FILMS
NOW PLAYING
COMING THROUGH THE RYE
American Airlines In-Flight, DVD, Netflix, and streaming on iTunes and Amazon.
WISH YOU WELL
Playing weekly on Showtime and Starz and streaming on Amazon, Hallmark Now
LAKE EFFECTS
Showing on the Hallmark Movie Channel and streaming on Amazon.
COMPLETED FILMS
LAMB
Completed 2018
LAMB exposes the walk, taken by too many talented women in Hollywood, from lobby to hotel room where they were assaulted by men abusing their power. These women were led by someone they thought they could trust… Which leaves us asking, were the female assistants who led these lambs to slaughter pawns in the complicity machine or victims themselves?
Cast: Kathryn Boyd Brolin, Tyner Rushing
COMING THROUGH THE RYE
Completed 2014
A In 1969, at the age of 16, writer/director Jim Sadwith ran away from boarding school to find J.D. Salinger in the New Hampshire woods in order to ask the famous recluse for permission to adapt Catcher in the Rye into a stage production. After two encounters with Salinger and 46 years later, Sadwith has turned his experiences into a coming of age story of a boy and a girl whose odyssey to find Salinger is also a journey into sexual awakening, love and loss.
Cast: Alex Wolff, Stefania Owen, Adrian Pasdar, and Chris Cooper as J.D. Salinger.
WISH YOU WELL
Completed 2012
After a family tragedy, a young girl moves from New York with her younger brother to live with their great grandmother on a Virginia farm and comes closer to understanding the land & roots that inspired her father's writings while discovering herself, the love of family, and the power of truly believing.
Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Mackenzie Foy, Josh Lucas, Ned Bellamy, JP Vanderloo, Alano Miller, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Laura Fraser, Graham Beckel, Antonio Ducrot
LAKE EFFECTS
Completed 2010
After the death of their father, two estranged sisters, one a high powered attorney and the other a small town girl, reunite with their mother at their enchanting family lake house where they grew up, and find that the secret to overcoming tragedy and rebuilding hope lies in their ability to look deeper at themselves.
Cast: Jane Seymour, Scottie Thompson, Madeline Zima, Jeff Fahey, Ben Savage, Richard Moll, Ron Canada, Richard Riehle, Mary McDonough, with Casper Van Dien and Sean Patrick Flanery.
IN DEVELOPMENT
SHOELESS WONDERS
In Development
FAMILY/INSPIRATIONAL SPORTS FILM
A FILM INSPIRED BY REAL EVENTS BY Rebecca Rogers Nelson and Micky Levy
DIRECTED BY Shana Betz
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Digger O’Brien
SLATED TO SHOOT October 2020
STATUS: Script Complete; Over 50% Funded; Deck available
Inspired by real events, a group of determined orphan boys work together to overcome obstacles, defy expectations, and become the SHOELESS WONDERS, the legendary 1920’ s Virginia barefoot football team that went undefeated and unscored upon for eight years. The film ends with the team's first win.
SONGS OF MAASI MARA
Script Complete
ROMANCE/DRAMA/SOCIAL JUSTICE
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY BY Correne Gichuru
DIRECTED BY Micky Levy
STATUS: Script Complete; Deck available
When Maggie, a native Kenyan, who runs a school for girls in Nairobi meets Jack, a washed-out American sports agent who arrives in Africa to recruit a runner, sparks fly. But Jack is wrestling with personal demons, and Maggie is battling the dangers of a Maasai cultural tradition while hiding a painful secret. Together, they’ll have to fight for love.
ASPEN
Script Complete
YOUNG ADULT/COMING OF AGE DRAMA
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY BY Rebekah Crane
BASED ON THE BOOK BY Rebekah Crane
STATUS: Script Complete
Aspen, an old soul and lover of Birkenstocks and tie-dye, is playing the parent to her free-loving, pot-smoking mother when a tragic car accident turns her world upside down. Suffering anxiety attacks, regrets, and seeing hallucinations of a dead girl, Aspen must accept help from unexpected allies in order to forgive herself, let go of the past, and truly live her life.
