Preposterous Hubris

Here are all my film and TV scripts and projects title plus brief descriptions/loglines.

The MEX y CANs OF ZI'WOOD is an eco-audacious sports-agitprop series featuring two Mexican Canadian teenagers bouncing between the sister cIties of Collingwood Ontario and Zihuatanejo Mexico on dual missions: to make it to the Olympics and combat global warming. Determined to be the change they need to see in the world, this duo will tilt at any windmill or tip any sacred cow standing between them and either their Olympic dreams or a zero-emissions sustainable future.

CHASING SNOW (developed as a pilot episode of the MexyCan's of Zi'iwood)
Eco-sports comedy about an ambitious teen trying to stop global warming so she can ski race for Mexico in the Winter Olympics. Cool Runnings MEETS an Inconvenient Truth.

THE SEA FURIES
The Sea Furies: A rollicking feminist pirate picture about Anne Bonney and Mary Reade two real life buccaneers who terrorized the Caribbean with Calico Jack Rackam in 1718.

THE NOR"WESTERS: A her-storical romp through the War of 1812 in Upper Canada. A cross-dressing sword wielding heroine jilts her intended and paddles north in a canoe full of voyageurs to head off the invading American Armada. based on real events.

PHIL & FIDEL: A Cold warrior sprouts a heart of gold Bio pic about a CIA operative’s lamenting his part in taking down the democratically-elected Guatemalan government and coming to political consciousness just in time to bail Castro out of a jail in Mexico City send him back to Cuba to start the Revolution.

THE GOLF WARS: A fiesty local chapter of the Ragging Grannies kidnaps legendary golf pro Forest Lions to stop the bulldozing of a sensitive wetland in order to build a luxury golf course To keep their hostage hidden these ladies go low tech, smuggling him along the 40 northern-most miles of the Underground Railway and teach him some old school do-gooder survival skills along the way.

TOURISTS OF THE REVOLUTION: An eco adventure/comedy about two neophyte videographers who head south to the Copper Canyons document an endangered Mexican woodpecker and end up embroiled in an armed peasant insurrection over habitat land use and drugs.

WIRED FOR SOUND: A “The Producers” inspired film completion insurance scam in which sleazy a B movie producer puts out a contract out on his former teen beat pop star and now cast and crew are falling all over each other to make a killing.

BARE ROOTS: A “walk-your-talk” eco adventure. The Millennial generation goes tree planting in B.C. and gets caught behind the barricades in a native land claims standoff while a forest fire rages out of control.