Loglines & Screenplays by Joe W Barfield

GENRES: Drama

A broken promise takes a gifted teenager down a suicidal path of self-destruction.  Will the persistence of his coach and the love of a girl be enough to save him?  Without faith there is no hope. Without hope there is no tomorrow – Live For Today

GENRES: Comedy

California passes a law allowing voters to select None of the Above, creating a situation when “None of the Above” actually wins the election. 

GENRES: Thriller, Comedy

Five members of the mafia break into the Whitman house with the intention of revenge and killing the whole family. When the husband tries to defend his wife and son things change and a few moments later all five of the mafia are dead! Now the family is on a run for their lives and nothing will ever be the same.

GENRES: Drama

(based on a true story: two members of my wife’s family and what happened to them when they walked from Colombia to America (El Norte) – Logline:  Five people walk from Colombia, SA, to the United States to fulfill their dream of “El Norte” and a new life. Only two make it to America.

GENRES: Action

With a $1,000,000 bounty on her head, Kelli hides in the treacherous Louisiana swamp where living of dying depends on one man—the Cajun!

Jane had Tarzan---Kelli has the Cajun.

GENRES: Other

(dark comedy drams based on a true story) Logline: (Desperate Housewives meets Friday Night Lights)   A high school football team is suspended from the state championship game because a teacher falsified grades—for sex!  Now the teacher has been murdered.

GENRES: Thriller

To solve the murders, Detective Sanders must find a pimp, Raton, and the addict, Pinky.  But the killers are policemen and they want Sanders dead.  The only ones that can help him are a gay bar owner, a hyper, absent-minded forensics expert from India, and his one-eyed, three-legged dog, Lucky.

GENRES: Sci-fi

A wealthy man disappears in the Bermuda Triangle, only to have his body turn up in a Mexican desert.  Cause of death—drowning by seawater.  

GENRES: Action

(action adventure/super hero) – Logline:  A vagrant outcast, exposed to chemicals, inherits strange abilities. When his brother is murdered he tries to go straight.  Can he really change?

GENRES: Action

(2004 tsunami based on a true story) Logline: Indonesian beach wedding - more than a hundred family members attend the ceremony. Only four survive. 

GENRES: Not selected

An old desperate writer fakes a suicide, kidnapping, and an alien abduction to become a bestseller.

GENRES: Action

(action – true story about my son) Logline:  (Hoosiers on Wheels)   With only a dream and a prayer, a father  enters his son in the Formula 2000 race series, where a crusty old mechanic shows them how to win.

GENRES: Not selected

(action – chemical disaster) Logline:  A reporter and an engineer walk into a bar – not the start of a bad joke but to work against time to save Houston from a Chem Storm.