2. NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH
Author - Ed Tasca
Genre - Family Comedy
Length - Feature

Logline - "Father knows best flies over the cuckoo's nest."

Synopsis - Upper middle class family with house-proud father is suddenly faced with a half-way house next door, threatening the value of his property, and the well being of his family.

3. THE GERI CLUB
Author - Cynthia Brohas-Gulacsy
Genre - Comedy/Family
Length - Feature

Logline - They are matchmakers, heartbreakers, celebrities, bruisers, cross-dressers, skirt-chasers, kidnappers, golfers and schmoozers. Growing old has never been so much fun! Follow this merry band of GERI'S as they help a young mother find love in all the wrong places!

Synopsis - Set in Tucson, Arizona at the basin of the breathtaking Catalina Mountains, retirees Bob and Dee, with their merry troop of Geri's, are going through their second childhood as they live out their Golden Years.

Catrina, Bob and Dee's daughter, has just separated from her musician/playboy hubby Rick and travels with her daughters-boy-crazed Jewel and perky little Maggie, to find recluse with her parents. Catrina gets more than she bargained for as the Geri's play matchmakers, engage in Golf Cart and Police Chases, become kidnappers and cross-dressers, have a showdown with a Rattlesnake and retired Safari Hunter Old Man Coot, and take on half the state of Texas in a ballroom brawl, while still finding time to fit in a quick 18 holes of golf!

4. YOU ARE ONLY A KID...TWICE
Author - Serena Lowe
Genre - Comedy/Family
Length - Feature

Logline - An aging Principal gets another crack at being a teen again, whether he likes it or not...

Synopsis - PRINCIPAL TAYLOR is counting the days until the annual school winter dance has come and gone. WESLEY, a teen desperate to be popular, is frantically searching for a way to avoid reprimand that would ultimately disqualify his band from playing at the dance. Unaware that he is in possession of a magical Egyptian stone, he transforms Principal Taylor into a teen. When the stone is lost, it opens the door for a boot-camp driven replacement to take over the school in Taylor's absence. It's up to Wesley, teen Taylor, and their friends to unite the school, take down Taylor's replacement, and take back their school.

5. A ForesTale
Author - Brenda Ray
Genre - Animation/Family/Action-Adventure
Length - Feature

Logline - An old alpha wolf returns to the forest to die but nobody lets him.

Synopsis - When an aged alpha wolf abandons his search for his lost alpha female, he returns to Alaska to live out his days under the midnight sun. Except! It's a new day in the forest now. His peaceful demise will not come easy. Quirky characters, cheering and fearing subwolves, a feisty new animal snatcher and the young rival wolf all get in his way. But it's also his heart, it continues to call out for his beloved. So, for it to be still he follows it and it leads him to a place he would never imagine, a place that answers the question of what happened to his mate-for-life alpha that long time ago and asks the question now will he not only live but can he live and fight for what he knows is right!

NOTE - The author of A ForesTale is also co-owner of THE VERY IDEA, INC. ANIMATION COMPANY with renowned husband/animator Tom Ray (formerly of Warner Bros, Chuck Jones, Disney, and Hanna Barbera). This project is currently in development and nearing the Pre-Production stage by THE VERY IDEA, INC. and would prefer to complete the project with financing/investor assistance, however, will consider selling the screenplay to the right company. A marketing/production forecast is available for interested investors. THE VERY IDEA, INC. is also available to perform WORK FOR HIRE animation features, shorts, and commercial spots. Please contact Delphinius for additional information.

6. LITTLE HOBO
Authors - Everett Gracey and Cy Brohas-Gulacsy
Genre - Drama/Inspired by True Story
Length - Feature

Logline - During the Great Depression, there were over 250,000 homeless children doing anything they could to survive... Charlie Gates was one of those children.

Synopsis - Based on true events taken from Everett Gracey's book, "FROM FREIGHT TRAINS TO AIRPLANES," Charlie Gates is one of a quarter million homeless children trying to make their way across the United States in hopes of finding a better life than that from which they came from.

