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Awards

  • Winner Golden State Film Festival Award Best Thriller Short- The Early Inauguration
    (2022)

  • Grand Prize Winner- Marina del Rey Film Festival Best TV Documentary- The Death of an Industry
    (2022)

  • Winner Silicon Beach Film Festival- Best Director Short Film Ralphie's Blue
    (2021)

  • Medusa Film Festival- Best short film- Ralphie's Blue
    (2021)

  • The Scene Festival- Best Short film- The Early Inauguration
    (2021)

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Credits

  • The Early Inauguration

    The Early Inauguration (2016 - 2018)
    Film (Drama and Drama) Director What happens when a newly elected President of the US takes office? Is he given an orientation, if you will? Is he possibly coerced or influenced to tone down his ambitious campaign rhetoric or vision for the country by the 'powers that be'? Is 'Hope and Change' muted somewhat by the fact that the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government don't have the mandate our founding fathers intended? These issues confront newly elected President Michael Liebman: a fictional cross between Obama, Paul Wellstone, but with a financial background more akin to Jon Corzine. He has a vision for how to re-make and fix the dysfunction inside the beltway. However, there's a consortium of powerful folks, who even helped get him elected, that have other conflicting ideas. In the peculiar 6 week period between when he's won the election but before he takes actual office, the President elect is making a thank you speech to his donor base in LA, and raising money for the DNC of course. Under ...

  • The Starck Club Documentary-The Final Cut

    The Starck Club Documentary-The Final Cut (2013)
    Film (Documentary, Period Piece and Musical) Director Sex, Drugs, Design: Warriors of the Discotheque, is a feature doc about the beginning of the whole rave/ecstasy scene. The film is about the legendary Starck Club, which happened to be a nightclub that was the first design in North America by the now Iconic designer Philippe Starck and in which it was perfectly legal to purchase and use MDMA (ecstasy). Written by Anonymous

  • Warriors of the Discotheque: The Starck Club Documentary Short Version

    Warriors of the Discotheque: The Starck Club Documentary Short Version (2009)
    Film (Documentary) Director The notorious Starck Club in Dallas, TX was Philippe Starck's first major design in N. America and ground zero for the popularization of the designer drug MDMA aka Ecstasy.

  • Lemon

    Lemon (2008)
    Film (Drama and Thriller) Director A hit man gets the job to go see the "girl downtown", he gets dressed in drag, gets accosted by a horny drunk whom he quickly dispenses of, and surprises the 'girl' with a few tricks up his sleeve. Only it turns out she may be holding the ace in the deck. Written by Anonymous

  • Shadow Play

    Shadow Play (2007)
    Film (Drama and Thriller) Director Mike Nelson (Kurt Mattsen)is a young aspiring actor who is introduced by a friend to a mysterious gentleman named Mr. Christian (John Crowther). Mr. Christian explains he has a grant to research ang quantify creativity. What seperates an ordinary painter from Picasso, an ordinary scribe from Fitzgerald, etc. and what if one could harness and tap into that creativity?In exchange for Mike's participation he is promised an entree into the theatre world as Mr. christian can call upon his wide array of connections in the art world due to his studies thus far. All Mike has to do is watch and read some videos and essays he's been given and respond with some sort of improvizational monologue. Things begin well enough for Mike as he has been called back on some auditions, however, the materials he has been presented leave a lasting an unwanted impression. He feels he may even be programmed somehow. Even more disturbing is that Mike has reason to believe several of the programs past ... Written by Anonymous

  • Untitled Will Wright Project

    Untitled Will Wright Project (2006)
    Film by FilmEngine, New Line Cinema Writer

  • Back Home Years Ago: The Real Casino

    Back Home Years Ago: The Real Casino (2004)
    Documentary by IFC/Bravo, TF 1, JFA Films Writer/Director

  • God Save the Queen

    God Save the Queen (2004)
    Film (Documentary and Drama) Director God Save The Queen starts as a lyrical, meditative appreciation of the beauty of California's central coast and quickly shifts into an explosive polemic charged with political overtones about current US foreign policy in Iraq and recent world events and how the two are inextricably linked. Written by Jfa

  • Ticker

    Ticker (2002)
    Film (Drama, Action and Adventure) Miscellaneous Crew Storming down a serpentine road, the Driver and his secretive passenger with a mysterious briefcase cuffed to his wrist, are desperately trying to evade the incessant attacks of a military helicopter. Risking life and limb, the Driver refuses to be in the dark any longer, however, all he needs to know is that the outcome of this mission may preserve peace. Written by Nick Riganas

  • Split Screen

    Split Screen (1997)
    Television Director Split Screen is an irreverent, sly, magazine format show which looks at the tremendous diversity within the world of independent filmmaking in the United States. Created, written and hosted by long-time producer/talent scout John Pierson, this half hour television series breaks through all the highbrow stuff to illustrate why independent moviemaking is so much fun. Pierson travels all over the country with noted actors and filmmakers, many of whom he helped discover. On Split Screen you will see: -Producer/Director/Actor Kevin Smith Uncensored-a rare in depth interview AND as a guest host of Split Screen -Cooking with actor Christopher Walken -Actors Matt Damon and Edward Norton using their film experience at the "World Series of Poker" -The man behind the original "Godzilla" monster -An archaeological dig to uncover filmmaker Cecil B Demille's buried movie set in the Los Angeles desert -A young filmmaker crashing his car in order to financing his film with the insurance money. -The ... Written by Anonymous

  • The Devil Takes a Holiday

    The Devil Takes a Holiday (1996)
    Film (Comedy and Fantasy) Producer A rambuctious ride thru American culture. The nouveau-riche meet The Prince of Darkness in this outlandish fable for the politically incorrect.A family's holiday weekend is turned upside-down in this wicked comedy from filmmaker Leon Corcos Written by Anonymous

  • Psychotropic Overload

    Psychotropic Overload (1994)
    Film Director Steven Callahan is a well respected therapist who has just taken on a new patient named Christian. Christian is an aspiring fashion photographer who suffers from a series of bizarre and violent fantasies. As the fantasizes become more vivid Steven becomes more suspicious. Simultaneously, foul mouth detective Tim Poroski is faced with a series of bizarre disappearances of several male models. As the plot tightens Steven and Christian become involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse that leads to a wildly unpredictable conclusion. Written by sub rosa

Loglines

  • Coercive Persuasion   Coercive Persuasion is an action packed, intrigue filled conspiracy adventure/

    Coercive Persuasion Coercive Persuasion is an action packed, intrigue filled conspiracy adventure/ Budget: $10M - $30M | Thriller / Suspense Science Fiction Coercive Persuasion is an action packed, intrigue filled conspiracy adventure/ thriller in which a nefarious, rogue offshoot group of the NSA/CIA may be responsible for various shootings via experimentation with mind control. Think the moody, two handed relationship in True Detective meets Inception meets Everything, Everywhere, All at Once...

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