SUPER TURBO OVERDRIVE
114 Pages. Action Comedy. Super Turbo Overdrive is a hyper-stylized action comedy that’s American Pie meets Akira, Superbad meets Mad Max.
Matt and Steve have been best friends since childhood but their relationship gets complicated when when Matt gets into Yale and can’t stop talking about it. After a heated exchange, involving their a 1v1 round of their favorite video game, Steve asks Dorothy, Matt’s super attractive single mother, out on a date which she agrees to in order to teach the boys a lesson. Things get really crazy when Steve’s girlfriend Amy finds out about the date and tells Steve’s parents. What happens next is something straight out of anime / graphic novel and blow your mind!
Super Turbo Overdrive is currently on its very successful festival / screenwriting competition run, winning awards at Los Angeles Film Awards, Five Continents International Film Festival, Die Laughing Film Festival, and more. The reception from readers and festival organizers have been very positive and am hoping to either sell it, produce it with funding, and ultimately share it with audiences on the big screen in the not too distant future. People have been wanting a film like this and I know they are going to love it!
THE STATUE GARDEN
108 pages. Drama. The Statue Garden is an adaption of my award winning full length play Tangerina. It is a coming-of-age family drama that features two interweaving story arcs set 15 years apart.
It is 90’s and Tori and Abby are teenage sisters growing up without their mother and a father who is always away. Abby works hard in school and excels in ballet while Tori rebels and gets herself in trouble when she starts dating a much-older bad boy named Ace. Fast forward 15 years and we meet Tye, a recent college graduate, who works as an overnight janitor, much to the chagrin of his mother. Their already tumultuous relationship gets further tested when the car that Tye buys off Craigslist - against his mother’s advice - breaks down and he doesn’t have enough money to get it running. This sends Pete into a dark place and motivates him to do something drastic.
The Statue Garden is currently on its festival run and has received praise from readers across the globe, garnering wins at Festigious in Los Angeles and Red International Screenplay Contest in Italy. A lot of the themes explored in The Statue Garden are ones that people can relate to and the struggles that the characters go through are real and I believe that is what makes this a really strong script that deserves to get seen on the big screen.