01Proximate
Feature · Cosmic Horror
Three time-separated women's lives collide on a single horrifying night with deadly consequences for the people they love most.
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02Twist of Tate
Feature · Existential Comedy
A zero-drive maths genius inadvertently ignites his driftwood existence when his flippant discovery of a sure-thing formula puts him in the crosshairs of an ambitious gambling executive.
03Rage Quit
Feature · Esports Action
A rage-filled gamer coaxes his passive-aggressive brother to join him on a long shot at competitive glory only to discover he's recruited his own nemesis.
04Women and Children First
Feature · Neo-noir thriller
Theodore Birkenhead swore he’d never kill again. But either eternal damnation or a lot of killing stands in the way of his last shot at redemption.
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IdeatedCat-Man Do
Feature · Tragicomedy
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IdeatedPrey for Us
Feature · Action Thriller
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IdeatedMassive Punt
Feature · Satire
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Nate JL has a fever for which there is only one cure: screenwriting. I finished the first of my first drafts in 2009 – a years-long addiction of chasing the high of the ideation/breaking/pre-draft/first-draft screenwriting phases – and chased that intoxication for the next decade. The result? Seven first drafts. One made it to a second draft. Another made it to five drafts before I put it to sleep. And then I was determined to finish something. Anything. An opportunity arose with external accountability, and I jumped at it: a story that would combine two of my great loves, videogames and an underdog tale. Given the nature of the project and its intended funding, I heartbreakingly put that one on ice during the COVID Pandemic. Then it was back to the drawing board, minus external accountability. I deliberately took the 'scenic route' with my next idea, determined to test a wide range of the right (and wrong) ways to draft and redraft. Four years and 10 major drafts later, it was ready to send. Then I used that momentum to resurrect the underdog tale. And I got that ready to send. After squirrelling money away for years, I went all in on screenwriting from March 2026. Now two more of my scripts are ready to send, with three more in the pipeline.
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