Jim Burnstein

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Based on true events, centers on an assistant football coach in the 80s who goes to American Samoa on a fool’s errand to recruit a high school phenom. Of course what he discovered was a gold mine of talent that the college and pro ranks have mined ever since.

Logline: Set in 1969, story follows an Ann Arbor, Michigan soldier in Vietnam who deserts his post, with a friend, in order to to win back the hometown girl who dumped him.

Logline: An aspring director for the Royal Shakespeare Company who is assigned to helm a Shakespeare play in America discovers that the production is supposed to be all nude.