I believe you have a responsibility to show up for the work.  And you hope to depict, not just with accuracy, but with love.  You have an opportunity to represent, and not represent only that which the subject or character would deem flattering, but all of their personhood.  And therefore offer a full representation of their spirit.  And you house that in situations and structures, but I don't think those full spirits should be confined within those walls.  Story is the observation of their breaking free.  It's the documentation of their waking to autonomy.  I've also remarked before that storytelling, in some part, is depiction of the brokenness of the human spirit hoping to be granted enough grace to grow and change.  Storytelling is a lot of things.  And the fact that it is, and doesn't have to be confined to predetermined strictures, is beautiful.

AVAILABLE WORK --

OUTSET -- 55 PAGE DRAMA PILOT
A dying independent bookstore's last stand collides with a book-monopoly magnate's attempt to dismantle his empire and regain his humanity when two employees on opposite sides must decide if loving each other betrays everything they're each fighting for.

BRUISE -- 62 PAGE CRIME DRAMA PILOT
A Native Detective and his survivor partner investigate an ultra-famous podcaster for the murder of her husband and infant daughter, but struggle with the fanatic and parasocial public's perverse influence on the justice system.

HEALING -- 52 PAGE DRAMA PILOT
A beach drifter is given the ability to heal people, but is forced to face the harm the healings cause and the loss of his free will.

BOTTOM OF NOWHERE -- 56 PAGE DRAMA PILOT
Ominous signage that offers "CA$H 4 SOUL" forces the fractured friendship between two young men back together when they try to get one of their souls back, but end up having to rebuild the soul themselves when the company disappears.

INQUIRE WITHIN -- 85 PAGE HORROR FEATURE SCRIPT
After a year of unemployment, a young woman lands an interview at a company run by a hivemind of uncanny corporate beings feeding on the desperation of the jobless, and realizes that being hired might cost her whatever's left of her identity.

CONNECTION -- 109 PAGE DARK COMEDY FEATURE SCRIPT
A passionate extramarital affair spirals into a crisis of conscience when the wife's lover becomes her husband's closest friend.

Materials available upon request.

CONTACT:
samuelkinsella@icloud.com

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