April 2015
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About Susan
My "brand" tagline as a screenwriter is: Stories that Illuminate the Soul. My screenplays explore the energy of love and illuminate the power of the spirit, reaffirming that the heart can endure great challenges, the imagination can heal deep wounds, and the human condition can unite us all.
I've taught screenwriting at DePaul University in Chicago, wrote dozens of screenplays, produced a talk show pilot and developed new business for Resolution Digital Studios in Chicago and for the post production company, Filmworkers in Chicago and Nashville. My writing credits and professional experience include advertising and marketing copy, website content and strategy, fiction, non fiction, and journalism. I've worked with a variety of high profile brands and have developed a brand storytelling process, which is based on the Hero's Journey and the Archetypes.
Please visit my screenwriting website: susanleehahn@.
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Wives Without Borders: One-Hour Pilot Budget: $1M - $5M | Fantasy ⋄ Drama A newly heartbroken, recently traumatized woman (39+) poses as a psychic medium to meet eligible widowers and to earn some fast cash, then discovers that she can actually see the dead wives from the grief group of men she counsels, which opens a Pandora’s Box of problems, theirs and hers. After she falls for one of the men, his dead wife appears in her kitchen one night and claims that he killed her. An unlikely friendship develops, but is haunted by the question: Is she her best friend and truly trying to help navigate this relationship, or is she lying, jealous, and vindictive, hellbent on derailing her new romance?Also a novel and short story.
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Pearls Budget: $1M - $5M | Fantasy ⋄ Family A courageous and precocious Pearl (9) discovers that she can see fifteen minutes into the future after her father is taken into custody, but refuses to testify at a mobster’s trial. She uses this gift to help him reclaim his life and to reunite her family, while a recurring dream of a dying old woman reveals how far her gift stretches into her own future.Awards: Semi-finalist Zoetrope Screenplay Awards (2021), Quarterfinalist, Emerging Screenwriters - Genre Screenplay Competition 2021, and Finalist in ScreenCraft’s Cinematic Book Contest (2019)
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Eg and The Elephants Family ⋄ Adventure An awkward and adventurous boy, Eg (11, Caucasian) uses his gift as an 'elephant whisperer' to rescue and reunite two sister elephants after one of them is kidnapped and earmarked for a billionaire's safari. With the help of his grandfather, Bert (70, African American) whom he just met, Eg learns the truth about his family's history and eventually reunites his grandparents after being apart for decades due to racial injustice.
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Chasing Time: Feature Budget: $5M - $10M | Drama ⋄ Sci-fi A gifted American, female artist of Italian descent (35) moves into the Medici Artists colony in Tuscany where she discovers an immortality potion and learns that patron at the colony has been alive since the Renaissance. Her ancestral connection to him and to some of the great artists and scientists of the Renaissance puts his fate and the fate of humanity in her hands.
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Chasing Time: One-Hour Pilot Budget: $5M - $10M | Romance ⋄ Drama A gifted, American artist of Italian descent (35) moves to Italy in search of her artistic greatness and arrives at the exclusive Medici Artists Colony in Tuscany, Italy where she discovers an immortality elixir that was created during the Renaissance and has been fueling the lives of the patron and several others for over 500 years. With their souls yearning to be released from their bodies after having spent too much time on earth, they set her up to set them free since she is the reincarnation of their only child. In other words, they want her to kill them. The fate of the elixir and the future of mankind is up to her.
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Imagining Audrey Drama An endearing and indecisive woman in her mid-twenties has a mystical experience, which causes her life to split into three very different directions. Ten years later, her three “selves” collide and together they must figure out who gets the future.
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Electric Laughter: Feature Budget: $5M - $10M | Drama ⋄ Sci-fi ⋄ Thriller A brilliant and introverted scientist invents the cure for sadness with a sophisticated, electrically-charged wrist device, which effortlessly triggers laughter in the brain. This drastic change in the human condition brings him great fame and fortune and also leads to murder and his near madness, but he fights for his life and the chance to reunite with the woman he loves.
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Electric Laughter: Novel Thriller ⋄ Sci-fi A brilliant scientist invents a s wristwatch device that electrically triggers laughter in the brain and forever changes the human condition. When his best friend and public double is murdered on live television, he goes into hiding for five years and finally emerges to reunite with the woman he loves and take back his life, only to be arrested and accused of his friend's murder.* Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition 2020 - 2021
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Sensations Budget: $1M - $5M | Adventure ⋄ Fantasy A courageous American Indian teenage girl discovers the essence of the earth's elements (earth, water, air, and fire) embodied in four, egg-shaped phenomenon, also known as the Sensations. When the "fire" essence is stolen by the evil and power-hungry ruler of the underworld, she must journey through a cavernous and dangerous terrain to retrieve it from him and to save mankind and the planet from complete destruction.
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Break Open the Sky Budget: $5M - $10M | Adventure ⋄ Drama ⋄ Fantasy Two lovers reunite in the afterlife and have one last day to spend together before one of them is reincarnated. As they journey to the top of a mountain with two other souls who are vying for the same lifetime, they discover deep connections from their past and reveal how their future lives might potentially intertwined. This menagerie of personalities and web of interconnectedness illuminates how love endures and evolves on both sides of life.
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A Brief Affair Budget: $1M - $5M | Comedy Two underwear moguls vie for control of the marketplace and ultimately, for one another’s company while revolutionizing the underwear industry with technology-inspired underwear. She’s a feminist and he's a player. She must outsmart her three evil ex-step mothers who are still on the board and want to oust her to protect their financial interests and he’s in trouble and needs her US plants in order for his company to survive.
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Freudian Nightmare Budget: $100K - $1M | Drama ⋄ Sci-fi The spirit of Sigmund Freud is on a quest to reincarnate and falls in love with the woman who he has chosen as his future mother. Together, they devise a plan to get her difficult, world-renowned psychiatrist husband to impregnate her, and at the same time, they discover an experience and a profound connection from their past lives together.
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Dogs in Love Budget: $1M - $5M | Romance ⋄ Family A lonely and gifted blind man who can hear and speak on a dog's frequency, along with his canine companion both fall in love at 'first sniff' and help one other connect with their true loves, aided by their outspoken, African American, female driver and some rambunctious four-legged friends. Dogs in Love celebrates second changes at love and the profound role that dogs play in our lives.
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The Lucky Sperm Club Budget: $5M - $10M | Romance ⋄ Comedy A wealthy college kid gets kicked out of his prestigious family by his heartless father and launches the first celebrity sperm donor bank with the help of his brilliant, female African American tutor. Together they turn The Lucky Sperm Club into a global fundraising effort to fight childhood poverty, and he transforms from being a spoiled, entitled kid into a man with integrity and humanity. Only after he finds authentic compassion and empathy for mankind is he finally worthy of her love.
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