November 2013
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About Tom
For me, a good script can be boiled down to two parts:
1. A sensational concept to put butts in seats.
2. Structuring said concept to make the movie the best ride the audience has ever been on.
I was born and raised in Milwaukee and, yes, I did work in a brewery. I'm a first-generation American, the son of immigrants from war-torn Eastern Europe. Later, I packed everything I owned into my VW bug and drove out to the West Coast where I enrolled in school, earning a Bachelor's Degree in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University (with a Minor in Philosophy). Fast forward to not that long ago when I wrote my first screenplay, The Big Beyond, which won the Shriekfest Film Festival's Best SciFi Feature Screenplay (and was also a recent Finalist in Stage 32's SciFi Contest). I also wrote a Dramedy called Good Saint Binky that won Stage 32's 4th Annual Feature Screenwriting Contest.
I write mainly Horror and SciFi and am keenly aware of budget (for example, my Horror/SciFi feature script "Unknown Origin", which is high-concept, low-budget, juiced writing).
I'm currently working on another Horror feature (tentatively titled "Dormant"), which is like...uhm, "Rosemary's Baby" on 'roids.
The San Francisco Bay area is where I call home.
Unique traits: I used to make those fuzzy covers people slip over their toilet tanks and seats. Lost that job when a tornado laid waste to the factory.
Oh...I also used to own the domain name Zoom.us before I sold it back in 2012. I wonder what they did with that...
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Unknown Origin Budget: $1M - $5M | Horror A family's isolated ranch becomes ground zero for a clandestine alien invasion in 1947 Roswell, NM.
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The Big Beyond Sci-fi “In the near future a dying tracker, in a desperate search for the woman he loves, agrees to navigate strangers through a horrific no-man’s land after they reveal they know where she is.”
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What The Dark Brings (TV Pilot) Horror "A modern-day Sheriff discovers that the increasingly horrific events consuming his small desert town are connected to the nearby Asylum, which once confined the victims of failed exorcisms."
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BINKY Drama ⋄ Comedy When a grief-stricken widower decides on suicide he must first travel cross-country to deliver his playful 110 pound Rottweiler to its new home.
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They Come Horror A scientific team stranded on a remote island discovers the volcano they’re investigating is actually a portal to hell about to unleash a primordial evil that can’t be stopped. It's THE CONJURING meets THE DESCENT.
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Outlier (TV Pilot) Sci-fi A naïve loner, unaware of his astonishing abilities, finds himself targeted for murder by a powerful cabal after he unwittingly foils their deadly social experiment. It’s MR. ROBOT meets UNBREAKABLE
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The Incredible Henry Plotz Sci-fi A master thief, armed only with his cunning, is forced through a rapidly deteriorating wormhole to steal back a top military scientist who’s been abducted by bizarre creatures from another world.
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Deity Thriller ⋄ Fantasy After a dying FBI agent miraculously heals from the mortal gunshot wounds inflicted by her murderous colleagues, she goes on the run while struggling to understand her emerging abilities.
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An Accidental Family Thriller A sociopath who arranges revenge for victims hides from a murderous gang by masquerading as a suburban family man with the woman he’s fallen for and the young girl whose parents he killed. (Under Construction)
Awards
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I've Won (Stage 32, Shriekfest). I've Placed (Screencraft). I've Shown (Austin, Final Draft).
Education
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the factories and breweries of Milwaukee
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