Screenwriting and Film Production

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Japanese For Baseball – Feature

Historical Drama Feature Script • 109 pages

written by Ray Keller

TAGLINE: He wanted to play baseball; they wanted to be treated like the Americans they were.

LOGLINE:

During World War II, when a shy teenager recruits boys from a nearby Japanese internment camp to fill out his baseball team’s roster, he angers the town’s racist mayor and endangers all the boys’ families. (Inspired by actual events)


Accolades:

Academy Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting – Semifinalist (2018)

PAGE International Screenwriting Awards – Winner, Bronze Prize (2021)

ScreenCraft True Story Screenplay CompetitionFinalist (2021)

Austin Film Festival Drama Feature Screenplay Competition – 2nd Rounder (2023 & 2024)

Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards – Semifinalist (2024 & 2025)

Emerging Screenwriters Screenplay Competition – Semifinalist (2025)

Wiki Screenplay Contest – Finalist (2025)

Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards | Season 10 – Semifinalist (2025)

Competition Feedback:

This script has a heartwarming sense of magic to it. It successfully delves into timeless themes regarding family, death, grief, truth versus deceit, illusion versus reality, race, ethnicity, discrimination, underdogs, community, justice, teamwork and sportsmanship.” — JUDGE, ACADEMY NICHOLL FELLOWSHIPS IN SCREENWRITING


The Astrologer – Feature

Historical Biopic Drama Feature Script • 120 pages

written by Ray Keller & Richard Schmidt

LOGLINE:

 

In the early 1900s, when a young woman who has become America’s first famous astrologer is arrested for fortune-telling, she must overcome society’s opposition to astrology and prove its value in court or be banned from practicing her craft. (A True Story)


Accolades:

Portland Screenplay Awards Finalist (2021)

ScreenCraft Feature Competition – Quarterfinalist (2022 & 2023)

The Script Lab Screenplay Contest – Semifinalist (2023)

Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition – 2nd Rounder (2021 & 2022 & 2024)

ScreenCraft Feature Competition – Semifinalist (2024)

Academy Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting – Quarterfinalist (2024)

Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards – Semifinalist (2024 & 2025)

Stage 32 Period Piece Screenwriting Contest – Semifinalist (2025)

Emerging Screenwriters Drama Screenplay Competition – Semifinalist (2025)

Stage 32 Female Driven Screenwriting Contest – Semifinalist (2025)

Competition Feedback:

Armed with quick-cutting scenes and the incredible journey of Evangeline Adams – both as the US’s first prominent astrologer and as an entrepreneurial woman ahead of her time – this script quickly builds momentum and doesn’t relent until the final pages.” – JUDGE, AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL 2021

Original and evocative!” – JUDGE, ACADEMY NICHOLL FELLOWSHIPS IN SCREENWRITING 2022

With its topical, yet timeless, focus on astrology (a subject that hasn’t been explored like this in film before), THE ASTROLOGER is a highly engaging real-life story that’s able to shed light on one of the country’s first famous astrologers, and the cultural backlash she received.” – JUDGE, THE BLACKLIST 2023


Better Off Undead – Feature

Horror/Thriller/Comedy Feature Script • 106 pages

written by Ray Keller

LOGLINE:

When a nerd in need of a liver transplant travels to his ancestral home of Transylvania to find a donor, he instead meets a beautiful vampiress and realizes he has another option: BECOME UNDEAD…


Accolades:

Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition – 2nd Rounder (2015)

Shockfest Horror Screenplay Competition – Official Selection (2022)

HorrOrigins Film Festival – Official Selection (2023)

Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition – Semifinalist (2023)

Horror2Comic Screenplay Competition – Finalist (2024)

Filmmatic Horror Screenplay Awards Season 9 – Semifinalist (2025)

Competition Feedback:

Visual storytelling is crafted well, and there’s a nice twist.” – TERRY ZINNER

 

 


The Ballerina of Dresden – Feature

War/Drama/Thriller Feature Script • 95 pages

written by Ray Keller

LOGLINE:

 In World War II Germany, a promising teen ballerina prepares to escape to the West, but when her widowed mother marries a pedophile Nazi SS officer, she must postpone her dreams to keep her younger sister safe. (Inspired by actual events).


Accolades:

Stage 32 Female Driven Screenwriting Contest – Semifinalist (2023 & 2025)

PAGE International Screenwriting Awards – Quarterfinalist (2024 & 2025)

Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards | Season 10 – Quarterfinalist (2025)

Stage 32 Period Piece Screenwriting Contest, Season 2 – Semifinalist (2025)

Emerging Screenwriters Drama Screenplay Competition – Semifinalist (2025)

Competition Feedback:

A festival-ready historical drama with strong potential for awards recognition and a lasting emotional impact. — JUDGE – Wiki Screenplay Contest | July 2025  

 


Birds of a Feather – Feature

Adventure/Comedy Feature Script • 99 pages

written by Ray Keller & Heather Marburgh

LOGLINE:

When a woman receives an envelope with her missing husband’s driver’s license and a feather, she enlists a wacky bird expert to join her in her search to, of all places… Mongolia.


