JUNE
2014
VOLUME 14
ISSUE 3
T H E P L A Y E R S M A R K E T P L A C E
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David Ara of Miracle Mile Entertainment met Craig Clyde through InkTip and hired him to write “Harley,” a wartime period piece set in the English countryside. This English drama is David’s second of three feature films in which the concepts and storylines have been developed by David, slated for production in the upcoming year. Craig has written and directed about twenty features already, always specializing in family-friendly content. This deal was shepherded by Barbara Bitela of the Silver/Bitela Agency, who also met and signed Craig Clyde through InkTip.
Nancy Criss with Nandar Entertainment discovered Kenneth
Lemm through InkTip and hired him to write several episodes of her new family-friendly TV series “The Sparrows.”
The project stars Christopher Atkins in the lead role. Nancy’s credits include “A Horse for Summer,” starring Dean Cain, and “Finding Mr. Wright,” both of which were also shot from scripts she found on InkTip. This is Kenneth’s second success through InkTip.
Robbie Bryan with Good To Be Seen Films found “The
Secret Killers” on InkTip and optioned it from Robert T. Roe.
Robert is a produced writer as well as a Nicholls Fellowship finalist. “Secret Killers” is set to be filmed by the end of this year, and this is Robert’s first success through InkTip.
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InkTip is especially important to screenwriters, given how hard it is to get access to the industry. As resources get more and more squeezed, fewer and fewer producers can afford the time to explore the pool of talent available. InkTip provides a way around that problem, both for the screenwriter who can’t get a foot in the door, and for the time-stressed producer trying to find a particular kind of script. Keep up the good work!
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Greg Huge with Huge Pictures found “Shattered Silence” on InkTip and optioned it from Brian Young. Greg’s credits include “3Play,” and the upcoming “Silent Voice,” with director Vondie Curtis-Hall (“Glitter”) and Academy Award winner Marlee Matlin (“Children of a Lesser God”) interested. Brian Young has had a number of successes through
InkTip, including scripts discovered by Mark Morgan
(“Twilight,” “The Wedding Planner”), and Jaffe/Braunstein
Films (Matt Damon’s “The Informant”).
Roderick Powell found “Shaolin Wing Chun: The New
Beginning” through InkTip and optioned it from Erik
Bernard. Roderick is an Atlanta-based producer whose credits include “Honeybee,” the first feature film about a female kickboxer. This is Erik’s first success through InkTip.
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The Acteon Event (Sci-Fi) Smyth Denham
A computer specialist fights for her life aboard an isolated space lab when scientists unwittingly create a zombie-like plague. As she and her estranged husband struggle to survive, they realize only one of them can make it.
After the Afterlife (Comedy) James Feliciano
A near-death experience gives Lance a key to lead tours of heaven, but he discovers it is actually hell. Now he must beat the devil to save his family.
Ancient Blood (Action/Adventure) Judy P. Mills
In 2033, a young woman struggles to save humanity from enslavement after paranormal terrorists nearly destroy human civilization.
Busted Down (Action/Adventure) Ben Krapf
An Afghanistan vet battles his PTSD as he fights to save his estranged family from a neo-Nazi gang.
Dark Heart (Horror) Darren Priest
Matt fights a savage tribe of half-man, half-tree forest creatures to save his mountain-biking friends from being sacrificed to a Viking god.
Depraved New World (Comedy) Hiram Taylor
A woman gives birth to turquoise-colored twins. Her husband suspects she had an affair with an alien, until his mother tells him the truth: He is the alien. Now, he must accept himself to save his “little monsters” from the depraved world.
Dying for Business (Comedy) Nicola Pittam
A reluctant funeral director embarks on a desperate undertaking to save his family’s dying business and “accidentally” becomes a serial killer – but soon begins to struggle between his love of murder and his love for the female cop investigating the deaths.
Empty Nest (Comedy) Linda Gauer
A mom with empty nest syndrome gets a job on campus to be closer to her daughter, then rediscovers her libido and the co-ed life she was denied when she got knocked up at 18.
Going Alone (Drama) Diana Black
Inspired by factual events. A young lawyer, Anh Nguyen, reluctantly takes over her father’s role to preserve the wilderness of northern Vietnam from mining, but some will stop at nothing to prevent the EIS report from being tabled, forcing her to flee the country. But that doesn’t mean she’s safe – they’re coming.
Happy Frickin’ Mother’s Day (Comedy)
Kevin Lee Miller
A self-righteous Chicago cop battles to protect three mob informants from competing hit men only to discover the most ruthless assassin on his trail is – his own mother. (Represented by Peter Meyer, Meyer Management)
Hello Mother (Thriller) Gayla Betts
A beloved children’s author discovers she’s the target of a serial killer – the daughter she gave up for adoption 30 years ago.
Identity Fusion (Crime)
Ron Meade and Karen Dodge
A female detective, thrust in the wake of a serial killer targeting female twins, must face the abduction of her own twin sister and the discovery the killer has been dead for 25 years.
In Time for Christmas (Sci-Fi) Barbe LaPierre
Twenty-third Century asteroid hunter, Zindi, must travel back in time to retrieve a stolen, Earth-saving crystal which is being used by the 21st Century Ryan family as their prized heirloom
Christmas tree topper.
Invisible (Action/Adventure) Gregg Cavanagh
An attention-starved teenager accidentally invents a device that turns his car invisible and finds himself pursued by the
CIA, a terrorist group, and the local police chief.
Jimmy Ganootz (Comedy) Michael Lipoma
When the mob boss’s lifelong chef gets wind he’s about to be flambéed, he cooks up a scheme to save himself and bring down two crime families.
Legend of Earth (Sci-Fi) David Gwinn
FBI Special Agent Sharpe just got the assignment of a lifetime
– on another planet. Too bad the lady that lured him there wants him dead.
Mind Control (Thriller) Nanci Grady
When a reporter tries to expose government mind control programs, he becomes a target of a mind control expert.
(Inspired by real events.)
Mobster Makeover (Comedy) G.D. Brulato
When a sweet, divorced paralegal saves the life of a mobster’s mother, he becomes her personal godfather, dead set on finding the perfect mate for her, whether she likes it or not.
Molasses (Romantic Comedy) Demethress Gordon
A woman who believes in her family’s anti-marriage curse has kept her fiancé from the altar for 11 years – unaware that while he’s been faithful to her, he’s fathered over 100 children, as a sperm donor.
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Monkeydog, A Genetically Engineered Pet (Sci-Fi)
Gabriell Debear Paye
“Coming soon: A lovable, smart genetically engineered pet that can work for you!” A journalist hosts a TV show promoting these “Monkeydogs” until his daughter runs away with their pet and he feels compelled to expose the dangers of this new technology. (Represented by Devra Sari Zabot, Chelsea
Squared Productions)
Remember Me and You (Romantic Comedy) Kevin C. Wilson
A young man tries to break up with his girlfriend while coaching a Little League team for her dad.
Riding Double (Romantic Comedy) Laurie Stoner
A bad boy biker comes of age when he takes a straight-laced reporter to the Sturgis motorcycle rally.
The Ringmistress (Action/Adventure) Pamela Perry
A young circus star, bitter towards the mother who abandoned her, is forced to battle time, deceit, pirates, and an underwater earthquake to locate the jewels her murdered father was smuggling for the Russian mob, before they kill her family.
Scaredy Cat: The Birth of SuperCat (Fantasy) John Chabot
An accident fuses together a wimpy scientist and the neighborhood’s coolest tomcat – and they can both talk – and together they become a superhero to fight an army of giant criminals who have taken over the city.
Switch (Comedy) Martin Stalvey
To infiltrate superhero headquarters and swipe their superpower stealing device, a wannabe villain puts on his big boy high heels and masquerades as a superwoman.
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Thou Shalt Kill (Action/Adventure)
Jim Durkey
When a Church assassin hunts a mysterious nun who stole
$1 billion from the Vatican Bank he uncovers a global coven poised to destroy the Catholic Church.
Vaticon (Comedy) Eric Sentell
Four people break into the Vatican, inadvertently abduct a disenchanted Pope who’s afraid to go back, then risk their lives to save him.
Vengeful Intent (Thriller) Sandy Steers
After a series of seemingly random attacks escalate, an emotionally wounded detective must discover and defend his family against his psychopathic, revenge-seeking identical twin.
Vortex (Thriller) Maria D’Urso
An ambitious businessman, wrongly accused of espionage in a volatile southeast country, escapes to save his life and discovers that he holds evidence of his adversary’s plan for a coup that threatens the stability of the entire region.
Breathe (Drama)
Anthony Cirone and Harold Schmidt
When a brilliant 15-year-old pianist is stricken with polio and sent to an institution for youthful victims of the disease, he refuses to give in to his affliction. He strikes up a friendship with a young ballerina, inspiring her and all the other young victims to fight back and pursue their dreams.
The Lion’s Den (Action/Adventure)
Kathryn Taylor
Rome, 302 A.D. The Roman governor forces Adelphius, a humble blacksmith, to lead a group of persecuted Christians on a suicide mission into neighboring barbarian territory to track and kill a giant mountain lion.
Night Falls on Olympus (Thriller)
Christopher O’Rourke
A god of Olympus has been murdered, and a hardboiled private investigator must navigate a fantastical city of monsters and immortals to solve the case.
Zebra Victor One (Action/Adventure)
Adam Bradley
In a post-apocalyptic world, one man drives across the country bringing justice to those responsible for the apocalypse.
Red Valley (Western) Joey Perotti
When his wife is murdered and his daughter is kidnapped, a former outlaw must return to the life he gave up and confront the sins of his past.
Every month an average of 25 scripts are purchased or optioned
The Navigator (Romantic Comedy) Carey Watkins
An unlucky-in-love wannabe on a road trip, discovers his GPS has been supernaturally embedded with a feisty young woman who must deliver him to his destiny in 30 days – or else.
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Flying to the Dream (Biographical)
M.H. Witten and Mary Bush Shipko
A history-making woman defies the industry to become the first female commercial airline pilot for Hughes Airwest in
1977 after her pilot brother’s tragic death in the Bermuda
Triangle. (True story, authors have the rights. Autobiography to be published in late 2014.)
The Disappearing Man (Non-Fiction/History)
Doug Peterson
After Henry Brown’s family was torn away from him for a second time, he did what had never been done before. In 1849, this Richmond slave was nailed inside a box and shipped to
Philadelphia – one of the greatest escapes in the history of the
Underground Railroad.
tryst that scares him straight into ending his degenerate ways and starting a new life. Unfortunately, he gets framed for more serious crimes every time he tries to leave.
Acts of God (Drama) W. Reed Moran
A black Justice Deptpartment attorney investigates a rural church burning, finding himself enmeshed in long-buried family secrets perpetuated by a pastor we discover is his halfbrother. But the lawyer’s private agenda is to expose those who betrayed him during his youth. Utilizing the biblical story of Esau and Jacob, the script explores themes of faith, reconciliation, and forgiveness.
The Lincoln League (Action/Adventure) Doug Peterson
In this true-to-life Civil War saga, recently freed slave John
Scobell is recruited by Union spy chief Allan Pinkerton to create a first-ever black spy network. But John’s life is soon in danger as an infiltrator begins picking off the black spies one by one.
The Brotherhood, Villains and Greeks
(Action/Adventure) Allan Love
It’s London, it’s the ’80s, cocaine is widely available and everyone wants it. Life is good, until a supplier crosses the IRA.
The Trail (Western) Peter Kellington
Ex-train robber, bank robber, gun fighter, convict, 70-year-old
Jacob Johansson’s days are ticking away. After another long, harsh winter he decides to take to the trail, to where he doesn’t know or even care. What happens along the trail redefines the man and offers up one viciously brutal chance for atonement.
The Father, the Son and the Unholy Ghost
(Action/Adventure) Allan Love
A complex and unholy trinity are assigned to wreak vengeance on sex traffickers, but ambition and greed turns one of them, a schizophrenic, into an unpredictable predator.
