Joe Ballarini

Verve out with SINCERELY SAMANTHA SMITH by Joe Ballarini. The incredible, inspiring true story of a 10 year-old girl who prevented World War 3.
In 1982, at the peak of the Nuclear Arms hysteria between the US and Soviets, shy, quiet 10 year-old Samantha Smith shot to world-wide fame when she became pen pals with the Soviet leader who invited her and her family to Russia to discuss peace talks between the super powers.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 3.08.38 PM Before he was the Greatest…Before he was Ali…The inspiring, true story of a skinny, young, loud-mouth teenage nobody named Cassius Clay with big dreams of becoming the champion of the world who fights racism and abuse in the Jim Crow South in order to compete in the 1960 Rome Olympics. Witness the birth of a heroic icon.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 3.08.38 PMThe incredible true story of two courageous families in 1979 who risk everything to make a daring flight in an enormous, homemade hot air balloon they build in their garage in an attempt to escape over the Berlin Wall.

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Twelve-year-old Milo, who lives at the old Greenglass inn, plans to spend his holidays relaxing, but out of nowhere, numbers of unannounced guests with strange connections to the inn arrive. Milo and Meddy, the cook’s daughter, must then decipher clues and untangle a web of deepening mysteries.

Logline: An international soccer star and a single mother from Russia meet abroad a cruise ship and begin a fairy tale romance, only to come crashing back to their respective realities waiting for them at port.

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Logline: Centers a 30 year old guy who one night discovers a UFO which has landed in his small town. It turns out that he is one of the few who can drive the spaceship and ends up racing it through the galaxy to save the world.

Logline: When warriors from the city of Atlantis threaten to attack, a hero emerges from an unexpected place–a timid grad student joins his father’s Special Ops team being sent down to stop the ocean invaders.