4 Savvy Feature-Length Screenplays

Down Time

Father Time is laid off and struggles to find a new identity, while people around him

try to cope in a world without time… and blame him for it!

Wallow

A young handyman appointed Acting Mayor of his disgruntled and dying hometown

assumes that, if misery loves company, he’ll give it a boost by changing

the name from Willow to Wallow — what could go wrong?

When life presents a rocky road
A vintage year for bumps
You need a place to go and be
Forever in the dumps

A town that’s like no other where
You’re welcome to debase
Yourself and all the hapless dreams
You banish by the case

Trudge on over to Wallow
Hear the laughter ring hollow…

Eve For Real

Banished from Eden to present-day Toronto,

Eve looks for work, gets fed up with being a scapegoat,

stands up for herself and finds her true calling.

Eve: Where were you? Why didn’t you come to my aid? I was unjustly accused!

Gaia: Could see that coming.

Eve: What?

Gaia: Think about it. He makes the male first. A glorious physical specimen.

What were you? An afterthought.

(Eve frowns.)

Made from a piece of bone. You had to know, if either of you were going to be shafted,

it was for sure going to be you.

Eve: But you’re the green goddess, the mother of creation.

You should’ve recreated me.

Gaia: You can do that yourself.

(Eve groans.)

Eve: I was afraid you’d say that.

Liv and Learn

After 35 years in the background, a woman with a vivid imagination

is compelled to step forward and fix a mistake she made,

while learning how to be the leader she always wanted to be.

Illustration by Gillian Goulet

Liv tries her hand at fundraising.

“You think you’re depressed?

For $50 and a glass of wine, I’ll give you my tale of woe. Wow, did things go wrong.

You’ll feel so much better to know that your life can’t be as bad as mine. I’ve got proof!”

3 Sassy Shorts

Good things come in short packages.

10-minute film script

A desperate couple who lost 10 bidding wars in Toronto’s hot real estate market meets a cunning vendor: the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe.

10-minute film script

When a frustrated writer tries to leave a script at a producer’s front door, she is interrupted by a police constable who’s sure she’s selling something else.

5-minute film script

At midnight in a grocery store, a shopper who gave up her favourite crackers is having a relapse and an employee who gave up his dream is afraid she’s going to be sick.