Comedy Screenwriter

 
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Funny stories that really mean something once you stop laughing

 

Feature Films

The art of jumping

Lina is a sensitive soul, an artist from Australia who is in a stale marriage, while also trying to deny this crazy feeling that the famous movie star Sam West is her true love. When an opportunity arises to meet Sam at Comic Con, Lina and her whole quirky family go to America to see if in fact he has been dreaming of her too.

All I want…

An Australian Love, Actually, following seven couples as they explore love and the beauty of the grand gesture… at Christmas… in Australia. Amid bush fires and drag queen shows and even a movie star coming home to declare his love to his high school sweetheart!

saving james dean

Rival vintage market stall owners quirky Ester and rebel without a cause Jane have always had an antagonistic relationship, which only becomes more heated when Jane discovers Ester can travel back to the 1950s through a gilded mirror, back to the exact day that James Dean died!

saving sawyer morgan

Shy girl Queenie is resigned to loving gorgeous quarterback Sawyer from afar, until he dies in the championship game and suddenly Queenie wakes up the same day again… and again… and again. As Queenie tries to save Sawyer in more and more desperate and ridiculous ways she slowly starts to realise that perhaps the time loop is about something more, as the day that keeps repeating is her deceased big brother’s birthday.

sofia’s heart

Annie has lived her whole life resigned to dying, until she gets a second chance with a new heart. When she goes to meet the family of the young heart donor, Sofia, she finds herself swept up by Sofia's grieving mother and crazy constantly high grandmother on an epic adventure around the world to complete Sofia's bucket list and finally learn to live.

I want my money back

A charming conman makes the mistake of ripping off a badass but socially awkward professional assassin, who then goes after him for her money, which is inconsequential compared to what she makes shooting people in the head, but that’s not the point! However, at the same time the family of her latest mark come after her and now she and her conman are stuck with each other as they go on the run.

mother ninja

Mother Ninja is a hilarious falling off the treadmill journey of the pain and torture of losing weight and getting fit, that takes our overweight housewife and mother, Mandy, from the couch eating fast food in front of the TV to stepping up to the first platform of the Ninja Warrior course!

 

TV Series

Lexi and locky: Mysterious encounters

In the shadow of a mysterious outback mountain range, popular tomboy Lexi, and neuro-diverse new kid Locky, discover pieces of an ancient artefact that might just open the door to another realm!

Stranger Things meets Lost for a younger audience in this kids supernatural mystery series, 10 episodes x 30 minutes.

This is based on the true characters of my tall, sporty, popular daughter who is in love with the beautiful boy next door, a boy who is intelligent and different and slightly obsessive, and who also has Autism.

If I breathe

Five troubled teens are forced into quarantine after becoming patient zero, carriers of an ancient virus that wipes out half the population of Australia. They escape years later to find a war has erupted between two surviving factions; the healthy people behind their walled city, and the deformed and grotesque survivors of the plague out in the bush. As the ‘healthies’ seek to exterminate the ‘survivors’ believing they are still contagious, the survivors discover the teens and plan to use them as a weapon.  Now the teens must band together to fix the world they broke and bring humanity back together.

                        Teen Mad Max  in the bush!

Love and other simple things 

A highly stylized musical romantic comedy series about Holly, an adorable and tenacious woman with Asperger’s who desperately wants to be loved like in her romantic comedies and sets up the scenarios and dialogue from her favourite movies to get newcomers to her small town to fall in love with her with varying hilarious results, all while missing what’s right in front of her.