Loglines & Screenplays by Serita Stevens

GENRES: Historical

My historical true drama The Master's Will is being given an award next month at the Hollywood and Vine Festival. 3 African American slaves are bought pre Civil war by a lonely SC plantation owner. When he is murdered by the Klan, they inherit the majority of their master/husband's property. Growing past the obstacles, they must fight the family -who had expected to inherit - and Reconstructionist South to win a landmark decision in 1878 for Blacks and Women.

GENRES: Thriller

You die once; you can’t die twice. When her car stalls in a small Southern town, nightmares of rape and murder haunt Andrea. Were they real? Could this White Ann Hawthaway type really have been a Black plantation worker in this small southern town? Finding clues that the events really happened, Ann knows she must the killer find her before he kills her, again.

GENRES: Comedy

A romantic comedy with a supernatural twist where a debonair Elliot Gould-type dies on the same day as an acerbic, noisy, worried about her daughter, Barbara Streisand-type. The pair take the same train to heaven and decide to defy heaven's rules and match their dysfunctional kids - Mila Kunis type, the uptight campaign manager and in love with a sleazy politician is pushed to spy on the competition, only to realize that he's the right man for the job - in more ways than one -- as the older couple fight their own attraction for each other.

GENRES: Other

Action buddy dramady, it's based on the Fanny Zindel novels from St. Martin's Press.   In life, your Bette Midler type mother in law is difficult; in death, she’s impossible. Newly promoted, Detective Sara Zindel - a Hillary Duff type - hates her mother in law, but when, in an attempt to stop her investigations into a new case, her husband is kidnapped and her mother in law killed, she must partner with the ghost of her mother in law to save her husband and solve the case - police corruption and all.

GENRES: Other

A Young Aduilt - When a rebellious teen is thrown into a psychiatric hospital because her manipulative parents can't handle her, she experiences that not everyone survives the system.  Based on the book out now from True North Press

GENRES: Action

Teen Adventure -In the tone of Spy Kids meets Iron Eagle Official Selection at the International Family Film Festival --
A teen gymnast and her friends defy the military to rescue her father from terrorists

GENRES: Adventure

Based on the book from St. Martin's Press -- Traveling to Israel for the first time, Fanny Zindel, a 50ish grandmother, is prepared for anything...except murder.  Getting involved with Mosad as she searches the countryside for her missing granddaughter, she uses gimicks from her "everything bag" including rope, from her suitcase, to jump down the second story. 

GENRES: Crime

Based on the book from St. Martin's Press, nurses now help the police solve crimes - not just sexual assault, but elder and domestic abuse, and, of course, murder.  

GENRES: Western

Based on the book Deceptive Desires, Logan's Land is a female Shane.  Elisa Edwards, a Rachel McAdams type, single and alone, must defy the Cattle Barons of Montana to help save a town while falling in love with the man whom she thinks murdered her brother.

GENRES: Thriller

Based on the award nominated short story "The Unborn." The Truth Is Only A Heart Beat Away. While in utero, a young girl experiences her mother's abuse and murder. She vows revenge on the killer -- her father.

GENRES: Comedy

an urban comedy – Reluctant and questioning novice Monica, along with her Lucy-like side kick Anise discover an ancient habit. Discovering she's been turned into a priest being seduced by a congregant, Monica must talk her way out of the sticky situation while saving the convent. - spec sitcom pilot. Sister Act meets Quantum Leap.

GENRES: Crime

A spec pilot - Southland meets Precious. A character driven police procedural about life with the gangs. Based on work done with the gangs in prison. When newbie cop Joel discovers a drive by shooting that kills a step-father, he realizes that emotionally he's not as far from the gang kids as he would like to think.
Won Talentville competition and Writers Boot Camp Fellowship.

GENRES: Drama, Historical

Young Deborah (Judges 4 & 5) must convince the stubborn Hebrews to follow her into battle against the powerful King Jabin, the Canaanite while fighting for the love of Barak, her captain, against the feelings he has for Yael, the wife of Heber, who, with her tent pin, destroys the Canaanite general, Sisera.