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 submerged remains of Oscarville—a Black community erased by racial violence and buried beneath the reservoir. As water levels recede and structures begin to surface, a pattern of disappearances suggests the past is not buried—it is still exerting pressure.
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 — and nobody outside the district is supposed to know her name. The Ledger follows her second year of operation, as the political machinery that created the district begins demanding a return on its investment, a young Creole activist named Homer Plessy is about to hand American segregation its legal foundation, and the music bleeding through Storyville'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 introduced jazz to the world during World War I—told through the impossible demand placed upon him to embody perfection as a musician, soldier, and cultural representative. As his visibility expands on the global stage, so too does the pressure to perform not just excellence, but flawlessness under constant scrutiny. What emerges is a portrait of brilliance under constraint, where the cost of perfection becomes inseparable from the man himself.
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 modern global finance is built on a hidden ledger system descended from 19th-century cotton exchanges — designed not to prevent collapse, but to profit from it. When the institution that recruited him moves to sacrifice him to protect the system, he has one option left: trigger 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
A desperate, unemployed man follows his oldest friend into the aftermath of a robbery gone wrong, only to be trapped inside their childhood high school when its automated security system initiates a full lockdown. As the building seals every exit and forces them through the institutional spaces that once broke them as boys, he discovers the real threat is not the police outside — but the friend beside him, the truth about the body left behind, and the survival logic 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
On the eve of a centennial celebration, a prominent Georgia family discovers their modern real estate empire was built on the sale of their own enslaved kin. As a digital genealogical family tree begins to surface suppressed connections, the family is forced to confront a present-day development project displacing the same bloodline their ancestors sold to build it.
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 quiet co-op board meeting in Brooklyn becomes a psychological battle over governance, privilege, and control when a proposed community pool exposes deeper tensions around ownership and belonging.
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 gather behind closed doors to debate whether to launch an insurrection against Reconstruction government—revealing how private conversations become the engine of public catastrophe.
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.
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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