Denis Mortenson

Screenwriter
Screenwriter, Art Director, Author, Casting Director, Concept Artist, Songwriter and Storyboard Artist

Santa Barbara, California

Member Since:
February 2024

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About Denis

I am a screenwriter and novelist in Santa Barbara, California. ISA member since 2015. I'd like to sell or option my feature screenplays. My screenplays have placed in most of the major screenplay contests. I hope to make connections with executive producers and production companies in the U.S., Australia, the U.K., and Fr...

Gender:
Male

Height:
6'

Weight:
170

Body type:
Athletic

Hair:
Short

Hair color:
Brown

Eyes:
Green

Ethnicity:
Caucasian

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The Scent of a Rose Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller ⋄ Film-noir A career postal worker, and budding cinematographer, tries to find happiness with a beautiful, duplicitous, former pole dancer, and is framed for murders she has committed.
A Love Down Under Budget: $5M - $10M | Romance ⋄ Comedy On a quest to find his bliss, an artsy California surf bum flies to Melbourne to woo an Australian architect he was madly in love with years earlier, and reinvents his life Down Under.
Ama in America Budget: $1M - $5M | Family ⋄ Comedy A white middle-aged couple who've adopted a girl from Liberia, due to her grandmother's request while on a trip to Africa, discover that you can take a girl out of Africa, but you can't take the African out of the girl.
21 Days in Paris Budget: $5M - $10M | Romance ⋄ Fantasy While in a coma after an accident, an American art professor dreams of meeting his soulmate in Paris. Upon waking from the coma, he goes to Paris to discover whether the woman he loves is real or a fantasy.
Soulmates Budget: $1M - $5M | Romance ⋄ Comedy A young woman architect gets a job at a building that once housed a silent movie studio in Santa Barbara, and is helped by the ghost of a 1920s actor to discover a cache of rare silent movies that results in her meeting a film conservator, who is her long-lost soulmate.
Russian Into Love Budget: $1M - $5M | Action ⋄ Drama In order to help her family in Ukraine, a beautiful young woman is recruited as a fashion model by the Russian mob, to spy for them in Los Angeles.
Forget You?! Budget: $1M - $5M | Family ⋄ Comedy When David Honeyman takes his family to visit his parents for Christmas, he believes there’s no hope of salvaging his relationship with his father, especially with his father’s Alzheimer’s. But hilarious and horrendous circumstances arise that force him to realize that it’s never too late to say “I love you.”
Joe's Thumb Budget: $1M - $5M | Romance ⋄ Comedy An aspiring karaoke singer enamored with Frank Sinatra, in Las Cruces, New Mexico, discovers that in order to fix his life, and find true love, he must put his abnormally large thumb on the line by trying to catch a legendary walleye at a Fisherama.
The Meteorite Budget: $5M - $10M | Sci-fi An alien life form, which arrives on a meteorite by the home of an accountant in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1964, makes the accountant unusually popular in order to accomplish its plan of regenerating itself as a human to return to its home.
Hawaii Ninjas Budget: $5M - $10M | Action ⋄ Comedy Two buskers in Hawaii, with aspirations to be ninjas, become unlikely crime fighters, battling Russian thieves and collecting a diamond heist reward.