ORIGINAL FULL FEATURES COMPLETED
(available for option or outright purchase)
Colony Mars: The Dahlgrin Dilemma, The Soul Eaters, Skin Eater, The Bus to Lo Siento, Maureen Tries Online Dating
(see pitches and/or contest critiques and/or synopses below)
ORIGINAL FULL FEATURES BEING WRITTEN
Colony Mars: Tourist Season, Off the 'Skids, Maureen Joins 'Hood Watch
(a third feature in the Colony Mars series is planned)
(see story concepts below)
FULL FEATURES BEING ADAPTED FROM SHERRILL WARK'S NOVELS
Graven Images, Vivie Goes to Hell in a Hatchback, Refuge in l'Acadie: a Kesk8a story
(see "Sherrill" page for details and links)
ORIGINAL 10-MINUTE SHORTS FROM CHRISTINA CROWE'S BOOK, THE UNKINDEST CUT
(available for option or outright purchase)
(these were written to practice screenwriting so some might only work using animation, or extremely expensive SFX)
(Christina Crowe is Sherrill Wark's pseudonym)
(see "as Christina Crowe" page for details and links)
SHORTS BEING ADAPTED FROM CHRISTINA CROWE'S STORIES IN A GIRL DOG'S BREAKFAST
(see "as Christina Crowe" page for details and links)
AND MORE TO COME! SHERRILL'S MUSE WON'T SHUT UP. EVER.
Colony Mars: The Dahlgrin Dilemma
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YA SciFi
A boy discovers the dark secret of the cruel overlord of Colony Mars, but no one believes that the overlord is trying to silence him. Permanently.
The 2018 PAGE Awards
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A man attempts to deal with the atrocities committed by him and to him as a child soldier in the 1980s Guatemalan Civil War all the while being pursued by a powerful figure who wants him dead.
No contest comments, so the synopsis instead . . .
Synopsis
Guatemala 1983, 18-year-old MIGUEL REYES is forced to torture Maya captive. “… blood splatters onto a scar on his right cheek.”
Flashback: Miguel (9), his violent MOTHER beats him for not doing the dishes properly, slashes him with a flyswatter which scars his cheek. “Men don’t cry,” she says.
ARTURO removes the gun from Miguel’s temple. “Good boy.”
The MPs pass a brothel where Arturo hands Miguel money. “… a fuck makes the world go away, man.” Young JUAN: “Why does he get a free whore?” Arturo: “Tomorrow I’ll help you kill your first Communist. Then we’ll see about a whore for you, too.”
Flashback: At 15, Miguel is taken at gunpoint by the Military (ELPIDIO) from his home with other boys. ADAN: “What did you do to get into this shit?” Miguel: “I knocked up the daughter of Regulo Fortun.”
Miguel marries SAYRA “a bitch like his mother.” While he is leading a special patrol of very young MPs one night, he rapes—reluctantly—12-year-old PAOLA with a scar like his. He feels very bad. Back home, his wife loses their baby.
Miguel has sex with many women. One is Arturo’s homely sister. She accuses him (wrongly) of having done something inappropriate to her 12-year-old daughter. (REGULO sees this exchange of accusations.) Miguel escapes by bus to Canada but leaves his wife and son behind. Wife is over protective, twists son ALVARO into something nasty.
Miguel has menial jobs until he becomes a male stripper. Wife and son arrive. She makes him quit so he’s back to merry-go-round of menial jobs again. Alvaro still sleeps with his mother.
Alvaro buys a gun, urges Sayra to shoot Miguel “where he deserves it” but accidentally, Alvaro shoots his mother to death and shoots Miguel’s genitals. Jail for Alvaro.
Miguel goes to live with sister in Chicago, but Regulo and Arturo track him down there so he goes back to Ottawa and meets not-too-bright DARLENE and 12-year-old ASHLEY. Flashback to his sisters and The Kiss Monster. Darlene accuses him of sexually abusing Ashley. He escapes the Law by going back to Guatemala.
Here, through a dating site, he meets Paola again (now a wealthy author and psychiatrist). In his motel room, she takes a pistol from her purse. He remembers her by her scar. She tells him her “most embarrassing failure” is Regulo who is the one who gave her the gun, that Regulo was watching when Miguel and his “boys” raped her and killed her friend, Maria.
She tells Miguel that she has set it up for Regulo to get blamed for their “murders.”
Miguel reaches for his computer. She suggests he make a choice.
Miguel and Paola run off together… on a city bus.
