A WRITER OF SCREENPLAYS, NOVELS, NOVELLAS, CHILDREN'S BOOKS and JOURNAL/MAGAZINE ARTICLES
Duncan has works both produced and waiting to be produced, as well as several book manuscripts in search of a publisher. In 2014 he created the Script Anvil (www.scriptanvil.com) as a writing collaborative to work with other talented writers to turn his original stories into compelling screenplays.
PRODUCED SCRIPTS:
"HALF PINT HISTORY" – This ½ hour TV pilot is being produced by OCD Associates. Each episode takes a kid that has no interest in history and throws them back in time for a day. The pilot episode takes a young boy and sends him back to the early morning hours of D-Day in 1944 where he falls in with four US Airborne soldiers acting as forward observers in a windmill near Carentan, France. And, when he returns to the present, he has a better appreciation for history and the every day people who make it. Half Pint is currently being screened at the Utah Beach Museum in France, the National D Day Memorial in Bedford, VA, the CAF Airpower Museum in Dallas, TX and other museums as part of their educational outreach to our youngest generation for the 70th anniversary of D Day.
NOMINEE: 45th annual New England Emmy Awards 2022
WINNER: Van Gogh Award for Best Short Film Screenplay - 2014 Amsterdam Film Festival,
PREMIERE NIGH FILM: 2017 Normandie-World War II Film Festival
"PARTNERSHIP RUNS DEEP" – the historic dramatization portion of the documentary “AUV Fest / Partnership” produced by Second Wind Films and Pop Art Film Factory for the US Navy and NOAA about the sinking of several Royal Navy frigates near Newport in 1778 during the battle of Rhode Island. In addition, several versions were made for: the Redwood Library in Newport, the Smithsonian Institution, and NBC.
WINNER: Best Documentary & Best Short Form - 2009 Gold Screen Awards
"CANISTERS" – a public service campaign produced by Flickers for the Academy Award qualifying 2008 Rhode Island International Film Festival about the power of film to inspire people and motivate them to change their lives.
WINNER: Best Public Service Campaign - 2009 New England Emmy Awards
"R.I.I.F.F. AROUND THE WORLD” – an ongoing public service campaign produced by Flickers for the 2013, 14, 15 & 16 Rhode Island International Film Festival featuring filmmakers from many countries around the world hitchhiking or making their way to Rhode Island, USA for the festival.
NOMINATION: 2014 New England Emmy Awards
"MACY'S GOES TO WAR" (OCD Associates, LLC) is a fictional short film telling of Macy's Department Store's contribution to America's war effort in 1942 told in the style of a period five minute black & white newsreel. The project has won awards in the 2020 One-Reeler Film Competition, the 2020 Bedford Falls Film Festival, the 2020 Honor Film Festival, the 2020 Miami National Film Festival, the 2020 Sydney International Film Festival. and the 2021 Gold Movie Awards (UK).
"DISCOVERY" (Flickers) ongoing public service campaigns for the Rhode Island International Film Festival featuring filmmakers from around the world telling the stories of the filmmaker's journey to get New England's only Academy qualifying film festival.
WINNER: Best Public Service Campaign - 2020 New England Emmy Awards
"DUNK DIAL" (OCD Associates) short YouTube comedy satire video
IN PRODUCTION:
"DEPUTY DOUGLAS" is a dark comedy about a young boy that likes to play cap gun cowboy, and ends up facing down an evil Santa on Christmas eve. The project is currently in post production with director/DP Eris Zhao after shooting in Los Angeles under the working title "THE YULE DOLL."
PITCHING/ IN DEVELOPMENT:
"A VACATION FROM CHRISTMAS" A holiday romance about two romantically broken people who just wanted to take a break from the Christmas holiday and work through it but meet on the job, and end up falling in love and finding the true meaning of the holiday.
"LIGHT KEEPERS" A supernatural romance about two lovers at the Rose Island Light that are only separated by a century and a quarter.
"ARMADILLO ONE" (aka "The Breakthrough") A feature length Sci-Fi story about a NASA engineer's revolutionary idea of traveling to the stars without the use of big rockets, just by doing nothing. Based on an award winning unpublished novella manuscript.
"THE LESSON " (short) An old man makes a trip into the city every Sunday to play chess with his college age daughter at a popular cafe. As the busy waitresses move from table to table, the old man enjoys a game and conversation with his daughter, but there is a secret he can't admit.
"THE CHEATING VACCINE" (Near Future SciFi / Detective Thriller) Good news! Scientists have found a cure for the cheating spouse. Bad news, there's just one small side effect. (Based on actual science.)
PUBLISHED WORKS:
"POCKET CHANGE" (mystery novelette 11,000 words) Ray Boon is compelled by the annoyingly persistent little voice in his head to find the reason for the apparent suicide of a local Wolfeboro, NH man. His search begins with a newspaper story about a skeleton found in a Massachusetts quarry leading him to Gloucester to attempt to discover the identity of the victim of a twenty-year-old murder, and then to find her killer. "A compelling little mystery that can be savored over a cup of coffee."
SDP Publishing (c)2015 e-book available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble .
Audio book voiced by Chris Cuilla available at Audible.
