Author's name - A.S. Templeton
templetonas@gmail.com / tel. +01 (206) 669-9536
Pitch Deck:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yT6Z3HYWx2HzUM1njQk7z8AwQigiigcM/view?usp=drive_link
TITLE
"Thingamajigs — An American Fairy Tale"
Logline:
At the dawn of the twentieth century, as an act of proxy revenge, a pampered young American girl is given a book filled with unexpectedly vivid illustrations.
Synopsis
One sunny summer’s afternoon when Annie Jane Moore is home alone minding her own business, an intruding stranger shows up and forces upon her a illustrated book filled with pictures of funny characters: a circus clown, a monkey, a donkey, a leopard, and a grizzly bear.
But one by one the pictures magically come to life and spring out of the book, and Annie Jane soon finds her sitting-room crowded with characters who prove to have something entirely other than merriment on their minds.
Awards
WRPN.tv Screenplay Competition, Fall 2022: : Award Winner, BRONZE
· Omaha Film Festival, 2022: Best Short Screenplay
· Snohomish Film Festival, 2022: Best Short Screenplay
· Beyond Entertainment Family Film, Screenwriting & Music Festival, 2022: Best Musical Family Short Screenplay
· Golden Nugget International Film Festival, Autumn 2021: Best Short Screenplay
· WILDsound DIVERSITY Film Festival, October 2022: Award Winner
TITLE
"Dummy’s Day Out — An American Fairy Tale"
Logline:
In downtown San Francisco of 1902, a pair of curious young space aliens visiting Earth find a novel way to interact with humans, with unexpected consequences.
Synopsis:
Skygack, a space-alien field investigator for the Dominion of Sapients, lands his flying saucer in a back alley of San Francisco, ostensibly to conclude his candid observations of humankind.
Unbeknownst to Skygack, a pair of juveniles, Tanko and Mankie, have stowed away, intent on studying humans up close and personal.
After hijacking a department-store mannequin for mobile disguise, Tanko and Mankie have fun and misadventures, including a pair of calamitous encounters with Annie Jane.
But things take a serious turn when Tanko and Mankie learn about the true nature of Skygack’s mission
Awards:
· WRPN.tv Screenplay Competition, Spring 2024: : Award Winner, PLATINUM
· WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival, 2024: Short Screenplay Remi Award (SILVER)
· Hollywood Just4Shorts Competition, October 2023: Best Sci-Fi Script
· Sunday Shorts Film Festival (London), 2024: Runner-Up
TITLE
" I Sing the Life Electric! — An American Fairy Tale"
Logline:
At the dawn of the Electrical Age, a young inventor and his cousin summon a supernatural entity that envisions a bright future for mankind... or so it claims.
Synopsis:
A young girl visits her teenage cousin, a budding inventor of electrical gadgets. Quite by accident, they summon The Demon of Electricity, a supernatural being that promises “a grand, glorious future for mankind, wherein every manner of electrical gadgetry has liberated mankind from drudgery, back-breaking labor, hardship, and suffering, allowing folk everywhere to fulfill their wildest dreams.”
The Demon of Electricity bestows on the children a fivesome of marvelous electrical gadgets, one of which enables them to have fun and thrilling misadventures through space and time.
But the children soon discover that la vie électrique may not turn out as grand and glorious as promised.
Awards:
· WRPN.tv Screenplay Competition, Summer 2024: Award Winner, PLATINUM
· Hollywood Just4Shorts Film and Screenplay Competition, 2025: Finalist
TITLE
"American Fairy Tales"
Logline:
At the dawn of the twentieth century, a pampered young American girl has her life turned upside-down by a series of harrowing encounters with fantastical characters.
Synopsis:
In 1902 San Francisco, Annie Jane Moore is a pampered young American girl who undergoes a series of unexpected encounters with the wacky, the weird, and the darkly fantastic:
First, dealing with a sitting-room full of funny characters who might have something entirely other than merriment in mind; Second, having a run-in with a pair of curious young space aliens who have found a novel way to interact with humans, with unexpected consequences; And third, with the help of her young inventor cousin, accidentally summoning a supernatural entity that envisions a bright future for mankind... or so it claims.
Through clear thinking and quick action, Annie Jane ultimately saves the day, but she and those around her are forever changed by her fantastical experiences.
