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Two Times A Lady

LOGLINE

An American national security agent dodges death to save a young American woman from corrupt officials who target her to take the fall for a violent revolutionary leader in Mexico.

SUMMARY

Guerrilla warfare raging in Chiapas, Mexico, spills into the Mexican capital. Zapatista rebels hold foreign dignitaries hostage at the American ambassador’s residence. Representing U.S. interest, NSA agent Bruce Wilson quickly devises a plan that efficiently allows the Mexican military to terminate the hostage crisis.

Meanwhile in Chiapas, soldiers mistake Si Coquita Ruiz, a beautiful Chicago-born college student, for La Puta, the brazen Leader of the Zapatista Revolutionary Army. Amidst gunfire, a mysterious young American whisks Si to safety aboard his yacht and sets sail for the States. In San Diego, the Coast Guard uncovers contraband on the vessel and charges Si with smuggling.

Mexico’s corrupt Minister of Justice Roberto Salizar, thinking Si is La Puta, hopes to boost his chances of winning the Presidency by demanding her return to Mexico for trial and execution. Fearing an international incident, National Security Agency bureau chief Douglas Murphy assigns Bruce to determine Si’s true identity. Before Bruce can confront Si, authorities release her from custody and she disappears.

Back in Chiapas, the real La Puta stages a raid on a sweatshop to recruit supporters. A rogue CIA operative, lying in wait, apprehends La Puta and sequesters her in a remote jungle hideout. Soldiers attack and unknowingly kill the Zapatista leader.

News of the sweatshop raid draws Bruce to Mexico where he learns that Salizar kidnapped Si in San Diego then staged her capture for the press in a gruesome jungle firefight.

As Bruce tracks Si’s movements through Mexican prisons, he discovers her true identity and finds that Murphy set him up in a sadistic scheme that reaches beyond manipulation of Mexican elections. Bruce, alienated by the dark commerce of conspiracy, must now save himself before he can deliver Si from a tortuous fate.

AWARDS

Finals -- TELLURIDE INDIEFEST

Finals -- AMERICA'S BESTFinals (sponsored by THE WRITER'S FOUNDATION)

Finals -- SOUTHWEST WRITER'S WORKSHOP

Finals -- LONESTAR SCREENPLAY COMPETITION

Judges comment: "talent, style and excellence distinguishes this script as one of the very outstanding submissions to the competition."

Honorable Mention -- THE WRITERS NETWORK SCREENPLAY & FICTION COMPETITION

INFORMATION

FORMAT -- Screenplay

LENGTH -- 118 Pages

GENRE -- Adventure Drama

LOCALE -- San Diego and Mexico

PERIOD -- Present

Long Road to Heaven

LOGLINE

An old black man, and only friend of the simple-minded son of a white southern Sheriff, is found dead and the boy, who is befriended by the deputy assigned to investigate the case, discovers that his new best friend was involved in the murder.

SUMMARY

A suspenseful drama steeped in the spirit of RADIO, presents simple-minded Willy, abandoned by his father at birth and merrily drifting through life until the questionable demise of his best and only friend Tom, a gentle-natured black man who sees past the boy’s obvious shortcomings. While Willy struggles to understand the tragedy, townsfolk in sleepy little Harveyville scarcely raise an eyebrow.

Befriended by the Deputy assigned to see that the death was “accidental,” Willy adopts the lawman as his new friend and tries hard to please him.

Guided only by the memory of Tom’s wisdom, Willy soon discovers the Deputy’s duplicitous nature and confronts him with the truth in a challenge that could cost him his life and that of his long lost father.

AWARDS

Finals -- THE WRITERS NETWORK SCREENPLAY & FICTION COMPETITION (1700 entries)

Top 10% -- NICHOLS FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIPS IN SCREENWRITING (6000 entries)

INFORMATION

FORMAT -- Screenplay

LENGTH -- 117 Pages

GENRE -- Adventure Drama

LOCALE -- Small southern town in America

PERIOD -- Present

Rag Rugs

LOGLINE

Two souls who have given up on love find each other on a dark, rainy night, but fight their inner demons in the quest to find love and spend their lives together.

SUMMARY

Ripped by tragedy, some poor souls are lost and forgotten like rags discarded on the trash heaps of life.

For Denton, a violent head-on collision killed his parents and derailed his dreams of becoming a recording artist. The accidental death of Aleta’s young son has left her drowning in guilt.

Then one rainy night when fate weaves their ragged lives together, Denton and Aleta discover that meeting each other might just be the most beautiful thing that has ever happened to them.

INFORMATION

FORMAT -- Screenplay

LENGTH -- ??? Pages

GENRE -- Adventure Drama

LOCALE -- Small town in America

PERIOD -- Present