NEWS:
A
Feature/Multi-Media Production Company and L.C. Cruell, Linda S. Scott, and Diana Kemp have just inked a major deal
to create the first multi-media, all female written and directed, horror anthology franchise "The Mistresses of Horror"
based upon the original award-winning feature script "Mistresses of Horror" written by Ms. Cruell, Scott, and Kemp.
The franchise plans to produce everything from a series of features to graphic novels.
"Why
I Am A Dogperson," a dark comedy short about the tormented romance that is the bond between a man and his cat has finished
post-production and will be released this month. L.C. wrote and directed this film, the first in a series.
CBB Productions is in pre-production on L.C.'s script, working title, "The Loft," for production in Atlanta
this year.
L. C.'s 20 page short script "Seeker," Winner of Shriekfest 2009,
is in pre-production and is scheduled to begin principal photography as part of the Vampire Anthology Feature "Last Call"
already in production in Atlanta.
L. C. is currently traveling between Atlanta
and Los Angeles taking meetings on her scripts. She is represented by entertainment law firm Myman, Abell, Fineman, Fox, Greenspan
& Light.
L. C. has just been awarded the NAPTE 2009 Diversity Fellowship, based
on her Supernatural spec - "The Devil Inside," which promotes fellows to top executives in broadcasting,
cable, and the Internet.
L. C. has 3 series pilots/pitches currently being considered
by several major cable networks, studios, and/or production companies.
L. C. is currently
in talks to co-write a pilot and mini-series with established producers.
L. C. is also, much
to her surprise, in talks to co-produce one reality show.
L. C. sold a dark comedy short to
producer Oliver Lessard.
L. C. finished working with
director Attila Szász ("Now You See Me, Now You Don't") and production company Extreme Film on a professional
Script Polish assignment for the Hungarian director's upcoming supernatural feature "Zoe."
"Have Me For Dinner," a short horror/dark comedy film co-written by L.C., has been chosen for screening at
the Atlanta Horror Festival. The film was part of the Atlanta Film Festival's Rapid I Movement "film a short in 50 hours"
project.
L.C. recently
wrote a short spoof on 80's slasher films, "The Horror, The Horror," for a colleague's "Footastic Theatre"
video series. It went to #1 of over 46,000 videos on www.funnyordie.com and was Video of the Week on Internet Video
Magazine.
L. C. has joined the writing staff
of EInsiders as a film critic. To see her reviews check out the review archive at
EInsiders.Com.
L. C. has joined the writing staff of Indie Express as a film festival critic. To see
her reviews of the Atlanta Film Festival and the Atlanta Jewish Film Festivals search those titles at IndieExpress.Com.
Sales on
RedStateResistance.Com , L.C.'s political webstore featuring Blue Political Action Wear and Gear for Blue People in Red States increase again.
BIO:
Graduate with Honors from both Duke University and
Harvard Law School with 3 student films and a specialization in Entertainment/Contract law. L. C. is a versatile writer of
screenplays, teleplays, shorts, series pilots, plays, skits, games, etc., whose current focus is on thrillers, dark comedy,
horror, and sci-fi.
L.C. is also a professional freelance writer/editor, film critic
for multiple publications, author of 25 published short stories, and a member of Women in Film, Science Fiction Writers of
America, and The Organization of Black Screenwriters.
SCREENPLAYS:
Lizzie
(Horror/Thriller)
When
Lizzie Borden's axe arrives in town, people start dying. And for Beth and her friends, that is only the beginning.
(Newest feature)
Blue Bloods
(Horror)
When
small town, country boy Will Cross gets into the best Ivy League college in the country, he was prepared to face off against
snobs. He was not prepared for Vampires. [Vampires in the Ivy League. "The Skulls" meets the "Lost Boys."]
Finalist, Shriekfest
Finalist, Horror
Screenplay Contest
Winner, 20/20 Screenwriting Contest
Mistresses of Horror
(Horror/Thriller)
In the first ever all-female-written horror anthology, three award-winning voices in horror present
six chilling tales of flesh and fear where a mysterious New Orleans brothel offers its patrons a chance to sample their darkest
pleasures, fantasies, and desires.
Finalist, Shriekfest
Finalist, Horror Screenplay Contest
Last
Call for Angels
Dangerously dysfunctional humans and angels gather at a bar on a night, which, depending on how things go there, could
be the end of the world.
