Because Stage 32 users tried to send me unsolicited submissions, I no longer participate in the Stage 32 Lounge or in Direct Messages. My Direct Messages inbox is NOT checked or read. I can be accessed through Stage 32's First 10 Pages Review, Pitch Deck Review, Adaptation Review, and Career Development Call program. I can also be reached through LinkedIn for professional consulting services, in which you sign a contract-for-hire for my services, which includes a non-disclosure clause for you. Do NOT send unsolicited submissions; I report Unsolicited Submissions to Stage 32.
BIO --
I have developed and supervised film and TV projects for Universal Pictures, 20th Century Fox Film, FBC (Fox TV network), BET network, ABC, 20th TV (TV studio), New Regency Productions, New Line Cinema, Summit Entertainment, MRC Film, Lifetime TV, Lionsgate Digital, HBO, Starz, CBS, The CW Network, Sony TV, Paramount TV, Talent International (Beijing), as well as for independent financiers.
In addition to producing, I consult on script/story and the current marketplace, and I'm proud to say I've helped 2 indie movies get made. As a consultant, I've also helped international filmmakers secure development funding and reputable US agency representation and management.
I am volunteering as script reader for Mentorship Matters (https://www.mentorshipmatters.tv/). Previously, I volunteered for the CineStory Foundation (CineStory.org), a nonprofit educational screenwriting institute which grants writing fellowships and runs nonprofit writers' retreats. I've been a guest speaker for the UCLA Producers Program, the UCLA Summer Symposium in Entertainment, USC's Movie Business Seminar, the North Carolina School of the Arts MFA program, and an NYU Alumni screenwriting panel. I was invited to represent Universal Pictures at the Tribeca Film Institute's Tribeca All Access. I also volunteered on the Advisory Board of a female-run production company called Arcadia, based in Sydney, Australia.
SCRIPT CONSULTING - I can provide rates for your consideration. I also provide clients with a draft of a contract that protects both you and me. Please reach out through LinkedIn, and in your connection request, specify that you want consulting rates. Do not send unsolicited submissions; I report unsolicited submissions to Stage 32. Thank you.
AS A PRODUCER, I cannot accept unsolicited submissions. Please note that I have to follow standard industry submissions guidelines. If you send me any material unsolicited, it will be permanently deleted UNREAD. This policy is in place to protect both you and me. I will not be able to read it or click on the links of story material. Why is this standard policy in Hollywood? Because of potential "you stole my idea" lawsuits. It's really too bad that exposure to "you stole my idea" accusations has led to a "closed door" policy that is hard (but not impossible!) to break through. The good news is that there are very legitimate ways to break through the closed door, like winning screenwriting contests and pitch fests, and querying those agents and managers who do accept unsolicited submissions. Thank you for understanding.
Unique traits: My dad was a college professor, so my love and respect for teaching runs deep. I work in both live action and animation, features and series, and with US and foreign talent. I have a conversational command of Mandarin Chinese, and I speak near-perfect "Chin-glish"! I was selected to attend the prestigious Center Theatre Group's Social Media Lab.
