Great projects. We get so excited they keep us awake at night. Characters that leap off the page. Stories that sink into you and become a part of you. Television. Film. Short form. And we are constantly on the lookout for great collaborat0rs who can work with us to help bring these stories to fruition.
Thanksgiving
FORMAT: FEATURE LENGTH NARRATIVE FILM
As the season of thanks approaches, Grace Harris, the sole paid employee of the Darryl F. Zanuck Museum and Historical Society of Wahoo, Nebraska comes face to face with her husband’s infidelity and her daughter’s shrinking small town aspirations. Deciding her only remedy is to return a recently purchased K-Mart nightgown to Turkey, Grace travels half way around the world to find its place of origin, and in this remarkable journey, discovers her own sense of place and worth.
Swedish Tango
FORMAT: FEATURE LENGTH NARRATIVE FILM
Based on the novel by best selling author Alyson Richman, SWEDISH TANGO is an unforgettable love story that spans time and geographies, about a Chilean couple who seek political asylum in Sweden after their lives are irrevocably changed by the 1975 military coup of the brutal dictator Augusto Pinochet. It is sweeping, timeless, gut-wrenching, and altogether beautiful.
Terrifica
FORMAT: 30 MINUTE EPISODIC TELEVISION SERIES
Inspired by a Real-Life Superhero, TERRIFICA follows a young woman in her late 20’s, who haunts the Lower East Side bar scene at night with the singular mission of preventing inebriated and misguided young women from becoming prey to sexual predators (or just generally horny, annoying, or equally inebriated young men). TERRIFICA, the fuchsia clad Alter Ego of GRETCHEN (an elementary school music teacher), is a one of a kind response to fear, heartbreak, and how to survive in an utterly foreign place when life has thrown you some serious curves.
Song of the Phoenix
FORMAT: HOUR LONG EPISODIC TELEVISION SERIES
SONG OF THE PHOENIX is a weekly hour long dramedy, set in the mid 80’s in an authentic Manhattan cabaret; in other words - it’s a dive. A sequin coated dump. A threadbare, overlooked place, filled with misfits and music, busted dreams and unbridled ambition where the ceiling leaks and the vodka is crap. At The Phoenix you cross paths with drunks and cockroaches, yesterday’s divas and today’s wannabe’s, the occasional small time criminal, and every now and then – someone with an undeniably thrilling spark of talent.
Enter Title Here
FORMAT: FEATURE LENGTH NARRATIVE FILM
Based on Rahul Kanakia’s debut novel, ENTER TITLE HERE is a for-the-drawer autobiography of calculating, stop-at-nothing High School valedictorian, Reshma Kapoor. She may be a college admission counselor’s dream on the outside, but in truth she’s one hot mess - amped up on study meds, loneliness and sheer desperation. Reshma’s world teeters on the brink when she is caught plagiarizing – and even an unheard of publishing deal at the age of 17 may not be able to keep her Machiavellian train on the rails long enough to get into Stanford.
Election meets House of Cards in this no-holds barred, brutally vulnerable, unflinching account of a deeply wounded girl desperate for love and approval.
In active development with Jon Shestack (Dan in Real Life, Air Force One).
The Goddess in my Building
FORMAT: ORIGINAL FULL LENGTH MUSICAL
The Goddess in my Building is an original full length musical about a collection of women living in the same New York apartment house. Told from the perspective of the building’s “writer in residence” – who has been inspired by the simple credo to “write what you know” - the piece presents hysterical observations on neighbors that pass through, while also exploring the fears, dysfunctions and occasional triumphs that take place behind closed doors. Set in a world that is, by nature, both extremely public and desperately private, The Goddess in my Building is chockablock with compassion, and bursting with life as it captures a dozen worlds in motion, which all somehow take a surprise left turn when an apocalyptic snow storm renders all of the women house bound (or rather building-bound), causing their lives to intersect in incongruous and extraordinary ways.