The Manhattan Gentleman’s Club
(Action/Adventure) Allan Love
A mysterious club is set up to eliminate prominent members of Wall Street. A screw-up detective is assigned to investigate the deaths, but finds that the rich and powerful are a law unto themselves.
Crazy Does It (Drama) JoAnn Mears
A grieving psychiatrist widow falls into a rapturous love affair with her genius sociopath patient.
Shafts of Light (Crime) Allan Love
A beautiful woman is on trial for murdering her abusive and perverted lover. This is the backdrop for a movie currently in production. Fact takes over from fiction when real life events start to mimic scenes from the movie.
The Gold Watch (Action/Adventure) Stephen Evans
A mysterious Key West tour guide lures a retired TV weatherman into a quest for a legendary golden bell.
Exit Strategy (Comedy) Marty Weiss
In this comedic crime thriller, a former TV star plagued by personal demons (think Matt LeBlanc in “Episodes” meets
David Duchovny in “Californiacation”) gets caught in a love
Mission 9 (Action/Adventure)
Greg Hill, Walt Griggs, and Ray Normandin
A clandestine team of aviators must investigate the mysterious disappearance of a flight crew from an advanced ground simulation aircraft by recreating their top secret mission, “Mission
9.” What they uncover will change their lives and the world they live in forever.
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Legend (Horror) Paul Cruz and Robin Fellows
Sequoia Falls, California, Bigfoot capital of the world, hides an ugly secret about to be uncovered in a documentary exposé.
Follow a film crew as they go in search of the truth of the legend of Bigfoot. Unfortunately, the truth kills, and the legend grows.
Blue Blazes (Drama) Ace Passmore and Eric Small
An old raconteur pumps up a crippled Olympic hopeful by narrating the heroic tale(?) of an underachieving kid who is
Earth’s doomsday defender. “Armageddon” meets “Big Fish.”
(WorldFest Gold Medal; novel ready)
Legend of the Krystal Kane (Fantasy)
Ace Passmore and Eric Small
A cynical teen – progeny of master magicians – must regain his sense of wonder to save his love from a high-tech madman.
“Indiana Jones” crosses “Harry Potter.” (WorldFest Remi Award)
Road Show (Comedy) Ace Passmore and Eric Small
Rival actresses are drawn into a thrilling caper – staged as a grand exit for one of them – that takes off into unscripted territory. But who’s manipulating who? “Romancing the Stone” plays “The Game.”
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Altar of the Zombies (Horror) Joe LaCroce
The Chicago Mafia sends the body of a Mafia Don back to
Italy for burial, where he turns into a zombie. A vacationing
American reporter gets involved, in a sinful way – and discovers a deep, dark secret implicating the Mafia to the zombies and the Vatican.
Warrior Brotherhood (Action/Adventure) Joe LaCroce
A band of commandos from three countries get together to rescue nuns held hostage by Somali terrorists. The action takes a dramatic shift when they allow a belly dancer/Mossad agent to join the mission.
Alive and Kicking: pilot for sitcom (Comedy)
Robert Kirschten
A newly divorced young woman plans to turn an old steam bath in NYC into a modern health club. On opening day, she must prove herself a leader by effectively dealing with a
Russian, black-market staff member embezzling equipment, a macho-crazy exercise coach, and her ex-husband who wants her back.
The Big D (Comedy) Marty Weiss
If love is a battlefield, divorce is Armageddon. This half-hour comedy centers around a manipulative divorce attorney who is about to experience the complexities of divorce firsthand.
(Represented by Matt Fisch / Richard Arlook, The Arlook Group)
Grand Pa (Drama) Syeed Ryan
A struggling man who became a father at 16 is introduced to his grandson at the age of 29. Now teaching his son how to be a father, while still figuring out how to be one himself.
Harvey’s Pump (TV pilot) (Drama)
Ace Passmore and Eric Small
A disgraced cardiologist goes into exile, returning as a bohemian doc who melds Eastern and Western medicine to treat colorful patients amidst politics and intrigue. “House” meets
“ER” with heart! (WorldFest REMI AWARD; Represented by
Peter Miller, Global Lion Intellectual Management, Inc. Ep
2-12 synopses ready)
The Three MAgos (Comedy) Michael Sisto
Three medical assistants working in an orthopedic doctor’s office care for their elderly arthritis patients with respect and compassion – yeah, until about 5 o’clock. (Represented by
Sherry Robb, The Robb Company)
I’m Robin Hood (Drama) Harry Cardillo
A sadistic and sociopathic attorney exacts his own form of sadistic justice for litigants who can’t obtain it in the judicial system.
Us (Comedy) Mario Martin
What happens when an Arab marries a Jew? Meet the
Weinsteins.
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Anathema (Horror) Tracey Maye
Former hit man Simon Morrison, a demon reincarnated, battles addictions and supernatural forces to win the love of one of his former victims.
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A Deadly Traffic Stop---6 Shots, 6 Hits (Crime) Robert Shaffer
The experiences of various Los Angeles cops and Los Angeles
County deputies as they lie, cheat, perjure, and plant guns on unarmed suspects, resulting in one being convicted of murder.
Thrilling true life stories, the arrests, biased court trials, conviction, and violent prison life for a convicted deputy-sheriff.
Compare the conviction of LAPD Officer Paul Koerschegen and Deputy Sheriff Robert Shaffer.
Pill (Comedy) Jordon Lepointe and Suz F.M. Carr
Cindy, a suburban mom, is blindsided by divorce from Ron, her ruthless, cheating husband. Cindy, broke and horrified that all accounts are emptied, learns Ron’s pain pill supplier has disappeared. Ron is addicted. By fortuitous coincidence,
Cindy’s angry, hunched old mother has the same pills Ron enjoys and a plan to keep Ron in check unfolds.
Past Your Primer (Comedy) Thomas Barron
Two crotchety yuppies combine their lack of mechanical skills to build a car from scratch and race it in the Baja 1000.
They only agree on one thing – their soft hands turn wrenches under the banner of Chupacabra Racing.
Tinseltown Trannies: The Cashes! Tranny Queens of
Hollywood (Drama) S. Justin Vyor
Dudes in drag and on the rag! Or...boys will be girls! Rude, crude, lewd, nude, and major tranny attitude! (Represented by
Ed Adler, SME)
The 13 of Glory Georges Salo
Francisco Pizarro’s quest for El Dorado takes him and his conquistadors, known as The 13 of Glory, to a land rife with gold. Pizarro’s altruistic start spirals into the subjugation of the Inca nation and the genocide of its people.
The Alligator and the Ice Cream Cone John Freda
They fought and died under his command. Their bodies are spread-eagled on a fiercely held enemy outpost: taunting the
Americans. Lieutenant Dave Briganti is determined to bring them down – against incredible odds.
Amazing Adventure Yita Chen
Entering the ancient forest with no end in sight, the experience is horrible yet spectacular. The only hope in the complete despair is, unexpectedly, a nightmare-like creature.
American Woman Jeff Napolitano
Congress employs the first woman of the United States Navy to command a nuclear powered submarine as a publicity stunt, but when they underestimate her skills, she turns them onto an old sunken submarine that the Americans were responsible for, and positions their sub into a potential war.
Blackbird John Kovac
Endeavour flies again!
Bruce Lee vs. Dracula Aundrea T. Washington
In 1971, Bruce Lee is revered as a legendary martial arts movie icon, but his real obsession is slaying vampires. During Lee’s quest, he encounters Dracula and is bitten during their battle.
Lee turns, becoming immortal, and eventually kills Dracula.
Lee’s martial arts master convinces Lee to fake his death and seek out and slay vampires around the world.
Cortez and La Malinche – A Romantic Invention
Hallah Shepard
Daddy’s girl is pretty, privileged, a linguistic savant – so, mom sells her into slavery. What to do? Help an exotic stranger crush an entire nation.
A Creggan Journey David Dinning
Based on a true story. Kevin, a budding artist, is swept into a world of conflict and hate in Northern Ireland. Wanted by the
Brits and the IRA, he leaves Ireland and sets out for a peaceful life on a kibbutz in Israel.
Crunch Time Byron Bellamy
The three grown children of an assassinated president are just about to carry out a well-planned revenge when the universe begins to collapse, and all life that has ever lived begins to crowd into their timeline.
David The Warrior King Harold Zapata
The Biblical epic of David, the unflinching shepherd youth who become a bloody Warrior King. Written in the vein of “300.”
The Device Tammy Wunsch
A wealthy businessman, and secret spy, inadvertently teams with a female tourist to chase his former partner from New
York City through Europe to the Canary Islands. The unlikely duo are in pursuit of a device that controls a satellite weapon system which can change the balance of world power and is about to be auctioned to the highest bidder.
The Dirty Martinez James Smiley
After reluctantly accepting work at a Mixed Martial Arts event in Rio, a disgraced former fighter and his colleagues from the
Anti-Doping Committee discover a few of the fighters have gone cannibalistic – and they soon become the hunted.
Eye Hath Not Seen April Miller
Sharon Peters has found a trained guide dog lost in the Alaskan wilderness which, hidden within its collar, has the evidence needed to solve a multi-million dollar embezzlement scheme
– and the thief will stop at nothing to get it.
Fury Brian Laffey
To stop the ultimate weapon from sparking a war between humanity and the gods of old, a 4,000-year-old immortal must grow up and seize her destiny!
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Future Tense: Rise of the Cravens Robert Daniels
The hope of the world was born in the form of Senator Roberta
Harris. Past Tense. The senator, while attending her 2016 presidential rally, is being assassinated. Present Tense. She will live to be president, if Nexus 39 and 40 can stop Craven 1 – who will travel back in time – from fulfilling her mission. Future Tense.
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Ghost in the Rain Adam Fernandes
A hitman is having an affair with his boss’ daughter. She’s pregnant with his child, is being forced to marry someone else, and everyone is about to find out.
Michael Wormser with Level 10 Films found “#Social” on
InkTip and optioned it from Andres Rovira. Michael’s credits include such diverse titles as “Some Guy who Kills People” and “Smiley,” among others. Andres is a screenwriter and novelist who’s had a number of options and contest accolades in the past, but this is his first success through InkTip.
The Handler Kelli Chillson
When a blind girl is brutally raped and murdered and her service dog left for dead, ex-Marine Cori Wilson is jolted back to action as she risks her life to rescue the dog she trained and bring down the killer(s).
Highwire William E. Dyson, III
L.A. detective Stacey investigates the disappearances of high-tech women. Max Stern, a millionaire living in Burma, runs Highwire Incorporated, a computer manufacturing plant, which is a front. The real business is to search for the best candidates to be kidnapped and implanted with a controlling device near the brain to maintain obedience to be sold.
Nicholas Lory with Zissou Pictures discovered Jeff Wood on InkTip and hired him to write “Nana Means King,” and we are excited to announce that the film has completed principal photography! “Nana” is a character-driven piece about a Ghanaian illegal immigrant whose past becomes a prison, and was directed by Nana Obiri-Yeboah and co-produced by
Kenneth Andam. This is Jeff’s first success through InkTip.
How to Kill a Witch Martin Bartlett
When a 12-year-old girl discovers that her janitor father is engaged to marry a supermodel type with uncanny powers, she resolves to kill her would-be stepmother for fear she is a witch with a sinister agenda.
Param Gill with Young N Free Films found “Endowment” on
InkTip and optioned it from John Buchanan. This is John’s second project with Param, who also hired him to write the
American adaptation of the iconic European film “Last Supper,” which stars Eddie Griffin, Josh Meyers and Penny Marshall.
Hybrid Accidentally Craig Harwood
A codependent superhero wants to retire and settle down, but his deranged nemesis has other plans, forcing him out of retirement and creating havoc with his new squeeze every time he disappears.
Calix Reneau with Calix Presents found “Just Plain Dead” on
InkTip and optioned it from Emily Manthei. Calix’s credits include “Greyscale” and “A Night at the Silent Movie Theater” among others. This is Emily’s first success through InkTip.
