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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 24. Gleahan and the Knaves of Industry needs Follows and Favors!
My Projects
Projects I'm Supporting
Blind Truth
Duluth • 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.
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Seed of Doubt
Rochester • Thriller
Melissa and Scott’s dream home turns into a nightmare when they take on new tenants to make ends meet.
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The Mile Ground
Morgantown • 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
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The Cold Days of Summer
Utica • 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
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Emma Was Here
Medford • 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.
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Nanay Ko 2
Silver Spring • Comedy, Musical
An Asian-American Musical. After her father's sudden passing, Christine must save her parents' restaurant from eviction.
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Gleahan and the Knaves of Industry
Duluth • Adventure, Comedy
An opportunistic asshole joins the quest of a delusional man who thinks he’s in a fantasy world.
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AUGGIE
Fairfield • Drama, Sci-Fi
Forced into early retirement, a man falls in love with his new augmented reality companion, driving away his wife and daughter.
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Give And Take
Asheville • 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.
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LION KILLER
Houston • Drama
Fighting Solves Everything
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Parallel Chords
St. Louis • Drama, Music
A young violinist struggles to break free from her pianist father to find her own voice.
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The Way It Goes
Shawnee • Comedy, Romantic Comedy
Sometimes life just doesn't go as planned.
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The Inner Edge
Old Bridge Township • Drama, Fantasy
A NJ cop struggling with changes in her life, has to save a suicidal stranger to unlock what powers lie within her.
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Between Heaven and Hell
Riverside • 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”
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Drought
Wilmington • Comedy, Drama
The summer after high school, Sam searches for a better life for herself and younger brother with Autism.
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Project Gaslight
Rochester • Horror, Thriller
New tenants harbor a secret that jeopardizes a young family as the pregnant wife descends into paranoia and delusion.
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The MisEducation of Bindu
Indianapolis • 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.
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Lost Bayou
Lafayette • Drama, Family
A struggling addict ventures out into the Louisiana swamp to discover that her estranged faith healer father is hiding a troubling secret.
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Little Evil Bookshop
Seattle • Comedy, Satire
When the world's most powerful occult leader visits a modest mystic bookshop, its owner must impress him at all costs.
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Stormie
Santa Maria • Biography, Drama
An adopted Hispanic teenager looks for his birth family in an attempt to find his place of belonging.
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Bring Me an Avocado
San Francisco • Drama
When a violent encounter leaves Robin in a coma, her family ventures to maintain normalcy for her children while managing their own grief.
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Mow
Boston • 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
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A Room Full of Nothing
Austin • 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.
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nēar
Stockton • 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.
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The Place in Between
Austin • 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.
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I'll Be Around
Los Angeles • 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
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ACID TEST (feature film)
Houston • 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.
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This Is Our Home
Media • 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.
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High Note
Friday Harbor • Crime, Musical
Just your everyday druggie, dramedy, indie musical filled to the brim with Germans, Jesus, banjos, bongos, and backstabbings.
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Test: A Classic American Story....On Steroids
New Philadelphia • 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
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The Atavist
Pittsfield • 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.
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D.I.Y.
Philadelphia • Comedy, LGBTQ
A queer couple is determined to tie the knot their own way.
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Big Dog City
San Francisco • 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.
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What Lies West
Santa Rosa • Adventure, Drama
Two girls desperate to create their own adventure set out into the wilderness of California on a daring hike to the coast.
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"SURE-FIRE" - Development Funding Phase II
New York • 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.
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Palace
Upland • Drama, Family
The family-fractured lives of a stubborn mechanic, a retired widower, and a repressed college student intertwine at a bar in rural Indiana.
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Bedsheet Man
Bradenton • 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
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White Death
Needham • Drama
A construction worker tries to leave the family business to pursue his life long dream of making a documentary about great white sharks.
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Epiphany
Tarpon Springs • Drama, Family
A young girl struggles to create a relationship with her father after the death of her aunt who raised her.
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Mini Lights
Saint Petersburg • 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.
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Xerxes
Jersey City • 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.
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High
Tabernash • Drama, Experimental
An unnerved young mother and a footloose ski bum unearth suppressed desires in a hazardous twist of encounters.
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worst.christmas.ever.
Youngstown • 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.
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A Stray Ember
Lancaster • 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.
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Just Like The Men
Bellingham • Comedy, History
Two girls find a lost screenplay and decide to give history the middle finger.
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Minneapolis (the movie)
Minneapolis • Comedy, Family
A cocky news anchor team gets stuck "mentoring" an at-risk teen. Shenanigans and dastardly weather conditions ensue…
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WILLIE, JAMALEY & THE CACACOON
Phoenixville • Adventure, Comedy
Two misfits adventure out to prove the existence of a local mythological creature.
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The Blue Whale
Catoosa • 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
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Fantastic Santa Monaco
Los Angeles • Drama, Satire
A film about a group of performance artists who are looking for love, connection and significance in Los Angeles.
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The Wonderful World of Hunter Wood
Los Angeles • Comedy
An eccentric young man goes to outrageous lengths to woo the new girl in the neighborhood.
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Kinesthesia
Los Angeles • 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.
