In
handy Feature/Television/Short order, scripts that aren't already downloadable are available on request. The list is not exhaustive - some commission projects cannot be listed for contractual reasons.
FEATURES
Home Security
(2007; working title; commissioned)
When the blackmail video of a powerful security contractor falls into the hands of a down-and-out film director, the fate of a country's civil rights is in the hands of a man on the brink of suicide.
Script development by D F Mamea, based on an idea by David Blyth.
Hooked
(2007; commissioned)
One woman's journey of discovery through sex, lust, power and death.
Based on a true story.
Script development by D F Mamea for ILA Films.
Amatu
(2005; in limbo with Headstrong)
Previously A
Japanese Werewolf in Auckland - with an early title like
that, what more can I say? Later drafts - evinced by the new title -
turned it into more of an indigenous horror film.
Screenplay by
D F Mamea, based on a story by Ignacio Cervio, D F Mamea and
Glenn Elliott.
Professional
(2003; spec)
A thriller about a man whose past catches up with
him in more ways than he expected. A loose sequel to Amateur - I wanted
to see where the characters would be ten or fifteen years down the
track. I'm sentimental like that.
Pandemonium
(2003; commissioned)
A psycho-sexual erotic
thriller. My first paid gig straight after South
Seas. It made the Headstrong
short-list in 2005.
Screenplay by
D F Mamea, based on a story by David Blyth.
Amateur
(2002; spec)
An action thriller in which an action-film junkie has to
step up - and be a hero.
TELEVISION
Hoatata
(2004; in development)
Aotearoa in microcosm: the lives and times of various families
in the fictional
South Auckland suburb of Tapanui. Created by Orlando
Stewart (Wayne Anderson:
Singer of Songs, 2006; Brent Hayward: Love is a
Painkiller, 2003). Developed to pilot script and first
season outline.
Created by
Orlando Stewart; written by D F Mamea and Orlando Stewart.
House of Brown
(2005; spec)
A look at
psychiatrists' loves, lives and work with a Sopranos twist.
Created with
Amarbir Singh (1nite,
2004) and Glenn Elliott (Wayne
Anderson: Singer
of Songs, 2006). Developed to pilot script and first
season
storyline
stage.
Created by
Amarbir Singh, Glenn Elliott and D F Mamea; written by D F Mamea.
SHORTS
Samaritan
(2004)
The Bible parable is given a distinct Samoan (and Catholic) spin.
The Nearness of You (2003)
A journalist and professor talk about belief and perception in a den of iniquity. An attempt to fuse a Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald classic with Neil Gaiman Sandman- and Eddie Campbell Deadface-inspired mythology.
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