In the Arms of the Dragon Stephen Kelly
Vietnam, 1969. A young Army officer flies north to replace a dead man. His job is nation building: help the locals. But what if the locals are all VC? He soon falls in love with a woman and her country. Come see the real Vietnam. (Note: Has a
Consider from ScriptShark.)
Justice Bowens with B3-Vision found “The Runner” on
InkTip and optioned it from Daniel Baig. Justice’s recent credits include the upcoming “Fever,” which will be shot from another script he found on InkTip and which he recently set up with Blanc Biehn Productions, among others.
This is Daniel Baig’s first option through InkTip.
Incubus Nesly Salomon
A magical boy, stranded in a dangerous post-apocalyptic
America, is helped to find his way back home to antiquity by a weak, self-doubting herculean muscled man “who can’t fight.”
The Last Vikings David Thorndill
In 1410, the peak of the Little Ice Age, a desperate Viking clan leader escapes the doomed Greenland colony, but pirates, storms, and sea ice force them to sail to North America. A Micmac woman and a Huron warrior help them battle Mohawks on their journey to a new homeland beyond the mighty falls of Niagara.
Julio Hallivis with 1inMM Productions discovered Joel
LaFlamme on InkTip and hired him to write “Danger Close.”
Joel has a penchant for tight, fast-paced action writing, and he’s already meeting with a number of producers for assignments. This is Joel’s fourth success through InkTip.
Life and Death Grant Lee Strytler and Cathrine L. Clutter
The world’s supply of oil has been depleted by years of constant drilling, thus setting off a chain reaction of world destruction and devastation, in which only two can survive.
Will true love find a way?
Michael Moyet with Moyet Talent Management found “The
Last First Kiss” on InkTip and optioned it from Dennis
Curlett. This is Dennis’ third success through InkTip.
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Margery Booth: The Spy in the Eagle’s Nest
Ralph Harvey and Frank Tuscany
Hitler’s favorite opera star is a British spy! When Margery attends Hitler’s birthday celebrations at his Eagle’s Nest she sees the new Tiger tank and realizes how imperative it is to get this information to Churchill. She also meets MI6 agent John
Brown in Stalag IIID when singing to the POWs and obtains the location of the tank factory before facing torture.
Revenge of the Iron Dragon Robert Daniels and Wendy Daniels
In the mean streets of Los Angeles, two men have a similar vendetta. It’s through their high-octane, heart-wrenching story
– taking us deep into their psyche – that we find becoming the villain, or the hero, is not always black and white. It’s the path they take that defines who’s who.
Marooned Miniseries Jennifer Miller
A 19th Century tale, Justin is thrown overboard at sea by his evil twin Edward. He tries to survive on an island, struggles with love, inner passions, and his brother’s return for revenge.
Ritual Men’s Group Eric Swirkal
A men’s group on a backpacking adventure in the Sierra
Nevada wilderness befriends a group of modern-day gold prospectors, until the discovery of gold and an accidental shooting pits group against group in a fight to the death.
Mercy Stick Mario Martin
A disgruntled prison psychologist turns vigilante. The doctor is in.
River of Doubt Paul Burgess
Former president Theodore Roosevelt tries to recapture his youth with a dangerous expedition through the Amazon, which soon spirals into a desperate struggle for survival.
The Missing Pilots Stephen Kelly
A young Lebanese-American lawyer is slowly but surely drawn into a major terrorist attack on America and is forced to join forces with rogue FBI agents to save his adopted country and the Iranian-born doctor he loves. (Note: has a Consider from ScriptShark.)
Robin the Hood Jon Paul Reese
The good folks of Kingsland have become economically drained by the greed of one businessman; with the support from a brutal sheriff and his henchmen, they now stand to lose the only orphanage in town. The town and Church must now turn to its Prince of Thieves to steal from the rich and give to the poor.
Murmansk Run Wendy Joseph and Sam Hakam
A Russian woman becomes captain of a U.S. ship and falls in love with the Naval gunnery officer, in the deadliest waters of WWII. A ship with vital cargo. A captain at odds with a crew at odds with themselves. Soviet shipwreck survivors, including (oh hell!) women. The ship’s cat has gone missing.
Oh, and subs, mines, and 24/7 air attack.
Silent Partners: Absinthe of Desire Georges Salo
Two wealthy men are deceived into service by a clandestine government agency, the vanguard of international counter-terrorism. Will the agency’s gamble on these men’s skills, charm and ingenuity prove to be the lethal combination that stops a crime lord hell-bent on revenge?
Musashi & the Geisha Stephen Kelly
First historically accurate depiction of Miyamoto Musashi,
Japan’s greatest swordsman, who at 15, falls in love with a young geisha and runs off with her. Now the Yakuza want her back. Will love conquer all? (Note: This Script has a Consider from ScriptShark. Potential franchise/cable series.)
Silent Partners: Fragrant Water Georges Salo
Two wealthy men recruited by a clandestine international government agency must prevent ultra-modern submarines from falling into the hands of Yemeni and Omani pirates. If left unchecked, the pirates would have the whole world to ransom, as a large portion of global trade passes through the
Gulfs of Oman, Aden and the Arabian Sea.
Pancho Barnes Stephen Kelly
A bored Roaring Twenties socialite takes up the dangerous sport of flying, flies stunts for Howard Hughes, races Amelia
Earhart, sets a speed record, and helps Chuck Yeager break the sound barrier. (Note: Has a Consider from ScriptShark.)
Quake Peter Marron
A disgraced FBI agent battles a shadowy corporation’s private army and nightmarish creations on a jungle island in a desperate bid to save humanity from ultimate doom.
Silent Partners: Razed Capital Georges Salo
Two wealthy men recruited by a clandestine international government agency must prevent an activated North Korean sleeper agent from bringing the global financial system to its knees. Economic sanctions imposed on North Korea force its regime to execute this plot – destroy U.S. facilities that print and store money.
Raptor Cop: K-9 Unit John G. Pedicini
After a lab accident gives a K-9 police officer the ability to transform into a prehistoric raptor, he and his dogs must battle a hardened criminal to save the life of his girlfriend, who holds the only key to unlocking the mystery of his condition.
Silent Partners: Scorched Earth Georges Salo
Two wealthy men recruited by a clandestine international government agency must stop a criminal from using Earth
Penetrator Warheads from setting ablaze U.S. air force bases housing nuclear silos.
Remembrance Robert F. Mason
In a Wild West that never was, an escaped slave fights for his freedom against a posse led by Confederate lawman
Jesse James.
Stanley Larry Chernoff
An orphan, Stanley Kubichuk, filters down through the system, becoming a warrior who gets rid of a Chinese gang in his community.
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Action/Adventure – Biographical
Stone Woman Veronica Tabares
Haunted, chased, and lost in a jungle is no way to spend a honeymoon. But what else can a girl do while her husband is in jail accused of murder?
Sudan Art Ayris
After his daughter is captured in a Sudanese slave raid, her father is joined by an American photojournalist in an againstall-odds attempt to locate the young girl before it is too late.
(Based on a true story)
Wired Ronson Duncan
When a band of Mexican narco-killers hijack a Florida day cruise ship, the Coast Guard surrounds it but it’s a standoff.
When the hijackers begin exploding passengers wearing lifejackets rigged with C-4 – makeshift suicide vests – the ship captain’s brother-in-law and ex-SEAL embarks on a lone rescue mission, plunging headlong into a three-way Armageddon between the Coast Guard, Los Zetas, and Al-Qaeda.
The Caper Edmund Webb
A tolerant, tenacious sock is given an ultimatum to lead a succession of quarrelsome and quirky household items on a quest to tranquility.
Saving the Enchanted Forest Oscar Johnson
After accidentally entering the lovely Enchanted Forest, a timid girl must choose between returning home or saving the forest from a fearsome adversary.
Uh Oh! Another Kid’s Movie Matthew Barch
An ingenious boy and his misfit friends team up to save a nutty professor and the world from the boy’s wicked stepmother after the professor invents a mind-reading helmet.
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Steve Roeder with Awesome Entertainment found “A
Whole Life Ahead: The Michael Rockefeller Story” through
InkTip and optioned it from Philip Hardy. Steve had actually been looking for the right Rockefeller script for a few years, so we were happy to help him source this project. Steve
Roeder’s credits include “Bob the Butler” (Tom Green and
Brooke Shields) and “Neo Ned” (Jeremy Renner), among others. Philip Hardy has won or placed as a finalist in nine screenwriting contests in just the last year alone, and this is his second success through InkTip.
Lauren de Normandie with Status Media & Entertainment found “Jacked” on InkTip and optioned it from Derek
Rydall. Derek Rydall is a produced feature writer who got into the business as a child actor; he’s had a number of feature script options and writing assignments with the likes of
Disney and Universal Studios, and this is his fourth success through InkTip.
Eric Fischer with Efish Entertainment and Dead Fish
Films found “Bad Seeds of Loving Spring” on InkTip and optioned it from Joshua Montcalm. Eric is a bright and very fast-rising star in Hollywood, with recent credits like “Vehicle
19” (starring the late Paul Walker) and “Night Train to Lisbon”
(with Jeremy Irons). Joshua Montcalm is a 2013 Nicholl
Semifinalist, and this is his first option through InkTip.
3 Days with the King Bernard Galley
Based on the experiences of Wayne Galley, an audacious
Australian who in 2003 in Las Vegas is hired as Michael
Jackson’s personal bodyguard. During a detailed investigative interview by a Californian criminal task force, he recounts the sensational and wildly dangerous three days of betrayal, hypocrisy, greed, and corruption surrounding the arrest of the most controversial pop music icon in modern history.
Producer Frank A. Caruso found “A Dry Season” on
InkTip and optioned it from Blair Duckworth. Frank is a multi-hyphenate whose acting credits include “The Great
Chameleon” with Stacy Keach, and as a director-producer has three features ready for distribution this year: “Club
Utopia,” “Risk Factor,” and “Final Dance.” “A Dry Season” is about a high school teacher wrongfully accused of sexual interference by a vengeful teenage girl, and this is Blair
Duckworth’s second success through InkTip.
First Love: Just Once in a Lifetime Violeta Barrett
When a dream inspires the recall of memories kept buried for more than 50 years, Violeta is compelled to write her true love story of a forbidden passion between herself and her Mexican tour guide, who vowed to love her forever, despite time and distance, and returns in a passing to keep that promise.
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Layard, The Original Raider Matthew Stern
A. Henry Layard, 19th Century British explorer, discovers the palaces of the Assyrian kings, and in doing so provides evidence supporting biblical text. Layard’s life story places us at the center of world events, and in many ways mimics that of Indiana Jones.
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Christopher Fazio, Ciara O’Hanlon, Mikayla Ottonello, and Dalton Mugridge as Vilhelm.
Barry Cowan, the same writer who penned
Junior High Spy for Skylight Films, wrote
Ghost Trap . Producer/director Mark
McNabb discovered Barry on InkTip in 2007, and they have been working together every since. The concepts for the films were conceived of at Skylight Films, which focuses on family-friendly material.
Mark’s love of the films from his childhood is evident not only in his desire to make quality stories for the whole family but also in his inspirations. He stated that both
Junior High Spy and Ghost Trap spun out of conversations about the fun of creating a junior Ghostbusters or a junior James Bond.
By development time of Ghost Trap, Barry had already proven his worth as a writer.
“Our interest in Barry was being able to create our full concepts, like with Junior
High Spy , and have him entirely develop those concepts into shooting scripts. Barry has consistently worked with us on every aspect of a script and adapts to our overall needs,” said Mark.
understood what it took to make that happen. This was the key to Barry Cowan’s and Ann Kimbrough’s success. “Following the release of The Mystical Adventures of Billy Owens and Billy Owens and the
Secret of the Runes , through ArtistView
Entertainment (LA), our focus became to produce tailor-made family-adventures for the marketplace,” Mark explained. “As producers, an understanding of the distribution process and what a distributor’s specific needs are, within each territory they licence to, is of paramount importance.
