FEATURE DRAMA

THE BELL Genre: Personal Drama

Highways surveyor Jan Kobylinski goes to Belarus to fulfil his grandmother’s last dying wish – that she is buried in her homeland. But he encounters opposition to the burial from a community which link him to a missing bell and a WWII traitor.

c. 2014 Martin Kiszko and Vadim Jean

Status: Screenplay available. Director Vadim Jean.

Background: Developed via UK Film Council. Nominated in 2005 by UK Film Council as ‘Best British Screenplay’ to represent the UK in the Hollywood Merrill-Hartley Screenwriting Award Scheme.

JUNKWORLD Genre: Children’s Fantasy

A group of children from dysfunctional families chance upon a secret world.

c.2014 Martin Kiszko

Background: 2nd in Cannes 2005 Pitch Competition. Picked up by Ridley Scott’s Company Scott Free for FOX, didn’t secure funding. Considered by Heyday (Harry Potter Company), John Calley Productions (Sony), Paramount and Walden.

Status: Screenplay available. Registered WGA USA and US Copyright Dept.

THE FLEABERT INHERITENCE Genre: Comedy

Two backstabbing theatre impresarios compete to mount a show and win the inheritance of a philanthropist that will keep only one theatre open in the gradually darkening theatreland of off-off-off-off-off Broadway.

c.2014 Martin Kiszko

Status: USA and UK version screenplays available.

Background: 2nd placed in 2007 UK Screenwriters Festival Feverpitch Competition.

SPYDERS Genre: Family Animated Feature

Busted from their retirement plugholes, five spider agents take on the CIA in a race to retrieve a doomsday file – the Web of Intrigue.

c.2014 Martin Kiszko

Status: Screenplay available.

TRANIMAL Genre: Family Adventure

Pursued by undercover agents, Ellie, a 12 year old animal fanatic, hides a strange beast discovered in forests on her parents’ farmland.

c.2014 Martin Kiszko

Status: Screenplay available. Registered WGA USA.

PLANET PANTS Genre: Comedy Sci-fi/fantasy Musical

The world’s greatest astronaut sets out on a mission to disprove God and the origins of the universe but is caught short when she is marooned on a planet of pantomime and fairy tale characters.

c.2014 Martin Kiszko

Status: Screenplay available. Registered WGA USA.

OBSCURA Genre: Thrilller

After a near death experience, Kent Grant believes there’s a conspiracy to steal his identity. When no-one believes him, he realises the truth is hidden in video shot in Bristol’s camera obscura.

c. 2014 Martin Kiszko and Vadim Jean

Status: Screenplay available.

TV DRAMA SERIES

THE CHINA DETECTIVE Genre: Adventure

‘One ordinary woman – one extraordinary gift.’

At 50, Coco thinks her life is over. But she couldn’t be more wrong. A tidal wave of change will soon transform her from a washer and stacker of other people’s china into a reluctant Messiah and psychic warrior. Coco must stem the tide of political corruption, religious conspiracies and a powerful psychic adversary who will challenge her power to save the world.

c.2014 Toyah Willcox and Martin Kiszko.

Status: Synopsis and Treatments available.

SHORT FILMS

SHADOWED Genre: Noiresque Animated and Live Action Children’s Film

Young Gracie’s shadow is stolen from her when a mysterious factory appears opposite her cotton belt shack.

c.2014 Martin Kiszko.

Status: Demo reel shot. Looking for Partner funding.

STEPS

A wildlife photographer discovers a WWII soldier who is still fighting the war from a deserted fort on the coastline of Somerset.

Written by Martin Kiszko and Tim Grancis. Directed by Martin Kiszko. Starring Ron Moody.

Status: Broadcast on HTV/ITV and Festivals.

RADIO

SCRAMBLE Genre: Sci-Fi

Scramblers — an outlawed group of people live in a futuristic Britain in which music is considered subversive, and is utterly forbidden. A race against time where music lies at the heart of a battle between the forces of good and evil.

c. 2014 Martin Kiszko

Status: Available for feature film development.

Background: Broadcast as 3 x 30’ dramas on BBC Radio in 2006 and repeated many times subsequently.

KING FRANK AND THE KNIGHTS OF THE ECOQUEST

King Frank is the world’s first epic eco poem. When three knights embark on an ecoquest to find the lost Fountain of frank, they are challenged by a river of poo, a plastic monster, and the effects of climate change.

Status: Broadcast as a 15-part series on Fun Kids Radio Sation, and as a live show in Dubai.

Available for film, TV, theatre or games development.

BOOKS AVAILABLE FOR ADAPTATION

GREEN POEMS FOR A BLUE PLANET and VERSE FOR THE EARTH

Two published collections of poems by Martin Kiszko and illustrated by four-time Oscar winner and inventor of Wallace and Gromit – Nick Park. Poems’ characters are ripe for development into screenplay or TV series format.

Status: Published. Available for reprint and development into Film/TV/Games.

THE GREAT RIVERBANK ROBBERY

Stoatally, a scheming trickster stoat, and his best mate Wease plan a dramatic heist of the Berrynut Riverside Bank in Twelve Stones Wood. Filled with adventure, humour, foreboding, friendship, and enmity, this is a tale about the importance of a bond with nature and each other.

Status: Published. Available for reprint and development into Film/TV/Games.

STORIES FOR GHOSTS Genre: Children’s Supernatural/Comedy

A collection of supernatural short stories about a human caught up in the world of ghosts.

Status: Available for publication or development in to TV or games.