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Hey, I'm Sam!
Duluth, Minnesota
Screenwriter & Director. Yes I'm a white man, but I'm also a Duluthian, Autistic, and 25.
My Projects
Projects I'm Supporting
Blind Truth
Duluth • Feature
Crime, Drama
When a serial killer resurfaces after over 20 years of dormancy, two FBI agents must track down the killer of their childhood best friend.
This project got the green light!
Seed of Doubt
Rochester • Feature
Thriller
Melissa and Scott’s dream home turns into a nightmare when they take on new tenants to make ends meet.
This project got the green light!
The Mile Ground
Morgantown • Feature
Drama, Mystery
The contents of a strange safety deposit box send an opioid addict down a risky road that will lead to her redemption or final destruction
This project got the green light!
The Cold Days of Summer
Utica • Feature
Crime, Drama
A boxer battles injury, criminals, and an authoritarian school board to save his scholarship and learn the true cost of the American dream
This project got the green light!
Emma Was Here
Medford • Feature
Drama
A terminally-ill woman goes on a trip with friends before deciding whether she will go through with her choice of physician-assisted dying.
This project got the green light!
Nanay Ko 2
Silver Spring • Feature
Comedy, Musical
An Asian-American Musical. After her father's sudden passing, Christine must save her parents' restaurant from eviction.
This project got the green light!
Gleahan and the Knaves of Industry
Duluth • Feature
Adventure, Comedy
An opportunistic asshole joins the quest of a delusional man who thinks he’s in a fantasy world.
This project got the green light!
AUGGIE
Fairfield • Feature
Drama, Sci-Fi
Forced into early retirement, a man falls in love with his new augmented reality companion, driving away his wife and daughter.
This project got the green light!
Give And Take
Asheville • Feature
Comedy, Documentary
In this sincere comedy about parenting, a father who's lost custody of his rebellious daughter kidnaps her in a plan to save her future.
This project got the green light!
LION KILLER
Houston • Feature
Drama
Fighting Solves Everything
This project got the green light!
Parallel Chords
St. Louis • Feature
Drama, Music
A young violinist struggles to break free from her pianist father to find her own voice.
This project got the green light!
The Way It Goes
Shawnee • Feature
Comedy, Romantic Comedy
Sometimes life just doesn't go as planned.
This project got the green light!
The Inner Edge
Old Bridge Township • Feature
Drama, Fantasy
A NJ cop struggling with changes in her life, has to save a suicidal stranger to unlock what powers lie within her.
This project got the green light!
Between Heaven and Hell
Riverside • Feature
Drama, Fantasy
On 11/22/63, John F. Kennedy, CS Lewis and Aldous Huxley all died within moments of each other and meet in a place “somewhere beyond death”
This project got the green light!
Drought
Wilmington • Feature
Comedy, Drama
The summer after high school, Sam searches for a better life for herself and younger brother with Autism.
This project got the green light!
Project Gaslight
Rochester • Feature
Horror, Thriller
New tenants harbor a secret that jeopardizes a young family as the pregnant wife descends into paranoia and delusion.
This project got the green light!
The MisEducation of Bindu
Indianapolis • Feature
Comedy, Drama
Thrust into American public school by her mother’s new marriage, a wide-eyed Indian teen teams up with a band geek to survive.
This project got the green light!
Lost Bayou
Lafayette • Feature
Drama, Family
A struggling addict ventures out into the Louisiana swamp to discover that her estranged faith healer father is hiding a troubling secret.
This project got the green light!
Little Evil Bookshop
Seattle • Feature
Comedy, Satire
When the world's most powerful occult leader visits a modest mystic bookshop, its owner must impress him at all costs.
This project got the green light!
Stormie
Santa Maria • Feature
Biography, Drama
An adopted Hispanic teenager looks for his birth family in an attempt to find his place of belonging.
This project got the green light!
Bring Me an Avocado
San Francisco • Feature
Drama
When a violent encounter leaves Robin in a coma, her family ventures to maintain normalcy for her children while managing their own grief.
This project got the green light!
Mow
Boston • Feature
Comedy, Drama
The film is a grounded comedy that follows a struggling mother and son in the wake of a questionable job termination as they try to pay thei
This project got the green light!
A Room Full of Nothing
Austin • Feature
Adventure, Romance
In this Swiss Army Man meets Eternal Sunshine adventure an artistic couple's life takes a bizarre turn when they wake up alone in the world.
This project got the green light!
nēar
Stockton • Feature
Crime, Drama
"nēar" follows 17-year-old Julian upon his escape from the hospital on Christmas Eve, the day which is literally the last day of his life.
This project got the green light!
The Place in Between
Austin • Feature
Comedy, Drama
What could possibly go wrong when a mom and her teenage daughter meet for the first time on a road trip across TX? . . . Everything.
This project got the green light!
