Russ Lindway
RJ Lindway, ltd.
Screenwriter and Voice Artist
Cleveland, Ohio
September 2015
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About Russ
Russ Lindway wrote his first feature screenplay – CRUSHING – in 2012. It achieved a top-10% finish in the Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting in 2013 (then titled THE AMAZING GRETCHEN).
His second screenplay – THE SORROW VEIL – earned First Place (Drama) honors in the Creative World Awards screenplay contest, a Top-5 Finalist finish in the Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition and the Grand Prize in the Toronto Metropolitan International Screenplay Competition.
Lindway’s third screenplay, the period psychological/paranormal horror narrative, HUSH THE SHADOWS, is currently in the very suspenseful pre-option phase. This was followed by the sprawling, crime/road adventure that takes place on Route 66 during the Mother Road’s heyday, NEON SUNDOWN, which placed high in several international screenwriting competitions.
In 2020 Lindway wrote the pandemic-set, Black Lives Matter-themed THE NEAR DISTANCE, which became an Official Selection in the 2021 Diversity Film and Script Showcase and took First Place (Drama screenplay) in the 2021 International Indie Gathering Film Festival competition.
In 2022 his gender relations-themed horror screenplay, PURITY, was optioned by Good Deed Entertainment/Cranked Up Films. The completed feature, REPLICATOR, with story and co-screenwriter credits for Lindway, was released in theaters and to streaming and On-Demand in the fall of 2024.
His fantasy-tinged suspense thriller, MERE MORTALS, was named an Official Selection in the 2023 Crime List competition and was honored with the special Creative Concept/Inspirational Spirit Award in the 2023 Creative World Awards screenplay contest. It also won Best Drama/Suspense Feature Screenplay and Best Overall Screenplay at the 2023 International Indie Gathering Film Festival.
Lindway’s first feature comedy, THE PLOT, THICKINS!, was named an Official Selection in the 2024 Portland Comedy Film Festival and won Best Feature Screenplay honors at the 2024 International Indie Gathering Film Festival.
All eight of Lindway's screenplays feature strong female lead characters.
Unique traits: Incredible patience.
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Loglines
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THE PLOT, THICKINS! Budget: $1M - $5M | Comedy A creative couple’s relationship turns meta-bizarre when Jack’s fledgling screenwriting career is derailed by writer’s block just as Imojean’s first book blows up, and Jack’s jealous, delusional insecurities lead him to believe they’re really characters in a movie.
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HUSH THE SHADOWS Budget: $5M - $10M | Thriller ⋄ Horror In 1962, as they cope with the unsolved killing of their parents, two siblings discover six mysterious, old recordings at the family’s cliffside mansion which summon a succession of preternatural entities – each more menacing than the last.
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THE NEAR DISTANCE Budget: $100K - $1M | Drama During the COVID-19 pandemic, two neighbors who have never met – a 30-year-old Black mother and a childless, 57-year-old white man – become intimately familiar with each other’s world view in the days following the murder of George Floyd.
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MERE MORTALS Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller ⋄ Mystery A series of harrowing events in which each perpetrator becomes a victim of the next horrific act drives one woman’s quest to prevent her husband’s murder … which has already happened.
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NEON SUNDOWN Budget: $10M - $30M | Crime ⋄ Adventure A businesswoman, forced to act as an underworld organization's courier for over a decade, bolts with a half-million dollars in laundered cash down Route 66 just as the legendary highway's heyday is ending.
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THE SORROW VEIL Budget: $1M - $5M | Crime ⋄ Thriller Fear grips a rural Midwestern county when three residents vanish between 1977 and 1980 and as a young nurse fights the dread that she or her year-old daughter may be next, the actions she takes to safeguard her family expose horrific truths about her close-knit community.
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CRUSHING Budget: $100K - $1M | Drama ⋄ Independent ⋄ Romance A week away from her 49th birthday, Gretchen’s life of quiet desperation is rocked when she meets a younger man who may be stalking her, and their whirlwind connection forces her to confront issues that have been emotionally paralyzing her for decades.
Credits
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REPLICATOR (
2024 )
Film by Cranked Up Films/Crash Cat Media/Mark Andrew Hamer Screen story & co-screenwriter Released in theaters, On Demand and via streaming in November/December 2024. -
Hero Tomorrow (
2007 )
Film by Ted Sikora (Comedy) Special thanks David, a struggling comic book creator from Cleveland, spends his days cutting grass and his nights smoking it while desperately trying to keep his superhero fantasies alive. When Robyn, his aspiring fashion-designer girlfriend, makes him a Halloween costume of his original character Apama, it doesn't take David long to hit the streets and begin blundering towards disaster. This comic book Don Quixote is characterized by surreal flourishes, mixing dream, fantasy, and flashbacks that borrow as much from the art house as the comic shop. A midnight movie for superhero fans. Written by Anonymous -
Yes, This Is Comedy! (
1990 )
Television (Comedy) Writer, Director, Actor, Composer, Editor, Producer A "Mad TV-meets-SCTV-meets-In Living Color" sketch comedy series. Local cable on acid.
Awards
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Creative Concept/Inspirational Spirit Award: Creative World Awards Screenplay Contest
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Best Overall Screenplay: The International Indie Gathering Film Festival
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Best Suspense Feature Screenplay: The International Indie Gathering Film Festival
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Grand Prize: Toronto Metropolitan International Screenplay Competition
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Best Drama Feature Screenplay: The International Indie Gathering Film Festival
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First Place/Drama: Creative World Awards Screenplay Contest
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ADDY Award: Best of Show
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Emmy Award
(1985) -
CableACE
(1984) -
Emmy Award
(1983)
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