Vanessa Leigh
2021Money for Angels
Michael Fredianelli
Ray Medved, Marcus D. Spencer
Businessmen Oliver Darcy and Brian Douglas have been quietly embezzling money from their employers for months. When Oliver's daughter is mysteriously kidnapped, the two men take desperate measures to protect their illegal fortune and get the girl back without the help of the police. What begins as a simple plan quickly explodes into a maelstrom of violence and betrayal when a call girl, a dirty cop and a gang of thugs learn of the crime and arrange their own ways of collecting the ransom money.
Money for Angels
Whatever Makes You Happy
A.T. Sayre
Rachel Delante, Tyler Peck
Based on Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, Whatever Makes You Happy is an exploration of the all too common trappings of dissatisfaction and infidelity in the relationships of urban twenty somethings. Anna is a practical and bookish grad student. She lives a comfortable, yet safe life of study, friends, and her long time boyfriend Kevin. Alex is a musician, living the carefree urban hipster lifestyle, perfectly happy to coast through life unencumbered. Everything changes when by chance Anna and Alex meet through friends and connect in a way neither of them expected. This unlikely pair start a fiercely heated affair, putting both of their worlds in jeopardy. Is what they have together enough to survive the damage it causes?
Whatever Makes You Happy
Cross Cut
Michael Fredianelli
Maralynn Adams, Jeremy Koerner
The simple task of babysitting a lounge singer's wife turns into a nightmare for Ginger, Sean and Ricky, three unsuspecting film characters that become self-aware of their own existence in a fictional movie. With an eager determination to defy the writer's outrageous ideas, the characters must quickly think of ways to break out of their predestined roles and into a real and unpredictable narrative of their own making. But when the film's director and producer decide to abandon their current cast and complete the project with an alternative approach to the material, Sean, Ricky and Ginger have some plot twists of their own for the powers that be in this surreal, outlandish comedy.
Cross Cut
Black Cat Whiskey
Michael Fredianelli
Vanessa Leigh, Jeremy Koerner
In a small rural town hit hard by the Depression, Katie Connors resides in a middle-class home with her bootlegging husband Melvin. When the opportunity arises to bump him off without getting her hands dirty, she takes a chance she may never get again. After his murder at the hands of criminal Richard Hayden, she begins to receive inopportune visits by Melvin's old business partners about a large shipment of moonshine in her possession. Contacting the FBI for help, agent Ron Sheridan is assigned to her case and develops an unrequited love for Katie. But when a full-scale war develops, she learns the FBI may not be much help to her as she thought, and Katie must take matters into her own hands to pay off her husband's debts for good.
Black Cat Whiskey
Hard Profit
Michael Fredianelli
Josiah Frampton, Jeremy Koerner
When Nick Fairbanks and his wife move from the quiet town of Petersonville for a prestigious job at an investment firm, they quickly become accustomed to the lavish lifestyle of the big city. But when it becomes apparent that Nick's boss and associate are quietly laundering the company's money, they all become the target of vicious mobsters and racketeers. On the run, Nick heads back to his hometown for a confrontation that will turn the humble town of Petersonville into an all-out battlefield.
Hard Profit
