“Emily McDermott writes incredibly intense scenes packed with emotion; each executed with great skill”
- Barnstorm Media Festival
MOTHER RUSSIA
(TV PILOT) (30 MIN.)
(DARK) (POLITICAL-COMEDY) (MOCKUMENTARY)
***Currently a Quarterfinalist at the Austin TV Screenplay Awards
A half-hour dark comedy that ‘mock-uments’ Nadya Belov's rise through the ranks of the Kremlin as she fights to become Russia’s first female dictator. Nadya Belov used to be a fan girl of democracy and now finds herself running the most corrupt communist government Russia’s ever had. We track her changing political views as she goes from young woman fighting for democracy in 1992 in Red Square, in love with the woman running the rally, to the death of that woman and Nadya’s subsequent demise into becoming Russia’s first female fascist dictator in 2021.
THE DARKROOM
(TV PILOT) (60 MIN.)
(DRAMEDY) (MENTAL HEALTH)
***Currently a Quarterfinalist in the Screencraft Fellowship Competition
A 60-minute dramedy set in Manchester, England, following the life of a 34-year-old woman with synaesthesia whose family’s lies about what happened to her twin sister as a toddler cause a decline in her mental health, leading her to believe she has a doppelganger.
She becomes a detective trying to get to the root of what happened when she was 4 and discovers she had a twin no-one told her about, and no-one will tell her what they did to her.
KOSCIUSZKO BRIDGE
(TV PILOT) (60 MIN.)
(DRAMA) (THRILLER)
Kosciuszko Bridge is a 6-part dramatic thriller in which the events of a woman’s rape and disappearance are unreliably told to us Rashomon-style through the eyes of six different witnesses who all live on her street in Brooklyn. Each episode, a different narrator gives their own biased view of what happened to Bella: The boyfriend having an affair, the little girl who misreads a sex scene, the broke mailman, the Detective recovering from sexual assault, the jealous sister and, finally, the woman herself, until a web of lies and misunderstandings is spun, and we don’t know who to believe.
This show asks a lot of questions about our responsibility to each other as a society. If you see something, should you intervene? And how can we be sure that what we are seeing is the whole truth?