Russ Lindway

REPLICATOR (2024)
Film by Cranked Up Films/Crash Cat Media/Mark Andrew Hamer Screen story & co-screenwriter Released in theaters, On Demand and via streaming in November/December 2024.

Hero Tomorrow (2007)
Film by Ted Sikora (Comedy) Special thanks David, a struggling comic book creator from Cleveland, spends his days cutting grass and his nights smoking it while desperately trying to keep his superhero fantasies alive. When Robyn, his aspiring fashion-designer girlfriend, makes him a Halloween costume of his original character Apama, it doesn't take David long to hit the streets and begin blundering towards disaster. This comic book Don Quixote is characterized by surreal flourishes, mixing dream, fantasy, and flashbacks that borrow as much from the art house as the comic shop. A midnight movie for superhero fans. Written by Anonymous

Yes, This Is Comedy! (1990)
Television (Comedy) Writer, Director, Actor, Composer, Editor, Producer A "Mad TV-meets-SCTV-meets-In Living Color" sketch comedy series. Local cable on acid.

THE PLOT, THICKINS! Budget: $1M - $5M | Comedy A creative couple’s relationship turns meta-bizarre when Jack’s fledgling screenwriting career is derailed by writer’s block just as Imojean’s first book blows up, and Jack’s jealous, delusional insecurities lead him to believe they’re really characters in a movie.

HUSH THE SHADOWS Budget: $5M - $10M | Thriller / Suspense ⋄ Horror In 1962, as they cope with the unsolved killing of their parents, two siblings discover six mysterious, old recordings at the family’s cliffside mansion which summon a succession of preternatural entities – each more menacing than the last.

THE NEAR DISTANCE Budget: $100K - $1M | Drama During the COVID-19 pandemic, two neighbors who have never met – a 30-year-old Black mother and a childless, 57-year-old white man – become intimately familiar with each other’s world view in the days following the murder of George Floyd.

MERE MORTALS Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller / Suspense ⋄ Mystery A series of harrowing events in which each perpetrator becomes a victim of the next horrific act drives one woman’s quest to prevent her husband’s murder … which has already happened.

NEON SUNDOWN Budget: $10M - $30M | Crime ⋄ Adventure A businesswoman, forced to act as an underworld organization's courier for over a decade, bolts with a half-million dollars in laundered cash down Route 66 just as the legendary highway's heyday is ending.