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Butterfly Jump
Full text linkButterfly Jump tells the story of a scrappy, overweight woman from the wrong side of the tracks who is a single parent determined to have her children fit into the upper crust. Connie Noseworthy sends her children to a private Catholic school that educates in the Jesuit tradition of social justice thanks to a tuition assistance program for people in financial need. When Connie is judged by that world and her children are wrongfully removed from her care due to assumptions rooted more in class prejudices than fact, she must fight the system to get them back. In doing so, she undergoes a radical personal transformation. This film looks at working class life and its intersection or clash with the upper crust while telling a story of inner growth and spiritual transformation. Connie Noseworthy is our protagonist whose story carries the heart of the film
Lipko Park
Full text linkMy thesis is the pilot script, series bible and episode two treatment for a six-part television murder mystery entitled Lipko Park.
JOE has been burdened with the care of his mentally ill, bedridden father, MAX LIPKO. Max was charged with the murder of Joes maternal grandfather 30 years ago, but was eventually exonerated due to lack of evidence. Joe decides to investigate the cold case himself, secretly intending to prove that Max did commit the murder and to get his difficult dad out of his life once and for all.
Joes subsequent spadework not only unearths dark family secrets it triggers another murder
Who's Your Guru
Full text linkForgiveness expert Claire Dupont gets her big break when shes invited to "Whos Your Guru" (the biggest life coach conference of the year) after going viralbut only because she lost her cool when host Jasmine Lee brought up her abusive ex during the interview. Claire must now convince the world and guru Nick Nightingale that shes still the good person she claims if she has a chance of joining the ranks of the coaching elite and help her sons failing business
My Husband's Wife
Full text linkMy Husbands Wife is an 8-part miniseries set in a Christian polygamous cult. The miniseries focuses on Maryline, a prickly young woman who rails against her role as the Cult Leaders sixth wife. When her husband marries again, Maryline finds herself romantically drawn to her new sister-wife, Angellee. Meanwhile, Officer Tali Cooper investigates the cult and is convinced its responsible for a string of disappearances spanning decades, including the disappearance of her cousin. The series examines the importance of autonomy, the dangers and virtues of faith, and the double-edged sword of desire. Inspired by Koopmans own religious upbringing, My Husbands Wife is a unique marriage between the aesthetic of Anne with an E and the urgency of The Handmaids Tale
What Keeps A Man Alive: Screenplay and Analysis
Full text linkSet during WWII, What Keeps a Man Alive tracks the fate of a renowned filmmaker and a crew of concentration camp inmates after they are coerced into producing a fraudulent documentary to deceive inspectors from the Red Cross. Loosely based on events that transpired in Theresienstadt concentration camp in the summer of 1944, the screenplay explores themes of documentary bias, the thin line between truth and fiction, heroism and self-sacrifice, and the strength of familial bonds as they are tested in extreme conditions
Preceding Demons
Full text linkPreceding Demons is a psychological period drama that explores the fictionalized relationship between Dracula novelist Bram Stoker and prodigious serial killer Jack The Ripper. Set in the years before both the infamous murders (1888-91) and the novels publication (1897) took the world by storm, this feature screenplay repurposes the Ripper as an enigmatic yet troubled Londoner destined to serve as the primary inspiration for Stokers legendary creation.
Best described as a dual-origin story for both iconic figures, Preceding Demons also illuminates Stokers struggles as a fledgling, doubt-addled writer, as well as his involvement with a murder investigation involving the Occult. A confluence of historical fact and bloodthirsty fiction, this work ultimately provides an ominous insight into the dark side of creativity; culled through the emotionally vampiric bond between a tortured artist and his twisted muse
Our House
Full text linkOur House is a short socio-political drama about Anahita, an Iranian refugee in Toronto, who runs into the man who brutally murdered her parents at their home in Tehran years ago. Despite Anahitas attempts in the past to convince the authorities to reject this mans application for immigration, he had nonetheless obtained Canadian Citizenship. The encounter, renews Anahitas tragedy and re-awakens her grief. Failed by the system, she decides to take justice into her own hands
Dirty Filthy Liars
Full text linkSet amidst the chaos of a Deepwater Horizon-level disaster at an oilsands facility owned by Apex Petroleum, Dirty Filthy Liars follows the firms acid-tongued PR director, Victoria Vic McNaughton, as she desperately tries to save two geese trapped by an on-site explosion Which is part of a plan to outmaneuver a cunning, ambitious lackey whos gunning for her job. To make matters worse, shes hounded by a self-righteous journalist who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend, who she may or may not still have feelings for. Along the way, they stumble into a conspiracy to defraud Apexs shareholders and Vic must decide whether to expose the truth or continue living her comfortable lie
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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