Logline: When Ravi's childhood friend dies suddenly, he and their estranged mutual friend Andy must cart the body across the US and bury him according to his final request: inside a southern California theme park.
This script was conceived of and written during the first few years of the COVID lockdown. Missing friends and inspired by my recent road trip out west, I wrote a story about two men who are thrown back into each other's lives to face an unfixable tragedy. In pairing slapstick and absurd antics with a dark comedic tone, I hope to take the reader on a journey across a fantastically odd reflection of America while exploring the importance and fragility of male friendships.
Logline: When a modern woman accidentally gets sucked into the future, she must aid a time detective in discovering what changed in her era so that his won't erase from existence.
Inspired by the work of Philip K. Dick among others, I wanted to envision a future where all my catastrophizing thoughts came true. Humanity has settled into a new normal, and it's more grotesque than it's ever been. Young kids get hooked on "hyperbinge" media, for-profit corporations control access to a singular database of human knowledge, and loud ugly advertisements plaster every blank surface. What's more, the people of this future are expected to sign away their bodily autonomy for a paycheck, receiving specialized implants or prosthetics for each new job they're hired for.
One has to ask themselves, is this a future even worth saving?
