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Logline: The true story of Under-Cover detective Frank Santorsola’s efforts to
prove the innocence of and informant framed as a drug trafficker by the United
States District Attorney’s office.
Genre: Crime/True Story
LAST BEQUEST Logline: A true American humanitarian story about Fred, a 1960’s Cleveland, Ohio probate lawyer, who along with his wife Alice play cat and mouse with Russian authorities and risk their freedom in communist Czechoslovakia fulfilling the wishes of deceased client. Genre: True Stories TO SAVE AN EAGLE Logline: Two Navy SEALS in Afghanistan desperately trying to save a war-wounded eagle seek help from an American war widow. Genre: Drama based on true story THE MAESTRO Logline: An artist who lost so much in his life is revealed by the two things that always remained: his friends and his music. The bitter struggles and great triumphs of the life of Ludwig van Beethoven are revealed, as childhood friend Stephan von Breuning sacrifices everything to help him through his last trial. Genre: Historical/Drama Biography
SANGOMA IN MY SPIRIT Logline: Aman who nearly lost his life in the hands of Sangoma's is now having a crush on a Sangoma. Genre: Documentary
DEFILED Logline: The true story of a drifter wrongly accused and incarcerated for child molestation; children’s lies and a botched police investigation are later revealed.
THE MIRROR MAZE Logline: A Norwegian businessman’s exploratory drug use leads him into the world of drug trafficking and in Mexican Prisons for five years Genre: Non-Fiction Drama Action
THE CHICAGO FREEDOM STORY Logline: Entertaining true life story of a trolley driver's experiences downtown and his quest to find "Freedom" in a declining society through the people he meets. Genre: Life Story
ASHANTI REVENGE Logline: While on a slave hunting mission in Africa, an Ashanti Chief and a young Englishman from Liverpool are captured by a rival tribe, and traded to the highest bidders in the 1800’s. Two years later, they meet again in Brazil after the chief escapes a brutal slave owner and leads a deadly slave revolt burning every plantation in his path. Genre: True Historical Drama
OFFICIAL OPPRESSION Logline: To make a bust a cop has to sometimes work right on the edge. But what happens when the guy who is supposed to stop vices, is accused of having a few vices themselves? Genre: True Story/Drama/ Thriller RUBY Logline: Ruby,One - woman garrison became Third US Army Outpost. Based on true events. Genre: war -drama INNER-CIRCLE OF THE THIRD REICH Logline: This is a story of frustration, despair,ambition,and betrayal which struck center most core of the Third Reich. Based on true events. Genre: political drama FLOODGATE \Logline: When a young man receives a package in the mail containing a video camera that belonged to his parents. He travels to Thailand to trace their last moments before the catastrophic tsunami of 2004. Genre: Drama (based on a true story)
FLAMES OF PASSION Logline: Flames Of Passion is the story about Frederich Auguste Bartholdi who originated the design for The Statue Of Liberty. From his vision of a woman, shot down in a street riot during the Second Empire in 1852 Paris, the story begins with a student artist. Genre: Biographical/History REBEL PATRIOT-REVOLUTION Logline: In a time of war there has to come peace. Nathan Hale was a true American hero. Genre: Bio-Pic FLOWERS FROM MISS EMILY Logline: One day a nine-year-old girl gets into the fairy world of the great poetess Emily Dickinson. But her strict aunt dislikes that because she knows about the bitter part of this fairy tale. Genre: Biographical OLD FRIEND SPORT Logline: Story about a man that relives his childhood with a grand old dog, And how a dog helps a boy grow into a man. And how a dog and boy gets into trouble and the dog saves the boy life,A story about a boy and dog love that grows A story worth reading and a story for young and old to enjoy. Your laugh and cry A true story Genre: family MS. SHELBY Logline: A humorous and heartfelt true story of how one dog remarkably won her bout with cancer. Genre: Non-Fiction
UNGODLY Logline: A street kid from Brooklyn becomes the black pharaoh of Putnam County -- and the nation's worst sex predator. Genre: True Story
CORN MOON Logline: A teenaged couple is savagely murdered in a small Ohio town. The townspeople cheer as the girl's stepfather is sent to Death Row. 27 years later, the real killers confess. Genre: True Story
VICTORIA THE FIRST Logline: In 1870, Victoria Woodhull became the first woman to run for President. She overcame her bawdy past to take Congress, the suffrage movement, and the nation's past by storm. A woman too far ahead of her time. Genre: True Story
