My first feature, Lara and the Dead Boy, placed in the Top 50 of the Oscars’ Academy Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship, amongst others, and won the ScriptMatix Action/Thriller Fellowship.
In 2022, The Death of Rasputin was a Finalist in the Austin Film Festival, nominated for Best Scriptwriter in the Toronto International Women Film Festival, as well as selected for Best Feature in The Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards and the Cannes International Cinema Awards.
I adapted my last novel for RED productions; I have also adapted a Hugo-award winning sci-fi novel for television. My passion projects are witty, weird and outrageously violent crime thrillers with the trashcult aesthetic of John Waters and the niche risky capers of the Coen Brothers.
I am currently developing new projects in Los Angeles. For adaptations, assignments or option enquiries, please contact my agent Rebecca Thomas at Lewinsohn Literary. Writing samples are available below.
When her b-movie idol ODs, an eccentric L.A. mortician steals his corpse, gangsters chasing her across the Mojave desert for the 1.2 million dollars of fentanyl in his guts.
Baby Driver, True Romance, Thelma & Louise
THE BLCKLST READER REVIEW: “The zany, offbeat antics and improbable narrative underpinnings of films like BUBBA HO-TEP collide with the spirited good fun of RAISING ARIZONA or WEEKEND AT BERNIE’S, an oddball adventure riveting from its first page to its last. The potential for powerhouse performances in its leads offers the promise of a sizable crossover audience. It would likely be appealing to development executives at places like A24 and Annapurna Pictures.”
After a near death experience imbues Rasputin with mystic powers, the mad monk enmeshes himself in the Ukrainian Odessa and Russian Bratva gang war in Coney Island.
The Boondock Saints, Gangs of New York, Romeo + Juliet
THE BLCKLST READER REVIEW: “A fascinating, funny, and intense adventure with remarkable characters and deep themes. Rasputin is a charismatic, confounding, lusty, spiritual presence who dominates all his scenes. There are some absolutely outstanding lines of dialogue… Angelo provides humor and humanity, his memorializing of Rasputin is downright incredible and his words carry the audience through key moments of the action-packed, violent, impactful third act.”