Screenwriting Samples
Alejandra ("Alex") Ruiz (17),at odds with her young, struggling single mother, finds herself lost between her identity and the lack thereof after surviving sexual assault in a town that strives for maintaining a perfect image and covers up their prejudices in order to do so.
Won Best Student Screenplay at Glendale Intl. Film Festival and was a Semi-Finalist in the Big Apple Film Festival.
'The Dinner' is a suspenseful short film about a young woman who finally seizes control of her own life away from her overprotective mother and lying boyfriend. The story tackles topics of family drama, gaslighting, and manipulation via dynamic characters through the lens of a thriller.
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Received Honorable Mentions at PrairieFest Film Festival and
Athens Intl. Monthly Art Film Festival, and was a Finalist at the Glendale Int. Film Festival.
Fallon Grace (18), a young woman, is chosen as her cult community’s annual Candidate, but she learns that her fate is not one of rumored luxury, but rather to die as their sacrifice.
Freya, a demon, who took her own life back in the 1950s after feeling as though it had been taken from her, has used her time since entering her sentenced afterlife devising a plan, a “long con,” with the goal of seizing revenge against the man who wronged her back then, her husband, Tom, who is now and has been a college professor for decades.
