Donald Lewis

YOUNG BLOOD Budget: $10M - $30M | Drama ⋄ Historical Two 11-year old boys -- one white, one black -- fight against their oppression in a Catholic orphanage and run away, only to escape into the oppression of 1968 Chicago.

FULL COURT PRESS Budget: $100K - $1M | Drama ⋄ Sports In a downtown Chicago hotel on the day of the NBA Draft, eight guys take on race, basketball and what it means to be a man, balling on the court of explosive racial politics. (adapted from my stage play, which Daily Variety called "powerful and provocative")

ROADSIDE MAMAS Budget: $1M - $5M | Comedy ⋄ Drama Two gals in their golden years -- a straight-laced businesswoman and a free-spirited eccentric -- meet in Taos, New Mexico, finding love, adventure and purpose on a cantankerous road to Chicago.

NIGHT BUS Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama ⋄ Comedy ⋄ Romance A single mom navigates through the pain of romance and fear of her jazz piano talent, driving a night bus in the big city, when a pain in the ass law student challenges her to reimagine her life.

THE HANDYMAN Budget: $1M - $5M | Comedy ⋄ Romance A self-absorbed law firm manager acquires boyfriends for the sole purpose of working on her aging parents' home, only to fall for a pro skateboarder past his prime who can't fix anything -- except her heart.

BRACING WHIFFS Budget: $100K - $1M | Comedy ⋄ Romance On the cusp of high school, a small town boy's first love faces first bust when his nemesis middle school principal begins dating the new high school principal -- his crush's mother.

SWEET MOVE Budget: $10M - $30M | Comedy When a college basketball star loses her scholarship to a sorority vendetta, a group of off-campus slackers take her in and fight the power to get her back in school, becoming student movers.

MOVIE HOUSE Budget: $1M - $5M | Horror A deteriorating movie palace learns that developers have plans to convert it into a mall, forcing it to take the only action it can -- deadly defiance.

GOOD GIRL (short) Budget: $0 - $100K | Thriller ⋄ Drama A doll searches for answers when her young owner doesn't return, revealing dark, disturbing secrets a doll shouldn't have to know. (adapted from my nationally-produced stage play)

PERENNIALS (short) Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama Paranoia takes root when a white suburban woman repeatedly receives business cards from a Mexican landscaper through her front door mail slot, sending her on a frantic mission to stop the invasion of her home.

CROSSING (short) Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama A businessman helps an elderly woman cross the street, opening his troubled heart to her and changing his life.

BEHIND THE WALL (short) Budget: $0 - $100K | Comedy A nerdy guy confidentially obsesses about the girl on the other side of his apartment wall, till the girl's new beau forces him out of his comfort zone.