FEATURE FILM SCRIPT: The Don of Valley Jr. High
Based on the multi-award-winning short film: “The Don of Virgil Jr. High.”
GENRE:
Coming of Age / Pre-Teen / Comedy / Satire / Period (early ‘90’s).
LOG LINE:
Based on the multi-award-winning short film, “The Don of Valley Jr. High,” and set in the early 1990’s, during the golden era of Hip-Hop and Alternative Rock music, Donald, a nerdy Junior high school kid, goes on a mission to gain popularity by any means necessary. He eventually succeeds and creates a band of geeks and outcasts, who are forced to find ways to wittingly retaliate against their newfound rivals, the established popular kids.
PLOT SUMMARY:
Set in the early 1990’s, during the golden era of Hip-Hop and Alternative Rock music, DONALD JACKSON and his only friend, RICK DUMPSKEY, are two brainy nerds starting Junior High School together. There, the in-crowd and school bullies instantly outcasts them as geeks. Regularly being taunted by DUKE, the school’s most popular kid, and constantly being terrorized by BARRY, the school’s biggest bully, begins to take its toll on them. When their school district bans soda and junk-food vending machines on campus, Donald comes up with a masterful way to gain social acceptance. Comically following the footsteps of legendary gangster films, Donald heads an underground hustle in selling banned sodas and snacks. He and Rick quickly rise in popularity as their sales soar. They even get Barry to join them as the muscle for their hustle. Everyone soon wants to befriend them, except for Duke and the previously established popular kids.
FEATURE FILM SCRIPT: 700 Rides
GENRE:
Mystery, Drama, Crime, Faith-Based, Romance, Apocalyptic.
LOG LINE:
A struggling screenwriter-turned rideshare driver picks up a Heavenly Messenger who predicts that by his 700th ride, he’ll have embarked on an odyssey of events leading him to love, crime lords, the Devil, and the means to make a divinely destined film.
PLOT SUMMARY
In a modern-day fringe tale of good versus evil, a Georgia screenwriter-turned-rideshare driver meets and falls in love with the person who becomes the leading lady in his life. During this time, he mysteriously encounters supernatural beings—the angelic entity encourages him to document his divinely inspired dreams and use them alongside his wild rideshare experiences to create a meaningful film. The demonic entity manipulates him into a dangerous situation, seeks to ruin his relationship with his newfound love, while tempting him with worldly desires. In the end, one otherworldly influence prevails, shaping the course of his life.
FEATURE FILM SCRIPT: The 70th Week
This love story is a dramatic, apocalyptic thriller that is faith-based yet aimed at a secular audience.
GENRE:
Romance Drama, Faith-Based, Apocalyptic, Sci-Fi, Thriller.
LOG LINE:
In the not-too-distant future, a man approaching middle age finally finds true love during the end-times period prophesied as the “70th Week of Daniel,” also known as the “Seven-Year Tribulation” throughout Scripture.
PLOT SUMMARY
Referring to the 70th week of Daniel, also known as the Seven-Year Tribulation prophesied in the Bible, this not-too-distant future period follows the fall of the United States from its position as the world power and its division into three regions. Levi, a middle-aged Hebrew literature scholar, leads a museum tour of the traveling exhibit of ancient Dead Sea Scrolls and meets Hannah, a pretty woman on the tour. Although it’s love at first sight for the two, the timing couldn’t be worse, for it is a time when Christians have to go into hiding. Everyone in the world is forced to accept the “mark of the beast” by a world leader known in Scripture as the Antichrist and his so-called “Alien” galactic collaborators. Levi becomes separated from Hannah during the violent apocalyptic chaos of the time. While he journeys to find his lost love, he learns the truth concerning the Messiah and the Gospel message.
FEATURE FILM SCRIPT: South of Cotulla
GENRE:
Western/Action/Drama.
LOG LINE:
In the lawless West, a fearless woman, a brave buffalo soldier, and the scholarly son of an infamous desperado learn to kill or be killed in their fight to forge new lives.
PLOT SUMMARY:
JAMES, a prominent soldier in the U.S. Army cavalry unit, known as a “Buffalo Soldier,” is tasked with tracking and eliminating Apache Indians who raid stagecoach caravans. JUNIOR, captivated by his father’s outlaw lifestyle in Mexico and the American West, is dissuaded from “living by the gun” and encouraged to pursue an education. ROSE, forced to leave her home when her father takes a job in the West, becomes an orphan when outlaws rape her mother and kill both her parents en route. Each of them finds themselves drawn to the new town of Cotulla, where their destinies intertwine in a plot for vengeance, survival, and justice.