Screenwriting - Features

Second Stances

 

 

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Now that her children are out of the house, Julia is re-entering work-life after an extended hiatus and she and her husband have started a trial separation. Naturally, Julia is looking back on her life’s decisions and wondering if she made the right ones. What she wouldn’t give to have another chance to meet each one of those moments.  That chance arrives when she believes her younger self has moved in next door, and Julia is not going to miss out this time!

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TOP 100, LAUNCH PAD FEATURE FILM COMPETITION 11TH ANNUAL

SEMIFINALIST, OUTSTANDING SCREENPLAY COMPETITION 2023

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TOP 2% OF ALL COVERFLY RANKED PROJECTS

Natural Selection

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An unpopular contestant in a Reality TV survival contest stumbles on a menagerie of paralyzed animals, and the spider-like robot alien that collects them. When a magnetic pulse intended to incapacitate her, wipes out all her communication, she must fend for herself and avoid becoming a specimen like the animals she desperately wants to save.

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SEMIFINALIST, OUTSTANDING SCREENPLAY COMPETITION 2023

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TOP 12% OF ALL COVERFLY RANKED PROJECTS

Out of the Blue

A man plummets out of the sky and into the Amazon Rainforest with no memory of what came before. With help from a British novelist, the man’s search for his identity reveals his fall was no accident. A new clue sends him back into the rainforest and what follows is a fresh set of devastating deceptions.

FINALIST  (TOP TEN), CREATIVE SCREENWRITING FEATURE COMPETITION 2023

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TOP 6% OF ALL COVERFLY RANKED PROJECTS.

Hello Sunshine

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An introverted young woman’s guardian angels attempt to guide her to her best life with orchestrated encounters and well-placed inspirational messages.  Misreading these ‘opportunities’, she impulsively quits her job and reconciles with her narcissistic ex-boyfriend.  At this point the guides they have no choice but to turn their whispers into roars.

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TOP 23% OF ALL COVERFLY RANKED PROJECTS.,

Ties That Bind

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Shocked by a vision during a hypno-birthing session, a headstrong investigative reporter believes she may have just experienced her own murder from a past life. Using the investigation of this unsolved mystery to avoid the fractured relationships in her own life, she tackles this mystery like her life depends on it. 

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TOP 17% OF ALL COVERFLY RANKED PROJECTS.

The Unraveling

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After a video call secretly engages her laptop camera 24/7, a single mom of teenagers, combats identity theft both personally and at her clothing boutique as the intrusions escalate from threatening her sanity, to threatening her safety. 

QUARTERFINALIST, STORYPROS INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY CONTEST 2022 

TOP 32% OF ALL COVERFLY RANKED PROJECTS.

I'm Dreaming of a Perfect Christmas

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A Christmas-obsessed girl’s dreams of a perfect holiday season are dashed, as her family loses interest in celebrating. In steps her Hindu neighbour, whose secret love of all things Christmas matches her own.  The pair covertly become a dynamic December duo, until she lets news of his forbidden fascination reach his family.

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TOP THREE IN FAMILY GENRE IN OUTSTANDING SCREENPLAYS FEATURE COMPETITION 2021

TOP 4% OF ALL COVERFLY RANKED PROJECTS.

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Mr. PooPoo Head

A nine year-old’s carefree life is seized by a furry worry monster she calls Mr. PooPoo Head.  Baffling her parents with her newly filtered behaviour, her sole objective to be safe, leaves her isolated.  Together the family wrestles their life back from her anxiety.