TYPE OF STORY: Adventure/Fantasy

SYNOPSIS: A young girl discovers a strange portal to a distant land after a lightning strike hits her beloved tree house. Through this portal, she learns of a child in grave danger, and tries to help the child escape.

LOGLINE PITCH
From a Yardie to a Yankee by Sardia Robinson

A young girl from the poorest parish in Jamaica dreams of going to America to be in the movies. Now grown up and successful, India Robinson flashes back and recounts her battles with dyslexia, bullies, racism, and absentee parents. With...

BEST FRIEND, by Debbie Fersht

A child puts her doll to bed. Tell me a story, says the doll. You always say that, says the girl. Tell me a story, the doll repeats. Go to sleep you two, says her father from the light underneath the bedroom door. You’re my best friend, whispers the girl to the d...

Read by Val Cole

Feature Screenplay

Logline- When a young man who was raised in a New York City orphanage kills the brother of a ruthless mob boss in self-defense, he must count on his estranged hitman father when the mob boss comes after him with everything he’s got.

Imagine if you discovered that the man wh...

Séance, The Holding On and The Letting Go, 7min., UK, Dance
Directed by Rick Guest, Rob Rae
An exquisite study of love and loss through the choreography of Jordan James Bridge, set to a haunting sonic landscape by Tom Ashbrook. This astonishing new film from Rick Guest & Rob Rae features the incr...

Writer's IMDB page: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4991114/

Writer's Novels:
https://www.waterstones.com/author/mr-shannon-lejuan-clements/589635

BARE NAKED TRUTHS, 4min., USA, Comedy

Directed by Amy E. Powell

A micro-short comedy series that allows you inside the minds of the bored and often eccentric models who pose nude for drawing classes.

OUTSIDE MY WINDOW, 6min,. Canada, Dance
Directed by Sonia Gemmiti
An expressionistic exploration of agoraphobia and isolation. A young woman stares outside her window, summoning the courage to step outside.

The story is about two families that share their life's and become one.

Performed by Val Cole

Writer's IMDB page: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4991114/

Writer's Novels:
https://www.waterstones.com/author/mr-shannon-lejuan-clements/589635

FIVE DATES (a feature film)

WRITTEN BY: Donna Douglas Walchle

LOGLINE: When Hattie, a happily single children's author receives a subscription to an online dating service for her birthday, it results in a series of mismatches likened to installments of Punk'd. That is, until she meets H...

Novella 52pp Drama/Murder/Coming of Age

South of Smoke is a murder drama set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.
Twin brothers Bix and Bobby are coming of age, finding themselves exploring the pathway to
manhood differently.

Genre: Fiction.

Performed by Val Cole

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THE DEPRESSION OF DETECTIVE DOWNS 2: ON DEPRESSION’S EDGE, 19min., USA, Animation

Directed by Anthony Thurman

Detective Rolando Downs is back and this time he has to locate a missing man while trying to keep the emotional and physical symptoms of his depression under control.

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A crime caper about Walter (aka The Wolf), a predator who considers himself to be a ladies man, and Sam, the detective who sets out to capture him. But nothing is what it seems to be. Feelings change, percepti...

THE CALL OF PAN

© 2015

Barbara Grace Lake

I heard a piping in the wood –

Haunting, calling me

To follow if I dare.

I heard it in the dawn

As misty sunlight gently touches

Tips of trees when first aroused

And leaves are freshest.

Mounds of grassy thickets

Crunch beneath my feet

From...

THE WISDOM OF TRAUMA, 88 minutes, USA

Trauma is the invisible force that shapes our lives. It shapes the way we live, the way we love and the way we make sense of the world. It is the root of our deepest wounds. Dr. Maté gives us a new vision: a trauma-informed society in which parents, teachers...

On an ordinary day in Union Square Park, Jordan, a soundcloud rapper, struggles to get pedestrians to listen to his music. Meanwhile, Brianna, a cypher rapper battles other freestylers for respect and Lorenzo, a 12 year old kid finds difficulty in learning how to bucket drum.

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HOW TO STOP BEING CHINESE, 4min., USA, Experimental

Directed by Isaac Kau

How To Stop Being Chinese is an exploration of the importance of recognizing one’s own cultural heritage. In the film, a shadowy book teaches three tragic heroines about the blood ties that bind them to over 4,000 years o...

What I Thought I Wanted

Have you ever wondered who you would be
Without your profession, without your role
Without a position in life that holds
The you, that you know to be in this world
The you, who you think is important
The pearl
That is singular?
One and specific?
Identified by name and pos...

TITLE of Script: SID

Author NAME: DAVID MINTZER
Type of screenplay: TV PILOT
Four years in the future, crime in the United States is at unprecedented levels. A new government is elected on the promise of putting an end to unrest. In a prison, a much-feared convict known as SID is summoned to the...

MELANCHOLY MAN, 5min., Dance
Directed by James Kinney
A young man embraces his loneliness and heartache.