Morten Savage
Morten Savage
Writer and Filmmaker
 
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Screenplays

 
 

FEATURE SCRIPT

NOWHERE LAND

Drama/Comedy

A dysfunctional college student is sent by his parents to a wilderness rehabilitation program in Western North Carolina — where amidst gruelling hikes, terrible food, and angst-ridden group members — he discovers his problems might be more serious than he thought.

 

Feature script

THE SPEARFINGER

Horror/Comedy

A kind old woman with an appetite for human livers is at large in a mountain resort town — but possibly more concerning is the backdrop of isolation and despair which led to her appearance in the first place.

 

FEATURE SCRIPT

OVER THE WAVES

Drama/Comedy

A marginally employed line cook living with his great aunt believes he’s found love with a foreign woman on the internet — but her eventual visit suggests reality may not be as simple as he imagined.

You’re going to love it out there. You won’t even want to go home.
— Assistant with a ponytail
I’m sorry. You wanted to talk about death and disappearance again.
— Samantha's sports-addicted husband

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Short films

 
 

TROPICAL GARDENS

genre

Mockumentary

logline

A down-and-out loner copes with a breakup by taking on his own personal “white whale”: beating the record at a local mini golf course.

length

13 minutes

 

THE DREAM

genre

Dark comedy

logline

A financial analyst’s recurring nightmare of getting murdered by a homeless person becomes painfully prescient.

length

14 minutes

 

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