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 →After his brother’s funeral, a young man’s drunken choices set off a chain of events that ends in a woman’s death — and her haunting has no interest in forgiving him. His punishment is not death or escape. He has to survive the consequences.
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After a gentle pit bull bred for fighting refuses to kill and is discarded, he bonds with a withdrawn maintenance man; when a dogfighting network targets their makeshift refuge, both must decide whether survival can become a home.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.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Three screenplays being drafted. Seven features moving into development. A few of them here at a time; all of them on Work.
See what I’m working on →Drafting
When a solitary atheist becomes dangerously ill days before Christmas, he must decide whether life’s impermanence makes connection meaningless — or urgent.
Forty-eight hours before cameras roll on his first feature, Eli discovers a hole in the financing and begins borrowing, lying, forging, stealing and counterfeiting his wife’s consent to keep the movie alive — only to learn that the money cleared exactly as promised.
Before LCD Soundsystem became the coolest band in the room, James Murphy spent years convinced the room had already moved on without him.
Developing
Every subway system on Earth suddenly begins delivering trains to the same impossible underground station. A transit maintenance worker enters the network looking for his missing son as governments struggle to understand a place that should not exist.
For one day, every dead person on Earth comes back. Not as zombies. Not to attack anyone. They simply return — and disappear again at sunset.
The rise of the American shopping mall was built on a bargain nobody remembers. Now the malls are dying, the bargain is coming due, and the abandoned buildings have begun collecting what they are owed.
A man uses experimental technology to return to adolescence and prevent the accident that killed his parents, only to discover that keeping them alive is erasing the daughter waiting for him in the life he left behind.
Doors around the world begin opening onto the same impossible city, allowing humanity to step through from anywhere — until people realize something on the other side has been waiting for the doors to open too.
An invisible barrier appears across America and begins expanding, dividing cities, families and eventually the country itself. A father trapped on one side races the moving boundary to reach his daughter on the other.
An entire international airport — terminals, runways, aircraft and thousands of passengers — suddenly appears on another planet. With the environment deteriorating around them, the people inside discover that the only possible evacuation route may be the airplanes they already have.
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. Every one is on the record at the exact round it reached.
Want to read something, make something, hire me, interview me, or tell me exactly where I got something wrong?
