Lawrence Whitener

Executive Producer at DOG-e The Movie, LLC
Screenwriter, Producer, Director and Actor

Blacksburg, Virginia

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About Lawrence

Only Lawrence Whitener on IMDb. In just the past 6 years, my 25 feature screenplays of every genre and 13 short scripts with 10 made into SAG-Aftra short films, have earned 395 Awards on IMDb. I was trained by Yale's screenwriting professors Marc Lapadula. He called me one of his fastest-writing most-believable dialogue students since Creighton Rothenberger. The last thing he did before he died in 2022 was tell me to move to L.A. "You are that good." I write all day everyday because I have to, writing is like breathing to me. Visit my YouTube Channel to watch over 60 videos. One of them will make you laugh. I know, because every time I look in a mirror, I crack myself up.

Unique traits: Written/Produced/Director/Lead of 10 multiple award-winning SAG-Aftra short films. I have written 25 multiple award-winning Feature Screenplays of every genre. All in just the past 6 years earning 385 Awards on IMDb with 10 of those for Best Actor. I love coming to work!

Gender:
Male

Height:
6'

Weight:
280

Body type:
Heavyset

Hair:
Short

Hair color:
Red

Eyes:
Blue

Ethnicity:
Caucasian

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Photos

Our "In-Closure" was filmed on Crenshaw Blvd and received a standing ovation when screened at the TCL Chinese Theaters in 2024. It has 13 Awards on IMDb.

