Melissa Birks

Jumbo's Keeper Budget: $10M - $30M | Period Piece An “animal-whispering” but awkward London zoo keeper wants to keep both the famous elephant he has raised from infancy and the charismatic woman he has fallen in love with, but his decision to join P.T. Barnum's circus in America jeopardizes everything he cherishes. Inspired by true events.

The Confessor Budget: $10M - $30M | Crime ⋄ Period Piece When an ambitious but icy psychiatrist examines a confessed child killer for a headline-grabbing trial, the psychiatrist approaches the job as a coolly academic exercise until their relationship tests his career and his soul.

Girl of The Palio Budget: $5M - $10M | Sports Drama In Siena, Italy, a talented but reckless young jockey threatens local tradition when she vows to be the first woman in recent history to race The Palio, a centuries' old, rough-and-tumble race around the city plaza.