PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT (as of 4/22/25)
Talking With the Taxman About Poetry
Film • Art Cinema/Drama • Shooting Location: Berlin or Amsterdam
Rufus isn't going to like this description of him but he says to write it anyway. He also says to mention, quite randomly, that the bureaucracy exists to steal the quintessence of the common man. (Why this is relevant, I'm not sure. Anyway, back to the film's description.) Rufus is a bitter, disenchanted, heartbroken, disenfranchised long-suffering and unpublished writer and sometimes substitute teacher who undergoes an enlightenment and an awakening (apparently in that order) when an intoxicating, handsome and manipulative stranger brings him back to life. There. That's the description. Rufus also says that the film's director better get it right this time and to make sure the film has just the right amount of pontificating and useless blubbering this time. Duly noted.
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Detective Naveed
TV Series • Mystery • Shooting Location: NYC, Belize, Morocco, Italy
A disgraced former NYPD detective starts his own independent international crime-solving agency while fighting to survive the ghosts in his personal life.
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I Hear You Leaving
Feature Film • Drama • Shooting Location: Mallorca, Spain
Langston and River, two renowned Black artists in their thirties, reunite in Mallorca for a final attempt at saving their relationship. Over the course of two weeks, the couple confronts old wounds, blurred boundaries, and the painful ways their art has both connected and divided them. As they move through poetry nights, nude drawing sessions, and long silences, they begin to ask: do we love each other, or just the idea of each other? With tenderness and tension, I Hear You Leaving explores the line between art and intimacy—and what it means to be seen without being turned into someone’s masterpiece.
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I Never Asked for Red Roses
Feature Film • Drama/Romance • Shooting Location: Caribbean
A man and his lover decide the fate of their relationship which is pulling them both in separate directions and oceans apart.
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The Exile of Three Kings
Feature Film • Adventure/Drama • Shooting Location: London, UK
An afrofuturist tale about three kings from long-warring nations have been exiled to a deserted island as punishment for breaking a peace treaty. They each must survive each other while plotting their potential return to power.
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The Lives of Men
Feature Film • Drama/Thriller • Shooting Location: United Kingdom
Four professional thirty-something friends, disenchanted from the turbulence of bachelor life, support each other as they battle life’s disappointments and — most notably — their sense of failures and loneliness, for not yet finding wives and fulfilling their life goals of becoming husbands and fathers. When a beautiful and mysterious Russian woman enters their lives tapping into their emotional and sexual vulnerabilities -- and deficits, their brotherhood is tested as they are unwittingly forced to become her prey in an underworld they never knew was possible.
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