Spindrift
Screenplay: Romance/Adventure

A couple, both Political refugees wanted by the Italian Government escape to Africa in the early seventies. There they remake their life. He becomes a mercenary for a renegade group out of South Africa. Whilst he negotiates in the wars of various African States she raises their family in a primitive African village.

It is story of extremes and of love as few people ever experience.

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IORA
Screenplay: Psychological Drama / Mystery

Two close friends, Daly and Brett both in their early fifties fall in love with a young actress, Gemma. Tension mounts. Brett is murdered late one night in the subway. Gemma flees unable to cope. Daly, a novelist escapes into his writing. Fact and fiction intertwine in Daly's mind. Iora, an ethnomusicologist enters Daly's life. They fall in love but Brett's death infects their happiness. Iora uses her research skills in an attempt to untangle the mystery surrounding Brett's death.

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Fly on the Wall
Book: Action / Adventure

FLY ON THE WALL is a biography of Max, a fashion photographer. It traces his life from the tragic loss of his bride to his involvement with the NSA, (National Security Agency) and the role it played in his life and career.
It details the events, places and people that helped make him one of the great fashion photographers of his time. It is a story of sex, beautiful people, high fashion, and limousines; luxury hotels that contrast with his life on the back roads of politically isolated countries and his double life as an agent.

He moves from the extravagance of caviar and suites at the Ritz in Paris to the simplicity of a bed of wooden boards and rice water in a small fishing villages off the coast of China.
It is the story of a man re-finding the values in his life.

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