Produced Work
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Feature Thriller
Writer/Producer
To escape his dead-end life, a young man steals some money and hits the road. His journey to freedom is sidetracked by a mysterious man and his human pets.
Accolade Award of Excellence - Feature Film 2009
Official Selection - Arizona International Film Festival 2009
Official Selection - Philadelphia Independent Film Festival 2009 Official Selection - SANFIC - Santiago International Film Festival 2009 -
Feature Noir/Thriller
Writer
A troubled man tries to protect a dangerously seductive woman as the men in her life are brutally murdered.
Official Selection - Arizona International Film Festival 2008
Official Selection - Arizona Film & Television Festival 2008 -
Feature Thriller
Writer/Director/Producer
A single mother finds the hit-and-run driver responsible for her daughter's death and imprisons him in her home.
Lake Charles Film Festival 2013 - Best Homegrown Film
Lake Charles Film Festival 2013 - Third Place - Best Feature Film
Notable Feature Scripts
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Feature
97 Pages
Arthouse Horror / Folk Horror / Supernatural Horror.
A fur trapper’s wife dies during a yellow fever plague in the late 1800s and returns to haunt him.
Semifinalist - Page Intl. Screenwriting Awards 2024 (Thriller/Horror) -
With John Day
Feature - SOLD (In Pre-production)
107 Pages
Drama.
Jack, a Native veteran with addiction issues, meets his dying niece who wants him to care for her dog. Jack's a match for a liver transplant to save her but his alcoholism makes him ineligible.
Quarterfinalist - Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting 2022 -
Feature
88 Pages
Comedy/Horror
A dark comedy about a naïve young man who must avoid being turned into a smoked breakfast sausage when he falls in love with the youngest daughter of a family of cannibals in the deep south.
Semifinalist - Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting 2008
Second Round - Austin Film Festival 2008 -
Feature
103 Pages
Neo-Noir/Thriller
Sam Spade meets George Romero in this undead noir, where a hard-boiled ex-cop takes a missing persons case that won’t let go - even after he’s killed.
Semifinalist - Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting 2014 (Top 50)
Quarterfinalist - Scriptapalooza 2014
Quarterfinalist - Page Intl. Screenwriting Awards 2015, 2016
Quarterfinalist - StoryPros Awards Screenplay Contest 2015
Quarterfinalist - Final Draft Big Break 2015, 2019
Second Round - Austin Film Festival 2019
Winner - Page Intl. Screenwriting Awards 2019 (Thriller/Horror)
Quarterfinalist - Titan Awards (Drama & Sci-Fi) 2022
Semifinalist - Outstanding Screenplays Feature Competition 2023
Quarterfinalist - Emerging Screenwriters Screenplay Competition 2024
Quarterfinalist - Emerging Screenwriters Sci-Fi & Fantasy Competition 2024
Quarterfinalist - ScreenCraft Sci-Fi & Fantasy Screenwriting Competition 2024
Finalist - Script2Comic Contest 2024
Grand Prize Winner - Fade In Awards Sci-Fi Competition 2024
Semifinalist - Filmmatic Sci-Fi/Fantasy Awards Season 2 -
Feature
106 Pages
Desert Noir/Thriller
Three fugitives. One dead-end motel. Everything goes to hell when the money goes missing.
Second Round - Austin Film Festival 2011
Semifinalist- Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting 2015
Semifinalist - Fade In Awards 2023
Semifinalist - Page Intl. Screenwriting Awards 2023 (Thriller/Horror)
Optioned - 2019/2021/2022
Shopping Agreement - 2024/2025 -
Feature
98 Pages
Psychological Thriller / Contained Drama
A grieving mother imprisons the washed-up drunk she holds responsible for her daughter’s death. -
Feature
106 Pages
Mythic Thriller / Survival Horror
When her remote arctic village is seized by a murderous gang of gold hunters, a Native girl turns to a reclusive creature who has traded with her people for over 200 years.
Inspired by the novel FRANKENSTEIN written by Mary Shelley (1818). -
Feature
93 Pages
Horror
A man hiding out in a remote mountain cabin narrowly survives a savage attack by a mysterious wolf-like creature. -
With Teague Quillen
Feature
93 Pages
Prestige Horror / Folk Horror
A failed novelist returns to his childhood home and discovers an old witch jar that unleashes a dark legend that threatens to consume his sanity and his soul. -
Feature
99 Pages
Horror/Comedy
After an East L.A. gang accidentally become werewolves, their wild rampage through the barrio quickly spirals into a bloody and ridiculous mess.
Notable Scripts As A
Work For Hire
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Feature
107 Pages
Action/Thriller
Two former Navy SEALs discover lost gold off the Baja coast - only to be hunted by a ruthless cartel determined to claim it. Outnumbered, they must outfight and outwit their pursuers to survive.
Based on the novel BAJA SILVER by Tim Brown -
Feature
95 Pages
Southern Gothic/Horror
A broken man and his sister are hunted by a preacher who speaks in scripture and commands creatures born of filth and faith.
Inspired by the novel THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND written by William Hope Hodgson (1908).
Finalist - ScreamFest LA 2006 -
With Andy Froemke
Feature
97 Pages
Action/Crime
A man released from a Mexican prison seeks revenge against the brother who betrayed him. -
With Andy Froemke
Feature
92 Pages
Thriller
A traveler picks up a mysterious girl who knows too much about his troubled past, including the hitchhiker he ran over the day before. -
Feature
117 Pages
Action/Adventure
in a case of mistaken identity, a couple flees both the police and criminals across the wilderness of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. -
Feature
97 Pages
Horror/Drama
A young man horribly disfigured in a fire while rescuing a young boy goes from hero to suspect in a sleepy southern town.
Inspired by the novella THE MONSTER by Stephen Crane (1898). -
Television Pilot - One-Hour Scripted Drama
97 Pages
Prestige/Action/Thriller
A morally complex private investigator navigates a world steeped in corruption, crime, and deadly conspiracies.
Based on the novel SMOKE STACK, part of the ZACK STACK series written by Andrew Gruse. -
Feature
97 Pages
Military/Action
Afghanistan. 2004. A special forces operator risks his life to stop his fellow soldiers from being overrun by Al Qaeda.
Based on real events.
Semifinalist - Screencraft True Story & Public Domain Competition 2024 -
Feature
107 Pages
Action/Thriller
A covert agent’s theft of a high-stakes briefcase triggers a deadly game of cat and mouse as he races to stop a bioweapon from devastating Moscow.
Based on an original story by Jonas Nitz.