Darla Larson Phillips

BECAUSE YOU CAN Comedy A conservative wife and career mom on the verge of a breakdown embarks on a mission to “find” herself and learns that the road to self discovery is rocky and riddled with potholes.

Book Of Morgan Comedy A devout Mormon family from small town Utah relocate to Santa Monica and find they don’t fit in, not even with the local church members, and each hilariously try to adapt.

Wide Open Thriller ⋄ Crime Based on a true story. A pilot, accused in the heist of his own aircraft and labeled a terrorist, must clear his name or face the loss of his freedom and devastation of his family.

Wide Open (2018)
Film (Thriller and Short) Writer, Producer, Co-Director When Jesse Mack's airplane is stolen from the tarmac of an international airport in Mexico, he realizes he is the target of rogue federal agents with an agenda. Jesse soon finds himself detained in a federal prison with his bail denied, and his rights as a U.S. citizen stripped away under the guise that he is a threat to national security. Jesse sits in prison facing what is possibly one of the earliest attempts to prosecute an American born citizen, on U.S. soil, under the Patriot Act. The protagonist and the events of this screenplay are based on real life happenings. WIDE OPEN is a dramatized version of one family's fight to win against enormous odds. (Circa 2006-2008) Written by Darla Phillips

You’re Never Alone
Film (short) by TrendyGirl Productions / Curtis Ballard (Drama and Thriller) Screenwriter & Producer A woman’s faith is put to the test when she is confronted by a criminal with dangerous intentions.