The Parables
A new way of storytelling.
An anthology of stories promoting the better
nature of humanity, beginning with the first story:
GOOD IS A SCI-FI DARK COMEDY.
Set mostly in suburban Omaha, Nebraska in the near future, we follow six big-tech employees (representing the six different human personality types) at their regional headquarters, as well as the US President, her chief of staff at the White House and a bunker. GOOD shows humanity’s capacity to choose goodness despite everything life, and even AI, can throw against it, no matter what type of person you are.
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2024 FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS
- Best Dark comedy script
- Best Inspirational Script
- BEST DEBUT FILMMAKER
- BEST POSTMODERN FILM
- BEST HORROR, SCIENCE FICTION FEATURE
- BEST SCREENWRITING
Top Award
- LIVE TABLE READINGS - SCREENPLAY COMPETITION
- BEST CONCEPT
- BEST SCREENPLAY
- BEST SCI-FI
- BEST FANTASY
- BEST FIRST TIME
- Best Script
- Script Platine - Platinum Script
- Best Screenplay
- Best First Time Screenwriter
- Best Screenplay Feature
- Best Unproduced Script
- Best Feature Script
- Best Sci-Fi Or Fantasy Genre
- Best Horror/Sci-Fi Screenplay
- BEST DEBUT FILMMAKER
- BEST POSTMODERN FILM
- BEST HORROR, SCIENCE FICTION FEATURE
2024 Nominations
Finalist
- Cambridge Film Festival
- Palm Springs Diversity Screenplay Contest
- Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards
Semi-Finalist
- London International Screenwriting Competition
- Wiki: The World’s Fastest Screenplay Contest
Quarter Finalist
- Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards
- Belgrade International Film Festival
- Winter Leopard International Film Festival
Selections
- New York Tri-State International Film Festival
- Berlin International Screenwriting Festival
- The Fantasy Film Festival
- Sofia World Film Festival
- Chicago Script Awards
- Cineverse International Film Festival
- 4th Dimension Independent Film Festival
- Winter Leopard International Film Festival
Honorable
Mentions
- Santa Barbara Screenplay Awards Diversity Writers Outreach
The Parables Series
The Parables is an anthology of stories promoting the better nature of humanity. A new way of storytelling with a parable hidden in a movie of entertainment.
Following the first story “GOOD”, each story is of a different genre, time and place, but connected to GOOD by at least one revisiting character.
The Parables Anthology
Good
The origin.
A dark comedy/sci-fi.
Synopsis
Mecca
A drama featuring the
character Lisa.
Rank
An action film featuring the
character John/Kwesi.
Handle
A buddy comedy featuring
characters AJ and Leo.
Blessed
A horror film featuring
the character Lily.
Hi
An epic featuring the
character Eva.
Good
The origin.
A dark comedy/sci-fi.
Synopsis
Mecca
A drama featuring the
character Lisa.
Rank
An action film featuring the
character John/Kwesi.
Handle
A buddy comedy featuring
characters AJ and Leo.
Blessed
A horror film featuring
the character Lily.
Hi
An epic featuring the
character Eva.
About The Writer
I was born in 1977 to a Guatemalan immigrant mother and a blue-collar Texan father who were both divorced and met at a singles party in Twin Peaks, San Francisco. I grew up in the rural hills near Napa, California, leaving at the age of 18 to earn a bachelor’s degree from Claremont McKenna College, and then a law degree from Harvard and a master’s degree in real estate from NYU. After taking the typical route of joining big law for a decade, I hung up my shingle and worked out of my own shop for another 12 years.
I was quite secure that would be the end of this bio until one very late night philosophical debate, some heavy IOS Notes scribbling and an introduction to Final Draft later, GOOD was born, and my 22-year legal career seems to have abruptly, universally and unexpectedly (my hand’s up too) come to an end.
I could not be happier.*
*We would also like to tell you that Monte’s family produces delicious olive oil, he is a husband and father of two beautiful boys and summers in the Hamptons.