Soul Eaters
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Supernatural Thriller with Martial Arts
The 2017 PAGE Awards
Colony Mars: Tourist Season
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YA, SciFi, Action Adventure
(a sequel to Colony Mars: The Dahlgrin Dilemma)
Maureen Joins 'Hood Watch
(a sequel to Maureen Tries Online Dating)
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Senior, Thriller, Horror
It’s all fun and games until retired ED nurse Maureen
finds out, while volunteering undercover, that there’s
a lot more going on at that strange new
women’s shelter than just organ transplants
and transgender surgeries for illegals. Lots more.
Off the 'Skids
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Horror
Skin Eater
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Thriller
A teenage troublemaker learns what racism really is when he stumbles upon the lair of a serial killer.
(No contest comments except to say I had way too many characters and my protagonist wasn't protagonisting enough. I ripped my original draft to shreds as
I addressed these issues.)
So the synopsis instead . . .
Synopsis
It’s Halloween in Shaw Falls.
At the high school, Swartzie performs his regular harassment of Greg about his ethnicity. Swartzie thinks it’s funny; he’s a wannabe comedian. He teases Greg about Charlie’s girlfriend, Lacey. This enrages Charlie, especially when he overhears Lacey and Greg plan to meet later.
Neena, Police Officer Fred’s wife, prepares for a date with fellow teacher, Raglan.
Two families, one Asian, one Aboriginal, get their children ready to go out for Halloween while a teenage black girl meets her white boyfriend in Lovers Lane. Here, a figure in coveralls smashes in their heads and chops off her arm and takes it away.
A clown in a car blows bubbles on one Asian boy, Timmy, and on the Aboriginal kids as their father, Gerry, watches, unsus- pecting. Gerry hugs his kids as they head home.
Lacey tells Greg she is pregnant by Charlie. Charlie has followed them.
In the cabin in the bush near his main house, Raglan hides his clown suit then chops up Zena’s severed arm and feeds it to something hiding in the shavings of a terrarium.
Timmy, the Asian kid, is brought to the hospital with a life-threatening skin rash. Timmy’s father, who was tickling Timmy earlier, is also affected as are Gerry and his children. They learn that the deadly skin disease is a genetically modified mite that attacks the melanin in the skin. Gerry and the children are cured.
Swartzie discovers Lacey, dead, and Greg, with a severe head wound. Fred warns Swartzie to stay away from lovers’ lanes in the area so Swartzie seeks a new place and discovers Raglan’s laboratory. Swartzie gets locked in.
Neena and Raglan fight.
Back home, Neena’s good-for-nothing brother-in-law, Barry, announces he owes some bad people big money. He tells her they have been following her to Raglan’s place and know about Raglan’s laboratory. Neena heads out and releases Swartzie.
Swartzie overhears Raglan convince a nurse to pour a vial of “crabs” onto an Indian doctor at the hospital as a joke. Raglan has three other vials in his shirt pocket. With only enough change for a single call, Swartzie heads for a phone booth to call the hospital to warn the doctor.
While trying to warn the doctor, Swartzie is attacked by Raglan. Swartzie gets away into the local tanning salon, the one that’s closed because of a faulty tanning booth. While chasing Swartzie, Raglan gets locked into the room with the faulty booth. The lights come on. Raglan falls, breaking the vials and contaminating his darkening skin.
Swartzie rushes to the hospital to save the doctor from being splashed with the mites.
Raglan is found dead.
Swartzie is accepted by fellow students and the town. He wins the Komedy Klub Finals to everyone’s delight.
Maureen Tries Online Dating
(adapted from the novel of the same name)
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Senior, Thriller, Horror
Retired ER nurse Maureen makes one stupid little decision about her latest online-dating-site prospect, and she ends up in a kettle of fish.
She knew there were tunnels under the city of Ottawa, but nobody knew there was an actual underground sea as well, way below the Ottawa River. A sea with a very different population of not only human settlers (recovered homeless addicts), but critters that had evolved entirely differently from Surface critters over billions of years.
Potty-mouthed Maureen eventually makes friends with the humans down at the Seaside and Topside levels — especially Xavier, a Vodou Master, a very handsome Vodou Master — all seniors, but she also makes friends with a hilarious and extremely intelligent octopus named Don (PoseiDON), who signs and translates for pretty much everybody. He’s got connections.
Together, they manage to prevent Surface humans from destroying their world, and keep the very dangerous Termants, who run things down there,
in an all-important good mood.
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