Gene Cartwright

Austin Film Festival SemiFinalist, Author/Screenwriter/Past Oprah Show Author Guest at GeneCartwrightBooks.com | GeneCartwright.com | GreenLightThis.com |https://amzn.to/2VC7bBU
Author, Director, Producer, Screenwriter and Songwriter

Los Angeles, California

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October 2013

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About Gene

Author (16+ books), Austin Film Festival 30 SemiFinalist, former electrical engineer, a past Pulitzer-nominated author/screenwriter, composer, former Oprah guest author, and inactive Marine. See comprehensive bio and more at

Unique traits: Author (16 books+), past Oprah Show guest author, award-winning screenwriter, former engineer, songwriter, and inactive Marine who loves editing to perfect writing.

Gender:
Male

Height:
6'

Body type:
Athletic

Hair color:
Black

Eyes:
Gray

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Saving Emma Budget: $5M - $10M | Fantasy ⋄ Family A precocious 7-year-old heroine with uncanny powers, her mysterious terrier and unearthly forces defend her family from her father’s ruthless enemies determined to destroy them.
John Roméo - 'Dead of Night' Budget: $10M - $30M | Thriller ⋄ Crime Virgil Tibbs meets John Wick when a world-famous former LAPD homicide-wiz turned millionaire author with a gun, sex life, and attitude tracks a sadistic killer but becomes the hunted.
In Her First Life Mystery ⋄ Drama When the pregnant 12-year-old daughter of a poor preacher fingers the 17-year-old son of a Southern state’s wealthiest, politically connected family, she is later targeted for murder.
The Lemon Tree - Sitcom Pilot Budget: $100K - $1M | Independent ⋄ Comedy An ambitious young black woman combines her psychology degree with her love of fashion and hairstyling, and launches “The Lemon Tree”—a multi-ethnic salon and shrink’s office—set in the 90s. First Episode Filmed. 2-Cam Script.
BAAAD IDEA Budget: $5M - $10M | Comedy Genre: Romantic Comedy, 118p. When a laid-off, divorced 7th-grade teacher, desperate to care for his 3-year-old daughter, hatches a desperate moneymaking scheme, he lands in FBI cuffs and sparks a super-power face-off.
The Water Line - A Klansman's Road to Redemption Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama Former Klansman and Selma, Alabama native David Earl Applewhite’s journey to redemption lasts fifty years, reunites him with a black man who saved his life, and ends in a battle with demons he created.
Shadows In The Mist Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama When a young black lawyer is blamed for the death of his former lover—daughter of the prestigious law firm's white senior partner—his new marriage implodes and he's targeted for murder.
Fire Night: Zombies Rule Budget: $5M - $10M | Horror Violent citizens of a dying New England town torment a young family who refuse to sell their farm to save the town, but the raiders awaken vengeful spirits trapped three-hundred years in Devil's Woods.
Tommy Lee Must Die! Budget: $100K - $1M | Action ⋄ Thriller An armed 22-year-old Abilene, Texas dollar-store employee steals her boss’s car, and gives chase to a 46-year-old scumbag fleeing west on I-20 with her 16-year-old sister.
Nowhere, Texas Budget: $100K - $1M | Independent ⋄ Sci-fi During a film producer’s road trip home from Pasadena to Austin, he detours off I-10 past Van Horn, and ends up on a hellish country road to Nowhere, Texas—a town not on any earthly map. (2-character short film adapted from short story)
The Waiting Game Budget: $0 - $100K | Thriller A deranged lover lies in wait, determined to exact bloody revenge on an unfaithful mate.
First Date Budget: $0 - $100K | Romance ⋄ Comedy During a first date with a woman his intellectual superior, an egotistical millionaire millennial makes assumptions that leave him looking like “assumptions” minus the ‘umptions.’ Rom-Com (6 pages)