Awards:
· WRPN.tv Screenplay Competition, Summer 2024: Award Winner, PLATINUM
· WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival, 2025: Feature Screenplay Remi Award (SILVER)
· FEEDBACK Animation Film & Screenplay Festival, 2025: Best Feature Screenplay
· Beyond Entertainment Family Film Festival, 2024: Honorable Mention
TITLE
"Fairyland 2.0"
Logline:
Tweenage girl-boy twins and their PTSD-challenged Army-vet mother are duped into playing what was supposed to be a super-immersive VR game, only to find themselves trapped in a fantastical microcosm, shadowed by a vengeful presence from their ancestral past.
Synopsis:
When the prototype of what seems to be a super-advanced VR game console mysteriously arrives on their doorstep, twin tweens Claire and Casey Steele lose no time in immersing themselves in a fantasy adventure game called Quest for the Shining Realm.
But the game’s fantasyscape starts to feel oddly familiar, the fantasy game characters prove a little too fantastic, and the gameplay soon turns downright dangerous. And when the twins’ PTSD-challenged Army-vet mother, Trudy, joins them in the Quest, things turn from dangerous to deadly as they each confront a vengeful presence from their ancestral past, one with an unnerving interest in an heirloom worn by Claire: a charm necklace of seven golden crowns.
Casey and Claire must journey the magical yet perilous Shining Realm in order to thwart an uncanny threat to the real world. Trudy must find healing, for herself and for her bond with her children. And Claire must discover her wondrous heritage and fulfill a magical obligation denied her by fate.
Awards:
· WRPN.tv Screenplay Competition, Spring 2025: Award Winner, SILVER
· WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival, 2023: Screenplay - Family/Children Remi Award (GOLD) (*)
· StoryPros Awards Screenplay Contest, 15th Annual, 2022 (*)
(* Under the title: Fairyland Ain’t What It Used to Be)
TITLE
"In All but Blood"
Logline:
On a colonized planet threatened by a solar storm, an Eagle Scout escapes the safe confines of Alpha Colony to search the hostile alien wilderness for his long-lost brother, only to learn what happens when A Dream Come True collides with Be Careful What You Wish For.
Synopsis:
As a new Eagle Scout, 16-year-old Tanner Gernhardt longs to experience the lush forests, scenic mountains, and sparkling streams of New Honua, an exoplanet 94 light-years from Earth.
Problem is, Tanner and everyone else are forbidden to leave Alpha Colony, owing largely to the fearsome predators that stalk the forests: the dinowolves, one of which supposedly killed Tanner’s elder brother, GUS, seven years ago. But Gus’s remains were never found, so Tanner hatches a plan to search for them—while getting in some excellent scouting, naturally!
With the aid of his genius kid brother, Tanner manages to escape the confines of Alpha Colony. While having the time of his life exploring the wilderness and communing with nature, he encounters someone beyond unexpected: his brother Gus, alive and well... and not a day older than when Tanner last saw him!
But when a massive solar storm suddenly threatens the colonies on New Honua, Tanner and his family must accept the shocking truth behind Gus’s survival in the alien wilderness, face the wrenching prospect of leaving their homeworld forever, and embrace the bitter realization that adapting to strange new worlds may lie beyond the capabilities of ordinary humans.
Awards:
· WRPN.tv Screenplay Competition, Fall 2025: Award Winner, PLATINUM
· TELEVISION FEEDBACK Screenplay & Web Series Festival, 2025 & 2023: Best Television Script
· Golden Nugget International Film Festival (London, UK), 2023: Best Television Script
· Omaha Film Festival, 2024: Finalist
TITLE
"The Mâr Chronicles"
Logline:
A formerly mythical being who was born and raised in America’s heartland struggles to reconcile her human nurture with her nonhuman nature, meanwhile doing her best to save human-kind from extermination and Earth from eco-apocalypse and alien invasion.
Synopsis:
Brilliant but erratic FBI special agent Felicity Yaeger is on stakeout along a stretch of Oregon river. When Yaeger accidentally captures a female suspect with many anatomical oddities, she persuades herself that she is dealing with a space alien, and a pregnant one at that.
