Colin Mummery, Screenwriter

Original stories for the screen

Feature Length Screenplays:

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.

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.

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:

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.

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.

Link to script PDF

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.

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.

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 become apparent.

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 PDF

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