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"DreamsSpeakers/TruthTellers" . . .

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Logline: Having been accepted for treatment by a clinical psychiatrist with expertise in IGHT, our central character Jimmy (named after my very good friend, the late Jimmy Herman), a young Indigenous Person seeking relief from the IGHT visions plaguing him and his runaway sister, who is being held captive and used as a prostitute by a gang member, arrives in a big city — and has to confront the dangerous gang as he goes to save her.

 

The screenplay has won numerous Best Screenplay Awards, including these:

• Cannes Indies Cinema Awards

• New York Script Awards

• London Best Script Awards

• Chicago Indie Film Awards

• Vancouver Independent Moviemaker Awards

• Dallas Movie Awards

• New Orleans International Film Awards

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"Dorisville" . . .

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While in search of the father he has never known, a young martial artist on the run from the female head of an Asian mob ends up in even a worst world of trouble when he is stranded in Dorisville — a desert town steeped in the cannabis industry and controlled by an insane Chief of Police. 

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While Doris  — the town's mayor and owner of the B&B — is in preceding scenes talked about with great reverence by other characters, this is her on-camera debut:

 

INT. DORIS' B & B - DORIS' OFFICE - NIGHT

Huge hats with face vails hang on the walls.

-- and there’s DORIS!  A nice-looking 'mature' woman, she sits at a century-old PBX board wearing a white lab coat embroidered with Doris Diddle, Ph.D. and a Cannabis leaf over the i" in her given name. On her head she has a huge, veiled hat and she ardently chews bubble gum while crying crocodile tears that she lovingly blots with a tissue, then studies as they disappear, mourns their demise with subdued, sobbing wails, composes herself, sighs, and blows a big bubble that she pops, then takes a deep breath — and exhales with an over-the-top sotto voce 'sexy-like' into the PBX microphone:

 

DORIS

I'm baaack — and you are?

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"Dorisville" has won Best Screenplay at the Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards, International Independent Film Awards, Hollywood International Golden Age Festival; Best Series Pilot Script at the New York Independent Film Awards, and Best TV Pilot at the Vegas Movie Awards.

 

In the eclectic cast so far are Bai Ling (“The Crow”), David Proval (“Sopranos"), and Bo Svenson (“The Great Waldo Pepper”) as Jebidiah Judd.

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"The Dream of America" . . .

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Chicago. 1939. Two young Finnish immigrants have the American Dream within their grasp when Fate separates them. He, a brilliantly talented painter and staunch pacifist, is thrust into a war that changed the course of history — the Finnish-Russian Winter War; while she, a butcher’s helper with a dream of dancing on Broadway, is forced to dance in a New York burlesque house until Fate once again intervenes…

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"The Dream of America" won Best Screenplay Award at the Illinois International Film Festival, the International Independent Film Awards, Los Angeles Reel Film Festival.

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"The Red Cloth" . . .

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996 A.D. Based on historical facts, a young Norse helmsman seeking religious freedom for himself and those he loves is sent by the King of Norway to bring a self-serving priest to Greenland to find and convert Leif Erickson to Christianity when they are caught in a hellish storm and shipwrecked in North America — some 500 years before its ‘discovery’ by Columbus.

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"The Red Cloth" won best TV Pilot at the Dubai Independent Film Festival, Best Feature Screenplay at the Florence Film Awards, Best Feature Script at the Hollywood Gold Awards, and Best Television Script at the International World Film Awards,  Best Feature Screenplay at the London Independent Film Awards, Best Script at the Los Angeles Movie Awards and Montreal Independent Film Festival.

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"He Returns" . . .

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When He learns that his adult daughter has committed suicide, a widowed former lawman returns to his home town after 50 years. Sadden by the racial and political polarization, the drug culture and general "feel bad", He decides to get involved and help right the wrongs.

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"The Remarkable Ms. Bayard Wootten" . . .

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The life of the remarkable woman who created the "Pepsi-Cola" logo.

 

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