Roberta M Roy
Poughkeepsie, New York
Owner, operator at ALVA Films.
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Owner, operator at ALVA Films.
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About Roberta
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Badges
2024-11-05
Writers' Room Member
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Awards
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Finalist Chicago Script Awards
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Winner New York International Women Festival
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Santa Barbara Screenplay Awards Semi Finalist
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Emerging Screenwriters Comedy Screenplay Competition Semi Finalist
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Finalist, Mad Wife 100 Scripts
(2025)
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Loglines
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Almost By Design - Reaching Out - Half Hour Series Pilot Budget: $0 - $100K | Romance ⋄ Comedy When her web of reality moves an environmentalist Midwestern school interior designer to venture employment as an interior home decor designer in New York City, she enmeshes herself among peers whose mismatched goals create a sense of poetic and ironic situational comedy amidst challenges from her employer.
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ALMOST BY DESIGN Feature Budget: $0 - $100K | Romance ⋄ Comedy Having left the Midwest with the intent to provide environmentally sensitive interior design for upscale homes in NYC, a young woman navigates life among six adults from diverse cultural and racial backgrounds brought together by circumstance, as she also must work around her employer’s expectation that she encourage her clients to buy new furnishings rather than environmentally kinder vintage ones.
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Almost By Design -Hour Long Short Budget: $0 - $100K | Romance ⋄ Comedy When her web of reality moves this young environmentalist Midwestern school interior designer to venture employment as an interior home decor designer in New York City, she enmeshes herself among peers whose mismatched goals create a sense of poetic and ironic situational comedy.
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Family Matters - Feature Budget: $0 - $100K | Science Fiction ⋄ Drama The fallout from a not-too-distant nuclear meltdown separates parents from one another and from their sons, who flee; the mother suffers radiation sickness; the father suffers memory loss and physical coordination difficulties due to brain injury from the force of an IED explosion, yet they struggle forward, intent on not only survival, but reunion.
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It Takes a Village - Feature Budget: $100K - $1M | Science Fiction ⋄ Romance The lives of a striving artist and his citified girlfriend of many years and a retired military man are disrupted when a meltdown some two hundred miles away causes displaced people fleeing nuclear fallout to overrun their small mountain village, and they take the lead in organizing a community response.
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Home Again 2020: A Story of Survival - Feature Budget: $100K - $1M | Period Piece ⋄ Drama Having survived a nuclear meltdown, a year or two later, a loving family and their teenage sons reunite as the dad rehabilitates from TBI and COVID-19 forces the mother, a speech language pathologist, to work distantly with children with autism amid political upheaval and climate change. A current times historical novel.
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The Morning After the Morning After - Feature Budget: $1M - $5M | Period Piece ⋄ Family In 2021-2022, two years after having survived a nuclear meltdown, while still settling back in together, a loving family with two teenage sons must now adjust to living in a time of political unrest, welcome an influx of displaced people fleeing nuclear fallout, and cope with the effects of climate change.
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Almost By Design -Short Short Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama A young environmentalist and Midwestern interior designer for schools must leave home when her reality forces her to seek employment with upper-class homeowners as an interior designer in faraway New York City.
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Almost By Design - 26 page situational comedy pilot Budget: $0 - $100K | Romance ⋄ Comedy A young environmentalist Midwestern interior designer must leave home when goals cause her to risk seeking employment with upper-class homeowners as an interior home decor designer in faraway New York City only to find herself in an environment populated by people whose mismatched goals form the basis for poetic and situational irony that for the viewer provides a steady source of entertainment.
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Just No Beyond - Short short Budget: $0 - $100K | Family ⋄ Drama Environmentalist interior designer struggles with the looming question of plastic in her life, taking one small step despite recognizing there is no beyond.
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Just in Time - Short Budget: $0 - $100K | Romance ⋄ Comedy A delightful young woman, determined to succeed as a web designer, upon entering her new place of employment, collides with a charming salesman, only to downplay his efforts to engage until she finds they can no longer be dismissed.
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Jolt Survival Tele Series Simpler Pilot for 12 Hour Long Episodes Budget: $1M - $5M | Science Fiction ⋄ Romance Star-crossed lovers and a retired veteran join together to meet the needs of displaced people fleeing nuclear radiation fallout, as a once close-knit family struggles to reunite.
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Jolt Survival Tele Series Script 1 of 12 - Emergence Budget: $0 - $100K | Science Fiction ⋄ Romance Innocent of the momentous nuclear meltdown about to befall them, not far from a nuclear power plant, the Matters family contends with a mother’s fears of a nuclear meltdown while in a distant mountain village, Thaw, a struggling artist, works to manage his relationships with Natalie, his girlfriend of many years, and Dody, his disapproving father.
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Yell'n'Tell - Children's Short Budget: $0 - $100K | Family ⋄ Animation In recalling how his cousin pinches him and then denies doing so, and having witnessed a girl being bullied, this brave five-year-old uses his wise mother's practical but inventive advice to help address the bulying he experiences with his cousin, whom he playfully refers to as Noodles.
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Yell'n'Tell en francais Budget: $0 - $100K | Family ⋄ Animation Après avoir Ă©tĂ© tĂ©moin de l’intimidation d’une fille, un courageux enfant de cinq ans utilise Logline: Jles conseils pratiques mais inventifs de sa mère sage pour l’aider Ă rĂ©soudre son dilemme de l’intimidation.
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Yell'n'Tell en espanol Budget: $0 - $100K | Animation Recordando cómo su primo, le pellizca y niega haberlo hecho y habiendo presenciado cómo acosaban a una niña, un valiente niño de cinco años recurre a los consejos prácticos pero ingeniosos de su sabia madre para resolver su dilema de acoso escolar.
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Just Take a Breath - Short Budget: $0 - $100K | Romance New to the newsroom, a happily married young woman struggles to avoid risking her marriage when she experiences an unexpectedly strong attraction to a just met co-worker with whom she will be working regularly.
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When COVID Came - Experimental Short Budget: $0 - $100K | Experimental COVID arrives, and in silence, a mourning older woman who lives alone, copes with isolation, masks as needed, and is eventually vaccinated; only then is she able to welcome others into her home.
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Two Close: A Story of survival - Feature Budget: $1M - $5M | Science Fiction ⋄ Romance Dirty bombs and the threat of nuclear fallout separate the Matters family; Mary recuperates from radiation sickness and her husband fights right-side brain damage and amnesia while their sons survive on the road. (observable violence/conflict minimal)
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Jolt: A Saga of Survival - More Complex Pilot Budget: $1M - $5M | Science Fiction ⋄ Drama Star crossed lovers, Natalie and Thaw, and Lem, a retired veteran, meet the needs of displaced people fleeing nuclear radiation fallout as a once close-knit family reunites; as time passes, the series morphs to current day historical fiction in which autism and traumatic brain injury treatment and the need for the use of nuclear fusion to replace nuclear fission in the effort to reduce climate change are explored.
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Jolt: A Saga of Survival Episode 10 - 2022: The New Now Budget: $1M - $5M | Period Piece ⋄ Family In a world marked by climate change, political discord, war, and the end of COVID masking, the Matters sons look to their futures; their mom does therapy with a boy and a girl with autism; their dad adapts to his left side blindness; and all observe the effects of climate change and wonder what the future will bring politically.
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