I Will Wait for You
Thriller - 23 Pages

​A legendary lawman separates from the attractive fugitive he's fallen for and attempts to cover up her connection to a mysterious heist.

​Synopsis: Two damsels in distress complicate the chaotic life of legendary lawman - BLAKE PALMER. His death-defying rescue of DEENA, a rich and beautiful teenager, hides a steamy secret. Although Blake's attracted to Deena, he rejects her advances primarily because of her demented infatuation. Blake instead longs for his true love, SOPHIA, an attractive fugitive he's only met once. After they inexplicably meet again, Blake has to separate from her and attempts to cover up her involvement in a mysterious and bungled heist. Deena's death, caused by her delusion, has a disastrous effect on Blake and Sophia's next encounter.

​Awards: Award winner at Valparai Int. Film Festival, Madras Independent Film Festival, Changing Face Int. Film Festival, Golden Sparrow Int. Film Festival, Indo French International Film Festival, WFC-Singapore Fil Festival, Royal Society of Television & Motion Picture Festival, Tagore International Film Festival, Sentinal International Film Festival, Uruvatti Int. Film Festival, Chozha Int. Fil Festival, Hodu International Film Festival  &  World Film Carnival Festival. Finalist at Toronto Independent Film Festival and  Official selection of 2021 Arkadia Studio Film Festival, Onyko Films Awards, Macoproject Film Festival, White Unicorn Film Festival,  Chaplin Independent Film Festival, Druk International Film Festival, Roma Shorts  and Chozha Int. Film Festival.

The Lost Chord
Fantasy - 23 Pages

An actress thought to be dead is discovered by her enamored ex-bodyguard and also by a psychotic fan with demented plans.

Synopsis: Lita Fontaine, tired of her life as a silent movie actress, longs to return to her love of composing. She swaps places with her twin sister for a weekend – a plan interrupted by an obsessed fan who wants to kidnap Lita. The stalker sees the swap takes place and resolves to kill the twin allowing him to secretly escape with Lita. This plot is foiled by Lita's bodyguard and love interest, Allan, though he can’t save her sister. Allan tracks Lita down to a remote village just in time to save her from the fan. Lita rebuffs Allan’s help in seeking a safe refuge and decides to stay a little longer. A mystical force there inspires her music..

​Awards: Official Selection at The 2019 Rome Independent Prisma Awards | The 2020 LA Under the Stars Film Festival | The 2020 Short Sweet Film Fest | Selection at Rome Independent Prisma Awards |Official Selection of Austin Under the Stars Film Festival, Honorable Mention at KinoDrome International Festival,  Finalist for Short Script at Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival, Silver Award at Wallachia International Film Festival, Selection at The Media Adventures International Film, Award Winner at Tagore International Film Festival, Selection at Short. Sweet. Film Festival 
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Parts of Her Prayers
Fantasy - 23 Pages

A rancher's haunted by a woman whom he shared a mystical moment with and who vanished from the site of a massacre. 

​Synopsis: A serendipitous moment bonds a rancher and an enchanting farmwoman in 1899.  Though it’s their only encounter, BO and LIGEIA fall in love.  Bo’s troubled when he begins hearing fragments of Ligeia’s prayers telepathically.  While traveling to a job Bo discovers a caravan of families massacred.   A woman escapes in the distance but Bo never finds her.  He’s saddened to find that it was Ligeia and haunted when she’s never found.  When the truth of her disappearance emerges, it seems they’ll never meet again.  But they will - in a way that Bo could never imagine.
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Awards: Semi-Finalist at 2019 Los Angeles CineFest | Best Faith Based Script at The 2019 Wild Bunch Film Festival | Official Selection at The 2019 Lake Charles Film Festival | Finalist at the 2019 Hyperwave Film Awards 

Come Back for Me
Fantasy - 23 Pages

A novelist discovers he was a real-life hero in the 19th century Western he's writing when he's transported into the story to save a mysterious beauty stranded in a remote forest. 

​Synopsis: BARRY, a small-time writer, collaborates on a Western with MERLE MAYHEM, a famous horror novelist. After Merle suddenly dies at his remote farmhouse, Barry continues to secretly work on the story. Though stunned when he inherits Merle’s farm, Barry gladly moves in and relishes the idyllic writing spot. When Merle’s manager finds out about the unfinished story he hires Barry to summarize it.  Barry gets premonitions about a nearby glen that has prisms on its trees.  The prism light is a portal to the past where the Western exists and that Barry was the hero.