Charlie's home life was less than perfect. Back in an era where there were no laws protecting abused and battered children, no runaway shelters, or foster homes in which he could turn to, Charlie decided he could no longer stand the bullwhip beatings by his mother and hopped a train in search of a new life, to become a REAL COWBOY, a life void of abuse, depression, and despair, and determined that living on his own couldn't be any worse than living under a destructive 'iron fist.'

But Charlie's delusions of grandeur were quickly dismissed as he found the life of a Hobo anything but carefree and safe, as his adventures take him down a spiraling path of life-altering events, having to fend off Hobos and the infamous Railway Bulls, losing one of the only true friends he ever had, and finally, beaten to within a few breaths shy of losing his own life.

But there is a faint glimmer of hope left for Charlie...

7. RAINING CATS
Author - Deb Havener
Genre - Family
Length - Feature

Logline - A young girl overcomes the death of her pet cat by rescuing all the strays that dwell in the underground sewers - meanwhile, her single mother finds romance with the local mall Santa Claus.

Synopsis - Gawky Lisa Potter can't make friends with anyone other than the ragged stray cats that roam her working-class neighborhood. Rejected by her peers at school, Lisa finds solace in creating a secret shelter for the strays. Ryan, the worst bully in town, discovers her mission and finds a way to help. But things backfire when Becca - the most popular girl at school - places an anonymous call to the police and tells them that Lisa is hoarding over a hundred strays in a condemned shack full of feces. She'll do anything to get back at Lisa for "stealing" Ryan away - the boy she's had a crush on all year. To add to her humiliation, Lisa's divorced and overworked mother starts dating the local mall Santa Claus.

8. KNEE DEEP
Authors - John Bowker and Cynthia Brohas-Gulacsy
Genre - Family/Teen/Comedy
Length - Feature

Logline - So...Life Stinks?! Come on, where's you sense of "manure?"

Synopsis - Seven TWEENS/TEENS get sentenced to spending a summer of probationary Rehab at the TRIPLE D RANCH run by three brothers; CRAZY EDDIE, TOOTHLESS TOM, and JUNGLE JIM...the DUNGELDORFER, or "DUNG" Brothers. These tweens/teens think they've got it made; a summer of fun and leisure... What makes this Ranch unique? It's the Manure producing ranch for the little farming town of Baher, New Mexico, the only place on the planet who considers looking and smelling like CRAP as a compliment!

There are no armed guards or barbed wire fencing to hold the kids in, just acres and acres of farms and manure. The rules are quite simple too. From sun up to sun down, Monday through Friday, you work the Manure ranch. The evenings and weekends- you are free to do as you like. But when the poop really hits the fan, and the "dung" chips are down, will the kids be able to help save the town from a freak Monsoon and keep the Ranch from falling into the sinister hands of DUKE OF DUNG, KING OF CRAP, BILLY BOB BUDWAITE and his son JUNIOR, the PRINCE OF POOP?

9. LAND OF THE RISING SONS
Author - Christina Hamlett
Genres - Comedy, Romantic Comedy, Family, Ethnic (Japanese)
Length - Feature

Logline - Love is a two-person game that both can win.

Synopsis - It's more than a culture collision when foreign exchange student Hiro Nakamori ends up in Arizona as the newest college roommate of the wealthy and arrogant Donnie Zax. With Donnie's parents off in Europe, there's plenty of time to run up their credit cards, throw parties, and try to transform the shy and soft-spoken Hiro into the next Joe Cool. Hiro, however, sees this reinvention as futile, knowing that at semester's end he'll be called back to Japan to work in his family's liquor store. In the meantime, Donnie's roving eye has picked out Aya Watanabe, a beautiful young business major, to be his next conquest. Romance, however, has no place in Aya's life right now; unless she can land her dream job with an American corporation, she's consigned to return home. When Donnie unwittingly sets Hiro up for a date with Aya instead of her flirtatious cousin, Yuki, it will lead to an offer that one of them can't refuse.

10. BUT...IT'S TRADITION
Author - Brenda Cregor
Genre - Family Comedy
Length - Feature

Logline - An ultra-frugal accountant must pay for his eldest daughter's wedding to a Mexican pig farmer whilst surviving a "brujera" curse put upon his beloved head of hair.

