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About Jason
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Awards
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Official selection WRPN.TV
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Semi-Finalist INROADS Screenwriting Fellowship
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Quarter Finalist Creative World Awards (Short Screenplay)
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Official Selection Military Story Showcase
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Semi-Finalist SCI-FI FADE IN Awards
(2026)
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Credits
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The Long Drift (
2026 )
Film Screenwriter After a catastrophic failure sends Earth’s first Mars mission drifting beyond rescue, the crew embraces an alien signal offering salvation — leaving their flight surgeon the only one who sees the trap as they vote to follow it into the unknown. -
SPECULAR REFLECTION (Short) (
2026 )
Film (short) Screenwriter Companion Short to THE BUSHMEN. -
THE LAST OFFERING (
2026 )
Film (Horror) Screenwriter THE LAST OFFERING Feature Film | Prestige Horror | Hard R | $8–15M A retired homicide detective pulls an autistic orphan from a burning bronze idol in the basement of a Virginia church and accidentally breaks a four-hundred-year-old covenant with Moloch. His son becomes the replacement offering. A god is trapped on earth until the debt is paid. The only resolution available is one he will not take. The Roanoke Colony didn’t disappear. A priest named Thomas White made a deal in 1588, sacrificed a child to survive, and built a covenant that has been running continuously ever since — embedded in the founding of the Marine Corps, the Barbary Wars, and the civic infrastructure of a prosperous Virginia town called Canaan. The triangle in CROATOAN was the first tradecraft mark. The all-seeing eye on the dollar bill may be the same god wearing a different name. Comparables: Hereditary. Midsommar. The Witch. The debt will be paid. Writer-Director: J.H. Calder Status: In Development — Script in Progress Contact: calderwarstories.com -
NINE LIVES (
2026 )
Film (short) by Calder War Stories (Action and Adventure) Writer A high‑concept action thriller with commercial appeal. Fast‑paced, character‑driven, and built around moral stakes and survival. -
THE LINE OF DEPARTURE (
2025 )
Film by Calder War Stories (Horror, Military/War and Science Fiction) Writer / Director A mythic, psychological sci‑fi feature exploring fear, identity, and the unknown. Built around a unique phobia‑driven canon and grounded emotional storytelling. -
THE UNMAKING (
2024 )
Film by Calder War Stories (Horror) Writer A prestige psychological horror feature exploring identity, trauma, and the unraveling of the self. Grounded, character‑driven, and built around mythic and emotional stakes. -
THE BUSHMEN (
2023 )
TV Mini Series by Calder War Stories (Drama and Military/War) Writer A prestige drama series based on lived Special Forces experience. Follows a new Green Beret drawn into the violent, absurd, and deeply human world of Special Forces combat in Afghanistan. Built around brotherhood, myth, and the emotional cost of war.
Loglines
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THE LINE OF DEPARTURE Science Fiction ⋄ Thriller / Suspense When a Special Forces team escapes a coup into a Cursed jungle, they find themselves hunted by something they cannot explain — and slowly realize the mission has no end, because the end was the mission.
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The Unmaking Horror ⋄ Thriller / Suspense When her teenage daughter murders her husband, a Miami mother tears her family's life apart looking for a rational explanation — and discovers that a woman she barely remembers has been systematically dismantling that life, piece by piece, for forty years.
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THE LAST OFFERING Horror ⋄ Thriller / Suspense When a retired detective extracts a missing boy from a Virginia orphanage, he unknowingly delivers him into a centuries‑old ritual — and must fight a living covenant that has already chosen his family as the next offering.
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THE BUSHMEN Drama ⋄ Military/War A new Green Beret joins his team in Afghanistan and is drawn into the violent, absurd, and deeply human world of Special Forces combat, where men become legends — and every tale leaves a scar.
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NINE LIVES Action ⋄ Adventure When lockdown enforcers seize and discard the only companion he has left, a withdrawn veteran tears through his quarantined high-rise in a relentless, near-one-shot drum driven descent to save his suffocating cat before the world welds shut around him.
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SPECULAR REFLECTION Military/War Wounded in combat and slipping into a dream of home, a Green Beret medic is carried through gunfire toward rescue as his collapsing consciousness mirrors the chaos around him in a music‑driven portrait of survival and the unseen cost of war.
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THE LONG DRIFT Horror ⋄ Science Fiction When a catastrophic failure sends Earth’s first Mars mission on a one‑way trajectory beyond rescue, the crew clings to an alien signal promising salvation — leaving their flight surgeon the only one who sees the trap as they vote to follow it into the unknown.
Education
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Heart Break Ridge
(2005-2025)
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