Loglines & Screenplays by Gene Cartwright

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Saving Emma

GENRES: Fantasy, Family

Saving Emma

A precocious 7-year-old heroine with uncanny powers, her mysterious terrier and unearthly forces defend her family from her father’s ruthless enemies determined to destroy them.



John Roméo - 'Dead of Night'

GENRES: Thriller, Crime

John Roméo - 'Dead of Night'

Virgil Tibbs meets John Wick when a world-famous former LAPD homicide-wiz turned millionaire author with a gun, sex life, and attitude tracks a sadistic killer but becomes the hunted.


In Her First Life

GENRES: Mystery, Drama

In Her First Life

When the pregnant 12-year-old daughter of a poor preacher fingers the 17-year-old son of a Southern state’s wealthiest, politically connected family, she is later targeted for murder.


The Lemon Tree - Sitcom Pilot

GENRES: Independent, Comedy

The Lemon Tree - Sitcom Pilot

An ambitious young black woman combines her psychology degree with her love of fashion and hairstyling, and launches “The Lemon Tree”—a multi-ethnic salon and shrink’s office—set in the 90s.

First Episode Filmed. 2-Cam Script.


BAAAD IDEA

GENRES: Comedy

BAAAD IDEA

Genre: Romantic Comedy, 118p.

When a laid-off, divorced 7th-grade teacher, desperate to care for his 3-year-old daughter, hatches a desperate moneymaking scheme, he lands in FBI cuffs and sparks a super-power face-off.


The Water Line - A Klansman's Road to Redemption

GENRES: Drama

The Water Line - A Klansman's Road to Redemption

Former Klansman and Selma, Alabama native David Earl Applewhite’s journey to redemption lasts fifty years, reunites him with a black man who saved his life, and ends in a battle with demons he created.


Shadows In The Mist

GENRES: Drama

Shadows In The Mist

When a young black lawyer is blamed for the death of his former lover—daughter of the prestigious law firm's white senior partner—his new marriage implodes and he's targeted for murder.


Fire Night: Zombies Rule

GENRES: Horror

Fire Night: Zombies Rule

Violent citizens of a dying New England town torment a young family who refuse to sell their farm to save the town, but the raiders awaken vengeful spirits trapped three-hundred years in Devil's Woods.


Tommy Lee Must Die!

GENRES: Action, Thriller

Tommy Lee Must Die!

An armed 22-year-old Abilene, Texas dollar-store employee steals her boss’s car, and gives chase to a 46-year-old scumbag fleeing west on I-20 with her 16-year-old sister.


Nowhere, Texas

GENRES: Independent, Sci-fi

Nowhere, Texas

During a film producer’s road trip home from Pasadena to Austin, he detours off I-10 past Van Horn, and ends up on a hellish country road to Nowhere, Texas—a town not on any earthly map.

(2-character short film adapted from short story)


The Waiting Game

GENRES: Thriller

The Waiting Game

A deranged lover lies in wait, determined to exact bloody revenge on an unfaithful mate.


First Date

GENRES: Romance, Comedy

First Date

During a first date with a woman his intellectual superior, an egotistical millionaire millennial makes assumptions that leave him looking like “assumptions” minus the ‘umptions.’

Rom-Com (6 pages)


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