Hooray for America
Centers around a world-wide corporation that selects an actor to run for the President of the United States — in hopes he will be able to do the bidding of the corporation.
Bob Oedekirk, David Cross
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Backcountry
The story pits the hero against an insane survivalist who is hiding in a national park and killing the visitors.
Matt Johnson
Ice at the Bottom
An aging ship captain is stricken with cancer and is forced to come to terms with his wayward family relationships.
Mark Richard
Walking the Dog
Two quirky people meet and fall in love while walking their dogs.
Alice Hoffman
Turnabout
A smooth-talking ex-boxer just released from prison has four days to raise $180,000 to save his best friend’s life. With help from a fixed horse and a female friend, things look up.
Garry Michael White
My Bitter Half
One half of a marriage counselor couple is having trouble with the marriage. As they talk, the audience can hear what they’re really thinking.
Gloria Norris
Bridesmaid
A woman finally has a chance to realize her lifetime obsession to have a grand wedding when her boyfriend proposes marriage. But when her bank account turns up empty, the woman and her best friend turn to a number of crazy plans to raise the money.
Dawn Calame, Chris Conroy
Freaks
A group of tabloid reporters chases the paranormal and comes across the seven signs of the apocalypse.
Peter Magill
The Runner
A Las Vegas guy takes a job running numbers for a bookmaker with the stipulation that he cannot gamble. The only catch is that he’s a compulsive gambler. Things get more complicated when he meets a young woman and falls madly in love.
Anthony Zuiker
Hearts of Men
The character-driven plot centers on a cop who flees the big city with his wife for a better life in a small town. After making the move, the wife is brutally assaulted on the same night the son of the local sheriff is killed. The local officer and the big city cop are then forced to find the perpetrator together.
Preston Whitmore
Total Sport
An employee of an all-sports cable TV network racks up a gambling debt. As he sinks further into the gambling underworld, he discovers that the network is paying off football referees to keep the games close — and viewers tuned in.
Bill Wolf
Steinbeck’s Point of View
San Francisco man sick with cancer returns to land that once belonged to his grandfather. The trip turns into a spiritual awakening in which he learns to redirect his life.
Brandon Camp, Mike Thompson
The Art of Settling
A commitment-phobic bachelor meets a woman just as commitment-phobic as he is.
Simon Goltsman
Chicklets
Four outsider high school girls form a rock band and play music that expresses their particular brand of teenage angst.
Lamar Damon
A Leonard Cohen Afterworld
Two nineteen-year-old friends during the weekend of Kurt Cobain’s 1994 funeral use the Nirvana frontman’s memorial vigil in Seattle as an excuse to escape from their lives in Las Vegas. As they make their way, they meet an unusual cast of characters and come to terms with life, death and what it means to be an outsider in ’90s America.
Scott Rosenberg
Monster’s Ball
A prison guard breaks a lifelong cycle of racism and familial abuse through a relationship with the widow of a death row convict he helped execute.
Milo Addica, Will Rokos
Teenage Idol
Biopic of the life of Ricky Nelson as the youngest son of “Ozzie & Harriet” fame through his tragic death in an airplane crash in 1985.
Floyd Mutrux
The Siegemaster
Action period piece that centers on a great warrior in the Middle Ages who is not only brave and deft in battle but also wise. The knight travels Europe’s countryside, helping people in need. In particular, he is an expert at freeing honest folks under siege by evil forces.
Chris Morgan
Serial Dater
A guy looking for his dream girl goes on a series of horrific dates before eventually finding the girl of his dreams in the most unlikely of places.
John Harmon Feldman
Proteus
Described as “Das Boot,” meets “The Shining.” Story is set aboard an American submarine during WWII that is under attack from above by monsters from below.
Darren Aronofsky, Lucas Sussman
My Romance
An ordinary woman is mistaken for a billionaire’s mistress. The man then hires her to masquerade as his mistress to protect the other woman’s identity from the media.
