STORY PITCHES AND LOGLINES
Video pitches for screenplays, novels, and stories.
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SHORT Story Reading: A MOTHER'S STRUGGLE, by Mary Vela
Type of Story: A non-fiction story
Synopsis: A mother struggles to heal her young son from a disease for which there was no cure.
This story was published in Chicken Soup for the Soul and won Honorable Mention in Writers Digest.
Performed by Val Cole
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Video NOVEL Logline: Marie's Nutcracker, by Margaret Marie Klenzing
Title: Marie's Nutcracker
Written by: Margaret Marie KlenzingLogline: Marie, a seventeen-year-old dancer on the cusp of becoming a professional ballerina, struggles to overcome her insecurities to become the star of her local dance company's production of the classic Christmas ballet, The Nutc...
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Twitter Short Story: THE SOUL REASON by Roy Tuck
Performed by Val Cole
A Peds intern in Pittsburgh, I got preemies to our NICU from rural hospitals in PA and OH. Going one night, white snow blew past our ambulance windows, and I, a sleepy Trekkie, imagined our ambulance was a starship in warp. Suddenly, through the porthole of our bus, a road ...
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Twitter Short Story: The Final Frontier, by Yolanda Reid
Performed by Val Cole
A Peds intern in Pittsburgh, I got preemies to our NICU from rural hospitals in PA and OH. Going one night, white snow blew past our ambulance windows, and I, a sleepy Trekkie, imagined our ambulance was a starship in warp. Suddenly, through the porthole of our bus, a road...
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Short Story Reading: DISPATCHES FROM THE GIG ECONOMY, by Ned Daly
Hardboiled fiction
Performed by Val Cole
Get to know the writer:
1. What is your short story about?
A quick cash job gone wrong.
2. What genre(s) would you say this story is in?
Hardboiled fiction
3. How would you describe this story in two words?
Bad strangers
4. What movie have you ...
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Short Story Reading: Fly Away, Daniel Lombardi (with writer interview)
Performed by Val Cole
Interview with the writer:
1. What is your short story about?
It's a story about reflecting on life.
2. What genre(s) would you say this story is in?
Personal Narrative
3. How would you describe this story in two words?
Inspective thoughts
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NOVEL Pitch: Aunt Sadie's Letters of Hope & Healing, by Shari Lyn Anderson
LOGLINE: May these beautiful poems and letters, written to an isolated ten-year-old girl eighty years ago, bring solace to those who are going through hard isolating times today.
Title: Aunt Sadie's Letters of Hope & Healing
Author (Written by) : Shari Lyn Anderson
Genre: Family – Love – Hi...
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Logline Pitch: Sifuentes The Relentless, by Enrique Pilozo
Genre: Crime- noir
Synopsis: Detective Sifuentes has an impeccable rap sheet, up until
now, when he meets his match.SIFUENTES THE RELENTLESS
Detective Sifuentes had a brilliant track record on the city
police force. His service sheet was impeccable and he had numerous awards to his credit. ... -
SCREENPLAY PITCH: Escape To Hollow Earth, by Colin K. Stewart, Danny Weiss, David Weiss
Title: ESCAPE TO HOLLOW EARTH www.EscapeToHollowEarth.com
Screenplay by: Colin K. StewartBased on the Novel: A Curious Pebble - The Hollow Earth and Pursuit of the Holy Lance
Written by: Danny Weiss and David Weiss.Logline:
A rebellious son of a naval pilot is compelled to protect an alie... -
SCREENPLAY PITCH: THE TRUMPET, by Peter Borreggine and Danette Lamkin-Borreggine
Family history, music, jazz, generational
Title: The Trumpet
Genre: A short film
Tagline: The life of a trumpet tells the story of the love of music
Logline: A trumpet passed down three generations gets abandoned and, when fou...
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SCREENPLAY PITCH: Hollow Earth Quest, by Danny Weiss & Kathy Krantz-Stewart
Title: Hollow Earth Quest
Screenplay by: Kathy Krantz-StewartBased on the Book: The Hollow Earth Revisited
Written by: Danny WeissWebsite References:
www.HollowEarthQuestMovie.com - www.HollowEarthResearch.org
https://www.imdb.com/video/vi483046937?playlistId=nm8307094&ref_=nm_ov_viLogl...
