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Coupled for Christmas

Type: Feature
Length: 90 minutes
Genre: Christmas romance

When a bookish science reporter is assigned to write a Christmas feature with her polar opposite, a free-spirited Dutch travel writer, she’s forced to re-examine her long-held belief that opposites never attract.

Written by Amy R. Martin

Script and one-sheet available upon request

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Skateland

Type: Feature
Length: TBD
Genre: Heartfelt comedy

Skateland is a quirky 1980s-era comedy about a teenager with performance anxiety (also known as “stage fright”) who, nearing the end of her freestyle artistic roller skating career, resolves to win Nationals to save her home rink from foreclosure. 

After choking (again) at a critical regional qualifier, she vows to go out on top by competing as the female partner of a pairs team, even though she’s never skated pairs before. Losing this time isn’t an option. Losing this time means losing more than just a gold medal. It means losing the rink that is her second home and the club of skaters who are her second family. She may not be able to land a double axel in competition, but can she land a new pairs partner—and a first at Nationals? 

Skateland is about the meaning of success, how we should approach challenges and setbacks, and what our failures can teach us about the people we’re meant to become.

Written by Amy R. Martin

Script in development

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Hobson’s Choice

Type: Television series
Length: 1 hour
Genre: Drama

Out of more than 10 million lawsuits filed in the United States each year, the Supreme Court decides fewer than 100. Hobson’s Choice is about the men and women who are hell-bent on getting their cases to the High Court — and the one woman who knows how to make it happen.

Laura Hobson stands alone. She is the top female Supreme Court advocate in the country. In truth, she’s one of the only women in the job — an exclusive club that otherwise looks like the Iowa caucuses: old, male, and white. Underappreciated at the white-shoe DC law firm where she has toiled away, Laura finally wakes up, walks out, and vows to start her own firm.

But Laura soon realizes she has a problem, several actually: no office, no employees, no clients, and no idea how to build a law firm.

As our story unfolds, she cobbles together a team of brilliant and deeply flawed lawyers and a series of headline-grabbing cases — cases destined for the High Court and that take on the status quo on guns, the death penalty, sexual harassment, cryptocurrency, and more.

And if she makes history in the meantime? Well, that’s just the job. 

Written by Khris Baxter & Paul Thompson

Pilot and pitch available upon request

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Mile Zero

Type: Television series
Length: 1 hour
Genre: Period drama

Inspired by true events, Mile Zero, set in the late 1970s and early 1980s, is a gritty crime series about a resourceful teenager who turns to smuggling drugs in the Florida Keys after his adoptive parents deem him a perpetual fuck-up and kick him out. 

Determined to make something of himself and prove his parents wrong, Jack Tyler leaves Washington, D.C. for Key West, where he quickly learns that everyone seems to be in on the smuggling game — from the waiters and bartenders to the fire chief and even the mayor. He partners with Eddie Cardenas and rises through the ranks of Eddie’s father Octavio’s syndicate, finally finding the purpose and belonging he craves.

Before long, however, marijuana smuggling morphs into the far more deadly and dangerous world of cocaine smuggling, and the boys attract the attention of law enforcement, including Jack’s adoptive father, FBI Special Agent Don Tyler. 

In over his head, and questioning his chosen path and its consequences, Jack must navigate a constant barrage of jealous partners and competitors fueled by unbridled lust for money and power; family rivalries; and corrupt cops and agents.

Mile Zero is the end of the Great American Highway. And for many, Mile Zero is where the pavement finally runs out. Only Jack can decide if it’s the end of the road for him.

Written by John H. Cunningham and Khris Baxter

Pilot and pitch available upon request

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Coal Bridge

Type: Television series
Length: 1 hour
Genre: Drama

Coal Bridge is a high school sports drama about a young, Black financier who leaves behind a lucrative career in Manhattan for the chance to rebuild a high school wrestling program in an economically depressed, southwestern Virginia coal mining town. 

Drawing on his past experience as a college wrestler and gifted with an innate ability to see value where others don’t, he puts together a team of raw talent that challenges the established, competitive programs in the region, while upending the social order in this insular, Appalachian community already struggling with losses brought on by poverty, mental health, and the opioid crisis. 

Coal Bridge explores the themes of race, class, and personal sacrifice

Written by Jon Pineda & Khris Baxter

Pilot and pitch available upon request

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Trailing Spouses

Type: Television series
Length: 30-minutes
Genre: Dark comedy

When a dead body is discovered in a small Dutch village, an American expat wife and stay-at-home mom, suffering from her husband’s betrayal and from the pangs of a midlife crisis, determines to reclaim her life story by solving it.

Trailing Spouses explores identity, aging, and female friendship.

Written by Amy R. Martin

Pilot and pitch available upon request

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Big House Designs

Type: Television series
Length: 30-minutes
Genre: Dark comedy

Big House Designs is a half-hour comedy-drama about a troubled but shrewd political wife/reformed beauty queen who partners with an incarcerated fashion designer to create and launch the most celebrated and inclusive new brand in the fashion industry. 

Armed with an Ivy League education, a flair for business, and powerful connections, and bolstered by her new partner’s singular vision and talent, she aims to prove that, at least in this case, the clothes really do make the woman. 

Working against her are the obstruction of her husband — the newly elected Governor of Texas — and his powerful father; a “law and order” criminal justice bureaucracy that prizes the status quo; and the temperament of her intriguing new partner.

Big House Designs explores race, class, gender, and identity at the crossroads of haute couture and the American federal prison system.

Written by Amy R. Martin & Khris Baxter

Pilot and pitch available upon request

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Terroir

Type: Television series
Length: 30-minutes
Genre: Comedy

Terroir is a hearty blend between a workplace comedy and an espionage thriller about a posh East Coast wine bar serving as a front for a shadowy Eastern European terrorist organization. The bar’s proprietor, Patrick, is a sophisticated sommelier with a loving boyfriend. Or is he Artem, a ruthless explosives expert exporting wine bottles full of PLX and casks full of C4? Can he maintain his relationship, wrangle his rambunctious staff, and serve his organization’s cause all at once? How long before he’s thrown into the great winepress of the State Department? 

Terroir explores themes of identity, secrecy, and the subjective nature of nationalism.

Written by Luke Muyskens

Pilot and pitch available upon request

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In Deep

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Type: Television series
Length: 30-minutes
Genre: Period drama

In Deep is a one-hour family drama set in the 1970s about an ordinary Italian-American teenage girl, Kristin Biaggio, faced with an extraordinary choice: either embrace the anti-pornography cause of the feminists with whom she identifies and admires or support a beloved father outed as a mob-connected porn broker.
 
When her family life and traditional Catholic upbringing are turned upside-down, what will Kristin do?

Based on the memoir, The Pornographer’s Daughter, and inspired by true events surrounding the infamous pornographic film “Deep Throat,” In Deep probes issues of free speech, women’s rights, and morality against a backdrop of the explosive social movements of the 1970s.

At its heart, however, In Deep is an exploration of the bond between father and daughter.

Written by Khris Baxter & Kristin Battista-Frazee

Pilot and pitch available upon request