ScreenPLays and book by Kathaleen Brewer

SHORTS:   

The Tattoos:      Drama (Short Film) 

Logline: When a Southern pizza parlor owner, whose life has been a train wreck, imparts her wisdom and rules on a shy young lady seeking a job, she discovers they have similar hidden tattoos for similar reasons.

 Award: 2014 Semi-Finalist Kansas City FilmFest Short Screenplays

FEATURE LENGTH Screenplays

The Cuyama Rodeo        Drama * Modern Western *  Romance

A young woman loses her horse in bankruptcy, then destitute, finds a job in Santa Barbara where she meets a man who charters a sailboat. Coming from such disparate lifestyles, a relationship seems futile.  Especially after she steals her horse back and heads for the Wyoming ranch where she grew up.  But he is not a man who gives up easily. 

Award:  Winner of the 1989 Writer's Guild of America, East, for a Novice Screenplay Writer

Riding With the Boys      Indie * Dirt bikes * Escapism

When a single, popular model starts wanting a child, she tries to figure out what type of man would make the best father.  She concludes there is no perfect man, but her top three choices are school buddies she used to ride dirtbikes with in the desert. So she sets up a vacation with all of them in Baja. 

Award: First Place in Santa Barbara Screen Writers Association, 1989 Honorable Mention, Writers Digest, Scripts 

The Valedictorian:           Action ⋄ Crime ⋄ Film Noir

Logline: A mysterious drug lord abducts a beautiful Georgia farm girl after observing her deliver a Valedictorian speech on YouTube because she embodies the DNA he wants for his future children. Only he’s not prepared for her survival skills or her Vietnam Vet grandmother’s cavalry. 

Awards: 2014 – Semi-Finalist CineStory Awards 2017- Top ten finalist Stage 32 Feature Film Awards, Finalist National Screenwriters Awards, Finalist Inroads Screenwriting Fellowships; 2018 Finalist Peachtree Village International FilmFest Awards, Best of 2018 StoryPitches Action Thriller, Honorable Mention, Los Angles Film Awards, Finalist Artemis Women in Film Awards. 

Raven's Oath:         Historical Drama 1940S * Based on a True Story * American Indian 

Logline: A poverty-stricken American Indian girl (Chocktaw) promises herself that one day she will own a home without the help of either a bank or a man, both of which she has learned not to trust. 

Award: 2018 Semi-Finalist CWA (Creative World) Drama and Family

Jo Shelby's Last March:          Adventure ⋄ Historical Bio Pic ⋄ True Story * Post Civil War

Logline: At the end of the Civil War, an undefeated Confederate general leads Southern statesmen and officers deep into Mexico to start over, only Mexico is embroiled in a civil war of its own against the French. When "Death to the Gringo's" rings out, it ironically means his white skin makes him a target.  

Awards: 2015 Quarter Finalist Creative World Awards (CWA) and Nicholl Fellowships  Semi-Finalist; 2018   Fade In Annual Awards - True Biopic

   Déjà Voodoo:   ROM-COM 

Logline: After crossing paths in the ER, a busted-up over-the-hill biker must convince his female emergency room doctor that she was once his lover in another century and stop her from making the same mistakes she did a long time ago. 

Award: 2015 Grand Prize for new writer- American Movie Awards

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished:   Family Drama ⋄  Opioid Epidemic * Bikers

Logline: A divorced real estate agent gives up everything to save her teen surfing champion son's baby from its drug addict  mother and a flawed Child Protective Service.    (never submitted)

No Name Annie      (Rewrite of The Cuyama Rodeo script)  *   Contemporary Western Drama *        Thriller * Romance

Logline: Ann wants to know why she was left as a toddler on a remote Wyoming ranch, but the Shoshone foreman won't tell her because he knows the answers will get her killed. 

Awards:   2021 Blue Cat Annual Screen Writer’s Contest - Quarter Finalist  

NOVEL

TIES THAT CAN'T BE BROKEN   

A gritty novel about a young lady who was left as a toddler on a remote cattle ranch in northern Wyoming. She’s nicknamed Annie, after Little Orphan Annie. Kicking Horse Joe, the ex-con Shoshone foreman of Three Bars takes her in, being the only one who knows the dark reason why she’s out there. From childhood on, Annie is told if she leaves the ranch, an evil spirit named Two-Faces will rip her apart and eat her. She feels betrayed when Joe talks a cattle-buying rancher up from Santa Ynez, California, named Digget, into hiring her and taking her back with him. Unbeknownst to her, she’s been sent off because Two-Faces (who is a man) is back in the area, and if he should see her, he will kill her as he did her parents.

She and Fireball prove themselves top cowpunchers in their new home, but socially she is at a disadvantage, never having been around people outside of Three Bars. Since first seeing Annie, Digget has daydreamed of her riding beside him and helping him run his ranch, the same as his parents once did. Finally, that dream comes to fruition. Only an ongoing California drought drives the ranch into bankruptcy, causing Annie to lose her beloved horse and her husband to fall into debilitating depression. Alone and destitute, she finds a job in Santa Barbara where she meets Tyler who charters his sailboat. He bonds with Annie because he sees a person grappling with a gut-wrenching loss, same as him. When Annie steals her horse back at a rodeo and hightails it to Wyoming, he goes after her. 

A fugitive from the law, she draws the attention of the very person she has been hidden from her whole life. Mayhem and death follow. Tyler tries to save her, but there is no escape, even at sea. It is up to her alone to face her worst nightmare, the unhinged Two-Faces, and survive.