Screenplays
A Treasure Within
168 Write of Passage 2024 - 2nd Place & Audience Favorite
Development Exec.: Kevyn Bashore
Based on the contest theme "Money: A Blessing or a Curse?" an engaged couple discovers the true value of life while searching with their impoverished grandmother for a lost treasure in her attic.
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Excerpt:
EXT. HOUSE - DAY
At the outskirts of city limits along a suburban side street, sits a white and gray 1940's two story house with a wrap around porch hidden behind overgrown bushes.
A lone rocking chair sits by the screened front door. Weeds sprout out of the cracks in the walkup, sidewalk, and along the crumbling driveway.
SYLVIE, 30's, wearing a bandana over her hair, exits the house carrying a large cardboard box labeled "Bedroom." She sets down the box and sits on the front steps to take in the fresh air.
Her fiancé, KYLE, 30's, dressed in khaki pants and an "Marines" tank top, exits the house carrying two glasses of lemonade. He hands a glass to Sylvie.
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SYLVIE (taking the glass)
Thanks, Babe. That's the last box from the back bedroom.
She wants it in the storage pod, but--
KYLE
Some things just aren't worth keeping?
Sylvie shrugs.
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SYLVIE
To her they are.
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In Her Time
168 Write of Passage 2023 - 5th Place
Development Exec.: Tela Kayne
Based on the contest theme "Time", after experiencing the seasons of her older sister's deteriorating disease, Ellie gives her a memory garden that reconnects them to the past when they protected each other.
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Excerpt:
OVER BLACK:
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SOFT MUSIC PLAYS.
ELLIE (V.O.)
Our granny used to say:
“You may not understand why things happen, but God has a purpose and a plan."
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THE MUSIC ABRUPTLY STOPS.
A MALE VOICE SHOUTS and GLASS CRASHES.
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ELLIE (V.O.)
What she didn’t tell us was what to do when we don’t understand God’s purpose and plan.
What Life is Like
168 Write of Passage 2011 Finalist
Development Exec.: Peter Forbes
Based on the contest theme "Promises" a first-year drama teacher is forced to make a tough decision when a student demands she keep a promise made to him by her deceased predecessor.
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Excerpt:
CHRISTIE (V.O.)
You know that famous line: Life is like a box of chocolates...?
A waiter brings her a cup of steaming tea.
CHRISTIE (V.O.) (CONT’D)
I prefer to think of life like tea. Some goes down sweet and smooth, and some stops you in your tracks, leaving a bitter aftertaste.
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