Santorello's Pig

Semi-Finalist, Illinois/Chicago Screenwriting Competition

Official Selection, Film Bureau 606

GENRE:  Romantic Comedy

LOG LINE:  A radio relationship counselor finds her love life complicated when she becomes a pawn between her general manager and an on-air caller.

 

When Mara Went Shopping

Finalist, Illinois/Chicago Screenwriting Competition

GENRE:  Romantic Comedy

LOG LINE:  An about-to-be married TV news reporter and her cameraman find something quite unexpected when they are held hostage by a reclusive and unwilling story subject.

 

 

White City Blues

GENRE:  Period (1945) drama

LOG LINE:  Three Italian-American women and a young boy living in upstate New York face a difficult readjustment to peace following the end of the Second World War.

 

 

The History of Her Future

GENRE:  Historical Dark Comedy

LOG LINE:  An examination of the life of Lizzie Borden from her death in 1927 backward to the murder of her parents in 1892.

 

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Hope's Dash

Recipient, IAC Finalist Award

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GENRE:  Romantic Comedy

LOG LINE:  On the day that Lyndon Johnson nullifies the marriage deferment for Vietnam service, a young couple having problems discover they have nine hours to get married.

 

 

Rosie and the Fine Art of Politics

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GENRE:  Romantic Comedy

LOG LINE:  A corrupt Chicago alderwoman finds her career and love life turned upside down when her hastily scrawled poem reveals an unsuspected and inconvenient streak of sensitivity.

 

 

Johnny and the Fine Art of Killing

GENRE:  Romantic Comedy

LOG LINE:  A mob enforcer and the daughter of a rival family’s boss find common ground while both are hiding out at an artists’ retreat.

 

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Digging Up Henry

GENRE:  Comedy/Drama

LOG LINE: Setting out to prove that a long-dead physicist was unjustly labeled a ‘security risk’ during the anti-Communist witch hunt, a young graduate student finds herself torn between her live-in boyfriend and her internet lover.

 

 

Loop’d

GENRE:  Romantic Comedy

LOG LINE:  The fates of a disparate group of romance seekers intersect and collide during one fateful twenty-four hour period in Chicago’s Loop.

 

 

Impossible Dreams from the North Side

GENRE:  Romantic Comedy

LOG LINE:  The dreams of a group of baseball fans slam into reality during an ill-fated Chicago Cubs playoff series.

 

 

Paulina, Melvina and Lunt

(aka Midterm Breaks)

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GENRE:  Romantic Comedy

LOG LINE:  Three couples at the University of Chicago must come to grips with sex, tenure and a possible murder over the Thanksgiving break.

 

 

The Man Who Took the Umbrella

GENRE:  Dark Comedy/Thriller (a seven-episode limited series)

LOG LINE:  A movie extra, victim of the 1950’s anti-Communist witch hunts, finds that he is trapped on an endless studio backlot from which there is no escape.

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The Other Side of Normal

GENRE:  Comedy

LOG LINE:  An eccentric media mogul commits suicide and leaves $687,000,000 to a small Illinois town creating a mad dash by family members and associates  determined to get the money for themselves.

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The Italian Lesson

GENRE:  Romantic Comedy

LOG LINE:  Charlie D'Agostino, a judgmental restauranteur, must fly to Assisi, Italy to fulfill a provision in his late father's will, a bequest that will have him come face to face with the old man's best kept secret.

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Fast Dissolve

GENRE:  Coming of Age Comedy

LOG LINE:  In 1903, a young man with dreams of the future partners with an ex-cowboy trapped in  the past to barnstorm the country with an illegal movie camera.