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Screenplays

Rail Fan

Comedy/Drama

With the help of two messed up teens, an eccentric man obsessed with railroads travels to Colorado to spread his mother's ashes over the Rocky Mountains.

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Awards:

Quarterfinalist

2009 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting

Quarterfinalist

2008 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards

Season of Speed

Action/Sports Drama

A female dirt track racer from Oklahoma competes

for the Formula 1 world championship.

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Awards:

Top 15%

2008 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting

Top 15%

2007 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting

Quarterfinalist

2007 American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest
Judge: Francis Ford Coppola

Second Round (Quarterfinalist)

2007 Austin Film Festival

Quarterfinalist

2007 Cynosure Screenwriting Awards

Father Figure

Drama/Thriller

A young girl tries to use the new boy at school as a weapon to kill her mother, but when she accidentally falls for her pawn, things become deadly complicated.

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Awards:

Semifinalist

2001 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting

Semifinalist

2001 Chesterfield Writer's Film Project

The Veteran

Sports Drama

A disgraced hockey player gets one final shot to play in the NHL.

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Finalist

2003 Chesterfield Writer's Film Project

Second Rounder

2003 Austin Heart of Film Contest

Quarterfinalist

2003 Fade In: Screenwriting Awards

Strangers On A Plane

Character Drama

A lonely little girl, A business woman afraid of children, A salesman who fears flying, and a jovial man with a dark secret, confront their fears on a flight to Los Angeles.

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Second Rounder

2001 Austin Heart of Film Contest

Nathan Goes To Hell

Comedy

About to lose his job, a TV weatherman unknowingly makes a deal with the devil

to give him the ability to affect the weather.

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Quarterfinalist

2004 Fade In: Screenwriting Awards

Second Rounder

2004 Austin Heart of Film