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Screenplays 

Hover on the title page to read the outline, then you click on the black square to read the first page. Contact me if you're interested in reading the full script!

Faraway Love

This screenplay is 5 pages long (including the title page) written for the NYC Short Screenplay Challenge 2020. The genre was fantasy, the location was a boardwalk and the object was a knitting needle.

I finished 12th in my category.

Finalist "Best Script Award" in February 2021 

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Faraway

Love

« Cassy, an old woman whose job is to close the passages between different worlds, has the visit from a very special person who shouldn’t be here. »

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Monkey Theorem

« Zia, an orphan teenager, lives in a dystopian world. When her monkey runs away, she goes after him and we discover this violent and mad world where people are on the verge of craziness. »

Monkey Theorem  

This screenplay is 5 pages long (including the title page). This was written for college as part of the course, it was an individual task. We had to write a maximum of 4 pages with three locations maximum. 

Red Paper Plane  

This screenplay is 11 pages long (including the title page). I made a shorter version of it which is available in FILMS. I wrote this as a personal project. 

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Red Paper 

Plane

« A young girl, Lilwen, obsessively creates paper planes in a forest and refuses to confront her demons »

Fireworks  

This screenplay is 6 pages long (including the title page) written for college. The location was a diner with two main characters.

Albedo 

This screenplay is 12 pages long (including the title page). I wrote this as a personal project. 

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Fireworks

« Octavia, a famous romance novelist, comes face to face with her long lasting love, Noah, who she hasn’t seen in 7 years.» 

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Albedo

« A young girl, Kayla, wakes up in the  middle of the forest with no memories of how she got there. Her past will come rushing back. »

Turochamp 

This screenplay is 13 pages long (including the title page) written for the NYC Screenwriting Challenge 2020. The genre was spy, the theme was artificial intelligence and the character was a roofer. â€‹

Ragnarök 

This screenplay is 5 pages long (including the title page), written for a 48h Short Film Challenge in 2020 about climate. The theme was "Our house is burning", the sentence to include was "It wants to be green and it lets its potted plants die", the object was a strike sign and the character was Dominique, a collapsologist. 

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Turochamp

« Lee Shelby is Alan Turing's new roofer, but what is he really doing there? »

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Ragnarök

« Dominique, a climate activist , has for only friends the imaginary characters of an oracle game.»

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Doomed

« Will is driving home in his truck and listening to a frightening story about a girl, a hillside and a bell ringing.... and he will soon realize that fiction can blend into reality.  »

Utopia  

This screenplay is 10 pages long. I wrote and directed it end of 2023, currently in post-production. 

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Utopia

"During the course of one night, two best friends go through the highs and lows of their relationship."

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Feathers & Whisky 

"In 1960, a timid East Londoner who inherited a pub and whose best friends is a talking parrot, falls in love with a young poet, who's allergic to birds."

Feathers & Whisky   

This screenplay is 12 pages long, written as a personal project. I'm currently writing a feature. 

Doomed 

This screenplay is 5 pages long (including the title page), written for the Short Screenplay Challenge NYC midnight 2020. The genre is horror, the objet is a fluorescent light and the location is a hillside.

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