Accolades:

Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition – 2nd Rounder (2024)

Stage 32 Comedy Feature Screenwriting Contest – Quarterfinalist (2025)

Wiki Screenplay Contest – Finalist (2025)

Competition Feedback:

The whole film is just really fun. It benefits from not taking itself seriously at all. That said, there’s a certain meticulousness to it as well. Ridiculous, in the best possible way.” — JUDGE – Blue Cat Screenplay Competition — 2025

 


The One Percent – TV Pilot

Dystopian Drama (one-hour) TV Pilot Script • 58 pages

written by Ray Keller & Richard Schmidt

LOGLINE:

In a dystopian near-future, Cali, daughter of a wealthy businessman, enjoys a privileged life inside a walled city, home of the richest “One Percent”, but when she falls in love with a poor trumpet player and sneaks outside the wall to be with him, she uncovers her ambitious father’s sinister plan to maintain their status and now must stop him from destroying lives on both sides of their unequal world.


Accolades:

The Script Lab Screenwriting Contest – Semifinalist (2020)

Portland Screenplay Awards Finalist (2021)

Shore Scripts TV Pilot Contest – Quarterfinalist (2022)

Stage32 – Television Drama Screenwriting Contest – Semifinalist (2023)

Austin Film Festival Drama Teleplay Pilot Screenplay Competition – 2nd Rounder (2023)

Emerging Screenwriters Screenplay Competition – Quarterfinalist (2024)

Final Draft Big Break Screenplay Contest – Quarterfinalist (2024)

Filmmatic Inroads Fellowship | Season 7 – Quarterfinalist (2024)

Competition Feedback:

THE ONE PERCENT is a timely and killingly possible prediction for our current times; in many ways, the themes and world echo A HANDMAID’S TALE in its not-quite-sci-fi reality.” – JUDGE, AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL

 


Our Ugly Baby – Feature

Action/Comedy Feature Script • 98 pages

Written by Ray Keller

LOGLINE:

A beautiful, fame-obsessed pregnant couple signs their unborn baby to star in a blockbuster Hollywood film, but when the baby’s born hideously ugly, they kidnap the beautiful baby of dangerous arms dealers.


Accolades:

ScreenCraft Comedy Screenplay Competition – Quarterfinalist (2016)

WeScreenplay Feature Lab ContestSemifinalist (2021)

Stage 32 Female Driven Screenwriting Contest – Quarterfinalist (2024)

Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition – 2nd Rounder (2016 & 2019 & 2020 & 2024)

Emerging Screenwriters Comedy Screenplay Competition – Quarterfinalist (2025)

Stage 32 Comedy Feature Screenwriting Contest – Semifinalist (2025)

Competition Feedback:

A very fresh, entertaining story… a non-stop action-adventure road movie that feels like a Farrelly Brothers production, lots of insanity, irony and a heartwarming conclusion.” — JUDGE, AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL

 


The Miracle Squad – TV Pilot

One-Hour Drama/Comedy Procedural TV Pilot Script • 49 pages

written by Ray Keller

LOGLINE:

When potential miracles happen, the Catholic Church sends in the Miracle Squad, led by a mentally unstable priest, with a fad-loving, skeptical female scientist and a super-hip young tech-genius nun. Their task of proving miracles, some ludicrous, some serious, gets more complicated when the squad’s Cardinal boss, a luxury-loving pope-wannabe, allows an anti-religion writer/philosopher to tag along.


Accolades:

ScreenCraft TV Pilot Script Competition – Quarterfinalist (2023)

Stage 32 TV Comedy Screenwriting Contest – Quarterfinalist (2023)

Austin Film Festival Comedy Teleplay Pilot Screenplay Competition – 2nd Rounder (2023)

AMC Networks – One-Hour Pilot Award (2023)

Filmmatic TV Pilot Awards | Season 9 – Quarterfinalist (2024)

ScreenCraft Comedy Competition – Semifinalist (2024)

Competition Feedback:

“There’s a surreal streak to the comedy that works really well to define the tone of the world.” – JUDGE, SCREENCRAFT TV PILOT SCRIPT COMPETITIONS

 


Love in the Multiverse – Feature

Romantic Comedy/Sci-Fi Feature Script • 110 pages

written by Ray Keller

LOGLINE:

A lovelorn female scientist invents a machine to travel into the multiverse and uses it to pick through her possible lives to find her one true love.