Eighteen years of unrelenting investigation eventually lead Yaeger to the doorstep of Nikka Lindstrom, a very odd young woman who was born and raised in rural Kansas. When Yaeger confronts Nikka with certain incredible but undeniable facts, Nikka must face some very uncomfortable truths that call into question everything she thought she knew about the world... and about herself.
Over three tumultuous years, Nikka must struggle with the clash between her unremarkable nurture and her otherworldly nature, meanwhile rescuing her family from captivity, twice saving humankind from extermination, and marshaling the four sapient species of Earth in order to save the planet from space alien invasion and ecological destruction.
Awards:
· WRPN.tv Screenplay Competition, Fall 2025: Award Winner, PLATINUM
· Faith and Family Screenwriting Awards, Winter 2025: Best Pilot
· WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival, 2023: Screenplay - Teleplays Remi Award (GOLD)(*)
· Golden Nugget International Film Festival, 2021: Best TV Pilot
· ReelHeART International Screenplay and TV Pilot Script Competition, 2020: Winner, TV Pilot
· Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition, 2023: Second Rounder
· Miami Screenplay Awards, 2021: Finalist
· Vail Screenplay Contest, 2021: Finalist
(* Under the title: No Such Things as Mermaids)
TITLE
"Ka Piko"
Logline:
A pregnant young woman who thinks she has it all figured out in the realm of Pro-Choice must confront, from a horrifying perspective, the consequences of her choices.
Synopsis:
23-year-old Lu Okassa is hitchhiking to a clinic in Portland, Oregon when she is picked up by a nun, Sister Mary Maki. After Lu discloses that she is on her way to terminate her third pregnancy, she and the Sister exchange pithy perspectives on morality and mortality.
Upon their arrival in town, Lu and Sister Mary Maki find themselves caught between a pro-life rally and a pro-choice counterprotest. Protestors charge across the street, causing a city bus to swerve and crash head-on into their car.
When Lu awakens in a surreal hospital ward, a pair of weird physicians show up, intent on murdering her in an ironic and especially grisly fashion. Although desperate to escape her nightmarish situation, Lu must first confront the life-and-death consequences of her choices—past, present, and future.
Awards:
· WRPN Women’s International Film Festival, Summer 2025: Award Winner, GOLD
· The Her Vision International Film Festival, 2025: Award Winner
· Life Fest Film Festival XXV, 2025: Best Short Screenplay
· Religion Faith International Film Festival, Fall 2024: Award Winner, GOLD
· Faith and Family Screenwriting Awards, Summer 2024: Best Short Screenplay
· Oregon Short Film Festival, Spring 2025: Best Dark Drama Screenplay
WRPN.tv Screenplay Competition, Fall 2022: : Award Winner, BRONZE
· Omaha Film Festival, 2022: Best Short Screenplay
· Snohomish Film Festival, 2022: Best Short Screenplay
· Beyond Entertainment Family Film, Screenwriting & Music Festival, 2022: Best Musical Family Short Screenplay
· Golden Nugget International Film Festival, Autumn 2021: Best Short Screenplay
· WILDsound DIVERSITY Film Festival, October 2022: Award Winner
TITLE
"Dummy’s Day Out — An American Fairy Tale"
Logline:
In downtown San Francisco of 1902, a pair of curious young space aliens visiting Earth find a novel way to interact with humans, with unexpected consequences.
Synopsis:
Skygack, a space-alien field investigator for the Dominion of Sapients, lands his flying saucer in a back alley of San Francisco, ostensibly to conclude his candid observations of humankind.
Unbeknownst to Skygack, a pair of juveniles, Tanko and Mankie, have stowed away, intent on studying humans up close and personal.
After hijacking a department-store mannequin for mobile disguise, Tanko and Mankie have fun and misadventures, including a pair of calamitous encounters with Annie Jane.
But things take a serious turn when Tanko and Mankie learn about the true nature of Skygack’s mission
Awards:
· WRPN.tv Screenplay Competition, Spring 2024: : Award Winner, PLATINUM
· WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival, 2024: Short Screenplay Remi Award (SILVER)
· Hollywood Just4Shorts Competition, October 2023: Best Sci-Fi Script
· Sunday Shorts Film Festival (London), 2024: Runner-Up
TITLE
" I Sing the Life Electric! — An American Fairy Tale"
Logline:
At the dawn of the Electrical Age, a young inventor and his cousin summon a supernatural entity that envisions a bright future for mankind... or so it claims.