I'll Be Around
Los Angeles • Feature
Drama, Comedy
Against the backdrop of a post-punk music festival, a handful of 30-somethings deal with a wide variety of social and philosophical issues
This project got the green light!
ACID TEST (feature film)
Houston • Feature
Comedy, Drama
The absurdly dramatic coming-of-age story of a teenage girl who launches a rebellion when she drops acid and goes home to her parents.
This project got the green light!
This Is Our Home
Media • Feature
Drama, Thriller
A struggling couple's weekend getaway goes awry when a child arrives in the middle of the night claiming he's their son.
This project got the green light!
High Note
Friday Harbor • Feature
Crime, Musical
Just your everyday druggie, dramedy, indie musical filled to the brim with Germans, Jesus, banjos, bongos, and backstabbings.
This project got the green light!
Test: A Classic American Story....On Steroids
New Philadelphia • Feature
Sport, LGBTQ
A young bodybuilder living in Ohio defies his religious mother when he follows the county's best coach into a world of steroid abuse
This project got the green light!
The Atavist
Pittsfield • Feature
Adventure, Sci-Fi
A young woman travels to the past, but when the things she leaves alter history, she must get them back to save the future.
This project got the green light!
D.I.Y.
Philadelphia • Feature
Comedy, LGBTQ
A queer couple is determined to tie the knot their own way.
This project got the green light!
Big Dog City
San Francisco • Feature
Drama, Other
Set within Bay Area art/slacker culture, we follow two characters as they weave across a place and identity which doesn't fit them anymore.
This project got the green light!
What Lies West
Santa Rosa • Feature
Adventure, Drama
Two girls desperate to create their own adventure set out into the wilderness of California on a daring hike to the coast.
This project got the green light!
"SURE-FIRE" - Development Funding Phase II
New York • Feature
Comedy, Crime
SURE-FIRE is a comedy about a NYC con man having a mid-life crisis who stumbles into becoming a movie producer to pay off gangsters.
This project got the green light!
Palace
Upland • Feature
Drama
The family-fractured lives of a stubborn mechanic, a retired widower, and a repressed college student intertwine at a bar in rural Indiana.
This project got the green light!
Bedsheet Man
Bradenton • Feature
Comedy, Drama
A middle aged man looses his son to suicide only to find a strange way to cope with his grief. He becomes the superhero that his son always
This project got the green light!
White Death
Needham • Feature
Drama
A construction worker tries to leave the family business to pursue his life long dream of making a documentary about great white sharks.
This project got the green light!
Epiphany
Tarpon Springs • Feature
Drama, Family
A young girl struggles to create a relationship with her father after the death of her aunt who raised her.
This project got the green light!
Mini Lights
Saint Petersburg • Feature
Horror
A group of skaters roams the haunted nooks of St. Petersburg Fl. where an unquenchable tragedy watches from the darkness waiting for a host.
This project got the green light!
Xerxes
Jersey City • Feature
Sci-Fi, Thriller
While recovering at his estranged childhood home from cochlear implant surgery, Xerxes spirals down the rabbit hole and may never climb out.
This project got the green light!
High
Tabernash • Short
Drama, Experimental
An unnerved young mother and a footloose ski bum unearth suppressed desires in a hazardous twist of encounters.
This project got the green light!
worst.christmas.ever.
Youngstown • Feature
Comedy, Teen
A dark comedy about a 15-year-old girl whose entire world falls apart after she discovers that she's pregnant on Christmas Eve.
This project got the green light!
A Stray Ember
Lancaster • Feature
Drama, Thriller
The agoraphobic victim of a home invasion takes to the road in a motor home, but a figure from her past threatens her new found freedom.
This project got the green light!
Just Like The Men
Bellingham • Feature
Comedy, History
Two girls find a lost screenplay and decide to give history the middle finger.
This project got the green light!
Minneapolis (the movie)
Minneapolis • Feature
Comedy, Family
A cocky news anchor team gets stuck "mentoring" an at-risk teen. Shenanigans and dastardly weather conditions ensue…
This project got the green light!
WILLIE, JAMALEY & THE CACACOON
Phoenixville • Feature
Adventure, Comedy
Two misfits adventure out to prove the existence of a local mythological creature.
This project got the green light!
The Blue Whale
Catoosa • Feature
Teen, Drama
In 1980's rural Oklahoma a teenage boy meets a girl from California who helps him break out of his shell and learn the truth of his heritage
This project got the green light!
Fantastic Santa Monaco
Los Angeles • Feature
Drama, Satire
A film about a group of performance artists who are looking for love, connection and significance in Los Angeles.
This project got the green light!
The Wonderful World of Hunter Wood
Los Angeles • Series
Comedy
An eccentric young man goes to outrageous lengths to woo the new girl in the neighborhood.
This project got the green light!
Kinesthesia
Los Angeles • Short
Drama, Shorts Program
Frustrated at her inability to accurately remember a particular time of happiness in her life, Minny sets out to find it again.
This project got the green light!
