Nancy Lu Hoffman
Stories for Screens
Making Friends with Death
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Death is all around us, so why not just make friends with it. Right?
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Click to play video. Filmed, edited, and produced by JL Stories. 2018
Unflappable
​A Newport tycoon is found murdered at his own party. The party's theme? Dress as your favorite servant. If the butler did it, which butler was it?
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Flapper detective Antonetta Bassani, is hired by Violet Crawford to dig deeper than the cops have. Her brother, William, 19 and black, was arrested after he fled the scene, but Violet thinks he's been framed.
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Antonetta and Violet move through 1927 Providence and Newport, RI to discover the truth. Race, class, gender, and Prohibition are just some of the rocky shoals they must navigate to make the truth known.
Ohhhmmm Man
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Reuben, the graveyard cook at Los Angeles' most revered all-night diner pledges allegiance to the power of grease. Until Emma the yogi inverts his self-demolishing ways with the power of chavasana and ginger tea.
Converted, he follows her to an ashram for the summer and throws himself into sprouts and astanga.
What happens when a man of appetites decides to binge on yoga? Can a person over-balance themselves? And what about that head chef at the ashram with an anger problem. What does she have to do with it all?
Clutch
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17-year-old Vanessa is just unlocking the car to drive to an internship interview when 19-year-old Mickey races up and jacks her car. Except he can't drive stick, so he has to take her too.
In hot pursuit of Mickey is an irate customer from the convenient store he works at. Vanessa provides the wheels and away they go, discussing the value of college, jobs, niceness, sharing and parents.
The young duo evade the irate customer, Vanessa's mom, her old driving instructor, and manage to avoid the big hill in town. Until they can't.