Starring and Produced by William H. Macy and directed by Casey Twenter, Swimming Lessons tell the story of a directionless single mother who struggles to give her autistic son the life he deserves while contending with her ex-boyfriend, a recovering drug addict, who suddenly wants to be a part of his son's life again.
dramedy
When two best friends are welcomed into an idyllic, Southern community, they believe they’ve escaped their tortured pasts, but hope gives way to terror as the women discover they’re pawns in a sinister contract between the townsfolk and a malevolent spirit long imprisoned by a powerful color... haint blue.
Directed by Ethan Embry. Starring Sunny Mabrey.
thriller/horror
Untitled Car Documentary
The search for one of the most sought-after, and, until now, assumed-to-be missing forever, muscle cars ever produced or owned.
Jimmy Terrell has been cooking the books, but he's too arrogant to think he'll get caught. So, during the biggest football game of the year, he invites the two other owners of their company to work from his house. But the day's agenda flips when a stranger claiming to be a former classmate invades the home and holds them all hostage.
Thriller/Comedy
Water Park Summer
The year is 1989, the days are hot, and a group of high school employees of the city's premiere water park run the place. Or, at least, they think they do.
Comedy/coming-of-age
A first-time film producer begins to see eerie similarities between the horror film he's making and the lives of his family.
80's-inspired family Horror
One Final Play
270 miles isn't too far for a trip. Unless you're middle-aged, working out consists of mowing the lawn, and you're trying to get there on a bicycle.
But that's just what two semi-estranged brothers decide to do in order to honor the late friend they lost while in college together. Along the way, they'll encounter more than just sore bodies, including underground poker games, a newly obtained gun, frat parties, pick up basketball, a stranded werewolf(?), and, maybe, a chance to reconnect. If they don't strangle each other first.
dramedy
Other Concepts and Completed Scripts
THE BRAVEST ONE
After a teenaged female is raped and her eventual son is awarded to her assaulter, she embarks on a quest to reclaim her child by pursuing a seemingly impossible task - becoming a member of Africa’s first all-female anti-poaching army - the AWKASHINGA. Based upon a true story
DECORATION DAY
A VA hospital in rural Kansas is about to be shut down, and a heated argument inside the facility quickly becomes worldwide news when the veterans and staff decide to fight to keep it open.
THE FINAL PLAY
Moments before legendary 38-year-old quarterback JACK MUNSON is about to play in his first Super Bowl with the opportunity to finally hush the critics who claim he can’t win the big one, he receives a secret message claiming his family in the stadium will be killed if he doesn’t lose the game.
KILLING IS EASY
A former assassin is forced to give up her hidden identity when she discovers her abandoned son is now part of the same covert organization that trained her.
PEPPER
A teacher with aspirations of becoming the next great writer has his world turned upside down when his recently-divorced grandmother moves in with him and his two friends.
WHERE ANGELS PLAY
In 1929, 20 women competed in the country’s first all-female Air Derby Race, traveling from California to Ohio. Only 14 made it to the finish line.
Championed by Will Rogers, the females, led by Amelia Earhart, Pancho Barnes, and Louis Thaden, fought an antagonizing press, a disapproving public, and obvious signs of sabotage on their harrowing, groundbreaking journey.
Based upon a true story
IMAGINARY MIKE (sitcom)
If it wasn’t enough that 11-year-old Sasha recently lost her father, is living with her struggling mother and eccentric grandmother, and is starting a brand new school in a brand new state, but she’s also got this famous celebrity following her around giving her unsolicited (and mostly bad) advice. And the biggest problem? She’s the only one who can see him.
FULL MOON SHADOW
After a botched bank job, two estranged brothers have to fend off their crew, the hostages they’ve taken, and an unspeakable terror soon to be unleashed.
A FACE FULL OF SHADOWS
The year is 2029. SAM HAMMER is, on his surface, your typical Los Angeles gumshoe. Grizzled. Weary. A low class bum with high class clients. A former decorated Detective, he was let go from the force when his wife left him and he began an affair with his one true love: the bottle.
He’s so passe, he even smokes.
The newest technological fad, MORPHOS, is the ultimate aphrodisiac. It requires no ingesting, no sense augmentation. It simply heightens the illusion of reality.
Worn around the neck, MORPHOS projects a holographic image across the user’s face. A real world Snapchat filter. Want to look like the perfect combination of Brad Pitt and David Beckham? Buy a MORPHOS.
When a string of homicides to Hollywood’s pretty people begin to pile up, getting the bad guy gets a little trickier, and, for the right price, it might just take an old fashioned hero to catch a new fashioned killer.
COMMAND AND CONTROL
When four disgruntled, dishonorably discharged veterans decide to hole up in a B&B the night before a bank robbery, they discover that the owners of the establishment are part of a secret militia with nefarious plans of their own.
THE MARK
Based upon the true story of a charming young man who used his faith to swindle hundreds of thousands of dollars from unsuspecting victims solely in order to launch a singing career.
Comps: Catch Me If You Can, The Informant, The Grifters
THERE COMES A TIME
After a 15-year-old girl living in a drug-infested Ozarks witnesses the murder of her father, she has to rely on the skills of a random drifter to survive the onslaught of approaching violence.
REPENTANCE
In 1881, a band of outlaws will do anything they can to keep a young girl from testifying against their captured leader, and it’ll be up to one good man to stop them.
THE OVERWATCHERS
After a brilliant 12-year-old discovers a new form of technology, he suddenly finds himself being tracked by a covert government association, and he’s shocked to discover that only one man can help him survive - his Grandpa, founding member of his own covert organization, THE OVERWATCHERS.
RIGGED (comedy/heartstrings series)
After two best friends graduate from college, they decide to spend their last "free" summer partying across the States while driving an 18-Wheeler. What they don't know is that a higher power may have more divine plans for them.