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Feature Screenplay: “Finders Keepers” (adventure/comedy)
Ryan’s an amateur treasure hunter who’s roped his best friend, Doug, into one last adventure before Doug gets married, but when the pair stumble upon a rare treasure (and the mercenaries willing to kill them for it) the best friends’ relationship (and lives) are put to the test.
Feature Screenplay: “Family Style” (low-budget dramedy)
A 30-something man-child returns to his home town for his parents’ funeral only to discover he’s inherited the failing family restaurant. He hopes to sell it off for some quick cash, but he’ll need the approval of the restaurant’s other part-owner first: the 16-year-old daughter he left behind.
Feature Screenplay: “Fish and Church” (crime dramedy)
Leroy, a Southern preacher, vows to shut down the fish restaurant next door when its stink drives away his congregation, but his actions accidentally put himself in the crosshairs of a small-town crime boss, and Leroy must decide how far he’ll go to keep his church.
TV Pilot: “Non-Magic 101” (hour drama)
After he’s fired, a desperate high school teacher with no job prospects accepts a mysterious position at a private school only to discover the students are wizards-in-training, and he’s been tasked with teaching them non-magical studies like math, English, and US History. Everyone wishes they could go to a place like Hogwarts, but what if you had to teach there?
TV Pilot: “I’m With the Band” (hour drama)
A teenage reputation-fixer navigates her high school’s social circles while maintaining her own reputation as a marching band geek.
TV Pilot: “Motherly Love” (half-hour dramedy)
Eddy, a purposefully-single hotshot, is told by a psychic that he’ll kill his father and marry his mother, and when he inadvertently causes his father’s premature death, he vows to get married and settle down before his overbearing mother fulfills the rest of the prophecy.
TV Pilot: “Family Studies” (half-hour comedy)
The show follows the Clark family and their adventures at a university. There’s GREG, the patriarch professor who’s tired of the academic grind. SAM, a perpetual student with a working wife and a needy newborn. MADDIE, whose freshman year is made more difficult now that her mom, ELLEN, an empty-nester housewife, decided to go back to get her own degree.
Head Writer, “Pretty Darn Funny” Season 1
A branded web-series geared toward moms produced by national bookstore Deseret Book. The full season can be viewed here.