INFERNO E-mail Address: jbrin40126@aol.com Logline: Set in 1894, the true story of a discredited engineer who, against orders, takes his train into a horrific firestorm to save a town's population...among them, his wife and young son. Genre: Period drama GOING POSTAL E-mail Address: r3t3@hotmail.com Logline: Wrongfully terminated in the recession in 2008, a mailroom clerk seeks revenge against his employer and co-workers! Genre: True Story WEREWOLF E-mail Address: writerfrank1@hotmail.com Logline: True story of an American naval officer who gets marooned on a Japanese-occupied island during WWII. Genre: True story THE GIFT OF HURT E-mail Address: Mdr1291@aol.com Submit Your Logline: What happens to a woman, sexually abused as a child, she survives her husband's kidnapping, her therapists abandon her and realizes there's no one left to save her? She saves herself. Screenplay Genre: True Story KING OF CRASH E-mail Address: actionevents@iswest.com Logline: A turbulent love story "SCREECH"-play. The "true life" saga of a legendary daredevil stunt driver."From totaling-out cars for fraudulent insurance scams (as a rowdy teenager, from a troubled homelife) -to- broken bones & breaking world records, in a career of calamity, spanning over 2 1/2 decades. Genre: Action, Drama "Based on a true story". PIPPA'S SONG E-mail Address: dmitchelltn@aol.com Logline: The remarkable true story of a terminally ill journalist who embarks on an incredible journey that alters her fate and leaves an indelible mark on humanity. Genre: Biopic/Drama/Family ON THE STRINGS OF PASSION E-mail Address: donarose@op.pl Logline: Screenplay is a scheme of the biographical movie about Zbigniew Rozanek - four time record breaker of Guinness records, a constructor of many curious things, and about Lucas - an autistic child. Genre: family, biographical LIVING PROOF E-mail Address: gately@verizon.net Logline: (based on a true story, Jerry Gaughan, screenplay by Robert Gately) Adopted at infancy, a professional minor league ice hockey player searches for his biological parents during a championship season where his dream of playing in the big leagues hangs on a thread and a prayer. But his quest to find his birth parents is more disruptive to his life than expected and he finds himself more on a journey of enlightenment than discovery. Genre: drama - true story CRIMSON ROMANCE E-mail Address: askm3@msn.com Logline: The remarkable true story of a battered teenage bride and a sexually abused gas attendant who became the legendary Gangsters Bonnie Clyde. Genre: True Story FROM SEA TO SHINY SEA Paulitics22@yahoo.com A young orphan brings the Nation to it's knees. He defeats the all mighty Navy, National Air Defence, and ICBM base in the North Pacific single handed. Then in Dallas if that dose not get your gull up he assassinates your beloved President JFK, Then the next day goes out into the Atlantic and battles the U.S Navy makes them surrender along with the ICBM Screenplay Genre: TRUE STORY MY HOMETOWN'S INDIANS E-mail Address: salmista211@hotmail.com Logline: When a team's batboy prays for a chance to retire with a championship, unexplained things happens to make that possible. Genre: True story THE OTHER SIDE OF THE REASON E-mail Address: krzavac@sbb.rs Logline: Behind the scene of air strikes against Yugoslavia, top story of the Globe in Spring 1999 there is an inside drama in Radio Television of Serbia (RTS). Forthcoming tragedy is on the way - Sixteen people were killed on April 23, 1999. Genre: true story
BLACK MAN UNDER THE DEEP BLUE SEA E-mail Address: tonywells82@hotmail.com Logline: A young black man finds excitement and peril in becoming a successful, world-traveled deep-sea diver. Genre: Autobiography/Adventure/Comedy THE SECRET WORLD OF MOE BERG E-mail Address: jrmelnick@earthlink.net Logline: Mysterious, scholarly, 1930's Major League catcher, Moe Berg --an Ivy League graduate, multi-linguist and lawyer -- becomes America's top atomic spy during World War II. Based on a true story. Rights to an award-winning biography about Berg. Genre: bio/historical/drama/sports THE OTHER SIDE OF THE REASON krzavac@sbb.co.yu Behind the scene of air strikes against Yugoslavia, top story of the Globe in Spring 1999. ON THE ROAD TO FILL UP THE BELLY Skyburst@telus.net This true action, adventure story takes place in Hungary in 1944-45 just before, and shortly after the second world war ended in Europe. This is a story of a young lad of fourteen years old, who risk his life many times to support his sick mother and younger brother living in Budapest, in despair, in a war-torned country. THE MELODY CALLED LIFE atkinsonkj@hotmail.com A famous singer unknowingly saves the life of a child through her music. Their paths cross and they both find out that the connection between them runs deeper than they could have ever imagined. SWITCHED AT BIRTH --- MY LIFE IN SOMEONE ELSE'S WORLD kiwiwewe@comcast.net True story of two boys who were switched at birth. GLASS MOUNTAIN
From reform school in 1926, through bootleg boxing, to Light-Heavyweight Champion of the World, to setting an unbeaten knock-out record, to helping underpriviledged youth - the Archie Moore story. Contact Writer
"CONDUCT UNBECOMING"
A decorated Marine gets involved with a platoon that has a reputation for criminal activity at Camp Pendleton, California in 1994. Contact Writer