Synopsis:
A young girl visits her teenage cousin, a budding inventor of electrical gadgets. Quite by accident, they summon The Demon of Electricity, a supernatural being that promises “a grand, glorious future for mankind, wherein every manner of electrical gadgetry has liberated mankind from drudgery, back-breaking labor, hardship, and suffering, allowing folk everywhere to fulfill their wildest dreams.”
The Demon of Electricity bestows on the children a fivesome of marvelous electrical gadgets, one of which enables them to have fun and thrilling misadventures through space and time.
But the children soon discover that la vie électrique may not turn out as grand and glorious as promised.
Awards:
· WRPN.tv Screenplay Competition, Summer 2024: Award Winner, PLATINUM
· Hollywood Just4Shorts Film and Screenplay Competition, 2025: Finalist
TITLE
"American Fairy Tales"
Logline:
At the dawn of the twentieth century, a pampered young American girl has her life turned upside-down by a series of harrowing encounters with fantastical characters.
Synopsis:
In 1902 San Francisco, Annie Jane Moore is a pampered young American girl who undergoes a series of unexpected encounters with the wacky, the weird, and the darkly fantastic:
First, dealing with a sitting-room full of funny characters who might have something entirely other than merriment in mind; Second, having a run-in with a pair of curious young space aliens who have found a novel way to interact with humans, with unexpected consequences; And third, with the help of her young inventor cousin, accidentally summoning a supernatural entity that envisions a bright future for mankind... or so it claims.
Through clear thinking and quick action, Annie Jane ultimately saves the day, but she and those around her are forever changed by her fantastical experiences.
Awards:
· WRPN.tv Screenplay Competition, Summer 2024: Award Winner, PLATINUM
· WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival, 2025: Feature Screenplay Remi Award (SILVER)
· FEEDBACK Animation Film & Screenplay Festival, 2025: Best Feature Screenplay
· Beyond Entertainment Family Film Festival, 2024: Honorable Mention
TITLE
"Fairyland 2.0"
Logline:
Tweenage girl-boy twins and their PTSD-challenged Army-vet mother are duped into playing what was supposed to be a super-immersive VR game, only to find themselves trapped in a fantastical microcosm, shadowed by a vengeful presence from their ancestral past.
Synopsis:
When the prototype of what seems to be a super-advanced VR game console mysteriously arrives on their doorstep, twin tweens Claire and Casey Steele lose no time in immersing themselves in a fantasy adventure game called Quest for the Shining Realm.
But the game’s fantasyscape starts to feel oddly familiar, the fantasy game characters prove a little too fantastic, and the gameplay soon turns downright dangerous. And when the twins’ PTSD-challenged Army-vet mother, Trudy, joins them in the Quest, things turn from dangerous to deadly as they each confront a vengeful presence from their ancestral past, one with an unnerving interest in an heirloom worn by Claire: a charm necklace of seven golden crowns.
Casey and Claire must journey the magical yet perilous Shining Realm in order to thwart an uncanny threat to the real world. Trudy must find healing, for herself and for her bond with her children. And Claire must discover her wondrous heritage and fulfill a magical obligation denied her by fate.
Awards:
· WRPN.tv Screenplay Competition, Spring 2025: Award Winner, SILVER
· WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival, 2023: Screenplay - Family/Children Remi Award (GOLD) (*)
· StoryPros Awards Screenplay Contest, 15th Annual, 2022 (*)
(* Under the title: Fairyland Ain’t What It Used to Be)
TITLE
"In All but Blood"
Logline:
On a colonized planet threatened by a solar storm, an Eagle Scout escapes the safe confines of Alpha Colony to search the hostile alien wilderness for his long-lost brother, only to learn what happens when A Dream Come True collides with Be Careful What You Wish For.
Synopsis:
As a new Eagle Scout, 16-year-old Tanner Gernhardt longs to experience the lush forests, scenic mountains, and sparkling streams of New Honua, an exoplanet 94 light-years from Earth.