"…This reader was struck by the high quality of the writing in the prologue, which was a surprise- generally, both prologues and books-within-books are quite hard to pull off. In Pocket Change, however, both the prologue and the actual narrative work quite well together….”--3rd Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published eBook Awards
"a sprightly tale that leaves you wishing for more." -- Alan Rosenberg, Providence Journal (7 April 2016)
"CHRISTMAS SPIRITS" essay published by "This I Believe" and recorded for National Public Radio. (c)2014
AWARDS/HONORS:
AWARD WINNERS
2023 - Maverick Film Festival - Most Maverick Concept / Unproduced Short Script - "Solipsism"
2023 - Phoenix Shorts - Best Unproduced Screenplay - "Solipsism"
2023 - FilmHaus (Berlin, Germany) - Best Short Screenplay - "Solipsism"
2023 - Florida Shorts Festival - Best Unproduced Script - "Solipsism"
2023 - Tuesday of Horror Festival (Germany) - "Wolfeboro" (feature length horror screenplay)
2023 - Sydney Film & Screenplay Festival - "Still's Life" (1 hr. TV pilot script)
2023 - Sydney Film & Screenplay Festival - "Solipsism" (short script)
2023 - Horor Bowl Movie Awards - "Suagothel" (period feature length horror screenplay)
2023 - Hong Kong Indie Film Festival - Best Unproduced Script in Short - "Solipsism"
2023 - Silver Mask Live Festival - Best Short Screenplay - "Solipsism"
2023 - Liber Films International Festival (Greece) - Best Script Unproduced - "Still's Life" (1 hr. TV pilot script)
2023 - Filmatic Film Fare London - Best SciFi Screenplay - "The Cheating Vaccine"
2023 - Filmatic Film Fare London - Best Short Script - "Solipsism"
2023 - Monza Film Fest - Best Script - Solipsism"
2023 - New York Los Angeles International Film Festival - Best Script - "Still's Life" (1 hr. TV Pilot Script)
3023 - Doge Film Festival - Best Short Script - "Solipsism"
3023 - Absurd Film Festival - Best Short Script - "Solipsism"
2023 - Best Shorts Competition - Award of Excelence - "Solipsism" (short Script)
2022- Hollywood International Golden Age Film Festival - Best Short Script - MACY'S GOES TO WAR" (short film)
2022 - New York Science Fiction Film Festival - Best Science Fiction Screenplay - "The Cheating Vaccine"
2022 - Queen Palm International Film Festival - Gold Winner Best TV Pilot Script - "Still's Life"
2021 - Medusa International Film Festival - Best Short Screenplays - "The Lesson" & "The Karma of Bocce"
2021 - Monza Film Fest - "The Lesson" & "The Karma of Bocce" (short screenplays)
2021 - Shawna Shea Film Festival - Best New England Short Screenplay - "The Lesson" (short screenplay)
2021 Shawna Shea Film Festival - Best New England Horror Feature Screenplay, - "Suagothel"
2021 - Gold Movie Awards (London) Best Director & Best Production Design - "MACY'S GOES TO WAR" (short film)
2020 - Sydney International Film Festival - Best Screenplay- "A Vacation from Christmas" (Holiday Romance)
2020 - Rhode Island International Film Festival Screenwriting Competition - First Prize - "Still's Life" (TV pilot script)
2020 - 25th annual H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival Screenplay Competition - "Suagothel"
2020 - Honor Film Festival - Best Satire - "MACY'S GOES TO WAR" (short film)
2020 - New England Emmy Awards - "DISCOVERY" (PSA Campiagn)
2020 - Die Laughing Film Festival - Best Dark Comedy Screenplay - "The Resurrectionsists"
2020 - Eurovision Palermo Film Festival - Best Film About War - "MACY'S GOES TO WAR" (short film)
2020 - Bedford Falls Film Festival - George Bailey Award (the spirit of b&w film) - "MACY'S GOES TO WAR" (short film)
2020 - One-Reeler Film Short Film Competition - "MACY'S GOES TO WAR" (short film)
2020 - One-Reeler Short Film Competition - "The Lesson" (screenplay)
2020 - Queen Palm International Film Festival Screenplay Competition - Bronze Award - "The Karma of Bocce"
FLICKERS - Spotlight on New England Screenwriting Competition. - "Rogue Island"
Amsterdam Film Festival - Van Gogh Award for Best Short Film Sscreenplay - "HALF PINT"
Dixie Kane Memorial Competition SOLA Award for Unpublished Inspirational Romance
(Louisiana chapter of the Romance Writers of America.)
"Storm Windows"
IMAGINNAIRE AWARD - Imagine Publishing for writing, producing, directing, industry leadership and creating the 7DayPSA competitions.
Going Green Film Festival Screenplay Competition - “Icarus of Normandy” (short script)
New England Emmy Awards: - Best Community Public Service Campaign - “CANISTERS” produced by Flickers
Gold Screen Awards: - Best Documentary & Best Short Form - “PARTNERSHIP RUNS DEEP” produced by Second Wind Films & Pop Art Film Factory
RI 48 Hour Film Project - Best use of character, Best use of genre, & Audience favorite
“SOLE MATES” produced by DownCity Pictures
Woods Hole International Film Festival - Short Screenplay Competition - “Toast” (TV pilot script)
SELECTED WRITER - Central Productions and Grub Street Screenwriters Salon Series - “Suagothel”
FINALISTS
2024 - Red Sun Film Festival (Japan) - "Solipsism" (short screenplay)
2023 - Monkey Bread Tree Festival (UK) - "The Barrowman" (short horror screenplay)
2023 - Filmatic Filmfare (UK) - "The Barrowman" (short horror screenplay)
2023 - Mystic Film Festival - "The Resurrectionists"
2023 - Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards - "Solipsism" (short screenplay)
2023 - Wiki Screenplay Competition - Honorable Mention - "Still's Life" (1 hr. TV pilot)
2023 - Wiki Screenplay Competition - Honorable Mention - "Solipsism" (short screenplay)
2023 -Berlin New Wave Film Festival - Honorable Mention - "Solipsism" (short screenplay)
2023 - Richmond International Film Festival - "Solipsism" (short screenplay)
2023 - Show Low Film Festival - Arizona White Mountains Film Festival - "Still's Life" (1 hr. pilot script)
2023 - Show Low Film Festival - Arizona White Mountains Film Festival - "Solipsism" (short screenplay)
