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The Fourth Night

Genuine film noir crime thriller set in 1940. Los Angeles poses grave danger for New York Private Detective Steven Hawk who arrives in Los Angeles to find his client murdered. Steven is quickly pulled into a deadly and tangled web of blistering sexual tension, deceit, double-crosses, embezzlement, mobsters, murder, smoldering seduction, a sultry torch singer, vengeful detectives, and deadly vengeance.

  • Mike Briock
    Writer
    Antinean (action). Cajun Justice (thriller). Hibernation (horror). Love & Happiness (dramedy).
  • Project Type:
    Screenplay
  • Genres:
    Film Noir Crime Thriller
  • Number of Pages:
    94
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Writer Biography - Mike Briock

Attended film school. Gravitated towards screenwriting after I wrote some shorts and commercials for other students for their projects and became very popular and in great demand, so much so that I was staying up every night to write the projects for other students while also working on my own projects for school.

Worked as a script reader, and also was a personal reader for a well-known Director/Producer/Writer. I read some very good scripts, his and studio scripts, as well as some horrendously bad scripts that were being greenlit, which actually made me angry. I felt I could write much better scripts than the really bad ones that were actually being greenlit.

Started writing my own scripts and entering some film festivals in the screenplay category. I experienced immediate success, then boom. I was hit by a drunk driver and was critically injured. I spent well over a year in recovery when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, further delaying my full recovery. However, I made a full recovery and started writing again and entering film festivals. I have experienced some well-deserved major success as well as some extremely bitter disappointments.

Even though I have won film festivals I am like any "unknown" writer and have found great difficulty in getting anyone at all to read my entertaining and high-quality scripts. The more festivals I can win, the more credence it gives to the high quality of my screenplays and writing ability.

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Writer Statement

I take great pride in my work. I take my writing very seriously and I work very hard at it. I am very dedicated to writing entertaining and excellent screenplays. I enter film festivals to promote my work in hopes of being able to present my festival winning screenplays to directors, producers, and talent. The more wins I garner in festivals the more it helps me when shopping my screenplays to the directors, producers, and talent. Entering film festivals is very expensive, especially with no guarantees. I work 60 hours per week in order to cover the cost of the festival submission fees. I take great offense when a festival marks my script "Not Accepted" because I know they didn't bother to read the script and I know the high-quality of my scripts. I fully expect to win every festival I enter. This is not ego in anyway, this is unwavering confidence in both my scripts and writing ability.