Good Luck With That
1/2 Hour Dramedy Series
Status: Script & Treatment
Logline: A woman who owns a taxi service “by women for women” because of her crippling fear of men makes a promise to her sister to be her bridesmaid in one year, now she has twelve months to conquer her phobia and join the other half of the world.
Synopsis: Phoebe and her boy crazy sister, Emmalina, fly to Europe to sell an apartment they inherited from a rich aunt. After the sale, the plan was to enjoy a once-in-a-lifetime European vacation, but their trip is sidelined when Phoebe gets mugged. The attack reactivates a childhood trauma that triggers a devastating case of androphobia (fear of men).
Leaving the safety of their Aunt’s apartment becomes impossible for Phoebe. Weeks turn to months and months to years and while Emmalina is on a quest to leave no man untried, Phoebe is doing her damndest to avoid them. Since they live together, Phoebe is constantly confronted by her sister’s conquests to terrifying effect. Other than her sister’s paramours, Phoebe has honed her avoidance tactics to a T. She owns “Ladybug Taxies: A Taxi Service by Women for Women,” and is one of Amazon’s best customers.
But when Emmalina finally falls in love and gets engaged she makes Phoebe promise to be her maid of honor at her wedding in twelve months. Now Phoebe has exactly one year to conquer her fear and get her life truly under control.
She’ll attempt to do this with exposure therapy – literally exposing herself to ever-increasing amounts to what terrifies her most. On her journey, she’ll have the support of Emmalina and a band of good-hearted misfits: her best friend, Dani, a lesbian who also happens to be one of her drivers, and later, Scarlett/Mika a very feminine drag queen who takes Phoebe under her wing and turns her on to the power of drag. We’ll also travel back in time to discover what triggered her androphobia, and how she dealt with it in the beginning.
Sub Rosa
Feature Film/Drama
Status: Script
Logline: After losing her favorite son, a grieving mother struggles to reconnect with her surviving son when she befriends an enigmatic gardener with a dark secret who will put her loyalties to the ultimate test.
Synopsis: Two years after her favorite son is killed in a surfing accident, Nora is a mother still immobilized by grief. Her life is in shambles. Her husband has moved out and moved on. She is incapable of working, and she’s unable to help her surviving son, Jake, who suspects that she wishes he had died instead of his brother, cope with the tragedy.
One night, while looking for Jake, Nora is assaulted by a group of young men. The attack serves as a brutal wake-up call. If she wants to salvage what remains of her family she must do something. Her hopes become tied to their neglected garden, which had been the center of her family’s life before tragedy struck. The plan is to have Jake work side by side with her to rebuild their garden and their lives, but he refuses.
Convinced that she will never get her life together until the garden is restored, Nora hires an enigmatic outsider to help. While the garden gradually returns to its original glory, Nora, too, begins to come back to life, and her strange friendship with the gardener flourishes. Slowly an unbearable dynamic develops between the trio. Until ultimately, Nora must make a choice that could shatter her family forever.
Entanglement
Feature Film/Drama
Status: Treatment
Logline: A woman in an induced coma awakens to discover her life the past few months has all been a drug-induced hallucination. The only thing real is her choice to live or let go.
Synopsis: A quantum physics professor takes a year-long sabbatical while she accompanies her husband to Berlin with plans to write her novel. Once in Berlin, a sudden acute illness coincides with young neighbors moving in across the park and her life takes an unexpected turn. She begins to have nightmares. Slowly images from her dreams invade her waking life as well. Her husband flourishes as her health declines. Confined to the apartment she spirals into an obsession with her young neighbors and both her health and her marriage suffer for it. At the same time, she begins to suspect everyone around her, including her husband, of somehow being involved in a plot to do her harm.