Screenplays

TRACEY MOORE– Event Director

A life and career that began on a two-hundred dollar budget, a trunk of clothes, and a one-way ticket to New York as a TV and film and casting director for some of the most respected networks and American lifestyle brands, has evolved into a successful career as an author, teacher and empowering acting coach for thousands of aspiring actors including some of the entertainment industry’s hippest and most popular: Eve, Ludacris, Darius Rucker (Hootie and the Blowfish), Busta Rhymes, Nelly, Missy Elliot, Chico DeBarge, Renee (Zhane), Faith Evans, Q-Tip, Common, Musiq Soulchild, Russell Hornsby, Kellita Smith, Nina Sky, and Terrence and Rocsi of BET Network’s 106 & Park, successfully transitioning them from the TV or music industry to characters on the big screen.

With the support and vision of web master Michael Prince, company President and brother James B. Moore III, and a team of ten amazing dedicated people, The Spirited Actor Inc. thrives as a successful brand and platform of learning for some of the industry’s leading directors, casting directors, actors, producers, and agents. Offering both private lessons and open monologue, technique and scene study classes to thousands, The Spirited Actor and The Experienced Actor workshops help educate actors about the audition process overall. Not only have the highly demanded classes expanded into The Spirited Actor Online Workshops www.thespiritedactor.com, but through her experiences working with actors within her diverse career journey, Moore has penned her first book entitled “The Spirited Actor: Principles of a Successful Audition” and is currently in negotiations with several publishing companies for her next book.

The Urbanworld Film Festival will present the 5 finalists in the Screenplay Category to festival attendees in an intimate event, where their works will be performed live. Each finalist will stage a performance of their chosen screenplay scene, with actors breathing life into each selected work.

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It is a typical morning in our nation's capital for eleven unsuspecting customers at Liberty Bank & Trust.

That is, until the clock strikes 9:10 A.M.

Tech genius Jake Braddis has decided that these eleven unlucky souls will be his accomplices in robbing the bank and getting what he feels he is owed. Just 24 hours after escaping a routine police interrogation, Jake is determined to fulfill his plan... in exactly 60 minutes.

PETE CHATMON & CANDICE SANCHEZ MCFARLANE

are graduates of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and Georgetown University, respectively. Chatmon’s film PREMIUM, starring Dorian Missick, Zoe Saldana, and Hill Harper, won the Honorable Mention Audience Award at the 2006 Urbanworld Film Festival. His documentary 761st screened at the 2007 festival. In addition to her writing, McFarlane has appeared in HBO Films’ EVERYDAY PEOPLE and PREMIUM. $FREE.99 was awarded the Creative Promise Narrative Award at the 2008 Tribeca All Access Program at the Tribeca Film Festival.

A LIFE SUPREME

A LIFE SUPREME tells the story of a young piano prodigy who has practiced tirelessly to become a classical musician. But after living a sheltered life enveloped in a world of classical music, he discovers and falls in love with a raw and youthful hip-hop subculture and risks his future for a new passion.

MICHAEL STARRBURY

began writing screenplays while living in a small apartment in Minneapolis, Minnesota because he was too broke to leave the house. His second screenplay, LICKERISHNESS, was optioned about a year later.

Michael has since won the McKnight Screenwriting Fellowship. In 2005, he received his first produced screenwriting credit with the short NATURAL BORN SALESMAN, which was filmed as part of the AFI Directing Workshop for Women.

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Armed with dreams that extend beyond their block and faced with obstacles and circumstances greater than themselves, Luis and Ronald leave South Central Los Angeles to fight – not for country, but for each other.

JAMIL SMITH

is from the City of Angels. His first screenplay THE PYN, written with Rashaan Nall, was a finalist in last year’s Urbanworld Film Festival. Jamil wrote and directed with Rey Valentin the short film THE SON, which also premiered at the festival. The A train to Utica baby! Welcome to NYC, Bumper Nugget. On fire for the truth.

MEADOWLANDZ

When a black teen finds his Nigerian immigrant stepfather passed out drunk in their tenement building hallway, he decides to find the unconscious man a more suitable place to sleep. After he and his friends spend the night driving through urban New Jersey futilely trying to unload the man, tensions build, frustrations mount and they find themselves in an industrial swamp between New York and New Jersey called the Meadowlands.

MOON MOLSON

is a Manhattan-based writer-director. His short film POP FOUL screened at over 90 international film festivals and won more than 40 awards worldwide, including an Honorable Mention at the 2007 Urbanworld Film Festival. Also in 2007, he was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” Recently he attended the 2008 Tribeca All Access Program and the 2008 Sundance Screenwriting and Directing Labs with his new feature screenplay MEADOWLANDZ.

PLAYTIME WITH DOUG

In this coming-of-age comic odyssey, Doug is the star of a failing children's program titled PLAYTIME WITH DOUG. After a freak accident, Doug loses the ability to feel any emotion. In order to regain his emotions and at the same time save his show from going under, he decides to participate in a medical experiment involving a series of hormonal injections. When Doug isn't taking his medication, he is a dry, lifeless, and monotone individual. However, each syringe he takes gives him the trait of an extreme emotion, causing his actions to become wild and unpredictable.

ASAD DURRANI & JON BARNETT

have a knack for intimately and humorously depicting the lives of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. Born in Karachi, Pakistan and raised in Houston, Texas, Asad Durrani earned his BFA in Theatre at Sam Houston State University. Jon Barnett, also a native Houstonian, is currently finishing his Film Degree at California State, Los Angeles. Together, they are a groundbreaking comedy screenwriting team based in Los Angeles.