Loglines & Screenplays by Banafsheh Esmailzadeh

GENRES: Drama, Comedy

A group of theatre students method act a little too close to the sun and mistake themselves and each other for the characters they’re playing.

GENRES: Drama

The naive niece of a play theatre owner comes to visit for the summer and her world changes when she falls in unrequited love with the star actor who argues he should be the one to inherit the theatre.

GENRES: Experimental, Comedy

The grooviest Man of them all invites you—yes, you—to a party tour all across the universe.

GENRES: Experimental

Travel back to 2009 during a daydream, when life was simple and everything was possible. Do you continue the dream or will you awaken and charge into the future?

GENRES: Action, Comedy

A bat-wielding woman and her pet Jacob sheep traverse the world to fight a literal mind-blowing zealot bent on taking it over.

GENRES: Action, Drama

Rescued by a special forces officer as a baby from the most terrifying totalitarian regime ever, a young woman’s life is endangered when the princess of that nation learns of her existence.

GENRES: Sci-fi, Adventure

The space cowboy with a song always in his heart must nonetheless use his skills to catch galactic baddies and pay the bills. A Finding Elpis side story.

GENRES: Sci-fi, Adventure

A skulk of tiny fennec fox aliens from the planette Goobnar traverse the galaxy in search of the fabled Dino Nuggies, using their cunning, super speed, and sonic screams to avoid becoming lunch themselves. A Finding Elpis side story.

GENRES: Drama

A young man recounts where his relationship with his brother went wrong and why they're damned to fight one another every time they're reborn in the hopes of ending the cycle once and for all.

GENRES: Action, Animation

In a world ravaged by gangs ranging from bikers to ever-growing mob families, a young man of both noble and cursed lineage becomes a shinobi in order to survive. A Petal side story, prequel to Seed.

GENRES: Sci-fi, Music

The galaxy's most popular band, armed with a new member and songs, defends their crown against an upstart idol and two rival bands, while their frontman contends with his newfound identity and a new-old foe plots revenge.

GENRES: Other, Drama

Unwilling to accept the circumstances of his own death, a young man seeks to save the heart of a young woman convinced life isn't worth living.

GENRES: Drama

A bookish introvert finds himself in an epic love triangle with a cute cheerleader and the most popular guy in school--and both of them have a real shot at winning his heart once and for all.

GENRES: Romance, Drama

A voluptuous English teacher navigates jealous glares from her female and advances from her male coworkers, and things finally seem to look up when a new teacher joins the school—with a secret or two of his own.

GENRES: Comedy

A young woman just wants to go to school and make friends; unfortunately just about everything she says and does goes epically, catastrophically wrong.

GENRES: Romance, Drama

A young man refuses to get over his deceased girlfriend, while her identical twin sister refuses to admit that she has feelings for him.

GENRES: Sci-fi, Adventure

A once-mighty planet seeking a return to their glory days imprisons the galaxy’s most beloved band and their sponsor, triggering not only a galactic war but birthing a new reality altogether.

GENRES: Romance, Fantasy

A young boy is cursed to die a cruel death by the time he turns eighteen, and a prince unwilling to become king is determined to save him from his fate.

GENRES: Experimental

A tyrannical power vacuum opens up when a young man's aspiring politician wife is murdered on national TV, and he takes it upon himself to restore truth and order while his mental state slowly falls apart.

GENRES: Other

Forces of nature in human form, ranging anywhere from girl next door to servants of God, reward and punish their targets depending on their actions.

GENRES: Other, Experimental

A young racecar driver with no memories or even record of his past is stalked by a shadowy organisation for getting in the way of their plans to forcibly elevate humanity's collective consciousness.

GENRES: Other, Experimental

Two twins's rather humdrum life as the architects of their city gets turned upside down when a new girl comes to their university while on the run from her own twin sister who threatens to divulge her secret and ruin the new life she has built.

GENRES: Other, Experimental

An eternal student-turned-teacher of ethics finds her entire worldview shaken when for the first time in her life she feels a deep bond forming with one of the last remaining homo sapiens sapiens--the very race  she herself had oppressed for millennia by flooding them with rules whose evolved descendents now rebel against her.

GENRES: Other, Experimental

A shell-shocked warrior dealing with the death of her lover at the hands of the enemy nation contends with the truth of her lineage as well as the country she has called home all her life.

GENRES: Action, Experimental

Two twins born to be Buddhist monk and nun are instead forced to live and work as shinobi to survive a permanent turf war between mafia families while their older brother's killers target them next.

GENRES: Other, Experimental

Shunned for her lineage as a girl born without a mother as well as her being jilted by the man she was to marry, a young woman finds solace in the son of God while her natural destiny prepares her to become the progenitor of witches.

GENRES: Other, Experimental

Long before humanity was conceived, the handsome angel of death stalks the god of life throughout his infinite lifetimes, while his fated wife makes the crucial decision to be reborn as many times as possible to meet him again. Three triplets are damned to fight one another for influence over reality itself.

GENRES: Other, Experimental

A young man fresh off his million-year sentence in hell for crimes against the gods and nature as a whole seeks to reunite with his beloved wife. A Petal side comic.

GENRES: Romance, Experimental

A young uniter of hearts does her best to aid the fated union of the god of life and his bride, but her more experienced agent of enchantment thwarts her every plan and her own beloved slowly grows disillusioned with her. A Petal side comic.

