Arlaine Rockey

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON - THE FIRST SUFFRAGIST Budget: $10M - $30M | Historical ⋄ Biography ⋄ Drama Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the intellectual and radical force behind the original women’s rights movement for over fifty years, but when she published a feminist critique of the Bible, she was publicly censured by the organization she founded for allegedly damaging the cause of suffrage. Based on research drawn from multiple sources, all in the public domain, Elizabeth Cady Stanton - The First Suffragist is a moving, funny and inspirational biopic about an American hero who improved the lives of millions of women. "Elizabeth Cady Stanton - The First Suffragist" made the second round (top 20%) in the Nicholl Fellowship Competition in 2018. "Elizabeth Cady Stanton - The First Suffragist" made the second round (top 15%) in the Drama genre in the Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competitions in 2018 and 2016.

MY DEAD BFF Comedy ⋄ Romance High school outsider, Joslyn, is thrilled when her charismatic BFF's ghost returns with her bedazzled cell app needing help to get into heaven, but her dead BFF becomes her worst frenemy when she learns that Joslyn has a crush on her grieving boyfriend. "My Dead BFF" is a teenage romantic black comedy with a twist. It made the second round (top 15%) in the Comedy genre in the Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition in 2015.

PURRFECT Animation ⋄ Comedy ⋄ Family A canine odd couple, a Maltese and a White German Shepherd, struggle to adopt two Ragdoll kittens, while a Panther social worker risks the kittens’ lives in his quest to protect them from being raised by dogs. Purrfect is a fable for the culture wars. See the Purrfect mini-book in my photos and at my website: http://www.Attorney-Author.com. Purrfect made the second round (top 15%) in the Comedy genre in the Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition in 2016.

"Madness & Lies" Drama ⋄ Independent ⋄ Thriller In Madness & Lies, Elena, a Southern attorney who works to stop child abuse, is put on trial for her young son’s murder after her psycho girlfriend kills him and convinces their teenage daughter to lie to help frame Elena, putting her career, family, and freedom at risk. It is also a coming of age story about this teenage girl, whose biological mother cannot give her what she needs, but who learns to accept the love of Elena, the mother she hates and betrays. An emotionally-raw psychological legal thriller, Madness & Lies placed in the top 15% in the Nicholl Fellowship Competition in 2012 and 2010.

"Stent" Drama ⋄ Thriller Inspired by true events, "Stent" is an epic thriller in which a daughter fights the world’s largest medical conglomerate to prove that her late father was the first inventor of the balloon-expandable heart stent and, with a half a billion dollars in royalties at stake, to save her family from financial ruin, grappling with blackmail and corruption, and risking her safety and her family’s lives all the way to the Supreme Court. "Stent," an original screenplay, was inspired by actual events in the screenwriter’s life.Her father, Dr. Arthur G. Rockey, was the pioneer inventor of the balloon-expandable stent.