Top 10%, Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Competition
Finalist, Roy W. Dean Writer’s Grant
Finalist, Indiefest
Chicago Film Festival/Cyclone Screenwriters Project
The
Guardians
(Sci-Fi/Action/Conspiracy Thriller)
THEY are everywhere. THEY have manipulated mankind from behind the scenes for a hundred years, are now ready to emerge,
and have only thing standing in their way… her. ["The X-Files" meets "The X-Men."]
Winner, Breakthrough
with a Scream Contest
Finalist, Shriekfest
Finalist, Cynosure Screenwriting Awards
Armageddon at Coffeeheaven
(Comedy/Action/Thriller)
Sharp-tongued gen-X workers put snobby patrons and people from their past in
their place while piecing together their own as-of-yet unfulfilled lives and dreams in the midst of a cataclysmically chaotic
coffeehouse. [“Clerks” meets “Caddyshack.”]
Grand Prize Winner, Expose It! Screenplay
Competition
Winner, Screenplay Festival
SHORT SCRIPTS:
Switch (Horror/Thriller)
Boy
meets girl. One night. One moment. One choice. And romance becomes horror.
Finalist, Shriekfest
Seekers
(Horror)
What do you do
when you spend your whole life looking for something and find it? What if that something is a vampire?
In pre-production as part of feature anthology "Last Call" filming in Atlanta by TLP Productions.
Winner, Shriekfest
Afghan of Doom
(Dark Comedy/Horror)
With the best gifts, it really is the thought that counts.
Semifinalist, Shriekfest
Semifinalist, Gimme A Break Contest
Through
a Glass House Darkly
(Southern Gothic Horror/Thriller)
If the secrets a house
holds are strong enough, they will find a way out.
Finalist, Shriekfest
Working on the I-1
(Fantasy)
Two tollbooth workers make their way through the workday, or the two halves of the human soul help each other survive life…
whichever way you want to look at it.
Finalist, Annual Screenwriter’s
Challenge First Round
The Chickens Are on Fire
(Dark Comedy)
The chickens are on fire?! What the hell does that mean?
Finalist, Broad Humor Film Festival
Finalist, Movie Script Short
Contest
The Adventures of Spinster Kitty
(Dark Comedy/Horror)
He will be the only man in your life, by any means necessary.
Semifinalist, Shriekfest
ORIGINAL SERIES:
The Four
(Supernatural/Thriller/Dark Comedy)
Four losers discover they may be destined
to be the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Pilot currently being shopped.
Neph
(Supernatural/Horror/Thriller/Romance)
The last six Nephilim, offspring of Fallen Angels and Humans, fight to survive in a world where
both the forces of good and evil consider them abominations.
Next Stop, Purgatory
(Horror/Thriller)
Tara and Devon appear to be the only ones in the world who realize everyone around them is dead
and really trapped in Purgatory, including them. They don't like it, and they want out.
Atty To
The Stars
(Sci-Fi/Satire)
In the future the
frontier of space is much like the Old West of Earth's past, where The Lawmen are often judge, jury, and enforcer, and young
Atkins Peak, Space Attorney, soon learns that it's a wild, wild galaxy out there, and, where trouble calls, she's often the
only law there is.
Dark
Woods
(Southern Gothic Horror)
People keep disappearing in the small Southern town of Dark Woods, and that's only the beginning of their problems.
"True Blood" meets "The Twilight Zone."
Dark Secrets
(Young Adult Horror)
A website slowly destroys and eventually takes the lives of the teenagers in the town of Aubrey
Hills, its weapon - their own secrets. "Gossip Girl" meets "Scream."
TELEVISION SPECS:
Chains of Love
Spec Script, "Dexter"
As Dexter struggles and his
Dark Passenger rages in the wake of his tragic loss, he comes across what at first appears to be a series of murders, but
is in fact a suicide chain.
(Newest Spec)
The Devil Inside
Spec Script, "Supernatural"
What secret in this quiet mountain town is powerful enough to make a demon die… laughing?
2009 NAPTE Fellowship
Winner
Sweet Dee Pimps Out the Boys
Spec Script, "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"
Sweet Dee pimps out the boys, Charlie becomes a cyber-porn star, and Mac gets litigious on everyone's
ass.
Finalist,
Broad Humor Film Festival And That Was the Night that the Cable Went Out in Springfield Spec
Script, "The Simpsons"
It's the end of the world as we know it, and the only one who
can save us is Homer Simpson.
Finalist, ATalent Scout TV Competition
Previous Television Specs:
Winners of Scriptapalooza TV and the Organization of Black Screenwriters Television Script Competition and finalists in American Accolades TV and Austin Film Festival Prime Time.
