DARE: Dream, Act, Risk, Embrace
FILMS
NOW PLAYING
MCMILLIONS
Playing on HBO
LAMB
Watch it HERE
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?
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Cast: Kathryn Boyd Brolin, Tyner Rushing
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COMING THROUGH THE RYE
Completed 2014
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.
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Cast: Alex Wolff, Stefania Owen, Adrian Pasdar, and Chris Cooper as J.D. Salinger
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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.
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Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Mackenzie Foy, Josh Lucas, Ned Bellamy, JP Vanderloo, Alano Miller, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Laura Fraser, Graham Beckel, Antonio Ducrot
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LAKE EFFECTS
Completed 2010
After the death of their father, two estranged sisters, on 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.
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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.
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IN DEVELOPMENT
SHOELESS WONDERS
In Development
INSPIRED BY REAL EVENTS/FAMILY INSPIRATIONAL SPORTS FILM
WRITTEN BY: Rebecca Rogers Nelson and Micky Levy
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Digger O'Brien
DIRECTOR: Lisa France
STATUS: Script Complete, Deck available
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In the 1920s, Lynchburg, Virginia was one of the largest shoe manufacturers and distributors in the world. Ironically, it was also home to the Shoeless Wonders. A young woman with a secret and a grieving, aging farm worker get a second chance at life when they help a group of ragtag orphans become the Shoeless Wonders, a legendary Virginia barefoot football team that went undefeated and unscored upon for eight years.
THE UPSIDE OF FALLING DOWN
In Development
YOUNG ADULT/ ROMANCE
BASED ON THE BOOK BY: Rebekah Crane
CAST: Antonia Gentry (Ginny & Georgia), Calam Lynch (Bridgerton)
DIRECTOR: Oran Zegman
PRODUCERS: Judy Cairo, Sara Elizabeth Timmins, Embankment Films
STATUS: Shooting 2024
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An American teen's visit to Ireland takes a disastrous turn when an accident causes the loss of her memory. She convinces a handsome blue-eyed local to take her in, and as she struggles to remember her past, he tries to forget his own. Emotions are ignited, secrets revealed, and they start falling…
ORANGE AND BLUE OVER YELLOW
In Development
DRAMA (WITH A SPIRITUAL BENT)
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY BY: Paul Davidson
DIRECTED BY: Peter Facinelli
STATUS: Script Complete, Deck available
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Two families’ worlds are rocked when they discover that the daughter of one couple, may be the reincarnated child of the other, who drowned years before. Now, both sets of parents must deal with jealousy, regret, reconciliation and the ultimate question: Whose daughter is she after all?
CRAY CRAY
Script In Development
DRAMA/SOCIAL JUSTICE
BASED ON THE MEMOIR BY: Kristine Medea
STATUS: Optioned, Script in Development
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One year after watching One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, a terrified little girl found those same doors of the Cuckoo’s Nest closing behind her. Officially known as the Oregon State Hospital, the children’s ward of that infamous institution was now 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 above 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.
DO YOU HEAR ME NOW?
In Development
DRAMA/SOCIAL JUSTICE
BASE ON A TRUE STORY: The life of Julia Hubbard
STATUS: Scripted and Documentary rights secured; Development; Deck available
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Julia Hubbard is a Mormon turned Agnostic. A stripper turned criminal profiler. A mother of three and a former sex slave who was married to her trafficker. Julia’s former husband, Richard Hubbard, ran a sex and labor trafficking venture for his financial gain, with the essential financial assistance and influence of environmental philanthropist Trammell S. Crow Jr., and at least eight other prominent Texas businessmen, 28 doctors and a prominent police officer. With exclusive access to Julia and her buckets of evidence against these men, this film will not just be another sad story. While Julia’s story is shocking, it is not unique. Intimate partner trafficking is very real, and as hard as it is to escape it, it’s even harder to get anyone to give a shit. So Julia is kicking down the door, baring it all and making us all listen. This is the Epstein sex ring on steroids because as we know, everything is bigger in Texas.
ASPEN
Script Complete
YOUNG ADULT/ COMING OF AGE DRAMA
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY BY: Rebekah Crane
BASED ON THE BOOK BY: Rebekah Crane
STATUS: Script Complete, Deck available
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A Birkenstocks-loving old soul is playing parent to her free-spirited, pot-smoking single mother when she kills the most popular girl in school in a tragic car accident that turns her senior year upside down. She unexpectedly goes from quirky artist to the most popular girl, but is haunted by hallucinations of the dead girl that slowly reveal things at Boulder High are not as they seem.
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DADDY UP
In Development
ROM COM
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY BY: Mike Millano
STATUS: Script Complete
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In the vein of “JUNO” And “BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING.”
A successful restaurateur nearing 40, has everything he wants until a near death experience and suddenly his biological clock is ticking. Since none of the many women he has dated are even close to marriage material, he hires a surrogate. Sparks fly when a feisty surfer/scrap metal artist who works for her family auto shop saves him when his car breaks down (aka- he runs out of gas). Unbeknownst to him, she becomes a surrogate to secretly save the family business so they both hide the same secret. She is having a baby but is it his?
UNITED STATES OF HUSTLE
In Development
DOCUMENTARY
DIRECTED BY: Irene Taylor (Emmy & Peabody Winning, Oscar Nominated)
CREATOR: Maria Steuer
PRODUCERS: Sara Elizabeth Timmins, Vermillion Films
STATUS: In Development
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A captivating documentary that examines the badge of honor we call “hustle,” exploring the undeniable link between the lack of connection and love in childhood and this invisible addiction that breeds overachievers and workaholics.
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ADDITIONAL FILM CREDITS
MCMILLIONS
Docu-series on HBO
DIRECTORS: James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte
PRODUCERS: Mark Wahlberg, Stephen Levinson, Archie Gips, James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte.
FIELD PRODUCER: Sara Elizabeth Timmins
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A six-part documentary series from Executive Producer Mark Wahlberg, McMillion$ chronicles the stranger-than-fiction true story of how $24 million-dollars was stolen from the McDonald’s Monopoly game of the 1990s, the mystery mastermind behind the scam and the intrepid FBI agents on his trail.
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TATTERED ANGEL
Completed
CAST: Duffy Hudson, Lynda Carter, Susan Floyd, Kirk Baltz, Roy Lee Jones
PRODUCED BY: Sara Elizabeth Timmins
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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.
ROSABELLA
Completed
CAST: Melissa Sandvig, John Todd, Jessamyn Lawrence
PRODUCED BY: Sara Elizabeth Timmins
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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.