FEATURE SCREENPLAYS Ready to Shop
DESERT BELLES – Action Adventure Feature
A stubborn veteran off-road racer is determined to preserve her father’s legacy by competing in a grueling eight-day, 4-wheel drive desert auto rally. When her daughter drops her for another team, she’s forced to partner with a disgraced media personality and they battle deadly conditions, sabotage, and a shady former racing partner.
THE LETTERS OF CHRIS MASS – Family Christmas Feature | Co-written with Ellie Wallace
Sparks fly when the new village postmistress mistakenly reroutes thousands of Santa letters to the castle of a grumpy Scottish Laird. Faced with a mountain of mailbags and a daughter worried children won’t get replies from Santa, the Laird and postmistress overcome their differences to lead the village in a massive letter-writing campaign to keep the spirit of Christmas alive for the children. (Limited option with Lumino films for Hallmark and Lifetime.)
HARDWARE HELL – Campy Horror Feature | Co-written with Ellie Wallace
Stranded in the Nevada desert, a hapless high school bagpipe team takes shelter in a remote hardware store, their hijinks causing a sinkhole that releases vengeful radioactive creatures intent on feasting upon them.
SHORT FILM In Pre-production
REVOLUTION’S WIFE – Proof-of-Concept for Feature | Co-written with Reenita M. Hora
Based on a true story. In 1917 San Francisco, as the U.S. joins WWI, the wife of an Indian revolutionary conspiring to overthrow British rule in India, discovers her husband used her name to hide funds in a global conspiracy with Germany, forcing her to choose between loyalty and protecting herself from his betrayals.
TELEVISION PILOTS Available
SECOND SET – Half Hour Comedy Pilot
A tennis-loving grandmother takes a second chance to follow her youthful dream of playing community college tennis to thwart her spiteful ex-sister-in-law, the athletic director, who wants to eliminate the low-performing women’s team. The series follows Lina’s struggles, triumphs and frustrations, as she battles to save the team while navigating her new life as a divorced middle-aged student-athlete at quirky Kumquat Cove Community College.
NORTHERN VOICE – Hour Drama Pilot
On the eve of the Klondike Gold Rush in 1896 a demoralized woman and her preacher father arrive in rough and tumble Hope, Alaska. When her angelic singing brings the Lord to the fledgling community, family secrets, vices and past traumas threaten her chance for a new life in the far north.
SCREENPLAYS In Development
REVOLUTION’S WIFE – Drama Thriller Feature | Co-written with Reenita M. Hora
When her revolutionary husband is arrested for conspiring with Germany during World War I, Padmavati Chandra—one of the first Indian women in America—must decide whether to protect the movement, expose the truth, or bury them both to survive..
SECOND SET – Lighthearted Drama Feature
When her husband retires, eroding her fragile equilibrium, a middle-aged grandmother seeks a second chance to live her youthful dream of playing community college tennis. The reality is more physically and mentally challenging than she imagined and the consequences of failure risk the future of the team.
ISLAND HEARTS – Travelogue Romance Feature
When an adopted Portuguese-American exhibit designer is sent to Terceira Island as part of a museum exchange, she uncovers clues to her roots—and falls for a local cheesemaker who unknowingly owns her ancestral home. When he plans to replace it with a factory, she must fight to preserve her past without losing her future.
MALIBU REUNION – Comedy Feature | Co-written with Reenita M. Hora
When four old college friends have a blowout party night at a Malibu beach house to celebrate one of their divorces, their seemingly perfect lives unravel when they try to cover up the death of their stripper chef, who’s actually in a ‘shroom-induced coma.
CRIME d’ELEGANCE – Crime Caper Feature
An earnest art authentication Ph.D., newly added to an art and antiquities crime unit, doggedly tails a vintage Bentley hiding rare Roman coins worth millions to a private Concours d’Elegance car show, where she stumbles upon a deadly international crime syndicate using classic cars to transport stolen art.
LOVE IN THE ROUGH – Romantic comedy Feature | Co-written with Ellie Wallace
When a corporate hotel experience expert is inexplicably sent to Scotland to close the purchase of a seemingly rundown golf course, she finds instead a golf course in harmony with nature and develops a love for the quirky place and its owner.
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