GENRES: War, Experimental

Five agents sworn to fealty of a galactic terrorist carry out his plans to get revenge over his once-beloved wife, while a last remaining human woman wrestles with what it really means to live in her literal ivory tower as everyone else pays the price. A Petal side comic.

GENRES: Other, Experimental

Long shunned by both God and human for her dual lineage, a skilled doctor is tasked with analysing an interdimensional criminal and risks destroying her mind the deeper she falls in love with him. A Petal side comic.

GENRES: Other, Experimental

Two sisters, one a huntress of the wild and the other a huntress of the flesh, seriously question what it means to rule over their own gilded cage domains when their estranged childhood love suffers adverse effects when daring to leave her own domain in the pursuit of her own greatest love. A Petal side comic.

GENRES: Romance, Fantasy

A young girl fights for her life when her jealous best friend, in retaliation for getting passed up in favour of her gentle brother, uncovers a secret about her that she herself never even knew.

GENRES: Fantasy, Romance

A young girl lives in a castle with a vampiress who is determined to keep her inside its walls as she grows more and more beautiful and many young men seek her hand in marriage.

GENRES: Fantasy, Drama

The grisly caretaker of a lost girl protects her against the wolves of the forest claiming she rightfully belongs to them.

GENRES: Romance, Fantasy

An exorcist is tasked with defeating a ghost that has haunted the emperor's palace for generations, but he finds he can't because they both fall in love.

GENRES: Fantasy

An aspiring mage is haunted by the memories of a deceased king that lead him to uncover treasonous secrets and put his life in serious danger.

GENRES: Fantasy, Adventure

A young boy and his crush-turned-stepmother flee persecution when his father is sentenced to death for illegally harboring an angel, and with every new friend they make they unwittingly fulfill a prophecy that wakes up the God of the Earth who punishes all of humanity for terrible crimes unless an ultimate sacrifice is made.

GENRES: Drama, Comedy

A hotheaded entrepreneuse's life turns upside-down when her boyfriend announces his plan to propose to a super-genius college student and goes to confront her, only to have said college student fall in love with her at first sight.

GENRES: Sci-fi, Action

Following the massive galactic war wiping out the overwhelming majority of humanity across all their colonised planets, the grandchildren of the survivors face their ultimate extinction when fertility rates crash and the very planet they call home appears to try to finish them off.

GENRES: Comedy

Longtime partners in crime Robby and Renny plan a casino heist but it might not be so simple when ten desperate and conniving patrons are just as likely to succeed--and more than willing to screw everyone else over in the process.

GENRES: Drama, Comedy

A love triangle between a flighty stage actress, her college boyfriend and her shy secret admirer from high school quickly spirals into an epic saga when she decides to date both of them.

GENRES: Experimental, Drama

Seven students live out their true lives in their dreams, only meeting to come to class together in a shared reality. They try and fail to understand one another until they’re brave enough to let each other in.

GENRES: Romance, Drama

A former couple is desperate to let go of each other—but fate keeps bringing them back together.

GENRES: Drama, Comedy

An ill-fated man lives out his last day with his beloved as all the nonsense of his life catches up to him.

GENRES: Sci-fi, Adventure

The frontman of the galaxy's most beloved band is forced to go on a grueling journey of self-ascension alongside a young woman determined to meet a mythical entity said to have all the answers.

GENRES: Romance, Comedy

A prickly goth with impossible standards has met her match in a man who effortlessly aces every single one of her tests.

GENRES: Romance, Experimental

Two fated lovers search for one another across the dimensional planes that separate them.

GENRES: Experimental

They say high school never ends, and it’s especially the case with Möbius Academy where no one ever seems to graduate, nor is there anywhere you can go that isn’t on the school grounds. Do you have what it takes to wake up and join The Real World?

GENRES: Sci-fi, Experimental

A young boy living on the dark side of the moon gets stung by a resident jellyfish and wakes up on Earth, where he must live like a normal human when it looks less and less likely that he will go back home.

GENRES: Experimental

The charismatic pupil and son of the author of The Book of Lies pens the titular Book of Truth, amassing a cult of soldiers dedicated to helping him remake the world according to his teachings as they burn down all of what came before.

GENRES: Drama, Other

A joyless young woman stuck in a rut reconnects with her childhood imaginary friend--only she's not imaginary anymore.

GENRES: Sci-fi, Adventure

A music band, upon getting abducted by a superfan alien on their final show before breaking up, learn that they're galactic superstars and simply unpopular on Earth.

GENRES: Horror, Drama

You lead a simple, uneventful life until The Puppeteer comes along and pulls the strings dictating you and your loved one’s lives and choices.

GENRES: Romance, Fantasy

A princess living at the bottom of the lake falls in love with a human boy and seeks to grant him his wish—which she wishes is to live in the bottom of the lake with her.

GENRES: Experimental

On a fated day when ghosts come back to life, a biker gang advances into Hollywood and come in contact with its old stars and do all they can to bring back the town’s old glory days.

GENRES: Drama, Comedy

Twin sisters, one responsible and the other foolish, navigate life with eccentric roommates, revolving-door exes, and the local sandwich shop’s unlikely saviour.

GENRES: Drama

A young woman seeks the truth about herself upon learning from her adoptive parents that she was an amnesiac when they met her—and another family claims that she is their true daughter.

GENRES: Romance, Comedy

Fed up with her perpetual innocence, a young woman sets out to find The One, but is frustrated to learn that everyone she sets her eyes on refuses to corrupt her.