​Awards: 2016 Short Script Finalist for 2016 Los Angeles CineFest | Semi-Finalist for 2016 Write Movies July 2016 Script Contest | Official Selection at 2016 Lake Charles Film & Music Festival | Best Short Screenplay at 2016 Genre Celebration Festival | Official Selection at  2017 Irvine International Film Festival | Semi-Finalist at 2017 The Omaha Film Festival | Semi-Finalist for Southern California Screenplay Competition 2017 | Official Selection at Pop Ninja Shortsfest 2017 | Official Selection at Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival 2017 | Best Short Script at 2017 Global Independent Film Awards

The Frosting on Good Fortune
Drama - 10 Pages

A Good Samaritan attempts to deliver a gift to a baker who thinks he’s the thief responsible for her stolen pastries.

Synopsis: TY, a Good Samaritan, is abducted by PONO who’s critically ill. Ty discovers that Pono inadvertently saved him from a calamity. He’s indebted and attempts to deliver a gift from Pono. It’s for ANNALISA, a baker whose cakes mysteriously disappear from her country house.

KERN, Pono’s partner, wants the valuable gift and pulls a gun on Ty when he arrives at Annalisa’s house. Annalisa assumes that they’re the thieves with a sinister scheme. Annalisa knocks out Kern and holds the gun on Ty. Before the sheriff arrives, they discover that Annalisa’s cakes had been mysteriously appearing in Ty’s truck. Now aware of their romantic connection she invites him to stay for a tart.
 
​Awards: Finalist  at 2017 Just 4 Shorts Screenplay Competition  |  Finalist at 2017 Underground Film Festival | Selection at Bare Bones Int. Film/Music Festival | 2nd Place Mtn Film Fest, Selection at London Cinematic Int. Film Festival | Finalist for TINFF Finalist Howling Wolf Int. Short Film Festival | Finalist at  The Glasgow Gallery of Photography

Coming to Liv
Fantasy - 23 Pages

An antique buyer searches for boudoir furniture that belonged to a legendary spy, unaware that the seductress haunts the bed and desires him.​

Synopsis: Since CHAZ SIMMS lost his lucky touch his antique business is failing. During a purchasing jaunt Chaz gets a “jolt” from a moving van. Believing something valuable is inside, Chaz follows it to a warehouse that’s holding a sale the next day. At his hotel Chaz befriends SYDNEY, another collector also going to the sale.

​Chaz discovers Sydney’s secret quest to find legendary antiques in the warehouse that once belonged to an infamous spy – LIV BEGUINE. At closing time at the sale Sydney discovers one of Liv’s antiques. Chaz regains his lucky touch and finds Liv’s old bed in an outside dumpster. The two antiques have strange powers with horrifying consequences for Sydney. Chaz however has a sexy, unearthly experience. 

Awards: Best Experimental Short Script Award at The 2015 Summer Slam Festival | Finalist for Best Short at 2015 Calif. Film Awards

Lost Kites
Drama - 10 Pages | 1 Room, 2 People

A grief-stricken agnostic is pressured into joining his embittered ex-wife in a prayer after their son’s funeral.

Synopsis: Luke and his ex-wife Jenny talk and argue after their young son’s funeral.  For the sake of closure she invites him to join her in a prayer which he declines.  Jenny preys on Luke’s guilt and pressures him until he finally relents.  

​The bittersweet moment before their farewell brings an epiphany of hope for Luke.

Awards: 2013 The Visual Narrative Project finalist | 2nd Place in Cherub Productions 2013 Short Screenplay Contest | 3rd Place 2013 American Gem Literary Festival | 1st Place in 2014 Idaho Writers Guild Contest

Haven't We Met Before?
Romantic Mystery - 24 Pages

A bewildered director discovers that female characters from his beach party screenplay are haunting him. 

Synopsis: HARRY DEEMS has bad luck during preproduction on his latest beach movie. Two actresses hired for the role of CARLA have breakdowns. Before rushing off to find another actress, Harry has to coach BAMBI, a beauty queen who has won a cameo in the movie. Harry’s surprised by her impressive reading and offers the role of Carla. He’s attracted to Bambi, unaware of her mania. A crewmember mysteriously dies and then Bambi disappears.
 
Harry has a surreal encounter in a mortuary with some “characters” linked to Carla. A cryptic phone call prompts Harry to return to the beach to search for Bambi.  Harry doesn’t find her and treks unsuccessfully after a mysterious woman. Harry returns to his beach blanket depressed that his movie’s canceled and falls asleep. At night, Harry’s awakened by the woman he followed earlier. She recognizes Harry from the mortuary and introduces herself as CARLA. 

