Charles Leopardo
Writer-Director-Editor

Awards:

2019 Grand REMI Award for Best Screenplay, WorldFest Houston Film Festival
for LAJJAWATI, Co-written with Sumathy Ram.

2004 Nicholls Fellowship in Screenwriting- Quarterfinalist for MOROTAI.
2000 ACES Competition- Finalist for DANTE'S TOUR

Produced and Optioned Screenplays:

FLASHBACK (2014), Self-produced and directed short film.
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MOROTAI, optioned by Gross-Weston Productions for a possible MOW

VERONICA'S VEIL, a short film directed by Nicholas Delfino (from a story by Ungenita Prevost). Bear Buca and Anatomy Entertainment.

MAN FROM TOMORROW, screenplay adaptation of a novel by award-winning science fiction author Wilson Tucker. Currently in development.

Feature-Length Screenplays:

THE MONSTER OF PIEDRAS BLANCAS (A Love Story)
(sci-fi/horror/suspense)
Based on a B movie creature feature released in 1959, this re-imagining takes place in a small California coastal town terrorized by a humanoid sea creature who takes a shine to the local lighthouse-keeper's lovely daughter. About 80% rewritten, the script ends with a twist never imagined by the original filmmakers. "Will the real Monster please stand up?"

ANGEL'S GATE
(suspense/fantasy/detective)
This neo-Noir thriller takes us on a treasure hunt for an ancient artifact hidden in Hollywood that might hold the key to immortality. A private eye is on the case, but so is the CEO of a Bio-Medical conglomerate, and a nefarious group of monks who are the final hold-outs of the Inquisition.

IKTHYS
(sci-fi/suspense)
A down-on-his-luck space freighter captain is set to make a killing on his cargo; fish from under the icy crust of Jupiter’s moon Europa. Besides tasting great, they’re also a cancer vaccine; but there's just one small catch; something awfully fishy is starting happen to consumers on Earth.

ROADKILL RHAPSODY
(Dark Comedy)
(co-written with Michael Wohl)
A young environmentalist chased by a psycho and an aspiring songstress running from the law both take refuge with a traveling carnival run by a charismatic, possibly dangerous magician. They quickly discover that they've only succeeded in jumping from the frying pan into the fire.

DANTE- LIVE FROM THE INFERNO
Inspired by Dante's "Divine Comedy"
(Dramatic Comedy/Fantasy)
After a close brush with death, a successful, white, West Coast jazz musician embarks on a disastrous concert tour of New York City. Or has he really died and gone to Hell?

FISH OUT OF WATER
(Dramatic Comedy)
Community Church board president Grace Parson has invited a guy from Brooklyn named Delacroce to be the new pastor of her small congregation in “The Valley”. But when unexplainable things start happening, she has to wonder; is he just the “fish out of water” he appears to be, or something more?

Education:

MFA, Brooklyn College- BFA, SUNY college at New Paltz