I have two projects submitted the Sundance Screenwriter's Lab (last year I came fairly close to getting in with Many Blessings). Both are collaborations:
1. To Hell with Heaven is a WWII flick based on the life of Gunny Sgt. Johnny Basilone. He's a Marine icon. Surprised there has neve been a bio pic. This isn't really a bio ic, and is only looselyt based on him. This one is with Sean, a hopeful producer in L.A.
2. Antarctica. This one is set in a science station in the South Pole, a charcter dramedy about how these folks deal with Winter months, trapped inside the station, losing their minds. This one is with Will, the lead actor in The Watermelon.
I don't normally collaborate with men on writing projects -- or anyone really. But making movies is such an acoss-the-board collaborative medium. The only person I've co-written screenplays with is Liv Kellgren, but that's no more.
I have two short screenplays over at Duke City Shootout, "Valerie" and "Asa and Andi." "Valerie" is a one-woman movie, where the camera is the POV of the man she has a two year relationship with. In a matter of ten-twelve minutes, we see various scenes, from first date, second date, first fuck, living together, pregnancy, miscarriage, jealousy, fights, breaking up, and having coffee together years later, when POV is engaged to another woman and Valerie has gone through some tragic events, always wondering what her life would have been like had she not broken up with this guy. "Asa and Andi" is about two friends in the 30s who decide to have a baby because they are getting older and their bio-clocks are ticking...now, this little script is supposedly to be made by a fellow in L.A., there has been a lot of back and forth and rewriting and discussion about shooting it on 35 mm film, but nothing has happened yet, so I am showing the script around again...
I don't have any plans to write any more screenplays than finishing the two mentioned above. I have enough screenplays written that I am trying to sell, place or produce.
I'm back to working on my books.
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