Screenwriter / writer-director · Atlanta
Different stories.
Same handwriting.
I write movies about people who cannot accept what has already happened to them and make the very human mistake of believing there must still be something they can do about it.
There usually isn’t.
They do it anyway.
Four completed screenplays, chosen from a wider front shelf each time you visit.
See all work →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.
A punk Army Reservist ordered to deploy to Iraq seeks guidance from his active-duty younger brother; when the brother is killed in action, he prepares to disappear under a fake identity but must decide whether refusing the war means abandoning everyone who still loves him.
A broke Atlanta couple take over a murdered Black hardware owner’s storefront to launch a vintage shop, then uncover a gentrification scheme linking their benefactor to the killing — and turn their business into a public trap before the town erases them too.
A lonely repairman discovers a door where the dead can be reclaimed at the cost of twenty-five living years per hour; after bringing four family members back, he spends a lifetime trying to defeat the one loss the bargain cannot undo.
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.
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.
After a gentle pit bull bred for fighting refuses to kill and is discarded, he bonds with a withdrawn maintenance man; when a dogfighting network targets their makeshift refuge, both must decide whether survival can become a home.
A young widow gathers her late husband’s closest friends in Joshua Tree to scatter his ashes and record memories for their infant daughter, but the camera exposes how every one of them — including her — mistook digital connection for actually showing up.
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.
Making now / short film
A depressed Atlanta rideshare driver accepts a lucrative late-night fare into rural Georgia. When the signal dies and he realizes his passenger intends to die at the destination, keeping the stranger alive means admitting that he needs help too.
CURRENTLY DEVELOPING
Three unfinished things taking shape now. The complete development room stays open behind them.
See all development →A Christmas Carol for somebody who thinks A Christmas Carol is bullshit.
James Murphy before LCD Soundsystem worked, when taste, envy and getting older were still doing most of the talking.
Can an original movie demand a theater?
Selected Journal
My dad had a pillow. It’s mine now.
Growing up, I thought acceptance was one of the highest things you could earn.
The first movie that made me want to make movies was not the kind of movie filmmakers usually cite when they are trying to sound impressive.
Some scripts have done well in rooms I was not in.
Want to read something, make something, hire me, interview me, or tell me exactly where I got something wrong?
