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A veteran of the war in Afghanistan, Savannah “Savvy” Strong is a former marine suffering from severe, untreated PTSD, after a roadside bomb killed her best friend and left her partially disfigured.
Now, she spends her days working at an auto shop in southern Los Angeles repairing cars and motorcycles, and her nights self-medicating, drinking and chasing loose women at the local nightclub. Anything to stop her mind from wandering.
From remembering. From feeling.
After a night of heavy drinking, Savvy is confronted by a group of Mexican gang members as she walks to the bus stop alone. The young men pester her incessantly. Having had enough of their nonsense, Savvy takes a swing at the leader of the group, and the group responds by dragging her into an alleyway, brutally beating her, and eventually sexually assaulting her.
Savvy is able to identify the leader of the group in a police lineup, and is assured he will be punished to the full extent of the law. However, when the time for prosecution arrives, the rape kit is mysteriously nowhere to be found, and with the evidence lost, her assailant is set free. Savvy takes up her military sidearm and sets out to hunt down her defilers. Unfortunately for Savvy, the police label her as their number one suspect in the shootings, and she finds herself in the sights of the brother of the slaughtered gangster, himself a major player in the Los Angeles drug circuit.
Savvy must now fight for survival, against a system that failed her, and an adversary that wishes her worse than dead.
Screenplay by James Furlong
A veteran of the war in Afghanistan, Savannah “Savvy” Strong is a former marine suffering from severe, untreated PTSD, after a roadside bomb killed her best friend and left her partially disfigured.
Now, she spends her days working at an auto shop in southern Los Angeles repairing cars and motorcycles, and her nights self-medicating, drinking and chasing loose women at the local nightclub. Anything to stop her mind from wandering.
From remembering. From feeling.
After a night of heavy drinking, Savvy is confronted by a group of Mexican gang members as she walks to the bus stop alone. The young men pester her incessantly. Having had enough of their nonsense, Savvy takes a swing at the leader of the group, and the group responds by dragging her into an alleyway, brutally beating her, and eventually sexually assaulting her.
Savvy is able to identify the leader of the group in a police lineup, and is assured he will be punished to the full extent of the law. However, when the time for prosecution arrives, the rape kit is mysteriously nowhere to be found, and with the evidence lost, her assailant is set free. Savvy takes up her military sidearm and sets out to hunt down her defilers. Unfortunately for Savvy, the police label her as their number one suspect in the shootings, and she finds herself in the sights of the brother of the slaughtered gangster, himself a major player in the Los Angeles drug circuit.
Savvy must now fight for survival, against a system that failed her, and an adversary that wishes her worse than dead.
Screenplay by James Furlong
SAVVY STRONG • THE GRAPHIC NOVEL
The Graphic Novel coming soon from Outland Entertainment.
Screenplay adaptation by Scott Colby. Illustrated by Alan Gallo. Colored by Paul Little. Lettered by Shannon Potratz.
Creative Team
JAMES FURLONG
Writer • Director • Producer
James Furlong has been in love with film for as long as he can remember. In 1986, he first saw Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, the first film he can remember falling in love with. It also began his love of stories that feature strong female leads. In Nausicaä, he found his first hero, and a film that has provided a blueprint for the stories he wants to tell. His love of film led him to The Los Angeles Film School, where he studied directing and sound design. He spent his time there absorbing all he could, doing as many jobs on set for others as possible, but directing remained his ultimate goal.
In 2017, James wrote and directed the horror comedy An Unpleasant Surprise, a short which won Best Twist and the Audience Choice Award at the 2018 Austin Under the Stars Film Festival, as well as Best Dark Comedy at the Austin Comedy Short Film Festival that same year. In 2019, he followed up with Sclera Absentia, a sci-fi horror short which has been selected in over 40 festivals, has won more than 20 awards, and is now featured on ScreamFest’s streaming platform.
Recently, his short screenplay Perfection won the grand prize at the 2021 Hellifax Horror Fest and was featured on the Coverfly Redlist in December of the same year.
JOE KRAEMER
Composer
Joe Kraemer has been scoring films since the age of 15, when he composed the soundtrack for his high school classmate’s The Chiming Hour, a feature-length indie shot on Super 8 in 1986. This led to three career-defining projects for Kraemer: The Way of the Gun, Jack Reacher, and Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.
