Edge of Smoke screenplay - Semi-finalist in Santa Barbara/Palm Springs Diversity Screenwriters
(2025)
Edge of Smoke screenplay - quarter-finalist in Table Read My Screenplay-Cannes
(2025)
Like Dew on Roses screenplay - semi-finalist in the London Best Script Awards
(2025)
Like Dew on Roses screenplay - a nominee for the Dallas Film Festival
(2025)
"The Calling Dream" won a Speak Up Talk Radio Firebird Award for general fiction and cross genre.
(2021)
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A Printer to the Territory
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Film
by Jess M. Young
Bit part Film was used for many years as the introduction for tours at the Arkansas Territorial Restoration in Little Rock, Arkansas.
The Calling Dream Budget: $10M - $30M When the son of a backwoods preacher becomes a famous televangelist, he hides his use of fame and wealth to seduce and manipulate women until his childhood dream about a redheaded woman becomes his tormenting nightmare.
Edge of Smoke Budget: $10M - $30M | Period Piece ⋄ Mystery After a biracial, transgender girl lifts herself out of the slums, falls in love, and begins to build a better life, she risks everything when she encounters the man from her childhood she swore to kill.
Like Dew on Roses Budget: $100K - $1M | Romance ⋄ Drama Cheri only wants stability, but after falling in love with two-spirit Lettie, she faces more conflict and upheaval than she ever imagined, as she must fight the state of Texas to save their son from Lettie's conflicted family.
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
(1979-1981)
Lyon College
(1973-1977)