Gene Cartwright

CEO at GeneCartwrightBooks.com | GeneCartwright.com | GreenLightThis.com |AFamilyGathering.com
Author, Director, Producer and Screenwriter

Los Angeles, California

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October 2013

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About Gene

Father, former electrical engineer, inactive Marine, a Pulitzer-nominated author/screenwriter, composer, former Oprah guest author, and lover of plain-speaking. See comprehensive bio at |

Unique traits: Author (first book at age 12), past electrical engineer, songwriter, artist whoLove rewrites and editing, to perfect my work.

Gender:
Male

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GreenLightThis.com website: a collection of he works of Gene Cartwright with captivating audiovisual presentation.

Ready for Film Banner: GeneCartwrightBooks.com/ready-for-film

The Last Moon - music tribute to the heroines featured in the film, "Hidden Figures," and the heroes and heroines of NASA. https://NotePLayer.com

Harold & Roxie - A RomDram screenplay in progress

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The Lemon Tree - Sitcom Pilot Budget: $100K - $1M | Independent ⋄ Comedy An ambitious young black woman combines her psychology degree with her love of fashion and hairstyling, and launches “The Lemon Tree”—a multi-ethnic salon and shrink’s office—set in the 90s.First Episode Filmed.
Tommy Lee Must Die! Budget: $100K - $1M | Action ⋄ Thriller An armed 22-year-old Abilene, Texas dollar-store employee steals her boss’s car, and gives chase to a 46-year-old scumbag fleeing west on I-20 with her 16-year-old sister.
Nowhere, Texas Budget: $100K - $1M | Independent ⋄ Sci-fi During a film producer’s road trip home from Pasadena to Austin, he detours off I-10 past Van Horn, and ends up on a hellish country road to Nowhere, Texas—a town not on any earthly map. (2-character short film adapted from short story)
Dead of Night Budget: $5M - $10M | Thriller When an Oscar-nominated director, accused of sexual assaults, and his mistress become serial murder victims, a retired 40-year-old millionaire homicide wiz called on to end the carnage becomes the hunted.
Saving Emma Budget: $5M - $10M | Fantasy ⋄ Family When the 7-year-old daughter of a black Marine and his white wife – both deceased – is adopted by her mother’s sister, she is joined by unseen forces to save herself and her parents from ruthless bad guys.
A Family Gathering Budget: $10M - $30M | Drama ⋄ Family When the pregnant 12-year-old daughter of a black southern preacher fingers the son of the state's wealthiest family, she’s exiled to Chicago relatives, but returns 14-years later targeted for murder.
BAAAD IDEA Budget: $5M - $10M | Comedy Genre: Romantic Comedy, 118p. When a laid-off, divorced 7th-grade teacher, desperate to care for his 3-year-old daughter, hatches a desperate moneymaking scheme, he lands in FBI cuffs and sparks a super-power face-off.
Fire Night: Zombies Rule Budget: $5M - $10M | Horror Violent citizens of a dying New England town torment a young family who refuse to sell their farm to save the town, but the raiders awaken vengeful spirits trapped three-hundred years in Devil's Woods.
Shadows In The Mist Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama When a young, black lawyer in a prestigious firm is accused in the death of his former lover—daughter of a powerful white attorney—his world collapses, his new marriage implodes, and he vows violent revenge.
The Water Line - A Klansman's Road to Redemption Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama Former Klansman and Selma, Alabama native David Earl Applewhite’s journey to redemption lasts fifty years, reunites him with a black man who saved his life, and ends in a battle with demons he created.
The Waiting Game Budget: $0 - $100K | Thriller A deranged lover lies in wait, determined to exact bloody revenge on an unfaithful mate.
First Date Budget: $0 - $100K | Romance ⋄ Comedy During a first date with a woman his intellectual superior, an egotistical millionaire millennial makes assumptions that leave him looking like “assumptions” minus the ‘umptions.’ Rom-Com (6 pages)