When working with a writer, they need to be flexible with their ideas and their overall vision of the story, to be marketable to the overall demographic … Both Barry and Ann always stayed true to the focus of the story, knowing we produce for a niche family-adventure marketplace. They also had a very keen understanding of our resources, and it always became about producing movies that could capitalize on these resources to bring high production value to each. Both Barry and Ann were always on hand to adapt ideas to our environment and to our producing needs.”
Phil Babcock as Professor Crow
Ghost Trap stars Ciara O’Hanlon,
Christopher Fazio, and Mikayla Ottonello, who all also appeared in The Mystical
Adventures of Billy Owens and Billy Owens and the Secret of the Runes , the former for
For Mark, it was about finding a writer who really wanted their script made and
Cynthia, Alex, and Dharma’s first paranormal capture.
Martial Arts Legend
Olivier Gruner as Lee
Steven Dell as Royce with
Phil Babcock as Andre Zeus
Geared up and ready for action.
which Barry did the voiceover script for and the latter being Barry’s first screenplay with Skylight Films. It was directed by
Mark McNabb and executive produced by David A. J. Brown, Mary Ann Brown,
Robert Leone and Judith Leone. Currently,
Ghost Trap and Junior High Spy have been released on DVD/VOD throughout the U.S., through various outlets, including Amazon, Chapters/Indigo, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Blockbuster
On Demand, and Redbox. Showcase
Entertainment/Showcase for Kids is readying distribution for the international marketplace in 2014/2015. Skylight Films is also in negotiations for a Canadian DVD/
TV release in 2014.
Showcase Entertainment/Showcase for
Kids has pre-licensed the third film gracing this issue’s cover, Good Kid/Bad Kid , for world distribution in 2015 (DVD/VOD/
TV). Like Ghost Trap , Good Kid/Bad Kid was inspired by one of Mark’s favorite films: Die Hard . Mark directed the film along with Kelly Rae Irvwin. “[It] was our opportunity to create large action ‘setpieces,’ involving not only multiple martial artists but a hot air balloon sequence as well,” Mark said. “On hot air balloon day we were working with two balloons, courtesy of Cloud Chasers Balloon Rides, and one of the directors was feeling pretty sick.
Thankfully, we had a second director, Kelly
Rae Irwin, and her shots were steady and not swerving all over!”
Mark discovered screenwriter Ann
Kimbrough at the 2012 InkTip Pitch &
Networking Summit. He came all the way from Ontario, Canada and Ann from
Las Vegas. Ann sat down at Mark’s table
Mark’s infamous hot air balloon ride.
to pitch, and it wasn’t even the script she pitched that made her stand out to him.
Instead, her passion for screenwriting rang true. Mark said, “I look at their writing and say good style. But I want to know a writer that will get into the trenches with me. InkTip put a writer [Ann] in front of me that would absolutely get into the trenches with me … Since Good Kid/Bad
Kid, Ann has flourished and got an associate producer credit on the film.”
At the InkTip Pitch & Networking
Summit Mark befriended some people at
Dreamworks who happened to be seated at his table and got invited on the lot for a screening while in L.A. One connection lead to another, and soon Mark was talking to martial-arts legend Olivier Gruner. The foundation was set for Good Kid/Bad Kid.
Not often can a movie be produced for under six figures and secure an actor like
Olivier. Mark said he never could have networked on that level without InkTip. It was a Hollywood dream.
Good Kid/Bad Kid stars Christopher
Fazio ( Junior High Spy ), David Huizinga, and Hannah Earle, each making their movie debut, with a cameo appearance by
Olivier Gruner ( The Circuit , Nemesis ). It was executive produced by Rob Freeman and co-executive produced by David A.J.
Brown, Mary Ann Brown, Robert Leone, and Judith Leone.
Producers Kelly Rae Irwin and Mark McNabb with Rob Freeman (Executive Producer), Shauna and David Jackson (Showcase Entertainment).
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Although coming to L.A. for the InkTip
Pitch & Networking Summit clearly had its advantages, Mark doesn’t believe that as a producer or a writer you have to live three different productions, and at one of our screenings [in Ontario], he looked out at the capacity audience and said ‘You have a little Hollywood happening right here and you made it yourselves.’ Good, entertaining stories can get told from any small town or big city. It’s all in your approach and maintaining that strong mindset and work ethic.
There is always an audience for those stories.
13 in Hollywood to work in Hollywood.
“‘Hollywood isn’t a place; it’s a state of mind’ seems to be our motto,” he said. “We’ve worked with (‘Rowdy’) Roddy Piper on
“InkTip offers an invaluable resource and networking tool for the producer who is not entirely entrenched in the L.A.-scene.
InkTip cares, and they are relentless in the most positive of ways! Receiving a call from their offices is always a shot in the creative arm. It’s comparable to IMDb as far as being that must-go-to site for all your producing needs. Every form of writing, every level of budget, at any time, any where you are. We’ve been on the patio of the American Film Market, jumping onto
InkTipPro to check out a synopsis before a quick-pitch, and we’ve been casually sitting in a living room looking at a writer’s résumé before making that first call.... For the last five years, our best productions have begun and ended with InkTip’s contributions.”
With tenacious and creative executives like Mark McNabb helming the company,
Skylight Films would have flourished in the industry with their family-friendly films regardless of their location in a small oil town in Ontario. However, InkTip helped the company reach their goals faster by providing an easy resource to find amazing writing talent.
“For Skylight Films, being able to truly entertain a global family audience has always been our goal,” Mark said. “It took many years of networking, collaboration with skilled writers and talent – behind and in front of the camera, all combined with hard work, to accomplish this. We personally celebrate that achievement each and every time one of our movies airs on television!”
And now, with distribution deals in place for Skylight Film’s latest three productions, we all will have the chance to enjoy their achievements with them.
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Comedy
After Life Lewis Lustman
After a supernatural snafu, a rising pop star dies before her time and is given a new life in the body of an unscrupulous social media magnate. All she has to do to get her career back on track is change everything about her reincarnated self that made her successful in the first place.
Angel Pays a Visit Bill Spencer and Carolyn Elkins
A serious kindergarten teacher just wants to be left alone, but then a fun-loving, wise-cracking angel crashes into her attic and challenges almost everything she believes: how to mow the lawn, how to behave in the Walmart, and whether it’s better to laugh or cry.
Back in the Mix C.J. Connoy and Aileen Connoy
Two ’80s hip-hop dance crew buddies resurrect their friendship 25 years later to win their old high school’s talent show.
Bad Rap Allen Zeleski
While on their way to perform at a concert in Las Vegas, the spoiled, ego-driven, bling-covered hip-hop rappers make a wrong turn in the desert and discover that fame and fortune can be lost in the blink of an eye.
Barrel Roll Robert Kirschten
Framed as a fraud and fired by corrupt academic administrators, a history professor of 18th Century machines clears his name the only way he can – by using his antique technology to go over
Niagara Falls in a barrel. (Winner: Best Screenplay Red Wasp
Film Festival. “Best Comedy” Woods Hole Film Festival.)
The Beneficiary
Carmine Famiglietti and Eric Friedberg
Recent college graduate and scam artist, Bruce Vogel, stumbles onto a scam too big to resist. He has to outsmart the cops and Mafia in order to collect a two million dollar life insurance policy for which he is not the beneficiary.
Capture the Flag, Eh? David McPete
It’s the 50th Annual Capture the Flag game between Grebe,
Canada, and Mammoth Heights, USA – a contest that Grebe has never won. But when 16-year-old Bobby is the first
Canadian to grab the flag, it’s a wild race to the finish – and perhaps the greatest upset in history.
Characters Matt Mullins and Chris Naylor
At a cheesy theme park where the roaming performers are divided into elitist “face” actors and downtrodden furry costumed “characters,” a lone hamster makes his stand.
Chasing Don Juan Ted Gurich
A mousy schoolteacher must work with the wild sister who slept with her husband to find a colorful bandito before hapless money smugglers do. At stake, the very life of the pot-smoking mother they detest. Action, danger, comedy, romance. (First
Place – 2011 Creative World Awards; First Place – 2012 Reel
Author Awards; Top 100 Scripts - 2013 Scriptapalooza contest)
Christmas at Harvest Moon Dannie O’Connor
The residents of an over-regulated retirement community come to life when they try to hide two small visiting children over the Christmas holiday.
Chubby Chasers Michael Dugan
A plan to open a topless bar with overweight strippers as a tax-scam business failure backfires. Chubby chasers discover it and make it a gold mine that’s a magnet for the IRS.
Dead Cat Bounce Ben Coles
A hapless fiction writer with a debt to a ruthless loan shark must use his imagination to repay what he owes before his life story ends.
Death Tax Alan Adler
A cast of demented characters, goaded by greed, fear the government has other plans for their inheritance and plot their parents’ demise with the end of the tax year. (Dark Comedy)
The Diagnosis Autumn Michele Echols
Seth is down on his luck. What he thinks is rock bottom is still just the top of the cliff when he is diagnosed with breast cancer. The diagnosis, though, takes him on a journey with his female counterparts that he would have never expected.
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Comedy
Do Not Remove D.J. Richardson
When a shy, risk-averse young man accepts a dare to tear a mattress tag free, it unleashes a series of escalating adventures that teach him that life is about taking risks. (Grand Prize winner of the 2003 Final Draft Big Break, but never widely distributed around town.)
My Soon to Be Ex Zvonko Leskovar
An irritable mother must choose between job and revenge, as she becomes best friends with her new boss and next wife of her soon to be ex.
Everything But Love Lisa Johnson Mitchell and Joseph Dial
Two seemingly opposite advertising creatives with OCD compete in the cutthroat world of Madison Avenue in the ’80s while trying to manage the relationships they are drowning in, until their shared pathology brings them together.
Never Too Late Dannie O’Connor
Impulsively an elderly couple decide to run away and take their long-deserved first honeymoon, causing their adult children to be at odds with the idea as they attempt to capture their parents and bring them back home.
Fixing Emma John Parker
Thanks to aliens, Cathy’s grandmother is now younger than her, stronger than her, attracting more guys than her, and pulling her into crazy adventures.
Freaked! Heather Wilson
A lovesick everyman has to rescue his girlfriend from a
Halloween party after everyone turns into their costumes.
Pink Slip Martin Blank
When a man learns he is due $1 million if he is let go from his job, he aggressively tries to get his boss to fire him, while his boss fights to force him to quit.
Playing the Rush David Battistella
Alec, an about-to-be married waiter, finds his past comes back to haunt him. He’s unknowingly involved in a gambling scheme involving a co-worker. While thugs converge on the restaurant to collect debts – money he never bet – Alec needs to save himself from gangsters and rescue the wedding with
Jane, who believes he’s broken his promise to never gamble.
Fright Club Jennifer Bielli
Three bad-ass babes, fiercely equipped with fists of fury and an arsenal of firearms, mallets, and machete, become the killing machines they were born to be as they battle a werewolf epidemic brought on by a secret ingredient in a locally made doughnut, resulting in horrible physical mutations and an even nastier disposition. Guns. Knives. Knockers. Need we say more?
The President’s Dog is Missing Patricia Ecklund-Ruch
Dozens of inept U.S. government snafus occur when the president’s prize pet is dognapped, leading to a possible international incident.
Funeral Crashers Bruce Mortensen
An extremely shy woman goes to her aunt’s funeral, has an out-of-body experience, where she is told she is now the family mystic. She is now able to channel talents, information, and education from the newly departed. When her friends find out, they start shopping the obituaries for the gifts they want to acquire.
Reality Cheque Georges Salo
A brilliant non-conformist and computer hacker works at dead-end jobs in a way that forces his contemporaries to face their failure. Until one day he meets a woman that can match his intellect and his whole world changes – or does it?
