College Girl | Feature | Drama/Comedy | 89 pages | A living skills student with Down syndrome reassesses her place in life while grappling with the reality of an unexpected pregnancy. PITCH REEL (pw: collegegirl)
Supported by Film Independent Screenwriting, Directing, Producing Labs | Inspired by the SXSW and NBCU Short Film Festival finalist short film Guest Room (150,000 Views on Vimeo) | Quarterfinalist, 2022 Academy Nicholl Fellowship | 8/10, The Black List 2022 | Top 8% on Coverfly | Second Rounder (Top 20%), 2021 Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition | Quarterfinalist, Screencraft Feature Competition 2021 | Top 100, Table Read My Screenplay Genre Screenplay Competition Austin 2021 | Quarterfinalist, 2021 CineStory Foundation Feature Competition | Quarterfinalist (Top 10%), 2021 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards
Two Separate “Consider” Ratings from WeScreenplay Coverage; Three Separate “Consider” Ratings from SpecScout Coverage: “You have a moving, profound story that showcases your unique voice and control as a writer…You pull off the trick of telling a story about a character who faces unique challenges but you manage to still make her struggle feel universal and relatable…Bri is an immensely fascinating character…I love the nuanced transitions and subtle escalation of Bri’s emotional arc…There are flashes of brilliance in the dialogue throughout…I love the fact that you tell an unplanned pregnancy story without making it about abortion or overtly politicizing your themes. You avoid preaching and easy sentimentality, which is a common pitfall in stories that are rooted in ethical questions…The premise and concept of this film are powerful — there is no doubt about that…This concept is wonderfully told in the narrative, and this is a story the world needs to hear.”
Counselor | Feature | Comedy | 111 pages | An ambitious law student with Down syndrome must fight to be included and ranked among her peers before her chances to land at a law firm—and disprove the rock-bottom expectations of her legal legend grandmother—evaporate. LEGALLY BLONDE meets KAJILLIONAIRE meets NAPOLEON DYNAMITE.
Attachments: Drama Desk Award Winner Jamie Brewer (American Horror Story, Amy and the Orphans)
Top 11% on Coverfly | Top 10 Drama Feature, 2021 Table Read My Screenplay Genre Screenplay Competition Austin | Quarterfinalist, 2021 Screencraft Feature Competition: “I found myself turning each page with effortlessness…the characters [feel like] real, familiar people, or at least satirical versions of real, familiar people…even though I don’t have Down syndrome, I still found myself relating a lot to [the main character] and her endeavors to live up to her grandmother’s standard as a successful lawyer. This strikes me as the type of project to resonate with this current generation, where everything just feels like a race to rush and grind until you get to where you want to be.”
Comedienne | Feature | Western | 120 pages | A devout woman in an 1850s polygamist marriage must journey West to restore her wayward brother’s faith before the fallen world claims his soul forever.
Praise from WeScreenplay Coverage: “High on emotions and drama…the storyline is riddled with conflicts and challenges. Merged with philosophical insights about religion and self-awareness, the concept works really well….The climax is beautiful and touching.”
Christmas Slay (A Xylophone Story) | Feature | Holiday Family Comedy | 100 pages | A driven middle school percussionist living in the shadow of his high-achieving parents must prove his talent at a music camp for gifted young musicians before his equally-driven nemesis seizes the spotlight in a televised holiday concert in New York City. PEN15 meets WHIPLASH.
Top 25 Features, 2021 Save the Cat! Screenplay Challenge: “[A] phenomenally evocative story, taking a premise that could be alienating – middle school students in an orchestra – and making it recognizable, emotional, and thematically resonant. The moments that especially thrive are when the characters are playing music, and how the audience can follow their inner conflicts through the way it’s conveyed.”
Twenty-Eight Nineteen | Pilot | Family Drama/Dark Comedy | 71 pages | An evangelical missionary and his family must decide between Christ and country after stepping into a covert American operation in an Istanbul on the verge of war.
