A springtime view from my western MA community
CONJURING SOMEWHERE!
Summer 2023 I'm making my directorial debut with a Gothic romance!
The movie is a mix of "Somewhere In Time" and "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir."
I'm shooting the movie in my hometown! The target locations are stunning! My goal is to celebrate the town where I grew up; Northampton, MA
Coming soon! A haunted house holiday movie!
Being scared has never been more festive!
The movie logline:
On Christmas Eve at a remote Massachusetts B&B, a disenchanted candlemaker must survive an evening of sinister merriment in order to find her missing artist aunt.
We'll be shooting in the Berkshires:
The story, which is a Gothic haunted house Christmas tale, takes place on Christmas Eve. Much like "A Christmas Carol" it's a mix of scares and heart. The visuals will be a mix of Tim Burton and Guillermo del Toro.
PREMIERING HOLIDAY SEASON 2023!
WINTERS' GARDEN
A social media cooking show host brings the ashes of a WWII nurse to a castle in Wales to lay to rest in a treasured garden and teams up with a British artist to uncover the nurse’s wartime love story.
I wrote the script to honor my dad who served as a medic in the European Campaign in WWII.
The movie was directed by Shari Grewal, executed produced by Jena Maciel and stars Lior Selve, Madeleine Coghlan, Federico Dordei and Peter Jason.
Peter played Uncle Richard in my first movie "The Christmas Card."
Here's a link to the trailer for Winters' Garden: https://app.frame.io/reviews/9b5a91a7-53a4-4ac8-b07c-ca311552058a/905ef634-4ad4-4982-9fc0-fa62ba5b9f7c
Stay tuned for more info!
MY UNICORN ADVENTURE WITH MOM
I met actress and artist GLORINDA MARIE thanks to "The Christmas Card." She played the spunky waitress who served Faith and Cody the crispy curly fries. :)
After my mom passed away in November 2019 I was consumed with grief. To honor her (and her love of unicorns) I wrote a children's story MY UNICORN ADVENTURE WITH MOM. Glorinda hand painted all of the images in the book.
In the story a young girl and her mom travel to an enchanted realm in search of unicorns encountering magical beings along the way. Written in honor of moms.
This project has plenty of lip, and plenty of hip!
MAE & THE MUSCLEMEN is the true story about a 60+ year old Mae West who started a Vegas show with a handful of musclemen she plucked from Muscle Beach, CA. Mae's Vegas Revue of song and dance pre-dated the Chippendales by decades! The story will not only make an epic movie but an epic Broadway show as well.
Muscle Beach in the 1950s was a mecca for gymnasts, acrobats and musclemen. They'd put on free shows for thousands of spectators. The gent holding the women is Russ Saunders. He doubled for Dali as Jesus Christ in Dali's famous painting. The musclemen who toured with Mae shared their stories with me; I believe my screenplay is the only detailed document of this slice of Mae's life.
Mae West reinvented herself at a time when women didn't have many rights, and she did it when she was in her 60s!
Mae fell in love with one of the musclemen who toured with her and they would spend the rest of her life together - 30 years. He was by her side when she passed away in her 90s. He was 30 years her junior.
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