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Geraniums Are Red
Genre:
Drama, Romance
Logline:
Geraniums are Red is a love story on the wild side.
Synopsis:
A woman who leaves her “house on the hill” for an outlaw is usually seeking adventure. But it is not adventure that drives Anna Kerbey. It is the desire for understanding and acceptance. Her handsome husband gives her neither. But Jean Guy, the Cajun bank robber, does. Or is he a con man? Is it all a sham? How far will she go to protect a man bent on self destruction? How far will he go to prove his love is real?
Anna has struggled with marriage to Eddie, a man who pays attention to little other than his own personal pleasures, which include hunting, fishing, gambling and drinking. He does love her. He just doesn’t know how. Having a sickly child doesn’t help the situation. Eddie feels lost and angry. Anna feels lonely and betrayed. She finds solace in her work as a teacher and writer until a man sitting in a jail reads a story she has written and decides to contact her.
When Anna leaves her job and her husband to go on the run with her daughter and her new found love, she knows things will not be easy. Her lover is an escaped convict. She will live a life on the run. What she has not counted on is Jean Guy’s need to be chased, to be punished, to be living on the constant edge of danger.
Her love is put to the ultimate test when Jean Guy calls Kansas to see if he is still being hunted. His love is put to the ultimate test when he discovers she is permitting herself to be sexually abused to save his life.
Bio:
Carolyn Mamchur, professor, writer, consultant is author of twelve scripts, two children’s books, two books of poetry, four books and over thirty articles on education and psychology. A Jungian, she uses archetype to teach writers, directors and producers. Another screenplay, Sunnyside Canal, is optioned by Stuart Margolin. She works as creative consultant and story editor for Telefilm and CBC. Currently, she is completing her third trilogy of novellas, The Sun, the Moon, the Stars. You can see her complete CV on her web site www.educ.sfu.ca/mamchur/
CAROLYN MAMCHUR, Writer
(604) 736-4060 Fax
Agent: Shain Jaffe
Great North Artists Management
(416) 925-2051
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The Good Men
Genre: Political/Action/Thriller
Logline: In a race against time a decorated army officer, now a small town cop, desperately searches for the kidnapped son of a US Senator on board a passenger boat loaded with explosives. The same boat that carries his wife and son.
Synopsis: The son of presidential hopeful and US Senator WALTER CONROY, has been kidnapped and believed to be onboard one of the largest passenger boats in the Pacific Northwest on route to Seattle.
JACK WALSH is a decorated army officer, battling with the emotional aftermath of a tragic event in Afghanistan. He now serves on the police force in a small town on off the coast of Seattle. The events unfold on the day Jack’s marriage collapses. With seconds remaining, he leaps onboard the ship to begin the desperate hunt for the kidnappers before it reaches the mainland...the same ship his wife and son have just boarded.
Jacks’s ‘point man’ on land is Secret Service Agent FRANK SCOLLARD who narrows the search to two American war veterans. TRAVIS HALSEY, a Vietnam Veteran and DWAYNE RUCKETT, who served as an ‘interrogator’ in Iraq. In Halsey’s apartment, bomb making materials and the reasons behind the ‘mission’ are discovered. Jack is now in a race to save the Senator’s son, his own family and the lives of two thousand passengers.
As night falls, Jack’s wife, HELEN is seized as a hostage just before the boat docks. In a van loaded with explosives and the two hostages, Halsey leads Jack, the police and Secret Service to the
city centre.
Televised live, timed for prime time news, Halsey can now reveal his true plans.
Battling his own fears, Jack Walsh attempts to stop the shocking and tragic conclusion with repercussions far beyond the shattered war veteran’s lives and presidential aspirations.
CHRIS BRITTON, writer
604-714-0114
chris@chrisbritton.ca
Registered WGC/WGA
The Great One
Genre: comedy
Logline: A young journalist vies to win back his girlfriend while breaking the story of the century... in Edmonton.
