Full length, Episodic, & Short | Copyrights by author.
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(1) Alma, Ratz & Stoner.
A full length movie script 110 pages.
This story is a human opera that begins in Victoria B.C. following World War One. Alma Victoria Packenham began her life as a child musical prodigy. Then after serving as a nurse in the fields of France during W.W.1. she was awarded the ‘Croix de Guerre’. The war over, in retrospect, she had been married twice before meeting Frances Mason Rattenbury. “Ratz’. He was 53, a revered architect, married with grown up children. Alma was 28.
Ignoring family ties and respected colleagues and outlawed by the local society they decided to move to England. Alma was intent on pursuing her career as a songwriter using her pen-name, ‘Lozanne’. “Ratz’ believed he could restore his renowned reputation as an architect. Prior to arriving in the U.K they embarked on a luxury cruise through the Greek Islands, Ratz drinking steadily and gambling away a large chunk of his relative wealth. By the time they moved into the ‘Villa Madeira’, small modest house in Bournemouth, England, their relationship was crumbling. Ratz relying on alcohol and absorbed by self-pity. While Alma, finding herself without friends, decided to hire a housekeeper. Enter Irene Riggs, who was to become her devoted companion. And as a chauffeur she hired George Stoner a local teenager,. With their lives interwoven, the events that followed were to wreak havoc on each of them. Featuring ill begotten love affairs and friendships, a murder, a trial that transfixed a nation, followed by a suicide. A real life opera eagerly documented by the tabloid ‘paprazzo’.
Full length movie script (110 pages). N.B. Production note: Victoria B.C./ Bournemouth U.K have similar landscapes.
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(2) Skeeta (one act. One location).
Cast:: (3) 2 M / 1 W (or NGS).
A one act play. 3 characters. A gay married couple, ,ALEX, the younger, and GERRY(40’s). They own and run an antiques store in the city. The third character is SKEETA. An uninvited and unwelcome ‘guest’. The one act play takes place in a B & B located in a small coastal town. As a married couple the two men have visited this same spot on a getaway vacation for the past eight years. The familiar location acts as a confessional, providing a common ground to air and purge their differences and rekindle their commitment to each other. However, their vacation this year coincides with the time of an impending sickness carried by a species of rogue mosquito. This virus causes a fever with early symptoms of degenerative morbidity. And can prove fatal, if not treated. DIRECTOR NOTES: Skeeta, the uninvited guest, (is ONLY VISIBLE in human form to the audience). For Alex and Gerry, the pressure of problems in their marriage are now ramped up. And their commitment to each other faces an additional challenge. Skeeta, carries the threat of a sickness that could prove fatal. And a questionable future threatened by an impending pandemic. The world can be a dangerous place. Dress to survive or you could die!
Genre: Dark Comedy
Acts: 1
Run time: 40 minutes
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(3) The Malevolent Fridge Genre: Horror Comedy : Potential Episodic. 40 mins each
We are in a residential apt midtown. In an apt upstairs, a group of residents gather for an evening drink. They are chatting and replenishing their cocktails. We move among them picking up sections of their conversation. Moving among the bodies we zero in on hands holding a gin and tonic. Zeroing in to the ice cubes we detect a a human being gesticulating. Meet Wally Mendoza. He is wearing a red bow tie, a gaudy checkered jacket and pants. Grubby Puma sneakers and argyle socks. He is a fashion nightmare. We hear his ‘warbled’ monologue.
“Hired as as manager of an apartment building got me a place to live in rent free. It sounded like a great deal. Looking after some wacky tenants, random items of clothing and broken furniture. And a weird looking fridge abandoned in the basement. And then I disappeared. You may have seen the story on 20/20 or in a local news report. I was officially listed as missing and people had a search alert out for me until my mysterious disappearance was replaced by another sensational story. At that time, my photo on the front page had me sporting a big red bow tie. But after I vanished, that changed. And now you see me wearing a blue bow tie. And i’m stuck in this ice cube, And to anyone in this room. I’m not here because I’m invisible.”
Genre: Horror Comedy
Acts: Potential Episodic
Run time: 40 mins each
Cast: Wally Mendoza (lead) + 5 apt dwellers.
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(4). TheHangers. Episodic. Experimental student project.
Genre: Voiceover. Comedy
Acts: Potential Episodic
Run time: 20 min. each
Cast: 10 principal characters. (5 Doubled).
A number of Hangers from various sources and social strata. Wire, wood, plastic,(and some expensively padded), find themselves on a rack in a thrift shop. Awaiting an unknown fate. They discuss their history that led up to this point. And recall their experiences in the hands of their owners before landing on the rack clustered together. Stories of their glory days and scary times. They argue and bicker. Rumours abound and mingle with the hopes and fear of what lies ahead. If future episodes are developed, the audience could see some hangers have disappeared and new arrivals replacing them. The number of hangers on the rack, if the episodic trail extends, could feature many or only one or two. Created to be an inspiring project for storytellers, filmmakers and animators. Contact studio for more details. Projects on a budget.
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(5) Postcards from Amor.
Amor de Cosmos. Synopsis. Draft screenplay available.
The man who changed his name. Born William Smith in Nova Scotia. Influenced by the speeches of Joseph Howe as a young man. Amor was to travel from N.Y.C. to California. Abandoning the comparative safety of the wagon trains heading west in search of gold. Bill, as he was then known, bought an early daguerreotype camera and tripod and travelled the rest of that dangerous journey across the desert, on horseback. Arriving in California he opted to change his name to Amor de Cosmos. (Lover of the Universe), to avoid any confusion with other “Smiths. Taking photos of miners claims. he followed the gold rush to the Fraser Valley and entered the political scene. He was later to become 2nd premier of British Columbia, and founded the first newspaper, The Daily Colonist and championed the start of local train transportation. Acknowledged by many of his peer group as the true ‘Godfather of Confederation’, he was at first celebrated, then later, ridiculed and outlawed for his challenging politics. He died in 1897. Now in 2025,, Amor has reappeared, conversing with members of the community. As a souvenir of that occasion, they receive a hologram postcard. It raises the question; A harbinger of future events? Or a fake ghost story?
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(6) Veronika’s Revenge (Pilot for episodic)
Meet Janet Cole, a beautiful young woman with her own boutique restaurant on her way to asuccessful life. Her prospects are ruined by a stalker. When he accidentally dies, she is accused ofhis murder. Sentenced to die in the electric chair she miraculously survives. The governmentofficials announce her death but secretly decide to give her a total makeover. Voila! Meet AdeleMartin. She is completely transformed and prepares a sumptuous dinner in their honor. And fortheir ‘just desert’ serves her renowned chocolate martini’s. And we witness their faces fall intotheir places. Revenge!! With no fingerprints to record her prior identity, Adele heads to bathroomand transforms yet again. This time we meet her as Veronica Gala as she she heads into the world,prepared to help other women who are misjudged.
Pilot script available
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