Ashley Berns

Leigh Hill Management is out with DISTRESS by Calvin Starnes. Survivors battle to reach the last three escape pods before the ship explodes.

Circle of Confusion is out with SIMULACRUM by Calvin Starnes. A mom tries to save her son, after she gets roped into helping an AI escape the government, who is tracking it down.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 3.08.38 PM In a topsy-turvy contemporary adaptation of A Christmas Carol, the Ghost of Christmas Past discovers that this year’s Scrooge is dating his ex-girlfriend, and has until the stroke of midnight on Christmas Eve to break them up.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 3.08.38 PM After losing his wife Elise in a car accident, Lewis Markham stumbles upon a device that lets him travel to a parallel universe, seemingly similar to his own. There he finds living versions of himself and his beloved Elise. Fueled by grief, Lewis manages to kidnap his double and successfully take over his life… for a while at least.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 3.08.38 PM Project tells the true story of the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan (codename: Rawhide) in real time via multiple points of view – the Secret Service agents who tried to protect him, the officers investigating the shooter John Hinckley, and the Cabinet members engaged in a power struggle as they awaited Reagan’s fate.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 3.08.38 PMLogline: A young man obsessed with taking a one-way trip to Mars after his brother passes away uses the voyage as an excuse to disconnect from the world around him, at least until he develops an unexpected relationship with the life insurance agent underwriting his trip.

Logline: Based on the true story of Joey Ippolito, who, in the early 1980’s, was known as one of the world’s top speedboat racers. However, no one in that South Beach, socialite-crowd knew that he also was running one of the biggest cocaine smuggling operations out of the United States. Pitched as a two-hander for a DiCaprio/Hemsworth type.

Logline: Two hundred yards from shore a young woman is trapped on a buoy for thirty-four hours as she fights off a great white shark and her impending doom.

Logline: Pitched as “The Hangover” meets Funny or Die’s “Drunk History.” When Jefferson finishes writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington and Franklin take him out to celebrate. After a night of debauchery they wake up and realize the document is missing. If they can’t find it in time to be signed at the Continental Congress, there will be no America.