2022 - Las Vegas International Film & Screenwriting Festival - "The Cheating Vaccine"
2022 - Nightmares Film Festival Screenwriting Competition - "Suagothel"
2022 - World Film Carnival (Singapor) - "Secrets of the Codex" (co-written with Dean Huh)
2022 - 45th annual New England Emmy Awards - Nomination - "Half Pint History"
2022 - Paper Screenplay Competition (UK) - "The Resurrectionists" (feature screenplay)
2022 - Paper Screenplay Competition (UK) - "Still's Life" ( TV pilot script)
2021 - Anna Zornio Children's Theatre Playwriting Award (University of NH) - "The Karma of Bocce" (stage version)
2021 - Ink & Cinema - THE CRIME LIST - Top 4%) - "Still's Life" (TV pilot script)
2021 - Ink & Cinema Military Script Showcase - Top 3% - "Suagothel" (feature screenplay)
2021 - Coverfly - RED LIST - "Joke & Dagger" (TV pilot script)
2021 - Independent Film Festival, London - "The Lesson" (short screenplay)
2021 - Coverfly -Top 25% - "Still's Life" (1hr. TV pilot)
2021 - independent Film Awards, London - "MACY'S GOES TO WAR" (Short Film)
2020 - Sydney International Film Festival - "Still's Life" (TV pilot script)
2020 - Las Vegas International Film & Screenwriting Fest. - "Vacation from Christmas" (holiday romance MOW script)
2020 - Las Vegas International Film & Screenwriting Festival - "The Resurrectionists"
2020 - Will Rogers Motion Picture Festival - "MACY'S GOES TO WAR" (Short Film)
2020 - Austin After Dark Film Festival - "The Resurrectionists"
2020 - Honor Film Festival - "MACY'S GOES TO WAR" (Short Film)
2020 - Vail Film Festival Screenwriting Competition - "The Lesson"
2020 - L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future - Honorable Mention v- "Armadillo One" (SciFi short story)
2020 - Independent Film Awards London - "The Lesson"
2020 - Short Stop International Film Festival Screenplay Competition - 2nd Place - "The Lesson"
Near Nazareth Festival Screenwriting Competition - "The Lesson"
Table Read My Screenplay, Austin - "The Lesson"
ScriptSummit - Selected Screenplay - "Icarus of Normandy"
\Waterford Film Festival (Ireland) Screenplay Writers Competition - "The Lesson"
Hill Country Film Festival Short Screenwriting Competition - “Icarus of Normandy”
The Green Chair Reader - Selected Screenplay - “The Lesson”
2nd Place - Spotlight on Rhode Island Screenwriting Competition - “Old Hoss”
3rd Place - Wood Hole International Film Festival Short Dramatic Screenplay Comp. - “Icarus of Normandy”
International Family Film Festival Screenwriting Competition - “Passing the Bar” (sitcom pilot)
New Hampshire Literary Awards - Nomination - "Pocket Change"
New England Emmy Awards - Nomination / PSA Campaign - Flickers "R.I.I.F.F. AROUND THE WORLD"
SEMI FINALISTS
2023 - Waterford Film Festival - "Solipsism" (short screenplay)
2023 - Phoenix Shorts - "Solipsism" (short screenplay)
2023 - Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival - "Solipsism" (short screenplay)
2023 - Vancouver Movie Awards - "Still's Life" (TV pilot script)
2023 - Hong Kong Indie Film Festival - "The Cheating Vaccine" (SciFi feature screenplay)
2023 - Hong Kong Indie Film Festival - "Solipsism" (short screenplay)
2023 - Niagara Falls International Short Festival - "Solipsism" (short screenplay)
2023 - Brooklyn International Shorts Awards - "Solipsism" (short screenplay)
2023 - Dubai Independent Film Festival - "Solipsism" (short screenplay)
2023 - Santa Fe Independent Film Festival - "Solipsism" (short screenplay)
2023 - San Francisco Arthouse Short Festival - "Solipsism" (short screenplay)
2023 - London Indie Shorts Festival - "Solipsism" (short screenplay)
2023 - Hollywood Just4Shorts Film & Screenplay Competition - "Solipsism" (short screenplay)
2023 - Berlin Shorts Awards - "Solipsisim" (short screenplay)
2023 - New Jersey International Short Fest - "Solipsisim" (short script)
2023 - Rotterdam Independent Film Festival - "Solipsisim" (short script)
2022 - Austin Film Festival - 2nd ROUNDER - "The Cheating Vaccine" (feature length SciFi screenplay)
2022 - Lake Travis Film Festival - "The Lesson" (short screenplay)
2022 - Paris International Short Festival - "The Lesson" (short screenplay)
2022 - Seattle Film Awards - "The Cheating Vaccine" (feature screenplay)
2022 Fade In Awards TV Pilot Competition - "Still's Life" (1 hr. TV pilot)
2022 Fade In Awards TV Pilot Competition - "Joke & Dagger" (1 hr. TV pilot)
2021 - Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards - Honorable Mention -- "Still's Life" (1hr. TV pilot)
2021 - Houston International Sports Film Festival - "Old Hoss" screenplay co-writer with Kevin Faria
2021 - Assurdo Film Festival - "MACY'S GOES TO WAR" (short film)
2021 - Miami Screenplay Awards - "Still's Life" (1 hr. TV pilot)
2021 - DUMBO New York Screenwriting Competition - "The Lesson" (short script)
2020 - Australia Independent Film Festival - "MACY'S GOES TO WAR" (short film)
2020 - WriteMovies SciFi & Fantasy Awards - "Armadillo One" (16,000 word short story)
2020 - Fimmatic Short Screenplay Awards - "Icarus of Normandy" (short script)
2020 - Rhode Island International Film Festival Screenwriting Competition - "Joke & Dagger" (TV pilot script)
2020 - Gold Movie Awards Festival - "MACY'S GOES TO WAR" prod. by Original Concept & Development Associates
2020 - Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition - "The Resurrectionists"
2019 - Kids First Film Festival Screenplay Competition - "The Karma of Bocce"
2019 - Near Nazareth Festival Screenwriting Competition - "Icarus of Normandy" (short script)
2109 - Roma Independent Prisma Awards - "The Karma of Bocce"
2013 - ScreenCraft Action/Thriller Script Competition - "Suagothel"
FEATURE LENGTH SCREENPLAYS:
WGA Registered & Copyrighted
A VACATION FROM CHRISTMAS (Holiday Romance) Two people find love during the holidays when they both get booked to work in Evergreen, CT for the holidays.
