We Just Need Some Money

A tale about Matthew, once a very famous screenwriter, but now struggling to get his latest script produced because of his troubled past. After the umpteenth refusal, he decides to apply the plot of his script to reality and raise the funds needed to produce the screenplay by starting a crew of former people of the show business. The crew will steal a load of drugs from a trafficker known as The Director, and eventually organise a series of illegal parties where they will deal the load in an “as much as you like” way included in the entry ticket. The parties will quickly become the best ones in London; but the trafficker won’t take long to find them.

  • Matteo Valentini
    Writer
    Acid Pit Stop; The Leaving Room; Barback; Slaves Nowadays; Tank Dust; Wrong Person; B-Love
  • Project Type:
    Screenplay
  • Genres:
    Action-Comedy
  • Number of Pages:
    126
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Rome Prisma Awards
    Rome, Italy
    Final 3: Best Feature Screenplay - July 2018
  • Urban Action Showcase
    New York - USA
    Official Selection - Best Feature Screenplay - 2018
  • Independent Talent International Film Festival
    Boomington, Indiana, USA
    October 31, 2018
    Finalist - Best Feature Screenplay
  • HCF Screenplay Competition
    Hollywood
    semifinalist - Best Screenplay
Writer Biography - Matteo Valentini

Matteo Valentini (Vignola, MO, Italy - 16/11/1990) is an Italian screenwriter and director.

After leaving Italy for London, he studied screenwriting and film making for two years, where he also expanded his knowledge of the field by attending many filmmaking workshops at the famous Raindance school in London.

In 2017, Valentini sold his horror feature Acid Pit Stop (2019) to the Silent Studios company in Southend, UK, where the movie was shot under the direction of Jason Wright, and with the participation of Bruce Payne. The same year, Valentini wrote, directed, produced and performed in the multi-awarded comedy web series The Fridge: An Ugly Web Series (2017), available on YouTube in Italian language with English subtitles, and awarded for "Best Web Series of the Month" at the AAB Film Festival. In 2018, Valentini wrote, produced and directed the micro-short drama B-Love (2018), which brought him to win the award for Best Director in the Super Short Category - Fall 2018 at the Alternative Film Festival in Toronto.

Valentini is mainly an action-comedy filmmaker who focuses his stories on a quirky mix of night life, drugs, pulp and crime, in the vein of Crank, Ocean's Eleven or I Can Quit Whenver I Want. Thanks to his style, his two latest action-comedy scripts Tank Dust and We Just Need Some Money resulted finalists in many qualifying IMDB festivals such as The Monthly Film Festival, The Rome Prisma Awards and The Monkey Bread Tree Festival.

He is now looking for a production company interested in his projects We Just Need Some Money and Tank Dust. At the same time, he is writing one comedy and one horror sci-fi feature, all this while busy with the pre-production of his comedy short The Social Doctor (2019).

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Read someone's else book, watch someone's else movie, write your own story.