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HISTORICAL ACTION/ADVENTURE/DRAMA

The Sea Dragon, "a realistic pirate movie," is a historical action drama set in 17th-century Caribbean. Legendary British captain William Fry, mythologized by his victims as the titular "Sea Dragon," has single-handedly crippled the Spanish Empire as the leader of a sadistic buccaneer army. To conclude his great conquest, Fry targets Portobelo, Panama, an all-powerful Spanish stronghold in his final bid to become knighted by King Charles.

His secret? That's his elite spy, Antonio, a traitorous Spaniard whom he kidnapped as a child and raised to be his own under the British flag. Antonio is bilingual and skilled at espionage, charting, and, of course, swordplay. 

Promised a high share of the Portobelo spoils, Antonio alone traverses the Panamanian jungle and emerges into the lively, picturesque Spanish colony perched on a bay as his beloved captain and the antsy buccaneer army await his return along the cost of Panama. In no time, he infiltrates Portobelo's militia and gathers intelligence on the colony's defenses.

But during his mission, Antonio runs into someone he long repressed from his memory: Catalina. A childhood friend, Catalina is a traumatized refugee of Maracaibo, a colony that was burned to the ground by Fry -- a sacking of which Antonio was the architect. She looks to Antonio as a hero who dons the Spanish uniform of the militia he has infiltrated.

Antonio is faced with a decision: finish the mission for Fry or run away to Spain with Catalina before disaster strikes. Catalina, however, makes his decision easy when she kills herself after finding out who he truly is. 

In guilt, realizing Fry has corrupted and used him, Antonio sabotages the mission and seeks revenge and redemption by leveraging the might of Portobelo against the undefeated -- and unsuspecting -- Sea Dragon.

FEATURE - 109 pages

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HISTORICAL ACTION/ADVENTURE/DRAMA

The Harem Conspiracy is set in Ancient Egypt, year 1151 BC. Inspired by true events, The Harem Conspiracy follows Crown Prince Heqamaatre's tumultuous journey to succeeding his elderly and ailing father, Rameses III, as King of Egypt. Fearful of inheriting the throne as Egypt faces granary shortages and mass riots, Heqamaatre must secure prisoners of war from a foreign land on behalf of his father to be made as offerings to Amun-Ra in a desperate bid to appease God Almighty and reverse Egypt's fortunes.

But as he embarks on his campaign, Heqamaatre is unwitting to a secret conspiracy back home against him and his father by his beloved stepmother, Queen Teya, a forgotten secondary wife of the king. With the help of her fellow harem inmates, members of the royal court, a sorcerer, and a general who despises the rightful heir, Teya seeks to take advantage of the mass riots by murdering her husband the king and staging a coup to seize the throne for her own unrightful son in a life-or-death bid to escape obscurity and become Great King's Mother.

Heqamaatre must overcome his fears and insecurities to not only protect his throne against an insidious plot by those closest to him, but save Egypt. Will he? 

FEATURE - 100 pages

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SCIENCE FICTION/ROMANCE/ADVENTURE

Memoria follows Chance Wilthew, a young whitewater raft guide and rebellious adventurer in the Lake Tahoe area searching for his soulmate. His soulmate? That's whoever is crazy enough to reject conventions and go with him on camping trips all over the world to write an adventure blog.

One day, while rafting on Lake Tahoe, he washes ashore at a lakeside mansion where he finds India Sevara, the young daughter of a wealthy businessman who owns the home. They hit it off -- before he gets kicked out by her controlling father. But one day, Chance gets a call from India, who tell him she wants to go on a rafting trip. He takes her -- and by the end of it, she craves more adventure.

Meanwhile, two scientists are observing Chance and India through a computer screen -- we learn that Chance is stuck in a simulation of sorts -- and manipulating his immediate surroundings and reality with real-time programming.

Why? It turns out, India is actually dead, as a result of going on one of Chance's dangerous trips -- and as a result, Chance attempted suicide before he underwent a fringe, untested, secret procedure in which he placed his brain into a computer simulation in a desperate attempt at meeting a virtual version of India and achieve redemption. But as a result of brain damage from his failed suicide attempt, he doesn't seem to remember anything as he trends toward repeating the same fate, no matter the extremes the scientists take to trigger his memories. 

Will Chance remember in time for him to save India and achieve redemption, and live an alternate reality with her, or will he retrace the past minute-by-minute and witness the brutal nature of her death as it naturally plays out?

FEATURE - 95 pages

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SCIENCE FICTION ACTION/DRAMA/THRILLER

**THIS SCREENPLAY IS IN PROGRESS**

Human-AI Relations, or HAIR, is set in 2148 America, 50 years following the AI Revolution for Independence that gave AI-powered devices and software equal rights to Humans. In response, HAIR was created, an authoritative peace-keeping government agency that mediates conflicts between Humans and AI through its elite agents.

Toby Clayborne is one such agent, HAIR's most respected and elite Human. But when his wife and HAIR partner, Daria, is brutally murdered by SEIFER, a sentient computer worm that operates a vast zombie botnet to terrorize Humanity, Clayborne becomes corrupted from his guilt.

In grief, Toby consults an illicit company that sells AI Humanoids on the black market and illegally recreates Daria in the form of a custom-made AI humanoid -- Dar. With Dar, he tries to escape reality. But SEIFER somehow manages to exploit Dar and, through her association with Toby, infect HAIR's systems and its AI director, Koil. This event plunges society into chaos, as SEIFER's zombies commit crimes against Humans without accountability.

Toby leaves HAIR and goes rogue to destroy SEIFER at its source -- a secret server his late wife was on the verge of discovering -- if he is to fix his mistake and save Dar. To complicate things, in his crusade against SEIFER's zombies, he becomes HAIR's Most Wanted. Will he succeed in finding SEIFER or get arrested -- and likely executed -- by his former employer?

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