PROJECTS

FILMS/SCRIPTS

CHAOTICA

I have been developing this teen action thriller with producer Willie Kutner.

Synopsis:
Nick Cooper has spent the past 4 years trying to pretend the things he did when he was 13 never happened.

Living with his mom in a quaint suburb, Nick has made all of the right friends and become a high school football star. But, with the arrival of his old buddy, Matt, Nick’s world starts flying wildly out of control. Matt doesn’t like who Nick has become and he wants Nick to come clean about their past, because Matt’s been paying for it ever since

Then there are Lee and Perry, two awkward, unpopular kids who get picked on regularly by Nick’s friends. And they have a little plan of their own.

After the big game the whole school comes to Mark’s party. The question is, who will get to go home?

SUCK
written by Ursula Holloman

Ursula initially contacted me for research while writing an early draft of the script since the story takes place during the early days of punk rock in San Francisco. She discovered that I was part of Target Video and knew a fair amount about the scene. I had been thinking of doing a film about my experiences during this time, but I was compelled by Ursula’s idea and I convinced her (by writing her every month for a couple of years as she wrote the script) to let me direct the project.

It has already been a part of the FIND Screenwriter’s Lab and Fast Track.

Synopsis
Nina’s life sucks. She has a shit job, no friends, and she’s fucked up so badly as a mother that she’s no longer part of her young child’s life. When she goes to visit her daughter and the door is slammed in her face, Nina can no longer bear the guilt and failure, and decides to end it all.

But life changes radically when Ian, lead singer in a local punk band, foils her suicide attempt. Obsessed with her savior, Nina follows him deep into the unfamiliar punk underground. She’s assaulted by the noise, shocked by what she sees, but, in this unlikely community of misfits and outcasts, she unexpectedly finds her place.

She plugs in a guitar, and, with a teenage Jesus freak on organ, a mud-wrestling bass player, and the world’s worst drummer, forms a band that unleashes the rage and power buried within her.

As Ian’s wildness causes him to crash and burn, Nina struggles to pull her life together. Amid the noise and mayhem, she needs to prove to both herself and the world that she is ready to be a mother.

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