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Neural Ashes

In a mafia controlled city, a 45 year old neuroengineer must confront her past when forced to restore an android carrying a mafia capo’s consciousness, and a secret that could collapse the criminal underworld.
Hellen succeeds in fixing an android that gangsters brought to her. He is confused, his mind is mixed up between a dead mafia boss’s and his own android brain. Inspired by Hellen, he sacrifices himself by destroying the mafia’s secret vault. but the struggle against the mafia is not over yet. Hellen has to upload her own brain into cyberspace, to fight the mafia boss who’s brain was also uploaded.

  • Jos Fonteijn
    Writer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Verbrand netwerk
  • Project Type:
    Screenplay
  • Genres:
    Sci-Fi, Thriller
  • Number of Pages:
    87
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Writer Biography - Jos Fonteijn

I’ve been writing stories since the eighties. I followed amateur writing courses in the Netherlands and a professional screenwriting training in Amsterdam at the Colofon in the nineties.
Until now I’ve worked on a large number of screenplays in Dutch, including science fiction, comedy /satire, crime (heist, horror), psychological drama, road movies.
Since 2020, I have also written screenplays in English, both for feature film (science fiction, romantic comedy) and streaming series (science fiction).

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Neural Ashes won the Best Thriller Screenplay award at Los Angeles Short Film Awards 2025