Screenplays

Every Move Counts

Slated for Production in 2012

Co-writer: Robert Rivenbark

Synopsis

Based on a true story of the life of Orrin Hudson, featured in People, January 21, 2008. Orrin is the founder of BeSomeone, Inc. (www.besomeone.org)

Shocked by an execution–style murder, a true-life black businessman and chess master gives up family, friends, girlfriend, and success, risking everything to look for meaning in a chessboard and to teach at risk youth, before it’s too late, that every move counts.

Awards

Consider, AAA Screenplay Competition, LA, 2007
Second-round, Austin Film Festival, 2006
Finalist, Omaha Film Festival, 2006

Victoria

Co-writer: Robert Rivenbark

Synopsis

The true story of Victoria Woodhull, a brilliant, passionate, and visionary women’s rights activist, who runs for U.S. President one hundred years before her time, only to be tragically destroyed by a hypocritical society—including her own depraved family.

Awards

Quarter-finalist, AAA Screenplay Competition, LA, 2007
Quarter-finalist, Page International Screenplay Competition, LA, 2007

Billy, Come Home

Co-writer: Mary Rose Callaghan

Synopsis

Based on the novel, Billy, Come Home, by Mary Rose Callaghan
(Brandon, Britain and Ireland, 2007)

A woman travels to London to identify a body that has been fished out of the Thames; it is believed to be that of her brother, Billy. The narrative flashes back to the brutal murder of a teenage girl. Billy, a schizophrenic, is accused of the crime. A compelling tale of prejudice against the mentally ill and the struggle to find one’s home in the world.

Slip Knot

Co-writers: Robert and Kathleen Rivenbark

Synopsis

A racist Southern physician, fleeing to South Africa from his dead wife’s vengeful black ex-FBI agent lover, finds escape from his inner demons by sacrificing himself and his fortune to save South African AIDS victims.