LIONMANE E-mail Address: mastercom@sympatico.ca Logline: about a 14 y/o boy who has contracted HIV. www3.sympatico.ca/mastercom/index.htm Genre: True life Drama STEEL PLAYGROUND E-mail Address: chadepotvin@yahoo.com Logline: Based on a true story, a correction officer's descent into mental illness is fueled by the rigors of working in a dangerous maximum security prison, and a battle with powerful personal demons. Genre: Drama POLITICAL MAFIA E-mail Address: ericjmercer@hotmail.com Logline: Marilyn Monroe was a pawn in the power struggle of the political elites. Genre: Historical/Drama SLUMBER LAND E-mail Address: particleman.x31@gmail.com Logline: The life and works of American animator, Winsor Mccay. Genre: non fiction/ Fantasy BROKEN SOULS E-mail Address: doris2@prexar.com Book/screenplay of my true life and political mission to help forgotten children.Check my video at youtube.com/Dorisanne13 or my personal site: http://www.LifesUltimateTest.com Screenplay Genre: Documentary FROM THE WOMB TO THE TOMB E-mail Address: kat@duh-real.com Logline: A true drama; A young black female steps into a nightmare, forcing her to experience (ESP) extrasensory perception. Genre: true story, drama
TYPE DIRTY TO ME: THE JAN MUDD STORY E-mail Address: gruisjessie@hotmail.com Logline: Hot-shot advertising exec, Jan Mudd gets in over her head when she are her no-nonsense co-worker, Bessie Moose embark on a project for the up and coming on-line community, Greg's List. While researching the site, the pair post what they feel is a harmless, mock personal ad. However, one troubled member of the cyber community takes the ad too personally and Jan finds herself caught in a virtual game of cat and mouse with an on-line stalker who refuses to take no for an answer. Genre: Docudrama
THE DONNER PARTY E-mail Address: brochtrup.carey@gmail.com Logline: Based on a true story, the epic romantic tale of a young married couple who fall in love as they journey west across the American frontier with the ill-fated Donner Party in 1846. Genre: Epic Love Story THE LIFE YOU SAVE E-mail Address: courtexpert@gmail.com Logline: THE LIFE YOU SAVE Foster kids trying to be regular kids getting straight in an irregular world full of curves. IVAN THE TERRIBLE E-mail Address: wolfloki@yahoo.com Logline: Ivan Grozny of Russia on an expansionist campaign against the Ottoman Empire. This is an epic true story of the power struggles and politics of the revered Russian Czar Ivan Grozny. Beginning with the murder of his own son and culminating with the destruction of vast armies to appease his iron will. Ivan is a master manipulator and a cordial host. Developing his own secret police known as the Oprischniki to keep the new fallen regions in line. He honed his abilities of manipulation and cruelty as a child and perfected them as the first Czar of Russia. Genre: True/ Biography
812-THE STORY OF A SCOUT TROOP E-mail Address: riles.mike@gmail.com Logline: It is the early 1960's in Chicago and Mike Riles gets in to some shenanigans. His parents turn him over to Scout Troop 812 and a mentor who nearly lost his life in the Korean War, a man driven to give back what he had no choice but to take away. Genre: Nostalgia and coming of age. CROWLEY, THE BEAST E-mail Address: wolfloki@yahoo.com Logline: Aleister Crowley, mountain climber, drug addict and occultist, embarks on a global quest for spiritual enlightenment. A quest to attain through a 14th century black magic ritual called, 'The Abramelin,' his holy guardian angel. The lines of black and white magic are blurred as what Crowley seeks out brings him closer to true evil than even he could have imagined. Genre: True Biographical LOOK YOUR HEART IN THE MIRROR E-mail Address: lyhitm@verizon.net Logline: A Daring Challenger to the Throne of Christ Becomes the New Age Messiah Genre: New Age True Story THE EXTENDED BATTLEFIELD E-mail Address: rdeeassociates@aol.com Logline: During the Korean war, a collaborating American Negro prisoner determined to survive and adversly segregated with other Negro prisoners confronted with Communist "brainwashing." Genre: Fact-based war drama MAKING DESTINY SING E-mail Address: mellsworthscribe@hotmail.com Logline: One family's divorce trials lead to statewide legal reforms. Genre: TRUE/MOW THE LOST DIARY E-mail Address: nstaeheli@yahoo.com Submit Your Logline: Based on real events, a teenage girl is forced to re-examine her judgments and relationships when she loses her diary and its entries are aired on a local radio show. Screenplay Genre: Teen movie MY GRANDFATHER'S MURDER ElizaM59@aol,com True crime story based on the 1922 murder of my grandfather, a farmer from Upper Canada.
LOOK AWAY DIXIE LAND twsolutions@mts.net In the summer of 1981, a small Midwestern town fights back against a bully that had been terrorizing the people and their town for years. One bright sunny day, the bully was shot downtown in broad daylight and no one saw anything. To this date, his killer(s) remains unknown.
CHANGE OF DESTINY KVMura@aol.com Not even KGB or Siberian labour camps, could not brake the bond between family members. THE LOST WORLD OF WILLIS O"BRIEN Contact Writer Biographical script based on the inventor of stop-motion animation, most famous for King Kong GOD'S BOOK tzinner@san.rr.com Factually Based. A brother and sister struggle with mental illness after coming to America.
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