A group of immigrants plan an elaborate heist after they realize the London Museum houses some of their home country’s most prized artifacts.
Niki Montazaran
A thief finds sanctuary in a retirement home after going on the run.
The story looks at gentrification and the culture clash around food when two Latina American cousins from the Bay Area find themselves fighting over an inherited rundown restaurant and the one thing that originally brought their families together — their late grandfather’s family recipes.
A cultural coming-of-age story about a career-driven Latina American during her “double quinceañera” — celebrated at age 30 because she missed having her first quinceñera at 15. She invites her parents, best friends, and brazen married cousin to a work trip disguised as a double quince, inviting trouble that could jeopardize her job and her relationships.
When her teen daughter displays increasingly disturbing behavior after a near-death experience, a mother is convinced that the girl has brought something evil back from the other side.
The true story of the man who dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima and his unexpected journey back to ground zero.
After killing a corrupt police officer in self-defense, a young Nigerian woman is forced to flee her home country and escape to Tokyo’s red light district. Working in a strip club, she finds herself deeply embedded in the Yakuza and pulled into the trouble that accompanies Japan’s most notorious gangsters.
Logline: Inspired by true events, after her calculating grandmother unveils an array of secrets on her deathbed, a 16-year-old and her extended family are left reeling as she must now figure out how to navigate her nascent love life in the midst of a family crisis.
Logline: Based on a true story set in 1960s New York, a journalist finds and investigates a woman whom he believes is married to a Nazi in hiding. Their relationship results in the first ever extradition of an American citizen for war crimes.
Logline: Based on the life of Rosalind Franklin, the English chemist who made significant contributions to the discovery of DNA in the mid-20th century.
Logline: 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.
2015 Nicholl Fellowship Finalist Murat Izmirli, whose screenplay Grimwood landed in the Top 10 of the prestigious Academy-sponsored competition, has signed with Benderspink Management and Paradigm.
Longline: Pitched as a dark spin on the Rapunzel fairytale in the vein of Snow White and the Huntsman, the story follows the princess as she goes rogue and exacts revenge after not having been rescued from her tower.
LOGLINE: After the death of their late father’s dog, two sisters must reunite while on a cross-country road trip to bury the dog on the family plot.