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SCREENPLAY PITCH: Escape To Hollow Earth, by Colin K. Stewart , Danny Weiss, David Weiss
Title: ESCAPE TO HOLLOW EARTH www.EscapeToHollowEarth.com
Screenplay by: Colin K. StewartBased on the Novel: A Curious Pebble - The Hollow Earth and Pursuit of the Holy Lance
Written by: Danny Weiss and David Weiss.Logline:
A rebellious son of a naval pilot is compelled to protect an ... -
SCREENPLAY PITCH: The Six Sides Of Truth, by Janet Walker
Logline Pitch:
The Six Sides of Truth
by Janet Walker
The Six Sides of Truth, an espionage thriller, tells the story of a female reporter who discovered the human testing of a classified project and her race against time to expose the high-ranking government officials who will stop at nothin...
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SCREENPLAY PITCH: Diva, by Anthony Aroya
LOGLINE PITCH
DIVA
by Anthony AroyaFeature Film
A raging, egotistical pop star is on the skids in her career until she decides to recoup her popularity by performing a free concert at a college in Arizona. She soon becomes smitten with the star quarterback of school's football team and after ...
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SCREENPLAY PITCH: I'm Dreaming Of A Christ Christmas
LOGLINE PITCH
I’m Dreaming of a Christ Christmas
by Warren A Rhodes
I’m dreaming of a Christ Christmas tells the story of a precocious and imaginative 11-year old Black girl’s dream of Christ’s birth. We follow Kat’s clever imaginings as she travels back in time to Bethlehem to witness the event... -
SCREENPLAY PITCH: Not An Exit, by Sid Kramer
LOGLINE PITCH
NOT AN EXIT
by Sid Kramer
LOGLINE: a serial killer is reunited with his victims in a haunted house through a strange coincidence 26 years later. With their bodies burned to ash, all that remained were their mummified heads. The heads, once discovered, were mistakenly put into a h...
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SCREENPLAY Pitch: Put A Price On Emotion, by Giuseppe De Vuono
Title of Story: PUT A PRICE ON EMOTION
Written by: GIUSEPPE DE VUONO
Logline: A charismatic and ambitious musician, willing to do anything to achieve his dream of gain fame, gets blood on his hands and must make amends before it is too late.
Genre: Drama
Type: Feature Screenplay
WGA Registra...
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SCREENPLAY Pitch: Protector Of The Universe, by Anthony Aroya
LOGLINE PITCH
PROTECTOR OF THE UNIVERSE
by Anthony AroyaFeature Film
Jordan Lucas,an unemployed musician, must prove to a group of powerful aliens that he hasn't kidnapped their god of worship, who they believe is trapped in the body of a small dog,or the earth will face complete annihilation.
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SCREENPLAY PITCH: John The Templar, by Ronen Tregerman
LOGLINE
JOHN THE TEMPLAR
by Ronen Tregerman
A farmer joining the order of the knights Templar becomes a trained assassin. Finding a Holy artifact gave him superpowers and stopped him from aging. A millennium later now alone he must face evil to save the world.
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LOGLINE Video Pitch: Dawsons, by James E. Carter
LOGLINE PITCH
DAWSONS by James E. Carter
Kevin opened his restaurant Dawsons in the early 1970’s. The restaurant was a joint dream project with his wife Thelma who sadly passed away from breast cancer.
The neighborhood that he loves and adores Harlem is dealing with gentrification. His restaur...
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LOGLINE Video Pitch: Five Dates, by Donna Douglas Walchle
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...
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LOGLINE Video Pitch: From A Yardie To A Yankee, by Sardia Robinson
LOGLINE PITCH
From a Yardie to a Yankee by Sardia RobinsonA 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...
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LOGLINE Video Pitch: Bound By Blood, by Dakota Banks
LOGLINE PITCH
Bound By Blood by Dakota Banks
When a Colonial woman is unjustly burned at the stake, a Sumerian demon pulls her from the flames to become his Ageless assassin with powerful abilities until she rebels more than three centuries later, starting on a perilous journey to reclaim her s...
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LOGLINE Pitch Video: WHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND, by David Timothy Duty
LOGLINE PITCH
WHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND, by David Timothy Duty
Feature Film
US Air Force Staff Sergeant TIM DAVIS is on a leave and already planning on reenlisting. On the plane he meets Staff Sergeant MICHAEL HARRIS whose tour is up and reminds Tim to keep his priorities straight. Tim’s welcomed h...