THE RESURRECTIONISTS (dark comedy) A tale of honest grave robbers. As Haley's Comet crosses the heavens two young men turn the fabric of 1835 Boston upside down when their unique crimes are discovered and interpreted in a variety of ways.
SPIRITS OF 76 (family adventure) The unhappy ghosts of all of the founding fathers come back to take a modern family for an adventure in democracy. Finished in the top 10% in the 2007 Austin Film Festival screenwriting competition.
SUAGOTHEL (period action/horror) A group of America's first special forces find themselves in a land where the sun goes down and never comes back up, where the dead exist as shadows lurking on the edge of the darkness. Winner for Best Screenplay in the 2020 HP Lovecraft International Film Festival.
OLD HOSS (period baseball drama co-written with Kevin Faria) The true story of baseball pitcher "Old Hoss" Radbourn who overcomes crippling arthritis, a drinking problem, and a broken heart to lead his team to the pennant win in 1884 and on to win the first World Series against the New York Mets. The script scored in the top 20% of the 2013 Nicholls Screenwriting competition .
SECRETS OF THE CODEX (family holiday drama co-written with Dean Huh) A widower takes his son on a holiday trip to Italy to find DiVinci's last living descendant.
PERSPECTIVE (horror in development at Script Anvil) A class of photography students discover the secret of photographing a ghost who points out the soon to be dead.
ROGUE ISLAND (supernatural horror with a strong female lead) A late seventeenth century pirate ship returns to Newport, Rhode Island every one hundred years so the captain can purchase a new crew from the local jailer. Newport's police chief needs to find fifteen men for Captain Sterling and a busy summer community is a great place to find young drunks from out of town that nobody will miss. This script won the 2015 Spotlight on New England Screenwriting Competition sponsored by the Rhode Island International Film Festival and the Rhode Island State Office of Film & TV.
SHOP KIDS (horror in development at Script Anvil) There is something wrong at the local high school when everything appears to be going right.
THE CHEATING VACCINE (detective SciFi thriller with strong female characters in development at Script Anvil) A female detective goes head to head with a female CEO when the company's good intentions turn deadly.
SHOOTOUT (modern action/thriller western in development at Script Anvil) Four friends on a on a cross country trip find themselves forced to take the law into their own hands when the local lawmen are really outlaws. Co-writing with Eric Lutes.
TV PILOT SCRIPTS:
STILL LIFE (1hr detective drama) After a car accident kills his wife and leaves him with a traumatic brain injury, Detective Eric Still that he had developed a unique way of seeing the world that helps him solve crimes.
JOKE & DAGGER (1hr action drama) A covert team of CIA agents travels the world to take on missions under a very unique cover story.
PASSING THE BAR (half hour sitcom) The best divorce lawyer in the city quits his firm to open up a coffee shop where people can meet up instead of break up.
SHORT SCREENPLAYS:
ICARUS OF NORMANDY (fantasy) A mild mannered egg farmer uses his imagination to trade his bicycle for a pair of wings.
THE KARMA OF BOCCE (fantasy) A young boy meets a young girl, his heavenly muse, while watching three magical old men play bocce at his local city park. They meet for the second time when the young writer stops by the old neighborhood park and runs into an attractive young woman. Semi Finalist in the 2109 Rome Independent Prisma Awards.
WAKING UP DEAD (comedy co-written with Gare Trahan) A young man wakes up dead but doesn't realize it until he after he gets to work.
STAGE PLAYS:
Several are in the works including a stage version of Duncan's screenplays The Learning Curve with multimedia elements, as well as stage versions of The Karma of Bocce and The Resurrectionists. He is also working on a new play titled Haven and a new adaptation of A Christmas Carol.
BOOK MANUSCRIPTS:
WGA Registered & Copyrighted
“Broom” (Fantasy Adventure Novel 90,500 words) In the dark age of another world, a young boy called Broom discovers that he possesses one of the long lost royal gifts of the old kingdom; he can cause a broom to fly.
“Storm Windows” (Inspirational Romance Novella of 26,000 words) When her life falls apart in Boston, a woman buys an old firehouse in a gulf coast fishing village, loads her car and drives south to arrive at her new home in the middle of a hurricane. She finds that rebuilding her life and helping to rebuild a battered town go hand in hand.
SOLA Award for Best Unpoublished Inspirtational Romance
"Armadillo One" (aka "The Breakthrough)" (SciFi Novella of 20,000 words) An overworked NASA engineer takes a coffee break and has a eureka moment that will revolutionize space travel. When his bosses won't listen to his idea, he builds a proof of concept vehicle that will fly to Mars.
Award of Merit from the Writers of Tomorrow competition
"The Gumball Ring Collection" (Fantacy Novella of 35,000 words) A young man inherits a group of novelty rings from his grandfather that allow him to travel to different times and worlds.
"The List" (short story) Diana's blog about a list that she and her husband both keep goes viral and sends Hollywood knocking on her door, just not in a good way.
“A Boy Named Baseball” (Children’s Picture Book co-written with Beth Glass) Young Timmy is small for his age and too small to join the kids playing ball, but not to small to become the bat boy for the Providence Grays professional baseball team of 1884 where he can grow into the job.
“Room to Play” (Children’s Picture Book co-written with Beth Glass) A young boy is stuck inside his room because of a freak spring snowstorm on opening day in 1884 and uses his imagination to have a game of his own.
“Fiona’s Fair Day” (Children’s Picture Book co-written with Beth Glass) A young girl with a bad attitude goes to a fair with the family where she learns to look for the positive in life.
“Icarus of Normandy” (Children’s Picture Book co-written with Beth Glass) Based on the award wining short screenplay.
"Piles of Books" (Children's Picture Book) A young girl finally reads one of the many books she has piled about her room and then discovers that she now wants to read them all.
“Hello Owl” (Children’s Picture Book) A sad and forgotten bronze owl over the door of a closed bank gets a new lease on life when the building is turned into a theater.
“Snip” (Children’s Picture Book) The local tailor is too short to join the Washington's army until they realize that this man who is short is stature is tall of heart and has unique skills to offer.
"Three Hogs from Qua" (Children's Picture Book) The story of three hogs who took a trip to the shore.
