The loglines for my WGA-registered scripts are below.

The Eulogist

Update: The Eulogist has been optioned.

The Eulogist was ranked in the top 30 scripts out of 5,050 in the 2007 Nicholl Fellowships at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It also placed in the top 10 of the 2008 American Zoetrope Screenwriting Competition. It received “best screenplay” honors at the 2008 San Fernando Valley International Film Festival.

Vintage

Adventure/Comedy
Bruno Tannenbaum is the James Bond of wine–if the James Bond of wine is an overweight, washed-up food critic who lives with his mother. But Bruno has one last shot at resurrecting his career: the secret to a famous vintage of wine stolen more than 60 years ago by the Nazis, if only he can get there before his rival critics and the Russian mafia. VINTAGE is a comedy-adventure for the Sideways crowd.

Vintage was a quarterfinalist in the 2008 Nicholl Fellowships and the 2008 American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition.

The Rainforest

Mystery/Thriller
A down-and-out logger struggling to rebuild his life is called in to help solve a brutal murder, but he finds that he might be the victim a conspiracy to cover up the secret of a hidden valley in the costal rainforest of Oregon.

Killing Crows

Independent Drama
The town of Harrison is too small for Jake’s imagination. He’s smart enough to pass any test without studying. He reads Whitman and Thoreau for fun. And he dreams of following his gorgeous cousin Charity to college as soon as they graduate. But when Jake’s grandfather dies leaving him with the family farm and a mountain of debt, his dreams begin to crumble. And when Charity is impregnated by his best friend, Jake’s world gets even more complicated. Killing Crows tells the story of love, loss and loyalty in a dying country town.

We’re shooting a short film entitled A Country Wedding, based on scenes from Killing Crows, in the summer of 2009.