FACULTY SELECTS
Child Song
Written By: Melina León and Michael White
At the height of the Shining Path's grip on 1980's Perú, a terror-beat journalist forgoes front page headlines to investigate a peasant child's disappearance.
mcl2106@columbia.edu
917-291-1775
A Day in March
Written By: Roberto Bentivegna
A DAY IN MARCH tells the true story of Ettore Majorana, widely considered one of the geniuses of modern science. Majorana contributed to the research that would eventually lead to the creation of the Atomic Bomb. Ridden by guilt, and anguished by the pressures of Mussolini's Italy, Majorana took the most drastic step of all: he faked his own death. The screenplay recounts his life leading up to his disappearance, and then branches out into 3 different scenarios of the lives he might have led after disappearing. The story is framed by journalist Bruno Conti's assignment, 15 years after Majorana's "death", to finally put an end to speculation and solve the Majorana case.
rbentivegna@gmail.com
617-331-6441
Hitting Close to Home
Written By: Dwayne Wilson
Jamal, a rebellious adolescent, video tapes a shooting behind a vacant warehouse. Confident that no one saw him, Jamal puts the video footage on YouTube. Jamal faces harsh realities when the identity of the shooter is revealed and the assailant confronts him.
dw2170@columbia.edu
212-835-0455, 917-406-9250
Jealous
Written By: Kate Kirtz
When the feud between slackerly cleaning lady Anne and her pickiest client Grace spins out of control Anne's B-movie style revenge irrevocably changes both women's lives - for the better.
dkkirtz@gmail.com
718-915-1559
No Way Home
Written By: Jonathan Mason
In a small town outside of Paris, Paul and Oliver are doing their best to keep up with the pressures of adolecense. But when unfortunate events cause things to get way out of hand, it's the end of an era of games, girls, and mischief.
jonathan@belladonna.bz
917-698-9697
Out of Breath
Written By:Ken Kristensen and Colin Marshall
When his wife dies, Magik finds rebirth in a romance with Helen--and only her husband is in the way. Estranged brothers, Trevor and Cal, fight their way toward common ground as they search for their ailing runaway father. Pedro, an illegal immigrant with a gambling addiction, has a mysterious benefactor who lets him cash in on the deaths of strangers. Three interwoven tales of the inevitable.
KenKristensen@gmail.com, cmarshall@HyperactivePictures.com
646-418-6788, 323-459-1748
FACULTY HONORS
The Buddy Grim Show
Written By:Scott Webster
Buddy Grim, a former-horror-movie-director-turned-sell-out-sitcom-producer in the beginning of the 1950s, is fired, run out of the business, and demonized by the League of Decency for being the first to show a pregnant woman on television. With the help of a troupe of circus performers and some actors he used to work with in horror movies, he fights back against the censorship of the day by producing a wild, transgressive version of his squeaky-clean family show and sneaking it onto the airwaves during its usual prime-time slot.
sdw2106@columbia.edu
917-445-6122
The Man Who Won the War
Written By: Matt Bird
A true story. Shy, gay, mathematician Alan Turing dreams of imaginary computers in the 1930s at
Cambridge, then has to prove his theories at a secret government installation during World War II, inventing
machines that break the Nazi codes. After the war, his work is covered up and then he faces the ultimate
betrayal by his own government.
MattMBird@yahoo.com
646-265-4715
Shadow Puppets of Doom
Written By: Michael McLaughlin
When high-school physics teacher Sarah Wendt gets trapped teaching kindergarten at the fascistic B.F. Skinner Kindergarten for the Gifted, she turns to shadow puppets to calm her class out-of-control class. But when the shadow puppets come to life and start eating people, mayhem ensues with horrifying results!
michael@doginthemachine.com
646-245-8795
The Squid & the Robot
Written By: Andrew Sodroski & James Strzelinski
When a pre-teen giant squid falls in love with a deep-sea exploratory robot, he sets off on a journey of self-discovery--and swims into an ocean of adventure!
sodroski@gmail.com, jonestronic@gmail.com
Andrew–617-816-4948, James–347-701-8000
The Sun King of Eastbrook, Maine
Written By: Andrew Hiss
A former high school hockey star, who never found the courage to leave his tiny home town of Eastbrook, Maine, confronts past glories and current failures when an old flame comes home.
andyhiss17@yahoo.com
646-354-8487
Vacation
Written By: Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson based on the novel by Bragi Olafsson
Most people keep yearning for vacation - but then, there are those who don´t.
haddister@gmail.com
+1-917-207-9597, +354-843-9138
BEST TELEPLAY
"Positive Assassinations"
Written By: Ashley Lyle
When Jack discovers he's being tailed, he calls on Liz for help. With a hit out on her boss, can Liz find her edge? Meanwhile, Tracy insists on a kinder, gentler Girlie Show and Jenna learns about passion, hostility, and hippopotami.
ashlyle@hotmail.com
732-233-8076
