Submission Samples from the Fantasy Genre

Title: Cyril Helps Isaac In His Fight Against Green

Logline: After years enduring severe physical deformity and humiliation, Isaac embarks with Cyril on a surreal journey to discover normality, unaware of the consequences...

Synopsis: Isaac is born with permanent jaundice and genetic abnormalities, which leave him severely discoloured and disfigured. He suffers abandonment from his own mother, constant taunts and jibes from the intolerant community of Milburn Peaks, and is only accepted by his aunt Milly and her son Cyril. As the insults continue into his adult life, Isaac becomes severely depressed and withdrawn. One day, he sees an infomercial with a possible cure for his ailments. This glimmer of hope is enough to haul him from his agorophobia, and together with Cyril, he embarks on a journey in search of normality. Little does he know, he will have to endure a fantastical adventure with bizarre consequences, involving zany characters, multiple hallucinations, peculiar phenomena and a mysterious disappearance.

Title: Footprints of the Devil

Logline: A demon wizard has to capture Michael's sister in the bewitched world so that he could be relieved from the curse. Michael relieved his sister from the curse , so that the wizard would die .

Synopsis: A wicked man who possessed evil powers and performed magical activities, tried to take over everything.The man's name is Sperior.To relieve him self from that state of bewilderment,sperior takes the sister of a man called michael,as hostage. through one of his fellows,sperior informs michael that if he does not help his sister,then his sister,he,and all of the people of that land will expire whitin twenty days . Michael saved sperior from the bewitched world, but sperior did not let Michael free his sister.Sperior begins to take power in our world.sperior is sensitive to Michael's sister's necklace and hates it. Michael realizes that sperior has deceived him and that sperior would die if his sister were released from the wilderness and bewitched world.By placing the necklace in the hands of the statue of Sperior,Michael enters the bewitched world and succeed in saving his sister.so sperior and his power begin to wear off , and would die.Please email to : esmaeel.rezai@yahoo.com

Title: STILTS

Logline: Rumplestiltskin didn't die when he ripped himself apart. He forgot his identity when the Salamander Queen enchanted him. He has three days left to take her a child or lose his soul forever.

Synopsis: Two hundred years ago, a special child was caught by Mire, Salamander Queen. She enchanted him. He became Rumplestiltskin(Stilts) and lost his memory. Stilts has three days. If he fails to bring the Queen a child, he will have to trade places with her and lose himself forever. Stilts tunnels his way to modern-day San Francisco. He tricks his way into Jenny's life. She lives with her family in a one-room houseboat. In Jenny's presence, Stilts starts to remember his past. Rather than take Jenny, Stilts decides to kill Mire by spinning a web of gold that attracts the spiders which cause Mire's albino skin to turn green and fall off. Mire sails on an underground river in her pirate ship to blast a hole to Golden Gate Park and imprison Stilts and Jenny until time runs out. She causes an earthquake and Stilts and Jenny disappear underground. Mire captures Jenny. Stilts confronts three traps in his effort to save Jenny and faces a stalactite and stalagmite-crashing finale.

Title: SHADOW FIGHTERS

Logline: Two young paranormal investigators release four legendary warriors cursed as cryptids and restore shape-shifting powers to stop their nemesis, the dark Sorceress and her cloned mega-fighters.

Synopsis: Shadow Fighters pits warrior shaman shape-shifters against an evil Order and Sorceress who are part alien. The heroes fight a battle in 1773 to protect a sacred amulet but are cursed and banished as cryptid beasts. In present day, set in old Shawnee woods and the Southwest, a young paranormal investigator, Eric Gilmer and friends go on a harrowing adventure to release the cursed heroes before the Order, who has grown powerful, unleashes deadly new hybrid mega-fighters. The story examines the conflict between light and dark, between greed and honor. Rod attended Illinois College for a bachelor's degree in creative writing and screenplay with Robert McKee. His shaman studies took him to Australia, Mexico and the Southwest and he has written several screenplays. Paula is part Ojibwa Indian from Grand Island, Michigan and graduated W. S. U. with a master's degree in arts education. She has written and produced for children's entertainment and stage productions. SAG, SCBWI.

Title: Jazzman

Logline: A white college professor, longing for the jazz career he gave up years before, is transported back in time to the swing era - and enters the body of a black musician.

