Based on the Broadway musical retelling of Alice Walker’s novel about Celie, born into unfortunate circumstances in the antebellum South, who finds her confidence, pride and love, as she grows a life as a seamstress.
Carla Gardini
Pitched as being in the vein of Stand By Me and classic Spielberg. After his mother grows ill, a clever young boy journeys out to find a mythical being known as The Water Man, whose legend dictates that he is able to cheat death.
Logline: Story centers on a gifted college student trying to make a way for herself, even though she can barely afford her food or books, at a university full of the privileged and elite.
Logline: Inspired by a true story, a white, married journalist living in Manhattan comes to the unnerving realization one night at a cocktail party that virtually his entire social circle is white. Indeed his entire existence has become steeped in a certain style of “whiteness”: a rarefied industry in publishing, a weekend house in the Catskills, yoga, ambient music and seasonal gourmet cooking. With help of the internet, a “white guy†sets off on a journey to make “black friends,†only to discover that regardless of race, the older you get, the harder it is to make friends.
Logline: A mute teenager, Edgar Sawtelle, lives on a farm in Wisconsin with a family that’s raised a coveted breed of dog for generations. When Sawtelle’s father dies mysteriously after his uncle comes to stay with the family, the teen runs away with three of his dogs.
Logline: Four die-hard Star Wars fans drive across the country to fulfill a friend’s dying wish, a sneak peak of “Episode 1: Phantom Menace.”
