in the process forms a bond with a down-and-out boxer mourning the loss of his popstar wife. The little girl’s mother attempts to come to terms with a life pasted together by booze, lipstick, and the lust of men, including a hit-man, a stalker, and a Swedish stock-boy. The little girl's suicidal father reconciles past guilts with a sex-starved motel maid. And the motel maid's twin brother schemes a plan to murder his uncle and gain control of the motel. When these stories converge at the desert motel, the occupants are forced to come to terms with a fateful event they share from their past.

Killer Corpse (Horror) by Malcolm McClintick

Logline:

An insane killer's corpse terrorizes five teens in a haunted house.

Synopsis:

JOSHUA and PAUL take their girlfriends LIZ and ASHLEY behind a "haunted house" to see a murderer's grave. Supposedly, a man murdered five people in the house, then was buried in this grave.

FRANK arrives -- slightly older, and tough. He taunts the four teens, then bets them two hundred bucks they won't spend two full nights with him in the haunted house. They accept.

A couple of nights later, all five enter the house through a back door. No electricity. The door SLAMS SHUT behind them.

NOISES and FOOTSTEPS from overhead. Frank and Paul go upstairs to explore. Frank enters an empty room, and NEVER COMES OUT.

Downstairs in the living room, Liz, Ashley and Joshua light candles. All three candles go out at once, and something comes INTO THE ROOM WITH THEM. They race from the room, as Paul comes downstairs to tell them that Frank has vanished.

In the bathroom, Liz and Ashley find a SEVERED HUMAN HAND in the toilet.

Paul decides to search the house. He finds Frank's gun, grabs a flashlight, and heads upstairs.

When Liz and Ashley return to the living room, they find Joshua MURDERED, his HEAD SEVERED FROM HIS BODY.

Upstairs, Paul finds FRANK'S DEAD BODY in a chair, both of his HANDS MISSING. The body stands up. Its HEAD FALLS TO THE FLOOR, rolls into the hallway, and BITES at Paul's feet.

Back downstairs, Paul finds Ashley sobbing and hysterical -- she tells him that Joshua is dead, and now Liz has disappeared.

Now a ROTTING CORPSE comes down the stairs -- the corpse of the murderer buried behind the house. It grips a large AX as it advances on Paul and Ashley.

They race into the kitchen, only to find the kitchen windows bricked over. There's no way out.

As Paul and Ashley cringe in the kitchen, Liz -- who was hiding in an upstairs closet -- comes downstairs, only to be attacked and killed by the murderer's corpse. Now only Paul and Ashley are left.

The corpse gets into the kitchen with its ax. As it advances on Ashley, Paul gets behind it, GRABS THE AX, and chops off its head.

Paul and Ashley run to the rear of the house, where Paul uses the ax to chop open the back door. They race outside, into the woods, and down to the dead murderer's grave.

The grave is OPEN, dirt piled to one side. Paul shines his flashlight into the grave and they see the rotting corpse, its severed head, and three other heads -- Joshua, Frank, and Liz, staring blankly up at them.

Ten Miles From Nowhere (Drama) by Robbie Waller

Logline:

A star college athlete fakes his own death to escape the fame only to find true love as a different man, and dies trying to hold onto it.

Synopsis:

In Southern California, fame and perfection are the obsessions. Everyone spends their days trying to stand out. All Lance Wall ever wanted to do was fit in. Wall, an all-American, soft spoken, star-studded wrestler, with hidden drug addictions and pain-staking internal conflicts, wrestles daily with the thought of committing suicide or impending doom. Lance's "poster boy" status for the wrestling community which has grown into the public eye, and his surmounting addictions and depression have finally forced Lance to look for a way out.

His decision to secretly fake his own death comes to the shocking surprise of his fans and all of the so-called loved ones who smothered him on a daily basis. Given Lance's absence, but under his curious eye, many of those closest to him begin to reveal their own imperfections and deceitful ways. From his father and mother to his best friend and his girlfriend, Lance sees life from a ghost's perspective, watching and observing how cruel the world can be when you're not around.

Lance's new outlook on the corruption of life and the impurity of humanity convinces him that his decision to remove himself from the world was a good one. But the discovery of true love changes Lance's path of personal destruction and his perspective on life itself. With Amanda now by his side, he must face his biggest fear, returning from the dead. A personal reevaluation and a loving commitment leave Lance at a crossroad.