Generation Games Annabel Honor-Lissi
When three misfit teens put on a play for the troublesome seniors at the local residential home, they all find a new lease on life.
Short Mission Gene Chepovetsky
A Russian computer geek and his beautiful-but-hostile CIA colleague, tasked with stopping a Russian gang from draining
American bank accounts, can’t seem to break into the gang’s computer without being shot at; but the hairier their situation gets, the deeper they fall in love.
Ghetto Ghost Hunters Delaina Waldron
A local group of amateur ghost hunters are the last resort for saving a NYC housing project that’s being overrun by ghosts.
Hold Your Piece D.J. Richardson
The lives of several men in NYC are thrown into disarray by the difficulties each encounters trying to maintain a healthy relationship with his best friend – his penis (edgy, ensemble comedy).
Hotel School: Cain and Unable Robert Kirschten
When his hotel magnate father dies, a failed, good-hearted hippie will inherit a hotel chain if he successfully completes hotel school. Current CEO of the chain, his stepbrother from hell, enrolls at the same school to sabotage him and steal his fortune. (Winner: Best Screenplay Red Wasp Film Festival.
Finalist: Gulf Coast Film and Video Festival.)
Silver Belles Renee Davis and Nancy Farnsworth
When life-long pals in their 70s take a nostalgic and heart-warming road trip, secrets from their spirited childhood rattle foundations and reshape hearts, sparking new life in old friendships. (Dramedy)
Soldier of Missed Fortune Georges Salo
The U.S. government creates a modern-day bionic man on a shoestring budget.
The Spy Who Loathed Me Chris Westphal
For FBI Special Agent Terrence Tillberry, being in love with
Petra Tarasova is wonderful, except for two things: First, she’s in the KGB. Second, she can’t stand him. (Book for adaptation)
Last of the McLanneys Paul Pouthier
A supposed curse on their family name sends two orphaned brothers on the quest of their lives.
Under Hypnosis Maurice Hicks
The jealousy mounts in Justin Nichols, which results in his action of luring his younger brother Chase Nichols to a hypnotist to help Chase conquer his challenge of loving only one woman, but little does he know about Justin’s true agenda.
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16 Q
A with
Barry’s work was discovered through our script listing service on InkTip in 2007 by
Skylight Films. He’s been working with the production company ever since, penning family-friendly films like Junior High Spy and Ghost Trap .
Barry: I wrote my first screenplay Vivid
Gray, which won top honors on a couple of peer-review websites. It was that script which Mark McNabb downloaded from
InkTip as a writing sample. The resulting first “writer for hire” project with Mark was the beginning of an amazing work relationship and of course has opened other doors for me as well.
InkTip: Ann, you met Mark at an InkTip
Pitch Summit. How did that meeting turn into Good Kid/Bad Kid ?
InkTip: Networking is a huge hurdle for writers. What advice on networking do you have for other writers?
Fortunately for both writers and producers,
InkTip offers a variety of ways to market your screenplay or find the right writer or script for your next project. Skylight Films discovered both Ann Kimbrough and
Barry Cowan through different services offered by InkTip. Producer/director Mark
McNabb met Ann face to face at our InkTip
Pitch & Networking Summit when she sat down across from him at a table to pitch her scripts. Her conviction for the screenwriting craft was clear to Mark, who hired her to pen the family action Good Kid/Bad Kid .
Ann: I met Mark and his producing partner
Kelly Rae Irwin at a Pitch Summit. They requested my screenplay, but I also had a chance to talk with them informally at the
Summit’s cocktail party. About a month later, Mark called me saying he loved my script and writing style, but he had an idea of the script he wanted to film and asked if he could pitch the idea to me. He did; I loved it and signed on to the project.
InkTip: And Barry, how did your partnership with Mark develop?
Ann: It’s important to get to L.A., whether screenwriters do it virtually or in person.
The more you can get out there and pitch, the more you are able to promote yourself as a writer that pitches high concepts. To get better at writing high concepts, I’m a believer in joining a screenwriter group for support and feedback.
Barry: I’ve enjoyed working closely with two producers up here in Canada, but of course the Canadian market is much smaller, so I do my best to maximize our smaller budgets while aiming for a story that will cross over to the U.S. market as well.
InkTip: How was it different writing a script for hire vs. your own spec?
Ann: Since Mark gave me freedom to shape the storyline, it felt like I was writing a spec. The parameters he gave me, regarding filming locations, were like pieces of a puzzle. They made the writing easier, as they helped shape the story’s action. Mark’s insights about the two main characters and the buddy-picture feel of their relationship also jumpstarted my writing. Knowing the main charGood Kid/Bad Kid Hot Air Balloon
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Christopher Fazio and David Huizinga as Marco and Preston.
acters made it easy to create the world they lived in to tell a story filled with action and intrigue. I found the whole process rewarding and enjoyed working with Mark!
weave whatever story I could imagine.
So, he gave me a lot of freedom.
InkTip: Do you prefer to write one style of genre over another?
Barry: Mark and I have a terrific working relationship, and it’s an honor to have been accepted so wholeheartedly into his team. Mark will call me up with a basic idea or concept which we then kick around between us. He’ll also give me a set of criteria, which can be anything from having the main roles written for particular actors, a cool set or location he has lined up, etc. to budgetary concerns which could be anything from the level of effects to the number of shooting days required for a particular part. From that,
I’ll come up with a storyline and write a solid treatment and anything else
Mark may need.
InkTip: For Good Kid/Bad Kid, said he was inspired by Die Hard
Mark
. What direction did you decide to take with the script and characters?
Barry: I’ve had a few moments of trepidation before jumping into new genres, but once I was into the script and the plot lines were meshing and the characters were breathing on their own I’ve thoroughly enjoyed writing in a wide variety of genres including Action, Sci-Fi/
Disaster, Comedy, Westerns, Fantasy/
Adventure, Thrillers, and even a musicbased Supernatural/Thriller.
Ann: I write action and thrillers and find that both genres share a lot of story beats.
I can’t say that I prefer one over the other, but I have noticed that both benefit from a little humor … I like to write contained films when I write specs, so I’m a huge fan of all those scripts, like Hard Candy .
A contained script has its own challenges and special needs, so when I see a contained movie, I try to find the script. I’m a huge fan of a script that has limited actors and limited locations, but manages to knock you out with suspense and tension. I strive for that in my scripts.
Ann: Mark knew he wanted a story with a good cop/bad cop dynamic but with kids. I took the direction that these opposite personalities were BFFs because they respected each other. They also made a perfect team of brains and brawn. Mark also had a bunch of filming locations, and those worked as great parameters to my storytelling. He even called me at one point and said he had access to two hot air balloons, so he could be in one balloon and film the actors in the other one.
I quickly wrote a fun scene for the main characters and the balloon. It became an amazing third act plot twist. Mark allowed me to take all these elements and
InkTip: Many scripts never leave the development shelves or get distribution.
Your work is part of a distribution deal that Skylight has packaged. How do you feel knowing your work will be available for families to see?
Ann: I’m thrilled! When I enter any project, my first goal is for it to get produced.
I’m 100% behind doing whatever I can, on my end, to make that happen. It impressed me early on, that Mark and his team felt
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the same way. I’m excited for all of us to have Good Kid/Bad Kid released!
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InkTip: What rituals do you have for writing a script?
Ann: I believe in outlining and creating a detailed beat sheet of all the scenes in the script. Then, it’s just about coffee, chocolate and having fun!
InkTip: What advice can you give other writers who are trying to get their foot in the door?
Barry: Always remember that making movies is, above all else, still a business.
InkTip: What are you working on now?
Ann: I’m working on a contained thriller for Frozen Fish Productions, set to film in 2015. I’ve also optioned a short story and am turning it into a contained horror script that is scary fun to write! In addition, I turned one of my spec scripts into a romantic suspense book series.
The first book is now on Amazon, titled
Scarlet Revenge under my pen name Ann
McGinnis. I’m working on book two and taking the concept a step further by creating a TV pilot around my main character: overconfident FBI analyst Caycee
Scarlet who loses her job, juggles two love interests, and has a knack for finding serial killers.
InkTip: How has InkTip benefited your career?
Ann: Without InkTip, I wouldn’t be a produced screenwriter. I’d like to think
I’d have gotten there eventually, but
InkTip certainly made it happen faster.
I did try other avenues, but not all of them give writers direct access to buyers.
InkTip, however, puts screenwriters into contact with working producers. My thanks for all InkTip does for screenwriters! You’re the best!
Barry: I’ll always be thankful to InkTip for bringing my work to the attention of
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Adventures of Billy Owens and the script for the sequel, Billy Owens and the Secret of the Runes , it has opened the gates for a fun ride of more commissioned scripts over the years.
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Comedy – Crime/Murder/Mystery
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Unfriend Me Kristy Griggs
A mild-mannered woman must get all of her Facebook friends to
“unfriend” her in seven days in order to inherit 10 million dollars.
Unstably Yours Aaron Victor Vaughn
Joe just wants to be a good, provocative shrink, but Joe hears voices, and one of his patients is spying on him, and another patient is trying to kill him.
The V Club Steven Bolia
After a scandal, a free-spirited loner is forced to transfer to a strict Catholic high school, where the popular girls recruit her to help them lose their virginities without losing their reputations. For the first time in her life, she finds acceptance, but it comes at the cost of her individuality.
Where Turtles Hide Dannie O’Connor
Two women trying to save their business go in search of their reclusive client in a quirky little town. Unknowingly they have stepped into a community filled with bizarre people and nonconventional ways of passing time.
The Wrath of Gran Gary Sharp
Blamed by his estranged, cantankerous Gran for his Grandad’s death, a cheapskate blues pianist must survive a journey from hell with her, and a smuggled crocodile, to claim his inheritance.
Crossword Robert Kirschten
Puzzle within a puzzle. Game inside a game. Falsely charged with murder and an art-forgery heist, a sports journalist solves the crimes he’s accused of, then battles the real villain – a crooked police captain who is a crossword puzzle mastermind
– by discovering clues in an electronic crossword puzzle played like the puzzle board on “Wheel of Fortune.”
The Great Makeover John Edward Flynt
A naïve farm girl who dreams of being beautiful reaches the finals of “The Great Makeover” reality show, but after being used as an enticing sexual pawn and implicated in a highprofile murder, she must reinvent herself again and scour the underbelly of Hollywood to catch the real killer.
Hollywood Ending Drew Deighan
A San Francisco reporter is banished to 1937 Los Angeles in order to dry out and get his head on straight. Instead he becomes involved in one of the most infamous unsolved mysteries of Hollywood: the murder of Silent Film director
William Desmond Taylor.
I Wonder What the Vintners Buy Lillian Savage
Rayleen wants her boyfriend Stan to kill her husband. When their plans are overheard, she wants that woman dead too, leaving the inept, homeless winos who also overheard the plot to struggle with an unwanted responsibility.
Pacific Anti-Terrorist Unit: Nectar of Passion
Georges Salo
The Pacific Anti-Terrorist Unit is created under the auspices of the department of Homeland Security. A tsunami washes bodies on shore, and PATU is asked to assist in solving this bizarre set of murders which unveil a nefarious and sinister plot in the making. Can PATU decipher and terminate the plot in time?
Pacific Anti-Terrorist Unit (PATU): Drug Habit
Georges Salo
Cancer, “the scourge of modern man,” is yet incurable, although French and American scientists have discovered that in part viruses and retroviruses cause it. No cure is available as it may be that drug companies stand to make more profit from abating the symptom rather than curing the disease, thereby perpetuating a drug habit.
Pacific Anti-Terrorist Unit: Reap the Harvest Georges Salo
A criminal, needing an entry point for his weapons and drugs, finances a Honolulu mayor’s re-election campaign. Upon winning it, the mayor reneges on his deal. He is dispatched, replaced with his compliant deputy mayor. PATU must solve two seemingly unrelated events in order to stop the proliferation of weapons and drugs. Are they too late; does he reap his harvest?
