2021 Script Lineup

TITLE WRITER SYNOPSIS

A Need for Something New John T. Frederick A screenwriter, eight days from 60, drives into the Great American Southwest on a search for beauty and a story to tell.

About Nelson Sahlima A 7-year-old boy escapes abductors with the help of his friend Julie and his French teacher Solange.

At the Mercy of Faith Samuel L. Taylor A 14-year-old preacher renounces his faith in God in the wake of a terrifying encounter.

Checkmate Adia Bell-Foster A character-driven story about the unexpected consequences of adultery when it meets the solidarity of sisterhood and the sins of a father.

Closure Saskia Lynge Raelle and Gideon’s love is a once-in-a-lifetime kind of love, but what she remembers as their last perfect moment isn’t the whole truth.

Cottoning Arden Kass A woman accompanies a fiend to a botanical garden, only to discover that a beautiful specimen plant evokes disturbing connections.

Forbidden: Once Upon a War Ron Modro Based on the true story of a teenage French girl who fell in love with a Nazi officer during the World War II occupation of France.

Go Ahead Paul Morantz The whole life biography of American frontiersman Davy Crockett.

Good Grief Emily Rued A neurotic painter with a substance abusing former TV star boyfriend must return home to northern California to settle her late mother’s affairs.

Healing Time John Thibault A courageous black warrior mother tries to save a dystopian planet from the plague and recover her kidnapped daughter.

Knock Three Times Deborah Capstone Scheuffele An eccentric woman and her neighbor must come to terms with one another while battling their common destiny.

Land of Light Nicholas Batchelder

Nine Lives Patricia Serrano Chungsathaporn The intertwining tales of two Colonial New English sisters, one who is hiding an illegitimate pregnancy from her Puritan town and another whose captors are plotting to sell her into slavery.

After a coma knocks her into another state of consciousness, a ThaiAmerican girl with an anger management problem must take the advice of her ex-fiance turned Buddhist monk in order to return her body to Brooklyn.

Petrov Ryan Patch In 1983, a Soviet Air Watch officer must make the most important decision of his life when his early warning system shows five US nuclear missiles heading for the USSR. Based on a true story. Red Sea Rosalyn Rosen In 1983, Jewish Holocaust survivors are challenged to come to terms with their past when their American singer/songwriter daughter decides to leave home to pursue her dreams. Based on a true story.

Run for Your Life Gregory JM Kasunich After an environmental disaster unleashes a creature that slowly stalks humans during daylight, a mother and daughter fight to survive on their own.

2021 Script Lineup (Cont.)

TITLE WRITER SYNOPSIS

Running the Bases Marty Roberts, Jimmy Womble

A small town championship coach, determined to live his faith out loud, finds himself isolated in the big city as he becomes the target of an aggressive superintendent’s anger with God. Secret Passage Paul Teese A French custodian and his imaginative wife come to believe they’ve uncovered a plot to assassinate POTUS at a summit conference in Strasbourg.

Stay Kara Puerschner A fractured love story that shows the light of true love and the loneliness of loss.

The Art of Resistance David Brown The inspirational story of how gay painter and writer Willem Arondeus led a diverse group of fellow artists and students in one of the most daring acts of Second World War resistance to save Dutch Jews.

The Chair Alain Legend Raymond

Triangle 146 Diane Young Uniman A dying female chair maker races time to salvage a rocking chair that the spirit of her late husband inhabits.

Early in the 1900s, sisters Rose and Jenny lead other girls in a bold attempt to improve working conditions at a seamstress shop on the Lower East Side.

Festival Tip:

Unlike routine shows in a movie theater, New Hope Film Festival screenings are usually followed by filmmaker Q&A sessions, giving audience members an opportunity to ask questions and learn more about the story behind a film. The availability of a Q&A for an individual show is solely determined by filmmaker attendance.