A failed writer is tasked with completing her dead daughter's film treatment but first she has to overcome her demons related to the death of her family, which she caused.

ASHBURTON is a ten-part episodic examining the changing cultural and socio-economic pressure on a middle-class family in West Baltimore.
The story revolves around Dean Reed, investment community marketing genius and his loving dentist wife Terri, as they suffer through the downturn in the California housing industry compounding the loss of their crypto investments. At wit’s end they decide to return to Baltimore to re- calibrate their careers and support Dean’s aging parents.
Terri is a dedicated wife, who supports her husband’s failed attempts at financial success.  Her dental career is stable but second to her role as wife.
Glenn and Rose, Dean’s parents are solid foundations of the Ashburton community. They pride themselves on setting an example for their children. They encouraged honest hard work. They are physically strong, and work on their health on a regular basis.
Returning to the family home stresses Dean because of the success of his sibling, his history of business failure and internal sense of failing his family.
The environment he returns to is loving and supportive but challenging because of the strong personalities of the family and their naïve attitude towards the pending gentrification of the community. His sibling all are developing dynamic careers while supporting his parents.
Upon returning to Baltimore, Dean realizes that many of the socio-economic realities that he faced in his California career were pressuring his family and parents into difficult decisions. The primary one being the rapid gentrification of his community - Ashburton.
How will Dean navigate his questionable career in marketing which destroyed Black communities in California with supporting his family and community in Baltimore?

Church Hat is based on personal experiences . It 's the loving story of an Afro-Carribbean middle class parents dealing with the natural gender curiosity of their son and how their navigate his actions in a sensitive and satifying manner.  

I met the book author Debra Williams at the Toronto International Film Festival (2022). She had just self published the book to much local acclaim.  We discussed the further development of the book into a short animated film, along the lines of the Acedemy awarding winning HAIR LOVE (2019). Since September 2022 an amazing team of Sundance alum, Baltimore creators and Canadian funders have signed on to the project.  

I was tasked with adapting the book into a short script and sign on as a producer.  

The goal is have filming completed by August 2023.  

Tori is an existentialist exercise in examining the juxtaposition of reality and fantasy as filtered by career expectations and inherent personal fears.