James Foye

Unique traits: Film school at UMBC (Go Retrievers!), was press officer for the Mayor of New Haven, CT, Communications VP for New England’s 2nd Largest Chamber of Commerce, then optioned a screenplay and moved to SoCal. Finalist in the Tracking Board’s Launch Pad, Final Draft’s Big Break; Semifinalist Austin Film Fest. Husband, father, Mets fan, 007 nerd, history buff & solid tour guide at Warner Bros. Studios.

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  REVOLUTIONARY SPY Budget: $30M+ | Historical ⋄ Adventure Based on a true story from the Revolutionary War, a heroic slave agrees to act as Lafayette’s spy behind British enemy lines.

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  HOLLYWOOD BLVD. Budget: $1M - $5M | Crime ⋄ Film-noir ⋄ Mystery When her boyfriend is murdered, an ex-junkie and struggling actress, who plays Supergirl for tourists in Hollywood, sets out to solve the mystery.

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  Thick As Thieves Action ⋄ Adventure ⋄ Crime What do you do when you’re the best cat burglar on the West Coast, you have a pain-in-the-ass partner, you’ve pissed off some very bad guys and you’ve fallen in love with a high school English teacher? You rob the San Francisco Federal Reserve, that’s what. But ripping off a federal bank isn’t that easy to pull off - unless you get lucky. Filled with action, thrills, wit and a little love, THICK AS THIEVES has been a quarterfinalist in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Nicholl Competition and was a quarterfinalist in the Stage 32 Happy Writers Feature Competition in 2015.

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  Counterfeit King Action ⋄ Adventure ⋄ Crime Looking to purchase a large cache of hi-tech weapons, a nefarious militia group hires a master counterfeiter to create millions in fake cash. To make the best bogus bills possible, the counterfeiter plans to hijack a secure Secret Service train and steal the cargo of U.S. Treasury’s real rag paper. A young female FBI agent must team with her estranged Secret Service agent father (long on the forger’s trail) to stop the counterfeiter. COUNTERFEIT KING has reached the semi-finalist and finalist rounds of the Chesterfield Writer’s Film Project and the American Accolades Screenwriting Competition. It has been a quarterfinalist in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Nicholl Competition and the Creative World Awards competition.

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  Kong Quest Adventure A teenage movie fanatic and his neighbor - a longtime crush - embark on an exciting and dangerous quest to find the only remaining, presumed-to-be-lost scene from the original “King Kong” – the priceless “spider pit scene” removed from the finished film after it sickened a 1933 preview audience. An offer of $10 million for the lost scene launches the teenagers on their way. They follow the clues placed in movie memorabilia throughout New York City – and attempt to outwit the greedy men who want the historic scene for themselves and will do anything to get it. A rousing action-adventure "scavenger hunt" about movie fans and emerging love, KONG QUEST is also a travelogue of exciting locations around the Big Apple, including, of course, the Empire State Building. KONG QUEST was a semifinalist in the 2011 Creative World Awards Script Competition and a quarterfinalist in the 2011 Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition.

• Richmond International Film Festival - Best Historical Feature Screenplay
  (2022)

• The Titan International Screenwriting Awards 1st Place Overall Gold Award Winner
  (2021)

• Austin Film Fest Screenwriting Competition - Semifinalist - "Revolutionary Spy"
  (2020)

• Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition - Second Rounder - "Hollywood Blvd."
  (2020)

• Final Draft's Big Break Screenwriting Competition - Top 3 Finalist - "Revolutionary Spy"
  (2019)

• Tracking Board’s Launch Pad Feature Competition - Top 50 Finalist - "Revolutionary Spy"
  (2019)

• Stage 32 Happy Writers Feature Competition - Quarterfinalist - "Thick As Thieves"
  (2015)

• Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting - Quarterfinalist - "Kong Quest"
  (2011)

• Scriptapalooza - Quarterfinalist - "Kong Quest"
  (2011)

• Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting - Quarterfinalist - "Counterfeit King"
  (2002)

• UMBC
  (1994-1997)