TOBACCO MAN (Comedy)
Logline: In 1975, a young cigarette sales trainee escorts a multicultural cocktail of Downtown and East LA customers to Las Vegas for a fun-filled business junket, but when one of them comes under threat he must galvanize the others to overcome simmering tensions and find common ground.
Second Rounder, Comedy Feature Screenplay, Austin Film Festival (October 2022)
Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft Comedy Competition (July 2022)
Best Feature Screenplay and Best Comedy Screenplay, Los Angeles Film Awards (May 2020)
Top 10 Finalist, Comedy, 13th Annual StoryPros Awards Screenplay Contest (June 2020)
Finalist, Comedy, Screenplay Festival (June 2020)
Semifinalist, Filmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards (2020)
“A vastly entertaining ride from start to finish, this script excels in absurdist humor and delighting its audience with laughter...This is an immensely enjoyable script.” - Excerpted from The Black List script evaluation (June 2020)
THE WHITE BOATS (Coming-of-age; adapted from the novel)
Logline: A young boy in Baja California goes to sea in a tiny skiff to claim his destiny, but a whale entangled in plastic debris changes his plans.
MR. PAN (Romantic comedy)
Logline: To win the heart of his true love, Wendy Darling, Peter Pan must overcome his ultimate nemesis – adulthood.
THE DOOR IN THE VOLCANO (Science fiction)
Logline: Mystical events in a strange New Age community compel a geologist to reconsider his scientific convictions when an ancient volcano threatens to erupt.
DARK MISSION (Historical drama)
Logline: In 1776, a young Franciscan friar journeys to Alta California to deliver salvation to native peoples. He discovers that he must first save them from the brutal Spanish military and the church itself.
Top 10-ranked screenplay, TriggerStreet.com (2,600 entries)
Top 10 Finalist, Script P.I.M.P Screenwriting Competition (1,400 entries)
TREASURE HUNTERS (Comedy)
Logline: The unluckiest treasure hunter in the Florida Keys chases an old man’s tale about a legendary pirate’s long-lost plunder.
NUCLEAR FAMILY (Drama)
Logline: A father-son fishing trip becomes a harrowing struggle for survival following a nuclear war.
OFF THE AIR (Comedy)
Logline: An ambitious sports radio host who fumbles away the nation's top job teams with a phobic manicurist to win the game of life.
RETROSPECTIVE (Drama)
Logline: Past and present converge at the retrospective exhibit of an acclaimed artist haunted by his self-indulgent past.
Quarterfinalist, Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest (2,400 entries)
LOW-TECH CONSULTANT (Comedy)
Logline: A naïve tire repairman who yearns to escape his sleepy hometown poses as his genius computer scientist-brother and learns home isn't so bad after all.
MY SCREENPLAYS
I studied with many of the film and TV industry's leading screenwriting educators, including Michael Hauge, James Dalessandro, Lew Hunter, Lloyd Silverman, Linda Seger, Ellen Sandler, Richard Walter, Jonathan Triesman and William Martell. My screenplays placed high in several professional competitions and I was previously represented. I am comfortable writing in many genres.