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 * Contemporary 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 decides she wants a child, she tries to figure out what type of man would make the best father.  She concludes that there is no perfect man, but her top three choices are old-school buddies she used to ride dirt bikes 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 turns him into 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 answer will get her killed. 

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

NOVEL

THE HIDDEN ONE

(Not yet published)

PITCH:   

Annie, a cowgirl abandoned as a toddler, wants to know who she is and why Two-Face, a man named after an evil Indian spirit, wants to kill her. She’s raised on a remote ranch by its foreman, an ex-con Shoshoni, and four other reclusive cowhands. When Two Face returns, she’s sent away, and into a life she didn’t choose – drought, marriage, and bankruptcy that causes the loss of her beloved horse. When the opportunity presents itself, she steals her horse back and hightails it to Wyoming. A horse-theft BOLO, a buried eyewitness statement, and a single Polaroid ignite the fury of Two-Face himself—the man who murdered Annie’s mother to gain control of a ranch Annie unknowingly is heir to. On a killing spree, Two-Face tracks Annie to the coast, culminating in the sinking of her new soulmate’s sailboat at sea, where Annie alone must stop the man who has erased everyone she’s loved…before he erases her.

QUERY:

The Hidden One is a contemporary, gritty novel that blends the emotional depth of women’s fiction with the suspense of a thriller, anchored by a compelling romance. Complete at 100,000 words, the story has the atmospheric elements of Yellowstone cowboying, the underserved characters and cultural disparities of Annie Proulx’s Close Range, and the psychological thriller tension of Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men, along with the ruinous effects of global warming and grievances against U.S. military engagements. It’s a story about becoming whole and owning your power in a world where you don’t know who you are.

After toddler Annie is abandoned on a remote cattle ranch in Northern Wyoming, Three Bars, she is raised by an ex-con foreman, Joe Kicking Horse, along with five reclusive cowboys, one white, the rest Shoshoni. Joe alone harbors the dark secret of why she was left there, while Annie aches for the answer. He gives her a horse named Fireball and raises her as a working hand, warning her that if she ever leaves, the Indian folklore evil spirit, Two-Face, will kill her.

When a cattle-buying rancher named Digget from Santa Ynez, California, arrives, Joe convinces him to take Annie along for her safety because the man, Two-Face, who murdered her parents, has returned—but Joe can't tell her any of that. If she were to start asking questions or tries to go after Two-Face, she risks being murdered as well, since, unbeknownst to anyone outside of Joe, she is the heir to a vast ranch with oil that the killer acquired through underhanded means. Annie leaves feeling betrayed by Joe, still not knowing who she is or who Two-Face is.

In Santa Ynez, Annie comes to terms with her disadvantages; she is unaware of relationship norms, has no last name or identification, and has no schooling. Infatuated, Digget persuades her to marry him and help him run his ranch. But the ongoing drought causes him to lose the ranch to bankruptcy, and he sinks into a debilitating depression. Annie suddenly finds herself alone, penniless, and heartbroken over the auction sale of her beloved horse, Fireball.

Desperate for work, Annie ends up at a Santa Barbara wharf. Tyler Pope, a man who lost two brothers overseas, charters the sailboat he lives on and is unwittingly drawn into her dilemma. When she learns Fireball is at a local rodeo, she decides to steal her and disappears. Tyler, feeling their souls are connected, drives to Wyoming to look for her after being told by Digget about Two-Face. Unbeknownst to either of them, the BOLO on her alerts the deranged Two-Face. Mayhem and death follow. Tyler tries to keep her safe, but there is no escape, even at sea. Annie must confront Two-Face on her own and survive.