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Documentaries

The Brothers Leavenworth: Or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Make A Damn Movie. Sibling filmmaking duo laments the difficulties they faced while attempting to make movies whilst hilariously satirizing the film industry in general. (Release date: TBD)
Californian. Documentarian travels from his home in SoCal to NoCal and takes note of the similarities and differences between city and rural lifestyles. A "loveletter" to his homestate. (Release date: TBD)
Tomorrow. Documentarian visits Disney's Tomorrowland resort, Seattle's Science Fiction Hall of Fame and others, in order to answer why science fiction fails to predict the future and why it never turns out exactly the way they predict.

Short film list

Untitled Mexican Science Fiction Thriller. They always said advances in technology would deter crime, however, the reverse is true. In this future, corporations compete against one another attempting to steal the best information. Information is power. (Temporary release date: January 15, 2016)
Crashlander. A lone astronaut crashlands on a hostile alien desert world, with little supplies and no time for assumptions, she contemplates potential suicide or a slow agonizing death. (Temporary release date: November 21, 2016)
The Invention of Time Travel. Twin brothers are rejected from Stanford but this does not deter them from creating a time machine. (Temporary release date: April 7, 2017)
Nautical. A wash-out astronaut joins the Oceanic Scientific Exploration Agency as they track down the lost treasure of Franklin Shaw. (Temporary release date: October 7, 2017)
Untitled Twenty Years After A Zombie Apocalypse. Two decades have past since "the Dead rose," there are no more zombies however, humans are still infected with the necrovirus and a cure is still elusive. The small town of Quincy, CA has been walled off like a medieval castle as another town tries to take the town and their ample supplies. (Temporary release date: October 7, 2018)

Feature-length projects

The Folk Tale of Grandpa Daniel. A grandson drives his grandfather to claim the property of his grand-uncle who recently passed away, the two men learn to appreciate one another despite being separated by generations. (Temporary release date: Late 2020)
Starlight. An animated film focusing on a young boy who is abducted by aliens and taken on a tour of the universe. (Temporary release date: 2020~)
Tinseltown. A screenwriter is asked by a studio head to help rewrite the script for a well-known director, on set he meets a befriends an up and coming starlet, later he investigates her mysterious murder that will change Hollywood forever. (Temporary release date: Mid 2022)
The Land That Time Forgot. A boyfriend and girlfriend take a trip to a cabin in the woods, the boyfriend's younger brother and his friends show up to prevent him from taking their father's raft. But as they race down the river in the raft, they are catapulted to a prehistoric island with no way of returning home. (Temporary release date: Mid 2023)
Wanderers. Vega Aerospace launches the first crewed exploration mission of the Solar System, Vega's rival, MST launches another ship to compete against them, the commander of the MST's mission is the ex-wife of Vega's mission pilot. (Temporary release date: Mid 2025)
Survival. A supervolcano eruption prevents astronauts and colonists from returning to Earth, as this cold reality sets in, the crew of a space station plot a course for Mars in a potentially futile attempt at survival. (Temporary release date: Late 2026)
Subterranean. Two hundred years after "the Sealing," the residents of an underground city prepare for war against a rival city while a group of dissenters plot an expedition to the surface. (Temporary release date: Mid 2028)
Red Moon. Animated film following an uprising on a penal colony on Callisto, in an alternate timeline where the USSR won the Space Race. (Temporary release date: Late 2029)
The World of Bertrand Anderson. In the city's last bookstore, a child's parents take him to visit the novelty store, fascinated he returns later to the closing of the bookstore. Despite this, the bookstore owner shows the boy the vast array of books and a secret regarding the bookstore. When the child reads a book, he is taken into the world of the book and begins his adventures. (Temporary release date: Mid 2030)

Adaptions/"If I Did it" (Scripts only)

Planetes. Based on the anime and manga by Makoto Yukimura. Script follows a debris hauler training his replacement as he begins his participation in the first crewed mission to Jupiter.
Interstellar. Based on the original 2008 screenplay and 2014 film written by Christopher and Jonathan Nolan. Script focuses on a single father who must leave his children behind on Earth in a desperate attempt to survey a potentially habitable planet through a wormhole.
Tomorrowland. Based on the 2015 film written by Damien Lindelof and Brad Bird. Script focuses on a young girl from Florida who is selected to visit a world where the scientists and artists of the future are working diligently to solve the world's problems, however, someone in Tomorrowland is using the technology to profit and ultimately destroy everything the city stands for.

