Colin Mummery, Screenwriter |
Feature length screenplays:
Title: The Stationery Department. Genre: Thriller. Notable competition placing: Finalist Breaking Walls Thriller Contest. Logline: Wanting to regain custody of her daughter, a young woman gets a chance to escape addiction and homelessness when she's offered a job with an obscure department inside the EPA. But the "environmental hazards" she's asked to quietly neutralize turn out to be individuals threatening national security. Title: Petrology. Genre: Drama. Notable competition placing: Nicholl Fellowship semi-finalist. Logline: Facing the possibility of her own sudden death from a rare genetic condition, a young student considers eternity and how to be remembered for millions of years. Title: Danielle Dare. Genre: Sci-fi, Romance, Thriller. Logline: A young woman from another planet crashlands in Area 51. An ER doctor at a Las Vegas hospital falls in love with her just as evil arrives from across the galaxy to steal the precious cargo she was transporting. Short screenplays: Title: The Stockholm Guest. Genre: Thriller. Pages: 5. Production requirements: Two actors and a hotel room with bathroom. Logline: After a business traveler checks into a Stockholm hotel, a young woman knocks on his door to provide some prearranged services but her visit doesn't go as expected. Title: The Wedding Dress. Genre: Drama. Pages: 5. Logline: Needing a scary Halloween costume for a first date, a college student rents a wedding dress from a hospice charity shop. With one condition: she must put the dress on and visit the original owner, a patient in the hospice. Title: The Pretend To Work Company. Genre: Drama. Pages: 5. Production requirements: Three actors, a meeting room. Logline: Hoping to finally land his first career position, a recent college graduate is interviewed for an internship at a company where all the employees only pretend to do work. Title: The End Of Days Board Meeting. Genre: Drama. Pages: 5. Production requirements: Four actors and a meeting room. Logline: Four company directors hold a corporate board meeting but dealing with the challenging business environment of the biblical end times isn't taught in MBA courses. Title: The Insurance Contract. Genre: Drama. Pages: 6. Production requirements: Four young female actors and a coffee shop. Logline: In a world where health insurance can cover the prevention of ageing, a group of female friends, all seemingly young, meet for coffee. The consequences of the insurance they signed up for soon becomes apparent. Title: The Last King of America. Genre: Political thriller. Pages: 8. Logline: Given immunity from prosecution by the Supreme Court, the US President takes extreme measures to rid himself of his nemesis and stay in power. Link to script as PDF. Bio: STEM background and two decades as a corporate technical writer. Now I write scripts, it's a lot more fun. Contact email: colin.mummery at yahoo.com |