A gut-wrenching confession from Lance leaves us all wondering if his wish for death is worth the price he pays for true love. With Amanda and Lance headed for bliss across the border, death once again plays a part in this ill-fated drama about the harshness of reality and the immortality of love.

Power & Way (Drama) by Paul Locander

Logline:

Winner of the 2003 Open Door Screenwriting Competition. Nine people that Kevin Campbell never met before will die in the wreck of a passenger train now half-buried in the West Virginian mud, all caused by one man's fatal error in judgment: his father's.

Synopsis:

Power & Way is a story of one man’s fatal error in judgment, his self-persecution and his son’s refusal to look into his eyes because he’s afraid he’ll see himself. Power & Way is a vivid portrait of an emotional divide that can run as deep between a father and son as the hereditary lines that bind them together.

Pennies From Heaven (Comedy) by Mark Bennett

Logline:

When an idealistic but inept young vicar is forced to leave his parish after being framed for theft, his unscrupulous, evangelical 'friend' takes over with disastrous consequences.

Synopsis:

'Pennies From Heaven' is a feature length comedy based on the disastrous effects of corruption and evangelical teachings on the community of a small parish church and its annual 'Bake a cake for Jesus' competition. When the aging vicar of St. Martin's, Reverend Kent, shows signs of senility and poor bladder control, he is forced to retire by a corrupt church official, Mrs. Tibbs, much to the objection of his son Daniel.

After an embarrassing incident at a theological college, the good hearted but bungling young cleric, Laurence, is sent to the parish as a replacement. Before long, under direction from a concerned Daniel and his wife Laura, he is attempting to investigate the shady financial dealings at the church, and sympathizing with Mrs. Tibb's downtrodden nephew Norman. But before he can take effective action, he is framed for the theft of an old lady's purse by Mrs. Tibbs, and is forced to leave the village in shame.

His charming but unscrupulous 'friend' Bertie takes over and soon has the parish spellbound with his charismatic services and money making schemes, in addition to taking more than a professional interest in Daniel's beautiful but naïve sister Jenny. Soon Bertie and Mrs. Tibbs strike up a strong alliance, outcasting Daniel from the community, and planning to gamble the stolen church funds on the 'Bake a cake for Jesus' competition, which, with Bertie as judge, will be heavily biased in their favour. Bertie plans to take his ill gotten gains with Jenny to Thailand, unless Daniel and Laura can hatch a plan to stop them with the help of Norman, who for a long time has harboured romantic feelings for Jenny.

The big showdown occurs as the competition degenerates into chaos when the villagers finally rumble the scam. There is a surprise twist at the end when it is revealed that Bertie has been 'stung' by Laurence, who set up the illegal betting shop to take the gambled money, while also claiming insurance for Bertie's theft, effectively doubling the church's funds.

Minuteman (Action/Adventure) by Doug Simonton

Logline:

"War Games" meets "Armageddon"... a techno-thriller/action-adventure about what happens when a computer virus infiltrates defense systems around the world and begins launching nuclear missiles at the world's biggest cities. The only person who can stop the destruction is the traitor who invented the virus.

Synopsis:

After freak, unexplained nuclear missile launches destroy major cities in Russia and the U.S., John Brannen is thrust into the center of the crisis. At first glance a genius anti-hero who's fallen out of life due to mistakes in his past, John's brought back by a government not entirely sure it should trust him thanks to a secret project he was developing in the eighties which attempted to do to nuclear command and control exactly what is happening now.

Forced to clear his name and save the world at the same time, he can't do it alone: he needs the help of Tasha Rykov, a brilliant Russian computer scientist embittered by an association between John and her deceased father which put the world on the brink of nuclear annihilation early in their careers. He also needs the help of his one-time teacher and mentor, Dr. Nicholas Koeffler, now the president's National Security Adviser and someone who knows John's inner demons better than anyone else.

As John fights his past as well as the clock, he struggles to solve a mystery that extends around the world and even into outer space. In the end he must overcome himself and confront a technology pushing mankind to the brink of extinction.

Deadly Investment (Drama, Mystery) by Wayne C. Johnson

Logline:

A smugly successful banker finds his life coming apart when a deal with the Mafia goes wrong and he is played by 2 gorgeous female con artists.

Lucky Teeter (Comedy) by Jason Allen

Logline:

After he's struck by lightning for the third time, a shy country bumpkin discovers that everyone who comes in contact with him finds him irresistible.

Synopsis:

Lucky Teeter is a 28-year-old bait shop employee who isn't having much luck. He lives in an abandoned caboose, struggles to make ends meet at his job, can't get his truck started, and is too insecure to approach the girl of his dreams.

