Dust and Fog

Ex-con Ruby Abernathy is looking for a fresh start when she takes over the family bar, but quickly discovers that her father's dark history of murder and corruption threatens her new way of life.

  • Daniel Corey
    Writer
    Graphic Novels: Prophet, Moriarty, Red City, Bloodworth. VR/Interactive: Moriarty: Endgame VR.
  • Project Type:
    Screenplay
  • Genres:
    Crime, Noir, Drama, Neo-Western, Neo-Noir
  • Number of Pages:
    102
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Krimson Horyzon International Film Festival
    Kolkata, West Bengal, India
    April 25, 2022
    Best Screenplay
  • Crown Wood International Film Festival
    Kolkata, West Bengal, India
    May 1, 2022
    Best Feature Screenplay
  • Beyond the Curve International Film Festival
    Beyond the Curve International Film Festival
    June 10, 2022
    Best Feature Screenplay
  • 8 & Halfilm Awards
    Rome, Italy
    June 8, 2022
    Best Feature Screenplay
  • Cult Critic Movie Awards
    Kolkata, West Bengal, India
    May 20, 2022
    Best Feature Screenplay
  • Cult Critic Movie Awards
    Kolkata, West Bengal, India
    May 20, 2022
    Best Film Poster
  • Stanley Film Awards
    London, England
    June 10, 2022
    Best Feature Screenplay
  • Druk International Film Festival
    Bhutan
    May 12, 2022
    Best Feature Screenplay
  • Druk International Film Festival
    Bhutan
    May 12, 2022
    Best Film Poster
  • Milan Gold Awards
    Milan, Italy
    June 9, 2022
    Best Feature Screenplay
  • Knight of the Reel Awards
    Hyderabad, Telangana India
    June 16, 2022
    Best Feature Screenplay
  • Gangtok International Film Festival
    Gangtok, Sikkim, India
    June 11, 2022
    Best Feature Screenplay
  • First Women Film Festival
    tabriz, Doğu Azerbaycan
    June 19, 2022
    Best Feature Screenplay
Writer Biography - Daniel Corey

Daniel Corey is a Philip K. Dick Film Festival Award-winning writer and content producer who has created for comics, film, live theatre and virtual reality.

Daniel's projects include the graphic novels BLOODWORTH and PROPHET, which he wrote and distributed through his company, DangerKatt, as well as MORIARTY and RED CITY, which he published through Image Comics. MORIARTY has been adapted into a VR comic book titled MORIARTY: ENDGAME VR, which earned him the #2 spot on Onalytica's Top 100 VR Influencers list. MORIARTY also recently won the Philip K. Dick Award for Best Sci-Fi Graphic Novel.

Daniel has won over 50 screenwriting awards, including Best Feature Script from the Luis Bunuel Memorial Awards, Le meilleur écrivain (Best Writer) from the Prix Royale Paris Film Festival, the Gold Screenplay Award from the Australasia Film Festival, the Best Screenplay Award from Paris Film Festival and Rome International Movie Awards, as well as being named one of the Top 25 Noir Creators in Los Angeles and the World by the L.A. Neo Noir Film Festival.

He has also worked in broadcast news for NPR and ABC, serves on the Creative Writing Program Advisory Committee at Full Sail University, and speaks at pop culture conventions around the country.

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Writer Statement

DUST AND FOG is a neo-noir thriller, in the vein of “Hell or High Water” and “No Country for Old Men.”

Abandoned at a young age by her career-criminal father, Ruby Abernathy had a hard life that led to violence and prison. Now a young adult, Ruby is free once again, and takes over the family bar left to her by her deceased foster father.

Thinking she can finally be free of the corruption that has always dogged her, Ruby renovates the place and has a successful opening. Life seems to be looking up, but complicates when the bar is violently robbed and she discovers that she is at the center of a conflict between two rival criminal gangs, one of which is led by her estranged biological father.

Trapped between warring mobs, Ruby is determined to get out clean, but soon learns that if she is going to survive, she’ll have to play by her father’s rules and revert back to her old ways.