FEATURE FILM SCRIPTS
The Road to St Dolay
A young couple, moving to France, witness a ghostly execution from World War Two. They realise that the spirit world is manipulating their lives through the internet, to right a war-time injustice.
Walk don’t run
A man who discovers that his pension won’t stretch to pay his mortgage and that his wife can’t retire for another five years, decides to rob a bank. He ropes in his best friend, an ex-musician, who discovers that the code to open the door to the back of the bank uses musical tones; musical notes he is able to replicate to gain entrance.
The Third Eye
A South London detective is hired to unmask the writer behind a book supposedly revealing the secrets of Tibetan Buddhism. He trails two possibilities through a maze of mysticism until he discovers the fraudulent author, born in England, appears to be possessed by the memories and character of a Tibetan who died 15 years before.
An excerpt from the film was read at Rociffe.
The Persistence of Emptiness Awaiting an Image
A circus dancer makes a Faustian pact with Salvador Dali. In return for him watching her having sex with a man she despises, he will give her a blank canvas, signed by him. He tells her that anything she paints on this canvas will be a masterpiece. All she must to do is put brush to canvas…
The Black Godiva
A film for children.
“No man in the village ever died in combat, nor did a woman in the pains of childbirth in any year the Black Godiva be invoked.”
Three children learn of a Warwickshire legend and set out to summon the Black Godiva to save lives of people in their village. Their rival in the hunt to locate the secret of the rite intends to use the Black Godiva to resurrect Hitler.
“… is an intriguing tale of witchcraft and Nazis set in the post-war rural British countryside.”
“… demonstrate a writer with a strong facility for creating complex, enjoyable narratives.”
(Excerpt from BBC reader’s report)
SHORT FILM SCRIPTS
Is she really going out with him?
Tony decides that the only way to impress his mates is by creating an imaginary girlfriend around a photograph he has found. It is all going so well until she arrives in the flesh. And for a moment Tony wonders if she is really going out with him.
Slated for production August 2016.
The Surveyor
A young couple await the house surveyor but are unprepared for hum surveying them to see If they are compatible.
I have written several other short film scripts. Please contact me if you are interested in a short film script but the above don’t appeal.
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