Award-winning screenwriter and author
SCREENPLAYS
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
He set out to tell a hero's story
only to be undone by his own
First place, Worldfest Houston International Film Festival
Breaking Free
A true story.
Breaking Free is a love story, a reckoning, and a cinematic flight through grief, loyalty, and redemption. It’s about the people who soar, the ones left behind, and those brave enough to come back for the truth
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Based on the book, Breaking Free
First place, Hollywood International Film Festival
"This is a story that must be told."
Janice Pennington
co-founder, Hollywood Film Festival
When the Root Children Wake
Inspired by the book, Etwas von den Wurzelkindern by Sibylle v. Olfers.
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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.
a haunting tale of one man’s dream to
fulfill a quest that will mercilessly captivate
his very soul.
Second place, Worldfest Flagstaff International Film Festival
The Violin Hunter
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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Based on the book, The Violin Hunter by
William Alexander Silverman
Magic Dragon
A true story.
A brutal fisherman traps unsuspecting students aboard his ship, twisting their fear of drowning into terror at sea. As the Coast Guard stalls, one chief breaks ranks to hunt him down and stop the nightmare before it sails again.
The true story of Maddie Werner,
The only American woman to survive
Stalin's Gulag.
Dancing Under the Red Sky
A true story.
Lured to Stalinist Russia by promises of opportunity from the Ford Motor Company—who would later deny all involvement—a young American girl is swept into a nightmare of famine, persecution, and betrayal. Dancing Under the Red Star tells the harrowing true story of her survival through ten years in a Siberian labor camp, and the love, defiance, and sacrifice that carried her home.
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Based on the Random House book, by
Karl Tobien
For a man can only be free
if his neighbors are also.
Two Logs Crossing
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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Based on the book, by
Walter D. Edmonds
Loveworks
At a healing clinic where dance meets rehabilitation, a mysterious man scarred by grief and a shadowed past begins a reluctant journey toward redemption—forever altering the lives of those around him, and unlocking a love that neither he nor his healer expected.
Marshmallow Man
“Life is like a marshmallow. Easy to chew, hard to swallow.” Francis Bacon
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A terminally ill marketing executive stumbles upon a talking Marshmallow Man, born from the imagination of a wildly successful ad campaign, and a rogue broadcast stirs the conscience of a broken nation.
Tucker's Cry
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A hard-edged reporter chases a human-interest story about a trucker telling stories over CB radio,
to a daughter he believes is dead.