Bradford Richardson

WATCH-OUT WORLD - A Half-Hour Family Ensemble Dramedy. Family ⋄ Music When teenage singer-songwriter, Ally Bailey, leads her band to ditch school and crash a major audition in the city, her father, a self-involved one-hit-wonder, arrives in time to see her prove she's got the heart & talent to go further than he ever could. The last thing Ally wants is his help. Comps - Imagine THE ACES as high school seniors, with the fierce determination to share their music with the world. Semifinalist, ScreenCraft Pilot Launch Competition, (SING IT).

CHRISTMAS MANOR SCAVENGER HUNT - An Elevated Holiday RomCom Feature. Comedy ⋄ Romance When real-estate rivals Grace and Alex submit matching bids to buy Christmas Manor, the manor’s whimsical owner proposes a tie-breaker: a scavenger hunt within the manor with a Christmas Eve deadline to solve nine clues leading to the key to the manor. Grace and Alex reluctantly team-up, race to untangle the clues, and try not to fall for each other. Comps: The competitive & collaborative conflict of CHAMPAGNE PROBLEMS. The rivalry, banter and mutual goal of saving Winter's Inn in SNOWED-INN CHRISTMAS. Plus, WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING: Lucy’s determination to make her happily-ever-after come true. 

MERRILY ALL THE WAY - An Elevated Holiday RomCom Budget: $5M - $10M | Comedy ⋄ Romance When fast-rising Children’s Author, Hannah learns her Mom’s cookie shop needs help two-hundred miles away, she and new friend, Handyman Vlogger, Josh, ditch the itinerary-driven Christmas weekend they're at, (planned by two Type-A Agents competing to be the first to sign one of them), and hop on the last train out. The Agents race to catch up, and these four wind-up on two wildly different yet converging holiday road-trips into romance. Comps: The romantic dilemma of "dating the wrong guy when the right guy comes along" in both THE LIFE LIST and SOMETHING FROM TIFFANY'S (2023) meets PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES.

SARAH'S CHRISTMAS WISH TWIST - An Elevated Holiday Rom-Com Budget: $5M - $10M | Comedy ⋄ Romance Sarah never expected her Christmas Wish "for help to save her Holiday Bookshop" would lead to her music-box-Nutcracker being brought to life. Stuck with her wide-eyed, eager guest until Christmas Eve, Sarah struggles to keep his identity a secret while they confront embarrassing roommate moments; bookshop mix-ups; Sarah's snooping Father; plus a nefarious Toy Collector; oh, and the discovery of the Nutcracker’s true heroic origin which leads them to hope this Christmas Wish never ends. Comps: It's the fairytale magic of THE KNIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS and ENCHANTED meets the romance of ELF. A Stage 32 Double-Recommended Screenplay!

SOLARPUNKS - A Diverse Ensemble-Driven Sci-Fi Fantasy Pilot. Budget: $1M - $5M | Fantasy ⋄ Science Fiction Right Now: A fugitive group of seven exceptional twenty-year-olds, covertly bioengineered with evolved abilities by rogue extraterrestrials, must find a way to inspire humankind to begin living sustainably with Earth before the Alliance of Worlds’ countdown to humanity’s annihilation runs out. (Pitch Deck / Mini-Bible available) Comps: It’s HEROES meets HAIL MARY. The jolting experience of waking-up to a new reality, realizing your explicit purpose is to find a way to save Earth, and coming face-to-face with an extraterrestrial ally. Semifinalist: Stage 32’s 7th Annual Sci-Fi/Fantasy Screenwriting Competition 2023.