I am a screnwriter with a completed a feature length period action/horror screenplay that is set in Vermont, and I am looking for a producer and/or production company that would like to purchase and produce it.

“Suagothel” is set in Vermont in 1759 during the French and Indian War and centers on a company of Rogers Rangers (America’s first Special Forces) sent on a raid under the temporary command of a British officer whose brother was tortured and killed by the Indians a year earlier.  This officer is bent on revenge that is leading him slowly toward madness. After traveling many miles into enemy territory and destroying a French arms cache destined for Indian raiders, the victorious group must now return home. Their British officer chooses a route through a place where the natives will not go, a place called Suagothel. The Indians do not follow them into Suagothel and the Rangers think themselves safe in a land where they discover that “a whisper is more terrifying than a scream and shadows even more so than the things which cast them,”* a land where the sun won’t rise but the dead will. As the survivors run for their lives and their torches fade, the shadows of the dead crash upon them like waves on a beach.

Based on actual historic events, “Suagothel” was recently chosen for Central Productions and Grub Street’s “Screenwriters Salon” series.  The audience response was very much in favor of seeing the story on the big screen. Although a period piece, it is not a budget buster. The majority of the film is set in the wilderness, and, if shot in Vermont, there are existing historical sites that are available for shooting, as well as qualifying for the state’s incentive programs. Historically correct reenactors are available for both period military and civilian background performers.

I make my living as a professional actor and historical casting consultant (and occasional associate producer). As a writer, I was recently nominated for a New England Emmy Award, and a documentary that I co-wrote, "Partnership Runs Deep," was selected exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution’s Oceans Hall.  My romantic comedy script “Toast” took top honors at the Woods Hole Film Festival and was a phase 3 semifinalist in Bravo TV’s “Situation Comedy,” and my sitcom pilot script, “Passing the Bar” came in second in the International Family Film Festival Competition. My dark comedy “The Resurrectionists” was a quarterfinalist in the Page International Screenwriting Awards and in the top 10% in the Austin International Film Festival Screenplay Competition. My documentary baseball script “Bare Handed Champions” was recently optioned by Black Shark Films for production for PBS American Experience.  I am currently developing two reality show concepts with producer Andre Stark, one for PBS and one for network.

A copy of the script is available on request.

Sincerely,

Duncan B. Putney

Duncan@duncanputney.com

* Colonel Sir Estes Henderson, Memoirs of the War in America, London 1765