"Hippo Critical" (Children's Picture Book) a young hippo gets lost at the zoo and must learn a life lesson in order to find his way home.
ESSAYS:
"A Movie Moment"
PRODUCED SCRIPTS:
"HALF PINT HISTORY" – This ½ hour TV pilot is being produced by OCD Associates. Each episode takes a kid that has no interest in history and throws them back in time for a day. The pilot episode takes a young boy and sends him back to the early morning hours of D-Day in 1944 where he falls in with four US Airborne soldiers acting as forward observers in a windmill near Carentan, France. And, when he returns to the present, he has a better appreciation for history and the every day people who make it. Half Pint is currently being screened at the Utah Beach Museum in France, the National D Day Memorial in Bedford, VA, the CAF Airpower Museum in Dallas, TX and other museums as part of their educational outreach to our youngest generation for the 70th anniversary of D Day.
NOMINEE: 45th annual New England Emmy Awards 2022
WINNER: Van Gogh Award for Best Short Film Screenplay - 2014 Amsterdam Film Festival,
PREMIERE NIGH FILM: 2017 Normandie-World War II Film Festival
"PARTNERSHIP RUNS DEEP" – the historic dramatization portion of the documentary “AUV Fest / Partnership” produced by Second Wind Films and Pop Art Film Factory for the US Navy and NOAA about the sinking of several Royal Navy frigates near Newport in 1778 during the battle of Rhode Island. In addition, several versions were made for: the Redwood Library in Newport, the Smithsonian Institution, and NBC.
WINNER: Best Documentary & Best Short Form - 2009 Gold Screen Awards
"CANISTERS" – a public service campaign produced by Flickers for the Academy Award qualifying 2008 Rhode Island International Film Festival about the power of film to inspire people and motivate them to change their lives.
WINNER: Best Public Service Campaign - 2009 New England Emmy Awards
"R.I.I.F.F. AROUND THE WORLD” – an ongoing public service campaign produced by Flickers for the 2013, 14, 15 & 16 Rhode Island International Film Festival featuring filmmakers from many countries around the world hitchhiking or making their way to Rhode Island, USA for the festival.
NOMINATION: 2014 New England Emmy Awards
"MACY'S GOES TO WAR" (OCD Associates, LLC) is a fictional short film telling of Macy's Department Store's contribution to America's war effort in 1942 told in the style of a period five minute black & white newsreel. The project has won awards in the 2020 One-Reeler Film Competition, the 2020 Bedford Falls Film Festival, the 2020 Honor Film Festival, the 2020 Miami National Film Festival, the 2020 Sydney International Film Festival. and the 2021 Gold Movie Awards (UK).
"DISCOVERY" (Flickers) ongoing public service campaigns for the Rhode Island International Film Festival featuring filmmakers from around the world telling the stories of the filmmaker's journey to get New England's only Academy qualifying film festival.
WINNER: Best Public Service Campaign - 2020 New England Emmy Awards
"DUNK DIAL" (OCD Associates) short YouTube comedy satire video
IN PRODUCTION:
"DEPUTY DOUGLAS" is a dark comedy about a young boy that likes to play cap gun cowboy, and ends up facing down an evil Santa on Christmas eve. The project is currently in post production with director/DP Eris Zhao after shooting in Los Angeles under the working title "THE YULE DOLL."
PITCHING/ IN DEVELOPMENT:
"A VACATION FROM CHRISTMAS" A holiday romance about two romantically broken people who just wanted to take a break from the Christmas holiday and work through it but meet on the job, and end up falling in love and finding the true meaning of the holiday.
"LIGHT KEEPERS" A supernatural romance about two lovers at the Rose Island Light that are only separated by a century and a quarter.
"ARMADILLO ONE" (aka "The Breakthrough") A feature length Sci-Fi story about a NASA engineer's revolutionary idea of traveling to the stars without the use of big rockets, just by doing nothing. Based on an award winning unpublished novella manuscript.
"THE LESSON " (short) An old man makes a trip into the city every Sunday to play chess with his college age daughter at a popular cafe. As the busy waitresses move from table to table, the old man enjoys a game and conversation with his daughter, but there is a secret he can't admit.
"THE CHEATING VACCINE" (Near Future SciFi / Detective Thriller) Good news! Scientists have found a cure for the cheating spouse. Bad news, there's just one small side effect. (Based on actual science.)
PUBLISHED WORKS:
"POCKET CHANGE" (mystery novelette 11,000 words) Ray Boon is compelled by the annoyingly persistent little voice in his head to find the reason for the apparent suicide of a local Wolfeboro, NH man. His search begins with a newspaper story about a skeleton found in a Massachusetts quarry leading him to Gloucester to attempt to discover the identity of the victim of a twenty-year-old murder, and then to find her killer. "A compelling little mystery that can be savored over a cup of coffee."
SDP Publishing (c)2015 e-book available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble .
Audio book voiced by Chris Cuilla available at Audible.