When Lucky is struck by lightning for the third time in his life, it would appear to be just another case of rotten luck. But this time things are different. The lightning strike causes Lucky's skin to tingle -- he feels "wired up." And when people begin chasing Lucky all over town, he soon realizes what's going on: Everyone who touches him becomes instantly smitten with him, finding him irresistible.

Life changes drastically for Lucky. Beautiful women (and some not-so-beautiful women) want to seduce him. Elderly women want to bake him pies. Jealous boyfriends want to punch his lights out. Dogs want to hump his leg. Even Luther the macho fisherman is making eyes at him.

But the only thing on Lucky's mind is a cute local girl named Marlene Henderson -- the girl of his dreams. Lucky realizes this newfound "magnetism" is the only chance he'll ever have to be with Marlene -- and he's determined to win her love.

Canopy by Barry Morrison and P. J. Long

Logline:

When rivers and oceans begin to disappear, a young scientist puts up the fight of her life to stop the global disaster and uncovers the frightening truth about why a canopy of water is forming around the earth.

Synopsis:

Abandoned cars line the guard rail of the Pacific Coast Highway. Thousands stand and gawk. DR. MAGGIE JORDAN and FBI agent TYLER DRAKE push their way through the crush to the rail.

The Pacific Ocean is a mud flatto the horizon.

It¹s not the first. Water has been disappearing all over the world. People are panicking. No one knows what¹s happening.

Maggie and Drake believe it is the work of DR. DOUGLAS WARREN...an opportunist who masquerades as an environmentalist. But WARREN swears he is not involved.

NASA scientists track strange pyramid-shaped objects orbiting the earth. At first, just a few...now hundreds...with no apparent country of origin.

A global disaster is unfolding. Rivers and lakes are vanishing. Alarming weather systems are developing.

There's only one man who seems to know what's happening. He calls himself COLEMAN. He's an odd duck who keeps turning up wherever there's a trouble spot.

A mutual attraction develops between Maggie and Coleman, but Maggie isn't sure whether he's for real...or if he should be locked up. Drake thinks Coleman is stalking Maggie....in fact, he¹s convinced Coleman is a nut case.

And the earth's water keeps disappearing. Cruise ships hit bottom. Submarines dive into mud. Whales flap and die on the ocean floor.

Determined to stop this global disaster, Maggie tries to get answers from Coleman. But he remains vague and Maggie's emotions become more muddled.

Coleman has begun to spend time on a fishing boat at the Mariana Trench...the deepest part of the Pacific. He drops objects into the ocean. Little black pyramids. Each one meticulously lined up with something in space.

The President gives orders to shoot at the convoy of pyramids now circling the earth. But the missiles blow through the objects... like they are holograms.

The world is in chaos.

Maggie is now convinced that Coleman is responsible for the unfolding disaster. In fact, she¹s beginning to suspect the unthinkable. That he has come here from 'somewhere else'.

Maggie and Drake track Coleman over the bottom of the Pacific Ocean...now treacherous mud flats littered with debris and danger. They find him holed up in the rusted hull of an old freighter...a few hundred feet from the Mariana Trench.

Coleman tells her it¹s too late. Maggie watches in horror as the ocean begins to climb skyward. Crawling up, up on an intricate grid of lasers. She demands to know the truth. Coleman tells her his frightening secret...why he's creating a CANOPY of water around planet earth.

"I'm just taking back what is rightfully ours," he tells Maggie "returning earth to it's original purpose, created eons ago by our ancestors."

The ultimate greenhouse.

Maggie puts up the fight of her life to stop Coleman. She must find a way to destroy the CANOPY before it's too late.

But in the end, it is Coleman's decision. With only minutes to spare, he reverses the process. The CANOPY dissolves. A gentle rain begins to fall.

"For now, Margaret," says Coleman. "For you."

Full script 121 pages.

When Angels Cry (Romance) by Aaron Allan

Logline:

The troubled and tormented soul of a young woman returns from the underworld seeking justice and forgiveness from the tragic choices made in her past.

The Killer's Cousin (Thriller) by Joe Gruberman

Logline:

An adaptation of Nancy Werlin's young adult novel of the same name, this story is about a young man acquitted of murder and trying to start life over, and his 11-year old cousin who has a morbid curiosity about his past.

