E W Helmick | author

All materials presented are based on projects for which I have held legal option or direct access, and are available for representation or development upon request.

Genre: A True Story / Adventure, Drama
Screenplay Awards: Platinum, WolrdFest Houston International Film Festival

Budget: Blockbuster

Based on: Breaking Free by Thin Air Publishing
Status: seeking representation

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A screenwriter interviews the widow of an aerial photographer killed in an F-16 crash and finds his own values transformed as he falls in love with the widow. A true story.

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Breaking Free

The aerial photography of Judson P. Brohmer

Tagline: He set out to tell a hero's story only to be undone by his own

Genre: Drama
Screenplay Awards: First Place, Hollywood Film Festival

Budget: Medium

Inspired by Etwas von den Wurzekindern by Sybylle V. Olfers.
Status: seeking representation

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When two orphaned siblings are sent to live with their bitter grandfather during the Depression, a mysterious hermit’s tale of the Root Children leads them on a journey into the woods—where they unveil a haunting secret that has been buried for 30 years.

"This is a story that must be told." Janice Pennington, co-founder, Hollywood Film Festival

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Tagline: The grave may be the last place you find the truth

When theRoot
Children Wake

The
Violin Hunter

Genre: A True Story / Adventure, Drama
Screenplay Awards: Gold, WolrdFest Flagstaff International Film Festival

Budget: Blockbuster

Based on: The Violin Hunter by William Alexander Silverman, Paganiniana Publications
Status: seeking representation

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A true story. In war-torn 19th-century Europe, Luigi Tarisio—a once-promising violinist maimed by tragedy—embarks on a lifelong, haunted quest to recover the lost masterpieces of Antonio Stradivari. Torn between love and obsession, and shadowed by loss at every turn, Tarisio sacrifices everything in pursuit of Le Messie—the fabled violin said to hold the soul of music itself.

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Tagline: a haunting tale of one man's dream to fulfill a quest that will mercilessly captivate his very soul.

Genre: A True Story / Drama

Budget: Blockbuster

Based on: The the Random House book by Karl Tobien
Status: seeking representation

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Commissioned by Henry Ford, an employee takes his family to Ford's auto plant in Gorky, Russia where they are faced with even worse conditions and eventually sent to labor camps. This is a true story.

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Tagline: the extraordinary story of Maddie Werner, the only American Woman to

survive Stalin's gulag.

Magic Dragon

Genre: A True Story / Thriller

Budget: Blockbuster

Based on: a true story
Status: seeking representation

SYNOPSIS

An officer in the US Coast Guard investigates mutiny on a fishing trawler and discovers a sadistic boat captain unleashing a nightmare on his young coed crew who signed on as summer staff.

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Tagline: It's the voyage of a lifetime, for the last time.

Marshmallow
Man

Genre: Drama

Budget: Medium

An original screenplay
Status: seeking representation

SYNOPSIS

A terminally ill marketing executive stumbles upon a talking Marshmallow Man born from the imagination of a wildly successful ad campaign, while a rogue broadcast stirs the conscience of a broken nation.

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Tagline: Life is like a marshmallow. Easy to chew, hard to swallow. Francis Bacon

Genre: Comedy / Drama

Budget: medium

An original screenplay
Status: seeking representation

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A hotshot reporter chases a trucker across the country as he broadcasts conversations over the CB radio to his dead daughter, only to find out she may be alive and on her father's trail with a band of cross-country diner misfits.

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Tagline: A good story gives a man hope, a woman affection, and a child a future

Genre: A True Story / Drama

Budget: medium

Based on: The Leadership Book by Larry Ragland
Status: seeking representation

SYNOPSIS

Torn between fear and hope, a young boy endures the scars of abuse until a shattering family secret sets hiim on a journey to discover his true identity.

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Tagline: The stronger a man is, the gentler he can afford to be

a modern
fairytale

Genre: Drama

Budget: medium

An original screenplay
Status: seeking representation

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Loveworks. A physical therapy clinic run by Addi Gold, who uses her movements as a ballerina to teach and retrain the physically handicapped. When an accident victim, newcomer, Mister Smith, arrives, he brings with him a deeply shadowed past. As his therapy begins, so does his journey to overcome bitterness and find his own personal redemption.

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Genre: Drama

Budget: medium

Dramatic Adaptation: The book by Walter D. Edmonds
Status: seeking representation

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American author Walter D. Edmonds delivers a powerful coming-of-age tale in which a teenage boy, sets out to repay a fabricated debt and prove his worth through a brutal winter in the wilderness. Two Logs Crossing is a stirring story of survival, justice, and redemption—where a boy becomes a man, and honor is forged in the face of injustice.

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Tagline: For a man can only be free if his neighbors are also

Genre: Action / Thriller

Budget: blockbuster

An original screenplay
Status: seeking representation

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Wrongly accused of a murder, Emma Dawson, a ranger for the Bureau of Land Management, uncovers a government conspiracy that is using the Baha race and a wild herd of horses as a front to transfer and sell a deadly binary virus. Attempting to clear her own name, Emma steals the wild herd in a desperate effort to coax the enemy onto the land Emma knows—a land that holds a haunting secret of its own. What follows is a race of wits, one mechanical, one natural, and they’re both wild and out of control.

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Tagline: Run wild, run free, run for your life.

Genre: Drama

Budget: medium

An original screenplay
Status: seeking representation

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A man, fighting the dreaded “Gunther’s” disease also known as the sunshine or wolfman disease, escapes his past, taking his young daughter on a trek across America. Introducing her to the beautiful world that surrounds them, they embark on a photographic journey which ultimately brings them face to face with their terrifying past and the strength of human kindness.

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Genre: Drama

Budget: medium

Dramatic Adaptation: In His Steps by Charles M. Sheldon
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SYNOPSIS

The story of seven men and women who battle the corrupt politicians of a small industrial town at the turn of the century in an effort to bring about moral stability, honor, and truth. In His Steps was the # 1 best seller for over 60 years, from the time of its publication in 1898, until 1960, outselling any other book in history at that time. Strong female lead characters.

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Genre: Drama

Budget: small

Based on: The stage play by E W Helmick
Status: seeking representation

SYNOPSIS

Lay people of a small mining town outwit one another, neighbors, God, and the local ordinances, in an effort to protect their only meeting place, the church, from closure by the soon-rumored visit of the Inspector. Period 1920.

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AUTHOR AVAILABILITY

I'm passionate about connecting with readers who love a good story. It would be an honor to speak at your library, book club, or upcoming event.

Topics of discussion can include:

"Novel to Screenplay"
"Learning to Edit Your Writing"
"Building a Historical World That Readers Can Taste"
"Turning a Wounded Past Into Story"
"The Role of a Butler"
"Procrastination: How to Kill It"
"Writing a Screenplay in 3 Days"

All materials presented are based on projects for which I have held legal option or direct access, and are available for representation or development upon request.

Breaking Free

The aerial photography of Judson P. Brohmer

When theRoot Children Wake

The Violin Hunter

Magic Dragon

Marshmallow Man

a modern fairytale

When theRoot
Children Wake

The
Violin Hunter

Marshmallow
Man

a modern
fairytale