The first shelf is available to read on request. The rest is finished and out in the world.
As the Earth's rotation mysteriously slows and visions throw people into madness, a mismatched crew of survivors chases a mysterious prophet across a dying America - believing he holds the key to unveiling the mystery.
'Lost' meets 'The Leftovers' with a dash of 'The Last of Us'. Co-written with With Tomasz Perczynski
After her client disappears mid-sex, leaving behind a life-changing amount of money, the waitress of a remote California town diner has to dodge the vanished man's wife, the suspicious police deputy, and the eerie lights in the forest that have been taking people from this town for thirty years -- and are coming back for her.
'Mulholland Drive' meets 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
A faith-lost Priest teams up with his eccentric church helper to fight the demonic presence that made the dead priests before him return to life – and accomplish his very first Miracle.
'Shaun of the Dead' meets 'Father Ted'. Austin Film Festival Semifinalist
Two small-time thugs mess up a routine job and inadvertently trigger a deadly clash between their rival Irish mafia families, exposing a forbidden love affair at the heart of the feud. Romeo and Juliet, if nobody in Verona could shoot straight.
'Romeo and Juliet' meets 'Reservoir Dogs'. Austin Film Festival Quarter-Finalist
1983. A letter from a Sicilian priest sends a cellist back to the island she was taken from as a baby, where her mother has spent thirty years in an asylum and her father is the madman the town still crosses the street to avoid. She has half a melody. They have the rest.
Adapted from the book by Salvatore Colletta Drago
A body dressed as a Vestal Virgin surfaces in the waters of Trajan's ancient harbour. An Interpol detective in Rome on a favour, a fast-talking taxi driver and an archaeologist dig through two thousand years of the same city to find out who she was, and who looked away.
A project of the Parco archeologico di Ostia Antica, commissioned by the Italian Cultural Authority. Produced by Machineria. Six episodes, full cast, English and Italian.
After discovering a mythical mermaid in the Puglian depths, a radio host who moonlights as an artifact thief must battle a dangerous rival to protect the creature—and the soul of the sea itself.
Commissioned by the Puglia Region and the EU CoHeN Programme. Produced by Machineria.
A small-time thug brings a gun home to his girlfriend and explains, over talk of the groceries, that fear and respect are the same thing. She is listening more carefully than he thinks. Six minutes, one room, one trigger.
Award-winning. Screened internationally, including Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo.
When his best friend dies in the flat of a neighbour who turns out to be Death, an unemployed poet ends up on a road trip with the ghost, a girl who stabs him, and Death himself, who drives, eats pancakes, and has lost at chess exactly once.
Indie bestseller.
A Pope who admits the Church has been worshipping aliens all along. A writer who survives the zombie apocalypse without ever seeing a zombie. A clinic that rewires your mouth so you can only say nice things. Horror, science fiction and the merely strange, told plainly.
Individual stories published in The Galway Review, San Francisco Review of Books, and elsewhere.
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