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Writers Under the Arch (WUTA), a group I founded some good while ago yet only returned to rather recently, just finished workshopping one of my scripts, "American Hangnail" (A mockumentary on the fictional National Preventive Disease Foundation. "Thanks to you, we're working!"). They liked it a lot, laughed in all the right places, and also made some great suggestions, some of which I'll actually…
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Here's an idea for a political thriller: There's an American, who claims to be a billionaire but is really nowhere near that wealthy; who has squandered the wealth he inherited and gone bankrupt several times; is a horribly profane sexist, racist and bully; has done everything in his power to pay his employees as little as possible and has cheated over and over again those with whom he has done…
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Still no release date yet, but there's a new scene posted on the "Illusions of Cyn" Facebook page, i.e., https://www.facebook.com/IllusionsofCyn/.
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Just registered this script with WGA and posted it on Inktip.com. As of now, I've written 14 spec feature scripts and five shorts. Three of the features have been optioned and one of them (retitled “Illusions of Cyn”) is currently in post-production. Most of them have won at least one award, e.g., American Zoetrope Finalist and Semi-Finalist, Austin Film Festival Semi-Finalist, CinemaSpoke Winner…
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Just finished the first draft of the feature version of "Smoke". Logline: After an isolated island resort catering to the world’s financial, political and cultural elites has closed for the season, a disparate group of attractive, young people with perfect teeth sit around a campfire and amuse themselves with banter, beer and cannabis, until one of their number suspects the others of not being who…
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Just posted a new short script on Inktip.com. "Smoke" (Logline: A diverse group of young people, who’ve just spent the summer working at an isolated, island resort that caters to the wealthy and eccentric, sit around a campfire along a seashore one evening, conversing, drinking beer and smoking weed. Seemingly innocent, unless they’re the vanguard of an extra-terrestrial invasion.)is a one-scene…
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