Killer Under the Bed
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TV Movie
by Lifetime (Thriller)
Executive Producer
The Boarder
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TV Movie
by Lifetime (Thriller)
Co-Executive Producer
WonderWorld
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Television
Producer
Patrick
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Film
(Horror)
Script Editor When a young nurse begins work at an isolated psychiatric ward, she quickly becomes fascinated with Patrick, a brain dead patient who is the subject of a mad scientist's cruel and unusual experiments. What starts as an innocent fascination quickly takes a sinister turn as Patrick begins to use his psychic powers to manipulate her every move, and send her life into a terrifying spiral out of control. Written by PR
Crawlspace
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Film
(Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi and Thriller)
Miscellaneous Crew A group of elite soldiers sent to infiltrate and extract the lead science team from Pine Gap, Australia's top secret underground military compound, after it comes under attack from unknown forces. The mission is compromised when they encounter a young woman with no memory of who she is or how she came to be there. As they try to escape, the group quickly discovers all is not as it seems and the facility has become a testing ground for something far more sinister." Written by Anonymous
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
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Film
(Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi and Thriller)
Miscellaneous Crew Two mutant brothers, Logan and Victor, born 200 years ago, suffer childhood trauma and have only each other to depend on. Basically, they're fighters and killers, living from war to war through U.S. history. In modern times, a U.S. colonel, Stryker, recruits them and other mutants as commandos. Logan quits and becomes a logger, falling in love with a local teacher. When Logan refuses to rejoin Stryker's crew, the colonel sends the murderous Victor. Logan now wants revenge. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
The Tale of Despereaux
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Film
(Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family and 1 More)
Miscellaneous Crew The tale of three unlikely heroes - a misfit mouse who prefers reading books to eating them, an unhappy rat who schemes to leave the darkness of the dungeon, and a bumbling servant girl with cauliflower ears - whose fates are intertwined with that of the castle's princess. Written by Anonymous
Deception
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Film
(Crime, Drama, Mystery and Thriller)
Miscellaneous Crew Cat and mouse. Jonathan McQuarry is an auditor in Manhattan, moving from office to office checking their books. While working late, a smooth and well-dressed man named Wyatt Bose chats Jonathan up, offers him a joint, and soon they're pals. When their cell phones are accidentally swapped, Jonathan answers Wyatt's phone to a series of women asking if he's free tonight. Jonathan discovers it's a sex club: busy powerful people meet each other anonymously in hotels. Jonathan falls for one of the club members, whom he knows only as "S," whom he's also seen on a subway. When she goes missing, patterns emerge and Jonathan faces demands involving violence and lots of money. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
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Film
(Comedy and Romance)
Miscellaneous Crew Chuck Levine and Larry Valentine are friends and Brooklyn firefighting partners. Widower Larry, who still mourns the death of his wife Paula, is having problems changing the beneficiary on his insurance policy from Paula's name to his children's. He is worried about his children's future if he were to be killed in the line of duty, and is contemplating quitting his job for something less risky, but he also does not want to forfeit his firefighter's pension as he also see it as a safety net for his children. Larry saves Chuck's life on one of their calls. So when Chuck tells Larry that he owes him one, Larry takes him up on his offer. Larry's favor: despite both being heterosexual, that they enter into a domestic partnership, in name and paper only, to provide that much needed protection for Larry's children. Chronic womanizer Chuck reluctantly but eventually agrees. The one person who knows for a certainty that they are both straight is their boss, Captain Phineas J. Tucker. Their ... Written by Huggo
Viva Laughlin
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Television
(Comedy, Drama and Musical)
Miscellaneous Crew Small-time casino owner, Ripley Holden, dreams of opening up a snazzy resort on the Laughlin Strip. Based on the BBC murder-mystery-musical series, "Blackpool."