Synopsis:

David Yaffe is a normal, well-adjusted teenager whose world is turned upside-down in one horrifying moment. When girlfriend Emily abruptly intercedes in a fistfight between David and her own brother, she is struck with an unintentional but fatal blow delivered by David himself. David's father, an influential Baltimore attorney, represents his own son at the trial. David is forced to keep his emotions beneath the surface, to suppress any desire to admit to his deadly deed, and to cope with his own father's distant, professional demeanor throughout the ordeal. Did Mr. Yaffe even believe that what David had done was an accident? Or was he just defending another criminal?

Yaffe is successful in exonerating his son of legal blame. Nevertheless, the fact that David killed Emily, albeit accidentally, is undeniable. Unable to cope with the pressure within their own community and with David having missed most of his senior year of high school, the Yaffes send their only son to a private school in Cambridge where he can at least finish high school and live a low-key existence in the home of his uncle Vic.

By the time David heads off for Cambridge, he is a changed young man. Haunted by guilt and a deep sense of loss and loneliness, he is now being "shipped off" to live with distant relatives.

When David arrives in Cambridge, the initial reception is cold. First, Vic's eleven-year-old daughter makes it clear that David is invading her territory. Then he overhears his Aunt Julia shun him from behind closed doors. And she disappears altogether during that entire first day. Only Uncle Vic greets David with open arms. The feeling of familial bond is short-lived as Vic ushers David up a narrow flight of stairs toward the attic. Luckily, the door of the attic opens into a spacious and clean apartment, once used by Vic's older daughter, Kathy, who had committed suicide years before. Lily is quick to claim this apartment as part of her rightful domain.

The conflicts only begin here, as David finds that Julia is almost as resentful as Lily about David's presence; that instead of living a low-key existence, he is in fact the talk of the school; and that his name, "David Bernard Yaffe", is as notorious a moniker as "John Wayne Gacy". At his wit's end, it comes as no surprise to David when he starts having bizarre dreams about his cousin Kathy -- dreams which seep into his waking life as he starts seeing apparitions of his dead cousin. And with each appearance, it
becomes clear that Kathy is trying to tell him something.

Lily has her own plan for getting rid of David. On a daily basis, she torments him in subtlety intrusive and destructive ways, all the time falling short of incrimination herself in the eyes of her doting parents, who are blind -- or at least, lax -- to her insidiousness. David's attempts at peacemaking with Lily are ignored by the little girl, whose only desire is to see him gone, or at least worn down to a torturedly complacent existence.

Lily's bizarre antics finally strike a major nerve and David's retaliation causes Vic and Julia to evict him from the house. But before David has a chance to move back to Baltimore, a fire breaks out in the attic apartment and David finds himself risking his own life to save the little girl who had hated him so. With the walls in flames and the roof caving in, Lily reveals something that David already sensed: that she killed her own sister and now she, herself, deserved to die.

This is an example of a response to a lead in our Preferred Newsletter. Paul gained representation with Ariel as a result.

The R.O.M.E.O.'s (Comedy) by Paul Longo

TO: Ariel Ciudadano, Acrobatic Entertainment
FROM: Paul Longo

Dear Ariel,

I am writing in regards to your call for high-concept comedy/buddy scripts on Inktip.com. My scripts have been optioned and placed in major screenplay competitions and I believe my most recent screenplay, "The R.O.M.E.O.'s", will build on this success.

"The R.O.M.E.O.'s (Retired Old Men Eating Out)" is "Old School" meets the "Rat Pack" as a group of recent New Jersey retirees head down to Miami to honor the dying wish of a friend and unwittingly become embroiled in a diamond smuggling con game.

"The R.O.M.E.O's", the ultimate comedy, is a funny heart-warmer with universal appeal.

I have attached a summary of "The R.O.M.E.O.'s" as well as my bio and would be interested in discussing my script with you further. Thank you for your time and consideration.

Best regards,
Paul Longo

Synopsis:

The R.O.M.E.O.’s, Retired Old Men Eating Out: it’s what Charlie, Jack, Harry, Nick and Louis, regular guys from New Jersey, call themselves. For the past three years, The R.O.M.E.O.’s have held weekly gatherings every Thursday night at Pagano’s in Spring Lake where they enjoy an Italian feast and talk about everything from grandchildren to their old Brooklyn stomping grounds.

The R.O.M.E.O.’s realize that no matter what, they’ll always have one thing – their Thursday nights out. That is, until Charlie, the founder of The R.O.M.E.O.’s, unexpectedly passes away. This throws Jack, Harry, Nick and Louis into a tailspin and threatens to break up the group.

