The Birth of a Nation’s Nate Parker has been hired to pen the adaptation of former ESPN producer Lisa Fenn’s inspiration sports memoir, Carry On. The story about two disabled wrestlers from an impoverished Cleveland neighborhood is in the vein of The Blind Side and Friday Night Lights.
Identity Films
The true story an Emmy-winning features producer for ESPN and her 2009 return to her Cleveland hometown to chase a story on two disabled wrestlers who attended an impoverished public high school.
Logline: Story follows Don Dawson who left his friends, family and emptied his bank account to travel to Vietnam in hopes of finding his brother Daniel, who’s surveillance plane disappeared over the jungle during the Vietnam war.
Logline: A 13-year old, having just vandalized a developer’s property, finds a human skeleton in the woods and begins questioning his identity and connect with a long buried horror.
Logline: A young man tries to break financial ties from his oppressive uncle by tutoring a whorehouse madam.
Logline: After being banned from their local theater, three friends in Martha’s Vineyard spend the summer of 1975 trying to find a way to see “Jaws.”
Logline: Teenager Lucy Diamond of Great Falls, Montana, struggles with the onset of womanhood on her own, while her immature, self-centered parents, having married very young, try to recapture the youth they feel they missed.
Logline: Based on the true story of the biggest bank heist in US history that took place in Laguna Beach, California in 1972. A gang of close-knit thieves from Youngstown, Ohio get tapped by the Teamsters to steal $30 million in illegal campaign contributions and blackmail money from President Richard Nixon.
Logline: Ana Montes, known to her coworkers as the “Queen of Cuba†because of her quick rise through the ranks of Latin American specialists, became the intelligence community’s top analyst on Cuban affairs. Montes had security clearance to all U.S. Top Secret information regarding defense strategies and operations. Considered an overachiever by everyone at the Pentagon throughout her sixteen-year career, Montes sent Fidel Castro some of America’s most closely guarded secrets while at the same time influenced what the United States thought it knew about Cuba.
Logline: Three young women stump law enforcement as they repeatedly pull off incredible heists. When one of the women almost gets caught and then falls in love, her actions threaten to pull the group apart just as two police detectives are hot on their trail.
Logline: It’s Christmas season and Mr. Timothy Cratchit, not the pious child the world thought he was, has just buried his father. He’s also struggling to bury his past as a cripple and shed his financial ties to his benevolent Uncle Ebenezer by losing himself in the thick of London’s underbelly. Timothy’s life takes a sharp turn when he discovers the bodies of two dead girls, each seared with the same cruel brand on their upper arms. The sight of their horror-struck faces compels Timothy to become the protector of another young girl, Philomela, from the fate that the others suffered at the hands of a dangerous and powerful man.
Logline: Based on the true story of grieving parents who used the unexpected death of their young daughter as inspiration to build a world class children’s hospital.
Logline: On November 6, 1964, U.S. Army pilot Daniel Dawson went Missing In Action after Viet Cong soldiers shot down his L-19 surveillance plane. Three weeks later, his younger brother Don, a 24-year-old boat captain, left his job, his family and friends, emptied his bank account, and traveled to Vietnam to rescue his brother–or bring his body home to his widow and four children.
Logline: Richard, a writer in need of inspiration, is bogged down in solitude, plagued by alcoholism, when he meets Jack, a mysterious, charismatic vagabond in need of work. Richard agrees to let Jack stay with him, and not before long, the two men engage in a dangerous game of manipulation and intimidation.
Logline: An energy consultant, still grieving from the loss of his son years earlier, must figure out the connection between a conspiracy to control global oil and energy and his son’s disappearance.
Logline: Based on the life of Forrest Tucker who, at the age of 78, was finally caught by police in a high-speed chase. Prior to his arrest, Tucker escaped San Quentin prison and continued robbing banks in Texas and Oklahoma as a member of the Over-the-Hill Gang.
Logline: A married man tries to maintain his integrity while running for president.
Logline: Centers on the rise of the Aryan Brotherhood as it becomes one of the violent and notorious gangs in America.
Logline: A guy meets the girl of his dreams, but her ex-boyfriend, who’s now her best friend, keeps blocking his advances.