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Redemption Georges Salo
After a powerful drug lord wipes out his competition, he goes after the only man that stands in his way of taking over
Manhattan: a decorated New York City detective.
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The Speed of Darkness Daryl Hanson
A down-and-out detective taking on a cold case gets more than he bargained for when he finds the supernatural in the mix. (Think “Last Boy Scout” meets “Sixth Sense”)
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California Love Evaughn High
Chad Jacobs an egotistical, 29-year-old Jewish male, has karma taboo love fascination with African-American women.
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Steal Away Jon Paul Reese
A notorious gangster sets out to retrieve a file containing sensitive documents connecting members of the Secret Service to illegal and illicit dealings with the Uzbekistan Mafia.
Cautious, yet so naïve, he walks blindly into the perilous world of the Secret Service.
Casino Intrigue Georges Salo
Inspired by a true story of a casino security guard, Tony Ricci, who is passionate about his work, but disrespected by his wife. Tony eventually finds his true calling through his wife’s extramarital deceit. Their struggle is set against the backdrop of a casino, showcasing the true sleazy nature of that business.
Wurttemberg Shepherd Joan Lask
A German Shepherd confiscated by the SS and trained to kill prisoners in the concentration camps is sent with other police dogs to hunt down an escapee, who turns out to be his former master.
Children of the World Zvonko Leskovar
A son’s promise to his deceased father starts a nationwide movement that his best friend’s greed for fame threatens to turn into a worldwide catastrophe.
3D at the Palace Kent Wilson
A high school senior is determined to keep his newly deceased father’s dream alive by saving the family’s movie theatre from the growing threat of television in the 1950s – encountering first love, family division, and racism in this coming-of-age drama/comedy set in a small Midwestern town.
Bader Field; How My Family Survived Suicide
Carl David
The inspirational story of a high-profile art dealing family’s journey to survive without answers after one of their sons takes his life. Shown through the realistic visions of their youngest child, now a parent himself, then just 16. A masterful portrayal of love, forgiveness, and acceptance. Emotionally gripping with an inside look at the mysterious art world. (Book for adaptation)
Circle in the Sand Fredrick Corbin
The aftermath of absentee fatherism and a late coming of age leads into relationship difficulty for two individuals in love.
Count Roller Skates Todd Gordon
A charismatic, roller-skating carnival performer, obsessed with transforming America into a utopia on wheels, is done in by a greedy impresario, a manipulative patron of the arts, and a horse-diving femme fatale in early 20th Century New Orleans.
Crossing the Red Line Michael Alberstadt
With his mother in prison for a crime he committed, a closeted hockey player with pro aspirations must guard his secrets and navigate the league’s production of a tell-all documentary about his team in order to make it to the NHL Entry Draft.
Beverly Starr Ana Mayorga
A reality star struggles to find her place in the world after her fall from stardom.
Dear Gavin Carl D. Lord
When a devout college hoop star is removed from his team for being raised under an alias identity by his fugitive mother, he must find a way to rejoin his long-shot teammates, and make a run at the Final Four. (“Dear Gavin” is an incredible, dramatic, and uplifting story – Kairos Prize film competition)
Blue Side Up Jordan Ulman
A fighter pilot must choose between continuing to hide his cowardice or saving a friend’s life and suffering the consequences for abandoning his brothers in battle.
The Blues David McPete
Father. Sisters. Bank robbers. Two teenage sisters participate in bank robberies with their father and his gang in order to steal enough money to escape from their father’s criminal lifestyle. The gang does not want anyone to leave, but know they risk a confrontation with pint-size 14-year-old Cassie – an expert gunslinger and the deadliest (and most-feared) member within the gang.
Boxing Day Ben Damon and Kieron Holland
In 1908, Jack Johnson struggles against oppression and prejudice to become the first black Heavyweight Champion of the World.
Desperate Decisions Mort Paterson
An amiable Philadelphia surgeon, formerly a German soldier, who is now targeted for assassination by Nazi hunters, meets and falls in love with the only person who may be able to save him: a woman whom as a young Jewish girl in Poland he saved from the Holocaust.
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Cabbage Juice Frank Hill
A private detective in search of something momentous follows a strange Irish man with a peculiar past carrying a woman’s hand-bag and an old photograph into the Nevada desert.
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Drama
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The Do-Gooders Bradley Mulley
Naïve humanitarian aid workers in Central African Republic fight for survival when all links to the outside world are inexplicably cut off.
Dog Boy Miles Robinson
One drunken punch during a barroom fight reduced boxing great Matt Throroughgood from champ to chump. Ironically, coaching a group of miscreant teens for an underground fight operation may be his last chance for redemption.
Drowning Men Nicki Noermark
Frank, an over-the-hill henchman working for a local mobster, looks to make things right when the prostitute he is paid to protect decides to leave town. The only problem is, the prostitute’s son is the grandson of Frank’s boss, Eric.
The Elves and David Shoemaker Dayle Dodds
When their desperate mother is wrongly accused of holding up a convenience store at Christmas time, three homeless kids seek refuge in a large indoor mall, where they secretly come to the aid of a struggling law student working as a night janitor.
Facing Down the Fear James E. Manning
After losing his wife of many years, a distraught man overcomes his grief and hatred of dogs by rescuing a Bichon named Pickles and again learns the meaning of love.
Faith Found Wanting Margo Trueblood
Tina is a survivor who will do anything to protect her little girl. She discovers that, sometimes, you have to let your guard down in order to receive help getting up.
Gigging Frogs, Beating Kids, Hanging Men Ken Ross
A maximum security prison guard’s family loves him, despite a harshness instilled in him through childhood abuse. He resists his family’s efforts to break the cycle until he forms an unlikely friendship with a former college professor on death row.
Henry Benson James Messerschmidt
In the 1980s, Henry Benson is a rising star in the fashion world who gets his first taste of men, sex, and New York City.
All of his worlds collide in this sexy romantic drama when his girlfriend, boyfriend, and AIDS meet, setting off a chain reaction of events that will change their lives forever.
Hoops Robert Kirschten
Crotchety, old-fashioned basketball coach battles players, administration, alumni, media, a dishonest love interest, gamblers, and his assistant coach son to win his first-ever
NCAA playoff game for his small Catholic college in Boston.
“Hoosiers” meets “That Championship Season.”
How Girls Play Ana Mayorga
Two Miami college girls think they have their lives figured out. But when a new friend enters the picture, it causes their longtime friendship to unravel and their future plans drastically change.
I Love Me More Samuel Simpson
A neglected husband cheats on his wife and falls in love with a woman who fails to reveal to him that she is HIV positive.
Into Battle Hugh Salmon
The true story of two Oxford students who fought a famous feud before WWI but died fighting alongside each other in the same regiment in the same battle on the same day (Hooge, 30
July 1915).
It’s All about Football Jon Paul Reese
A hardened English soccer hooligan is caught between his love of soccer violence and the love he has for his long-time girlfriend. Finding himself forced into making a decision to choose one over the other, he stands to lose the only woman he has ever truly loved.
The Jinx Juan De Biase
Love smitten, a painter succumbs to a creepy affair he can’t get rid off.
June Siew Feng Loh
An arrogant and chauvinistic man has his pride and ego obliterated. He struggles within himself to restore his dignity as he’s too shameful to speak the truth.
Land of Opportunity Andy Kozel and Dave Lease
A cocky, post-college frat boy with a gambling debt finds himself in too deep with the wrong people. In the midst of it all, he finds himself falling for an unlikely partner.
Last Ride to Missouri Patricia Ecklund-Ruch
Story of outlaws, Frank and Jesse James, told from their mother’s perspective. (Jesse was not assassinated. Based on facts.)
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A defeated painter rescues a dog and finds success as a dog trainer obsessed with winning the ultimate trophy only to discover his true calling while drowning.
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Maggie’s Wars Phil Pisani
Learn what one woman must do to make it in a man’s world fighting the ultimate battle between love and prestige, and learning you can’t win them both. (Book for adaptation)
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Marshalling Gen Barb Arnett-Combs
Suspecting their abusive brother-in-law of murder, three socialites, in a race with one of the city’s most prominent
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doctors, set out to avenge their sister’s death by any means necessary amidst one of the deadliest heat waves of 1954.
Meltdown Ben Keegan
During the search for a missing airliner, a female lawyer and a male pilot begin to see every situation as a potential disaster and their high-flying lives enter free-fall.
Midnight Birds George Petrick
A gay man balances his time between an uninspiring, dangerous job and the wild Hollywood-style party life, while seeking the perfect lover.
Drama – Fantasy
Stay Pretty Steven Bolia
In the 1980s, a college graduate becomes a cocaine dealer in the gay New York club scene, while a mysterious illness begins to infect homosexuals everywhere. As his decadent
Utopia begins to crumble, he must learn to face the harsh realities of the changing world around him.
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The Vilification of Ruth Dunn Taylor Albertson
Detective Samantha White is a good cop gone cynical. After a bad medical diagnosis, she sets out to see if she is right or sent an innocent girl to her death. (Good coverage from Screen
Craft. Now a finalist in the Nashville Film Festival 2014.)
A Nice Guy Paul Vincent
Just as he is about to film his first major starring role, the
Broadway star, Tony Tremont, in the throes of a wonderful new romance, is being outed in the tabloids, and it could be a close friend who is doing the outing. The film charts his journey, from his great anger to a universal understanding.
Weavers John Murphy
In modern-day India, an orphan is enslaved at a carpet factory where weavers are abused, until his escape leads to the rescue of all the children.
Nicki Fox Ray Spruill
After watching him abuse her in a violent movie, a lonely delivery guy becomes obsessed with protecting a young actress from her current co-star. Image is one thing, reality is something else.
White Coyote Amber Jay Bessom Cardenas
Young Carlos and his witless Uncle Jorge hire a coyote – an unscrupulous white American – to get them through the
Mexican desert and over the border without getting them lost, killed, or caught.
Othello Shock Giulio Baraldi
When a theatre director wants to put on an unforgettable version of Shakespeare’s Othello, he will end up working with a schizophrenic actor, who is not able to reconcile imagination with reality but perfect for a shocking final scene. But he has only ten days to debut and he is only a director, not a psychiatrist.
Dolphin’s Song Kathy Krantz Stewart
A girl goes back to her past to fix her future with the help of a dolphin. This is a spiritual, family-friendly film. It shows forgiveness, reincarnation, real history in the storyline, and shows how wonderful dolphins are. Original music composed by author of the script. It was just nominated for Best
Screenplay at the Beverly Hills Film Festival 2014.
The Prosecutor David Bortman
In the early ’70s, before Roe v. Wade , a prominent young
Assistant D.A. gets a girl pregnant, and has to arrange for a back-alley abortion. The abortion is botched, the girl dies, and he is assigned to prosecute the abortionist, no one knowing that he’s the one who arranged for the abortion.
Here Comes Krampus Eleanor Stadnyk
Krampus, Santa’s spooky companion, is supposed to punish naughty children, but he becomes confused when little Lexie decides that he is her grandfather. A witch, pursuing Lexie’s family, is also on board the cruise ship. Mischief, magic, and mystery, young and old characters – a fun Christmas fantasy for the whole family. (Setting could be switched to a luxury hotel.) The Recruiters Janelle Lee
A young, frightened boy goes in search of his kidnapped mother who disappeared along with the rest of their village.
Security Kathleen Tobin
A young, 1950s bride struggles to build a perfect life in fearlaced, tragic Cold War America.
Let Me Play Dannie O’Connor
A little girl with heart of a child and the mind of a genius runs away to play, make friends, and find the childhood she has been denied.
Shooting Star Richard Harrison and David Powell
A non-stop, roller coaster ride of a road movie which is blindsided by love and revenge. A modern day “Bonnie and Clyde” meets “American Hustle.”
Fairyland Granville Oluikpe
An average Joe, romantically challenged because he is repressing mysterious supernatural powers, must embrace his dark passions and wild fantasies in order to save his long-lost soul mate and transform their humdrum lives into a magical adventure.