"…This reader was struck by the high quality of the writing in the prologue, which was a surprise- generally, both prologues and books-within-books are quite hard to pull off. In Pocket Change, however, both the prologue and the actual narrative work quite well together….”--3rd Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published eBook Awards
"a sprightly tale that leaves you wishing for more." -- Alan Rosenberg, Providence Journal (7 April 2016)
"CHRISTMAS SPIRITS" essay published by "This I Believe" and recorded for National Public Radio. (c)2014
AWARDS/HONORS:
AWARD WINNERS
2023 - Maverick Film Festival - Most Maverick Concept / Unproduced Short Script - "Solipsism"
2023 - Phoenix Shorts - Best Unproduced Screenplay - "Solipsism"
2023 - FilmHaus (Berlin, Germany) - Best Short Screenplay - "Solipsism"
2023 - Florida Shorts Festival - Best Unproduced Script - "Solipsism"
2023 - Tuesday of Horror Festival (Germany) - "Wolfeboro" (feature length horror screenplay)
2023 - Sydney Film & Screenplay Festival - "Still's Life" (1 hr. TV pilot script)
2023 - Sydney Film & Screenplay Festival - "Solipsism" (short script)
2023 - Horor Bowl Movie Awards - "Suagothel" (period feature length horror screenplay)
2023 - Hong Kong Indie Film Festival - Best Unproduced Script in Short - "Solipsism"
2023 - Silver Mask Live Festival - Best Short Screenplay - "Solipsism"
2023 - Liber Films International Festival (Greece) - Best Script Unproduced - "Still's Life" (1 hr. TV pilot script)
2023 - Filmatic Film Fare London - Best SciFi Screenplay - "The Cheating Vaccine"
2023 - Filmatic Film Fare London - Best Short Script - "Solipsism"
2023 - Monza Film Fest - Best Script - Solipsism"
2023 - New York Los Angeles International Film Festival - Best Script - "Still's Life" (1 hr. TV Pilot Script)
3023 - Doge Film Festival - Best Short Script - "Solipsism"
3023 - Absurd Film Festival - Best Short Script - "Solipsism"
2023 - Best Shorts Competition - Award of Excelence - "Solipsism" (short Script)
2022- Hollywood International Golden Age Film Festival - Best Short Script - MACY'S GOES TO WAR" (short film)
2022 - New York Science Fiction Film Festival - Best Science Fiction Screenplay - "The Cheating Vaccine"
2022 - Queen Palm International Film Festival - Gold Winner Best TV Pilot Script - "Still's Life"
2021 - Medusa International Film Festival - Best Short Screenplays - "The Lesson" & "The Karma of Bocce"
2021 - Monza Film Fest - "The Lesson" & "The Karma of Bocce" (short screenplays)
2021 - Shawna Shea Film Festival - Best New England Short Screenplay - "The Lesson" (short screenplay)
2021 Shawna Shea Film Festival - Best New England Horror Feature Screenplay, - "Suagothel"
2021 - Gold Movie Awards (London) Best Director & Best Production Design - "MACY'S GOES TO WAR" (short film)
2020 - Sydney International Film Festival - Best Screenplay- "A Vacation from Christmas" (Holiday Romance)
2020 - Rhode Island International Film Festival Screenwriting Competition - First Prize - "Still's Life" (TV pilot script)
2020 - 25th annual H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival Screenplay Competition - "Suagothel"
2020 - Honor Film Festival - Best Satire - "MACY'S GOES TO WAR" (short film)
2020 - New England Emmy Awards - "DISCOVERY" (PSA Campiagn)
2020 - Die Laughing Film Festival - Best Dark Comedy Screenplay - "The Resurrectionsists"
2020 - Eurovision Palermo Film Festival - Best Film About War - "MACY'S GOES TO WAR" (short film)
2020 - Bedford Falls Film Festival - George Bailey Award (the spirit of b&w film) - "MACY'S GOES TO WAR" (short film)
2020 - One-Reeler Film Short Film Competition - "MACY'S GOES TO WAR" (short film)
2020 - One-Reeler Short Film Competition - "The Lesson" (screenplay)
2020 - Queen Palm International Film Festival Screenplay Competition - Bronze Award - "The Karma of Bocce"
FLICKERS - Spotlight on New England Screenwriting Competition. - "Rogue Island"
Amsterdam Film Festival - Van Gogh Award for Best Short Film Sscreenplay - "HALF PINT"
Dixie Kane Memorial Competition SOLA Award for Unpublished Inspirational Romance
(Louisiana chapter of the Romance Writers of America.)
"Storm Windows"
IMAGINNAIRE AWARD - Imagine Publishing for writing, producing, directing, industry leadership and creating the 7DayPSA competitions.
Going Green Film Festival Screenplay Competition - “Icarus of Normandy” (short script)
New England Emmy Awards: - Best Community Public Service Campaign - “CANISTERS” produced by Flickers
Gold Screen Awards: - Best Documentary & Best Short Form - “PARTNERSHIP RUNS DEEP” produced by Second Wind Films & Pop Art Film Factory
RI 48 Hour Film Project - Best use of character, Best use of genre, & Audience favorite
“SOLE MATES” produced by DownCity Pictures
Woods Hole International Film Festival - Short Screenplay Competition - “Toast” (TV pilot script)
SELECTED WRITER - Central Productions and Grub Street Screenwriters Salon Series - “Suagothel”
FINALISTS
2024 - Red Sun Film Festival (Japan) - "Solipsism" (short screenplay)
2023 - Monkey Bread Tree Festival (UK) - "The Barrowman" (short horror screenplay)
2023 - Filmatic Filmfare (UK) - "The Barrowman" (short horror screenplay)
2023 - Mystic Film Festival - "The Resurrectionists"
2023 - Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards - "Solipsism" (short screenplay)
2023 - Wiki Screenplay Competition - Honorable Mention - "Still's Life" (1 hr. TV pilot)
2023 - Wiki Screenplay Competition - Honorable Mention - "Solipsism" (short screenplay)
2023 -Berlin New Wave Film Festival - Honorable Mention - "Solipsism" (short screenplay)
2023 - Richmond International Film Festival - "Solipsism" (short screenplay)
2023 - Show Low Film Festival - Arizona White Mountains Film Festival - "Still's Life" (1 hr. pilot script)
2023 - Show Low Film Festival - Arizona White Mountains Film Festival - "Solipsism" (short screenplay)
2022 - Las Vegas International Film & Screenwriting Festival - "The Cheating Vaccine"
