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Change the World

TAGLINE: You say you want a revolution...

Jack tracks down Vietnam era violent radicals he blames collectively for the death of his peace activist girlfriend, Helen, during a terrible night in college mostly lost to his memory. Now after ten years of avenging Helen, he wants to say a final goodbye, and to start a new life with Debra, a woman he’s fallen for.

But returning to campus he learns Helen’s death was not what he thought and that Debra’s life has its own secrets. Seeking the truth about both, Jack is plunged back into yearnings for revolution, a peace rite’s dangerous supernatural underpinnings, a campus lab’s meddling with deadly, forgotten human capabilities, and a mounting dread of the terrible power he may have held in his own hands.

  • Robert Michael Neumann
    Writer
  • Project Type:
    Screenplay
  • Genres:
    Psychological Thriller, Horror
  • Number of Pages:
    101
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Jersey City Horror Film Festival
    Jersey City, NJ
    August 24, 2024
    Best Unproduced Screenplay
  • Frights! Camera! Action! Horror Screenplay Contest

    August 31, 2024
    Honorable Mention
  • Horror Screenings Film Festival Bloody Mirror
    Tbilisi, Georgia
    October 11, 2024
    Official Selection
  • Be Afraid Horror Fest
    Udine, Italy
    October 14, 2024
    Finalist
Writer Biography - Robert Michael Neumann

At 68, I'm a little younger than my fellow screenwriters, but hopefully that won't be held against me. (Yes, ripped off from a former President, but too good not to use.) I've been a journalist, an editor, an entrepreneur, a software designer, a project manager, a COO, a short-order cook, a Census taker, a museum exhibit and visitor center (NASA) experience designer, a tutor, a postal worker. I was better at some of those than at others. I'm still a father and a husband. Thanks to the contest and readers.

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Writer Statement

I was a college student during the tail end of the Vietnam War, back when one's thumb provided transportation, straight jobs were looked down upon, anti-War activists did courageous work but sometimes went too far, and madness was in the air. All that inspired Change the World. I would hope audiences see parallels in the world then and now. We all need to work hard to make it a better place, but how we do it, how far we go, not only will determine our success, but also what the new world we create will be like.