[NEohioPAL] INDIE FILM MAKERS WANTED

[Joseph Bauer via NEohioPAL]

       “Teen Beat,” my truth-based, edgy drama, is available for
production. Please contact me at Joeybauer1967 at gmail.com if you would like
to read the screenplay with an eye on a collaboration.

     With a mixed gender and culturally diverse cast of nine, a single set
and a running time of 90 minutes, the story features a barrage of
in-your-face humor and pure provocation. Viewers, particularly ages 16 –
25, are in store for lots of bang for their buck with this one; it brazenly
holds absolutely nothing whatsoever sacred: family values, the law of the
land nor, especially, authority figures of all stripes.

     The action is set in a dayroom at Los Angeles County Juvenile Hall and
focuses on a very unique group therapy session, for which the closest
comparison is a no-rules-ultimate-fighting-cage-match, led by social worker
and aspiring movie cowboy, Mel Feinberg, 28, self-described as “a wise ass
on a short leash”.

     The rogues gallery consists of seven inmates, all of them age 17,
awaiting sentencing and quivering in a melodramatic display of mock fear of
Dr. Crabtree, Afr. Am., the facility’s director, staunch advocate of force
feeding her charges with the gospel by any means necessary.

     As a side bar, we are drawn into the kids’ compelling histories of
victimization and mind-blowing mayhem. Meet the boys and girls who might
have been you or yours; their pain has a long shelf life, and it demands to
be felt. With tongues and minds racing at warp speed and thoughts and
emotions jostling for position, they are aggressively sniffing out each
other’s identities like a newly formed pack of stray dogs. It will take
more than just a head pat and a treat to placate them, as pied piper Mel
quickly learns the hard way.

     Imagine the fair-haired chosen ones,
Disneyesque-all-American-magazine-cover-adolescent boys and manic pixy
girls, with their sparkling eyes, peaches and cream complexions and teeth
pristine enough to make an orthodontist do cartwheels. Then picture them as
traumatized, enraged, armed and dangerous, and you’ll start to see our
flawed wild bunch’s selfie with all of its scary and exhilarating
brightness come into focus.

     My other work includes the play, “On the Wall,” an urban drama,
presented by L.A.’s Barnsdal Gallery Theatre. In addition, “Hotel
California,” my psychological thriller, and “Hollywood Cowboy,” my comedy,
- (both read at Cleveland’s Ensemble Theatre) – put my stamp on a multitude
of theater patrons’ must-see lists.

     It would be a great honor for me to have you bring “Teen Beat” to life
and witness the conflicted Mel, tyrannical Dr. Crabtree and the acapella
choir of wayward youth, their hip-hop dreams of glory, glamour and gold
still intact, get their day in the sun.

     Thank you for your interest and very best wishes for continued success.



                                               Cheers,



                                            Joey Bauer
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