Emerson thesis -- Writing for film and television
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Found in 130 Collections and/or Records:
Johanna Van Gogh, 2023
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Identifier: sf_2023spring_griffith_patrick.pdf
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"JOHANNA VAN GOGH is a TV Pilot inspired by the true story of the woman who saved Vincent van Gogh's legacy – the story behind the story of the two brothers. Primarily set in Paris in 1891, following the tragic death of Theo only six-months after Vincent, this historical drama follows his grief-stricken widow Johanna and one-year-old son; the sole heirs to hundreds of Vincent's paintings. Designed for streaming platforms as a limited series, JOHANNA VAN GOGH attempts to reveal the events...
Dates:
2023
Kevin's Declassified Zombie Apocalypse Survival Guide, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_krauth_daniel.pdf
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"A dysfunctional bunch of high school students must work together to survive a zombie outbreak that infiltrates their high school. Kevin is an insecure nerd. The main perpetrator of this ridicule is Brendan, a cocky jerk. Kevin has a big crush on Hannah, a theatre girl. Kevin’s best friend is Alex, a laid back stoner and skater. Emily, the overachieving class president, has been going around the school warning everybody about the toxic chemical spill at the dump behind the school. She...
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2022
La Bodega, 2023
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Identifier: sf_2023spring_garcia_koby.pdf
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"La Bodega is a feature length screenplay that tells the story of the Brisas family, a Cuban American multigenerational family who own a bodega in a predominately Hispanic town just outside of New York City that is in the midst of gentrification. A teenager Martin, his mother Ana, and his grandfather El Viejo have differing opinions on the future of the family and their bodega as they each navigate their own lives. This family drama also serves as a coming of age story for the characters and...
Dates:
2023
Labouka, 2020
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Identifier: sw_2020spring_west_robert_alton.pdf
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"'Labouka' is a show that aims to bring both political intrigues mixed with the adventurous antics of shonen manga/anime and young adult novels. It centers around Tora II of the Laboukaian royal family who is born right before the takeover and occupation of his country by the Trios, a country to the northeast of his central and landlocked homeland. The show focuses on themes of family, duty, sacrifice, resistance, and challenging the world order. History of the continent of Rhodelia heavily...
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2020
Land of flint, 2018
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Identifier: wf_2018spring_shatraw_justin.pdf
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"Land of Flint is a crime drama with science fiction elements about a troubled FBI agent who struggles to solve a bizarre murder, hoping to quell her inner crisis and expose a technological threat in Mohawk territory." --Abstract.
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2018
Last Dream in Town, 2023
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Identifier: sf_2023spring_castillon_alejandro.pdf
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"Last Dream In Town is a feature-length screenplay about the role that art plays in the lives of people in rural United States and society at large. This independent drama follows a young grieving bartender who has abandoned her passions, supporting herself financially after the sudden death of her best friend. Eccentrics abound in her small Texas town, and soon she becomes immersed in the lives of radical, anti-technology artists seeking to change the world. Egos clash, music is made, and...
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2023
Last Looks, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_schwegler_ashley.pdf
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"LAST LOOKS is a dramedy limited series that is developed for streaming platforms. A recent college grad takes a job at a funeral home where she faces oppposition when she wants to modernize the establishment to cater to the twenty-first century." -- Abstract
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2022
Let's Go Kill Your Father, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_rodriguez_isabella.pdf
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"LET'S GO KILL YOUR FATHER is a dark comedy and drama centered around a mother-daughter road trip that explores the complicated gravity of grief and guilt. Sprinkled with comedic levity, the film's emotional arc is tethered between the creation of one life and the ending of another. A young Cuban woman completing in vitro fertilization is suddenly jolted into a mission of the opposite nature when her estranged, sickly father asks her to travel from Miami to Portland to euthanize him. She...
Dates:
2021
Letters For Julian, 2019
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Identifier: sw_2019spring_cortes_maria.pdf
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"Letters for Julian is a coming-of-age dramedy about a Boston teenager who, after a sudden death of his mother, learns that he has an older brother who was given up for an adoption at an early age. Exploring themes of family ties, the importance of friendships and human connection, the script follows one main character through his journey on discovering what true family stands for, which leads to a final realization that sometimes blood ties are not the strongest, and our home is truly where...
Dates:
2019
Life's A Zoo, 2024
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Identifier: sf_2024spring_kendig_lauren.pdf
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"Life's A Zoo is a half-hour workplace comedy about a group of people working for the education department at the over a hundred year old Elohi Zoo. We follow the daily ups and downs of the dream team; director of education Betty and her second in command Marcus, the former public school teachers turned zoo educators Victoria and Stephan, the education animal outreach Dawn and Mia, and newcomer office secretary Katie. Their main goal, to share their passion for animals and to educate the...