Burner scripts (for sale at screenwriting contests)

Ignition. (Foreign language-Spanish) Script focuses on an astronaut's return to duty after an accident in space costs him his best friend, he begins training for Mexico's first crewed mission to the planet Venus but he must learn to silence his passion for a fellow female astronaut he has a history with.
Mountain Man. An outlaw comes to terrorize a boomtown in the Sierras, the townsfolk recruit a local trapper to eliminate the menace.
German America. In an alternate history, where the Nazis have invaded North America, a construction worker joins the American Resistance to liberate the country and eventually take down Nazi Germany.
Battle of Plumas County. After a bloody battle between two crime families, a family member is given a new identity and moved from New York to the Sierras in California. At first, he struggles to adjust to his new life there, but eventually he does. Twelve years pass and he has become a master of life there, he prevents a bank robbery and becomes a national hero, which causes the recently released members of a rival family to track him down.
Sixth Extinction. A risk assessment expert is sent to Switzerland to show the W.H.O a projected analysis of a drug resistant bacteria, the expert later learns that this "hypothetical bacteria" is in fact a real threat and the world must act immediately or face the extinction of the human race.
Shadow Team. A cataclysm strikes the U.S. as a special forces team was out of country, ten years later, a beaten and worn down squad fights not for freedom but for their survival.
Untitled religious cult film. A religious leader closes off his compound in Idaho, as he begins to rally his follows, a couple begins to dissent away from him as the truth of his lies come forth.
Chthonios. An accountant leaves work to pick up his teenage daughter, just as a massive earthquake strikes Chicago, he navigates the ruins of the city to find her when he discovers that the potential cause of the earthquake was a mutated giant earthworm.

Television pilot scripts

90's Kids. One year after the death of his mother, a jaded kid returns to attend his first day as a high school freshman, he is beaten by bullies and humiliated, then chooses to fight them using comedy. (Envisioned as a four season series with a TV movie style finale)
Cerberus. An operative of the Intelligence Department is tasked with preventing high-yield explosives from entering the U.S. or being sold on the black market, but when a nuclear bomb is detonated in the Persian Gulf, he discovers that the culprits may be American not Middle Eastern. (Envisioned as a mini-series, not a full series)
Sightings. A USAF retrieval team recover the wreckage of a crashed UFO, a Captain begins questioning their activities and investigates the decades-long cover-up, they later learn that the occupants of the craft are actually humans from a far-off possible future. (Envisioned as an ongoing series, but may be converted into a feature-length film)
Timeframe. A modern day California city is catapulted back to late 15th century Florida, a clash of civilizations ensues. (Envisioned as an ongoing series)
Strangeland. A native American tracker is hired by a corporation to recapture mythical/folkloric creatures that escaped from a containment compound in Alaska. (Envisioned as a six season series with a potential spin-off)

Franchise

Offworld. The crew of a sleeper ship awaken at their destination twelve and a half light-years from Earth to discover the wreckage of another colony ship on the surface.
Crose. A female law enforcement officer attempts to quell a rebellion on the surface on the Moon.
Redshift. Science fiction anthology series where each season is a different cast, setting and story.
Space Academy. Spin-off of Redshift which abandons the anthology basis and focuses instead on a female cadet who wants to be the next great space explorer.

Hello there, I'm Phil Leavenworth, ~~Chief Producer-Writer-Director~~ of Inverted Materialism Films. A relatively new film "company" that serves as a front for my wacky, if ultimately discovered to be, insane ramblings.

As a producer, I handle the production of a film project and make sure I do my job with assembling a workable crew and cast (and on occasion hire a director) to ensure the project runs smoothly.

As a writer, I speak the language of ideas. The old screenwriting maxim, "you can turn a good script into a bad movie, but you can't turn a bad script into a good movie," has served as a valuable tool.

As a director, I am the eyes of the writer. I can see new ways to explore old worlds or rediscover old ways to explore new ones. Filmmaking is a visual art and without spectacle it is a stage-play.

I have spent 12 years writing stories and about 8 trying to make them, my hope is that before this decade is out I would have amassed enough stories to validate all my sleepless nights and shindigs I've missed to write nonsense. All in all, this adventure is just beginning and I'd like you to join in and see where things go. You may be surprised. :)

Vault L Enterprises

Friday, June 23, 2017

Update: June 2017

Sunday, January 17, 2016

Production update - January 2016

Thursday, June 4, 2015

June 4, 2015 - Interstellar rewrite

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

June 3, 2015 - Current project list (Updated Summer 2015 edition)

Saturday, August 3, 2013

August 3, 2013 - Phillip Leavenworth resume

Thursday, August 1, 2013

July 31, 2013 - Introduction

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