Screenplays
ORIGINAL FEATURE LENGTH SCREENPLAYS
Alex Empire
Alex Empire is an indecisive truck driver in the near future who must negotiate a world of complex choices. Choices are recorded in order to ensure accountability and determine status. Alex is sold a mail-order bride named Sophia, by a con-man who wants to use Alex for his own political motives. Initially rejecting Sophia, Alex realizes she is the only one who can help him escape the con unscathed.
Currently writing
Screenplay by Matthew Schramer
Untitled Feature
Currently writing
Screenplay by Matthew Schramer
ORIGINAL SHORT SCREENPLAYS
Bubbie
Two brothers, Scott and Joseph, are not only forced to surrender their bedroom to their Jewish grandma when she moves in, but they are also forced to adapt to a new way of life and a new way of thinking, but not without a price.
Released in 2006 to festivals & DVD
Screenplay by Matthew Schramer
Directed by Matthew Schramer
Awards: Best of State – Gloria International Film Festival, Official Selection of Rhode Island International Film Festival
Portraits
Larry Mesengier, a photographer turned homeless, wanders the streets, disconnected from the homeless community. He fills the void with his own ramblings to forget the painful past but when his past catches up with him, his mind becomes his worst enemy.
Released in 2006 on DVD
Screenplay by Matthew Schramer
Directed by Matthew Schramer
Traffic Jam
Available to be produced
Screenplay by Matthew Schramer & Drew Brinley
Awards: 3rd Place, Vera Hinckley Mayhew Screenwriting Competition 2005, Top 100 scripts 2005 American Gem Short Script Competition,
Work-shopped by David Geist in a BYU film production class.
The Death Calculator
A calculus grad student runs a successful side business of predicting people’s life expectancy using a calculator. When he enlists the help of a Mexican gardener, his profits and recognition soar until a young girl is murdered on her quinceñera, one day before the predicted day of her death.
Available to be produced
Screenplay by Matthew Schramer
Fall from Heaven
Available to be produced
Screenplay by Matthew Schramer
TV/WEB SERIES
The Enchanted Treehouse
While skipping through the woods Sarah comes upon Marcel and Florette working on a miniature fairy tale house. When Marcel and Florette leave the house, its tiny inhabitants come to life and speak to Sarah. She meets Stephan and Reuben and hears the story of The Enchanted Treehouse. Sarah is guided through all the rooms by each little person. When the people agree to let Sarah return they realize they may have compromised the secrecy Marcel and Florette have kept for the last one hundred years.
Released in 2008 on DVD & available at the Salt Lake City Public Library
Available to be produced for a children’s TV show.
Screenplay by Matthew Schramer
Directed by Matthew Schramer
Smelly Hobbies
Available to be produced – webisode series pilot
Screenplay by Matthew Schramer
Feline Training Camp
Available to be produced – webisode series (2nd episode)
Screenplay by Matthew Schramer
SHORT ADAPTATIONS
Eve’s Unequal Children
The Brothers Grimm story about Adam and Eve and their unequal children. Every year Eve brought a child into the world, but the children were unlike each other. Some were good looking, and some ugly. But then Adam and Eve received a visitor – the Lord, who blessed Eve’s children and gave them a role in this world.
Available to be produced
Adapted from a Brother’s Grimm tale. (2004)
Screenplay by Matthew Schramer
If
Adapted from the poem “If” by Rudyard Kipling, which symbolizes a father’s advice to his son as he becomes a man.
Available to be produced
Adapted from a Rudyard Kipling poem (2004)
Screenplay by Matthew Schramer
The Impulse
Adapted from the poem “The Impulse” by Robert Frost.
A married couple with one child, lives together but never notices each other, growing comfortable with the routine of the other being there. Late at night, the husband is watching TV, the wife is washing dishes with the help of her daughter. The husband doesn’t notice the wife and child grab already packed bags and sneak out on an impulse. He only realizes they have left him when he calls out to his wife and she does not answer.
Released on DVD in 2003
Adapted from a Robert Frost poem
Screenplay by Matthew Schramer
Directed by Matthew Schramer
