SCREENPLAYS

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I've written five feature screenplays: A Distância, Burn It All, Born Again, In the Valley of Darkness, and Broken Love, as well as three short films: Push, Out of the Blue, and Papa Dan.

FEATURE FILMS

A DISTÂNCIA

When an American orphanage director and his Brazilian filmmaker wife travel to Porto Alegre, her sudden disappearance sends them on a journey into their families' pasts, uncovering long-buried secrets that reveal their histories—and their lives together—are more deeply connected than either ever knew.

BURN IT ALL

When Andrew’s AI-obsessed tech CEO father Patrick is murdered and Patrick’s resentful co-founder is charged with the murder, a skeptical Andrew tracks down his twin sister Claire, who’s part of an anti-technology cult that he thinks might be the real culprits.

BORN AGAIN

A closeted teenager and his father, a former Irish mob enforcer, have each built their lives around secrets. But when the son begins digging into his father's past, he sets in motion a chain of events that threatens to expose them both—and destroy the quiet life they've fought to protect.

IN THE VALLEY OF DARKNESS

After fourteen-year-old Paola accidentally kills the younger brother of a local drug kingpin, a mysterious young man with a criminal past and terminal cancer takes her on the run, forging an unlikely alliance that offers them both a chance at redemption.

BROKEN LOVE

An escaped convict returns to his small Upstate New York hometown to retrieve the money he hid before his arrest and flee to Canada with the woman he loves and their young daughter. Instead, he finds two local criminals hunting for the money—and the woman he left behind raising their daughter with his childhood best friend, the cop leading the search to recapture him.

SHORT FILMS

PUSH — Post-Production

When a self-styled life coach takes on a new client, his gospel of discipline, masculinity, and absolute control begins to unravel as the young man challenges the philosophy on which he's built his identity.

OUT OF THE BLUE

After the mother of his child attempts suicide, a controlling college student returns home and is forced to confront the ex-girlfriend, struggling younger brother, and infant son he left behind—and the limits of his belief that the people he loves can be fixed.

PAPA DAN

Five friends arrive at a secluded family cabin for an intervention, only to discover an eccentric stranger has been secretly living there. When an attempt to evict him goes spectacularly wrong, their carefully planned weekend descends into violence, cover-ups, and the airing of secrets they might have preferred to keep buried.

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Below are samples of A Distância, Burn It All, and Born Again. Full scripts are available upon request.

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