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Features & Shorts

FEATURES
 
Loglines are below for all scripts, as well as synopses for some shorts. Please see rates for the cost to option shorts and features, and basic terms. Please contact me if you wish to read a script or purchase it.
 
 

Bingo Bango (Quirky Comedy)

Co-written with Kevin Passarelli

LOGLINE: A nebbish BINGO caller has a change of fortune after he inherits a BINGO dauber from the luckiest old lady in town. Is it the BINGO dauber or him that's making his luck?

QUARTER-FINALIST: 2005 Winter Expose It! Comedy Screenplay Contest
QUARTER-FINALIST: 2005 Big Bear Lake International Screenwriting Competition

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Mighty Lemming
(Animated Adventure)

LOGLINE: A feisty lemming embarks on a solitary quest to debunk the myth of the “Lemming Suicide Plunge” and discovers amazing truths about survival, life and love.

QUARTER-FINALIST: 2006 Expo 5 Screenplay Competition
QUARTER-FINALIST: 2005 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards
QUARTER-FINALIST: 2005 Expo 4 Screenplay Competition
NOTE: Represented by Kathy Muraviov @ The Muraviov Company.

Night Terrors
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Illustration by Bret Herholz. Bob Heske Copyright 2005.

distortia (Suspense Thriller)

LOGLINE: A psychic sketch artist loses his ability to draw violent criminals in his sleep at the worst time – after he witnesses a police murder and he becomes the next target. Forced to investigate, he finds himself immersed in a police conspiracy and a shadowy world of drugs, deceit and black magic.

QUARTER-FINALIST: 2008 BlueCat Screenplay Contest
QUARTER-FINALIST: 2007 PAGE International Screenwriting Competition (Thrillers)
FINALIST (Top 5): NHFX '06 Screenplay Contest
QUARTER-FINALIST: 2005 Expo 4 Screenplay Competition
RUNNERUP:
2004 Emerson College Student Competition (Screenwriting Certificate Program)

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Rick Head (Comedy)
LOGLINE: "Monty Python meets Gilligan's Island." When an arrogant headshot model’s ad campaign goes south, he decides to get away, but his tropical paradise turns out to be an island full of cannibals.  The model needs to be a team player – working with a handful of others – in order to make it off the island alive.
SCRIPT SAVVY RECOMMEND!

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The Night Projectionist (Horror)

LOGLINE: A night projectionist at a condemned movie theater takes his audience hostage on Halloween night, unleashing a battle between past ghosts and the revelation that he is a vampire facing his last night on earth.

CO-CREATION AGREEMENT: STUDIO 407 TO CREATE GRAPHIC NOVEL. (IN PRODUCTION)

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SHORTS
 
Loglines, synopses and some script excerpts are below. All scripts are rights-protected. Please contact me to purchase them.

A Buddy Story
(Comedy - 13 pages)
LOGLINE: Jess and Jude are best buds. Can one weird friendship withstand the tests of time, bad karma and reincarnation?

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Illustration by Dany Boom.

 
 
A Demon Tale
(Comedy - 10 pages)
LOGLINE: When bumbling Demon Dad sits for Baby Demon, it's a hellish accident waiting to happen ... with sinfully funny consequences.
 
 

Adam's Deadline
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Ilustration by Bret Herholz. Bob Heske Copyright 2005.

 
 
Adam's Deadline
(Comedy - 15 pages)
LOGLINE: Misguided Adam has one day to finish a rush assignment  a rewrite of Revelation for client-from-Hell Lucy Ford (Lucifer). If only those pesky Jehovah's Witnesses would leave him alone!
FINALIST: 2006 The Writers Place Short Screenplay Contest

 
 
 
Alibi (Thriller - 25 pages)
LOGLINE: A man accused of murdering his autistic daughter pleads the "sleepwalking alibi". Two hard-boiled detectives want him to pay the price for the blood on his hands. Is the accused innocent, insane ... or was he awake the whole time?
SEMI-FINALIST: 2006 Gimme Credit (Cycle II) Short Screenplay Competition
TOP 325: 2006 American Gem Short Screenplay Competition (out of 1,176 entries)

Bern in Hell (Comedy - 11 pages)
Co-written with Angela DiRe-Heske
LOGLINE: A bickering couple are reunited in the Afterlife.
FINALIST: 2007 The Writers Place Short Screenplay Contest

Blood Relative (Suspense - 37 pages)

LOGLINE: On the anniversary of her twin’s brutal murder, a woman meets a psychic stranger who claims to know the identity of the serial killer. And tonight, he’s certain the killer is coming back for her.

WINNER: 2006 The Indie Gathering (Short category: suspense/thriller)
FINALIST: 2005 Spring The Writers Place Screenplay
Contest (Shorts)
SEMI-FINALIST: 2006 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards (Short Films)
TOP 325: 2006 American Gem Short Screenplay Competition (out of 1,176 entries)

Deer X-ings: A Short Trilogy
(Comedy - 7 pages)
LOGLINE: Mindless Vikram throws caution to the wind as he drives recklessly in his Mini Cooper and chats on his cell. Watch out for the signs! (Three comically tragic endings.)

Double Talk
(Comedy - 5 pages)
LOGLINE: When boyfriend goes away on business, what happens in the apartment stays in the apartment. Unless the third roommate is a big-mouth parrot.

Fat Club (Dark Comedy - 26 pages)

LOGLINE: Two fat men go to a gentlemen's club where shame and pain are the ultimate motivation for losing weight.

FINALIST: 2007 WILDsound Reading Series (July shorts)
FINALIST: 2006 BIFF Short Screenplay Competition
FINALIST: 2006 Gimme Credit Short Script Competition
FINALIST: 2005 Spring The Writers Place Screenplay Contest (Shorts)
SEMI-FINALIST: 2006 American Gem Short Screenplay Competition (top 25 out of 1,176 entries)

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Her First Day Alone (Drama - 15 Pages)
Logline: In this urban horror tale, a post-partum mother suffers through a series of psychotic hallucinations after her daughter leaves for her first day of day care.
QUARTER-FINALIST: 2007 PAGE International Screenwriting Competition (Shorts)
FINALIST: 2007 WILDsound Reading Series (October shorts)
3RD PLACE: 2006 The Writers Place Short Screenplay Contest

Lost and Found
(Suspense - 5 pages)
LOGLINE: With the help of Mall Security, a teenage girl searches for a missing sister and her mysterious abductor.

Mile High Club (Drama - 2 pages)
LOGLINE: A man and woman experience an emotional high at 30,000 feet locked in an airplane privy.
FINALIST: Top Ten in MY TAKE Super Shorts Contest

Psychosis (Thriller - 38 pages)

LOGLINE: A psychic sketch artist is called out of retirement for one last case. But walking this crime scene could lead to murder – his own!

FINALIST: 2005 Spring The Writers Place Screenplay Contest (Shorts)
SEMI-FINALIST: 2005 PAGE International Screenplay Competition
TOP 200: 2006 American Gem Short Screenplay Competition (out of 1,176 entries)

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The Dreadful Dinner
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Illustration by Bret Herholz. Bob Heske Copyright 2005.

The Dreadful Dinner
(Drama - 29 pages)
LOGLINE: Six acquaintances meet at a French restaurant where a death is on the menu. And that's just the beginning of an utterly dreadful dinner.
QUARTER-FINALIST: 2006 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards (Short Films)
 

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