Loglines & Screenplays by Jeff Howe

GENRES: Drama, Period Piece

In the closeted Midwestern 70s, sixteen-year-old Frank's best friend dies during a stupid stunt, leaving Frank to obsessively revisit events before the accident in an increasingly desperate effort to understand their relationship and his culpability. Nicholl Fellowship top 50 2019.

GENRES: Period Piece, Drama

When a Depression-era traveling medicine show in the Mississippi Delta starts to fall apart, its con-man impresario bargains with the devil to make the show's snake oil do what it claims on the label.

GENRES: Science Fiction, Horror

Years after the car crash that killed her husband and put her in a wheelchair, a black artist receives an experimental implant to make her walk again, paid for by her wealthy, white father-in-law--but to him, rehab is only a pathway to revenge. 

GENRES: Science Fiction, Romance

When a sheltered scientist hires a rootless space pilot for a week-long ride-share to Earth, their years of solitude collide with love--even as the greedy schemes of the scientist’s father threaten to knock them out of orbit.

GENRES: Science Fiction, Animation

When an ancient race of intelligent dinosaurs reappears in the half-thawed Antarctic of 2267, a rogue dinosaur scientist and a teenage human girl must overcome their mutual suspicion to keep their species from blundering into Armageddon.

GENRES: Science Fiction, Period Piece

In an alternate, high-tech 1930, Thomas Jefferson's immortal daughter seeks to prove her equally ageless mother was murdered--and discovers her mother worked as a secret agent in a shadow war between Tesla and the Emperor of China.

GENRES: Science Fiction

An unadventurous botanist on an isolated farm planet stumbles back into a relationship with an old flame -- and onto a secret her corporate bosses will kill to keep.

GENRES: Family

A smart-but-shy thirteen-year old thinks she's finally found her niche after she co-founds a robotics team-- but she’ll need to learn about more than coding to keep teenage (and grown-up) jealousies from pulling it apart.

GENRES: Thriller / Suspense, Adventure

After a disaster traps a scientist alone at the South Pole, the ghosts of four Antarctic explorers help her prepare for and then make the thousand-mile trek across the ice to safety.