Screenplay
A beautiful but disturbed young woman returns to the US after combat as a American mercenary in Iraq and abducts a 14 year old New York boy, holding him prisoner in her isolated country home as a bizarre relationship develops.
Writer
South of the Moon is the story of a young boy and his uncle, one dealing with the complexity and confusion of adolescence, the other with the pain and torment of regret. A pensive twelve year old swimmer is faced with a decision that will put the past on a direct collision course with the present in first-time feature filmmaker Antonio DiVerdis' wistful, character-driven drama. Coleman Hawkins is teetering on the brink of adulthood. By night Coleman is haunted by a mysterious woman, and by day he's infatuated with pretty classmate Alexa. Unsure of which path to walk in life, promising swimmer Coleman continually seeks out the advice of his uncle Matt...
Writer
In this biting and disturbing coming-of-age tale from writer-director Michael Cuesta, life is bittersweet along the L.I.E., also known as the Long Island Expressway, as suburban teen Howie Blitzer learns all too clearly. In the space of a week, he loses nearly everything and everyone he knows and is left to navigate his adolescence virtually unsupervised.
