JBT – Contemporary dramedy about the joys and disappointments of a woman who volunteers at youth prisons in Chicago. Style reminiscent of Sorry to Bother You.
18502 Stedhall Road – An endearing family story revolving around ten-year-old Moe who takes over the family responsibilities when the mother is institutionalized.
Style reminiscent of In America.
Red Cent– An ex-con returns to his hometown to reopen a popular nightclub amidst the aftermath of his little brother’s successful embezzlement scheme from a local credit union.
Caution to the Wind – Screenplay based on Steve Schapiro’s B&W 1990 photo essay of Smith Schapiro (the 80s youngest rock singer) and DeAnna Eve, at the time engaged to Rikki Rockett from Poison.
Cocktails at the Castellana – Set in the turbulent sixties, a coming-of-age story about two Midwest coeds who quit college and go off to Europe to find love and adventure. They find adventure. Winner of the Zaki Gordon Award.
Apache – Pepe, the most notorious female gangster in Paris in the early 1900s and also renown dancer, meets an American cargo ship sailor who changes her life.
Where’s George? – A song and dance guy, burnt-out in a never-ending Broadway hit, finds himself stuck with a household of foster kids after his humanitarian wife unexpectedly leaves.
Raging Mom – The story of Annie, a neighborhood mom of two, who revenges her husband’s betrayal and finds her own self-worth by becoming a professional boxer.
Off Sunset – Former TV personality now lives in a modest apartment in Hollywood. Due to the adulation of the impressionable complex manager, she is always a star.
Peer Listener – As a group of Catholic high school students in the early aughts approach graduation, they grapple with changing friendships, moral letdowns, and their identity as Catholics in the world outside their bubble.
The books that are in the works are…
Steve Schapiro - Jazz Classics: Bill Evans, Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Rollins
Julia Rode – Contemporary Teen Life
Steve Schapiro and Theophilus Donoghue - Photo story of famed Christian social activist Shane Claiborne and The Simple Way intentional community
Steve Schapiro – New York 1960 to 1970