In development / self development

DEVELOPMENT

Some projects become films. Some become books. Some become better questions. One of them is me.

This is the part of the site before the clean logline and the finished PDF. Research, premises, production plans, things I cannot stop thinking about, and the occasional attempt to rebuild the person generating all of it.

CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT

01 / OUTLINE / DEVELOPMENT

ATHEISTMAS

A Christmas Carol for someone who does not believe in ghosts.

FEATURE / CHRISTMAS COMEDY-DRAMAOPEN PROJECT
02 / TOO EARLY TO EXPLAIN WITHOUT EXPLAINING IT WRONG.

AGAIN

Run it again. Change the variable. See if reality gives a different answer.

EARLY DEVELOPMENT / WORKING PROJECTOPEN PROJECT
03 / RESEARCH / ACCESS / DEVELOPMENT

LOSING MY EDGE

Before LCD Soundsystem became the coolest band in the room, James Murphy spent years convinced the room had already moved on without him.

WORKING TITLE / NARRATIVE FEATURE / MUSIC & CULTUREOPEN PROJECT
04 / TESTING / TIGHTENING

BIG MOVIE PREMISE LAB

Can you still invent a movie people understand from one sentence?

DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE / ORIGINAL COMMERCIAL FEATURESOPEN PROJECT
05 / RESEARCH / REPORTING / STRUCTURE

MOM v. WALMART

A family case became national news. The book is about what the headline left out.

NARRATIVE NONFICTION / FAMILY / LAW / MEDIAOPEN PROJECT

PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT

SELF DEVELOPMENT

SELF DEVELOPMENT / LIFE 401THE REVAMP

I put scripts into development all the time. This time I put myself there.