Loglines & Screenplays by Jen Finelli

GENRES: Thriller, Sci-fi

Dana Washington's successful career as a time-traveling historian screeches to a halt when someone kidnaps her daughter and escapes into the past.

Dana must unravel the kidnapper's identity, rescue her daughter, and regain her husband's trust - all before their broken time machine leaves them stranded in the history books.

GENRES: Thriller, Sci-fi

A broken shuttle touches down on the moon. An all-Black community of explorers from all walks of life, evicted from their violent homeworld, must set up camp and establish a sustainable food source before the elements kill them--or before they're consumed from within by the evil that stowed away.

GENRES: Sci-fi, Animation

A whacky alien anthropologist comes to Earth to study humans--but struggles between her anthropologist’s oath of noninterference and her growing concern for the weird, diverse, and wonderfully tragic beings she meets. INVADER ZIM meets GRAVITY FALLS with the social depth of STAR TREK: NEXT GENERATION.

GENRES: Sci-fi, Animation

Two preteens lose their parents to a mysterious dimension-traveling force, and instead of seeking out help from authorities, the kids take it upon themselves to wade through history and fiction battling laser-wielding dinosaurs and handle-bar mustaches to get their parents back.

GENRES: Historical, Fantasy

Based on the historical reality of hundreds of escaped slaves across the US, from the Great Dismal Swamp to the mountains of Puerto Rico, who fled into the wilderness to take refuge with native peoples--

MAROON is a Peter Pan retelling of a young boy who hears his parents talking about what he'll be when he grows up--a slave--and instead runs away after a firefly-fairy into the swamps he calls Nowhere, where he meets indigenous peoples and battles pirates.

GENRES: Historical, Drama

Based on a true story set just after the end of WW2, a young Italian boy with severe physical tics struggles with mocking peers, poverty, substance abuse--and an evil force that haunts his mother, and claims his mind. He fights back with music, food, and faith, clinging to family and oregano against overwhelming giants in this dark coming of age tale sprinkled with magical realism.

Pan's Labyrinth meets happiness and pasta.

GENRES: Historical, Action

Four-part contained Game of Thrones set in the ancient Middle East, based on the historical reigns of Israeli kings Ahab through Joram during Israel's Divided Period. 

Jehu is a loyal soldier who witnesses his king slaughter a man for land; as the queen ramps up support for a child-abusing blood cult, invaders prey on the nation's borders, and famine punishes the people, Jehu becomes the reluctant zealot in a bloody plot to overthrow his master.

GENRES: Historical, Drama

In this contained, four-part web series, a desperate woman in ancient Mesopotamia is driven to despair by her lack of children--so she turns to her family's patriarchal tradition of having her bondservant bear her child.

 Based on a historical tale from the Tanakh, this raw drama details the closeness and pain of two women pitted against each other by class, sex, and the children they bear to the man they both use.

GENRES: Thriller, Sci-fi

Contained, multi-part serial medical thriller written by a doctor.

1-4: An underground physician who treats only superhumans must save her mentor from his own superpower--before he goes nuclear and destroys the planet. But she may lose her own abilities in exchange...

5-8: A new hospitalist begins to discover some of his patients have unbelievable abilities--and that someone with access to their medical records is trying to kill them. He must figure out who to trust, and who to hide from, as he tries to uncover the killer without outing his patients to hospital administration.

GENRES: Comedy

Marie just likes to bring cookies to people having a bad day, whether that's the homeless or the incarcerated at her local prison. But she's at the wrong place at the wrong time during a prison break--and soon thrown to the wolves as suspect number one in a serial killer's demented spree. If innocent Marie can't unravel the killer's fascination with her, those Marie loves will suffer most.

Female driven thriller, protagonist and antagonist.

GENRES: Horror

A new physician traumatized by personal tragedy must hide her growing mental illness in a career-driven world of lies and monsters where the patient is only a means to an end, and it's always easier to kill the squeaky wheel than change the system.