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Hi,

I’ve had a hand in writing four produced feature films, the most recent starring Ben Kingsley.

My prior feature film won Best Picture at the Monaco International Film Festival.

When I’m not on set, I write! I’ve written 10 complete, feature-length scripts that may interest you. The genres and loglines, and our bios and credits follow. Please let me know if you wish to see any of these scripts. If so, please provide your name, bio and credits.

Cheers,

Richard A. Lasser
310 990 5941

1. Suspense /thriller: THE STORE NEXT DOOR
Logline: When a troubled young couple, struggling to recover from the loss of their child, becomes ensnared in the dangerous world of human sex trafficking, they must choose whether to live for themselves or risk their lives to free a young mother and her little girl.

2. Romance/teenage: JACKING KATHERINE:
Logline; A college student loses everything over his obsession with an older woman

3. Family: SKY
Logline: Sky, a magnificent white stallion, helps a 10-year old girl believe in herself, win the show jumping championships and save the family farm.

4. Action: BLACK AND WHITE
Logline: Two cousins – one, a cop, the other a gangster – battle to the finish in oil-rich Calgary.

5. Action/drama: SULTAN
Logline: A young black man must decide between a singing career and a sports career. But his options are limited when his mother dies and he goes to jail.

6. Drama: BALD
Logline: Two women take a sometimes tragic, sometimes tragically funny cross country trip and find the destination is within.

7. Drama: MADE IN FRANCE
Logline: When a young man falls in love with a prostitute, she teaches him that love means sacrifice.

8. Drama Thriller: THE CELLIST
Logline: Two high stakes smugglers think they’ve duped an unsuspecting street musician into being their mule. They’re dead wrong.

9. Drama Based on a True Story: ANDREA OPALENIK
Logline: An abused woman in her 40s, with a high school education works as a housecleaner and decides to change her life. So she becomes an MD.

10. Sci-fi: SIMON SAYS
Logline: When SIMON, a geeky teen, unwittingly creates a deadly computer game called “Simon Says”, his cyber-alter ego takes control of the entire town.

Biography and Credits of Richard A. Lasser
http://pro.imdb.com/name/nm1103773/
RICHARD A. LASSER is a produced screenwriter whose feature film, “The Chosen Few” was given the Award of Excellence for Features at the 2002 Berkeley Film Festival. Richard’s second feature film “The Counting House” is now in European distribution. His third feature film, “The Tricks of a Woman” won Best Picture at Monaco, 2008.
Richard is both a Chesterfield Writers Awards Semi-Finalist and a New Century Writers Awards Finalist for “Young Love.” Richard is the published author of two books and a former freelance journalist for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Food and Wine Magazine and many other publications.
Film Credits:
1. ‘The Chosen Few’, feature-length psychological thriller, produced by I VU Pictures. Writer and Co-Producer
2. “The Counting House”, feature-length psychological horror, produced by RAI Cinema, Italy. Writer. A writer-for-hire project.
3. “The Obedient Son”, short, war drama, Liberty Studios.
4. “I Scream”, short, dark comedy. Late Bloomer Films. Writer and Director
5. “The Tricks of Love” by Mutressa Movies, http://www.mutressamovies.com
In Production:
1. “Walking With the Enemy” Liberty Studios
Scripts Currently Optioned:
1. “Do No Harm”, optioned by Zephuros One Productions
Awards:
1. “The Chosen Few” Award of Excellence-Feature Category, Berkeley Film Festival, 2002; Official Selection Vancouver Island Film Festival, 2002
2. Chesterfield Writers Awards – Semi-Finalist
3. New Century Writers Awards – Finalist for “Young Love”
4. “Bedroom City” Official Selection for IFP Market 2006, No Borders Section.
Education, Training and Background:
B.A. University of Virginia, Double Major in English Honors and Russian Language and Literature
Postgraduate work, UCLA, Russian Studies
Robert McKee’s Story Structure graduate
John Truby’s Screenwriting graduate
Author of two books, (Great Vegetables From the Great Chefs and Great Desserts From the Great Chefs, for Chronicle Books. (under the pseudonym Baba S. Khalsa), numerous articles for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Food and Wine Magazine