Thomas Thonson

The Conspiracist Budget: $5M - $10M | Sci-fi A popular conspiracist fabricates a conspiracy theory involving the Pentagon around the disappearance of a private jet carrying a small group of people. When his theory is exposed as a hoax, he begins to suspect that the truth is far stranger and more dangerous than even he can comprehend, but now no one will believe him. A contained and elevated sci-fi thriller in the vein of Take Shelter and Ex Machina and a tour de force part for a male actor. 

High Ground Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller An incoming massive tsunami sends a holiday gathering into chaos after the invited family members discover that their wealthy doomsday prepper brother and his family have an escape plan that doesn’t include them. A contained, one location, mockumentary, dark-comedy thriller. A film in the vein of Parasite.

Adulthood Budget: $5M - $10M | Comedy When a lonely old man fearful of dying alone, puts himself up for adoption, it gets the attention of Ziggy, a skateboarding free spirit who has discovered he won’t receive his inheritance unless he starts behaving like an “adult.”  By adopting this old man, Ziggy and his girlfriend hope they can prove their maturity without giving up their freedom, but discover that becoming “parents,” even to a fully mature adult, is a little more complicated than they thought. Drama/Comedy.

Man Under Budget: $1M - $5M | Horror When a train operator witnesses the death of a jumper in front of his subway train, it triggers something in him that has terrifying implications: tormented by nightmares, voices, and waking visions, he comes to suspect that the jumper’s death wasn’t simply a suicide, and that his own life may be in danger. A psychological horror/thriller in the vein of The Machinist, or Jacob’s Ladder.

Ames, IA Budget: $1M - $5M | Comedy A black drag queen and a straight white, socially-challenged record collector afflicted with OCD come face to face with their pasts when they go back to a high school homecoming 20 years after the drag queen had been the star quarterback and the collector was known as the school weirdo. Comedy/Drama.

Trophies An abused wife lures her husband, an avid bowhunter, into a game of cat and mouse that only one of them will survive.  Trophies is not exploitive or sensationalized. It is a taut, psychologically acute thriller with a premise that is timely and  evocative. It unfolds with a brutal precision to a shocking ending that is morally ambiguous and hauntingly memorable. 

The Moor Budget: $10M - $30M | Drama Frustrated with his inability to fully practice his craft in 1950s America, a Black actor concocts a bold plan––using a famous, but down on his luck, British Shakespearean actor to act as his “beard,” he engineers a way to play the part of Othello on stage in the Jim Crow South.  The Moor is a Shakespearian tale with a social conscience, a backstage farce with a timely and serious message, and a feel-good movie with a scathing wit that proves that the “Iagos” of this world don't always win. Prestige Drama/Comedy.

Big American Smile Budget: $5M - $10M | Comedy When a brilliant but out-of-control commercial director is hired by a Mexican drug kingpin to produce a series of online spots designed to rehabilitate his image, he creates some of his best work, turning the drug lord into a heroic figure, only to realize that maybe, this time, he’s gone too far. A timely and outrageous dark satirical comedy.

Avenue of the Giants Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller Thirteen years after his son was murdered, Cyrus Shaw learns that the African-American teenage killer who was sentenced to life, is now eligible for parole because of a change in the law. When the young man is released from prison, Cyrus feels betrayed by the system and seeks vengeance, but instead finds himself on a road to his own redemption. 

Sex & Death Budget: $1M - $5M | Independent An unconventional mother’s last love affair changes her son’s life. Drama/Comedy

Truman Trout Budget: $1M - $5M | Independent When a young marketing executive for a clothing company, inspired by the movie the Hunchback of Notre Dame, introduces hunchbacks on their models, he turns the company into an industry powerhouse, only to come face-to-face with his own dark obsessions. A black comedy satire. 

Light & Shadow Budget: $1M - $5M | Independent Zee, a gifted, damaged, and difficult young woman living a rootless blue-collar existence, is wrenched back into her former life of culture and privilege when she tries to stop her famous artist father’s last photographs from being exhibited for the first time. Their subject is Zee as an adolescent girl, and because of the nudity and disturbing sensuality they have a scandalous reputation. A female Five Easy Pieces.  

Annabel Leaves Budget: $1M - $5M | Independent When a 13-year-old, astronaut-worshiping boy is left alone after his father is sent to prison, he finds himself under the “care” of his aunt––a troubled, hard drinking, wild woman that never quite made it singing country music and is completely irresponsible. Now he has to figure out a way to save himself and her. Set in 1969 in the California desert during the historic moon landing: A female Tender Mercies and also in the vein of Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore. 

Home Truths Budget: $1M - $5M | Independent A man whose rock star dreams have crashed and burned, is forced to confront a more truthful version of himself when he returns to his hometown to become the guardian of his niece and nephew.