2022 - Nightmares Film Festival Screenwriting Competition - "Suagothel"
2022 - World Film Carnival (Singapor) - "Secrets of the Codex" (co-written with Dean Huh)
2022 - 45th annual New England Emmy Awards - Nomination - "Half Pint History"
2022 - Paper Screenplay Competition (UK) - "The Resurrectionists" (feature screenplay)
2022 - Paper Screenplay Competition (UK) - "Still's Life" ( TV pilot script)
2021 - Anna Zornio Children's Theatre Playwriting Award (University of NH) - "The Karma of Bocce" (stage version)
2021 - Ink & Cinema - THE CRIME LIST - Top 4%) - "Still's Life" (TV pilot script)
2021 - Ink & Cinema Military Script Showcase - Top 3% - "Suagothel" (feature screenplay)
2021 - Coverfly - RED LIST - "Joke & Dagger" (TV pilot script)
2021 - Independent Film Festival, London - "The Lesson" (short screenplay)
2021 - Coverfly -Top 25% - "Still's Life" (1hr. TV pilot)
2021 - independent Film Awards, London - "MACY'S GOES TO WAR" (Short Film)
2020 - Sydney International Film Festival - "Still's Life" (TV pilot script)
2020 - Las Vegas International Film & Screenwriting Fest. - "Vacation from Christmas" (holiday romance MOW script)
2020 - Las Vegas International Film & Screenwriting Festival - "The Resurrectionists"
2020 - Will Rogers Motion Picture Festival - "MACY'S GOES TO WAR" (Short Film)
2020 - Austin After Dark Film Festival - "The Resurrectionists"
2020 - Honor Film Festival - "MACY'S GOES TO WAR" (Short Film)
2020 - Vail Film Festival Screenwriting Competition - "The Lesson"
2020 - L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future - Honorable Mention v- "Armadillo One" (SciFi short story)
2020 - Independent Film Awards London - "The Lesson"
2020 - Short Stop International Film Festival Screenplay Competition - 2nd Place - "The Lesson"
Near Nazareth Festival Screenwriting Competition - "The Lesson"
Table Read My Screenplay, Austin - "The Lesson"
ScriptSummit - Selected Screenplay - "Icarus of Normandy"
\Waterford Film Festival (Ireland) Screenplay Writers Competition - "The Lesson"
Hill Country Film Festival Short Screenwriting Competition - “Icarus of Normandy”
The Green Chair Reader - Selected Screenplay - “The Lesson”
2nd Place - Spotlight on Rhode Island Screenwriting Competition - “Old Hoss”
3rd Place - Wood Hole International Film Festival Short Dramatic Screenplay Comp. - “Icarus of Normandy”
International Family Film Festival Screenwriting Competition - “Passing the Bar” (sitcom pilot)
New Hampshire Literary Awards - Nomination - "Pocket Change"
New England Emmy Awards - Nomination / PSA Campaign - Flickers "R.I.I.F.F. AROUND THE WORLD"
SEMI FINALISTS
2023 - Waterford Film Festival - "Solipsism" (short screenplay)
2023 - Phoenix Shorts - "Solipsism" (short screenplay)
2023 - Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival - "Solipsism" (short screenplay)
2023 - Vancouver Movie Awards - "Still's Life" (TV pilot script)
2023 - Hong Kong Indie Film Festival - "The Cheating Vaccine" (SciFi feature screenplay)
2023 - Hong Kong Indie Film Festival - "Solipsism" (short screenplay)
2023 - Niagara Falls International Short Festival - "Solipsism" (short screenplay)
2023 - Brooklyn International Shorts Awards - "Solipsism" (short screenplay)
2023 - Dubai Independent Film Festival - "Solipsism" (short screenplay)
2023 - Santa Fe Independent Film Festival - "Solipsism" (short screenplay)
2023 - San Francisco Arthouse Short Festival - "Solipsism" (short screenplay)
2023 - London Indie Shorts Festival - "Solipsism" (short screenplay)
2023 - Hollywood Just4Shorts Film & Screenplay Competition - "Solipsism" (short screenplay)
2023 - Berlin Shorts Awards - "Solipsisim" (short screenplay)
2023 - New Jersey International Short Fest - "Solipsisim" (short script)
2023 - Rotterdam Independent Film Festival - "Solipsisim" (short script)
2022 - Austin Film Festival - 2nd ROUNDER - "The Cheating Vaccine" (feature length SciFi screenplay)
2022 - Lake Travis Film Festival - "The Lesson" (short screenplay)
2022 - Paris International Short Festival - "The Lesson" (short screenplay)
2022 - Seattle Film Awards - "The Cheating Vaccine" (feature screenplay)
2022 Fade In Awards TV Pilot Competition - "Still's Life" (1 hr. TV pilot)
2022 Fade In Awards TV Pilot Competition - "Joke & Dagger" (1 hr. TV pilot)
2021 - Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards - Honorable Mention -- "Still's Life" (1hr. TV pilot)
2021 - Houston International Sports Film Festival - "Old Hoss" screenplay co-writer with Kevin Faria
2021 - Assurdo Film Festival - "MACY'S GOES TO WAR" (short film)
2021 - Miami Screenplay Awards - "Still's Life" (1 hr. TV pilot)
2021 - DUMBO New York Screenwriting Competition - "The Lesson" (short script)
2020 - Australia Independent Film Festival - "MACY'S GOES TO WAR" (short film)
2020 - WriteMovies SciFi & Fantasy Awards - "Armadillo One" (16,000 word short story)
2020 - Fimmatic Short Screenplay Awards - "Icarus of Normandy" (short script)
2020 - Rhode Island International Film Festival Screenwriting Competition - "Joke & Dagger" (TV pilot script)
2020 - Gold Movie Awards Festival - "MACY'S GOES TO WAR" prod. by Original Concept & Development Associates
2020 - Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition - "The Resurrectionists"
2019 - Kids First Film Festival Screenplay Competition - "The Karma of Bocce"
2019 - Near Nazareth Festival Screenwriting Competition - "Icarus of Normandy" (short script)
2109 - Roma Independent Prisma Awards - "The Karma of Bocce"
2013 - ScreenCraft Action/Thriller Script Competition - "Suagothel"
FEATURE LENGTH SCREENPLAYS:
WGA Registered & Copyrighted
A VACATION FROM CHRISTMAS (Holiday Romance) Two people find love during the holidays when they both get booked to work in Evergreen, CT for the holidays.
THE RESURRECTIONISTS (dark comedy) A tale of honest grave robbers. As Haley's Comet crosses the heavens two young men turn the fabric of 1835 Boston upside down when their unique crimes are discovered and interpreted in a variety of ways.
