Films
MEANING OF VIOLENCE - Completed
Directors: GREGORY RHOADES, & ALBERT PRIEST
Screenwriter: GERALD RHOADES
Genre: URBAN INDIE
Ian Winter, a jobless ex-con, has left the life of crime to move in with his beautiful girlfriend. He promises her he will find an honest job, change his life around, and become a family man. But Ian can't escape his past.
His first job turns bloody in a mexican stand off with a group of cut-throat African Thugs. Their gang is ruthless and they murder his girlfriend. Ian wants blood.
Will Ian survive his reckless blind rage even though the odds are against him? Will he be able to find a meaning to live again?
A SMALL MATTER OF JUSTICE - seeking funding
Directors: GREGORY RHOADES
Screenwriter: GERALD RHOADES
Genre: ACTION
Almost every action movie starts off as a revenge plot. But this story doesn't give it away until the climax. Jamie Hirano steps off the bus in a bad part of down town Los Angeles and quickly gets into the thick of it when a group of young men harrass a lone young woman. Hirano comes to her rescue, only to seem too much about her life then you'd expect from a stranger. As it turns out, Hirano is the mastermind of an elaborte plot of revenge that's taken years to set up between to rival mafia families. It's like dominos, and Hirano just has to flick his little pinkey to start a war.
Seeking funding and distribution for this gritty action gangster film, set in Los Angeles.
THE WINDOW - In development
Directors: GREGORY RHOADES
Screenwriter: GREGORY RHOSES
Genre: DARK URBAN COMEDY
The Window is slated to begin filming early next year 2014. It is about a New York Cab driver who moved to Los Angeles and falls in love with an upscale call girl who gets kidnapped. He finds out her daughter is all alone and he becomes her superhero in his attempt to rescue her mother from one of the biggest undeworld sex trade opperations in Los Angeles. The only thing he has to go off of is that he can see her through the window of an eight story high rise. He enlists his cab driver friends to help him in his mission impossible task.
Directors: GREGORY RHOADES
Screenwriter: GERALD RHOADES, GREGORY RHOADES
Genre: CHARACTER DRAMA​
Sean Kelley is a lost drifter who wonders into town in a stolen vehicle looking for his mother who left him a long time ago. Sean wanders down roads filled with shadows and doubt and befriends two young women, one, the moral backbone of the story, an aspiring therapist, and the other, a five and dime hustler who's ex-con boyfriend sees Sean as a naive fall guy. A simple in and out turns into a kidnapping and Sean is the only thing standing in between a deadly felon and an innocent millionaire heiress. Will Sean get wise before he ends up taking the fall or will he end up with a bullet in his head and a broken heart. Sean's mother holds the key to this riddle, and until he meets her once again, he'll remain tormented by the feeling that LOVE IS ELSEWHERE.
Seeking funding and distribution.
LOVE IS ELSEWHERE - seeking Funding
An American Werewolf in Tokyo - seeking funding
Directors: GREGORY RHOADES
Screenwriter: GREGORY RHOADES
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Horror
An American Werewolf is about a small town decective, Ike Valentine is hired to solve a missing persons case. The case leads him overseas when the foreign exchange student appears to have eloped with a K-pop band on tour. But this girtty decective has been bitten by more than love, and he turns into a werewolf who seems to have only one mission. Kill the girl who he was hired to find. When a strange twist of fate happens, he realizes that he's in fact the pawn of a much bigger organization, and the people who hired him actually want him to find and kill the girl as she is something more special then we modern day humans could possibly underastand. But Ike Valentines love for this girl helps him to gain control over his monsterous curse and he becomes an unlikely hero in this wild ride in Tokyo.