Accolades:

Stage 32 Romantic Comedy Screenwriting Contest – Quarterfinalist (2024)

Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition – 2nd Rounder (2023 & 2024)

PAGE International Screenwriting Awards – Quarterfinalist (2025)

Stage 32 Romantic Comedy Screenwriting Contest – Semifinalist (2025)

Competition Feedback:

A very fun concept! Anything with time/multiverse travel is very engaging for audiences and draws us in immediately.” – JUDGE, ROMANCE & RELATIONSHIPS FESTIVAL 2022

 

 


A Chick in the Cockpit – Feature

Drama/Biopic Feature Script • 107 pages

written by Ray Keller & Erika Armstrong

based on the novel by Erika Armstrong

LOGLINE:

 

The true story of one of the country’s first female airline captains who fights sexism and egos of the airline industry only to be blindsided by a false accusation that takes away her child and career.


Accolades:

ScriptMatix True Story Screenwriting Contest – Semifinalist (2023)

Austin Film Festival Drama Feature Screenplay Competition – 2nd Rounder (2023)

Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards – Quarterfinalist (2023 & 2025)

Emerging Screenwriters Drama Screenplay Competition – Quarterfinalist (2024)

Big Apple Film Festival and Screenplay Competition – Semifinalist (2024)

Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Contest – Quarterfinalist (2025)

Wiki Screenplay Contest – Finalist (2025)

Competition Feedback:

The author uses crisp, visceral description to make the audience feel like they are right there in the cockpit with Erika, whether she’s executing a daring emergency landing or soaring free above the clouds.” – JUDGE, BIG BREAK SCREENWRITING CONTEST – 2024

 


National Insecurity – Feature

Action/Comedy Feature Script • 100 pages

written by Ray Keller

LOGLINE:

A neurotic NSA agent illegally uses spy data to win back her ex-boyfriend, but somehow, the NSA now thinks he’s a real terrorist and that she’s gone rogue, and they send their top assassin to kill them both.


 

Accolades:

Austin Film Festival Pitch Competition – Finalist (2014)

Wiki Screenplay Contest – Semifinalist (2020)

ScreenCraft Action & Adventure Competition – Quarterfinalist (2021)

Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition – 2nd Rounder (2024)

Wiki Screenplay Contest – Finalist (2025)

Competition Feedback:

This was a fun script, reminiscent of movies like SPY and THE SPY WHO DUMPED ME.” — JUDGE, AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL

 


Mr. Sabotage – Feature

Action/Dark Comedy Feature Script • 107 pages

written by Ray Keller & Richard Schmidt

LOGLINE:

When a rival dies in a copy-machine-sex accident, a naïve employee is mistaken for a ruthless killer—and suddenly, every power-hungry manager wants him on their team.


Accolades:

ScreenCraft Comedy Screenplay Competition – Quarterfinalist (2017 & 2018)

Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition – 2nd Rounder (2018 & 2020)

The Script Lab Screenwriting Contest – Quarterfinalist (2020)

Portland Screenwriting Awards – Quarterfinalist (2022)

ScreenCraft Comedy Screenplay Competition – Quarterfinalist (2024)

Competition Feedback:

“Our readers really loved how strong this script’s voice is. The creativity in this piece really made it stand out!” – JUDGE, AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL

 


The One Percent – Feature

Dystopian Drama Feature Script • 117 pages

written by Ray Keller & Richard Schmidt

LOGLINE:

Inside a walled city of the wealthiest “One Percent,” a sheltered heiress falls for a rebellious outside musician, and when she escapes to his world, she uncovers her father’s sinister plan, forcing her to choose between love, loyalty, and revolution.


Accolades:

Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition – 2nd Rounder (2018)

Wiki Screenplay ContestSemifinalist (2020)

Table Read My Screenplay Genre Competition – Top 100 (2020)

ScreenCraft Action & Adventure Competition – Semifinalist (2021)

Portland Screenplay AwardsFinalist (2022)

Emerging Screenwriters Screenplay Competition – Quarterfinalist (2024)

Competition Feedback:

The script excels in its world-building, creating an unsettling future world that sets itself apart from similar concepts through its specific rules of the world, characters, and vivid images.”  – THE SCRIPT LAB SCREENPLAY CONTEST

 

Bait and Switch – Feature

Action/Comedy Feature Script • 109 pages

written by Ray Keller & Richard Schmidt

LOGLINE:

 

When the FBI kidnaps a bored home-baker mistaken for a drug kingpin’s missing girlfriend, she must go full spy to outwit the Feds and the cartel before she’s iced like one of her cupcakes.


