Todd Tavolazzi

BOOK SMART Comedy ⋄ Drama A dramedy about Nick, an alcoholic novelist who wants to measure up to his legendary novelist father but can't break out of his father's shadow to shine on his own until Connie, a 20 year old fugitive mental patient claiming to be Nick's daughter, turns his perspective upside down and uncovers a secret that could be the key to Nick's emotional freedom (if SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK smashed into FINDING FORRESTER).

GRADY'S WAR Budget: $100K - $1M | Action In Spring 1942, Grady, a 17 year-old seaplane pilot, will stop at nothing to join the hunt for the German U-boat that killed his aviator father while rescuing merchant seamen off the U.S. East Coast (inspired by historical events).

THE BOOK OF HERMES Budget: $1M - $5M | Sci-fi ⋄ Thriller After her father's mysterious death, Lynn Graham, receives instructions in the mail, from her now deceased father (a scientist for a covert program), that he can only trust her to find and protect an ancient alien text and convince the government not to cancel Operation Hermes or there will be grave consequences for humankind.      

CHRISTMAS UNDER CONTRACT Budget: $100K - $1M | Romance ⋄ Family A real estate agent in New York City (and widow with a college age son), leverages her friends, expertise, and Christmas miracles to find a way to pay her son’s last semester of college and save her struggling local family-owned market before Christmas and just may find a Christmas miracle for herself in the process. 

NOURA Budget: $100K - $1M | Drama In a desperate act to pursue his own happiness and physically free himself from the Syrian civil war, a young Syrian man, must fool his government and an American University administrator that he is a woman after he is chosen for an international women’s scholarship. 

The Last Rescue (2016)
Film by Sleeperwave Films Screenwriter Freelance journalist and young Hollywood movie star smuggle themselves into Syria to evacuate Syrian children (in development).