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Donna Brodsky & Harvey Jacobs

THE HAIL MARYComedy (short)

Proud of her track record, a saleswoman is at the losing end as she attempts to sell a policy to an intimidating bartender and when she challenges him to an arm wrestling contest for the policy, victory seems nothing short of a Hail Mary but she has one more sales gimmick up her sleeve.

 

Now a completed short film

 

MICKEY AND GRACE – Comedy

Two women, a misguided wannabe thug, and an anal FBI agent -- end up in each other's bodies when a government experiment goes wrong and they are forced to face each other's bosses and love lives until they can hunt down the scientist who did it. But bigger problems loom when one of them begins to like her new life.

 

2009 "The Movie Deal" Competition - Finalist

2008 BlueCat Screenwriting Competition - Quarterfinalist

 

THE CHARMINGS – Fairytale Comedy

Cinderella wants to be the best princess ever but gets derailed when she embarks on a cause that fractures her fairy tale marriage and nearly ruins the kingdom.

 

2008 Feeding Frenzy - Honorable Mention

 

THE 13TH KISS – Romantic Comedy (previously optioned)

 A powerful, but lonely female attorney takes a controversial custody case and is stunned to find that she’s fallen in love with a guy who is rooting for the other side. Now she has to choose between her track record, love and the law.

 

THE GENIUS FACTOR – Thriller/Horror

A scientist, who leads a triple life as he searches for the answer to war, discovers a formula for genius and his intentions turn deadly when he unleashes a “think tank” of teen masterminds.

Anton Gill

OJUS DAYS  Ensemble drama
Logline: The lives of three different families converge as they wrestle with critical changes and the choices they make over two weeks in Florida.

THE KARASSA OPERATIVE  Action
Logline: To save her family, a covert operative crosses enemy lines to salvage a mission only to find her agency working against her..

Award: Semi-Finalist in the 2006 International Pace Screenwriting Competition.

TRICK OF LIGHT  Thriller
Logline: A foreign worker in Iraq risks life and limb to expose a scandal while not realizing that in his absence, his wife falls prey to corruption of a more sinister kind.

Award: Finalist in the 2008 Blue Cat Screenwriting Lab.

SHORT FILMS
RE-INVENTION 
2009 Short Documentary (10 minutes)
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8922u9f4MU
 Co-writer and Co-Director
 Description: Reinvention profiles individuals who have confronted a crisis from the 2009 economic downturn   and have used this experience to effect fundamental changes to their outlook, behavior and profession..

 Award: Scary Cow Independent Film Co-Operative Member Award
 
THE CODICIL  2009 Drama (7 minutes)
 48 Hour Film Project Submission
 Writer
 Description: Sibling rivalry at its finest hour.

THE TRIP (A short script) Drama

ALEX and ABBY  Drama

Alex and Abby are sisters, but often wonder if they share the same blood.  When Abby, serious and forever single, receives a surprise visit from her flighty, seductive sis after a break-up and job drama, the stage is set. As Alex pursues her dream of becoming a comic and Abby confronts a personal secret, conflicting priorities bring matters to a boil.

Harvey Jacobs

FAMILY PLOTS Comedy
Two feuding family members each buy a headstone for the same deceased relative and then duke it out over which one is erected.

FICTIONFOLKS Comedy/Sci-Fi/Fantasy
When his fictional hero and heroine fear he'll write them out, a screenwriter must journey into his computer to eliminate their character profiles before they get strong enough to eliminate him.

Awards
Finalist in Red Inkworks screenplay competition

THE FINE PRINT Comedy/Fantasy
An chronically indecisive man has to make six wishes in 36 hours or forfeit his life. Then he discovers that his best friend gets twice whatever he wishes for and has already made a wish list of his own. Now he has to find a loophole in the contract before its too late.

Awards
Finalist in Tennessee Screenwriters Association screenplay competition
Finalist in StoryNotes screenplay competition.

Allen Rosenberg

DISCONNECTED
At the end of the psychedelic era a young man pays for his Father's care by helping Organized Crime sidestep the phone company's billing system.  He soon finds himself drawn into a bizarre tangle of characters including, Good Fellas, dopers, rockers, the FBI, and a killer cop out for revenge. 

