“’Hang Fire’ is an electrifying tale of power, greed, lust, and cutthroat ambition. A razor-sharp satire of Hollywood, think ‘The Great Gatsby’ meets ‘La La Land.’” -In Entertainment
Hang Fire
“Hang Fire,” is a dark comedy of the Hollywood film industry where ambition know no bounds and excess is the norm.
In 2019 Hollywood, struggling novelist James Lansing is trapped in a seductive dilemma when a fast-talking, on-the-fringe producer dangles the promise of a film adaptation of his book. She tantalizes James with introductions to Hollywood elites and promises of deals just out of reach. James finds himself bankrolling a dizzying parade of power lunches and star-studded dinners, convinced that success is just around the corner, and wondering why he always picks up the check.
Enter a Felliniesque parade of L.A. characters: parasite producers, desperate directors, guileless ingénues, exhibitionist shrinks, and stars in danger of falling. In this maze of Hollywood ambition, lives intersect in unexpected ways, forming a complex web of competition, lust and greed. Unlikely partnerships and betrayals emerge driven by an insatiable hunger for success and fame.
No one suspects the approaching pandemic and total lockdown of 2020 which is about to upend their world, threatening to turn their Hollywood hustles and dreams into so much nuclear dust.
VIRTUAL VELOCITY
Virtual Velocity: an L.A. Story is a story told backwards starting in 2018 and ending in 1966. It’s the journey of Jake Jenkins, a literary novelist, who unwittingly becomes a viral star that takes him from unknown author to bestselling pop phenomena. A homage to the cityof Angels, Virtual Velocity is indeed an L.A. story, documenting a city that is in a constant state of disappearing.
BANG! A LOVE STORY
When a teenage girl’s mother hires deprogrammers to return the girl home from a Southern California cult, a middle-aged journalist learns of the plan and decides to intervene on the girl’s behalf, changing his own life in the process. BANG! is a love story, the relationship between a coming of age seventeen-year-old and a man caught in a mid-life crisis. A fast-paced black comedy, BANG! confronts the complex issues of sex, morality, good, evil and salvation.