Patrice Sarath

Patrice, what do you do? I tell stories. I’m a novelist, short story author, screenwriter, filmmaker. Here’s some of what I’ve done.

Novelist and Short Story Author
Novels: Gordath Wood, Red Gold Bridge, The Crow God’s Girl (The Gordath Wood Series), The Unexpected Miss Bennet (a Pride & Prejudice tale), The Sisters Mederos, Fog Season (The Tales of Port Saint Frey)

Short stories have appeared in Weird Tales, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, and Year’s Best Fantasy, among other markets.

Screenwriter and film editor. Director and producer.

Director and screenwriter, Shakespeare in the Diner: Macbeth. A streamlined adaptation of the classic play, set in the iconic American film setting: the diner. On festival submission. Link available on request.

Director and screenwriter, Do Over. Directing project about a horse-crazy girl whose life is upended by her parents’ divorce, and who travels forward in time to discover that her grownup self hasn’t followed any of their dreams, so they go off together to finally get a pony. Winner Best Short Film at the Equinale Film Festival in Mecklenburg, Germany, 2023. Winner Best Student Film at the Equus Film Festival in Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2023.
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Producer and screenwriter, Changeling. A teenager meets a mysterious stranger and faces a decision: stay a human or accept her true identity.
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Producer, Alice. A student encounters hostile classmates and an unsympathetic teacher, and is plunged into a nightmare that she manages to escape by drawing courage from a gift from her girlfriend. Winner of the Director-Producer Partnership Award and the Film Festival Submission Award at the ACC Establishing Shots Student Showcase in May 2024.

Producer, Braids & Bows. A teen girl raised in a conservative Christian church gains the courage to stand up to her strict parents with the help of an unexpected crush.

Work on film sets: Director, assistant director, script supervisor, set design, camera operator, first and second A.C., sound, lighting, gaffer, and grip.