THE LOST TREASURE OF THE MAYANS – just a fun Indiana Jones-esque romp. The Beaufort Film Festival (in South Carolina) has it as one of the 5 Official Selections. The unusual thing about this festival is that they present 5 or so pages as a public reading with local actors. (Unfortunately I can’t be there, but it’s a very cool thing, happening at 5 pm EST tomorrow Feb. 20, 2025 – free admission – https://www.beaufortfilmfestival.com/schedule-of-events ).

Here is the full list of winners: https://www.emergingscreenwriters.com/2025-screenplay-competition-winners/

The Beaufort Film Festival asked for a poster for my screenplay THE LOST TREASURE OF THE MAYANS. I put this together and am quite happy with it:

The Los Angeles Neo-Noir Novel, Script and Film Festival chose my full length screenplay “PRAY WITHA BULLET” and my short “HELL HATH NO FURY (pi)” were chosen as Official Selections. As the latter doesn’t have a web page yet:

Logline – In this metaphysical neo-noir short, Luc(ifer) falls hard for the Boss’ dame, and they attempt their getaway.

Writer Statement – Filmnoir is often described as depicting the dark side of American life. But what if ‘noir were hell itself? And all of the tropes of the genre were applied to the Biblical characters? The devil, Luc(ifer), is the hero/anti-hero of the story: a detective on the lam because he fell too hard for a femme fatale. They try to hide out for infinity in a dark, dirty gin joint, waiting for Luc’s old partner to lend them assistance. But Luc is double crossed and left trapped alone in the bar, i.e. hell.

The tone of the piece would be stylized, on the thin line between surreal and real – played straight but not without humor.

Below is Zoom session where a large chunk of the selected filmmakers and writers were part of a group interview.