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A Rogue in Londinium

A Rogue in Londinium tackles the moral dilemma of sensationalizing crime through the media. It introduces the birth of cinema, the exploitation of the film medium as truth and the impact the newspapers had on the public at the time of the Jack the Ripper murders. Richard Rhys, a painter with a checkered past and insatiable hedonism finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Because he is recorded having a row with a prostitute and subsequently killing her on this new innovation called film his guilt is sealed in the public’s eyes. The women around him are powerful even in Victorian times. The gender roles seem to reverse as the story progresses and the heroine, Victoria Thornton, a wealthy London socialite rescues Richard from certain arrest and execution by arranging his escape to New York City. Because she loves him she believes in his innocence..... Click Here for More


Union : A Feature Film by Whitney Hamilton : Based on the book FireflyUNION

Grace Kieler takes on her brother Henry’s identity to fight in the Civil War. She promises to call on Virginia, the woman who saved her life. When she is reunited with her step-sister, Georgianna, they continue to move and fight with the Confederate army in order to survive. When her sister is shot, Grace finds post-war life difficult. She chooses to continue living as a man returning to and marrying Virginia Klaising. As Henry and Virginia work the land to keep from losing Virginia’s farm they find themselves falling in love. Grace retells the horror of how she had to kill her step-sister on the battlefields as an act of mercy. She goes in search of Georgianna’s son, Harrison. When she returns to Virginia with the child, together they find tenderness and companionship. Based on the novel “Firefly” by Whitney Hamilton..... Click Here for More



(In Development)
The Watchers

A Middle Eastern man, Sayeed, is being detained as a suspected terrorist in New York City. A young
biblical scholar, Liz has recurring apocalyptic dreams and notices crop circles in her fields. When she
seeks help from a recommended psychologist, Jeff Kane, she is unaware that he is working with the CIA to try and glean incriminating evidence about Sayeed before he is released. When Sayeed is set free, Jeff uses Liz to remote view, psychically spy, on Sayeed. But Sayeed becomes the voice of reason in a time of chaos, paranoia and suspicion. Liz realizes he is not a terrorist but that he is calling down the Watchers, alien beings from another place to help rescue humanity.


Mapping the In Between

A young literary professor, Lauren, falls for an acclaimed writer and man about town, Eric, after her marriage becomes stagnant due to her husband’s depression. At the same time a young homeless couple searches for a new house in upstate New York. The real estate agent takes pity on them and allows the lovers to stay for a few days in an empty home that is on the market, the prior occupants having died a few months before. Jumping back and forth between past, present and future the films examines the profound effect love and desire can have on the human heart.


Chasing DeKooning

1979 Lower East Side New York and Joe’s best friend, Chris, dates artist Willem DeKooning’s assistant, Ana. While in the Hamptons with Ana, Chris steals a painting from DeKooning’s studio bringing it back to the neighborhood and showing it to Joe. They hide it in Chris’ sister, Denise’s, basement. Flash forward to 1997 and Joe, down and out with a crappy job and no money, notices a news blurb that DeKooning has died. Joe reunites with his old flame Denise in an effort to find the painting, but the mob is after the same canvas and the race is on to find the art before the deadline for the Christies auction.