When Jack is presented with Charlie’s will, he finds out that his dying wish is for The R.O.M.E.O.’s to spread his ashes over the ocean in Miami, his old childhood vacation spot. After some initial hesitation, Jack rallies The. R.O.M.E.O.’s together and gets them to head down to Miami to fulfill Charlie’s wish.

Eddie, an old friend from the Brooklyn neighborhood who now lives in Miami, comes into the picture to help The R.O.M.E.O.’s plan their trip. But there is something the Romeos don’t know about Eddie… he’s an ex-diamond smuggler who is in the Witness Relocation Program.

When The R.O.M.E.O.’s arrive at the airport they immediately fall under the surveillance of Art, an over-the-hill FBI agent and his new partner, Billy, who is fresh out of the academy. Art has tracked Eddie for his entire career and is convinced that he’s flown The R.O.M.E.O.’s in to pull off the mother-of-all-diamond jobs. Art’s last FBI mission is to bust Eddie so he can finally retire with piece of mind.

Before they know what’s happening, Eddie takes The R.O.M.E.O.’s out for a tour of Miami’s hottest parties, clubs and casinos where they are introduced to a whole new world, including Master Smoove, the nation’s top rapper and hip-hop producer. This reinvigorates The R.O.M.E.O.’s and injects some much-needed excitement back into their lives.

But as the days go on, Eddie’s real plan unfolds and The R.O.M.E.O’s gradually become involved in a con game that is beyond their control. As Eddie’s scheme is hatched The R.O.M.E.O.’s, Agent Art and even Master Smoove all become deeply involved. But are the Romeos truly in the dark?

The R.O.M.E.O.’s (Retired Old Men Eating Out), the ultimate comedy, is a funny heart-warmer with universal appeal.

Minotaur (Sci-Fi/Thriller) by Adewole Adeyoyin

Logline:

To run is survival. To stop is suicide.

An amnesiac woman awakes to find herself mysteriously trapped in an underground labyrinth, joining seven embattled inhabitants to become prey for a relentless, murderous beast.

Dead Scared (Horror) by Stephen Cashmore

Logline:

A young man fights for his sanity after road construction works disturb a sacrificial site, setting loose an ancient, terrifying evil. If he fails and is overcome, a demon will again walk the earth.

Synopsis:

Dead Scared is a supernatural horror mystery. At the start of the film, two mysteries are presented: viewers wonder why the main character (Dave) is confined in a mental hospital, and the characters themselves are trying to solve the mystery of what appears to be a ghost causing car accidents. The following synopsis is chronological, although the script itself is not presented in this way.

Motorway construction work disturbs ground which was used in ancient times for sacrificial rites. The earth loses its grip on a form of demon which kills Elsie, an old woman whose cottage lies in the path of the roadworks. Later, a spate of accidents is caused by her ghost running across the new motorway at night, although nobody realises what is happening at first.

Dave and Jane investigate what is happening. Jane’s motive is that her father died in an accident on the construction works: Dave’s is that a friend, Bailin, was involved in one of the motorway accidents - and he has fallen in love with Jane.

They discover the address of Elsie’s sister, and hit on the idea of asking her for a photo of Elsie. Then, out of character, Dave sexually assaults Jane. Next morning he does not remember what has happened. He is devastated when Jane wants nothing more to do with him.

Jane, still committed to solving the mystery of her father’s death, takes the photo to Bailin’s hospital room. Bailin identifies Elsie as the ghost running across the motorway, but then they wonder – what is it running from? They do not know.

Dave, desperate to win Jane back, decides to visit the motorway site in the middle of the night. There he witnesses the horror of the ghost running, fleeing from something infinitely worse. Dave himself drives off panic-stricken, but not before he has witnessed horrific visions and been touched by the demon.

He is picked up by the police and after several violent incidents, is sectioned under the Mental Health Act. He tries to deal with events by not remembering anything at all, and does not respond to treatment. In desperation his psychiatrist turns to an old friend for help, Clive Gardner, an American Professor of parapsychology.

Dave is subject to several hypnosis or regression sessions, at first resisting but eventually remembering age-old events and also the fatal motorway accidents. But his condition steadily worsens. At different times he is possessed by extraordinary powers of hearing, sight, or strength. He attacks another of the nurses, and almost escapes from his cell.

Towards the end, he is strapped to a metal table watching a monitor where Gardner reveals what is happening, adding that it is almost too late. Gardner explains that the demon is not r