Writer
How do we sustain the human spirit, hope and love in the face of a plague? Set in a dingy Lower East Side apartment in the 1980s, Beirut follows the story of Torch, a young man who is in quarantine after testing positive to a nameless disease. His girlfriend, refuses to leave him isolating alone. It’s raunchy, it’s real, it’s poetic; and it reminds us of the power of stories, and their role in fostering hope, solidarity and documentation of extraordinary times.
Theatre Play
No ano de 2005 uma grave epidemia devasta os EUA. A angustia e o panico ganham o continente. Para deter a catástrofe, o governo coloca os doentes em quarentena em campos de morte. Mas, um grupo de rebeldes pretende mostrar para o mundo essa crueldade, e arriscam suas próprias vidas para salvar milhares de doentes, lutando contra um destino implacável.
Screenplay
Spike Fumo is an Italian kid apsiring to be a boxer. He falls in love with a rich girl, who turns out to be the daughter of a Mafia boss. Spike is threatened to leave Bensonhurst by the mob, and then goes to a poverty-stricken Puerto Rican part of Brooklyn.
Additional Dialogue
On the mean streets of New York City, a dog-eat-dog mentality reigns among the destitute citizens. In one of the many abandoned buildings in the neighborhood of Alphabet City lives the Brazilian Rita La Punta, along with her delinquent son, Thiago, and a gang of Hispanic teens charged with selling heroin and cocaine. When Rita and her young gang members get involved in a minor turf war, the violence escalates out of control, touching everyone and sparing no one.
Theatre Play
A young hustler tries to get drug money by selling a boy to a middle-aged man; his plans are disrupted when the kid dies.
Screenplay
A young hustler tries to get drug money by selling a boy to a middle-aged man; his plans are disrupted when the kid dies.
