Nashville Film Festival 2022 | Winner: Best Short Script

The award winning short script "September 13th 2004" is available online for your entertainment.

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Barry Lyndon is a case study in how systems process people while pretending it’s just “history.” The narrator knows the ending because the system always does.

I wrote about it here:
*Barry F#$%@G Lyndon: When the Algorithm is the Narrator

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My next two substacks are thematically connected can you guess what it is???

Two Stories. Two Families. Both about frames—who gets to build them, who gets trapped by them, and what it costs to break free.

The D’Amelio Family and the art of the curated digital portrait.

My own family and the systemic frame that made survival a crime.

Both pieces, now on my Substack.

Lovebombing: How I Embraced the Bliss of Ignorance

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“Wasted Talent” (2021) Accolades Trailer
Directed & Written by Derrick Benton.

Starring Chetan Cutting, Amber Janea, Ahmad DeChalus, Dexter Phillip, and Omari Johnson.

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A mother. A daughter. A midnight movie that goes way too far.
Cultists. False realities. Folk horror.
And the brutal beauty of letting go.

This script is a Semi-Finalist at the Nashville Film Festival Screenplay Competition

I started F.R.E.E. Studios because I didn’t see the kinds of stories I needed — so I made space to tell them.

We’ve worked with artists, kids, nonprofits, and families. We’ve shot on Arri Alexa, Blackmagic and iPhones.

In the end we made y'all feel something!

Some stories take a weekend to write. AUGS took 8 years.

I didn’t plan to write a sci-fi saga about identity, godhood, and grief. But sometimes the story finds you first.

Now it’s a Semi-Finalist for Best Genre at @NashFilmFest. My first feature script submission.