David Pirinelli

Unique traits: Strong science background with a love for character and Sci Fi

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  Beneath Sci-fi Treasure hunter Thomas Hanson gets more than he bargained for when the Spanish treasure ship he finds holds pieces of an alien ship that sank on it’s way to the Vatican.

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  Ports Sci-fi In stormy seas a pleasure ship crashes into a Navy Submarine sending it on a perilous journey down. As all hope is lost, they stumble onto a mysterious base at the bottom with ports to other worlds and times.

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  Buffalo Trouble Thriller ⋄ Action A busy Chicago project manager sees a nameless beauty in the skyscraper next door grabbed by thugs. His police report leads to his prosecution as trouble cascades down onto him and he soon finds himself on a crazy road trip to Buffalo to find the mysterious beauty and save his career and name.

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  Minibar Budget: $100K - $1M | Thriller ⋄ Action Desperate buddies working a swank LA hotel gig are asked to help an abused bride get her valuables from the room safe for a cut. She’s already drugged the hubby, what could go wrong?

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  The Grappa Historical ⋄ Drama A coal mine takes Rosalyn Scavella's husband Peter and leaves her destitute in the hills of 1921 Alabama with three young children. To save her family she takes advantage of the Volstead Act to keep them housed and fed by distilling Grappa, putting her family in a different kind of danger.

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  Forever 22 Thriller ⋄ Sci-fi When his eye rejuvenation takes fifty years off the rest of him, Mr. Miramar finds himself not out of the woods, but instead in the jungle with a helicopter on his tail.

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  Niagara Fell Drama A simple 1950s family man keeps food on the table as a union painter. Fate throws a curveball when saving a mob boss leads somewhere he didn’t think he wanted to go.

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  Skyforest Sci-fi ⋄ Horror A routine resupply run to a distant planetary base becomes anything but when human nature interacts with some surprising and sparkly bad guys.

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  Resurfaced Budget: $100K - $1M | Mystery Three 20-somethings searching a pond for lost keys stumble upon a body inside a car. The reward money launches a social media-fueled underwater search and recovery business. And makes some enemies.

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  Hell Off Earth Budget: $1M - $5M | Sci-fi Two average Joe space delivery guys get dragged into an interstellar viral outbreak that turns infected miners into vicious monsters. Not only do they need to escape the infected, but also the corporation that caused them to be.

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  Hell Off Earth - Reunion (0000 - 2021)
  Drama by Coffee Contrails Writer A routine space resupply mission for G08 mining base goes horribly awry when an ancient scourge is loosened from the rocks below.

• QuarterFinalist - Cinestory TV Pilot "Hell Off Earth"
  (2022)

• Semifinalist, Filmmatic - Inroads Fellowship Season 5 “Hell Off Earth”
  (2022)

• Semifinalist , CineStory TV Retreat and Fellowship Competition “Niagara Fell”
  (2021)

• Austin Film Festival 2nd Round - “Hell Off Earth”
  (2020)

• Finalist - Cinestory TV Pilot "Hell Off Earth"
  (2019)

• Austin Film Festival 2nd Round - “Hell Off Earth”
  (2018)

• Semifinalist , CineStory TV Retreat and Fellowship Competition “Niagara Fell”
  (2018)

• Semifinalist , CineStory TV Retreat and Fellowship Competition “Beneath”
  (2018)

• Quarterfinalist , CineStory TV Retreat and Fellowship Competition “Ports”
  (2018)

• SemiFinalist - Cinestory TV Pilot "Hell Off Earth"
  (2017)

• Quarterfinalist , CineStory Feature Retreat and Fellowship Competition “Buffalo Trouble”
  (2017)

• UCLA Professional Program TV
  (2015-2016)

• Indiana University/Department of Communication and Culture