Kraemer attended the renowned Berklee College of Music in Boston to study film composition. In the following years, Kraemer carved out an eclectic career scoring various genres. He has written music for over 100 films, with about 40 of those just for the Hallmark Channel/Larry Levinson Productions. Furthermore, he has scored for episodic television, television movies, documentaries, and short films, including his scores for John Putch’s The Poseidon Adventure and A Time To Remember, as well as the Mystery Woman series, and westerns such as Hard Ground, Lone Rider, and The Trail To Hope Rose.
Kraemer frequently does Masterclasses in composition for media for various colleges and organizations, including Columbia College Chicago, Media Sound Hamburg, and the Hollywood Music Workshop.
VINCENT JAMES GUASTINI
Special Effects
Vincent James Guastini started his own special make-up effects company at the age of 22, originally in New Jersey and New York for 15 years, and then later in Hollywood for 19 years. Specializing in prosthetics, creature effects, design, and animatronics.
Vincent’s big breakthrough film came in 1991 when asked to take over the prosthetic effects for Michael Mann’s 60 million dollar film The Last of the Mohicans for 20th Century Fox. After this film Vincent went on to supervise and design creature effects for various studio and independent films. In 2001 Vincent moved his company to the West Coast and is now one of the top effects & design studios in Hollywood where Vincent lives and is based out of for the past 20 years.
Vincent’s practical effects work is mostly known for his 30 plus years of creating the ground breaking animatronic wings and creature effects in Kevin Smith’s film Dogma and for Darren Aronofsky’s film, Requiem for a Dream, he designed, sculpted and applied prosthetics changing Oscar nominated actress Ellen Burstyn into a thinning decaying women. The prosthetic transformation made Vincent an Oscar hopeful that year and is looked at as one of the most convincing transformations in prosthetic makeup history for subtlety and realism. He later worked with Aronofsky again on the film Aftermath starring Arnold Schwarzenegger where Vincent’s team created silicone bodies for a graphic plane crash.
Vincent’s other groundbreaking effects include the first use of silicone technology with fire victim effects for Clint Eastwood’s Letters from Iwo Jima and Flags of Our Fathers. Other films include the Bryan Singer-produced horror film hit The Taking of Deborah Logan. With the help of prosthetic, silicone appliances and puppets Vincent and his team transformed actress Jill Larson into a crazed demonic possessed creature.
RAY ELLINGSEN
Producer
Ray Ellingsen began his film career in 1987 as a writer. He has since gone on to pursue numerous aspects of filmmaking, from directing and producing, to supervising post production of feature films, documentaries, and commercials. In 1999, Ellingsen helped form the motion picture entertainment company, Ugly Old Bird Productions, which produced multiple film and video projects during its five years of doing business.
Ellingsen moved to Arizona in 2005 to manage the largest motion picture film studio in the state of Arizona, Hollywood-Phoenix Film Studios. Within a year, Ellingsen brought in three feature films, numerous commercials, as well as a television series for the studio to produce. Ellingsen left the studio and moved back to Los Angeles to further his filmmaking career.
To date, Ellingsen has written and directed two documentaries and a feature film, along with a multitude of commercial, instructional and industrial projects. He has also produced nine feature films and over 30 video and commercial projects, with two feature films currently in development.
IN ASSOCIATION WITH
Moving Pictures Media Group
Moving Pictures Media Group, also known as MPMG, is a production company founded for motion picture, television, and internet content. MPMG provides a full suite of services to assist independent filmmakers, production companies and investors in the development, production, post-production, distribution, and marketing of their projects. Managing Director and Chief Creative Officer, Michael Minkler is a three-time Academy Award winner for his outstanding work on Black Hawk Down, Chicago, and Dreamgirls. A seasoned professional who has collaborated on over 200 projects with Hollywood’s elite directors, his most recent works include the Academy Award winning film, The Hateful Eight, written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. Chief Legal and Operations Officer, Ron Takehara, has a wide range of legal experience in the entertainment industry, from high profile cases involving motion picture and television industry litigation, to representing entertainment production companies, television networks, actors, stunt men and women, and screenwriters.
SOCIAL MEDIA