Projects

“You can tell who rules a society by who pays the artists.”  —  Francis Ford Coppola

            

                                 

A coming of age dramedy about a young, cocky American who loses everything and decides to take a job teaching English in Japan only to find “himself”, what’s really important in life – and true love.

JERRY MAGUIRE meets LOST IN TRANSLATION

 

A highly decorated, former Navy SEAL is tasked by the Pentagon to train a new A.I. drone program to replace human “boots on the ground”, only to discover his own demons – which the newly sentient A.I. uses against him.

 

Terrorists launch an elaborate, electronic Pearl Harbor cyber attack on the U.S., crippling the entire nation’s financial, communication, and military infrastructure, culminating in the physical attack on the newly elected, untested President of the United States.

True story of how the sport of horse racing came to be in the early 1800’s.  The first jockeys were black slaves who raced for their rich masters.

Stakes got so high that some slave jockeys were offered their freedoms if they won.

The first 15 out of 19 Kentucky Derby winners were African American slave jockeys. This is one of their stories.

 

Based on true events in 1820’s America. A disgruntled former slave of President James Monroe decides to move his family to the newly created African nation of Liberia and leads an army to liberate the neighboring slave trading fortresses.

MOSQUITO COAST meets AMISTAD meets GLORY

Based on true historical events.  Chronicles the final moments of the tranquil Japanese city before the atomic bomb was dropped, its Hellish aftermath, as well as its subsequent inspiring rebirth.

A troubled NBA super-star, KENDALL HILL, punches out a referee in Game 7 of the Finals; partially paralyzing him. Kendall is suspended from the NBA for life and is sent to prison for 5 years.

While in the joint, Kendall becomes a devout Muslim. Now broke and freshly out of prison, Kendall’s offered a job by his old friend – head coach of a once great, all-white, private Catholic League high school’s basketball program.

THE HURRICANE meets “Friday Night Lights”