Project Slate
Carp-e Diem
When drifter couple, Natasha and Vern, accidentally stumble onto a house of two drug dealers for a Mexican cartel, they decide to take over the business. However, things get tricky when the drug kingpin’s son, Pedro, arrives to keep an eye on things and a nosy neighbor starts blackmailing them…
In Post Production
Crimson Road
Written By MJ Palo
Genre: thriller-suspense
Logline: Imagine you’re a 24-year-old bartender, broke and going from paycheck to paycheck. Imagine you have a 20-year-old fuck-up of a sister you still need to babysit. Now imagine you find yourself in your sister’s boyfriend’s house with bunch of dead drug dealers and two million dollars in a suitcase… This is the situation in which Sam Crimson finds herself one night with nothing to lose except her and her sister’s life…
WhiteOut
Written by MJ Palo
Genre: action-thriller
Logline: While hunting for serial bank robbers in rural Montana, an injured FBI agent gets stranded in the middle of a snowstorm and needs to seek the help of an eccentric and reclusive hunter to catch the robbers.
Missing
Written By MJ Palo
Genre: thriller-suspense
Logline: After a young woman goes missing, a widowed sheriff begins to investigate her disappearance in a small rural town while struggling to raise her own teenage daughter.
The Target List
Written By MJ Palo & John Reizer
Genre: medical thriller
Logline: After announcing a ground-breaking cancer cure, the four members of the research team are targeted by an assassin hired by the big pharma. Two researchers escape the attack, only to find themselves on the killer’s target list.
Proof of concept film:
Club 27
Written by MJ Palo, Paul Skinner, and Ville Hokkanen
Genre: dark dramedy
Logline: When a 27-year-old rising rock star overdoses on drugs and ends up in the hospital in a coma, his soul wakes up in a purgatory where he meets his heroes – the
musical legends of the Club 27. Now he needs to decide to either change his life or
join the club forever.
Other projects:
Scoundrels by MJ Palo – Sci-fi-action-comedy
Being Benjamin by MJ Palo – thriller-comedy
Where is Sherry Moon by MJ Palo – thriller
Aunt Jeannie by David Gray – action-comedy
Tree O’mine by Bernhard Riedhammer – Drama-Short
4 Hours Till Sunset by Don Upton and MJ Palo – Drama-Short