Problem is, Tanner and everyone else are forbidden to leave Alpha Colony, owing largely to the fearsome predators that stalk the forests: the dinowolves, one of which supposedly killed Tanner’s elder brother, GUS, seven years ago. But Gus’s remains were never found, so Tanner hatches a plan to search for them—while getting in some excellent scouting, naturally!
With the aid of his genius kid brother, Tanner manages to escape the confines of Alpha Colony. While having the time of his life exploring the wilderness and communing with nature, he encounters someone beyond unexpected: his brother Gus, alive and well... and not a day older than when Tanner last saw him!
But when a massive solar storm suddenly threatens the colonies on New Honua, Tanner and his family must accept the shocking truth behind Gus’s survival in the alien wilderness, face the wrenching prospect of leaving their homeworld forever, and embrace the bitter realization that adapting to strange new worlds may lie beyond the capabilities of ordinary humans.
Awards:
· WRPN.tv Screenplay Competition, Fall 2025: Award Winner, PLATINUM
· TELEVISION FEEDBACK Screenplay & Web Series Festival, 2025 & 2023: Best Television Script
· Golden Nugget International Film Festival (London, UK), 2023: Best Television Script
· Omaha Film Festival, 2024: Finalist
TITLE
"The Mâr Chronicles"
Logline:
A formerly mythical being who was born and raised in America’s heartland struggles to reconcile her human nurture with her nonhuman nature, meanwhile doing her best to save human-kind from extermination and Earth from eco-apocalypse and alien invasion.
Synopsis:
Brilliant but erratic FBI special agent Felicity Yaeger is on stakeout along a stretch of Oregon river. When Yaeger accidentally captures a female suspect with many anatomical oddities, she persuades herself that she is dealing with a space alien, and a pregnant one at that.
Eighteen years of unrelenting investigation eventually lead Yaeger to the doorstep of Nikka Lindstrom, a very odd young woman who was born and raised in rural Kansas. When Yaeger confronts Nikka with certain incredible but undeniable facts, Nikka must face some very uncomfortable truths that call into question everything she thought she knew about the world... and about herself.
Over three tumultuous years, Nikka must struggle with the clash between her unremarkable nurture and her otherworldly nature, meanwhile rescuing her family from captivity, twice saving humankind from extermination, and marshaling the four sapient species of Earth in order to save the planet from space alien invasion and ecological destruction.
Awards:
· WRPN.tv Screenplay Competition, Fall 2025: Award Winner, PLATINUM
· Faith and Family Screenwriting Awards, Winter 2025: Best Pilot
· WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival, 2023: Screenplay - Teleplays Remi Award (GOLD)(*)
· Golden Nugget International Film Festival, 2021: Best TV Pilot
· ReelHeART International Screenplay and TV Pilot Script Competition, 2020: Winner, TV Pilot
· Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition, 2023: Second Rounder
· Miami Screenplay Awards, 2021: Finalist
· Vail Screenplay Contest, 2021: Finalist
(* Under the title: No Such Things as Mermaids)
TITLE
"Ka Piko"
Logline:
A pregnant young woman who thinks she has it all figured out in the realm of Pro-Choice must confront, from a horrifying perspective, the consequences of her choices.
Synopsis:
23-year-old Lu Okassa is hitchhiking to a clinic in Portland, Oregon when she is picked up by a nun, Sister Mary Maki. After Lu discloses that she is on her way to terminate her third pregnancy, she and the Sister exchange pithy perspectives on morality and mortality.
Upon their arrival in town, Lu and Sister Mary Maki find themselves caught between a pro-life rally and a pro-choice counterprotest. Protestors charge across the street, causing a city bus to swerve and crash head-on into their car.
When Lu awakens in a surreal hospital ward, a pair of weird physicians show up, intent on murdering her in an ironic and especially grisly fashion. Although desperate to escape her nightmarish situation, Lu must first confront the life-and-death consequences of her choices—past, present, and future.
Awards:
· WRPN Women’s International Film Festival, Summer 2025: Award Winner, GOLD
· The Her Vision International Film Festival, 2025: Award Winner
· Life Fest Film Festival XXV, 2025: Best Short Screenplay
· Religion Faith International Film Festival, Fall 2024: Award Winner, GOLD
· Faith and Family Screenwriting Awards, Summer 2024: Best Short Screenplay
· Oregon Short Film Festival, Spring 2025: Best Dark Drama Screenplay