COLIN RATH
Screenplay Writer • Author •
colin@allinseries.net • 937-925-1213 • 1126 West 2nd Street, Tempe, AZ 85281
SCREENWRITING
ALL IN: The Last Brownstone in Manhattan 2022–2025
Original Screenplay — True Story / Drama
– Based on the memoir of the same name. A Manhattan brownstone development collapses in the 2008 financial crisis amid contractor fraud, WWI German chemical bombs discovered in the foundation, and a seven-year legal battle that ends with a mortgage voided in court.
– Quarterfinalist, 2025 New York Metropolitan Screenwriting Awards, selected for London Night Film Festival 2025 and Grove Film festival 2025
– Fourth-wall-breaking narrative structure • Section 181 tax incentive positioning
- Co-written with Breana Harvey Rath
BOOMERS 2024–2025
Original Screenplay — Dark Comedy / Period Crime / Coming-of-Age
– A crew of privileged Connecticut graduates runs a psilocybin mushroom operation through Grateful Dead parking lots in 1985; one arrest forces a two-night Halloween blitz across Manhattan to raise $85,000 and bribe a judge.
– Cannes World Film Festival Finalist 2026
THE LAST SUMMER 2023–2025
Original Screenplay — Coming-of-Age Drama
– Autobiographical. Shippan Point, Connecticut, 1982. A teenage boy navigates grief after his best friend’s accidental death and a forbidden romance with the dead boy’s sister.
– International New York Film Festival 2026 selection,
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PUBLISHED WORK
The Last Brownstone in Manhattan
Memoir — Published
– Full-length memoir documenting the development, collapse, and seven-year legal battle over a Manhattan brownstone project; the financial crisis, contractor fraud, WWI chemical bombs discovered on-site, and the family’s survival and reinvention.
– Source material for the screenplay ALL IN
“From the Log of Persevere” Ongoing
Sailing Column — WindCheck Magazine
– Regular column documenting offshore sailing, global circumnavigation, and the interior experience of extended 3 year sea passage.
– Readership: competitive and recreational sailing community, New England and national
