Matthew Parvin

R-Dub Productions
Screenwriter, Content Creator, Editor, Playwright, Researcher, Script Consultant and Story Analyst

Canton, Michigan

Member Since:
November 2020

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About Matthew

A high school English teacher by day, screenwriter by night.

I've been teaching English/Language Arts/Composition/American and World Literature, as well as Social Studies (History, Economics, Civics, Geography) for 20+ years.

I've been writing screenplays, short fiction, and poetry seriously since 1993. My writing journey has been, as John Lennon wrote, "a long and winding road". Until this past October, I had absolutely no confidence in my writing ability, but it was part of who I was. I couldn't give it up, even though I NEVER showed my product to anyone. No one in the business, no one I knew. My own family barely knew I wrote creatively. I was so frightened someone would confirm my fears and tell me to stop, give up; that I was no good. That all changed in October.

I met my mentor and a friend who, through his platform "The Failed Filmmaker" shepherded me through a writing process and empowered me to be who I always wanted to be: a writer. For that, and for the gift of confidence in myself, I'm forever grateful to Sean LaFollette.

So, here I am! I write everyday. I'm proud of what I write, enjoying the creative process. I'm looking forward to connecting, possibly collaborating, and being part of a community of writers and filmmakers. Let's create something!

Unique traits: Taught MIddle School/High School English/Language Arts/Literature/Drama/Composition and Social Studies for 20+ years.

Gender:
Male

Height:
5' 9"

Weight:
180

Body type:
Average

Hair color:
Bald

Eyes:
Blue

Ethnicity:
Caucasian

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Perfect Day Budget: $100K - $1M | Romance ⋄ Drama A married woman in her forties spends a day in a city park trying to decide between her crumbling family life and a younger man with whom she’s having an emotional affair.
Helvete Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller ⋄ Horror An American exchange student studying in Norway and her black metal obsessed cousin are stalked by a corpse-painted serial killer through 1990's Oslo.
Villette Budget: $5M - $10M | Historical ⋄ Drama Lucy Snowe navigates 19th century society, the intrigues of a French boarding school and the passion of several suitors as she grows from orphan to teacher to, eventually, herself. Based on the novel by Charlotte Bronte.
becoming Budget: $100K - $1M | Romance ⋄ Drama Two people arrive at an antique bookstore to begin an affair. During a torrential storm engulfing the city Cammie and Aiden must confront the tempest outside and the turmoil within to truly know what their hearts want, and if what they truly want is each other.
Masks Budget: $100K - $1M | Thriller ⋄ Horror A Vietnam Vet working in 1970's Detroit goes for a restful weekend with three friends up north. What he gets is a descent into a world he never knew existed with people he thought he knew. When their secrets are revealed, all hell breaks loose. Then again, the Vet has some secrets of his own...
Red Room Budget: $100K - $1M | Independent ⋄ Horror Two Urban Explorers investigate an abandoned hotel and are hunted by a quartet of psychopaths intent on using them as subjects for their ultimate nuff film.
Barbarus Budget: $10M - $30M | Historical ⋄ War Hannibal Barca, newly ascended king of Carthage, launches a daring assault on his mortal enemy, the empire of Rome. With an invasion force of 100,000 soldiers, Hannibal’s forces cross the Swiss Alps mountain range and take the mighty world power by complete surprise, setting the stage for a monumental battle to determine the fate of two nations and western civilization.
Long Time Comin' Budget: $100K - $1M | Drama A man decides to end his life and takes a nostalgic train ride to his seaside hometown for his finale. Along the way, he is entwined in the escape attempt of a young woman and her mother from human traffickers and seizes on an opportunity to try and make what's left of his life count for something.
No/Clip Budget: $0 - $100K | Horror ⋄ Experimental A young woman, struggling with past trauma and isolation, “no/clips” out of our dimension and into a new one filled with liminal spaces, loneliness, and malevolent creatures seeking to block her escape and keep her in this reality permanently.
Young Goodman Brown Budget: $100K - $1M | Thriller ⋄ Historical Salem Village, 1725. A journey home for a young Boston magistrate becomes a nightmare as he is confronted by the unbelievable past of his dying father, his about-to-be widowed mother and a community where nothing is as it seems. Based on the short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Grendel Budget: $100K - $1M | Thriller ⋄ Action A monstrous, albino mob enforcer turns against his family and his associates when he falls in love with the daughter of a rival Yakuza faction. After her father discovers the affair, both organized crime syndicates turn on the two lovers who must now navigate present-day Detroit to make it out alive.