Synopsis: Cam Stewart, a middle-aged, white college professor plays a little jazz on the side, but regrets a decision made years earlier to give up a promising musical career. Bringing his horn in for repairs, he meets a mysterious man who offers to loan him a vintage tenor sax - a very unusual horn, as it turns out. Little by little, Cam's sound begins to change. One evening, when his band is on break at their usual Saturday night gig, an amplifier hits him in the head. When he comes to, it's 1946, and he has assumed the identity of the horn's real owner, a 26-year-old black swing musician named Emmett Coleman. Although Cam is now living out the fantasy of playing jazz in the music's greatest era, being black in mid-20th century America is completely unfamiliar, frightening terrain. A further complication arises when he falls in love with a beautiful young black woman. Finally, Cam must confront the very real possibility that he may not be able to return to his own time and true identity.

Title: Ditching in the Darklands

Logline: On the run from life in this world,fourteen-year-old Michael McGovern finds himself and his courage in another.

Synopsis: Michael, a junior high nerd, on the run from his parents, a determined bully and life in general, hides out in the tunnels under Cal Tech with his best bud. An earthquake delivers them, battered but alive, to another world, a grim, gray world of bizarre creatures dominated by a cruel, unforgiving overlord. Michael, thought to be the long-awaited "Redeemer" prophasized to free the down-trodden of this magical world, must dig deep to find the courage and inner resources necessary to unite them and lead them to victory, thus preparing him to return to the world he left behind.

Title: Going for home

Logline: When a marriage fouls out due to baseball, a young boy teams up with a ghost, to get his Dad back in the strike zone and Mom back in the game.

Synopsis: An aging major league pitching prospect and his spirited wife, separate after years of marriage. Their young boy, determined to get them back together, enlists the help of a magical old man from their past.

Title: A Familiar World

Logline: A dying, manic depressive man doesn't medical help, and instead seeks the help of spiritual healers to cure him.

Synopsis: Hello, I'm a passionate screenwriter who has been writing and developing his craft for over a decade. I believe now is the time to take my craft to the next level. Your company's professionalism and track record combined with my vision, hard work and professionalism can help produce a motion picture that can inspire and entertain audiences. "A Familiar World" is the story of a dying, manic depressive who believes he can heal himself through faith and living life to the fullest. In a parallel universe, purgatory world, his deceased grandfather tries to reach out and communicate with him. In order for them to communicate, a spiritual apparition must open a heavenly dimension that has the power to cure anybody. Sincerely Yours, Javier Jacomino

Title: Elemental Force

Logline: The four basic elements and their possessors are in a time of enormous parallel within the guilds they hold memberships to. Who will win?

Synopsis: An ordinary young adult male given no name at birth found himself without a father, Tim, at an early age when a rough tyrant named Merketh got wise to his father's possession of wind abilities and overpowered Tim at his cabin away from town with a vicious force of fire which Merketh posed. Merketh's only goal in this is to conquer all other opposition and hold the basic elements and their respective powers. The nameless man is unaware of this second society on earth just like other ordinary citizens holding no elemental powers until he crosses paths with a frail yet canny elder human named Mesulon at a nearby pond. While watching a kind act the young man did at a park when a group of kids was picking on a shy child, Mesulon decided to act as the young man's spiritual advisor after a meeting with fellow wind possessors at their air temple to strategize what actions to take to remedy certain tensions between the elemental realms (districts) on Earth.

Title: The Realms of Animar

Logline: An incredible world, an unlikely hero and a war that will decide everything.

Synopsis: Thane is a typical teenage boy. Typical of course for Animar, a fascinating yet perilous medieval world where all beings have two forms: one human and one animal. Thane's life takes an unexpected turn when his animalkind becomes something never before seen - a creature with incredible power that can shift the natural balance of life and bring hope to the hunted. Elsewhere, in the rancid depths of a carnivore lair, an evil ruler determined to conquer Animar learns of this new threat to his dominion and builds a massive army with one simple yet sinister purpose - death to any who dare oppose him. With time running out Thane's people must turn to powerful yet reclusive strangers for help, beings who have thrived in isolation for centuries yet are now forced to take sides in an incredible war that will determine the fate of their world. I would like to submit The Realms of Animar for your consideration and possible representation.