Screenplays
THE SHOOTER (27 pages) - Comedy
An eight year-old on the road to nowhere turns his life around and becomes the third grade marbles champion.
2003 Telluride IndieFest - Winner
2008 American Gem Literary Festival - Finalist
2009 Vail Film Festival - Semifinalist
AIR AND SPACE (107 pages) - Action/Adventure
Die Hard meets McGuyver, but for kids. At the National Science Fair, a group of eighth-graders is trapped in the Air and Space Museum. When they discover bad guys and a bomb, they must work together, using their scientific knowledge to create weapons and prevent the theft of a secret exhibit and the destruction of the museum.
2008 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards - Bronze Prize Winner
2008 Final Draft’s Big Break Int’l Screenwriting Competition - Semifinalist
2008 Nicholl Fellowship - Quarterfinalist
MAGIC HOUR (114 pages) - Comedy
In order to make it through his first year teaching high school, former table tennis phenom Kevin Cole must find a way to survive his high-achieving students and their disconnected parents, his cliquish colleagues and the Catholic school administration, and a disastrous spring break field trip to visit his old boss in Hollywood.
2008 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards - Quarterfinalist
2008 American Screenwriters Association Competition - Quarterfinalist
ROMEO AND JOLIET (107 pages) - Romantic Comedy
A fast food customer service representative foils a bank robbery and inadvertently falls in love with the robber, a down-on-his-luck writer. With the help of his fellow prison inmates, and despite the objections of her obnoxious family, the two lovers find a way to be together.
HEALERS (115 pages) - Drama
A Bosnian refugee cancer researcher discovers that the Biotech company he works for is using human radiation research he was forced to perform as a prisoner in a Serbian death camp. He unites with a former victim to confront his past and expose the secret. Based on the Jorge Díaz stageplay, The Dark Gaze.
HIGHER ELEVATIONS (60 pages) One-Hour TV Pilot
Higher Elevations, Colorado. Once a goldmining town, it is nestled at the base of a world class ski area and now mines tourist green. The inhabitants of this mountain paradise range from the professional skier and snowboarder to the old-fashioned ski bum, from the throngs of tourists to the townies who serve them. With skiing, snowboarding, and avalanche rescue in the winter, and hang gliding, mountain biking, and BASE jumping in the summer. Higher Elevations explores the hardcore yet quirky attitude of a resort town, where getting “fresh trax” is the only thing that counts.