The Screenplays
It all begins with writing for me; specifically three cannabis screenplays.
SOUTHERN BUD is a Cannabis Comedy Musical Farce
Logline: Five Southern Belles use all their womanly charms to outsmart traitors and assassins to prevent the Civil War by getting Abe Lincoln and Jeff Davis together to free the slaves and make fabled Southern Bud marijuana available to all.
Yes – the Belles – everyone loves the Belles! And what’s not to like as they’re oh so beautiful in their pastel Antebellum dresses? Gorgeous, I tell you, just gorgeous. And clever, like all Southern girls. Now picture them on the bow of a boat coming at you on the ocean … they’re singing loudly and joyously because they are the Belles on the boat with the buds. Are you kidding me? Southern Girls who smoke weed? Hell yeah! Who wouldn’t want to be out sailing with them?
My Southern Bud cannabis comedy was one of 17 winners at Scriptapalooza’s worldwide comedy short contest in 2017, putting me in the top 4 percent of the entrants. https://goo.gl/w47L58
Moreover, back in June Southern Bud was a quarterfinalist in ScreenCraft’s annual comedy feature competition. https://goo.gl/EEBZWQ https://screencraft.org/2017/06/15/announcing-2017-screencraft-comedy-screenplay-contest-quarter-finalists/
GANJA TALES is a Drama
Logline: A brother battles demons both inside and out while driving his sister cross-country to Seattle to grow legal marijuana for her epilepsy seizures and his Iraq War PTSD. But when his sister is kidnapped, an ex-stripper with ESP teaches him that violence alone won’t save her.
The entire premise of Ganja Tales is a brother’s love for his sister. So we have a sibling love story. I have a sister. And I would like to think that if she were ill and I could do something about it that I would do what Tony does for his sister Katie in Ganja Tales: drive her cross-country to get her some 420 healing.
Ganja Tales, then, is a road story about love, liberation, and medicinal marijuana. The B Character is interesting. She’s Tiffany, an ex-stripper with ESP who ramps up big-time to help Tony and Katie as they head west in an old Chevy Suburban with four friends. Sure, weird stuff happens. It’s dramatic. People die. Ganja Tales has good values; it’s real. You can feel it. And yes, love triumphs in the end. This is a story one can hold up as evidence that decent human beings still exist. That’s not a bad message to pedal in this age of ugliness and lies, is it?
Another good thing that has happened was my Ganja Tales logline which placed in the top 100 in 2017 wildsound.ca
THE OSIPENKO FILE is a Cannabis Comedy Political Satire
Logline: Disgraced secret-service major accidently let out of a Kremlin ice coffin after a decade in deep freeze seeks redemption from Stalin, who tells her she goes back in the ice unless she captures the rebel leader; but when she finally closes in on him, he thaws her brain and she remembers they were lovers.
So, she vanquishes evil and rediscovers lost love. Oh, she also legalizes marijuana in Russia – a decidedly tall order for just such a woman as Major Svetlana Osipenko, the Bolshevik beauty. She’s cute, she’s kooky, and most assuredly in need of some anger-management classes! This story is a romp through 420 Land long ago in Mother Russia, with eerie parallels to life in America today.
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