Projects

• Backyard Comedy (in post-production, TV comedy)

  Pilot and three episodes in the can and in various stages of post-production. See www.myspace.com/whitetrashbackyardcomedy to view five-minute scissor real.
  
  

• Dead letter (screenplay, drama)

  When a former advanced recon marine and his team of experts return from Afghanistan and fall prey to a Nigerian letter fraud scheme to the tune of $100.000, they vow revenge and travel to Nigeria. Only to find a Government, military and police force on the take, and a US embassy whose hands are tied until an unexpected ally comes to their aid and helps them stop a vicious brand of criminal.
  
  

• Bernie and Leroy (screenplay, comedy)

  When a grad student from CCNY rents an apartment in the gang-ridden South Bronx, he makes a startling discovery. A Jewish ghost named Bernie haunts the apartment. They eventually become friends, but Leroy becomes the enemy of the local gang. Until he and his invisible to anyone pal Bernieignite the community and turn this war zone back into a neighborhood.
  
  

• Tax Man (screenplay, comedy)

  When an anal IRS agent targets a small time con artist named Midge Lamonty for an audit, he has bitten off more than he can chew. But the unexpected happens. He falls head over heals for her. Then things really get complicated as they get entangled in a Government case against a John Gotti type mobster who also has feelings for Midge. Two goons attempt to kill the IRS agent and believe he is dead but he survived. Now they are forced to go undercover to help the FBI with their case against the Mob. Until the goons who tried to kill the IRS agent get out of prison and think they know what is going on.
  
  

• The sculptor’s wife (drama, love story)

  In 1935, Albert Einstein, the most brilliant mind of he Twentieth Century walked into a studio in New York City’s Greenwich Village to meet the renowned Russian sculptor, Sergei Konenkov, who was commissioned by Princeton University to do a bust of Einstein in bronze. Albert Einstein met and became enchanted with THE SCULPTOR’S WIFE. Margarita Konenkova was not only young and exquisitely beautiful, but a highly educated lawyer from Moscow, fluent in four languages.
  They fell in love.
  World War II began, as did the race to create the first atomic bomb. Albert Einstein held the coveted secret to nuclear energy. Russia’s KGB would stop at nothing to get to him. They recruited Margarita Konenkova...
  ...and the rest is history. 
  BASED ON A TRUE STORY
  
  

• Cool fool (screenplay, action/drama)

  A young Latino is forced to sell drugs to make money and pay for his family. His lifestyle is wonderful. Until a rival gang-member and the police make moves to take him down. Now, he will realize that taking the easy route is not always easy, and that every decision he makes has a consequence.
  
  

• The Twelve (novel, horror/drama)

  The Twelve, a supernatural murder mystery. The story begins in Los Angeles with the brutal killing of an eccentric Beverly Hills billionaire. The man’s dogs are blamed for the attack. Detective Lt. Bob Dandridge would have closed the case happily, except for one thing. A psychic who saw the murder through the eyes of the attacker witnessed the killing. She tells her nightmare to a young reporter who believes her and forces an investigation to be opened by the reluctant detective, or the reporter will go public with the story. This joins the three of them together, on a case that will shake their beliefs to the core, as they get closer to the truth.
  THIS IS THE FIRST OF A THREE BOOK TRILOGY
  
  

• The Realm (working title, in development, drama)

  It was 1935, and somewhere in the world a war was brewing but not for them. They were creating a royal realm. It wasn’t Camelot, far from it. Its round tables were in cocktail lounges and dancehalls from Harlem to Chicago and New Orleans. They were named Count Bassie, Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole and the man who named them all, Lord Buckley. The fought injustice ,racism, and mobsters. This is a true story.
  
  

• Random Acts (in development, drama)

  When a group of teenage runaways, escaping from abusive and broken homes, come together and decide they will live on the New York City subway system, they ride the trains and sleep at night and spend their days doing random acts in Lower Manhattan’s Battery Park. The acts include skateboarding displays, juggling with chainsaws, leaping from building to building over bicycle ramps, and doing gymnastics on street lamps. Their life is hard but no harder than living at home. Until one night, a vicious construction worker who becomes obsessed with ridding the train system of these degenerates confronts them. He takes it upon himself to stalk the group and take revenge for an incident that transpired between them. Until the group decides to fight back.as

• Die Happy (in development, comedy)

  When John’s grandfather dies, leaving him the family fortune in the form of an insurance policy that his grandfather, who raised him, saved his whole life to fund. The insurance company pulls a fast one and will not pay due to a technicality. John takes matters into his own hands and finds a way to beat the crooked insurance company at their own game. He will discover a way to die happy by faking his own death and making off with the cash.

• Solar (in development, drama)

  When a physicist from Stanford University in California discovers a way to harness solar energy in a viable form, more powerful than nuclear energy. He becomes the target of the oil companies and the Governments of the countries that rely on that oil. The physicist will seek the help of a rising democratic senator in Washington. But first, he will have to make his way across the country while being chased by hired assassins. With the help of his wife, a professor of English at Berkeley and former hippie, they will have to rely on their wits and her connections to a weather underground gone stall. Trust no one.

• Diablo (in development, action/horror)

  When a wagon train heading west in the 1860’s makes camp outside the small New Mexican town of Diablo, strange things start happening. As the foreman of the wagon train enters the town by day it is empty but when he returns at night it is thriving. Suddenly people and cattle begin dying. As the foreman discovers the town is overrun with Vampires. He barely escapes with his life but will be befriended and helped by an unlikely ally. Together the while take on the town and it’s unholy residents.

• Chameleon (in development, TV drama)

  When a Las Vegas hypnotist is conscripted into an FBI agency because of his skills he will discover a government program of mass hypnosis where he can pose as anyone in any situation. Everyone will see him as the person he is portrayed. But the more dangerous the person the higher the risk of discovery becomes.

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