The Dead Won't Shut Up!
LOGLINE: NYC 1938: Sick of dealing with constant sexism, a female cop quits the NYPD and becomes a private eye, only to discover an untapped gift and end up (reluctantly) specializing in paranormal investigations – with the unsolicited assistance of a dead 1920s bootlegger.
SYNOPSIS: Nicolette “Nick” Sharpstein is a brilliant young woman with a dream: to become a Homicide Detective, but her progression in the 1930s NYPD is hindered by prejudice. Exasperated, she resigns and gets a P. I. license. But the private sector is similarly sexist. Until the day Nick finds out that she has the gift of seeing ghosts, and decides to apply her investigative talents to the paranormal – with the (unsolicited) assistance of Cal Benedetto, the ghost of a 1920s Italian-American bootlegger, and the advice of her father, Dr. Samuel Sharpstein, a Religious Studies scholar at Columbia. Specifically, clients seek Nick to investigate the reason why a particular spirit has not yet crossed over into the afterlife, and to devise a solution to the problem. No séances, magic, or proton guns: just astute investigative work.
(c) Emilio Audissino
Deposited, WGAw #1949848 / #2003668
Registered, U.S. Copyright Office #PAu003942707 / #PAu003983840
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Emilio AudissinoWriterYoshiwara Club; La dolce Eleonora e l'amaro calice; Davanti al mare
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Project Type:Television Script
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Genres:Comedy, Horror
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Number of Pages:63
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Country of Origin:United Kingdom
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Language:English
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First-time Screenwriter:No
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Student Project:No
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The West Field Screenwriting AwardNY
June 8, 2019
Best TV Pilot
I am an author, film-maker, screenwriter, and film academic. With a specialism in film analysis and screenwriting, and two PhDs in Film History and Theory, I can say I’m a veritable “script doctor.” I published extensively on Hollywood cinema, horror, comedy, and film music, and I’m renowned world-wide as the pioneering scholar who wrote the first English book on composer John Williams – John Williams’s Film Music (2014). As a film-maker and screenwriter I have worked in production companies in Milan, Italy, and as a freelancer for documentaries and commercials. I wrote and directed the fiction shorts Davanti al mare [At Sea] (2004), La Dolce Eleonora e L’amaro Calice [Sweet Eleonora and the Bitter Cup] (2007) and Yoshiwara Club (2008), a horror extravaganza that was selected for the 61st edition of the “Cannes Film Festival”, and was screened at other festivals such as the “Genoa Film Festival” (Genoa, Italy), the “TOHORROR Film Festival” (Turin, Italy), the “Joe D’Amato Horror Film Festival” (Lucca, Italy), the “ShockerFest” (Modesto, CA, USA) and the “Spooky Movie Festival” (Washington DC, USA). As a screenwriter, I’m one of the writers of the European drama TV series Blu Riviera (optioned) and, more recently, of the comedy/horror TV series The Dead Won't Shut Up!.
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