JAMIE PACHINO

~SCREENPLAYS~

RAPUNZEL

Disney Animated Feature

THE REAL, REAL THING

FEATURE - DreamWorks

RIBBIT

Animated feature rewrite, Vanguard Films (producers of SHREK and SHREK 2)

THE RETURN TO MORALITY

Screenplay adaptation of Jamie’s play optioned by Lions Gate and Trigger Street Films

SYNOPSIS: A well meaning Liberal author sells his satire to a Machiavellian publisher and winds up in the middle of a personal and political firestorm.

TRUE NORTH

Screenplay assignment, Walden Media, Inc. [Adaptation of the young adult novel by Kathryn Lasky.]

SYNOPSIS:. Two teenaged girls, one white and one black, go north to Canada together on the underground railroad just before the Civil War.

DEFENDING IVAN THE TERRIBLE

Screenplay assignment, Smith/Hemion Films. [Adaptation of the book Defending Ivan the Terrible, by Yoram Sheftel.]

SYNOPSIS: The Israeli attorney who successfully defended Ivan Demjanjuk, thought to be Ivan the Terrible, the Treblinka concentration camp guard.

AURORA'S MOTIVE

Play, optioned by Greenestreet Films/SKE, NY.

SYNOPSIS: The true story of Aurora Rodriguez, who raised revolutionary daughter on her own in early 1900's Spain, then killed her.

TANGO MUSIC (A Love Story in 2/4 Time)

SYNOPSIS: Jewel Pickett reluctantly returns to her hometown in Texas to tend her dying father, and re-meets up with the love of her life.

THE DAILY COCKROACH

Spec, currently under negotiation.

~TELEPLAYS~

NOT LIKE EVERYONE ELSE

Writer/Producer, Lifetime Television, original airdate 7/2006

WHAT IF GOD WERE THE SUN

writer/Producer, Lifetime Television, airdate, 2007.

STRANGER WITH MY FACE

writer/producer, Lifetime Television

REVIVING HOLIDAY

Rewrite, Lifetime Television.

ALL ABOUT EGGS

Writer/Producer, Lifetime Television

DANCING BY HEART

Pitch, optioned by Hearst Corporation

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