Synopsis: On August 9, 1988, Wayne Gretzky announced he was leaving Edmonton to play for the Los Angeles Kings. The press conference is known, only half-jokingly, as “Canada’s JFK moment." The Great One is a magical-realist coming-of-age comedy that takes place on that fateful day. GUY (18) is an ineffectual hockey-atheist who works at a used record store. His long-time girlfriend ASHLEY (18), class valedictorian and students’ council president, is leaving for Massachusetts on a hockey scholarship. The couple had planned to mark their final day in Edmonton by sleeping together for the first time. When the Gretzky press conference spoils Ashley’s mood, her father’s career prospects, and the spirit of the city, Guy reacts selfishly and Ashley dumps him. Guy realizes, in the aftermath, that he must change. He plans a massive party to cheer up Edmonton — and, in the process, to convince Ashley he's more man than boy. Guy desperately enlists his friends to help. RICHARD (18) is a wild rich kid who vows to destroy the capitalist system, provided that his family’s Guatemalan maid can supply him with espressos and Yop yogurt beverages. BEATRICE (17) is Guy’s oldest friend, a painfully attractive and intelligent musical theatre geek who every boy wants but cannot have, primarily because she is about to out herself as a lesbian. WINSTON (18) is an African-American originally from Detroit. He is the most polite and diplomatic one among them, but he has suddenly become enraptured by SANDRA (18), a lusty figure skater raised in a fundamentalist religious colony on the city’s outskirts. Guy plays into sudden death overtime in order to transform the city and win back the girl. His world is full of circus freaks, bizarre musical numbers, a pathetic kidnapping attempt, teen sex, and WAYNE GRETZKY playing himself as, essentially, God. Every city loses its Gretzky and every boy becomes a man. In The Great One, it happens on one unforgettable day.
Bio: Todd Babiak has published three bestselling novels: Choke Hold, The Garneau Block and The Book of Stanley. Choke Hold was nominated for the Rogers/Writers Trust fiction prize and won the Henry Kreisel Award for best first book. The Garneau Block was nominated for the Georges Bugnet Award for best novel and for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. The Book of Stanley was nominated for the Georges Bugnet Award and is in development as a television series. Todd is working on several television projects, including “The Dump” - which is set at, well, a dump. He is working on a play called The Minister of Energy. His fourth novel, Toby: A Man, was published by HarperCollins in January, 2010. Todd is an award-winning journalist, working for many years as a columnist at the Edmonton Journal. He is currently based in France.
Jason Margolis is a former Praxis Story Editor Intern and his script Beside Herself was developed through a fellowship from Praxis and IATSE 891. His screenwriting credits include the Global documentary Inside Boystown, the Directors Guild Of Canada KickStart-winning short film After Shock, and the feature film Lucky Stars. In 2009, he won the National Screen Institute’s Totally Television award for his comedy series “Barrels & Spurs” and he previously co-created the series “Truth Be Known” for CanWest Global Television and Screen Siren Pictures. His recent directing credits include the series “Tube Tales: TV’s Real Stories” for CanWest Global and Force Four Entertainment, and the World War 2 documentary Ayaa: A Hero’s Journey for APTN and Monkey Ink Media. He has also written and directed several award-winning short films, and directed music videos for recording artists on Mint, Nettwerk, and White Whale Records. As an instructor, Jason has taught at Vancouver Film School and the Art Institute of Vancouver. He is currently supervising producer on the series The Electric Playground, seen on Citytv and ABC. Although he isn’t based in France, he does like to visit as often as possible.
Todd Babiak & Jason Margolis, writers
jason@jumpfilm.com
604.839.0811
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Green Gold Rush, The
Genre(s): Comedy
Logline:
A marijuana deal goes awry, ironically winning the participants a much higher price.
Synopsis:
Thirty-five year old Ross sees the pot business paving his way to an early retirement in the Caribbean. His brother Sonny intends to quit after one sale and open a tranquillity tank, The Floating Buddha Stress Reduction Centre. Ross has always dominated Sonny and so of course ridicules this plan (as he has all others).
Tina, who intends to purchase the pot, has been waiting tables and supporting her alcoholic mother. Fed up, she wants to quit work and return to school. Buying the sixteen pounds Ross has for sale and selling it to a cousin in San Francisco will make this possible.
The story takes place on the day of the deal. Comic chaos begins when Sonny's fiancée Sylvia discovers the pot and walks out. Ross and Sonny then go to Luther's to collect the pitbull that will ride shotgun on the dope. Having fronted them ten thousand dollars to set up their operation, Luther warns that failure to repay the money and return the dog means death.
Back on the road, Ross and Sonny start to argue and wreck the car. They lose Luther's pitbull and are pursued by four female thugs who spied the pot in the car. Tina, meanwhile, is forced to bring her mother inon the deal.
As the deal goes down, Sonny finally faces up to both Ross and the fact that Sylvia does not in fact love him. When Tina's mother sees the briefcase full of money, the two women, estranged since the father died, are forced to reconcile.
In the end, the pot is stolen but Tina and Ross have something going. She even offers to lend him the money to pay off Luther and grow another crop -- another Green Gold Rush.
Author Info:
GRANT BUDAY has two scripts under option: Children & Idiots with Anagram Productions, based on a story from his collection Monday Night Man, and White Lung with John Pozer Productions, based on his novel White Lung.
GRANT BUDAY, Writer
(604) 251-2190