FILM
IN DEVELOPMENT

THEATRE IN DEVELOPMENT

LEAP INTO FAITH

Feature Film

After the local police arrives at a dead end, private detective Tony Marceau is hired by a family desperate to find a trace of their missing daughter. What seems at first a simple missing person case, turns out to be a search for matters far deeper and mysterious than Tony can imagine.
With several leads to follow, including a reckless boyfriend, a dubious priest, a cult sect and more missing persons, Tony calls in the help of his old friend John Hillwood from the police force. They end up in a place called Mulliers Peak, where all traces seem to get lost in the sand. Sifting through a mud of misconception, the mystery begins to unravel with an instinctive leap of faith.

Writers:
Andy Demetrio & Paul Shottner

BLANK

Feature Film

An episodic tale following Bronx resident Frank Tannino drifting through the streets of New York.
This surreal comedy drama explores the fine line between coincidence and destiny, as Frank stumbles across an array of characters interfering with his life, in contrasting versions of the same day.
Due to circumstances and through the ups and downs of life in the city, each episode is an emotional rollercoaster, with surprising twists and turns, and will end somehow, somewhere, so different.

Writer:
Paul Shottner

DUSTBURN

Feature Film

A gas station in the middle of the Morrocan desert is inhabited by Awrenz, a young Arab man dressed in cowboy gear, dreaming of Marlboro country. A run in with some real US Americans opens up opportunities, but soon turns expectations on their head. Via Paris, France, Awrenz finally makes it to the USA, but this is not the country he envisioned.

Cast:
Sean Gullette, Lola Peploe, Mustapha Rachidi

Writer/Director:
Paul Shottner

 

I BELIEVE THEREFORE I AM

Feature Film

A futuristic ensemble piece with an international cast set on the Italian Riviera, where digital devices seem to become overbearing, controlling the lives of people in ever more limiting ways. More than cultures and opinions clash on a decisive trip on a luxury yacht where a plethora of characters meet. 

Writers:
Emanuele De Reggi & Paul Shottner

THEATRE
IN DEVELOPMENT

FILM IN DEVELOPMENT

DIADOCHI

Full-length play

An allegorical tale of three opposing characters, Lola, Hank and Charlie, raised and thrown together near a junkyard. As they develop their individual strengths and desires they clash and fight each other, neither ready to give in.

Writer:
Paul Shottner

ANACRUSIS

1 Act Theatre play

Anacrusis is a drama comedy about two ageing conductors who meet late one night under a railway bridge in New York, having been ordered there by a ballerina they are both in love with.

The ballerina is never seen or heard in true form, but appears on stage in different guises throughout the play.
She has an ongoing affair with both men, but since she is in love with both and unable to give up either, she hopes she can entice them into a ménage a trois. Thus, she arranges for them to meet, to see if they can get on. Not an easy task for two intellectual egomaniacs with roots in Palestine and Israel respectively.

Writer:
Christian Callo