Heart Full Of Blues

Second Rounder in Austin Film Festival.

Heart Full of Blues

Austin Film Festival -Second Round

The story of Blues legend Memphis Minnie is one of endurance, resilience, and determination. I wrote the script based on her life and her will to succeed despite encountering several setbacks by simply being who she was:


A talented female African American musician.


Minnie was appreciated by her audiences, but her greatest legacy is the music she created and inadvertently left behind for future musicians which would record her music many decades later, some of them becoming mega-stars in their own right, such as Led Zeppelin who recorded her song When the Levee Breaks.


I'm very thankful that her story made it so far in AFF. Out of 12,000 scripts, Heart Full of Blues made it through an ocean's worth of other stories without losing any breath.


This is the second major recognition from a notable and highly competitive screenplay competition. Heart Full Of Blues also placed as a Quarterfinalist in the Page Awards in Los Angeles which typically has 7,000 screenplays entered.



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"Soaked" is a feature length dark comedy screenplay about Stephen Muddle. A middle-aged man who is recently divorced and has an extreme run of bad luck and horrible circumstances that lead him into unfortunate encounters with people from all walks of life, but when it all finally seems to be concluding and Stephen's cursed life is given the hope of justification, one final blow seems to appear on the horizon as he lays in a hospital bed after recuperating from his long bout with a demonic fate.

​Soaked previously earned a nomination as a Finalist at the prestigious Moondance International Film Festival as well as achieving recognition in several other competitions in the U.S. and London.
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"Finding Amelia" is a feature length script that gives a unique perspective into Amelia Earhart's disappearance.

The script has earned recognition around the world for it's blended story telling that mixes a personal narrative within a colorfully intertwined fictional tale, and gives the audience an experience of Amelia's life before and after her disappearance from the public eye. Amelia Earhart's life was far from ordinary, but it's because she was such an extraordinary person. The script reflects the aspects of Amelia Earhart's personality and gives a thoughtful suggestion that maybe she had planned something to escape the life she struggled with as a celebrity, and, as well as a person with a debilitating illness. 

The short story is adapted from the script which uses key aspects of the script in a much more condensed version.
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​What happens when a retired porn star, a trust fund brat, a yuppy and a hardcore hippy chick meet? They become best friends and travel together along the California and Oregon coastline. They refer to themselves as "Surf Nachos" because they are cheesy and spicy, but always stick together.

It's not something they eat; it's something they are.

Surf Nachos.
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Barbie is a bad Girl.
She's had enough of being the epitome of perfection and although "she's the perfect girl living in the perfect world" Barbie is tired of it. This short story is about Barbie's plan to kidnap Ken by recruiting G.I. Joe to help her (okay, blackmail) Ken into stealing the original plans & mold from which Barbie was designed. She wants to destroy the mold, and force Ken to create something new so that current and future generations of young women will have a more realistic standard to live with.

This story is very tongue in cheek, and features some adult situations that  tease and hopefully make the reader laugh. There is an element of sister rivalry in this twisted, dirty little tale of revenge: Barbie's sister Skipper appears, and Barbie's true feelings about her sister are revealed.

 


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"New American Western" Is the winner in The Western Category for the 2019 I.P.A (Independent Press Award) in New York. 

Sit back and poke at the fire while these cowboys and miners re-tell their stories of cagey women, crazy situations, and tricky encounters with all of the characters of the Old West that made it what it was: Wild.

New American Western is the new frontier in Western story telling, and creates its own standard with stories that are woven with a personal perspective. It's not about women needing to be rescued, or damsels falling in love with their Indian captors. The women in the New American stories don't need help ,but they do need to be approached with apprehension.

The women are dangerous, and the men that were fortunate enough to live another day have a few stories tell.

                                                            Drinking, fighting and dancing. It's all in here.

                                                            Ride safe cowboy.





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"Carried Away" is in the Top 5 in the category of Christian Romance, and it's also the third most downloaded book in Fiction (Young Adult/Teen-Chic-Lit), so it has gained appeal in two different categories which isn't an easy task for any story.

The short summary for "Carried Away":

Every rebel has a cause, and Carrie's is to escape her strict religious upbringing. She runs away after her eighteenth birthday to chase her dream of being a famous actress, but she eventually learns that her dreams collide with reality and she's left with only one decision: to return to the life she ran away from.

Click ont the cover to be taken directly to the story.


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The Award winning script landed in the Top Ten in Australia's well respected Colortape International Film festival. The script, which is featured on page six in the magazine highlights the components of the script which has made it so popular and unique.

Colortape magazine is distributed to filmmakers in Australia as well as Internationally which is invaluable to increasing the script's presence and ability to draw attention to one of the greatest and intriguing aviation mysteries that continues to capture peoples interest  around the world.

Click on the following link to read about the script:

www.colortapeinternational.com/magazine.pdf
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"Tumbleweeds" was selected by the editors of Frontier Tales Magazine which features only the best Western authors.

They are very selective about what they publish and have very strict submission guidelines. "Tumbleweeds" is part of the New American Western collection of short stories that often feature women as the lead character. This particular story is about a woman that catches the attention of a cowboy, but she isn't very receptive and has ignored every single man that has approached her in the wild and loud saloon they're in. The cowboy walks outside to think about what's going on with this solitary woman. It's not to long after that when he faces temptation from the very woman that didn't seem the least bit interested in anyone. This is the second time a story from "New American  Western" has been chosen to be  in a magazine that features Western authors. The first story was "No.3" which was featured in The Bullpen section on Rope and Wire.com

links are provided for the two stories:

"Tumbleweeds": www.frontiertales.com/2017/03Mar/tumbleweeds.php

"No.3":
www.ropeandwire.com/western-short-story-no-3.html


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The feature length script "Finding Amelia" won for best Un-Produced script in Madrid and was featured in an article in Film Magazine (Page 22-click on the image on Left) The script has earned recognition in Europe, Australia, South America and the U.S.

The script placed in the Top 10 in Australia's prestigious Colortape International Film Festival, and will be in Australia's Film Magazine for Filmmakers which will be published in September 2018.
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A comedy about a husband and wife (Herb and Angela) that go out for dinner, but when the doldrums of marriage seep in and Angela begins to daydream about an Astronaut that passes by them in his exotic space car, she sees what her life may have been like compared to the one she has with Herb.  This is the second nomination for this script. "You'd Prefer An Astronaut also was a Semi-Finalist at the Los Angeles CineFest in 2017