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All in the Music
All In the Music:
(DRAMA/MUSIC MOVIE -- written as a starring vehicle for Marc Maron) A coming-of-age story about a female teenage bass player from Seattle whose journey to L.A. reveals the truth about her past.
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All In the Music
Director: Richard Zelniker
Producer: Calle Nguyen Zelniker
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Seattle: 1993-1994. An adopted 18-year-old bass player named NATALIE “PEPPERS” BELLMONT bounces from band to band trying to find her musical voice, when her adopted father gifts her a time capsule: an unpublished, and unfinished, autobiography. As “Peppers” immerses herself in the pages of this grand adventure, she discovers the life of a former-marine-turned-rock-manager named FRANK CARSON who nurtured a dozen or so Rock bands from 1975 up until a tragedy involving his lost soul of a daughter pulls him out of the scene. Disillusioned with what she considers to be the “sell-out” nature of so-called grunge music, she leaves for Los Angeles to track down this old timer now in his 70s living at the infamous Highland Gardens Hotel. FRANK is eventually won over by her enthusiasm for his past exploits and the two share with each other the music they love from their generations. Peppers eventually learns the mystery of her past and the mother she never knew she had.
ALL IN THE MUSIC is about how music binds us from one generation to the next, and is dedicated to: "The Ones We Lost Too Soon... Who Sing with the Angels; to the memory of Seattle’s own: Lynn Shelton; and for Taylor (Hawkins). Rest In Power.
*BLACK FRIDAY MASSACRE:
(*Co-Written with Jason Slawson)
(DARK COMEDY/SATIRICAL COMEDY) Only Black Friday sales and a documentary news crew can save family owned Rigley Super-Mart from destruction.
Screenplay Competition - SEMIFINALIST
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Black Friday Massacre
(Available Upon Request)
(*Co-Written with Jason Slawson)
(DARK COMEDY/SATIRICAL COMEDY) The corruptive nature of college football is exposed when two rival coaches try to settle an old score.
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Dirtist Game
(Available Upon Request)
Director: Richard Zelniker
Jay Walking In Vegas
ScreenCraft Comedy Screeplay Competition - SEMIFINALIST
(INDIE COMEDY - written as a starring vehicle for Marc Maron) After a public meltdown torpedoes his last shot at a comeback, washed-up comic Jay Walker careens through a long night in Las Vegas — but amid the wreckage of every bad decision, he finds an unexpected connection that just might save him.
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In Indian Country:
(DRAMA) A Santa Fe New Mexico high school track star, and wannabe filmmaker, discovers his true cultural identity as a Native-American while being torn between the diverse styles of two different coaches.
Camera Ready:
(INDIE FLAVORED DRAMA) When a recovering alcoholic photographer is assigned to interview a seductive pop star, his professional opportunity becomes a personal crisis that forces him to choose between the authentic life he claims to want and the comfortable lies he's been living.
(A nod to the French New Wave & New Hollywood Cinema)
BlueCat Screenplay Competition - QUARTERFINALIST
ScreenCraft Screenplay Competition - QUARTERFINALIST
Hey Joe:
("FOREST GUMP" MEETS "WALL STREET") Spanning 50 years of American history, an adopted farm boy rises from attempted murder by his brothers to become a media mogul who must decide whether to destroy or save the family that betrayed him.
(A modern day re-telling of the Biblical story of Joseph from Genesis, satirizing the most notorious scandals in both U.S. Politics and Corporate America over the past 40 years.)
Hunting Diana
HUNTING DIANA
(DRAMA/FANTASY) A Nuyorican jazz musician, spiraling into depression and grief, is haunted—literally and psychologically—by a mythic feminine goddess who forces him to confront the trauma he’s spent his life avoiding.
Big Apple Film Festival & Screenplay Competition - SEMIFINALIST
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