When Adolf Hitler declares war on Europe’s avant-garde, a high-minded Berlin art student and jaded
Paris art dealer play a deadly game of bait-and-switch to save the life of a condemned Jewish artist.
Concept: Casablanca set in the world of high-stakes art.
What’s Available: A completed spec script.
Putumayo
Dark Dramedy-Adventure
In the wake of a mysterious fire that destroys her historic suburban home, an unadventurous accountant desperate to conceive a child follows her hunter husband to the wilds of guerilla-occupied Colombia.
Concept: Sleeping with the Enemy meets Viva Zapata!
What’s available: A completed spec script.
The Guru’s Mistress
Quirky Romantic Comedy
A deceptively malleable young girl adopted by a matriarchal religious sect and groomed as their “messiah” falls in love with the brooding young Indian who is her rival for the job.
Concept: Romeo and Juliet with Bollywood undertones set on a ‘60s ashram.
What’s Available: A completed spec script.
You, Fascinating You
Based on a True Story
An indomitable Jewish ballerina, banished from the stage by Mussolini, inspires a timeless love song only to fade from history without a trace.
Concept: A cross between The Red Shoes and Europa, Europa. Like the former it centers on an impossible love between a ballerina and a composer, and like the latter its tragic consequences leave a seven year-old boy alone on the streets of Europe at the height of the Second World War.
What’s Available: A completed novel and film treatment.
Hotel Noir
"Whydunnit"
When the controversial American author Francis Stein is stabbed to death on the remote island of St. Germaine, the search for his murderer takes islander Bat Manley north to the other half of Stein's double life, south to St. Germaine’svice-ridden slums, and finally into the realm of the psyche, where the blind see and the dead speak.
Concept: A tropical Grand Hotel as Hitchcock might have done it.
What’s Available: A completed novel and film treatment.
Between Two Deserts
Drama
Coming to Jerusalem to fulfill his wife’s dying wish, former Partisan Mozes Koenig finds his muse in poet Eve Cavell and together they create an opus to humanity in a city made of stone.
Concept: Life after Defiance.
What’s Available: A published novel (film, foreign and audio rights available).
The Abstract Life
Drama
A widowed French artist emotionally scarred by WWII follows the epicenter of the art world from Paris to NewYork City, remarries, and brings over his seven year old daughter. Foreseeing trouble ,the ghost of his first wife comes along.
Concept : Ghost Franco-American style set against the histrionic rise and fall of
Abstract Expressionism.
What's available: A partial manuscript and story synopsis.
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