Shorts

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Screenwriting Shorts 2012-2020


Uber Driver

(in development)

Parody of Taxi Driver. Travis is not so much a heroic yellow cab cowboy as much as a dorky loner who drives for Uber and lives with his mom.

Driven

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A father hell-bent on his quest to discover a premo fishing spot drags his family on a dangerous escapade across the border.



Dirt. (screenplay version)

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Desperate for cash, a young homeless man attempts to break into an older woman's house who had once taken him in. She attempts to break through to him to come back home. How many times and at what cost can one forgive?

(screenplay award: winner, best short screenplay, Bare Bones International Film Festival)

Avenging Angel

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A reverend of a small church and a convert with a troubled past nearly run over a woman while driving down a lonely highway, what at first seems to be a person in distress, turns out to be the two's worst nightmare: an alluring succubus hell-bent on revenge.

(screenplay awards: winner best short screenplay, Bare Bones International Film Festival; finalist, Hollyshorts Film Festival)

Nowhere Man

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A man awakes to find himself on a train with no memory of where he came from or where he's going, with only his fragmented memories and a witch possessing his mind to help him solve why he hates LA.

Wrestled

A young urban missionary struggles with his own demons when he tries to convert a local prostitute.

co-written with Phil Donlon

(film awards include: nominated for Best Short, Slamdunk Film Festival; Best Drama, Orion Awards, Grand Godie Award, Excellence in Filmmaking; Official Selection at Dahlonega International, Damah, Flickerings, and The Midwest Independent Film Festival; screened for "Made on Mac Series" hosted by Roger Ebert, LA Center Studios; bought and sold for Independent Film Channel)




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writing manager, Ryan Jacobson

all scripts registered with WGA