The Good Shepherd
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Film
(Drama, History and Thriller)
Miscellaneous Crew Laconic and self-contained, Edward Wilson heads CIA covert operations during the Bay of Pigs. The agency suspects that Castro was tipped, so Wilson looks for the leak. As he investigates, he recalls, in a series of flashbacks, his father's death, student days at Yale (poetry; Skull and Bones), recruitment into the fledgling OSS, truncated affairs, a shotgun marriage, cutting his teeth on spy craft in London, distance from his son, the emergence of the Cold War, and relationships with agency, British, and Soviet counterparts. We watch his idealism give way to something else: disclosing the nature of that something else is at the heart of the film's narration as he closes in on the leak. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
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Film
(Action, Crime and Thriller)
Miscellaneous Crew An American teenager named Sean Boswell is a loner in school, however he challenges his rival for an illegal street racing, and he totals his car in the end of the race. To avoid time in prison he is sent to Tokyo to live with his father who is in the military. As soon as he arrives he discovers a new, fun but dangerous way of street racing in the underworld of the streets of Tokyo, Japan. Written by Emphinix
Curious George
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Film
(Animation, Adventure, Comedy and Family)
Miscellaneous Crew The man with the yellow hat named Ted Shackleford works at a natural history museum that's fallen on hard times. The museum director's son wants to turn it into a parking lot, but Ted offers to bring back a mysterious idol from Africa that's guaranteed to pull in crowds. Unfortunately, the idol turns out to be three inches tall. But Ted accidentally brings back a lonely yet irrepressible monkey, soon dubbed George. They set off on a non-stop action, fun-filled journey through the wonders of the big city toward the warmth of true friendship. Written by Anthony Pereyra {hypersonic91@yahoo.com}
American Pie Presents: Band Camp
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Video
(Comedy and Music)
Miscellaneous Crew Matt Stifler, the younger brother of the legendary Steve Stifler, who made it big as Hollywood porn-producer and shamelessly ignores the idolizing kid brother, may claim the title of Stifmeister as his heritage, but even for his horniest mates he's little more then a bad joke. When Matt alone gets caught red-handed for a prank with the school band's instruments, present high school counselor Sherman 'Sherminator' finds great pleasure in taking revenge on him for the misbehavior Steve excelled even worse in, so instead of expelling the little prick, he condemns him to take part in band camp at Great Oaks, where Jim Levenstein's still understanding dad is filling in for the feared problem counselor. As there are plenty of girls in the competing bands, Matt hopes to turn his (mis)fortune around by smuggling in camera equipment including a robot to shoot saucy, clandestine material for his counterpart to Steve's hit video "Girls Gone Wild", an at least as 'revealing' Bandies Gone Wild. ... Written by KGF Vissers
Doom
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Film
(Action, Adventure, Horror and Sci-Fi)
Miscellaneous Crew Something has gone wrong at a remote scientific research station on Mars. All research has ceased. Communication has failed. And the messages that do get through are less than comforting. It's a level 5 quarantine and the only souls allowed in or out are the Rapid Response Tactical Squad - hardened Marines armed to the teeth with enough firepower to neutralize the enemy...or so they think. Written by El_Ucca@hotmail.com
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
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Film
(Comedy, Drama and Romance)
Miscellaneous Crew The story picks up four weeks after the first film, and already Bridget Jones is becoming uncomfortable in her relationship with Mark Darcy. Apart from discovering that he's a conservative voter, she has to deal with a new boss, strange contractor, and the worst vacation of her life. Written by lcheala@imdb.com
Two Brothers
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Film
(Adventure, Drama and Family)
Miscellaneous Crew 1920s Indochina. In the wild, a pair of adult tigers have just had a litter of two male cubs. It is a loving family unit, with the two brothers having a bond through their adventurous spirit. In different incidents, the cubs are captured individually, and although both in captivity live very different lives. Their individual captures were directly or indirectly associated with the work of Aidan McRory, a treasure and big game hunter, whose main goal is to make as much money for himself by selling his largely illegally obtained artifacts and animal parts at auction in Europe. Through the process, he has an emotional connection with one of the cubs, who is eventually named Kumal, but of who he eventually loses track. The cubs' lives are affected negatively by a number of other people who are working solely toward their own end goals, but the other cub, who is eventually named Sangha, also makes an emotional human connection to a young boy named Raoul Normandin, the son of the area ... Written by Huggo