James Mattson, B.E. Brauner
Noel
Four stories of people desperate to avoid the loneliness of the holidays on Christmas Eve in New York. In one strand, a young street hustler gets a neighborhood tough to break his hands so he can spend Christmas in the hospital; in another, a jealous policeman gets a life lesson from a local crazy person who swears the copy is the reincarnation of his long-lost wife.
David Hubbard
Seven Days
A record producer marries a high society lady but later realizes that he’s really in love with his best friend, a woman who writes for a hip-hop music magazine.
Mike Elliot
Something Wicked
A power hungry executive schemes to blackmail her corporate rival. When she informs the competition of her plans, the nemesis pushes her in front of a bus. Finding herself in an afterworld limbo, the dead woman talks her way back to earth in the form of a cocktail waitress. Given a second chance, she takes a job at the bottom of her company’s ladder and begins working her way up, realizing along the way that she was living her life completely wrong.
Anya Kochoff
Tigerland
Set at a Southern Army training camp in the early 1970s, the story follows a discharge-seeking young recruit whose superiors view his rebelliousness as leadership potential. Seeking to avoid a trip to Vietnam, the recruit embarks on a campaign to get every other draftee in his company ejected from the army.
Ross Klavan, Michael McGruther
Bitch, Bitch, Bitch
The miracle of science that transforms a mousy teenager into the most popular, beautiful girl on campus, allowing her to take revenge on her clique-ish classmates.
Kayla Alpert
Knox
A group of would-be robbers enlists in the military to get an inside understanding of the famed location and its personnel. The team uses that intelligence to figure out the best way to steal the gold reserves.
Richard Eid, Gavin Harris
Trillion
The last man on the bench of a professional basketball team who, despite not being the tallest or the most agile, has succeeded because of his determination and hard work. He discovers that he has a heart condition but can’t bear to quit the sport. When management tries to buy out his contract, the player insists on one final season.
Mark Mullen
Boomerang
An egomaniacal film star storms off a set in Australia and promptly crashes his private plane in the Outback. Stranded amid a tribe of aborigines who are thoroughly unimpressed with his celebrity status, he is found/rescued by a headstrong woman studying that tribe. In their subsequent adventures together, he begins to reclaim himself as a human being.
Alida Van Gores
Gigantic
A story of a ship that rivaled the great Titanic, but because it was two-and-a-half inches shorter, received no publicity on its equally tragic maiden voyage. Soon after cutting off the Titanic and sending it on its infamous collision course with an iceberg, the hapless Gigantic sank, too, after striking a coral reef.
Mike Bender, Chris Bender
This Means War
Two seemingly steadfast best friends have not let anything come between them, until a young woman moves into their spare room. Not only does she divide them, but as they fight for her affections, New York City literally is left demolished in their wake, including such landmarks as the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty.
Marcus Gautesen
Nazi Gold
A commercial producer becomes involved in a plot to steal Nazi bullion from a Swiss vault, a heist undertaken while the producer is supposedly shooting a commercial in the bank. The thieves’ intent is to give the gold bars to the descendants of Holocaust victims.
Brian DePalma, Jay Cocks
Mary Jane’s Last Dance
An attractive, popular, and drug-addicted college co-ed befriends a shy, but intelligent fellow student from the other side of the popularity tracks. As their bond grows, the smart wallflower ends up insinuating herself into every aspect of the coke-sniffer’s life, including her illicit habit. When the girl overdoses and dies, the popular girl must grapple with the guilt and blame over death.
Victoria Strouse
Wild About Harry
The story centers on a New York-based ad exec named Harry, who’s involved in a confused love story.
Isaac Mizrahi
The Mile-High Club
A male airport security guard goes undercover to bust a prostitution ring in the sky.
Rebecca Hughes
Love, Jenny
A man whose wife dies in a car accident. He learns she has come back in the body of another woman. Knowing she’s due to die as well, he must save her while he woos her.
Marc Klein