Hi Stanley, thanks for contacting me and requesting to join my net work. In regard to funding productions, my funding is concentrated on large construction developments in developing countries.
I see in the midst of your correspondence on the network page that you also like to consider script writing of features for future projects. I currently have several, but one you might be interested in is: "The Vatican Encounter". I have attached the logline and synopsis below.
Best regards,
Robert Chapman
eastasia@iinet.net.au
Logline:
Medieval scholar, Maria Fennini's quest to validate Vatican Library sketches of an extraterrestrial autopsy by Michelangelo, challenges her life, her career and her sanity.
Synopsis:
The story opens with a youthful shepherd in medieval Portugal witnessing the fiery entry and crash of a flying craft in a nearby ravine.
The story then fast forwards to today's Vatican Secret Archives, where Cardinal Martoneo finds sketches of an extraterrestrial autopsy in a Michelangelo folio. He's terrified and puts the folio back. When he returns the next morning to research them, the sketches are gone.
He exits the Vatican and checks into a hotel where he meets long-time friend and confidant, Medieval Anthropologist Maria Fennini. She's overwhelmed by his story and confused by a riddle he found with the sketches.
After a restless night, Maria calls paparazzi journalist and ex-lover, Roberto Valari who meets her in a café where they discuss the discovery and decide to meet up with Martoneo. At that moment, breaking news on the café's TV, reveals Cardinal Martoneo has been murdered by two friars.
Realising this knowledge of the extraterrestrial places them in a perilous position, Maria and Roberto set out to solve the riddle, much to the delight of Cardinal Nesci, who removed the extraterrestrial sketches and had Martoneo murdered.
During the pursuits that follow, Maria and Roberto discovery Nesci will do anything to stop the extraterrestrial revelation from destroying five hundred years of alien, technological, disclosures that have enriched the Vatican.
The riddle leads Fennini and Valari to a Rome Monastery where they find the extraterrestrial's skeleton in a sarcophagus. Nesci, turns up just as Fennini and Valari open it only to be overpowered by the resident friars who put Nesci in the sarcophagus with the extraterrestrial skeleton and lead Fennini and Valari away.
The friars, who have secretly accommodated the extraterrestrials for centuries, reveal their long association to Fennini and Valari and release them without prohibition regarding the revelation of their encounter.
Fennini and Valari reveal their story to Valari's editor only to be shown the door. Frustrated with the editor's rejection, Fennini and Valari doubt their own credibility until they have one last, life-changing encounter with an old friar and an extraterrestrial in an alley in Rome.
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Thanks Bob, and good to hear of the responses.
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I am interested more from the performance side. Don't know if there are many A.A Catholic nuns but if you have characters that I may be good for please keep me in the loop as well.
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Hi Lourvey, if a producer decides to pick up the story I shall let you know. Bob