New Projects
HELICOPTER
Format: Feature film (Documentary+Drama Hybrid).
Status: In Post-Production. Winner, Grand Jury Prize, Best Work in Progress, FEST New Directors New Films.
To heal his soul, a suicidal filmmaker embarks on a dangerous quest to re-enact the helicopter crash that killed his mother and her boyfriend, rock music impresario Bill Graham. Featuring Alejandro Jodorowsky, “Helicopter” is a feature-length expansion of Ari Gold’s groundbreaking, student-Oscar winning short film.
More info HERE.
FOGTOWN
Format: Feature, Series & Graphic Novel (Action-Adventure)
Status: In Development. IP: “Fogtown” comic book, screenplay.
When a mysterious sleeping-sickness sweeps across her barrio, a lonely outcast teenager convinces the selfish chief of a rebel bicycle gang to steal the antidote from their greatest enemy before it kills them all.
FOGTOWN fuses the stylish action of “The Warriors” with ecological mysticism of Miyazaki to create a passionate, urgent, and rebelliously optimistic tale for the Greta Thunberg generation.
More info HERE. (Contact for password.)
WITNESS 26
Format: Feature Film (Psychological Drama / Horror)
Status: Florence Kasumba & director Michele Gentile (Till Murder Do Us Part) attached. Screenplay complete.
Witness 26 tells the true story of Malia, a former child soldier testifying against a warlord at the I.C.C., who must battle with an evil spirit hell-bent on stopping her quest for justice.
PELIGRO!
Format: Limited Series (Music/Doc/Animation)
Status: In Development. IP: Autobiography of DH Peligro.
Based on the autobiography of DH Peligro, wildman drummer of Dead Kennedys and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, “Peligro” is a high-octane limited series about music, race, friendship, addiction, and the human capacity for transformation.
It’s “Pistol” meets “Atlanta,” with a splash of Bakshi-style animation, fusing the explosive spirit of punk, the heart and soul of rehab, and the painful truths of a racist nation. It will take the audience on a blisteringly funny and shocking journey, from poverty in the projects, to world fame, and back to the streets, on a quest to redeem America itself.
More info HERE. (Contact for password.)
BROTHER VERSES BROTHER
Format: Feature Film (Drama/Comedy/Music)
Status: In Post-Production at Zoetrope Studios, completion May 2024
The story of music-playing twins searching for their dying father, Brother Verses Brother is a moving & magical journey up the lost river of Beatnik San Francisco. Filmed in a single shot to evoke a real-time safari, “Brother Verses Brother” is a one-of-a-kind musical tale about the bonds of family, and the power of music & poetry to heal a broken world.
Featuring The Brothers Gold, jazz singer Lara Louise, Brian Bell (Weezer), San Francisco Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin, & 99-year-old Herbert Gold, “the last of the Beat poets.”
A GIRL OF FORTY
Format: Feature Film (Drama)
Status: IP: bestselling novel. Screenplay complete.
A “graduate” of San Francisco’s Summer of Love is forced to reckon with freedom when her teenage son sets out to destroy the life of her favorite lover. Based on the bestselling 1986 novel by Herbert Gold, it tells the story of Suki Read, “a California Holly Golightly, and more,” with a plot that takes off “like a time bomb, ready to be exploded.” (New York Times Book Review).
WE GO WILD WHEN
Format: TV series (Drama)
Status: In Development
When his teen sister becomes the mascot of a skinhead gang, a sardonic junior high schooler is recruited by his love-addicted mom to rescue their “Brady Bunch from hell” family. We Go Wild When is a dramatic, funny, retro Shameless, set in the wild world of 90's San Francisco, where a family whose quest for authentic experience tests the limits of love.
NORDSTERNS
Format: Feature (Horror)
Status: In Development
When a struggling single mom learns that her daughter is the target of an occult group in her acting class, she unlocks a family curse to try to rescue a rebellious girl who wants nothing to do with her.
With a dysfunctionally loving relationship reminiscent of “Gilmore Girls,” and the paranoia of "Rosemary's Baby", “Nordsterns” peers into the psychic trauma of the quest for fame. (Series version available as well.).
Additional Projects
THE GLORY OF THE HANDCOCKS
Series (Comedy) • In Development
The over-the-hill patriarch of a jousting-and-juggling clan must unite his splintering polyamorous "family," in order to rescue their way of life in the wild world of the modern Renn Faire. An ensemble comedy about what it means to be a hero.
EYE OF BERLIN
Series (Adventure/Drama) • In Development
After a free-spirited eye surgeon and her estranged son begin experiencing pivotal events in the lives of their ancestors, they discover a secret fellowship of time-jumpers battling a malevolent force which threatens Berlin. “Eye of Berlin” captures the mercurial spirit of the world’s most fascinating city, and our power to rewrite history by having the guts to face what made us. Co-created with Emmy-winning writer Chris Silber.
TROUGH
Feature (Horror) • In Development
A spontaneous tryst unleashes a medieval curse upon a young traveler that threatens to turn him into a pig.