Loglines & Screenplays by Paul Sokal

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BAD AIM

GENRES: Comedy

A guilt‑soaked suburban sad sack botches his own suicide and becomes convinced his stray bullet killed a neighbor—only to discover he’s been mourning the wrong Harry.


DIE ON YOUR FEET

GENRES: Drama, Military/War

In 1937, a carefree American playboy, risks everything and volunteers to join the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and fight against fascism in Spain, surviving a bullet to the head only to return home and face a new battle—persecution by his own government during the Red Scare, where his fight for freedom becomes as urgent as the war he left behind.


CAIN

GENRES: Drama

Darrell Cain, a cop with a mean streak, spirals down into a bottle, and then must fight his way out of it to save his soul after he commits the most heinous murder in Dallas since the assassination of President Kennedy. Based on a true story. 


COPY OF LIGHT

GENRES: Biopic / True Story

From a chicken coop to corporate boardrooms, one man’s relentless obsession with light sparks a revolution that transforms poverty into power — and copies into history. Based on a true story.


HEATHROW

GENRES: Thriller / Suspense

Helen Engel, an environmentalist, desperate to stop climate change, has her life turned upside-down when she learns her husband is a paid assassin, and as she fights to get her life back in order, she learns just how far she’s willing to go to save the planet. 


THE WATER BOTTLE

GENRES: Comedy, Horror

After an administrative error in Hell, Tyler Paloma, a model millennial, is targeted with psychological terror and a grisly death, and only a reluctant angel can right the wrong.


NO MATCH

GENRES: Thriller / Suspense

Danny Waltz, estranged from his twin, makes a fatal decision he’ll regret when he refuses his brother a life-saving marrow transplant, condemning him to death when he couldn't find another donor. It's then Danny learns that revenge is a dish best served cold.


REHUSBAND

GENRES: Comedy, Romance


Sarah Forbes, a wannabe screenwriter, catches a break when an A-list actor falls in love with one of her scripts, until he demands that her despised, cheating ex-husband direct it, threatening her big chance to breakthrough.


LOCKED-IN

GENRES: Thriller / Suspense

A wealthy CEO awakens from an accident-triggered coma, only to realize she has locked-in syndrome, is still thought by her doctors to be comatose, and must figure out a way to prove she isn’t before her greedy son pulls her plug so he can seize control of her company.


MIRACLES (Feature version)

GENRES: Comedy

A young, naïve parish priest, Father Moretti, is demoted to the Vatican’s Miracle Investigation Office, a dank hole in the sub-basement, where he’s told that miracles are just a marketing ploy, crushing his faith, until he can discover a true miracle. 


WHO WILL LIVE

GENRES: Drama

In 1961, Charlotte Bellamy, a 25-year-old teacher, is dying of kidney failure, and if an anonymous committee of lay-people isn’t convinced she should receive a revolutionary new treatment, she’ll die. Based on a true story.


REDEMPTION

GENRES: Drama

John Cochran, a prominent physician whose family tragedy has brought him to the verge of suicide, discovers his only path to redemption is through the daughter he has declared dead to him.


THE DECISION

GENRES: Science Fiction

A childless young couple navigating the population and climate crises of 2067, learn the process of getting a pregnancy permit is corrupt and they must fight to prove it in order to be approved for their own child.


EBUG

GENRES: Comedy, Romance

A former college hockey goalie is accused by his medical student girlfriend of loving hockey more than her. When he’s given a rare chance to play in the NHL, he learns he must choose between sport and love, his past and his future.


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