Accolades:

Portland Screenplay Awards – Quarterfinalist (2022)

ScreenCraft Action & Adventure Competition – Quarterfinalist (2023)

Emerging Screenwriters Drama Screenplay Competition – Quarterfinalist (2024)

Stage 32 Comedy Feature Screenwriting Competition – Quarterfinalist (2025)

Competition Feedback:

“It is rare indeed to get to laugh out loud multiple times in just one script.” – JUDGE, SCREENCRAFT ACTION & ADVENTURE CONTEST 2023

 


The Astrologer – Short

Drama Short Script • 6 pages

written by Ray Keller & Richard Schmidt

LOGLINE:

In the early 1900s, a young woman comes to New York City to be an Astrologer, but just as her money is about to run out, she does a reading for her hotel owner, which comes true when the hotel burns to the ground. (A True Story).


Accolades:

Outstanding Screenplays Shorts Competition – Semifinalist (2024)

Filmmatic Short Screenplay Awards | Season 9 – Quarterfinalist (2024)

Outstanding Screenplays Shorts Competition – Quarterfinalist (2025)

Filmmatic Short Screenplay Awards | Season 10 – Semifinalist (2025)

 


Karma – Short

Drama Short Script • 8 pages

written by Ray Keller & Richard Schmidt

LOGLINE:

A woman realizes a boy in town looks familiar, so she runs over his bicycle.


Accolades:

Portland Screenplay Awards Finalist (2021)

HollyShorts Screenwriting Competition – Quarterfinalist (2022)

Filmmatic Short Screenplay Awards | Season 9 – Semifinalist (2024)

Outstanding Screenplays Shorts Competition – Quarterfinalist (2025)

Competition Feedback:

“A very fascinating story with a nice set of high stakes, intrigue, and mystery.” – JUDGE – SLAMDANCE 2021

 


The Astrologer – Limited Series

A Ten-Part Historical Biopic Drama Limited Series

Episode 1 Script • 54 pages

written by Ray Keller & Richard Schmidt

LOGLINE:

In the early 1900s, when a young woman who has become America’s first famous astrologer is arrested for fortune-telling, she must overcome society’s opposition to astrology and prove its value in court or be banned from practicing her craft. (A True Story)


Accolades:

Portland Screenplay Awards Quarterfinalist (2022)

Filmmatic TV Pilot Awards | Season 9 – Semifinalist (2024)

ScreenCraft TV Pilot Screenwriting CompetitionQuarterfinalist (2025)

Competition Feedback:

“It’s a fun premise and could certainly work as a television series.” – JUDGE, BARNSTORM FEEDBACK LOOP


Broken Badges – Feature

Crime/Thriller Feature Script • 105 pages

written by Ray Keller & L.C. Graves

LOGLINE:

When a traumatized rookie homicide detective uncovers evidence of a serial killer in a Girl Scout Troop, she must risk her life and what’s left of her tattered reputation to stop the next murder.


Accolades:

Stage 32 Female Driven Screenwriting Contest – Semifinalist (2024)

Competition Feedback:

Combining a dark character study with a quirky murder mystery, this script features a unique blend of narrative elements.” – JUDGE, SCREENPLAY READERS 2018


Stone Circles – Feature

Fantasy/Action/Thriller Feature Script • 88 pages

written by Ray Keller & Tamar Armoni

LOGLINE:

When a demure woman suffering from bizarre visions takes a spontaneous trip to Scotland, she discovers an ancient artifact that gives her powers that she must use to unveil a conspiracy that could enslave the world.


Accolades:

Wiki Screenplay Contest – Semifinalist (2020)

Competition Feedback:

The concept of this script is very intriguing and mysterious in a way that does a very good job of drawing the audience in.” – JUDGE, WIKI SCREENPLAY CONTEST

“It’s a fascinating premise and an engaging story. Well done!” – JUDGE, BARNSTORM MEDIA FEEDBACK LOOP 2022


Karma – Feature

Drama Feature Script • 95 pages

written by Ray Keller & Richard Schmidt

LOGLINE:

When a woman realizes a boy in town looks familiar, she runs over his bicycle to find out if he knows what only her dead husband knew… where he buried their life savings.


Competition Feedback:

The script is original and memorable in its concept. – WE SCREENPLAY CONTEST


Generosity – Feature

Produced Feature Drama Film • 119 minutes

Written by Ray Keller & Richard Schmidt & Carmen Sasser

LOGLINE:

How close is anyone to homelessness? David loses everything; teenage runaway Chloe does what she can to survive; old Sam shows them the ropes; TV reporter Charlotte tries to help; corporate president Bob hates the homeless. As their stories intertwine, who’s begging, dependent or good starts to blur until all hell breaks loose.


Accolades:

Official Selection at First Take Film Festival (2008)

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