CRAY CRAY
Script In Development
DRAMA/SOCIAL JUSTICE
BASED ON THE MEMOIR BY Kristine Medea
STATUS: Optioned; Script in Development
One year after watching One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, a terrified little girl found those same doors of the real Cuckoo’s Nest closing behind her. Officially known as the Oregon State Hospital, the children’s ward of that infamous institution was now young Kristine’s home. The path of abuse, neglect, addiction and violence that led to this craziness of institutional care, foster homes, hospitals, etc. was traumatic and left young Kristine wondering if she would survive. Rising beyond her tragic beginnings, Kristine's life today is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit as she uses her experience to help others find hope and healing with the essential element she found sorely absent in her therapeutic and institutional care as a child....Love
SEVEN
In Development
MULTI-EPISODIC/DOCUMENTARY/MINI
CREATED/DIRECTED BY Megan Wells
HOST Amy Purdy
One year. One woman. Seven amazing continents, and an enabled journey around the
world.
What does it mean to experience the world fully? To journey to far away lands and
distant countries, to connect with the people and places and things you imagined only in
your dreams? For Amy Purdy, she always knew she wanted the freedom that came with
exploration, to see her daydreams and imagination become reality, to touch, feel and smell places bigger than
herself. But when she lost both her legs at age 19, suddenly that dream was at risk, and the adventure seemed
impossible. But life sometimes shows us our biggest lessons in our biggest challenge, and enables us to do so
much more than we ever thought possible. Follow along as Amy sets out on the journey of a lifetime, to see all
seven continents, and taste, touch, feel and smell everything she always imagined she’d see. And find out how
what many would perceive as a disability, is actually the ability that allows her to connect to humans all across
the globe. Demographics: Next Gen, Millennial/ Non Core/Female + Disability/Travel, Exploration, Adventure,
Social, Philanthropy, Cultural
SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW
In Development
ROMANTIC COMEDY/WEDDING
WRITTEN BY Elizabeth Dorosin and David Shaw
DIRECTED BY Morgan Lawley
PRODUCERS Karen Johnson and Sara Elizabeth Timmins
STATUS: Script Complete
Former lovers with unresolved feelings are unexpectedly reunited when their very contrasting
wedding receptions take place at the same resort, on the same day. Passions,
cultures and wedding guests collide, leading to something old, something new and something
unexpected!
EVE'S CHRISTMAS
Script Complete
A lonely, adult child of adoption with no family to call her own, besides her cat Walter, Eve is not a fan of Christmas. She is a successful list blogger, curating experiences in the big city and lives vicariously through her lists. One Christmas Eve she meets Nick, the owner of a non-profit foundation assisting foster families who teaches her the true meaning of family and the power of letting others in by simply embracing "Yes and ... "
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ADDITIONAL FILM CREDITS
TATTERED ANGEL
Completed
No matter how hard we run, the past has a way of catching up. No one knows this better than Vince Jacob, who can't escape his sister's murder 30 years before. Home for his mother’s funeral, Vince apparently witnesses the abduction of 10 year-old Ellen Anderson. As his past collides with the present, his relationship with Julie, the missing girl’s teacher, is reignited. Ben, a local cop and Julie’s ex-boyfriend, makes it personal and begins accumulating evidence that may link Vince to the crime. In desperation, Vince launches his own search for Ellen…or is he really searching for his sister? Full of guilt and sorrow, Vince struggles to retain his sanity and understand who he hopes to find alive.
Cast: Duffy Hudson, Lynda Carter, Susan Floyd, Kirk Baltz, Roy Lee Jones
Produced by: Sara Elizabeth Timmins
ROSABELLA
Completed
Based on the children's book "Rosabella" by Gabriele Rose de Ginant. Rosabella emerges as a natural being "gifted" by each of the Elements. She is happy and dances her way through the seasons enjoying every natural river, lake, mountain, animal, bug, and blade of grass. As she grows older, over the centuries, she notices a lack in her life─perhaps a reason or a path. So she sets out
to find a dream by asking all the beings in all of nature what she should do. Her maturity shows as she settles
down to live in a cottage, and decorates it as she makes a secret wish.
Cast: Melissa Sandvig, John Todd, Jessamyn Lawrence
Produced by: Sara Elizabeth Timmins