Screenplays

Gini Graham Scott has written 15 screenplays.  These include the following:
 Action, Mystery, Suspense, Thrillers, and Legal Dramas

THE HELIFLYERS: a suspense thriller, based on the Heliflyer Website: www.heliflyer.org
After a young entrepreneur creates the first U.S. helicopter commuter service, some executive commuters die mysteriously, and he struggles to find out who’s killing them and why before the negative publicity kills his company; then he becomes a target, too.

FLARE UP: a cop/action/mystery/thriller
After a battle over a supermarket parking space, one woman investigates and discovers the other woman, her husband, and two partners are involved in a chop shop, illegal immigration, welfare fraud, and banker's murder. Threatened by exposure, they try to kill her and the cop helping her, leading to a dramatic chase through city sewers. (A  director with 25+ years directing TV features is interested in directing once funding is secured).

RICH AND DEAD: a murder/suspense thriller
A homicide secretary suspects that the husband of her wealthy friend, who is seeking divorce, is poisoning her. After her friend's death, with help from her boyfriend and a homicide detective, she prevents a cremation and foils efforts to dispose of the body, while evading hit men trying to kill her.

DEADLY AFFAIR: a cop/action/mystery thriller
After a beat cop with marriage problems has an affair with a neighborhood activist battling drug dealers, she turns up dead and he could be the suspect.  Fearing the lies of criminals and a media circus, he turns to his brother-in-law, a homicide investigator, to find the real killer and they risk getting killed as they investigate.

COKE AND DIAMONDS: an action and legal thriller; based on a true story
A federal prosecutor matches wits with an international drug trafficker posing as an importer, who charms a jury and enters high society. When the prosecutor pursues with an FBI agent using surveillance, stings, undercover agents, informants, wiretaps, and a hotel raid, he nearly loses the case, his job, and reputation, but succeeds due to an unexpected clue.

MOVING ON: a cop/action/mystery thriller
A 30something writer has problems with a landlord, broker, moving company, and mover when she moves. As she investigates and uncovers their criminal secrets, they try to kill her. A cop teaching a class she takes helps her, and after a shoot-out in her house, she gains her dream house and the cop.

KILL.NET: a cop/mystery/serial killer film
After a blow up with his wife, a man turns into a mysterious serial killer who finds young women victims through the Internet and kills them.  The cops have to find the killer.

Sci-Fi Dramas

NEW IDENTITY: a sci-fi legal action drama
Sam, a wealthy businessman, whose life and health are failing, seeks a new life through a brain transplant but due to a mix up he gets the body of a dying criminal.  As Jack, he marries and becomes a respected community leader until a TV story leads to his arrest for murder. His trial becomes a media circus about who he is - Jack, Sam, or the criminal.  (A director with 25+ years experience editing studio and indie features is interested in directing once funding is secured.)

THE NEW CHILD: a sci-fi contemporary drama about relationships
A U.S. archaeologist working in Mexico discovers 15,000 year-old skeleton and uses the DNA in a cloning experiment to have the child, since he and his wife can't have one.  But the child becomes increasingly wild as she grows up, leading to a media firestorm, flight to Mexico to return her, and surprise ending. (A director with 25+ years experience editing studio and indie features is interested in directing once funding is secured.)

DEAD NO MORE: a sci-fi crime, action, mystery drama
After a lawyer wins a dispute and acquires a cryonics tank with a shrewish wealthy woman frozen 20 years, a scientist friend brings her back.  It turns out her husband "killed" her and her children took her property.  When he tries to regain her property, her husband tries to kill her again but fails, as she transforms into a nice person.

RETURN OF THE MAYA is a sci-fi action drama
After guns and artifact smugglers encounter bandits in Mexico, their boss uses DNA from an ancient Mayan ruler to create an army of androids to kill the bandits and build a corporate empire. As villagers disappear through kidnappings and deadly rituals, a U.S. archaeologist and his Mexican girlfriend track down the company’s headquarters at an ancient Mayan site and foil their plans.
 
Psychological and Contemporary Dramas

UNBALANCED, a psychological suspense thriller
Now in pre-production, this is a psychological suspense film about a long-time wanna-be business woman who becomes unhinged as her protégée outstrips her and she seeks revenge. Marianne Quinn is directing and co-producing this film, which is expected to be filmed in the spring of 2009 and introduced on the Festival Circuit.

THE INTERN: drama of contemporary relationships
It’s a battle between generations, when a popular graduating college senior a marketing internship coordinator and has escalating conflicts with her teacher.  As they battle over missed deadlines, fabricated research, missing money, and other problems, Janice feels humiliated before her peers, wants to kill her teacher, and tries.  A twist conclusion shows what happens.
 
INTERNET ADDICT: drama of contemporary relationships
A 30something computer store salesman addicted to the Internet is losing his girlfriend as the high-tech boom crashes.   He joins a support group for high-tech casualties which helps him regain his balance in life and rescue a woman neighbor, recovering from a traumatic experience, from an abandoned house.

DELUSION: psychological drama about relationships; based on a true-story
Jerry, 40, a struggling writer, encounters Don, a successful high school friend, who launches an Internet publishing venture after his wife leaves him. As the venture tanks, Don has a manic-depressive breakdown, increasingly bizarre fantasies, and turns to Jerry, who gains success by helping Don.

For additional details on film projects, visit the Changemakers Productions