Cruell World

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L. C. Cruell - Screenwriter

Phone: 310.694.4363 |  lcruell@gmail.com

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
(Supernatural Thriller)
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.

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