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2024
Light Catchers, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_roberts_jarrod.pdf
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"This project is a pilot and limited series for a run of ten episodes, revolving around a lone-wolf criminal assembling a heist team to steal a corporation's secret method of faster-than-light travel. The science fiction and heist hybrid follows the main character around a developed solar system, to recruit maladaptive experts into his team, including his distant mother figure and mentor, an ex-gang member robot, a deaf combat specialist, and a hacker addicted to existing in cyberspace." --...
Dates:
2022
Liquid gold and Maybe later, 2018
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Identifier: wf_2018spring_savini_nicole.pdf
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"Liquid Gold is a pilot that sets the background for a half-hour comedy-drama series exploring the lengths single mothers must go to survive. The work confronts toxic gender expectations and our cultural discomfort with the biological female body, in contrast to our obsession with the sexualized female body. Lisette is a recently divorced mother of a new baby and 8-year-old son. In need of income and struggling to re-enter the work force, she discovers an untapped market of bodybuilders,...
Dates:
2018
Long Island Gothic, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_spica_kathleen.pdf
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"Built upon the premise of the regional gothic, LONG ISLAND GOTHIC is a gothic horror feature. The slow-burn horror takes regional specificity under its wing and transforms it into the macabre in a story about knowing when it's time to go and choosing what is worth sacrificing for. It features a twenty-six-year-old WALTER KHAH, a sculpture artist who comes back home to suburban Long Island after running away from his problems in the city and catapults himself head-first into a new...
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2022
Lost & Found, 2024
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Identifier: sf_2024spring_herman_lora.pdf
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"With the overwhelming increase in our consumption habits as a society, it is difficult not to evaluate the attachment we humans have to tangible objects. While an attachment to an item is not necessarily a bad thing inherently, by any stretch of the imagination, it can undoubtedly become a problem if it extends beyond items that are purely sentimental, irreplaceable, or of high-value. Those with hoarding tendencies often struggle to let go of items that are seemingly invaluable,...
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2024
Madrid: A Feature, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_martus_olivia.pdf
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"Madrid follows LAURA (10), who is an average almost 5 grader who loves the Jonas Brothers and reading Goosebumps novels with her best friend SARAH (10). She thought her life would be the same forever until her father, CONRAD (40s) announces she and her family are moving halfway across the world to Madrid, Spain for his big corporate job. Now she must face a new school and adjust to a completely different world from the one she knew in her Western Pennsylvania town. She soon meets new people...
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2022
Madrona, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_mabanglo_jessica.pdf
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"Inspired by real events, MADRONA is a story of grace and purpose. Cole Scottie did not get her degree in Communications and Leadership to be tutoring fifth grade girls. However, after being let go from her job as an HR Manager, here she is. These girls are unruly and dramatic. Maybe that's just being a ten year-old. In any case, their parents are overwhelmed with having kids at home from hybrid-schooling, and they let the girls get away with things that are not okay. The overachiever that...
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2022
Making Waves, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_lee_michael.pdf
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"Making Waves is a feature length dramatic comedy that explores family, failure, and mortality through the journey of two women who just want to see the sea. Inspired by Hurricane Floyd's impact on the North Carolina coast circa 1999, the plot follows Sam Pines as she drives her terminally ill grandmother Florence 700-miles to the beach, unaware a hurricane is directly in their path. Along the way they hit numerous roadblocks, both literally and metaphorically, that force them to address the...
Dates:
2022
Meemst & The Mammoth, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_stephenson_michael
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"MEEMST & THE MAMMOTH is an animated feature film designed for theatrical release set in a fantasy world in which dragons and animals are constantly at odds, struggling to survive. As the dragon's food and water supply begin to dwindle, Meemst, an antithetical young dragon who refuses to breathe fire, embarks on an epic journey to a magical kingdom in the clouds in search of the Elder Dragoom--the one being who can ensure both the dragon's and animal's survival. In his travels, Meemst...
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2022
Meteorite Gem Show and Virgins, 2023
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Identifier: sf_2023spring_galloway_mackenzie.pdf
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"METEORITE GEM SHOW is a live-action and animated show that follows the life of Zula, an 8-year-old girl who has a knack for gems, crystals, and all things mystical. She is a super-nerd and does not engage with the likes of other puberty-stricken 8-year-olds. While other girls are concerned with makeup and viral dances, Zula is fascinated with crystals, the stars, and flowers or has her head engulfed in a YA book. Zula has a special ability. She draws unique portraits. They come to life and...
Dates:
2023
Middlewives and IRL, 2020
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Identifier: sw_2020spring_burness_taylor.pdf
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"MIDDLEWIVES is a one hour dramedy pilot about a young woman who escapes her polygamist cult and finds new family with a group of Vegas strippers. It uses themes of motherhood and freedom to explore ideas of chosen family and the necessity of discomfort for growth. IRL is a half hour comedy pilot set in 1999 about three teenage technopagans who team up with a deceased 80s heartthrob to help the spirits they've unleashed pass on. It explores the intersection of the past and future in numerous...
Dates:
2020