The story takes place just after the Odyssey with Odysseus making the final offer to Poseidon. After that, he goes to consult the Oracle but he discovers that the communication between the world of mortals and the one of Gods is broken.
Meanwhile, some of the kings of Greek city-states – heroes of the Iliad poem – face a supernatural creature that tries to kill them. The plot creates a mystery around Greece’s sacred sites and leads the heroes as they meet during a journey to the “Gates of Hades”, for everything is at stake as the thread of life itself is about to be cut. The Reader will find many myths around the Iliad and Odyssey that are not included in the poems but exist around them. Love, hate, vengeance, action and a puzzle that even the cunning mind of Odysseus is struggling to solve.
Month: February 2020
LA Festival Feature Screenplay: The Death Cross of the Inca, by Rick Mannoia
More valuable than the Maltese Falcon, more cursed than the tomb of King Tut. The Death Cross of the Inca takes us on a tour through time and legend. One must ask, “Is it worth it?”
From Pizarro and the Inca Sun God, hurricanes in the Caribbean, to the New York Diamond District, will the Death Cross Of the Inca ever be possessed?
Find out in the action packed thriller, The Death Cross of the Inca
LA Festival Short Screenplay: Dies Irae, by Carolina Gómez Peiró
In a barn, a young woman tries to escape an assault. Outside, the end of the world has just begun.
- Script Type:Short Script
- Genres:Drama
- Number of Pages:2
- Country of Origin:Spain
- Script Language:Catalan, English
LA Festival Feature Screenplay: The Plan to Find Mr. Right, by Victoria Brooks
An independent, single woman creates a “love success plan” using a data-driven process inspired by a Ted Talks-ish video combined with modern-day pop-psychology to level up her attractiveness. She finds a great partner, only to realize she’s lost herself in the process.
Victoria Brooks is the 2018 ISA Austin Austin Writer Award Winner with The Plan to Find Mr. Right. She’s also placed in the semi-finals at Script and Storyboard Showcase earlier in 2018, for her television pilot Resurrection. She’s appeared on Modern Rogue, a Comedy Central pilot, and the feature One Hand Clapping – if her background scenes didn’t end up on the cutting room floor. She’s also a former conference organizer for the No-Kill movement, which focuses on saving 90% or more of the homeless pets in municipal animal shelters. She managed the American Pets Alive! Conference, where she nearly doubled the attendance year…
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LA Festival Feature Screenplay: VISAGE – NEW BEGINNINGS, by Logan Enstrom
Caught in a war between the Alliance and Visage’s Elite Imperium forces, Desmond Wright struggles to find purpose throughout his hero’s journey.
LA Festival Feature Screenplay: Sunset In Kanungu, by Peter Kisiraga
LOGLINEA soldier questions his life decisions as he finds himself entangled in social and religious conflicts upon returning to his native home
SYNOPSIS
ACT 1
David Mukisa (28-32) an Inquisitive married man and a father to a boy child has just fought his last battle in the Second congo war, having spent his last few years with UN missions and Ugandan army he’s discharged. David has two options, either to move to Kampala and take a job he is offered or re-join his family, the family he left for years. He decides to come back home.
We are in the early months of the year 1999 in Kanungu Uganda most restoration churches are gaining the trust of Christians from other denominations. Having to keep up with his family, David is hired as a driver by an old friend Eric (28-30), now a successful businessman in kanungu.
David doesn’t seem…
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LA Festival Short Screenplay: DRIVER, by Adonis de la Cruz Vásquez
Four friends are in a car when they suffer a serious accident. The girls who go behind leave unharmed, but the boys, who go ahead, are in critical condition and with damaged internal organs, so the death of one could mean the salvation of the other.
- Project Title (Original Language):Driver (C)
- Script Type:Student, Screenplay, Short Script
- Genres:Drama, short film, student, traffic, city, Madrid, Spanish
- Number of Pages:15
- Country of Origin:Spain
LA Festival TV Screenplay: Hanging In There, by Cooper Tomlinson
After an ugly breakup with his longtime girlfriend, Scott—a local radio host— tries to navigate through a single life with the support of his two friends.
- Script Type:Student, Television Script
- Number of Pages:35
- Country of Origin:United States
- Script Language:English
LA Festival Short Screenplay: N.D.E., by Jean Galliano
After being shot while breaking into someone’s home, a Teen Addict has a Near Death Experience [N.D.E.] where he is confronted by a Demon and then by the LORD.
Jose’ is whisked away into a dark place. The Demon proceeds to beat him and knock him around in the darkness. Jose’ fights back unto exhaustion. Defeated, he falls remorseful and apologetic. His MOTHER’S PRAYERS can be heard, and light begins to illuminate the room. The light gathers into the shape of a being – a LIGHT BEING. The Light Being leads Jose’ out of the darkness and into a bountiful garden where the light is revealed to be an aura around the person of the LORD JESUS. The Lord gives Jose’ a new name and sends him back to his body to, “do the work he was sent to do.“ To everyone’s amazement, Jose’ awakens after being dead for nine…
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