Eleven properties. The facts of each.
The slate runs eleven properties. Nine are on this page, and each has a page of its own: the setting, the frames, the facts. Two travel only inside private materials, one while legal and rights work completes, one a franchise bible. A slate is a promise; a script is a fact. We list the facts, and the pages themselves are shared privately.
Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.
Stephen King
A Need Grows in Brooklyn
In the summer of 1986 on a Borough Park block, a sensitive 17-year-old who dreams of acting at NYU is pulled from petty mischief into the seductive club-and-crime world of older dealers, losing his innocence, his first love, and ultimately his life to the casual violence of his neighborhood.
L.A. Dolce Vita
When a presidential candidate is caught via live stream with a mysterious woman, the ensuing scandal unravels fifteen years of secrets: a journalist's vanished fiancée, his hidden daughter, and a crime family's plan to claim her as heir.
Sea Gate
A private town at the end of Brooklyn, present day, high summer.
After Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest (1929); the novel is public domain
Alpha YY
In the underworld of Staten Island, two reckless enforcers collect debts through savage work and coded prison-gang demands, until a final betrayal forces them to confront the cost of their chaotic existence.
Da Hook
Red Hook, Brooklyn, the fall of 1970.
After Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon (1930); the novel is public domain
The Movement
Seven international students, recruited into a secret class by clues to a campus bomb, are trained through covert missions, never suspecting that every mission serves the hidden consortium they believe they are fighting.
Cleopatra
A divorced Sicilian-Brooklyn woman scraping by in Los Angeles wakes after every sleep into a different version of her own life in the same city, and must master her shifting reigns before a rival who travels the same way collapses every version of her into the one he can own.
Shadowmaster
In a televised hybrid of esports and live-action drama, elite gamers called the Shadow Masters command real-life human avatars through high-stakes scenarios. Their avatars may defy orders when survival, greed, or conscience takes over, pitting strategy against free will.
U Bruculinu
An expatriate returns to his ancestral Sicily in the 1970s seeking a quiet life. The land, and its people, will not let him be quiet.
Three traditions, one hand.
APR 70 Pictures is one writer-producer working in three traditions. (212) Pictures is the New York work: crime, drama, and documentary built from the five boroughs. (310) Pictures is the long-form work made for audiences who travel, political thrillers and science fiction staged out of Los Angeles and beyond. New Renaissance Cinema is the feature work, films built to last rather than to fill a release window. A property wears the tradition that fits it best, and when a feature reaches beyond one coast its territory division joins as co-production. Three traditions, one standard.
Ask for the pages.
If you produce, represent, or finance work like this, request what you'd like to read and it will come from the writer, privately.