I started screenwriting in university and then dropped it after
realizing that my method of writing with a partner and then submitting
the script blindly to a TV show was pretty naive. In 2002 I started
again by writing a feature-length script as an exercise in craft.
You can see that here ("Tigers").
In 2003 I wrote two scripts, one Exclusion
Zone, was one of the winners of the spring 2004
Praxis Center for Screenwriters competition
and has been workshopped in the Summer session. As part of the
same competition I was picked as the CityTV
Diversity Fellow. The third script, a dark comedy about vampires
and drugs I intend to develop further. As well, I've written a
short that I submitted to another CBC screenwriting contest, a
script I developed as part of the Lady
X DV collaborative festival and another science fiction
short / experimental short that I directed on MiniDV.
Exclusion
Zone
Genre: War Political Drama
-
Feature - A patrol of Canadian peacekeepers become involved
in a potentially explosive situation when they stumble on the
village that has been attacked by militia in a Balkan country.
Winner: Praxis Centre for Screenwriters Spring 2004 Competition.
Workshopped in Summer 2004 at Praxis. Read
more here >>
Tigers
Genre: Crime Drama -
Feature
- A young son of East Indian immigrants is attracted by a group
of small-time crooks trying to carve out a space in Vancouver's
underworld.
Read more here >>
Lady X: Episode 13:
The Ronin
Genre: Action
- Short
- Dylan Couper and I came up with the story of a samurai who is
killed in Feudal Japan and then is reborn as a courier in Vancouver.
We filmed it on MiniDV as part of the Lady X collaborative webisode
series. Eventually when we filmed it, one of our actors translated
half of the dialogue to Japanese.
Read
more here >>
Returning
Genre: Science fiction drama ghost
story
- Short - I wrote and directed this MiniDV short
which was intended to be an acting exercise for one of my good
friends. In a post-apocalyptic wilderness, a woman returns to
a forest to revisit lost memories and a lost spirit.
Read
the script here >>
Hit and Run Music
Video
Genre: Narrative Music Video -
I wrote and directed a music video for my friend Keith Gillard
and his band Fidgital. It had a loose plot concerning a hit man
who uses a
gunbrella to eliminate a host of mobsters.
Read the script here
>>
The Candidate
Genre: Science fiction drama
-
Short - A CBC competition sparked my interest in screenwriting
after a long self-imposed absence. I wrote this
Outer Limits-styled
short about a woman who enters a worldwide physical and psychological
competition for an unstated job. I didn't win but it caused me
to think seriously about returning to screenwriting.
Read
the script here >>
If you have any feedback, don't hesitate to email
me.
