Project Slate
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01 – LAKE TOWN – Prestige Television Series | Mystery Drama | Pilot
When a young man disappears in Georgia’s Lake Lanier, a sheriff, a journalist, and a local historian uncover the remains of Oscarville, a Black community destroyed by racial violence and buried beneath the reservoir. As the water recedes and long-submerged structures begin to surface, a new pattern of disappearances reveals that the past was never truly buried. It has been waiting.
Thematic Comp: True Detective meets Watchmen
Status: Pilot script, series bible, and pitch deck complete available to industry partners upon request
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02 – THE LEDGER – Prestige Television Series | Historical Drama | Pilot + Season One
In 1898 New Orleans, Lulu White is already the most powerful woman in Storyville, though no one beyond the district is supposed to know her name. In her second year of operation, the political machine that created Storyville begins demanding its return. The ruling in Homer Plessy’s case is hardening segregation into law, and the music spilling through the district’s walls is about to change the world.
Thematic Comp: Boardwalk Empire meets Deadwood
Status: Pilot script + season one, series bible, and pitch deck complete available to industry partners upon request
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03 – THE BURDEN OF PERFECTION – Feature Film | Prestige Historical Drama
The rise and unraveling of James Reese Europe, the pioneering Black composer who brought jazz to the world during World War I. As a musician, soldier, and public symbol, Europe is expected to embody more than excellence. He must be flawless. But the larger his stage becomes, the less room he has to be human, and the pressure of perfection begins to consume the man behind the achievement.
Thematic Comp: Amadeus meets Lincoln
Status: Feature screenplay and pitch deck complete available to industry partners upon request
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04 – BLACK MONDAY – Feature Film | Financial Thriller
A Wall Street risk analyst discovers that global finance runs on a hidden ledger system inherited from nineteenth-century cotton exchanges. It was never built to prevent collapse. It was built to profit from it. When the institution that recruited him decides to sacrifice him to protect the system, he triggers a global reconciliation protocol that forces every bank to prove its math at once.
Thematic Comp: The Big Short meets Michael Clayton
Status: Feature screenplay and pitch deck complete available to industry partners upon request
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05 – GUNS VS. BUTTER – Feature Film | Psychological Thriller + Novella
A desperate, unemployed man follows his oldest friend into the aftermath of a robbery gone wrong and finds himself trapped inside their childhood high school when its automated security system locks down the building. As every exit seals, the two are forced back through the rooms that shaped and scarred them. But the real danger is not the police outside. It is the friend beside him, the truth about the body they left behind, and the survival instinct that has turned brotherhood into a trap.
Thematic Comp: Uncut Gems meets Escape Room through the moral pressure of Menace II Society
Status: Feature screenplay and pitch deck complete available to industry partners upon request.
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06 – THE BLOOD ACRES – Stage Play | Modern Southern Gothic Drama + Novel
On the eve of a centennial celebration, a prominent Georgia family learns that its real estate empire was built on the sale of enslaved relatives. As a digital family tree exposes connections buried for generations, the family must confront a new development project that is displacing descendants of the same bloodline their ancestors sold.
Thematic Comp: Succession meets A Raisin in the Sun
Status: Stage play and synopsis complete available upon request
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07 – THE LAST SPACE – Stage Play | Modern Chamber Drama
A routine co-op board meeting in Brooklyn turns into a battle over power, privilege, and control when a proposed community pool forces residents to confront who gets to belong and who gets to decide.
Thematic Comp: The Lehman Trilogy meets Twelve Angry Men
Status: Stage play and synopsis complete available upon request
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08 – THE HEIR – Stage Play | Historical Political Chamber Tragedy
On the eve of the 1874 Battle of Liberty Place, members of New Orleans’ elite Krewe societies meet in secret to decide whether to overthrow the Reconstruction government. What begins as a private debate becomes the blueprint for public violence.
Thematic Comp: Frost/Nixon meets Southern Gothic drama
Status: Stage play and synopsis complete available upon request
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09 – HIGH STEP – Four-Part (PBS) Documentary Series | Cultural History
A documentary series tracing the evolution of HBCU marching bands from late-19th-century military formations into a uniquely Black performance tradition that reshaped American spectacle.
Thematic Spine: Discipline → Transformation → Resilience → Cultural authorship
Status: Four-Part Documentary Series | Scripted Narration, Series Bible and Episode Architecture Complete — Seeking Platform and Co-Production Partner
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