South Beach, Minnesota David Johnson
A backwoods Minnesotan must honor his older brother’s dying request by traveling to Florida to try fishing there. After his truck is vandalized, he must accept the hospitality of two gay men as he gets back on his feet. Delbert learns to adapt and finds belonging and in the process brings together two worlds that have never intersected before.
Legends of Three Kingdoms. Part 1 Tatyana Malyuk
Orphaned girl reveals that she is a princess and magician.
With help of her friend Magmaster and Noble Expert Khok, she decrypts the mystery of the Swords of the Ancients and saves the world from the Ancient Evil.
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Fantasy – Non-Fiction/History
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Rembark, the Painting Dog Roland Hofer
Rolf is a struggling artist who discovers his dog, Rembark, is a better painter than he is.
The War in Heaven Mano Sotelo
An epic tale of two brothers, archangels Michael and Lucifer, from the time of creation to the exile of Lucifer. “The War in
Heaven” is an allegory which explores man’s conflict with the ego and his search for salvation in a reality filled with diversions.
Carpe Noctem Monte Moore
How far would you go to stop a sadistic killer – even when you found out the killer was you?
Claws David Serra
A chef struggles to survive the night at her seafood restaurant when it’s attacked by ferocious humanoid lobsters.
A Pound of Flesh Georges Salo
A criminal boss exhausts all avenues, including whatever his wealth provides, in order to save his terminally ill wife. In a last desperate attempt he offers the most valuable items in his possession – his morals and his soul – to the devil for the life of his one and true love.
The Restoration Laurel Pardo
Three years after the accidental deaths of his wife and two young sons, a cemetery restorer faces a terrible horror that teaches him the importance of letting go.
S.A. Undead Renee S. Ebert
When biogenetic engineers develop new domains of life by retro-engineering viruses in attempt to inoculate every cell within the human genome with regenerative medicine, they unlock a secret more dark than what claws its way from a casket. Join our heroic team of survivalists as they encounter real and breaking-edge crowd control weaponry more creepy than the walking dead.
The Corn Wall Luke Walker
A comet’s imminent return attracts a stargazer and his family to a rural Cornish cottage, as well as the spirit of a murderous witch who needs a body to inhabit and a child to sacrifice.
Will they survive the night or will they succumb to the evil that lurks beyond the corn wall?
Spin the Bottle Jennifer Bielli
A game of spin the bottle descends into a fight for survival among high school seniors. As their friends drop dead around them, these uppity teens seem more concerned with who will end up on homecoming court than who will end up on the slab. As the old saying goes: if you can’t beat ’em, kill ’em!
Cyril the Smarter Phone Bruce Mortensen
A psycho-sexual woman plots the murder of her ex asking her cell phone questions. Soon the cell phone is playing an active role planning the murder as it starts importing the psychic cloud of her emotions. A relationship is formed, as she abandons Cyril, he uses what he has learned from her for revenge.
Summer of Blood Robert Armstrong
When friends team up to write an exploitation script, they find that making a horror movie can be murder.
Demon Vampires Patricia Ecklund-Ruch
Not just “another vampire story” when demons are released from Stonehenge. Script contains sex, comedy, transfiguration, mutation, and terror.
Surge James Watts
When four NASA scientists are sent to an isolated top-secret
Mars Rover command bunker in Alaska to find out why the previous team was killed, they become trapped and must battle deadly surges of viral radio waves being transmitted from Mars.
Kukudhi Phillip Antonucci
After moving to America, an Albanian immigrant and her family are followed by an ancient evil intent on their destruction.
Legacy Marc Johnson
A biochemist confronts family secrets and betrayal when a vengeful werewolf ravages her life.
Until the Day We Die Thomas Berntsen
As four inner city teens steal a car on a hot summer’s day to escape to the beach for the day, they stumble across a body in the boot of the car and suddenly find themselves hunted by a pair of vicious Asian gangsters who in reality are ancient sinister demons.
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Lion of God Art Ayris
He was called a Hebrew of Hebrews but became the most famous spokesmen of the early Christian faith until his beheading in Nero’s prison. A cinematic epic of the life and journeys of the legendary Paul of Tarsus.
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The Niihau Incident Norm Thomas
The true story of a bizarre chain of events that unfold when the peaceful villagers on Hawaii’s “Forbidden Island” of Niihau welcome a Japanese pilot who crashes on their secluded isle, unaware of his role attacking Pearl Harbor, but soon must rise to defend their land together in a fateful week that changed the course of American history.
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Prisoner No.7 Chris Fuller
When Prisoner No.7 at Spandau prison mysteriously dies, a fascinating story of espionage and counter-espionage emerges despite the efforts of the British authorities to suppress the truth.
The Advent of Summer Marlene Comet
An artist embroiled in a love triangle finds true love when she takes her deceased father’s place in a “gold cup” polo tournament. Based on the novel “The Advent of Summer” written by Morgan Campbell (screenwriter owns rights to the novel).
Inherit a Marriage (I AM) Georges Salo
Traditional and modern values collide for an Indian lesbian who must return to India to attend her father’s funeral. Upon arriving in India with her partner, she discovers that she must marry in order to uphold her family’s rank and stature.
Why I Cheat: Men, Marriage, and Cheating
Timothy Patten
Stories that women hate. Stories for men only. Watch how he gets back at her bitching ways in “Why I Cheat.” The start of the new men’s movement. (Book for adaptation)
Bowmaker Alan Adler
The gods didn’t die in Ancient Greece; they’re in low-income housing in NYC. Cupid, god of love, is threatening to retire, convinced the world sees him as a box of chocolates and a
Hallmark card. He wants out. But a little indiscretion shows up, claiming to be his son, challenging him to spread the love and pass the torch.
Can’t Hurry Love Alan Adler
Evangeline and Gabriel, victims of religious persecution, are separated on their wedding day in 1755. Two hundred fifty years later, destiny gives them another chance as Evan and Gabby, two middle-aged Jews that wouldn’t know karma from kasha.
Double John Robert Field
An underachieving stagehand who aspires to act finds a better version of himself taking over every aspect of his life.
Non-Fiction/History – Romantic Comedy friends play along with her fantasy. A charismatic musician who is unaware of her condition falls in love with her, and she begins to return to reality until his checkered past is revealed.
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The Pinocchio Paradox Todd Gordon
Peter Pine, a Brooklyn slacker who is a direct descendant of
Pinocchio and shares his quirky traits, battles – and then falls in love with – an uptight female caseworker with her own fairy-tale issues, who is determined to confine Peter’s beloved grandfather to a nursing home because of Peter’s unintentional neglect.
Rhyme or Reason
Armando Fente, Jr. and Robert Fente
A meek professor, vying for tenure, is hopelessly in love with the fiancée of his corrupt boss, the dean. After the ghost of a macho writer helps him win her, the professor faces losing his career and love life when the ghost pressures him to expose the dean, who has published the ghost’s private love poems as his own.
Score Big, Lose Big Nick E. Warsaw
A Las Vegas tale about two young billionaires blowing off steam over a one-month period – bets are on, sex is off, and love is in the air! A recipe for excitement.
Something About Roses Nancy Bruce
A cosmopolitan relationship counselor fights love at every turn, only to find it (with her dad’s unwanted help) in the town she swore she’d never live!
Still Life Steven Bolia
A charming video store clerk struggling to make it in
Hollywood decides to orchestrate the career of a shy and socially awkward co-worker when she discovers he has something she doesn’t – real talent. As they begin to fall in love, the only thing keeping them apart is her inability to get over the heartbreak of her first marriage.
Timothy Little Mario Martin
An exuberant young man groomed for corporate-style leadership fails miserably to connect. Booted from his cocooned environment he’ll either get it … oh boy, does he get it!
Fifteen Years Harry Cardillo
After being separated for 15 years, a college couple reunites to find that even though love never dies, time doesn’t stand still.
Jitters Chris Westphal
Seth and Emma were perfectly happy living together. Then,
Seth had to do something stupid. He proposed.
Love is Forever Patricia McLaine
They met before they were born and in their dreams – with the promise they would meet again on a carousel in the year
2000 – because love is forever!
The Perfect Guy Steven Bolia
After an accident, a young woman does not realize her perfect fiancé is an illusion only visible to her because her family and
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Tubular Romance Robert Fallin
A brash American PR agent, Bob, goes to Beijing for
Hypertube, a 4,000 mph maglev system. China and Russia have Hypertube and want to sell it to the West. In Beijing,
Bob meets Li, a beautiful Chinese executive for Hypertube.
Together, they cross Europe by rail and, along the way, Bob and Li find more in common than “business.”
Tyrannosaurus Sex Robert Kirschten
A straight woman disguises herself as a man to get a job at a natural history museum, then falls in love with her straight male boss who reciprocates and, thinking she’s a man, tries to turn gay. The young woman must untangle the tangle to win the man she loves. Imagine “Tootsie” in “Night at the Museum.”
The Abduction Ester Lopez
A reclusive man is abducted and betrayed by aliens and his struggles to escape and return to Earth brings the realization that his happiness lies elsewhere.
Alien Man Georges Salo
Twelve thousand years ago, modern man existed and was regarded by the indigenous population as gods, hence
Alien Man. These different groups of modern men, along with their indigenous, less-evolved people go to war for each other’s resources.
Angel of the Earth Najeem Ayoola
Having escaped several captures and tortures, an alien boy suffers an endless chase for a crime committed by his ghost twin brother.
Cell Wars Jay Klapperman
Enter the human body, a bustling metropolis, as a genetically engineered man fights alongside the personification of the immune system whose forces battle the biggest terrorist of all time, a man called Cancer who threatens the life of an unborn child.
Cosmic Swan Bill Copeland
A geologist, studying the cause of massive earthquakes in south Asia, discovers they are caused by the hatching from deep in the Earth of a giant alien egg.
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The Decimation Catherine Arne
After an unexplained phenomenon sweeps the planet causing all babies to be born anatomically female, an ordinary teenaged girl gives birth to the first male child in seven years and is faced with an unimaginable choice which could cost her life and determine the fate of all mankind.
The Deserter Ronald Brown
While working an H.P. Lovecraft-type case, a Los Angeles PI reunites with an abductee friend thought dead 20-something years before who asks his help in evading hostile aliens hunting him and his baby son.
Earthman II William E. Dyson, III
Dream of space travel takes hold of a African-American farm girl who is visited by aliens. A battle ensues between
U.S. military and the aliens. Her mother is killed. Escaping with the aliens, she later in time becomes Commander
Laura of Ira 1 star system. Confrontations in her life journeys and romance with an Earthman named Bill leads to more adventures.
The Half Mad King Robert Field
Guided by visions, a stardrive engineer tries to save his long dead sister from conspiratorial forces. He may be mad, but he may also be right.
The Last Iceberg
Anne Ousby and Colin Stewart
Based on the gripping novel, “The Last Iceberg,” Maya
Johnson, a troubled, teen crime operative, is on the run from her murderous president for a crime she didn’t commit, while he plots to steal the next election and ultimately the world.
Legacy Steven Bolia
A high school science geek inherits superpowers when he travels through a wormhole to an alien planet. Upon his return, he realizes he is the only one who can stand between two warring ancient alien species that plan to use Earth as their final battleground.
M-B.R.E.O. David Mandel
Beatrice Coeur carries the future of mankind in her belly – and on her shoulders. The top-secret Project M-B.R.E.O. promises to change the game forever by changing what it means to be human. But some people may not want that to change. “Looper” meets “Children of Men.”
Mail Order Bride Bot Byron Marsh
Engaged to marry the heir to a computer fortune, a struggling robotics engineer falls for an android he is field testing and must choose between a safe future in a super-rich, overcontrolling family or a zany 300IQ machine.
