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When Love Happens Optioned

When real love happens communication of any kind will do: whether it’s sharing a dance, a look, or a meal, a phone call, a message in the bottle, a email, a dating site or text: it just happens no matter what language you speak or where you were born: whether you are at work, a author event, a book club, table read or auditioning and you glance up and it’s love at first site.


Dirt Bag

A broke, hapless courier becomes an accidental viral sensation in New York City — and his stubborn refusal to perform for the camera forces a burned-out brand executive to choose between the life she's built and the one she actually wants.


LOVE AT FIRST VOICE

When a scam call from Karachi reaches a woman in Los Angeles, he gets her money. She gets something she never asked for — divine love for a voice she heard for fifteen minutes. What follows is not a love story. It is something older, stranger, and impossible to stop


Accidental Tomatoes

A young man navigates the weeds of dating apps while tending to his compost pile.


HEART OF GENESEE

HEART OF GENESEE (Series, Historical Drama, Based on a True Story) When a harrowing accident upends their 1920s smalltown world, a family of sisters must forge new paths shaped by romance, social expectation, and a reckoning with the utility giant that nearly destroyed them.


MERRILY ALL THE WAY - An Elevated Holiday RomCom

When new friends, Children’s Author, Melody and Handyman Vlogger, Josh ditch their Type-A Agents’ itinerary-driven holiday to help save Melody’s Mom’s cookie shop, their Agents, who are competing for a big promotion, have got to catch up to them. These four wind-up on two wildly different yet converging Christmas road-trip adventures into love. Comps: It's the "dating the wrong guy when the right guy comes along" romantic dilemma of THE LIFE LIST and SOMETHING FROM TIFFANY'S (2023) meets PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES.


THE NUTCRACKER’S WISH - An Elevated Holiday Rom-Com with a Fairytale Twist

Sarah never expected her Christmas Wish "for a bit of magic to help save her Holiday Bookshop" would lead to her music-box-Nutcracker coming to life. Stuck with her wide-eyed, gallant gate-crasher until Christmas Eve, their embarrassing roommate moments; bookshop mix-ups; Sarah's snooping Father; plus a nefarious Toy Collector; oh, and the discovery of the Nutcracker’s true heroic origin, leads them to hope this Christmas Wish never ends. Comps: It's the fairytale magic of THE KNIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS and ENCHANTED meets the romantic comedy of ELF. A Stage 32 Double-Recommended Screenplay!


CHRISTMAS MANOR SCAVENGER HUNT - An Elevated Holiday RomCom Feature.

When real-estate rivals Grace and Alex submit matching bids to buy Christmas Manor. The manor’s whimsical owner proposes a tie-breaker: a scavenger hunt within the manor with a Christmas Eve deadline to solve nine clues leading to the manor’s deed and a treasure of equal value. Grace and Alex reluctantly team-up and despite everything that goes wrong they might just find love too. COMPS: The sweet competitive & collaborative romance of A MERRY LITTLE EX-MAS. The rivalry, banter and mutual goal of saving Winter's Inn in SNOWED-INN CHRISTMAS. Plus, WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING: Lucy’s determination to make her happily-ever-after come true. 


The Makeover Man

A disgraced phonetics professor, who’s cancelled for an offhand classroom remark, tries to reclaim his reputation by transforming a homeless street kid into a gentleman -- in this modern gay update of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. Best LGBTQ Screenplay, Cannes Film Awards; Best LGBTQ Screenplay, Oxford Script Awards; Best Comedy Script, Gold Star Movie Awards; Top Award, Depth of Field International Film Festival; and Best Unproduced Script, Seattle Indie Film Festival


Father Material

When a wealthy venture capitalist advertises for a younger wife to have his baby, his search is derailed by an unexpected bond with a single mom his age.


Whirlwind

When two stars are hit with nostalgia of their romantic past, they find themselves in a minefield threatening to upset their personal and professional lives. Think: La La Land meets The Umbrellas of Cherbourg


THE WOLVES THAT LIVE NEXT DOOR

Newlyweds return to her remote hometown where their tender wolf-like love is feared as madness by townspeople who orchestrate her commitment, driving the couple into the wilderness and into legend.


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