I create surreal, carefully constructed stories that dissect love, morality, oppression, identity crises, alienation and stagnation by catapulting characters into absurd, almost comically juxtaposed worlds where they must use self-examination as a tool for escape and redemption.
Unique traits: I can eat a sandwich right side up or upside down and get a different taste each time.
Swell (Feature) Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama ⋄ Fantasy A dejected teenager struggles to escape her off-kilter family whose lives are filled with atomic bomb drills, oppressive rules, and addiction in 1950s suburbia.
A Happy Life (short) Budget: $0 - $100K | Romance ⋄ Drama A gay man begins to question his relationship with his husband after an especially trying visit with his homophobic father.
Bride to Be (short) - Optioned Budget: $0 - $100K | Fantasy ⋄ Drama An anxious bride-to-be gets some last-minute adjustments made to her wedding gown.
Cubicle Jockeys (short) Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama ⋄ Comedy An anxious employee organizes a strike after a series of stress-related deaths take out his co-workers and his boss pees on his shoe.
Three for Tea (short) Budget: $0 - $100K | Mystery ⋄ Comedy After dying in a high pursuit car chase, a brash woman finds that she has become one of three imaginary friends to a seven-year-old girl.
Deconstructing Val (short) - Produced Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama ⋄ Comedy The three lives of a queer, Brazilian transplant merge to avenge the character that was lost in a brutal rape.
Bargain Store (Short) - Optioned Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama ⋄ Fantasy A disgruntled small-town bargain store worker meets a soldier who encourages her to stand up to her perverted boss.
Mabel (Short) - Produced Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama ⋄ Fantasy A depressed young man struggles to keep up with his girlfriend who keeps disappearing at the most inopportune times.
Cul-de-sac (Short) - Optioned Budget: $0 - $100K | Horror ⋄ Fantasy A couple of city dwellers move to the suburbs and are bombarded by their hyperactive neighbors who aggressively try to get them to try a strange, new health product.
Sinkhole (Feature) Comedy ⋄ Fantasy A hapless, well-meaning buffoon begins to question his small-town life and decides to get a pool over fixing the house, resulting in him falling through a sinkhole into another dimension where things are deceivingly better.
The Descending Dichotomy of Stephen Peters (Feature) Adventure ⋄ Drama ⋄ Fantasy In a small town where romance is forbidden, a lonely bookworm and a strangely intrepid woman find sanctuary in a cave; but when a man all the way in New York has a breakdown, the couple is forced to make a decision between love and their own existence.
The Apartment (Short) Mystery ⋄ Fantasy A couple caught up in the whirlwind of technology check into their sublet only to find they can’t connect.
Quandary (Short) Thriller ⋄ Fantasy A thirty year old slacker wakes up in an unfamiliar house and assumes it’s another drunken one-night stand, until he discovers that the others trapped in the house don’t know how they got there either.
Day Care (Short) Budget: $0 - $100K | Fantasy ⋄ Drama A cantankerous toddler learns about love, death, and loss when he visits daycare for the first time.
Strayed (Short) - Produced Drama A sullen little girl spots her mother stuffing a suspicious bag into a trash bin soon after her dog goes missing.
Mabel
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Film (short)
by Thai Vuong
Writer
Bargain Store
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Film (short)
by Robert Sebastian Webb
Writer
Deconstructing Val
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Film (short)
by Zooleey Productions (Comedy and Drama)
Writer
Deconstructing Val
(
Film (short)
by Zooleey Productions (Comedy and Drama)
Director
Strayed
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Film (short)
by John Hewell
Writer
Deconstructing Val - Short Cinefest - Best LGBT Film
(2022)