Meet the Fockers
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Film
(Comedy and Romance)
Miscellaneous Crew Having given permission to male nurse Greg Focker to marry his daughter, ex-CIA man Jack Byrnes and his wife travel to Miami to Greg's parents, who this time around are Mr. and Mrs. Focker, who are as different from them as can be. As asked in the first movie, what sort of people name their son Gaylord M. Focker? Written by Uber Minion
Connie and Carla
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Film
(Comedy, Crime and Music)
Miscellaneous Crew After accidentally witnessing a mafia hit in the Windy City, gal pals Connie and Carla skip town for L.A., where they go way undercover as singers working the city's dinner theater circuit ... as drag queens. Now, it's not enough that they become big hits on the scene; things get extra-weird when Connie meets Jeff -- a guy she'd like to be a woman with. Written by Anonymous
American Wedding
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Film
(Comedy and Romance)
Miscellaneous Crew Jim Levenstein has finally found the courage to ask his girlfriend, Michelle Flaherty to marry him. She agrees to get married, but the problems don't stop there for Jim. Now along with Paul Finch and Kevin Myers, Jim must plan the wedding. Unfortunately Steve Stifler is in town and won't let the wedding go past without having some fun himself, which includes setting up a secret bachelor party. Written by FilmFanUK
Hulk
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Film
(Action and Sci-Fi)
Miscellaneous Crew Bruce Banner, a brilliant scientist with a cloudy past about his family, is involved in an accident in his laboratory causing him to become exposed to gamma radiation and Nanomeds (A tiny life-form that is supposed to heal wounds but has killed everything with which they have made contact). Confused and curious about his survival, Banner discovers that since the accident, whenever he becomes angry he transforms into a giant green monster destroying everything in sight in an act of fury. Bruce's mysterious past and the answer to why the radiation had this effect becomes revealed to him as his Birth Father David Banner intervenes with hopes to continue experimenting on him. Written by Séamus Hanly
The Cat in the Hat
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Film
(Adventure, Comedy, Family and Fantasy)
Miscellaneous Crew Conrad and Sally Walden (Spencer Breslin and Dakota Fanning) are home alone with their pet fish. It is raining outside, and there is nothing to do. Until The Cat in the Hat ('Mike Myers') walks in the front door. He introduces them to their imagination, and at first it's all fun and games, until things get out of hand, and The Cat must go, go, go, before their parents get back. Written by Anonymous
Seabiscuit
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Film
(Drama, History and Sport)
Miscellaneous Crew It's the Depression, and everyone needs to hold onto a dream to get them through the bad times. Car maker Charles Howard is no different, he who is trying to rebuild his life after the tragic death of his only child and the resulting end of his first marriage. With second wife Marcela at his side, Charles wants to get into horse racing and ends up with a team of underdogs who are also chasing their own dream. The first is trainer Tom Smith, who has a natural instinct to spot the capabilities of horses. The second is the horse Tom chooses for Charles, Seabiscuit, an unconventional choice as despite his pedigreed lineage, Seabiscuit is small at fifteen and a half hands tall with a slight limp. But Tom can see something in Seabiscuit's nature to make him a winner, if only Seabiscuit can be retrained from his inbred losing ways. And third is the jockey they decide to hire, Johnny "Red" Pollard, so nicknamed because of his hair color. Like Tom, Red has always shown a natural way with ... Written by Huggo
Red Dragon
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Film
(Crime, Drama and Thriller)
Miscellaneous Crew 3 Years after retiring from the FBI because of a near-fatal encounter with Hannibal Lecter, who was helping him catch the "Chesapeake Ripper", only to reveal it was Hannibal himself, Will Graham is asked by his ex-partner Jack Crawford to come solve one last case - 2 slaughtered families every full moon. They have 3 weeks until the next full moon to find the madman, but an innocent blind woman has found him first... Will Graham must risk his family's security and his own safety to track down this one last murderer - the epitome of all evil - The Red Dragon. Written by Andrew Tenebrae <andrewtenebrae@ev1.net>
The Scorpion King
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Film
(Action, Adventure, Fantasy and Thriller)
Miscellaneous Crew In an ancient time, predating the pyramids, the evil king Memnon is using the psychic powers of his sorceress Cassandra to fortell his great victories. In a last ditch effort to stop Memnon from taking over the world, the leaders of the remaining free tribes hire the assassin Mathayus to kill the sorceress. But Mathayus ends up getting much more than he bargained for. Now with the help of the trickster Arpid, tribal leader Balthazar and an unexpected ally, it's up to Mathayus to fufill his destiny and become the great Scorpion King. Written by Anonymous