Angels
Genre(s): Mystery/Suspense/Thriller/Crime Drama, Crime Drama
Logline:
A psychologist who is helping the police to investigate the abduction of two children, finds herself connected to the victims in a way she couldn't have imagined.
Synopsis:
Katherine Ward is independent and determined. She's had to be to make it as a criminal psychologist in spite of a hearing disorder. But when the crisis she's trained for arrives, she's not prepared for the emotional toll or the physical danger.
In this case children are disappearing, and Katherine struggles desperately to discover the predator's pattern before another child is kidnapped. She faces indifference and even hostility from the police, especially Lt. Valerie Gill, a poker-faced cynic who has to prove her competence through contempt for Katherine's methods.
As the case unravels, so do Katherine's emotions. Childless herself and trying to adopt, she finds her personal passions merge with her work, especially when a startling link between the victims reveals a plot to exploit reproductive technology and leads back to her own family.
The predator will threaten her. The truth will overwhelm her.
Bio:
BRIAN WATSON is a screenwriter who has studied theatre and film in BC. He has written several feature length scripts and worked as a script coordinator. In the summer of 1999, Brian was granted a Professional Internship from British Columbia Film and interned in the story department of the Phil Savath/Susan Duligal CBC series These Arms Of Mine.
BRIAN WATSON, Writer
(604) 273-9962
Watson_lapres@hotmail.com
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Stealtown
Genre: Crime Drama
Logline: A road crew of poker hustlers head to Hamilton to take on a local gangster.
Synopsis: Jimmy, Dan, and Liz are poker hustlers who know that the only way to win is by cheating. They are a road crew. They work small town games, traveling across Ontario, cheating the locals during poker nights at the Legion Hall and Lion's Club conventions.
But something is eating at Liz. She's desperate to go back to her home town of Hamilton and settle a score. She drags Jimmy and Dan with her to take on Milan Bosic and his father, Vlad – an ex-Serbian army war criminal and smuggler. The three conspire to cheat Milan and Vlad out of $300,000. But when Jimmy gets involved with a teenaged prostitute and Dan's ability to manipulate the cards goes south, they face far more than they ever bargained for.
Author Info: WILLIAM ZMAK is a screenwriter living in Toronto. He has achieved quarter-finalist status in both the Nicholl fellowship and Chesterfield Writer's Film Project competitions. He is currently a resident in the Professional Screenwriting Programme at the Canadian Film Centre.
WILLIAM ZMAK, Writer
(416) 892-9468
wilzmak@funcow.com
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