In Development

THE RAVEN
Writers - Hannah Shakespeare & Ben Livingston
Producers - Aaron Ryder;Endgame Films
A period thriller set around the mysterious death of Edgar Allen Poe in 1849.

VANISHING ON SEVENTH STREET
Writer - Anthony Jaswinski
Producers - Plum Pictures
When everyone around them starts inexplicably disappearing five survivors must grapple with the meaning of existence itself.

MANNERS OF MADNESS
Writer - Nealy Glenn
Producers - Vox3 Films
The story of Lily, a free-spirited and visionary young artist who struggles against the restraints of a puritanical 1890’s New England community. Lily has a rich inner imaginative life that will boldly come to life on screen, leaving us to wonder where her imagination ends and real life begins. The delicate and compelling romance with Thomas propels Lily to choose the life she would like to live and abandon the path of ruin that took her mother from her.

CONFESSIONS OF A MEMORY EATER
Writer - John Brownlow
Based on book by Pagan Kennedy
Producers - Contra Films
Once a brilliant historian with a promising academic future, Win Duncan is at a crossroads in his career when he is mysteriously summoned by Litminov, a wild but brilliant chemist from his college days. Litminov has made millions since, and has bought a pharmaceutical company solely to develop MEM, an experimental drug that gives one the ability to recall life's best memories with crystal clarity. Duncan becomes a beta tester and loses himself to the most delicious moments of his past-those precious few years with his mother who died tragically when he was just a child; ecstatic sex with his wife when they first fell in love-until he discovers the dark side effects of a drug that turns the past into pornography and renders the present useless.

NON STOP TO BRAZIL
Writers - Brad Anderson, Lyn Vaus
Producers - Mitchell Robbins, Susan Welsh
A lush musical romance set in Rio in the early 1960’s that traces the emergence and explosive popularity of bossa nova.

LUCID
Writer - Brad Anderson
Producer - Outlaw Entertainment
A woman begins to suspect her terrifying lucid dreams are actually giving her window into a killer’s mind.

STOP TIME
Writer - Will Conroy
Producer - Mike Mailer
First published in 1969, STOP TIME was immediately recognized as a masterpiece of modern American autobiography. Frank Conroy's was a life of rootlessness, occasional random (and inexplicable) violence and long stretches of boredom. Mental illness and instability seemed never to be far from his doorstep. Yet his success in overcoming these obstacles to determine his own destiny makes his a story of courageous self realization and hope.

WIDOWS WALK
Writer - Will Conroy
Producer - Brad Anderson
While settling her deceased father’s affairs, Manhattan journalist Meghan Moore discovers a strange poem among his papers. It’s a love poem, but its urgent, passionate tone is utterly uncharacteristic of the author, Edward Moore. Meghan’s father, after all, was a staid Yale physicist not given to romantic elocution, even toward his own wife. He was, like his daughter, a tough-minded intellectual.
But this poem is curious, and Meghan senses the words were indeed her father’s and were not meant for her mother. She’s unsettled, and her discomfort is made worse when, tucked in a seashell along with the poem, she finds an old ferry ticket to Nantucket Island and a blurred, black and white photograph of a woman on a beach.
Meghan believes she knew her father well, and in many ways her personal sense of well-being depends on that belief and on the “unspoken understanding” that she and her father always shared. Now, alone, smoking a cigarette and adding tequila to her dinner of scrambled eggs, she can’t quell the troubling notion that her father may have lived a double life.
So she takes a week off and heads out to the island on the slim chance she’ll find this woman (and perhaps a few answers) based solely on the poem and the creased, eleven-year-old snapshot. Nantucket in January is nearly deserted - gray and windswept. She checks into a semi-closed B&B and learns that the woman in her father’s picture is Liz Beaumont, a notorious missing persons case who vanished from a local beach eleven winters ago. The woman left her shoes neatly in the sand and (evidently) walked into the freezing ocean, although no one actually saw her drown and no body was ever found.
Quickly then, against a steel gray seascape, Meghan stirs up the town’s implacable police chief, its secretive real estate agent, the elderly witness, an amorous bartender, and also something harder to define - something quietly disturbing to Meghan - the echoes of a woman who has long since died.
As clues add up and Meghan’s faith in her father slips away, she’s drawn to an isolated, seaside plot of land where she literally digs up the past to find the truth. Is her father guilty of much more than just an affair?
Desperate, fighting the frozen surface and the tempest of her own imagination, Meghan Moore stabs relentlessly at the ground...
... that is, until the blade of her shovel hits something hard.