I want to make movies. TV is cool, too. Come to think of it, so are Made-For-TV movies. And NOW I'm even making content expressly for the Internet!
Employment/Experience Summary
Screenplays
SpamBusters!
Internet Comedy Series (creating,writing,producing, directing)
(in production for Crackle.com) Synopsis: Fed up with the relentless flood of email spam, the three SpamBusters! (Dartanian634, VelmaToo and TheMaskedAvengerr) have decided to do something about it -- track down the most egregious offenders and bring them to justice! Scheduled to debut for the Moving Targets channel on Crackle.com in October 2007!
Dead Air
Horror/Comedy (original screenplay)
(under option to RHI Productions) Synopsis: When a freak computer virus jumps from a TV signal to humanity, no one is safe as the virus forces viewers to emulate whatever they watch on television. Currently under option until January, 2008.
Meet The Santas
Comedy/family (rewrite; original screenplay by Pamela Wallace)
(in production by Larry Levinson Productions for the Hallmark Channel) Synopsis: The sequel to Pamela's Wallace' Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus on the Hallmark Channel, story follows up as Nick must muster up the fortitude to actually go through with the wedding a year after the original story takes place -- if he doesn't marry Beth in time, Christmas as we know it will come to an end. Scheduled to debut on the Hallmark Channel on Saturday, December 17, 2005!
The Write Stuff
Romance/Comedy
contest (7 min. film produced for the 2005 48 Hour Film Project by Scott Nagle; directed by Anais Pedros; co-written with Matthew Dyer & Monique Mogensen & Kirk Shimano) Synopsis: This international contest supplies entrants with a random genre and three elements which must be included in their 3-7 minute film. The Write Stuff is a series of vignettes dealing with romance, linked by a dried-up pen (one of the required elements) which is picked up by a succession of people. In our San Francisco division, we won Best Script as well as Best Film, and have been informed that we are in the TOP 5 films in the US! (That means we beat the Best Films from 25 of 30 cities competing. Now we go on to create ANOTHER 3-7 minute short film in 48 hours, competing head-to-head with the other four teams!)
Essence
Horror
contest (5 min. film produced for the HD Challenge portion of the 2005 48 Hour Film Project by Jessie Goodpasture; directed by Anais Pedros; written solo Synopsis: This was Team Scattershot's follow-up film to "The Write Stuff". We competed against the other Top 5 teams from the around the country to create a 3-5 minute film in just 48 hours...and it had to be in Hi-Def to boot! Essence is an interconnected series of nightmares about an author who is having trouble coming up with his new horror novel.
No Such Thing
Comedy/family
(in development by the Hallmark Channel) Synopsis:When Skip Scettico, a home repair man who markets himself as "The Ghost Hunter", finds that his latest mark...er...client…is a ghost who is hiring him to get rid of another ghost, he's ready to run. If there wasn't a fortune in missing cash and a beautiful woman (who's a dead ringer for the dead client) at stake, he'd be gone by now. Then some men with guns show up, looking for the money. For a guy who never believed in ghosts, there’s a good chance Skip's about to become one…
Wedding Daze
Comedy/family
(The Hallmark Channel - premiered Monday, Sept. 6th, 2004) Synopsis: Jack and Audrey Landry are a middle-aged couple who have barely gotten the hang of being a pair of "empty nesters" when their three grown daughters – Teri, Nora, and Dahlia -- end up tumbling back home again. That’s not so hard to take but just as the parents re-adjust their lifestyle to accommodate their offspring, all three of the Landry daughters fall in love. Happiness abounds – until the daughters each announce they’re getting married. In the same month. And guess who’s footing the bill? Now it’s a race to see which runs out first – Jack and Audrey’s bank account…or their sanity.
Once In A Blue Moon
Comedy/family
(feature film (spec)) Synopsis: Who could possibly mistake Jill and Jack, the adolescent kids of a private detective, as detectives themselves? That would be Drell, an honest-to-goodness faerie who’s never been to Earth before. Drell’s got just three days (and now the help of two kids) to track down and capture Finagle, a notorious imp, before he takes over the world.
Dork (aka "Welcome To My World")
Comedy/family
(feature film in development with Wendy Winks) Synopsis: When workaholic dad Frank Taylor takes his 12-year-old son to a baseball game, he opts to spend time on his cell phone with his boss, tather than listen to Burton's woes about starting junior high school -- grades slipping, bullies on his case, and tongue-tied to the max when it comes to talking to girls. Burton catches a home run ball and an old usher at the ballpark tells him about an old baseball tradition: when you catch a home run, you can make a wish. Burton wishes that his dad would understand what his world is like. The next day, all hell breaks loose when Frank discovers that everyone working at his marketing company is acting like they're 12-years-old -- and on the day he has to try to land the biggest client ever!
Monster Makers
Comedy/family
(Hallmark Channel; premiered Sunday, October 26, 2003 Official Monster Makers website link) Synopsis:When 12-year-old Tim Stoker finds a 50-year-old unreleased black & white monster movie ("Monsters On The Loose!") in his basement, he gets very excited. The excitement mounts when he watches the film on Halloween night and a power surge allows the three movie monsters and the sheriff hero of the film to escape into the real world. It falls on Tim, his friend Tina, and movie Sheriff Jay Forrest to round up Verman, Manikin, and Revenant before they can wreak havoc on the little town of Paloma.
Miss Cupid's Beau
Comedy/family
(in development by the Hallmark Channel) Synopsis:It seems the one person in the world who would be a shoe-in for the "Lucky In Love" category would be Tammy Jean Valentine – she is, after all, the daughter of Cupid, the God of Love. But while Cupid may fan the flames of desire for lovers around the world, he’s way too over-protective a father to let anyone lay a finger on his little girl. She’s never even been on a date. But all that’s about to change…this is the year that Tammy starts college.