Videos

"Searching For Grace" out-takes from P.O.C. Trailer

Loglines

ParaRescue - Pilot to Series Budget: $100K - $1M | Action Trained first as Special Forces life-takers, they choose to go through another two years of medical training to become battlefield life-savers. "So Others May Live." Based on true missions. 4 Laurels on IMDb
Hard Stare Budget: $0 - $100K | Thriller Tough as nails NYC Detective is brought to her knees by a sudden onset of vertigo. She and her partner hide it from their department tracking down a terrorist ring they uncovered. The Terrorists have a new weapon. Their Detective has a new disease. Whose will is stronger?
Riding Life - The Series Budget: $100K - $1M | Western 30 teenage boys and girls ride out on horseback at the third toughest survival school in the U.S. to cross The Continental Divide for two months. Brutal weather, no food, high altitude labored breathing, and personal prejudices, finally lead to a life and death showdown that causes 30 adults to ride back.
Attitudinals Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama Three one-act plays: "RevelationZ" Two brothers, one secret; "Enginuity" How far would you go, to come back?; "Saving Robin Williams" If you could go back into time, but only once, who would you save, and why?
Law & Order...and The Mob Budget: $100K - $1M | Crime Forbidden romance, murder, betrayal, more death, more treachery, all within the Mob of 1989 NYC. Family, they will be the death of you. Based on their true stories.
In-Closure Budget: $0 - $100K | Horror "When do you answer the last phone booth in L.A.? Only when your conscience has nothing to say. His does." 3 Awards on IMDb. Now a SAG-Aftra short film.
I had, HAVE...a Dream Budget: $100K - $1M | Biography Old man discovers the love of his life is not his wife of 35 years, but screenwriting. She forbids him to go to L.A. He must give up everything, to follow his dream. 7 Awards on IMDb.
Its All Good...not Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama Two Actors meet for coffee. One wants to talk, the other doesn't want to listen. Which is which? Based on the true L.A. event. 2 Awards on IMDb.
Drivers Wanted Budget: $0 - $100K | Comedy Taxi meets Cheers as Washington D.C. schoolbus drivers transport the very rich as well as the very poor. Their Transportation Lounge looks and sounds like a U.N. Security Council meeting. Based on my own true experience.
La Vérité Libère Budget: $0 - $100K | Biography His whole life he knew "her" truth and it nearly killed him. Only the mother he never knew, knows the key to his absolution.
Law & Order...and The Mob - pilot Budget: $100K - $1M | Historical ⋄ Crime True story of assassination of a N.Y.C. D.E.A. undercover agent and subsequent massive manhunt for his mobster murderer. When all else fails, D.E.A. Special Agent-In-Charge knocks on John Gotti's door on a Sunday morning to deliver a sermon; "Kill your own man now, or we kill your business...forever." Family, they will be the death of you.
Consequential Budget: $0 - $100K | Horror British shut-in Balber is having a bad day, a bloody awful day, in fact...his last day. 7 Awards on IMDb.
Well, Shite Budget: $0 - $100K | Action Harriet Housefire does look and sound like Mrs. Doubtfire. But when she says her catch-phrase, look out, Mrs. Average becomes Ms. Armageddon as she always comes well-armed to take on Life's run-by fruitings. 1 Award on IMDb.
Cam'ra One - TV SitCom Budget: $100K - $1M | Comedy Washington D.C.'s own cable-TV "Wayne's World" also has a WKRP-type am-station. These all-volunteer putzes are non-professional professional disaster artists. Based on my own true experience "working" there for twenty years. 1 Laurel on IMDb.
Law & Order, 25th Century Budget: $100K - $1M | Sci-fi In the 25th Century, The Order IS the Law. Three over-the-hill Special Forces Order soldiers train six teen orphan throw-aways as their replacements. Their final test, all nine must save an entire planet from brutal slavery…using only gun powder. But to win, they must disavow The Order's most sacred decree. Note: also written as a 2-part TV Pilot for a Series. 4 Awards on IMDb.
Searching For Grace - TV Pilot Budget: $0 - $100K | Family Crotchety widowed rancher must take in his just-orphaned traumatized granddaughter. She can't speak, and he can't stand her real birth mother. Their love for a very special mule heals all their broken hearts. When your only friend, has four legs. 10 Awards on IMDb. POC Trailer below.
Searching For Grace - Feature Budget: $100K - $1M | Family Crotchety widow Black rancher takes in her just-orphaned traumatized "White" granddaughter. She can’t speak and Rancher can’t stand her Caucasian real birth mother. Their love for a very special mule heals all their broken hearts. When your only friend, has four legs. Original POC Trailer above, before this reversed race and gender rewrite. Original script has 10 Awards on IMDb.
Saving Robin Williams - TV 30 min Budget: $0 - $100K | Sci-fi Infamous professor discovers time travel into the past, but can only use it once, and only for twenty minutes. Who would you save, and why? 63 Awards on IMDb. Full film streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
Videogenic - TV 30 min Budget: $0 - $100K | Sci-fi When a cinematographer gets the 8mm movie-machine he always wanted, bad things happen, to those he films. 50 Awards on IMDb.
Revelationz - TV 30 min Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama Older brother released from prison for murder. Younger brother wants closure. Two Brothers, One Secret. Based on true events. 18 Awards on IMDb. Full film now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
Enginuity - TV 30 min Budget: $0 - $100K | Sci-fi Burned-out and black-listed, L.A.'s former #1 screenwriter must now hire a Jamaican ghostwriter. Her constructive criticisms burn more holes in his already sinking life-boat. How far would you go...to come back? 18 awards on IMDb.
The Unknown Soldiers Budget: $1M - $5M | War Based on true European missions and battles of World War II African-American tankers and Japanese-American soldiers. Their fight against Germans, prejudice, and hatred, centers around the true British sniper mission to assassinate Adolf Hitler. "After Action" D.O.D. Reports were used with the actual dialogue of historical characters. 9 Awards on IMDb inc BlueCat.
