Goodville

In an attempt to isolate themselves from Evil,  the residents of Goodville have created a town where smiling is mandatory and four-letter words are not permitted. When two children are murdered, the people of Goodville must ask for help from the nearby City to solve the crime. The town outcast, a strange girl referred to only as, “the Crocodile,” is suspected of the crime.

  • Edoardo Miranda
    Writer
    Recalling, Your Poet, Lesley & John
  • Project Type:
    Screenplay
  • Genres:
    Crime, Mistery, Drama
  • Number of Pages:
    105
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Writer Biography - Edoardo Miranda

Originally from NYC and an alumni of The Stella Adler Studio, Edoardo developed a passion for acting and writing since an early age. Main film credits include Peter The Disciple in the docudrama Eating With The Enemy narrated by Kevin Sorbo, and The Fox in short film The Fox along actor Kazy Tauginas. Main theater credits include Maestro, in Steven Fisher's Broadway show The Last Boy at The Town Hall, and Marco, in the Off-Broadway show Arrivals, directed by Art Feinglass. He is one of the Cofounders of Fracture Films and his short dramas Recalling and Your Poet won the Audience Choice award at the New York Lift-Off Film Festival and was a Finalist at the Transparent Film Festival in 2023, respectively. Edoardo has also written, produced and directed the play Goodville, accepted at the New York Theater Festival 2020. He had the honor of working with photographer David Yarrow and painter Kehinde Wiley. Edoardo is also a psychology student, a martial artist, poet, and polyglot.

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Writer Statement

This project, based on Freud’s ‘Civilization and it’s Discontents’ , explores the roots of people’s need to feel safe, protected, loved, in a world which inevitably contains evil and pain. With the goal of highlighting the importance of the integration of evil, or, as Jung would say, the integration of the ‘shadow’, Goodville is a crime mystery drama heavily influenced by Von Trier’s ‘Dogville’, dealing with the broken residents of Goodville accepting the contradiction that one cannot escape the shortcoming of this world if not by actually living in a real world; and perhaps, one can navigate them better by accepting responsibility for oneself and others.