Better Call Saul: Botana Grande | Spec Ep. 601 | 62 pages | Jimmy studies up to coerce a Sandpiper settlement. Nacho crosses paths with a new Salamanca, but his good intentions lead them both into hot water. Kim officially finds herself in the game. Gus asks Jimmy to find a plaintiff for a strategic lawsuit.
Semifinalist (Top 6 Drama Teleplay Specs), Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition 2021 | Top 4% on Coverfly
Toxic | Feature | Dark Satirical Comedy | 96 pages | Scarred by the betrayal of a sexy jock who brought her to prom just for a social media boost, a vigilante with Down syndrome infiltrates the high school dances in her city to foil the copycat crimes of other sexy jocks and cheerleaders before the ugly truth destroys her comrades’ dignity. KICK-ASS meets INGRID GOES WEST.
Recommended by WeScreenplay Coverage: “You had me laughing out loud alone in my room reading this on every single page. . . . This concept has undoubtedly never been seen before . . . [it] demands all audience members to really take a moment to be introspective and confront their implicit biases toward people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.”
Title | Feature | Historical Drama | 80 pages | San Francisco, 1977: When a band of disabled civil rights activists unite to take a federal building by force, a Black Panther with multiple sclerosis must conquer his demons before authorities starve his people back into the shadows. Based on true events.
Dot | Feature | Drama | 125 pages | When her estranged New Age daughter decides to let her early-stage cancer win, a conservative Texas judge on the verge of retirement must reclaim her daughter's respect on the shores of Lake Superior before it's too late to convince her to fight for her life.
Fleur | Feature | Drama / Fantasy / Dark Comedy | 97 pages | When Christ returns as a mother struggling to make ends meet in New Orleans, she must choose between two full-time jobs—bringing the righteous to Heaven and being present for her children—before humanity meets its eminent demise.
Olga Goes Look | Feature | Dark Comedy / Drama / Crime | 101 pages | When an undocumented self-taught mortician for a South Texas cartel comes across a body stirringly similar to her dead son that she never got a final chance to see, she must save the closure-deprived parents from the same haunting fate before the cartel’s brutal, charismatic PR chief reclaims the boy’s body—and hers.
Nest | Feature | Psychological Thriller / Dark Comedy | 92 pages | A pair of despondent artists retreat to the woods for the peaceful birth of their unplanned first child, but when faced with the hauntingly real apparitions of their former selves, they must confront their inner demons and salvage their relationship before their past seals their fate.
Klaus and the Birth of Christ | Feature | Dark Satirical Comedy | In Progress | When his fiercely devout Christian wife breaks his heart by filing for divorce, a cynical ex-Navy SEAL must win back her respect through a global one-man campaign of black ops evangelism—and emerge as the man the world now knows as The Santa Claus—before his wife's cancer immortalizes the bitter final memories of their union.
Helpmate | Feature | Dark Comedy/Satire | 110 pages | Marin County, 1987. When her idyllic marriage with a talented evangelical seminary student is threatened by the school’s cutthroat first female, a pious preacher’s-wife-in-training must fight dirty for her husband’s future before the specter of scandal destroys the perfect world she’s always known. BRIDESMAIDS meets VEEP.
Buttons | Pilot | Comedy-Drama | 42 pages | A millennial with Down syndrome pursues her dream of becoming a hip hop producer while facing the trials of independence, relationships, purpose, and poverty in a sheltered workshop.
Second Rounder (Top 20%), Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition 2021
Houston | Pilot | Comedy | 30 pages | A devout pair of Korean missionaries struggle to convert suburban American Christians to Christianity.
Princess | Feature | Family Comedy | 95 pages | A young woman with Down syndrome who longs for independence comes of age by accident during a preternatural day at Disneyland.
Jelly | Pilot | Comedy-Drama | 38 pages | The millennial daughter of a Mexican migrant worker struggles with her sheltered white boyfriend to make it together in Hollywood while making ends—and cultures—meet.
Atlanta: Jericho | Spec Ep. 301 | 35 pages | Earn reassesses his priorities, Alfred gets a new opportunity, and Darius journeys into a famous dystopia from his past when an emergency landing ends their European flight in Florida.