Produced Work

  • 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

  • Feature
    98 Pages
    Contained Horror-Comedy / Supernatural Neo-Noir.
    In the basement of an aging hospital, a blood-bank tech runs an after-hours blood bar for the city's vampire underground, until one contaminated vial turns his quiet graveyard shift into the longest night of his very mortal life.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Feature
    Historical War Drama / Biographical Thriller
    In 1968, a former nuclear bomber pilot who left the Air Force to save lives instead of threatening them joins a combat rescue squadron in Vietnam - and leads a mission into the A Shau Valley that becomes one of the war’s most courageous and tragic helicopter operations.
    Based on real events.

  • 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.