The Guimonds

Fortunate to be part of a writing team that loves creepingly fresh horror!!!

Our latest project BROKEN BRANCH is Created and Written by: Richard Guimond, Suzanne Guimond, and Renee Guimond.
This creative team partnership is a unique one. A father-daughter trio based in New England who collaborated to adapt the richness of Richard Guimond’s two manuscripts, THE MATCHEE and THE KEEPERS OF WINDMILL, into the BROKEN BRANCH Series. This adaptation allowed the team to explore the powerful and imaginative story and world-build with compelling characters and themes well-suited for serialized storytelling. The Broken Branch material includes a pilot, comprehensive Series Bible, and Season One Episode Drafts ripe for partnership with the right production team.

About The Neck Road Productions Team:
A former deep-sea fisherman, award-winning screenwriter, and novelist, Richard has over three dozen awards to his credit and has had previous work optioned. Richard’s fishing and writing career began at the early age of fourteen, where he eventually parlayed his sixteen-foot skiff into a fleet of hundred-foot offshore lobster vessels. At the time, he was the youngest fisherman in New England to venture as far out as the Continental Shelf, a no-man’s land of profitable yet risky opportunity. On those high seas, Richard battled competitive fishing fleets, winter nor’easters, and very cranky crews. At a very young age, Suzanne and Renee were inspired by their father’s passion for the written word and the big screen. While pursuing their careers in the private sector, they remained their father’s harshest critics, collaborators, and editors. Recognizing his daughters' generational and diverse perspectives to his work, a more formal partnership was born. As a creative team, they have focused on adapting several bodies of work perfect for today’s streaming platforms.

The inspiration for this project, Broken Branch, came about from the cross-pollination of several themes including Darwin’s Origin of Species, Native American history and legends, and an iteration of the art of Henry Fuseli’s “The Nightmare.”

Broken Branch and other Project Highlights and Awards Include:
High Scores and Positive Feedback from The Black List on the original feature film script based on The Broken Branch Material.
2019 Semi-Finalist, Austin Film Festival for Whispering Winds, a.k.a. Foggy Joe.
2017 Quarterfinalist in the Nicholl’s Fellowship Program for the screenplay Deep Water Blues.
Seven Finalist Awards and a Special Jury Award from West Field Screenplay Competition for King Philip/Metacomet, which also received a “Strong Consider” rating from CAA.
On an interesting note, Richard’s manuscript Whispering Winds, a.k.a. Foggy Joe, garnered high praise from Award-Winning Film Maker Director/Screenwriter: Scott Frank: who offered “Rich in period atmosphere and authentic as hell. Richard writes with clarity and muscle, spins a great yarn.”