an american panda against all odds befriends a giraffe in new york city and must find her way back to the zoo before the ball drops

SYNOPSIS:

Book Adapted to a Feature Film

Pitch Outline

Logline:

an american panda against all odds befriends a giraffe in New York City and must find her way back to the zoo before the ball drop.

Locations:

Aubriana explores some exciting destinations during her journey outside the New York Zoo and lives a pampered life inside of it. Her story is of curiosity strength perseverance and of human nature

Locations: Aubriana fumbles throughout New York including cinematic renditions of the Bronx Wildlife Conservation Society, Little Island, Queens County Farm Museum, Top of the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn flea market, Brooklyn Botanical Garden, Statue of Liberty(climax), Grand Central Terminal, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Apollo Theatre, Intrepid air and space museum, Chinatown Coney Island cyclone

ACTS:

Prelude: Shaanxi Poaching Short (film contest proposal)

ACT 1: Aubriana’s story begins with her birth in japan, her years in the village, ending with her journey to america. The final scene ACT 1 starts with her hugging her new family. ACT 1 has minimal dialogue & is musically minor. Location is a sustainable rice farm wildlife center in Shaanxi

ACT 2: A perfect week a perfect day that night came the big truck chase. Aubrianas life at the New York Zoo along with all main characters are introduced here with dialogue. While their central conflict is introduced on ACT 2 finale. This act spans 2 weeks.

ACT 3: New Years Eve Aubriana’s journey back to the zoo begins. ACT 3 follows Aubriana the american panda, Ivan Cozy the Zookeeper, and Lorenzo the Giraffe. All other main characters introduced ACT 2 apart from stray dog make one and two time appearances in ACT 3

ACT 4: The shortest act outlines Aubriana's new life in the new spacious exhibit opened up at in Corona Park along with Lorenzo, her family, and her new friends. Half of ACT 4 takes place at the new free healthcare and vaccine family facility built alongside the exhibit.

CHARACTERS:

Aubriana: The American Panda

Lorenzo Acosta: The schizophrenic giraffe

Ernie: Aubriana’s grandma like concerned mother

Jamie: Aubriana’s irresponsible overweight eccentric father

Zookeeper Ivan Cozy: american born Russian a retired warden from colorado strict antagonist

Charle: Zookeeper's naive soft shelled boss like partner employee

Denise: A free roaming albino parrot best friends with seemingly everyone but charlie.

Dragonfly: only main character besides aubriana present in all four acts has no dialogue

Carnation: This vainglorious lion is how he is because every main character mocks his strength; your named after a flower

Roman: a banana pied python snake and charismatic jeweler thief stolen at the end of ACT 2

Donkey: a juvenile curious monkey stolen at the end of ACT 2.

Kong: A juvenile soft spoken Gorilla stolen at the end of ACT 2.

Big Foot: revealed as kong in ACT 4.

Jeffrey: Charles personal Turtle has no major dialogue outside of ACT 1 Jeffreys initial introduction in ACT 2

Stray Dog: Appears in ACT 3. He faces an internal conflict, every main character mocks him. Every main character gives him a different pet name.