DC Lessoway

Unique traits: My fav thing is to write scripts for others. For example, I wrote a script because a producer had three-country travel production money and so I wrote a script in three weeks to match their needs. Also have written several scripts based on real-life stories.

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  Escape to the fields Budget: $5M - $10M | Drama Fifty years of a family’s story through the oldest sister, then youngest brother as cancer, alcoholism, and a suicide attempt bring many long-held family secrets.

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  Walk it Off Budget: $10M - $30M | Drama A wealthy literary writer’s wife and child are killed. Shattered, he hits the road, lives as a hobo, trying to escape the pain.  All along, a murderous shadow follows him, created by his own writing.

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  Dori & 17th Budget: $5M - $10M | Drama A drunk driver runs a light, broadsiding a father, son, and daughter.  The father dies.  Two years later, a graphic video of the accident surfaces on the internet shattering an already fragile family.

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  Every Port Budget: $5M - $10M | Drama ⋄ Adventure Three women from England, Argentina, and Spain receive a copy of the same souvenir spoon and note inviting them first to Argentina then to Nepal.  Who is at the end of the road?

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  Little Distance Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama An isolated, naïve young woman, stuck in a backward society, connects to a world-weary psychologist through a lost phone, and the battery is dying.

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  Agenda 2030 Budget: $30M+ | Thriller ⋄ Drama A bacterium kills millions, A driven virologist and her twin, the President of the United States, seek a vaccine while blocked at every move by The Authority, a secret society bent on reducing the world’s population to one billion. Contact Agent:  Marta Praeger Robert Freedman Dramatic Agency, Inc  mprfda@gmail.com

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  Cora-Danielle Budget: $5M - $10M | Historical ⋄ Drama An account of two women wrestling with life, love and self while enduring two contrasting eras: the chaotic challenges of the present day and the regressive age for women in the early 1900s.

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  Turn of the Hourglass Budget: $10M - $30M | Sci-fi ⋄ Drama A physicist discovers interplanetary travel, only you have to die first.

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  This Island (2019)
  Film (short) by Poeticamber Productions/DC Lessoway (Drama) Exec Producer/Director/Editor An improvised film about Daniel Robertson, 28, a lonely man, seldom talks. Home to work, to the café and hiking on weekends. Repeat. No relationships, no connections, no complications. Then, a phone call, his father died in prison and the old nightmares come. Nightmares from the memories of a night when he was 16, witnessing his mother’s death at the hands of his father. A chance meeting brings a possible love, his father’s funeral brings new family, the loss of a job sends him crashing down. Only a woman’s persistence helps him break from the isolation.

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  Last Stand to Nowhere (2019)
  Film (short) by Michelle Muldoon (Western) Producer Last Stand to Nowhere is a proof of concept short film that re-imagines the Gunfight at the OK Corral with an all-female cast.

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  A Snake Marked (2019)
  Film Camera and Electrical Department

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  Bisect (2018)
  Film by DC Lessoway (Drama) Director/Editor A twin returns from a recovery house to discover his brother had sold his home.

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  Beautiful (2017)
  Video by DC Lessoway (Music) Director/Editor Music video for The Land of Deborah's "Beautiful"

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  Go On (2017)
  Video by DC Lessoway (Music) Director/Editor Jody Quine's song Go ON music video.

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  Birth Day (2010)
  Film by Juan Riedinger (Drama) Actor

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  Take Wing (2007)
  Video by DC Lessoway (Drama) Writer/Director/Editor A police officer tries to stop a young woman from jumping.

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  Abridge (2006)
  Video by DC Lessoway (Drama) Writer/Director/Editor Abridge is a film comprising of 6 scenes and 6 monoloques with the common theme of death. The monologues of are those who have passed on talking about their life, disappointments, regrets and the beauty they lived. The 6 scenes are of those around death and all the issues one has to deal with.

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  I've Got Questions (2006)
  Video by DC Lessoway (Drama) Writer/Director/Editor A woman who just died has a few questions for Death.

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  Left Behind (2006)
  Video by DC Lessoway (Drama) Writer/Director/Editor A woman who died in a car accident worries about her daughter.

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  Magnificence of Life (2006)
  Video by DC Lessoway (Drama) Writer/Director/Editor A worldly man contemplates his life in his last few breaths.

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  Unaided (2006)
  Video by DC Lessoway (Drama) Director/Editor A woman attempts suicide. Will a visit from her unborn child save her?

• People Choice award for Best Non-Eurasian Director
  (2019)