Master Connections
Colin K. Stewart and Ronald Townsen
A secret U.S. research team battles Russians, Chinese, and terrorists while tapping into alien transmissions across the universe. (Book for adaptation)
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May Your House Be Safe from Tigers Patrick Norton
When a construction company employee loses his job, he sinks into a depression that leads him to join a community of misfits devoted to learning about the race of alien lizards who secretly rule Earth.
Sci-Fi – Suspense/Thriller
Landry discovers a connection to an exorcism the Church says never happened. What she discovers is that sometimes the darkest secrets are perceptions of reality.
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Odyssey Bourne Force
Debbie Renner and Deborah Louise Robinson
An ancient stone doorway opens to worlds of adventure, action, and extreme enemies.
Sunstone S-59 Hugh Mason and Jens (Pil) Pilegaard
In 1962, a government black budget unit deployed a quantum web of time, projecting an assassin’s consciousness 50 years into the future to silence a threat to their operation.
The Aura of Truth John L. Vitez, Jr.
Two brothers become unwittingly involved in the downfall of the Aura Technology, in a past life. Ironically, reviving the technology becomes their only salvation now.
Bocas Thomas Barron
Gringo, a tropical-island bartender, seeks female companion for cold drinks and warm water. Cheaters and drug lords need not apply. (Currently a quarter-finalist in Amazon
Breakthrough Novel Award. Book for adaptation.)
Tales from Beyond the Stars Ronald Brown
Four embittered scientists on a corporate space station prove a machine of their own invention capable of streaming thought and spoken words into 3D images by using it as a personal amusement – a dire misuse of a company asset that, if discovered, carries severe penalties.
Burning Rage Don Banting
An ugly, lonely woman treated cruelly all her life turns first to arson for revenge and then kidnapping in the hopes of getting her hostage to fall in love with her.
Catch the Rain John Keckhaver
Drawn in by a medical mystery, a former field doctor leads her team back into danger and mayhem.
Tumble Dustin Kahia and Robert Browning
A blackmailed scientist must use his wiles and memoryaltering technology to change the perception of past events and save what’s left of his family. (2014 Finalist Nashville
Film Festival, top 43 out of 1,511 submissions.)
The Cutter Alix Reeves
A late night morgue tech at L.A. County Hospital discovers that cadavers are being used to smuggle pharmaceuticals. He agrees to take part in the lucrative scheme, until he finds the smuggling includes viable human organs taken from homeless people off the streets of Skid Row.
Two Eternal Marcin Dachowski
Two aliens land on nearly unrecognizable Earth where they battle futuristic creatures and search for the final piece of a universe-probing device.
Utopia, Almost John Gascoigne
In 2030 peace has finally won, but the Yeats’s are in conflict.
Each heads to a new territory, he to one for physical recreation, she to neighboring “Arcadia” to enjoy the arts. Competing for members, the Physicals play dirty. Harvey, missing Janet, crosses the border to try to win her back. He double strikes, ending sabotage and healing a nation.
Dante’s Island Georges Salo
A wealthy eccentric orchestrates a reality show to find and exact his revenge on those that killed his family.
The Dead Ringer Suzanne Lutas
Bearing an uncanny resemblance to the mistress of a Londonbased Chinese Triad boss, an ordinary waitress is trained by
MI5 to infiltrate the gang and bring them down.
Determination Charles Reap, Jr.
In a bizarre occurrence, two different parties plan to kidnap a wealthy man’s grown daughter, only to have to first one to snag her die after stashing her. She must extricate herself via her own guile, as a chase for the second villains runs to the Virgin Islands.
Americon John Murphy
San Francisco ex-cops battle homegrown terrorists with a
Cold War missile targeted on the Golden Gate Bridge.
And I Dwelt in the Land of Nod Parker Briscoe
Winter 1885: a Canadian Northwest Mounted Police officer is assigned to apprehend an illegal whiskey trader, but the two men must fight for survival in the wilderness as they are hunted by an insane cannibal with a pack of wolves.
Another Man’s Son Randy Bixby
An amoral man must make a moral decision when an assassin is hired to kill the man who adopted his son.
The Devils’ Cradle Naomi Lamont
With the aid of a mysterious man, a woman and her son go on the run from an abusive husband and his brother – a sadistic cop – only to discover her rescuer has his own plans for her.
Erebus Giovanni Taveras
Set against the backdrop of World War II, a captain must lead his men into Germany’s Hurtgen Forest, where not only must they battle Nazis but a diabolical supernatural force that could ultimately tear them apart.
Apocrypha Mishelle Wendel
When cryptic handwriting links a convicted murderer to a young girl he has never met, Special Investigator Emma
False Memory Melvin Moore
A woman’s search into the mystery surrounding her sister’s death stirs horrific memories and exposes a cover-up of molestation and murder.
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The Final Convert Gena Somra
A religious scholar risks everything to save a child from an ominous end of days prophecy, only to realize there are those that will stop at nothing to ensure that prophecy is fulfilled.
usurped by a private collector and return it to the museum. He devises the scheme with such complexity as to also gain the love of his life.
First Contact at Cabo Rojo David Thorndill
An eccentric biology professor is taken to Cabo Rojo, Puerto
Rico, by the FBI to contact kidnappers who took the president and his yacht, but he discovers the kidnappers are Navy-trained dolphins who demand protection of whales and dolphins, but they attack a whaling fleet with weapons they have salvaged.
Forgotten Christopher Kwun
The world freezes at the brink of World War III when the
United States and China battle over North Korea’s nuclear missile facilities when North Korea’s regime collapses. The villain, a rogue Chinese spy agent, has delusions of grandeur with plans to seize North Korean land and claim as China’s own. But his plans are foiled by China’s president and colleague friend (hero).
A Lancaster Lad William Eaton
Death in no-man’s land turns a WWI German soldier into a British hero. How can the authorities untangle this classic blunder?
Lesser2evils Ann Kimbrough
In a secret interrogation facility, a rookie female FBI analyst struggles to contain a serial killer – her only hope is to join forces with a devious bomber. (Paperback released in January 2014)
Little Giant Bujor Ovidiu
A little girl seems to be the major obstacle in the way of some
Russian lunatics that are about to start the Third World War.
Friends of Iscariot Allen Zeleski
Four thieves are befriended by a blind priest, who offers them absolution of their sins if they help him rob a bank.
Genie Mike Logsdon
A hit man sets out to finish off his father, a serial killer whom he saw strangle his mother when he was little, then learns another dark secret about him that could cost both men their lives.
Look the Other Way Michael Joshua and Patrick Foley
A rape on the weekend of a reunion to celebrate a wedding turns a small community upside down. No longer can anyone look the other way!
Man in the Window Renaldo Primas
Jarvis Winston, one of the few Negro Army officers in the mid
1950s, is profiled and charged with treason. LSD is used as a truth serum. He’s vindicated, but the after-effects ruin his life.
“The Deer Hunter” meets “Traitor.” (In 1992, I won an AFI
Writers Workshop Award for this screenplay.)
The Gunness Farm Michael Angelo Bernacchi
The calculated life of America’s most prolific female serial killer derails, resulting in a series of horrific discoveries that remain a mystery to this day.
A Natural Evil Sean Wright
A family has been sadistically killed, a young boy kidnapped, and the key to this mystery lies with the only survivor and her twisted, convoluted story that begins with her trip back home.
A Hope in Hell Darrell Keifer
Apocalypse survivors break into a sedation-prison to revive female inmates for world repopulation, but accidentally awaken a serial killer. Futuristic thriller, fast-paced, contained, character driven, a niche genre film for international sales.
No World So Wide Maurice Billington
A modern-day supernatural sequel to Romeo and Juliet in which Romeo makes a deal with the devil to release Juliet’s soul from purgatory in exchange for reigniting the now centuries-old feud between their families.
Ian Simon Teal Georges Salo
Two master thieves mentor a down-on-his-luck amateur thief in his craft. To show his gratitude, he’ll accomplish the one task his mentors couldn’t complete – steal an item illegally
The Oasis Plan Rick McGivern
When a drought-plagued Western U.S. falls into anarchy after a terrorist attack at Hoover Dam, an Army colonel is sent in to repair the damage but gets caught between the military and the CIA as they struggle for control of a secret project to build new cities with their own water supplies.
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Out of the Picture Sophia Eptamenitis
An unlikely love affair between a frat boy and artsy student goes sour when his psycho ex-girlfriend resurfaces and the two girls fight – to the death – over his affections.
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Pravda99 (truth99) Ad Bol
When her Pussy Riot sister is ensnared by the Russian secret police, a shy and introverted young Russian woman is left with only one recourse to save her sister – recover the evidence that will expose the violent truth behind Vladimir Putin’s 1999 election campaign.
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Retribution Has a Name Georges Salo
An assassin, at the top of his game, continues about his work watching with passing interest as the financial markets crumble. When his friend’s elderly aunt commits suicide after losing her life savings...well it just got personal. He now dispenses his brand of retribution to those few whose greed created the financial crisis that caused the distress and grief to so many.
Suspense/Thriller – Western
Where The...Is My Brother? Georges Salo
Bulldozer, a.k.a. “Andreas Morelli,” is a well-known enforcer working for the mob to snuff out their enemies. Mathieu
(Bulldozer’s brother) is developmentally challenged, but with one extraordinary ability – he’s a natural locksmith. When
Matthieu is kidnapped as part of what seems to be a larger mob conspiracy, Bulldozer vows to save him and bring those responsible to justice.
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The Roche Limit Jonas Vesterberg
An intelligence operative on the verge of breakdown must face his inner demons and prejudiced beliefs as he tries to foil a terror plot against an America in decline.
Sense of Time Syeed Ryan
After being left with survivor’s guilt, a loner is employed to retrieve documents in the past, only to have to fight against time itself to fix a fatal error.
A Cowboy Christmas – An American Tale Tom Van Dyke
A fearless young man, not yet 16 and alone in 1873, crosses the western territory in search of adventure and California gold. WB’s roam takes a dramatic twist when he meets Ginny,
15. They are separated by a hostile encounter, setting them off wandering the vast western frontier, searching for each other while struggling to stay alive.
Silence in Heaven Michael Smith
Amidst an escalating international nuclear showdown and the threat of martial law across America, a local mayor resigns in protest and moves his family to an isolated lodge in the
Montana mountains. But the real war is just beginning, right at their doorstep – and beyond.
The Promise Jenny M. Hobeck
A vast parcel of land was prophetically given to Demetrio, an American Indian. Time passes; Demetrio’s son, Geronimo, trades the deed to the land for a whiskey bottle. Educated in
Spain, Demetrio’s daughter, Felice, has come home and is teaching metaphysics, philosophy, logic, ethics, and theology. She leaves her students (European Benedictine nuns) to resolve the problem.
Silent Sacrifice James Price
Ex-solider and elite Brotherhood member Tom investigates the deaths of fellow compatriots, forcing him to revisit a dirty war long since ended. When he discovers the assassins are closer to home than he could ever imagine, he’s ordered to kill his oldest friend.
Simon Sees Othello Bach
When Elise takes her first foster child, life is no longer safe.
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Tenebris Alex Sobol and Octavio Marin
A very much in love couple lead what they believe to be a satisfying life, except for the fact that they haven’t been able to conceive a baby. But every notion of normalcy is brought into question, both by the characters and the audience, when all boundaries between life, the dream world, and death collapse in an instant.
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Transgression Mikhail Kukushkin,
Robert Ahola, and Vladimir Borovoy
TV journalist in a small town investigates the epidemic of suicide among adolescents. Their suicides are somehow connected with the society page titled “Transgression” in a social network. The protagonist does not realize to what catastrophic consequences will lead his investigation.
A Veil of Trust J. Wayne Bevers
Right out of recent headlines. A nuclear waste facility in New
Mexico is now leaking. This takes place in the oilfields of southeastern New Mexico and west Texas, chronicling the story of a P.I. and an investigative reporter whose paths collide. They discover a cover-up which reveals extreme danger.
Together they bring the evidence to light amidst great peril.
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