ParaRescue Budget: $100K - $1M | Action Based on true military missions of USAF Pararescuemen. After BUDS training learning how to become life takers, they choose to go through another two years of “Superman School” to learn how to be battlefield life savers. Note: designed to segue into a Series like “Seal Team.” 2 Awards on IMDb.
The Chrome Cotillion Budget: $100K - $1M | Other In 1990 Nashville, a group of LGBTQ men and women stood their society's outdated morays on their head...using a dance pole. Based on the true story. 4 Awards on IMDb.
Redbear Budget: $100K - $1M | Western Retired Sheriff now a feared bounty hunter ir riddled with guilt. Named by the Indians for his long red hair and brown bearskin coat that hides his arsenal and self-hate. 5 Awards on IMDb. Note: its Prequel “Hell’s posse” and Sequel “Shoot me if you can” have also won all the Western F.F.’s.
Shoot Me If You Can Budget: $100K - $1M | Western Sequel to "Redbear" who is once again a sheriff and a family man. When unknown assassins mutilate his adopted Indian son, Redbear's bearskin coat with all its weapons, including his hate, comes out of retirement. 1 Win on IMDb.
Hell's Posse Budget: $100K - $1M | Western A famous sheriff hunts down the West's most infamous outlaw so he can retire to take care of his sick son. When he rides into a town literally painted red and renamed Hell, he must train its raped, ravaged, and pillaged citizens to face the Devil once again in a fight to the death. 2 Wins on IMDb. Prequel to "Redbear."
We Carry Nuthin' Out Budget: $100K - $1M | Western 1900 Old West pulpiteer is on a mission from "his" God to rid the world of "painted perfumed things." He robs from the poor to continue his rich work. Two children stand between him and his grisly goal. A truly Judgmental ending makes this a stand-alone original script.8 Awards on IMDb.
Riding Life Budget: $100K - $1M | Family 30 boys and girls rode out, 30 grown-ups came back. They rode horseback for 500 miles over two months at the 3rd toughest survival school in the U.S. Based on the true story. Crossing The Continental Divide five times fighting the elements, little food, and each other's prejudices to learn what is right, and what is truly important. 3 Awards on IMDb.
Last Dog Standing - Junkyard Dog Budget: $100K - $1M | Crime Vietnam M.W.D. Handler, now retired K9 Sheriff, has terrible guilt and a drinking problem. His estranged sister asks for help. He returns to his hometown only to discover an underground crime ring. But before he can save them all, he first has to save himself. 33 Awards on IMDb. Note: Designed to go into a Reality Series with the ASPCA. Its sequel is “Last Dog Standing-City Dog” Both P.O.C. Trailers are on Youtube.
The Handler II - City Dog Budget: $100K - $1M | Crime Dogfighting has two venues, rural and city. In the sequel, our reluctant hero Dog leaves his small-town life as an Animal Warden to travel to the city of Baltimore to help a friend. A dirty cop, MS-13 and B.G.F. gang members all try to kill him when he uncovers their "Show." Last time was personal, this time, Dog's all Business. 13 Awards on IMDb.
Sun Of Gunn Budget: $100K - $1M | Crime A late-night call from his estranged daughter brings retired D.C. detective Craig Gunn back to Washington and smack into a Presidential assassination as German, Russian, and South African diplomats try to kill them both. All African-American Leads with strong female Lead. 7 Awards on IMDb.
Cardinal Virtues Budget: $100K - $1M | Crime He would need all seven Cardinal Virtues for thirteen years, for the only murder...he didn't commit.
Unit Four Budget: $100K - $1M | Crime All-female multi-ethnic FBI Agents are sent to a town without pity, or a police force, to investigate serial killings. Stir in a Natzi-trained Interrogator with a Celebrity Chef amateur-sleuth, and you'll cook up quite a mental meal. CSI ain't got nuthin' on this Behavior Analysis Unit. Strong Female Leads. 1 Award on IMDb.
Beckley Budget: $100K - $1M | Crime African-American Detective called back to West Virginia mountaintop home after 40 years where she discovers a deadly family secret. Only the love of two sisters she never knew she had can protect her. Family, then can be the death of you. All Female Leads. 6 awards on IMDb.
A Good Example Budget: $100K - $1M | Family A White Coach is fired for taking in his homeless illegal Non-White athlete who is failing. Together they heal their child abuse memories while building the school's first winning team. The student graduates on the Honor Roll and becomes a U.S. Citizen. Based on my own "True American" story.
When Common Sense Tells You Not To Budget: $100K - $1M | Romance African-American Attorney hates Christmas because of its painful memory. When a "white" Bum literally stumbles into his life, both he and his two children are changed forever. Special twist at the end. When can you forgive, when you can't forget? 2 Awards on IMDb.
What Love Inspires Budget: $100K - $1M | Romance They lived and loved an entire lifetime, in just one year. Based on the true story.
World War SantaZ Budget: $100K - $1M | Comedy Three's company, but four...Santas? Evil terrorist organization ICYCLE replaces good Claus with evil twin brother Claud. Will Grinch's evil brother Crotch help them? Will Frosty's evil brother Shingles rear-end Snowballs from Hell? Will the North Pole's Ninja Elves unionize? Will Rudolph charge their picket line? Whose side are the 6' Killer Penguins really on? A Holiday black comedy to be animated. 2 Awards on IMDb.
No-Mann Budget: $100K - $1M | Horror Chicago African-American lesbian detective is stalked by an unstoppable inhuman serial killer. Her skill at Chess is her only chance. No man, can kill, No-Mann. 5 Awards on IMDb. Note: also written for a Baltimore setting.
Don't Turn Around Budget: $100K - $1M | Horror Multi-ethnic family goes on vacation to reconnect. Trapped in a closed carnival used by drug-selling bikers, their hunters become the hunted as all learn, Don't Turn Around, there IS something behind you. 3 Awards on IMDb.