films and short stories

FOUND is an award-winning feature length screenplay. A troubled American soldier searches for a missing bomber crew while navigating the hostile cultural tensions of post-World War Two Japan. Found has currently been awarded the following honors:

• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences- Nicholl Fellowship Screenwriting Contest - Top 10% (Of 8000 entries)
• Coverfly Historical Red List Select
• Big Bear Film Summit 2020 - Winner - Best Feature Screenplay (Drama)
• 2021 Golden Script Competition - Finalist / 2021 Golden List Feature Award
• Creative World Awards International 2020 - Finalist
• Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards 5th - Semifinalist
• Final Draft - Big Break 2020 - Quarterfinalist
• ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship 2020 -Quarterfinalist
• 2020 Scriptapalooza Screenplay Competition - Quarterfinalist
• 2020 Page Awards international Screenwriting Contest - Quarterfinalist
• PAGE Awards - PAGE International Screenwriting Awards Competition 2020 - Quarterfinalist
• Scriptapalooza Screenplay Competition 2020 - Quarterfinalist
• Table Read My Screenplay Genre Screenplay Competition 2021 - Top 100
• Script2Comic Contest 2020 - Quarterfinalist
• StoryPros Awards 2020 - Quarterfinalist
   

• Found - One Sheet Synopsis

My love letter to Critters, Commando, and really wanting to write a movie for Danny Trejo. ARAÑAS ZOMBIE is a feature length horror-comedy. A teenage science prodigy fights off a horde of genetically engineered zombie spiders after stumbling upon her grandfather’s covert ops past.

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• Aranas Zombie - One Sheet Synopsis

Wrote and directed this script for the Dallas 24 Hour Video Race Contest

Rules of the contest are as follows:

• Exactly 24 hours to produce a short film from script to screen using the following items:
• Flagpole
• Dialogue “wrong turn”
• Dialogue “You don’t owe me anything” (Which was printed with a typo on the contest instructions as “be” instead of “me”. I was the only one to pay any attention to the typo and use it as a gag in my script.)
• Musical Instrument

The results: The grand prize (1st place) in the category with the heaviest competition, the Hollywood division!

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• Finished Short Film
• Final Script

This story was written as an entry into Writer's Digest's monthly Photo Caption Contest. Writer's digest supplies a photo, you write a short story about it in under 700 words. My personal writing goal was to subvert the expectations set up by the photo.

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• Curiosity Short Story

A lifelong fan of the satire site The Onion, inspiration struck one day to write a news article in a similar style. The image of God and a random Chicago resident brawling drunkenly in a pre-Y2K era was highly entertaining to me.

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• God Smites Man At Local Bar (Article)