PICKUP AND RETURN
IN UNITY THERE WAS STRENGTH
(previously titled LA SOBRINA)
MOUTH LIKE A DESERT
Cookie Rodriguez had just started driving the night shift for a Brooklyn car service when her younger sister turned up dead in the WIlliamsburg waterfront. Frustrated with the police’s investigation, she starts one of her own and finds that her sister was caught up in a corrupt world of gentrification, bribery and Brooklyn real estate.
After a fix goes wrong, Charlie Moore flees Miami to South America to hide out and work behind the bar of his old friend, Ozzy. But it doesn’t take long for his troubles to find him out and force him to go on the run again, this time to a run-down farm in the highlands. Years later, all bad times seemingly behind him, a surprise late night visit from Ozzy’s American ex-girlfriend is all it takes for his world to spiral further and deeper out of control than ever before.
2nd Round - Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition
YOU GET WHAT YOU NEED
Three couples. One dissolving, one floundering, one solidifying. All pretty damn confused.
WInner - Aces Screenwriting Competition
PUBLIC
A sort-of romantic comedy.
WInner - Long Island Film Festival Screenwriting Award
A comedy about hard times. Sam, 28, struggles with continuing to justify the "slash" in his Production Assistant/writer self-description, while Pete, 35, fully embraces going from bartender/painter to just bartender. Laura, 34, balances loving her students while hating their Park Slope parents, and arts-writer Ian, 38, contends with print media (and his job) imploding all around him.
