PORTFOLIO + WORKS IN DEVELOPMENT
ONE ON ONE
10 min, drama / fantasy
writer: Jake Thomas
director: Jake Thomas
Sarah, a runaway teenager in the city of Metropolis, encounters a persistent newspaper reporter named Clark Kent who won't leave her alone until she agrees to an interview for his newspaper column. Ten questions -- that's all he asks. In their moments together, the fragments of her tragic life emerge, but her anger towards superheroes and Superman himself explodes in full force. If he is so great and so powerful, why is the world such a horrible place? Why doesn't he do something about it?
ADOPTED
Digital Series, Dramedy
writer: Jake Thomas (ep 206, 208, 210)
A young couple's lives are changed when an unexpected addition to their household shows them the true meaning of family.
TIDAL WAVES
Optioned comedy series, currently in pre-production
producers: Duplexity Productions
writer: Jake Thomas
After a deaf single mother endures a painful divorce, her free-spirited best friend persuades her to start dating again.
SHEDDING
feature, fantasy / drama
writer: Jake Thomas
director: Jake Thomas
A bored house cat who wishes to escape his life mysteriously transforms into a human and helps a broken family heal from their emotional wounds.
HOTWIRE
14 min, fantasy / dramedy
writer: Jake Thomas
director: Erin Brown Thomas
Stan is a shy and hopeless romantic who pines after his best friend Cindy. Too scared to risk sharing his true feelings, he instead imagines a world where his action movie heroics woo her time and again. However, when Cindy is offered a job overseas, Stan must man up and mirror the hero of his film fantasies in order to win her heart. During their last celebratory dinner, his failed romantic gestures ricochet from reality into fantasy and back again, right up to the heart-pounding and heart-warming climax that ticks down to the wire.
BOW
Optioned script, currently in post production
writer: Jake Thomas
director: Isaiah Smith
While preparing for a life-changing audition, a young violinist discovers she is going deaf.