SPIRITS OF 76 (family adventure) The unhappy ghosts of all of the founding fathers come back to take a modern family for an adventure in democracy. Finished in the top 10% in the 2007 Austin Film Festival screenwriting competition.
SUAGOTHEL (period action/horror) A group of America's first special forces find themselves in a land where the sun goes down and never comes back up, where the dead exist as shadows lurking on the edge of the darkness. Winner for Best Screenplay in the 2020 HP Lovecraft International Film Festival.
OLD HOSS (period baseball drama co-written with Kevin Faria) The true story of baseball pitcher "Old Hoss" Radbourn who overcomes crippling arthritis, a drinking problem, and a broken heart to lead his team to the pennant win in 1884 and on to win the first World Series against the New York Mets. The script scored in the top 20% of the 2013 Nicholls Screenwriting competition .
SECRETS OF THE CODEX (family holiday drama co-written with Dean Huh) A widower takes his son on a holiday trip to Italy to find DiVinci's last living descendant.
PERSPECTIVE (horror in development at Script Anvil) A class of photography students discover the secret of photographing a ghost who points out the soon to be dead.
ROGUE ISLAND (supernatural horror with a strong female lead) A late seventeenth century pirate ship returns to Newport, Rhode Island every one hundred years so the captain can purchase a new crew from the local jailer. Newport's police chief needs to find fifteen men for Captain Sterling and a busy summer community is a great place to find young drunks from out of town that nobody will miss. This script won the 2015 Spotlight on New England Screenwriting Competition sponsored by the Rhode Island International Film Festival and the Rhode Island State Office of Film & TV.
SHOP KIDS (horror in development at Script Anvil) There is something wrong at the local high school when everything appears to be going right.
THE CHEATING VACCINE (detective SciFi thriller with strong female characters in development at Script Anvil) A female detective goes head to head with a female CEO when the company's good intentions turn deadly.
SHOOTOUT (modern action/thriller western in development at Script Anvil) Four friends on a on a cross country trip find themselves forced to take the law into their own hands when the local lawmen are really outlaws. Co-writing with Eric Lutes.
TV PILOT SCRIPTS:
STILL LIFE (1hr detective drama) After a car accident kills his wife and leaves him with a traumatic brain injury, Detective Eric Still that he had developed a unique way of seeing the world that helps him solve crimes.
JOKE & DAGGER (1hr action drama) A covert team of CIA agents travels the world to take on missions under a very unique cover story.
PASSING THE BAR (half hour sitcom) The best divorce lawyer in the city quits his firm to open up a coffee shop where people can meet up instead of break up.
SHORT SCREENPLAYS:
ICARUS OF NORMANDY (fantasy) A mild mannered egg farmer uses his imagination to trade his bicycle for a pair of wings.
THE KARMA OF BOCCE (fantasy) A young boy meets a young girl, his heavenly muse, while watching three magical old men play bocce at his local city park. They meet for the second time when the young writer stops by the old neighborhood park and runs into an attractive young woman. Semi Finalist in the 2109 Rome Independent Prisma Awards.
WAKING UP DEAD (comedy co-written with Gare Trahan) A young man wakes up dead but doesn't realize it until he after he gets to work.
STAGE PLAYS:
Several are in the works including a stage version of Duncan's screenplays The Learning Curve with multimedia elements, as well as stage versions of The Karma of Bocce and The Resurrectionists. He is also working on a new play titled Haven and a new adaptation of A Christmas Carol.
BOOK MANUSCRIPTS:
WGA Registered & Copyrighted
“Broom” (Fantasy Adventure Novel 90,500 words) In the dark age of another world, a young boy called Broom discovers that he possesses one of the long lost royal gifts of the old kingdom; he can cause a broom to fly.
“Storm Windows” (Inspirational Romance Novella of 26,000 words) When her life falls apart in Boston, a woman buys an old firehouse in a gulf coast fishing village, loads her car and drives south to arrive at her new home in the middle of a hurricane. She finds that rebuilding her life and helping to rebuild a battered town go hand in hand.
SOLA Award for Best Unpoublished Inspirtational Romance
"Armadillo One" (aka "The Breakthrough)" (SciFi Novella of 20,000 words) An overworked NASA engineer takes a coffee break and has a eureka moment that will revolutionize space travel. When his bosses won't listen to his idea, he builds a proof of concept vehicle that will fly to Mars.
Award of Merit from the Writers of Tomorrow competition
"The Gumball Ring Collection" (Fantacy Novella of 35,000 words) A young man inherits a group of novelty rings from his grandfather that allow him to travel to different times and worlds.
"The List" (short story) Diana's blog about a list that she and her husband both keep goes viral and sends Hollywood knocking on her door, just not in a good way.
“A Boy Named Baseball” (Children’s Picture Book co-written with Beth Glass) Young Timmy is small for his age and too small to join the kids playing ball, but not to small to become the bat boy for the Providence Grays professional baseball team of 1884 where he can grow into the job.
“Room to Play” (Children’s Picture Book co-written with Beth Glass) A young boy is stuck inside his room because of a freak spring snowstorm on opening day in 1884 and uses his imagination to have a game of his own.
“Fiona’s Fair Day” (Children’s Picture Book co-written with Beth Glass) A young girl with a bad attitude goes to a fair with the family where she learns to look for the positive in life.
“Icarus of Normandy” (Children’s Picture Book co-written with Beth Glass) Based on the award wining short screenplay.
"Piles of Books" (Children's Picture Book) A young girl finally reads one of the many books she has piled about her room and then discovers that she now wants to read them all.
“Hello Owl” (Children’s Picture Book) A sad and forgotten bronze owl over the door of a closed bank gets a new lease on life when the building is turned into a theater.
“Snip” (Children’s Picture Book) The local tailor is too short to join the Washington's army until they realize that this man who is short is stature is tall of heart and has unique skills to offer.
"Three Hogs from Qua" (Children's Picture Book) The story of three hogs who took a trip to the shore.
"Hippo Critical" (Children's Picture Book) a young hippo gets lost at the zoo and must learn a life lesson in order to find his way home.
ESSAYS:
"A Movie Moment"