Behind Enemy Lines

On the eve of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential election, a turncoat campaign intern discovers a way to alter the course of America.

  • Tosin Morohunfola
    Writer
    The Pulpit, On Sight, Endowed, Newly Famous
  • Project Type:
    Short Script
  • Genres:
    Political, Drama, short
  • Number of Pages:
    14
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Writer Biography - Tosin Morohunfola

Tosin is an actor and Kansas-transplant now based in LA most known from "Bass Reeves" (Paramount+) and his series regular work in “Run The World” (STARZ). You may also know him from “The Chi” (Showtime), “Black Lightning” (CW), “Chicago Med” (NBC), “Love Is” (OWN), “Julia” (HBO) and ABC’s “Everything’s Trash” (Freeform).

On film, he stars in Amazon’s "Blackbox", BET’s romantic comedy "Always A Bridesmaid", the erotic thriller, "Friend Request" and the bro-mantic comedy, "North of the 10". He was also in Oscar-winner Kevin Willmott’s “The 24th”, nominated for a NAACP Image award. Currently, he costars in the action-heist film, "1992" (Lionsgate) with Ray Liotta. Up next, he'll lead the heart-warming drama "Senior Moments" (Sony).

Tosin is also a filmmaker whose festival-selected shorts are: "The Pulpit: Prelude", a thriller about a progressive pastor under threat from extremists, which is also being developed as a feature, "Endowed", a parable about fear, faith and fatherhood, and "On Sight", a social justice police thriller. Currently, he's producing "Newly Famous", a dark comedy about the dangers of celebrity.

Tosin's writing and filmmaking centers on stories of empathy, awareness, belonging and seeing the human as hero in the face of institutional opposition.

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Writer Statement

Have you ever wondered if you could take a time machine back to when it all went wrong so you could fix it?
In Behind Enemy Lines, our story takes us back to a pivotal time in recent American history. The final days of the Donald Trump campaign before he becomes President. Through the eyes of a liberal campaign intern and her activist boyfriend, this film shows us how conflicting the game of politics is, and worse, how morally complicated doing the right thing can be. I also wanted this political drama to depict the dangers of radicalization through the lens of a kind of revisionist fantasy. Though it feels cathartic in emotional ways, it doesn’t quite sit well with the soul.

But, then again, principles do tend to get murky when you’re Behind Enemy Lines.