EMMA B, screenplay Emma is a 21-year-old hostess and aspiring art curator, living in Oakland. When she meets Charles, an older tech executive in Silicon Valley, she expects her life to change. This contemporary adaptation of the Flaubert novel Madame Bovary applies the classic’s plot to modern-day San Francisco, evaluating class mobility and consumption in the present age.
JANE DOE, screenplay When Jane’s space shuttle terminally malfunctions halfway into a 10-year mission, a split second decision to clone her memories and physiology lands her back on Earth, while her previous body perishes in space. Suddenly relocated to a world that hasn’t felt like home for some time, Jane’s certainty that she’s the same person who left Earth five years ago is shaky.
SILENCE AND THE HERETIC, novel John and Marlene marry young, before they know themselves or each other. Their only son, Sam, never feels he really knows either of them. Over the span of 50 years, the family pulses in their interactions with each other, often causing more harm than good.
ZEPHYR, short screenplay Set in 1932 Oklahoma, in the Dust Bowl, a young girl grieves her family and the life she’s known, questioning whether memory exists in the mind or in the world around her.