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screenwriting

This page hosts a number of screenwriting samples written by Lara Hill.
The samples include both original screenplays of which she is the sole writer and
other scripts that she has written as either part of a team or as script doctor.


Steeples

SUMMARY:
Two years after coming out as a trans woman, an ex-pastor travels from south Louisiana across Texas to start her life over in Colorado. As she stops to photograph the churches she sees along her route, she finds the remnants of her faith and the work of a pastor inescapable.

GENRE: DRAMA

LENGTH: 97 PAGES

FORMAT: feature FILM

AUTHOR(S): LARA HILL

STATUS: in development


SUMMARY:
A married couple’s intimate celebratory date night is derailed when the wife lets the wrong name slip out during sex.

GENRE: ROMANTIC DRAMA

LENGTH: 17 PAGES

FORMAT: SHORT FILM

AUTHOR(S): LARA HILL

STATUS: Pre-production

 
 

HOW DO I TELL YOU THIS

SUMMARY:
Two long-time internet friends - Ted, the hometown artist, and Liz, a globe-hopping humanitarian. On the night of his gallery opening, on a river that goes nowhere, they meet for the first time. Neither one knows that the other loves them.

GENRE: ROMANTIC DRAMA

LENGTH: 17 PAGES

FORMAT: SHORT FILM

AUTHOR(S): LARA HILL

STATUS: PRODUCED & RELEASEd


PROMISES OF SNOW

SUMMARY:
An FBI agent arrives in a small Louisiana town to investigate a sex trafficking ring, prompted by the arrest of a girl whose situation seems terribly familiar.

GENRE: crime drama

LENGTH: 16 PAGES

FORMAT: SHORT FILM

AUTHOR(S): LARA HILL

STATUS: PRODUCED & RELEASEd


Invitation

SUMMARY:
Pastor paul is trying to save a man’s soul. It’s not going well.

genre: comedy

Length: 13 Pages

Format: Short Film

Author(s): Lara Hill

Status: Produced & Released


The Pull Through the Window

Summary:
An isolated young woman uses her strange new ability to time travel through photographs to recapture a lost friendship

Genre: Psychological/romantic drama

Length: 24 Pages

Format: Short Film

Author(s): Lara Hill

Status: Unproduced