Screenwriter

• The Great Mesmerizers (Mystery, 13 pages):  After an otherwise ordinary performance leads to extraordinary consequences, The Great Mesmerizer is forced to choose between admitting to charlatanry or to anything to do with a bizarre affair. But when the lead interrogator becomes affected by his presumed ‘powers’, even the mentalist himself can no longer tell if his act is a sham or the real deal…

* Finalist at the 2013 We Make Movies Canada – Slate One Screenplay Contest

• New Age (Rom-Com/Sci-f, 12 pages): Amy and Eric would make the perfect match: he’s a novelist, she’s an editor, and they’re both actively looking for love. They even sip lattes across from one another in the same coffee shop every single morning—so how come they still haven’t met? A laptop screen comes between them! When a mysterious email from a new dating service lands in their virtual mailboxes, touting some new and unique ‘Perfect Match Guaranteed’ technology, it appears the two love birds are finally about to find what they’ve been looking for… or are they?

• The End of the Night (Drama/Suspense): A young writer with too many open ends has reached the climax of his efforts— he’s either going to finish this new story, or to finish off himself. But as he plows through the shadows of this decisive night, a mysterious visitor drops in for a visit, and he may not be a stranger after all…

• I’mperfection (Drama, 14 pages): A revolutionary meal replacement supplement is poised to end world hunger with a newly rock-bottomed price. The creator of this ‘Perfect Solution’ is likewise poised to win a Nobel. But a spokeswoman who’s endorsed the product line from infancy learns that corners may have been cut to achieve this new affordability; corner-cuts that may be responsible for hundreds of recent deaths. Now she must confront him—but there’s a problem… he’s not only her employer, he’s her husband.

• The Shadow of a Man (Mystery/Suspense): The dark ages. A brother of the Caduceus, the order of Healers, and his young apprentice hurry through a night of thunderous fury to answer a dispatch from the old abbot at the monastery he grew up in. A man was brought in for asylum—a man without a shadow! This student of light now has to probe into his own life to uncover the sinister roots of this mystery, which seems somehow entwined with another haunting mystery—the disappearance of his father and teacher, a senior member of the Caduceus, some 15 years prior.

• The Stolen Heart (Drama): When his wife suffers acute heart failure and placed on a crowded waiting list, Peter Stevenson elects to purchase the heart of a faceless stranger – a condemned Chinese convict – to save her. But the deed returns to haunt him when, upon recovery, she insists to uncover the hidden history of her new heart.

* Finalist at the 2013 Write Movies 31st International Writing Competition

• Aggressive Mimicry (Suspense/Horror): A sheepish paroled thief convinces his young partner to break into the house of his former psychologist after learning that, for a single night, she’ll be in possession of an expensive coin collection — an easy score by all accounts — but the plan gets complicated when the good doctor starts playing an agenda of her own.

• Early June (Drama): An older woman and her young boyfriend find out that the symptoms previously dismissed by her doctor as the signs of an early menopause are in fact the results of a 4-month pregnancy. Pressed by her history of cancer and by his financial circumstances, their only viable recourse is abortion. But the choice grows tougher as the idea of their unborn girl takes root within their minds, raising a storm that vows to tear them apart?

• Guilty of Innocence (Drama/Suspense): The not-so-distant-future. An electric chair malfunctions on the brink of execution, allowing a man condemned for the brutal murder of his girlfriend a last chance to revisit the events that had landed him there—he’s got all the pieces, but none of them seem to fit no matter how he puts them. Will he have enough time to make out the full picture or is he doomed to die trying?

• Social Work (Drama): First, Harold Reeves had lost the respect of his colleagues and the confidence of his friends. Then he lost his job, followed by his life’s work. Then his home; his daughter; his wife; his pride; and his very last penny fighting through the family court-system. At 48, of the promising young physician, only a broken man remains, and Society’s work would have been completed if it wasn’t for one lasting thing: his conviction.

• Private Space (Comedy): A writer desperate to find a meal ticket and some quiet space to finish writing his first novel realizes that a prison cell might be just the thing he’s is after—but, as it turns out, getting behind bars is not as simple as it seems…

• It’s Never Too Late! (Comedy) Gary followed society’s recipe to a tee—went to college, got a career, worked in a cubicle for 20 odd years—but something hit him on his 45th birthday (other than that ice-cream truck)…Gary wasn’t happy. The following day—concussion or mid-life crisis—he decides to move to LA and pursue his long neglected dream of becoming an actor. But as he takes on every pee-on job and internship Craigslist has to offer, dragging through the mud across the wrong side of the movie biz, will this middle-aged man have the perseverance to ‘take it till he makes it’ like them young dogs, or will he fold his tail between his legs and shuffle back to Desperation-ville?

• The Ghost (Drama): Who is the true ‘ghost’—the nameless man in the shadows of recognition, or the fake in the spotlight? At the publication party of his latest novel, a famous author confronts this very question.

• Campervan Journey (Rom-Com): ‘Go big or go home’—perhaps that’s what Mathew had in mind when he sold off all his earthly possessions, bought a beaten-up camper-van, and headed down south towards LA: that if he had no home, he’d have nowhere to go but up. Yet homeless in the Land of Mansions is a tough start, and the going gets tougher when his path crosses with that of an up-and-coming young actress — much to the dismay of those with a vested interest in her career. Can something real survive where fabricated lives are made?

• Limelight (Comedy, Satire): A young filmmaker recruits a crew of supernatural misfits to get an edge in an upcoming video contest, but when worldly and other-worldly forces endanger not only the fate of humanity—but worse, his title at the festival—it’s up to him and his unlikely troupe of heroes to draw the last line of defense (warning: their methods are untested!)

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• A Will to Live (Fantasy/Suspense, Short): How can a young mind comprehend something as contradictory as cancer treatment? Something as mind-bogging as mortality? In this short tale a young boy’s imagination, inspired by bits and pieces of conversations and his love for video games, creates a fantasy universe where his momentous battle with Cancer is enacted.

• Who’s Poochie Now? (Comedy, Short): A naive young boy and his trusty canine friend set out to capture the subject of his love, but as the plan unravels it appears the line may have become blurred between pet and master…

• This Business of Love (Comedy, Feature) There’s trouble brewing on cloud number nine. Having persevered for ages over the competition from yentas and matchmakers—cupids worldwide are facing the ultimate threat: Online Dating. In an emergency meeting of the Cupids Union, three brave souls are selected to show the world (and Upper Management) that even in the 21st century there’s still room for Cupids in the Love Biz!

• When Harry Mate Sally [Cannon 5DmkII Spec]: What starts as fascination between a videographer and a female photographer ends as copulation between two mediums—a new breed is born!

[Conceived as the first in a series of specs]