Media Projects

Is $2.00 popcorn
really out of the question?

Hi! I’m looking for people who might share my vision of bringing back family entertainment that does not “pee in the water” with those extra opportunistic scenes in which producers and directors get attractive actors to take their clothes off for fake reasons. And no more sexual favors as a price for participation.

It’s really not complicated how we can bring people back to theatres and enjoy things more as a community. Let’s make individualistic entertainment temporary and bring back community.

Too many downtowns have been gutted since COVID but we don’t want them to be. Most of us love European plazas, marked by a house of God, cafes, artists, and why not theaters — if they can amuse us and promote discussion, without guilt or reproach afterwards?

We cannot each do this alone. I personally cannot write every idea that comes to mind. Yet so much seems like low-hanging fruit to me. I seek artists to help, and financers to gamble on what I believe will find and build a huge enthusiastic audience. See my list below of projects I need help with.

Projects in Development

– The Abolitionist (or, On With the Wind!)

– SuperPerson (a sensitive superhero in therapy)

– Cinderfella (a relationship under construction)

– The Lobotomist (meaning well doesn’t always mean good things were done)

– Charlie, Chaplain (a bumbling prison therapist does more good with spiritual comments than mindfulness)

– Fruit of the Loomis (comedic bank heist)

– Jesus of Nashville (conflicted character blinded by good intentions)

– It’s a Glad, Glad, Glad, Glad World (stop the fake positivity, people)

– Joan & LaHire (the friendship of Joan of Arc and her course-mannered general)

– Pope Bob (a faithless simple-minded professor becomes pope)

– Luci in Therapy (bringing eternal daddy issues to light)

– Sperm the Musical (the odds are against you… so what?)

– Life of Dummies (a crash dummy with PTSD meets a discarded fashion mannequin)

– Princess Bittercup (the sister-in-law of Prince Charming thinks men are the problem)

– Her Name was Rita Rizzo (how an unusual nun stumbled into founding a broadcast network)

– Our Lady of Good Cheer (Go Jesus! Go Jesus! Time travel movie in which an unlikely pair of children bring marching bands and cheerleaders to perform at the greatest triumph in the history of Earth)

– Scout Leader (the ab/use of boys and science by the father of the sexual revolution, Alfred Kinsey)

Sample

I researched and wrote the above screenplay from around 1994-2008. It has yet to be made into a film, but I am converting it into a book. I made the trailer in 2006.

A long-term goal I have for inCAPABLES or Pious Clown Productions is to be a studio that produces books, films, and other media. This will require much deeper resources and talent than I currently have. The tone of these works will not necessarily please the "choir" but they will always be about exposing, promoting, or involving Truth.

Opinions will vary about rules of human etiquette, manners, and courseness. Yet even if some of our characters use course language, our material will strive to avoid enticing people sexually or toward behaviors that poison, injure, addict, or otherwise hurt self or others. Course language may inconvenience you but at this time we do not believe that it necessarily causes harm or damage. We ask you to tolerate it the same way you tolerate other drivers on the road. I base this on my work with Veterans and others who seemed to feel more understood and less judged or alienated when we spoke a common language about the horrific things they had been through.

Genres will be comedies, dramas, musicals... we have no anticipated limitation at this time. I would love to be producing high school plays too. And perhaps new compositions for things like Catholic Mass. It is a shame that a modern American football game or rock concert achieves more engagement; what is occurring does not need to be as understated as it often is. We will definitely be challenging people to recognize distinctions between taste and essentials. Truth allows variability in taste.

If you would like to be involved or support this effort please contact me incapazman at gmail or by phone or text to 646-481-5115.

My Film School Shorts at USC (MFA, 1999-2002)

Efforts in StandUp Comedy

More to come, friends. Check back with us soon!