Story & True Events

A segmented selection of the BASED ON Selections from the IN DEVELOPMENT projects. This hub covers all In Development projects that are based on a story, true story, life rights, real events and biopics.

Logline: Based on the true story of the German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl’s movie “Tiefland”, which used prisoners at the Marzahn Concentration Camp as actors.

Logline: The true story of the friendship formed between a young girl and her dying mother and their African-American cook in New Orleans.

Logline: A documentary filmmaking duo is assigned to cover a reenactment of JFK’s shooting death which aims to prove that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. But as the lead-up to the reenactment plays out, the pair find that they aren’t fully certain what to believe.

Logline: Chronicles the story of music producer James William Guercio and his famed recording studio, Caribou Records, which was located in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado.

Logline: Chronicles the life and times of famed French designer Yves Saint Laurent, starting with his meeting with Pierre Berge, his long term business partner.

Logline: Based on a true story, a promising young law student fights an oppressive legal system and growing public scrutiny when his routine traffic stop snowballs into shocking criminal charges, imprisonment, daring escapes, and ultimately acting as his own attorney in a nationally televised murder trial.

Logline: Follows Matt Ocre and the leader of his platoon, Sergeant Baker, as they both strive to protect Baqubah, a violent and dangerous farming village.

Logline: During the Watergate scandal, a young Hillary Rodham is chosen for a committee to impeach Richard Nixon, whose responsibilities she must juggle with her relationship with her former boyfriend and future husband, Bill Clinton.

Logline: Arminius, a young German warrior, unites and leads his countrymen in a pivotal battle against the Romans.

Logline: Story will aim to tell the whole Anne Frank story, including the before and after. Details will be based on extensive historical documentation from the family but not her famous diary.