Loglines & Screenplays by Cynthia Garbutt

GENRES: Biopic / True Story, Period Piece

Saga of a well-to-do Native American-European family in Central America during the Banana Wars. Some are entwined, or trapped and others freed, as American dominance gives way to revolution, self-determination and Drug Wars.

From its introduction as a plant/grass species from South East Asia to Central America, the banana has dominated the fruit export-import industry and fed the world.

GENRES: Military/War, Period Piece

The secret alchemy of this wild and magical weed, whose harvest dominated the Southeast territories of North America in the mid-1700s, lies in the hands of a few tribal African slaves, who are unaware of their powerful skills. And the enormous wealth they create for elite British plantation owners, who must soon choose between loyalty to the Crown or become US patriots.

GENRES: Romance

Unlucky at love?. We'll get you hitched.

GENRES: Adventure, Comedy

A decade has passed, two partners in crime attempt to mend their long-time friendship despite a deal that went bust, separate paths taken, and the dangerous job they undertake, one last time.

GENRES: Comedy, Romance

A jaded and frustrated mid-life romantic, passionately pursues a woman who challenges his view of femininity.

GENRES: Comedy

A clever, business post-grad leaves the stability of her father to give her estranged, drug rehabbed mother, who forfeited raising her, and the UK, a chance.

GENRES: Crime, Thriller / Suspense

In a social system plagued with abuse, failure, and negligence whom can you trust, especially when you're at the receiving end. A teenage girl has slipped through its cracks too many times and decides to take matters into her own hands.

GENRES: Biopic / True Story, Period Piece

My journey of anticipating, experiencing, returning to New Orleans two weeks later, living on a FEMA-chartered cruise ship, while under martial law. Then struggling to start a new life after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, in 2005. 

GENRES: Crime, Film Noir

An ethnically diverse young woman from Nowheresville is catapulted to fame as a transgender supermodel and becomes a victim of gaslighting from the people whom she first trusted, but now hates.

GENRES: Comedy, Musical

A drag queen girl group working in the dodgiest cabaret in London, get the last-minute chance to tour across the US for Labor Day weekend.

GENRES: Comedy

The Glams end their whirlwind tour across the US, in LA, with a recording contract to sing alongside their favorite legendary divas. Scheduling conflicts and upstaging - turn the unrealistic release deadline, set by the record label, into a fiasco.

GENRES: Drama

A once devoted Jehovah's Witness minister and his confidant become targets of attack when his testimony and evidence in a civil lawsuit expose a deceitful child sex predator within the flock and a massive pedo-sex cover-up by the church's hierarchy.

GENRES: Family

The challenges of Meg - an outgoing, curious, and unconventional girl, who's from first-generation Latin American parents of diverse socio-economic and religious backgrounds, mixed-race, growing up in The South during the 1960s and 70s.

GENRES: Animation

Four animated and adventurous preschoolers turn this weekly routine bore into an adventure of historical and scientific discovery by time-travelling and visiting other dimensions with the aid of a portal (the elevator) and their individual superpowers in live-action.

GENRES: Comedy, Musical

Three young students write themselves into a scary story and unknowingly become the last lineage of students that share the same fate on All Hallows Eve in a live, 2-act, stage performance.