Synopsis - Poor Ernesto Lopez! Why wasn't this cheap-skate accountant born into a Jehovah's Witness family where holidays and birthdays are not celebrated?

Instead, in a short period of time, this penny-pinching father of five, must pay for a tuba which his daughter Blanca wants---even though there are no tubas in Mariachi bands; braces for Catalina ( who he insists does not have an obvious over-bite); a Quincianera for Maria ( who feels a sense of entitlement, being the second daughter in the family); a birthday for his chubby little son Pepe; and last, but not least, a ridiculously expensive Catholic wedding for his daughter, Lora, who is marrying a peasant pig farmer from Mexico,Juan.

Ernesto devises a plan to keep expenses in check, which includes having his wife, Polita, who yearns to be a more Americanized woman, do all the cooking for the reception. Only, he does not know, for the past several years, Polita has been feeding him packaged Mexican food, which eventually ruins Ernesto's theory that it is his wife's homemade Mexican food that keeps his hair so thick and black.

When the finances get tough, Ernesto approaches Lora's padrinos, Maxmio and Carlotta, ( wanna-be forty-something gangsters) who agree to help pay for the wedding expenses if Ernesto will set-up their gangster son, Julio, with Ernesto’s daughter, Maria.

When Ernesto refuses the "deal", Maximo and Carlotta go to a bruja (witch), who puts a curse on Ernesto's beloved head of hair just weeks before the wedding.

The curse begins to work, and Ernesto’s hair starts to fall out and turn white.

Ernesto soon discovers Polita cooking pre-packaged Mexican food and blames her for his hair loss. It is Nachita, Ernesto's mother, who convinces him that a curse has been put on him.

Ernesto goes with his mother to a good witch, who says she can counter the curse, if Ernesto will wear an outlandish cruz de caravaca, red underwear, shorts, and socks for two weeks; this means Ernesto will have to look like an idiot at his daughter's wedding.

To add to the turmoil, Lora's fiance's ( Juan) long lost mother, Isabelle shows up just before the wedding and Ernesto, whose heart begins to soften, invites his daughter’s dear friend, Pati, to join the family for a double wedding.

In the end, Ernesto decides that his financial investment is worth every memory that will be cherished from such a grand occasion, realizes his daughter's happiness is worth every hair on his head, and can't wait to "spare no expense" for his nagging mother's funeral.

11. MR. WIGGLES
Author - Cynthia Brohas-Gulacsy
Genre - Animal Themed/Children-Teen-Tween/Family
Length - Feature

Logline - A young, overweight teen learns about life, and love, through the twinkle-toed antics of a dancing horse.

Synopsis - ANGEL BROOKS is just about to turn Sweet 16 and never been kissed. She is overweight, under-confident, but incredibly brilliant, and the only true passion she knows in her life is the love she has for horses. She is indeed an expert on horses, especially in the art of Dressage, and can tell you everything you need to know. The only problem is, she's never really rode one.

Poncho is a horse that has seen better days. He's not much to look at, has a mind all his own, he's always getting into some kind of trouble with the trainers, and he'd rather spend his time shaking his bootie rather than parade around with little children riding on his back.

But there is a magic between Poncho and Angel that brings them together. With the help of a horse-whispering trainer and a down-on-his luck, former Dressage Champion, they learn to overcome life's obstacles that lie ahead for them, and redefine the art of Dressage, all leading up to a competition that will either expose Poncho's new owner for animal cruelty, or seal Poncho's fate forever.

12. CHASING SANTA
Author - John Bowker
Genre - Family/Fantasy/Comedy/Action
Length - MOW, Feature

Logline - After over a Century in retirement, Santa decides to go back to work.

Synopsis - After Santa announces that he is coming back to work after a Century away from the scene, host Kirk Sutherland and a camera crew, by invitation by Saint Nick himself, fly up to the North Pole and follow him around to document his reemerging for a reality TV show. With their cameras they capture all the chaos that ensues when Santa tries to make a comeback.

