Sagecreek News
Literary AwardSi Dunn's book project, Dark Signals: A Navy Radio Operator in the Tonkin Gulf, 1964-1965, has won 1st runner-up in the manuscript category at the 2008 Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Writers Conference. Discussions are in progress with a book publisher.
Will There Be Pot Roast in Hell? - Sold - In Pre-Production
Si Dunn's short screenplay Will There Be Pot Roast in Hell? recently has been sold and is in pre-production in California. Walter Dobbins wants to be the one who discovers life on other planets. But first, he must deal with a few earthly matters right in his own back yard.
Grab a New Life! - Sold - In Production
The short screenplay Grab a New Life! recently has been sold and is in production in Los Angeles. It's the reality game show where people stuck in their miserable routines can win instant cures for their emptiness and lack of purpose!
Death Orbit - Sold - Co-Producer Wanted!
An Australian producer has purchased this low-budget, short sci-fi drama and is seeking a partner to help put it into production. Some funding is available. Contact Sagecreek Productions for more information.
In a courtroom of the future, where laws and rules can change in minutes, a young law student volunteers to defend an indigent prisoner facing the death penalty.
Jenny & The Light Queen - Optioned - In`Development
A Utah production company has optioned and is developing this family drama feature screenplay by Si Dunn. Sixteen-year-old Jennifer Stanley is in the race of her life and driving for the gold at the wheel of a solar-powered racecar.
Ravine - Optioned - In Development
An Arizona production company has optioned and is developing this low-budget horror-thriller. Two personal wars, one haunted battleground. While trapped in an isolated ravine, a combat veteran who fears violence must save himself and his family from a crazed gunman tormented by the ghosts of three men he killed in Iraq.
Long After Midnight - Produced - Now on DVD
Produced by Sagecreek Productions in association with Wilmor Production Services, starring Greg Mackoul and Karen McErlean and co-starring Marlon Dow. To buy a copy of the DVD, with behind-the-scenes footage, contact Todd Parker at Wilmor Production Services.
Not-So-New(s)
Weenie Wednesday - Produced - See Online
Weenie Wednesday , a short film based on Si Dunn's screenplay, was an "Official Selection" at three film festivals in Puerto Rico and Spain after premiering at the Edition 2006 film festival in Paris. It was shot on 35mm film in Montreal. The producer/director is Philippe Roberge. The 7-1/2 minute comedy stars Derrick Damon Reeve, Jean-Robert Bourdage and Alexander Bisping.
Book Published
Si Dunn co-authored The Everything Online Auctions Book, a work focusing on how to buy and sell things and earn income using online auction sites such as eBay, Yahoo! and Amazon. The book was published in May, 2006, by Adams Media and is available on Amazon and other book sites, as well as in bookstores.
Available Feature Screenplays
These feature-length spec screenplays are available for consideration. Contact Sagecreek Productions for information on possible co-production opportunities.
Battle at Buck Creek
(period Western, 103 pages)
In the 1880s, the new mayor of an isolated Old West town must team up with a free-spirited school teacher to battle a murderous gang that has seized many hostages and the local telegraph office and will kill the hostages one by one until the state governor frees the gang leader's brother from prison. (High Noon meets Air Force One, on a modest budget.)
Wiley & Smart
(medium-low budget cop-buddy action-drama, 94 pages)
A trouble-prone young deputy sheriff must overcome his rookie mistakes in time to help a veteran New Mexico sheriff battle three terrorists and save a group of international leaders.
Home Business, Home School
(low-budget PG family comedy, 120 pages)
Peter and June Trencher hope that running a home business and home-schooling their three children will bring them new happiness. But their family togetherness soon is tested when the neighborhood snoop decides the Trenchers' new lifestyle somehow is tied to organized crime and triggers a police investigation.
Eyes of theTiger
(medium to high-budget action-thriller, 113 pages)
A scientist trying to save Siberian tigers from extinction in the wild must rescue his wife, a nature photographer, after she is kidnapped by tiger poachers with ties to the Russian Mafia and his own animal conservation center.
Many A-list Hollywood actors are animal-rights activists or supporters of animal rights and environmental causes. Eyes of the Tiger likely would appeal to some of them.
Other Screenplay and Manuscript Services
We write and rewrite screenplays, serve as
script consultants on movie projects, and sometimes work as script readers
for screenplay contests. Contact us with a description of your proposed
project, what you would like to have done, and what you are willing to
offer for the proposed work.
Every
assignment is different, and every budget is different. So we do not set
rigid prices for our efforts and experience. (We also do not accept every
project that is offered. There has to be a comfortable match.)
Some
of our recent assignments have included: (1) rewriting and editing feature-length screenplays;
(2) boiling an unwieldy 30-page movie treatment down to 10 pages for easier presentation to producers and studios; (3)
rewriting a science-fiction feature script and modifying several scenes to help
reduce production costs; (4) reviewing the treatment for a proposed
coming-of-age movie and recommending new beginning and ending scenes to help
improve the flow of the story; (5) providing script reader services for a
screenplay contest; (6) providing script reader services for individual screenwriters;
and (7) helping develop screenplays from outlines and rough drafts.
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