Awards: Best Short Script 2012 Indie Gathering Film Festival | 3rd Place  2013 American Gem Short Script & Literary Festival 

Mirage of Mecca's Meadow
Romantic Mystery - 23 Pages
Locations: A farm and forest

​A dissolute farmer is forced by a mysterious old flame to return with her to a haunted campsite.​

​Synopsis: Two childhood friends revisit Mecca’s Meadow months after a tragic accident. They’re unaware of a supernatural force at the campsite. WES, a young farmer, has turned into a dissolute paranoid in the wake of his fiancée’s death. JOEY, a mysterious country girl, believes she’s romantically fated to be with Wes. She blackmails him into joining her for a “surprise” at the campsite. Despite her unstable behavior, Wes believes some of the “signs” Joey’s received.

​A psychic experience reveals that they are truly meant to be. During their romantic tryst another power emerges in the meadow. They’ll never leave Mecca’s Meadow.

Julia Knows
Romantic Mystery - 15 Pages
Locations: An alley, remote house

An unstable writer flees from his successful life to live with a mysterious woman he’s only met once. 

​Synopsis: MATTHEW leaves his successful writing career and hollow lifestyle to run off with JULIA, his mysterious new love.  His friend, ANTONIO, an action movie star, is shocked to discover that the couple have only met once. During a heated argument that reveals puzzling details about Julia, Antonio realizes she’s a dangerous trap. Antonio grabs Matthew’s car keys and tries his best to talk him out of it. Matthew eventually gets his way and leaves for the country house he’ll share with Julia.

​He has no idea of the horror that awaits him inside. 

When She Went Away
​(Produced 2015)
Romantic Mystery - 23 Pages
Location: A farm and a forest
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A writer reveals part of the mystery about his lost love to a parolee whose wife has just been put in jail. 

Synopsis: BAYDON, a young researcher, desperately needs to rent a certain farm loft. Years ago he spent some time there with MIA, his lost love. He tells DJ, the new owner of the farm that he wants to rent the tranquil hideaway to work on his novel. DJ is a parolee who plans to grow a crop of pot there. Part of the deal that DJ insists upon is hearing about the mystery of Mia. DJ needs the distraction while awaiting word on his troubled wife. Mia was an older, beautiful artist who was in hiding. She and Baydon shared a few fleeting moments before she disappeared.
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DJ’s interrupted to take a call bringing news of his wife’s arrest. He returns angered, but is inspired by the end of Baydon’s story. Though Baydon knew nothing about Mia, they shared a psychic bond. DJ needs the money and agrees to the deal. Baydon withholds a crucial part of the story. DJ gets a call from his wife. Though he wants to give up on her, DJ promises to help. Baydon secretly writes a letter to Mia in the loft. Mia’s hiding in another remote spot when she secretly receives his letter

​Awards: 2014 World Series of Screenwriting Bronze Award for Best Short Script | 3rd Place 2014 Yosemite Film Festival | Honorable Mention at 2014 California Film Awards
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Gina's Veil
Romantic Drama - 10 Pages
Location: A farm

A lonely, facially scarred woman discovers that a charming writer has been sneaking into an idyllic place on her farm.

​Synopsis: A facially scarred young woman returns to live and work at her family’s farm.  GINA’S veiled loneliness is compounded by her mother’s recent death. While visiting her grave, a charming writer saves Gina from some town punks. DANNY tells her he’s run out of private spots to write. Despite bad memories, Gina opts to fix up her mother’s house in a remote part of the farm. When she discovers that Danny sneaks in to write, Gina’s infuriated.  Danny appeals to her and strikes a deal to pay for visits.  Their sweet interaction leaves Gina hopeful for a friendship.

We'll Meet Again
Romantic Mystery - 22 Pages
Locations: A beach and a forest

A teen searching for his missing girlfriend at a remote beach discovers a beautiful ghost has been waiting for him. 

​Synopsis: When JULIE ANN disappears at a graduation picnic at a remote beach, some teens begin to search. JESS, her eccentric boyfriend, gets lost searching the desolate surrounding hills. He encounters a ghost, LIGEIA, who says she’s his lost love.

Jess remembers bits of their past and panics. While fleeing from Ligeia, he’s accidentally knocked out. At night he’s awakened by Julie Ann who’s possessed by Ligeia. She faints during a struggle with Jess. When they finally reach the others, Julie Ann appears normal. The next time Jess is alone with Julie Ann she’s possessed again by Ligeia.