Things such as the elves going on strike, Rudolf hurting himself when the reindeer games start up, so they are forced to get a replacement from a temp agency and the replacement is less than stellar. Santa getting the flu and losing a bunch of weight the night before the journey, the “naughty” and “nice” list getting hacked into by computer thieves and countless other problems and mishaps. Not to mention the cameras back home showing what kind of economic fallout his announcement is causing.

Will the triumphant return of Santa be…triumphant? Or is it a disaster waiting to happen? The cameras catch it all!

13. FRED AND GINGERBREAD
Author - Cynthia Brohas-Gulacsy
Genre - Family, Comedy, Tween/Teen
Length - Feature

Logline - A mother dies and returns as a dog to help her tween-aged daughter find the perfect mate for her widowed husband.

Synopsis - GINGER and her mother ANNE were always very close. Sadly, Anne dies in a freak accident trying to save an injured stray dog that had been hit by a car. Ginger convinces her father to allow her to keep the dog and calls him “FRED.”

Just as Ginger comes to grips with her mother’s death, her father decides it’s time to move on with his life and remarry, much to Ginger’s disapproval. It isn’t that she doesn’t want to see her father happy, but the women he’s seeing are hardly mother-like material.

So it’s up to Ginger, Fred, and Anne, to find Anne’s perfect replacement.

14. THE HOUSE ON SANDY HILL LANE
Author - Sheri Tor
Genre - Family/Adventure/Drama
Also Available in MOW Format

Logline - Mark and Jessica are gearing up for the worst summer of their lives. Already unsettled by constant fighting between Mom and Dad, the children are shuttled to their grandparent’s home in the country to spend their vacation. Cut off from favorite pastimes, they face months of boredom…..until stories of a haunted house on the edge of town pique their curiosity.

Synopsis - Jessica Maxwell, 14, and her brother Mark, 10, are normal kids. They attend school, have many friends, enjoy hobbies, and pick on each other.

Abbey, 15, and her five siblings are also normal kids. However, unlike their new neighbors Jessica and Mark, the group of six are ghosts whose spirits became trapped in this world following an illness that claimed the family in 1922.

Working together, they must find a way for Abbey and the others to finally cross over and be reunited with their parents. A feat that becomes infinitely more complicated when wild rumors of monsters living in the house start spreading and some of the townspeople go to great lengths to get rid of them……up to and including burning the place down while the children remain trapped inside and must race against time to free themselves before it is too late.

15. NUTS
Author - Sheri Tor
Genre - Family
Also Available in MOW Format

Logline - When your best friend is a talking squirrel, anything can happen.

Synopsis - The students at Lincoln Park Elementary have all but ignored the local squirrel population during recess........until one of them comes over to ask why. Now little animals and little people are banded together in an unorthodoxed friendship that brings great happiness and more than a little excitement to both sides.

Facing a long winter, the squirrels will do anything for food. A bag of nuts will get you an extra turn on the jungle gym. A ham sandwich the answers to next week's quiz. And this piece of double chocolate layer cake......well......let's just say it's a biggie and leave it at that.
In return, the children spend their afternoons blissfully creating the very best hibernation chamber the world has ever seen. (Up to and including tiny curtains for the windows, a hand-made welcome mat, and Grandma's new cashmere sweater as a bedspread.)

But life does have a downside and for this crew it comes in the form of traps set up by the school administration to get rid of the "rodent" problem and a fellow student who runs away from home during a icy night to escape her fighting parents. Working together, our heroes - both human and furry - must race against time to try and save the day before it's too late.

16. FOREVER FRIENDS
Author - Sheri Tor
Genre - Family
Also Available in MOW Format

Logline – Having someone to talk to can make all the difference in the world.

Synopsis - Chloe McMillan just turned nine years old. An only child with doting parents and an enormous doll collection, Chloe’s world couldn't be more secure. That is until Dad starts an affair with his secretary and Mom immediately files for divorce. Now the little girl must come to terms with screaming adults, constant lawyer visits, and an array of one-night stands and significant others that requires nothing short of a score card to keep track.

Angela is Chloe’s new best friend. A keen listener and a strong shoulder to lean on, she is everything her buddy needs at this difficult time. Unfortunately, Angela is only a figment of Chloe’s active imagination. Or is she?

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