Awards
Quarter Finalist 2007 Blue Cat Screenplay competition

SPOILS
SPOILS is a fast moving, crime caper that weaves and twists its way through a series of events in the treacherous world of stolen art. It follows a wise-ass grab-and-run thief, seemingly out of his league, as he pursues the biggest score of his criminal life--the worlds most famous and most valuable missing masterpiece
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Awards
Quarter Finalist 2008 Page International Screenplay competition

THE RETURN OF BRIDGET BISHOP
A teenager confronts a seventeenth century Salem Witch on a murderous twenty-first century vendetta.

 

THE REUNION  

A down-on-his-luck crime reporter attends his college reunion and discovers that a string of unsolved murders is connected to a class project -  assigned fifteen years earlier!

 

          Awards
          Semi-Finalist 2009 Writers On The Storm Screenplay competition

 

MONKEY MIND

A hapless loner's routine is shattered when a devious voice named, Harvey, invades his mind.  Harvey appears to be allied with an elusive wheelchair-bound man who leads the protagonist on a wild chase to solve the mystery of the invading voice.

 

     IMPROVISE              Now a short film

  

          Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

A lonely old man spins a secret war story to a skeptical kid.

 

THE GIFT  (A short script) Dramedy

Sometimes just a few simple words can change a woman's life.

Catherine Thrush

LADY BLADE Action/Adventure (Previously Optioned)
Sworn to uphold her father's Code of Honor, a swordsman's daughter keeps her word at any cost - even when it means becoming a pirate against her wishes. Trapped between her father’s Code of Honor and her own sense of virtue, Francesca must fight the Spanish, her pirate captain, her father’s memory, and her own conscience.

Awards-
Quarterfinalist in the Nicholl Fellowship Screenplay Competition
Won the Monterey Film Commission's Emerging Talent Award
First Runner up in the Acclaim Screenwriting Competition
Finalist in the Practical Paradox screenplay competition
Finalist in Hollywood Symposium screenplay competition
Number one on the review site, Helium list. 

HIGHER PLAINES  Drama
A tragic accident turns a medical student into a shaman - a guide for lost souls.

WHO WANTS TO GO TO HEAVEN  Comedy Film Short 
There's only one way into heaven - be the winning contestant on the new game show with eternal stakes.

Awards- (Script)
Semi-Finalist in the Page International Screenwriting Awards
Second Round Qualifier in the American Gem Short Film Festival

Marjory Kaptanoglu

DIRECT DESCENT  Thriller

Unraveling the mystery of her mother’s death leads an insecure young woman to a shocking discovery regarding her own true identity.

Awards
First Place: Script Savvy
Under the title, "Twisted Strands":
First Place (Platinum): Worldfest Houston
Second Place: Red Inkworks
Semifinalist: Phoenix
Quarterfinalist: Monterey, Cynosure

DEVIL’S LURE  Suspense drama

After receiving an anonymous note accusing him of a fifteen-year-old murder, a successful actor returns to his childhood home to face his past demons.

Awards

Winner's Circle: MovieScript
Finalist: WriteMovies, Red Inkworks
Runner Up: International Mystery Festival
Honorable Mention: A Feeding Frenzy
Semifinalist: Screenwriting Expo, Scriptapalooza, Writers on the Storm, American Screenwriters Association
Second Round: Austin, Slamdance
Quarterfinalist: Creative World Awards, PAGE, CineStory
Official Selection (Screenplay): Action on Film Festival

JUST KILL ME NOW  Comic murder mystery

After her project leader is framed for murder, a software engineer tries to find out whodunit and reverse her reputation as someone who always quits when the going gets tough.

Awards

Second place: American Screenwriters Association
Finalist: Red Inkworks
Semifinalist: Writemovies
Quarterfinalist: PAGE Awards, Screenwriting Expo

RAISE YOU ONE DEAD BODY  Thriller, short: (15 pages)

When a poker-loving home inspector is perfectly framed for murder, he tries to save himself with a bluff.

Now a short film:  ACES OVER EIGHTS.

Awards

Finalist: Vail Film Festival (Top Five)
Semifinalist: Gimme Credit
Second Round: British Short Screenplay Competition

BREAK  (A short film) Drama

An abused wife turns disaster into hope

For more information contact, Allen Rosenberg  scripts@ymail.com.