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CHRISTOPHER SHANK / ATLANTA, GEORGIA

THE RIGHT THING
IS OBVIOUS.
UNTIL IT COSTS
YOU SOMETHING.

SCREENWRITER / WRITER-DIRECTOR

DRAMA / HORROR / DARK COMEDY /
NEAR-FUTURE SCIENCE FICTION

THE FINISHED ONES.

FEATURES. SHORTS. PRIVATE SAMPLES.

Some are ready to make. Some are here to prove what I can do. None of them are filler.

Original scripts are available to verified industry professionals by request.

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01 / FEATURE

NOBODY LEAVES

Still carrying guilt over ignoring his suicidal brother’s final calls, a young man hits and abandons another desperate stranger on a rain-soaked road; ten months later, her ghost begins calling, forcing him to choose between the life he rebuilt and the truth buried in the woods.

05 / FEATURE

SOULECHO

In the near future, a grieving husband uses an AI service to reconstruct his dead wife, but when the model reveals she may have been planning to leave him, he must choose between preserving the version he needs and accepting the woman he never fully knew.

04 / FEATURE

PIBBLE

After a gentle pit bull bred for fighting refuses to kill and is discarded, he bonds with a withdrawn maintenance man; when a dogfighting network targets their makeshift refuge, both must decide whether survival can become a home.

02 / FEATURE

THE BATTLES OF BIRDTOWN

When his disabled mother dies, a bitter musician returns to the Missouri town he fled and collides with the father, friends, and dead soldier brother he left behind, forcing him to decide whether grief will remain his excuse for never making music—or coming home—again.

03 / FEATURE

STANDBY

When her husband’s estranged father dies, a Korean-American psychologist tries to keep her depression-prone spouse connected to life as funeral debt, a faith-based inheritance ultimatum, and their elderly dog’s medical crisis turn one loss into a test of how much grief a marriage can carry.

06 / FEATURE

MILES APART

A struggling husband runs the Honolulu Marathon beside the wife who plans to leave him, hoping 26.2 miles can save their marriage before the finish line becomes the end.

I WRITE ABOUT PEOPLE
WHO KNOW BETTER.
THEY DO IT ANYWAY.

The father is dead. The marriage is bad. The phone rang and nobody answered.

By page one, the damage is already in the room.

I’m interested in what people do when the excuses stop working.

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THE RECEIPTS.

11 VERIFIED RESULTS IN THE CURRENT LEDGER.

The work has been read, rejected, rewritten, placed, and sent back out.

These are the times it made the cut.

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GET IT OFF
THE PAGE.

Writing is private. Production is where the excuses run out.

The actor has to say it. The camera has to see it. The cut has to survive without the paragraph explaining what everybody meant.

That’s the proof.

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Night road seen through a car windshield
IN DEVELOPMENT / SHORT FILM

KEEP DRIVING

On the anniversary of his daughter’s death, a grieving rideshare driver accepts a lucrative fare to the middle of nowhere, only to discover that his strange passenger may not be human—and needs him to reach a rendezvous before midnight.

  • SCRIPT LOCKED
  • IN DEVELOPMENT
  • ATLANTA, GEORGIA
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BETWEEN
DRAFTS.

FIELD NOTES

No lessons from the mountaintop.

Just notes from the climb, the fall, the rewrite, and the part where you discover the scene you loved was the one killing the script.

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BRING ME A PROBLEM
WORTH SOLVING.

Script requests. Assignments. Development. Directing. Press.

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