Loglines & Screenplays by Cynthia Garbutt

GENRES: Historical, War

The secret alchemy of an untamed and magical plant whose harvest dominates the Southeast US in the mid-1700s is in the wealth of knowledge and skilled hands of a few tribal African slaves, who are unaware of the powerful tools that they possess and the enormous wealth it creates for British plantation owners and the weel-heeled, who must soon choose between loyalty to the Crown or become American patriots.

GENRES: Romance

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

GENRES: Comedy, Adventure

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: Romance, Comedy

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: Thriller, Crime

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: Historical, Biography

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: Film-noir, Crime

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, the most.

GENRES: Musical, Comedy

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: Musical, Comedy

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.