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Screenwriting
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Untitled Katharine Hepburn Project (2026 )
Co-written with Graham H Green
Status: pre-production
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Force Drift (2005-07)
Co-written with Graham H Green
Status: produced
Filmed: 2007
Released: 2025
Directed by: Graham H Green
Produced by: Donnie L. Betts, Richard Lerner
Cinematography: Richard Lerner
Actors: Nichelle Nichols, Andrew Walker, Mahsa Masoudi
Logline: Force Drift is an intense thriller based on the events that took place in Abu Ghraib prison in 2003-04, following an experimental military interrogation that descends into chaos.
Festivals:
Golden State Film Festival – TCL Chinese Theatres, Los Angeles, CA – February 14-20, 2025
Pulling Focus African-American Film Festival of the Quad Cities – Davenport, IA – June 5-8, 2025
Mesa International Film Festival – Delta Hotel Convention Center, Mesa AZ – August 20-24, 2025
Anti-War International Independent Film Festival – Jõhvi, ESTONIA – October 3, 2025
National Independent Film Association (NIFA) Awards – Appleton, WI – October 4, 2025
Independent Star Filmfest Freising – Freising, Bavaria, GERMANY – October 17-18, 2025
Girona Film Festival – Girona, Catalonia, SPAIN – November 4-8, 2025
Milwaukee Independent Film Awards – Milwaukee, WI – December 5-7, 2025
Florence International Film Festival – Florence, ITALY – December, 2025
The North Film Festival – Barcelona, SPAIN – February 18-20, 2026
Awards:
Nichelle Nichols – Best Actress – Feature Film – Golden State Film Festival 2025
Audience Choice Award – Pulling Focus Film Festival 2025
Best Drama – Mesa International Film Festival 2025
Gold Award for Feature-Length Film – Independent Star Filmfest Freising 2025
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Roadkill (1990-91)
Co-written with Graham H Green
Status: optioned by Joe Pytka (dir. Space Jam with Michael Jordan)
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Appearances
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“Nameless, Unreasoning, Unjustified Verbiage” – a poetry video by Charise Sowells Malouf
Film and Music by Charise “Lake Lady” Sowells of Unabashed Productions
Shot at Nomadic Press
June 4, 2016
I perform sections of “nameless, unreasoning, unjustified clarity”, written on a 14-foot long mobius strip, amidst (and playing with) my exhibition of text art called Parallax Poems at Nomadic Press in Fruitvale, Oakland, California. This video splices many short soundbytes together, effectively rearranging and reinventing the piece.
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Julia Vinograd: Between Spirit and Stone
I am interviewed in Julia Vinograd: Between Spirit and Stone, an in-progress feature documentary about iconic Berkeley street poet Julia Vinograd by filmmaker Ken Paul Rosenthal.
Projected release: 2026