Riz Ahmed

Logline: A contemporary murder mystery set in the heart of London, the story of Tommy Akhtar, hard-drinking veteran of the Mujahideen, sometime private investigator and sometime idol to the thug-lites of the ethnic motley of West London. Hired by a bewitching prostitute, he’s to track down the whereabouts of her missing friend, last seen meeting a client in a local dive.

Logline: A man and his two oldest friends try to build a criminal empire in a contemporary Chicago where he feels crime might be the most honest job around.