Loglines & Screenplays by Nell Esterhazy Scannon

GENRES: Crime, Drama

1922. A dethroned Chinese princess flees to San Francisco after her lover entangles his family’s business with gangsters for her passage. When her lover goes missing, it’s up to her to salvage his reputation by outsmarting the gangsters and uncovering their embezzlement scheme— barely in time to save his life.

GENRES: Crime, Drama

In a rural Midwestern town, three women facing the overlapping challenges of sexual-orientation, abusive men, and racial prejudice find heartrending commonality during a polio epidemic and band together to run a revenge-seeking mobster out of town.

GENRES: Film-noir, Mystery

Michigan Cleopatra Travis, former special ops agent, is scouted by Mansotti to join his cadre of elite environmental assassins. Turns out she’s been duped by him to kill innocents who stand in the way of his nefarious political and sadistic dealings. Now she must locate and stop her co-assassins, find the assassin who’s out to killer her, and stop Mansotti - while staying out of the way of a crafty New York City detective.

GENRES: Film-noir, Crime

The matriarch of a nest of female Napa Valley psychopaths oversees the next hot-headed generation, but new evidence from a past murderous indiscretion jeopardizes them all. Just as an Old World assassin arrives to avenge a long forgotten crime.

GENRES: Sci-fi

After catastrophic volcano activity pushed humanity to the brink, a Shanghai orphan with an affinity for plant-life, must use her abilities to unravel the mystery of the gargantuan alien Tendrils. While avoiding banishment to the Fleshie side of the wall, she must discover whether the Tendrils are imperative to humanity's survival, or are only days from causing its destruction.

GENRES: Historical, Drama

A Chinese actress returns to Shanghai to reclaim her son and repay his captor for arranging her escape in the finale of WWII.  Now married to an American producer, she is welcomed back under the auspices of becoming the icon for the struggling Shanghai film industry.  In an increasingly tumultuous city, she must outsmart dangerous political players to be reunited with her child.