PROJECTS


IN POST


The Tested (feature)
A year ago while on duty as a plain clothes cop, JULIAN VARONE gunned down an unarmed teen. In that time DARRAYLYNN WARREN, the teen's mother, has spiraled into a pit of despair, while his brother, DRE, has gone another route... ganglife. As for Julian, it's time for him to get back to work. "The Tested" tells the story of how three lives are affected by a terrible tragedy, and how they cannot find closure without the other.

PAST PROJECTS

The Tested (short)
A black teen struggles with schoolwork in a hostile environment, and his homelife which is equally disturbing. During the days before his gang initiation he attempts to make peace with his negligent mother, console his younger sister, and accept what he's about to do - shoot a stranger in broad daylight.


jeffrey (short)
" jeffrey" is a genre-busting film that deals with the paralyzing morning routine of someone with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. As he does every weekday morning, Jeffrey awakens to get ready for work in a peculiar and calculated way. Everything he does leads up to him leaving on the moment of an exact new hour. As his routine gets interrupted time and again what first seems amusing, suddenly reveals the sad darkness that lies in the troubled mind of Jeffrey.


The Wedding Bout (short)
A marriage in twelve rounds about a Jewish bride, an Italian groom and their not so compatible families on their wedding day. When things get out of hand, the scene transforms into an actual boxing match as a fight to the finish ensues - leaving the ultimate prize, or knockout - marriage.


IN DEVELOPMENT


The Strange Effect as Everett Singer (drama)
After losing faith in himself, Everett Singer abandons Harvard Medical School and the love of his life only to become a funeral plot salesman with an unexplainable gift that changes the destiny of one small New England town.


Erroneous Lives (drama)
Explores how three generations of men learn to understand each other without the resentment of history getting in the way. The film deals with redemption, guilt, loneliness, love, and understanding.


Hometurning (docu-drama)
From the sandy beach of Massachusetts' north shore it is not possible for Martin Standing to see where the mortar landed in the mountains of northern Iraq. The earth curves too much. He can't see the damage he has caused even if he squints into the clouds over the Atlantic looking for the reflected image off their smooth surface. He cannot fathom how merely arranging an interview between a local warlord and the BCC led to the deaths of twelve people waiting in a breadline at a UN refugee camp, or how one girl — the one who stood alone, bouncing on the balls of her feet, her arms wrapped around herself — could look so like his ex-girlfriend who died under the wheels of a London cab because of his poorly chosen words. And yet, from here, it is easy to imagine. Because only twenty years ago, his father said the same thing to his mother, which made it all happen.
Hometurning is an intimate, inter-family drama set against the global crisis of modern warfare and its impatient media coverage.


Becoming Human (dramadey)
A gritty romantic comedy about five men and women in their twenties who must cope with the pressures of success, love, and all the compromises in between.


Crashers (comedy)
An aspiring filmmaker takes to party-crashing in order to break into an industry that has put up every barrier to keep him out.


For That's Not All (comedy)
Two brothers put their skills as world class speed cyclists to use in a far different manner... bank robbers.


Gus (crime)
A genre-crushing discection of one man trying to cleanse the internet through online vigilantism, while battling his own fragmented mind.


DOCUMENTARIES (personal stories)


Mid-October - The story of how a couple met, fell in love, and married in Mid-October.


Sixty Years On - The story of a couple married for thirty years and how the love continues on - a mix of 1960's and contemporary ideas


Amy Griffin - 30th Birthday Retrospective