Scott Sawitz

Scott Sawitz

Drunk Justice Productions
Director and Screenwriter

Grayslake, Illinois

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December 2017
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About Scott

A two-time optioned screenwriter, Scott is best described by his colleagues as a writer who "creates character studies of complex, flawed people within a genre framework."

He financed, cast, shot and released the web series "Confessions of a Superhero" in 2016. It is available on YouTube.

Scott has two shorts under his belt; "The Executioner's Dilemma" and "The Worst Possible Time" are available on YouTube.

He's currently in pre-production for his feature length debut, "Save State."

Scott is attached to "The Last Undercover," an adaptation of Bob Hamer's novel of the same name, currently in development.

His script "What About Bailey?" is currently a semifinalist in the 2021 ISA Family & Holiday Plus Genre Busting Screenplay Competition.

Unique traits: I focus on characters at a specific point in their life, how they got their and how they deal with the consequences of their actions.

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  • Luxury Good

    Luxury Good Budget: $100K - $1M | Drama Comedy A struggling screenwriter and a high-end escort form an unlikely bond in Los Angeles, navigating the facade and struggles of their worlds as they confront ambition’s cost and their search for authenticity.

  • Juiced

    Juiced Budget: $100K - $1M | Thriller Comedy When his girlfriend leaves him for not being “big enough,” an introverted engineer will walk a path of self-discovery through bodybuilding that turns into a self-destructive journey fueled by anabolic steroids, cocaine, and casual sex.

  • Scalpel. Syringe. Silencer.

    Scalpel. Syringe. Silencer. Budget: $100K - $1M | Thriller Crime After losing his medical license, a plastic surgeon with a criminal past winds up in deep with the Russian mob when his daughter’s medical bills threaten to bankrupt his family.

  • Self Portrait

    Self Portrait Budget: $100K - $1M | Drama Comedy When she's diagnosed with terminal cancer, an introverted painter sets out to explore all the areas of her life that she's ignored in her pursuit of artistic expression before it's too late.

  • Second Chances

    Second Chances Budget: $100K - $1M | Drama Comedy A year after his wife’s death, the owner of Chicago's last video rental store must navigate the bittersweet journey of reopening his heart to love in a world that has moved on from the past.

  • Aces High

    Aces High Budget: $5M - $10M | Thriller Crime A failed actress, leaving her dreams behind in Los Angeles, takes a job running numbers for a legendary Las Vegas gambler. What starts as a simple gig quickly spirals into chaos involving the FBI and dangerous gangsters.

  • Blood Moon Over Bronzeville

    Blood Moon Over Bronzeville Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller Crime Facing a forced retirement after a bad shooting, a veteran homicide detective will use his remaining days on the police force to solve a cold case from a decade ago dubbed the “perfect murder.”

  • Crooked Edges

    Crooked Edges Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller Crime A tenacious U.S. Marshal, grappling with the recent murder of his estranged daughter, relentlessly pursues her killers, uncovering a tangled web of drug dealers and corruption in a small Wisconsin town.

  • Echoes of Honor

    Echoes of Honor Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller Crime When his confidential informant is murdered, a veteran detective finds himself in a conspiracy involving stolen drugs and elusive players willing to kill to protect their secrets.

  • Eddie Hyde

    Eddie Hyde Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller Comedy When a struggling writer's harmless social media prank catapults him to instant fame, he plunges into a dark spiral of deceit and murder, desperate to conceal his identity and maintain his newfound celebrity status. Based on the novella "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson

  • Fatal Draft

    Fatal Draft Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller Horror A young writer suspected of murder must clear her name and uncover the identity of the killer who is hunting down her colleagues and friends.

  • Forever and Never

    Forever and Never Budget: $1M - $5M | Romance Comedy After a one-night stand on a business trip, two people in unhappy marriages come together on the anniversary to relive a night of passion.

  • Forged in Fury

    Forged in Fury Budget: $1M - $5M | Sports Drama After losing his wife and his career due to his drinking problem, a former college wrestler decides to rebuild his personal and professional lives through mixed martial arts

  • Hell is an Innocent Man

    Hell is an Innocent Man Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller Crime After a struggling screenwriter is wrongly accused of being a notorious serial killer, a semi-retired attorney will be the only thing that stands between him and the electric chair.

  • Meet Cute, Meet Deadly

    Meet Cute, Meet Deadly Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller Horror After discovering the perfect partners who’ve ghosted him have been murdered, a young actor must prove to a dogged homicide detective that he’s not a serial killer: just someone unlucky in love

  • Sex & Snow Days

    Sex & Snow Days Budget: $0 - $100K | Romance Comedy When a blizzard leaves two strangers stuck together in a small home, what starts as a sexy fling turns into a disastrous twenty-four hours when they must get to know each other beyond swipe right

  • The First Sixty Minutes of Eternity

    The First Sixty Minutes of Eternity Budget: $100K - $1M | Comedy Trapped in purgatory with Death itself, a writer on the verge of long-awaited success must battle the Grim Reaper in a best of five for his soul.

  • Vengeance in Red

    Vengeance in Red Budget: $5M - $10M | Horror Action After witnessing the deaths of her girlfriend at the hands of a masked murderer, the lone survivor channels her trauma into exacting vigilante justice on him - and all the other serial killers who go bump in the night.

  • Tracker

    Tracker Budget: $5M - $10M | Thriller Action After a domestic terrorist breaks out of prison, the ex-US Marshal who originally put him there must race against time to stop him before he detonates a nuclear weapon in Chicago.

  • The Merc: Fake Tales of a Real Man

    The Merc: Fake Tales of a Real Man Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller Action After reinventing himself as a badass security specialist, an everyday schlub must become the badass he’s pretended to be in order to prevent his secret double life from being exposed.

Credits

  • The Worst Possible Time

    The Worst Possible Time (2019)
    Film (short) by Drunk Justice Productions Writer/Director

  • The Executioner's Dilemma

    The Executioner's Dilemma (2018)
    Film (short) by Drunk Justice Productions (Thriller and Short) Writer/Director

  • "The Merc: Fake Tales of a Real Man"

    "The Merc: Fake Tales of a Real Man" (2017)
    Film by Pause 'n' Rewind LLP (Action and Thriller) Screenwriter Jackson Stone is a badass security consultant who spent time in the special forces ... or at least that's what's on his resume. In reality he's a janitor who reinvented himself years ago and now exists on a house of cards. When his past begins to come to light via a reality star, Stone has to become the action hero he long pretended to be.

  • Gumshoes Swipe Left

    Gumshoes Swipe Left (2017)
    Film (short) by Three-Point Stance (TPS Creative) Screenwriter A private detective is about to find out that kidnapped movie stars don't come cheap

  • Confessions of a Superhero

    Confessions of a Superhero (2016)
    Internet by Drunk Justice Productions (Comedy and Drama) Writer/Director/Producer A look into the lives of superheroes and villains when they're not saving the world or trying to take it over.

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