Surprise!

The best thing about putting scripts in contests is that there’s a decent chance you’ll forget you did it and then be pleasantly surprised to place.

I had two feature scripts in the LA International Screenplay Awards and both made semifinalist! I’m especially pleased because both deal with challenging subject matter, and the judges seem not to have choked on it.

The Island of Misfit Toys is a psychological thriller: When the Vatican hires cold-blooded fixer the Mantis and unstable Vermont psychoanalyst Thomas to solve the pedophile priest problem once and for all, Thomas uses his crackpot therapy techniques to usher in a return to the Church's golden age of Inquisitions, but a young altar server's quest to find a missing priest turns everything upside down.

Black Blizzard is a tale of intergenerational trauma and loss: Set in the shadow of the Oklahoma Dust Bowl, logic savant and sex-worker Cali has to overcome her crime-boss uncle so she can save her friend before both women's lives are destroyed.

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