This screenplay was commissioned for a planned entry to AtomFilms' new directors contest.
It is a short film about a man who is visited, or visits, Saint Jude after an accident on a city sidewalk. After his encounter he returns to life in the big city, where he chooses a new direction in life. Which is almost immediately barred by a postal worker.
Olives is a thirty second short mock commercial.
It was developed at Avalanche Systems, Inc, in New York City, and the animator and I worked together sketching out the characters and fleshing out the script in tandem, driving a lot of the script on what it was we wanted to achieve with the tools at hand.
The basic premise is that the advertising executives have ventured out into the bush of Australia to star a wombat in their advertisement for the Olive Farmers of America. Their tagline is "Wombats Dig It!" Unfortunately, no one told the wombat.
Sane Magazine has featured a few scripts.
In addition to Reward: Lost Sheep and Krapp's First CD, there are two films, which are viewable at the Sane Magazine Theatre (the films require the Flash plug-in).
God Coffee, I Miss You is the forthcoming novel from Sane Magazine founder Matthew Hanlon. He is the author of Time: a novel. He used to live a lot closer to Hollywood than he ever thought he would. And now he lives just about as far away from it as he would have expected.