John Darbonne

JOHN DARBONNE
Email: darbonne.john@ Phone: (361) 800-3322
Feature Film, Episodic, Limited Series, Strong Female Leads

BIO
John Darbonne was born in Texas and raised in New Orleans. Working as a Writer/Director and DP in Los Angeles for companies such as Universal and National Lampoon. He has completed thirty-one feature films. He is the writer/director of COMPANION, based on his award-winning horror feature, which was picked up by Level 33 for worldwide distribution.

John writes existential themes about men coming to grips with their failures, often told through the strong women in their lives.

WRITING SAMPLES

TITLE: VANILLA
FORMAT: Feature | Action Thriller
LOGLINE: Across the Southern border, an incendiary LatinX Agent, caught between her Mexican heritage and her dream of being a U.S. citizen, suspects her memory is being manipulated as she engages in a violent pursuit to apprehend her father, a brutal terrorist known as The Coyote.
COMPS: ATOMIC BLONDE meets THE TRUMAN SHOW

TITLE: CASKET GIRL
FORMAT: Contained Feature | Horror - Supernatural Drama
LOGLINE: On an isolated farm in 1920, when a fiery, Black widow learns a damned spirit is threatening her son, she must break the entity's curse while clashing with her husband’s racist brothers to survive a world built by the prejudices of men.
COMPS: MAMA meet MIDNIGHT MASS

TRACTION
• COMPANION Winner Filmmatic Horror Screenplay awards season 4, Finalist Screencraft Horror 2019, Top 20 Roadmap Writers JumpStart, Stowe Story Labs Fellowship, Recommend by Screencraft (coverage), Coverfly Top 1% in Genre/Format
• CASKET GIRL SF Final Draft Big Break 2021, Winner Westfield Screenwriter’s Award, Winner Paperscreenplay, SF StoryPros Int. Screenplay Competition 2021, Stowe Story Labs Fellowship
• VANILLA Finalist The Script Lab Free Screenplay Contest 2021, Finalist Pitch Now Screenplay Competition 2019