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Timothy Perrin |
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(250) 979-8366 |
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tim@timperrin.com |
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www.timperrin.com |
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| Biography: |
Timothy Perrin is an award-winning screenwriter, playwright, author and journalist. He has written three screenplays, a TV pilot, several teleplays, five books, and hundreds of magazine articles. He's interviewed presidents, prime ministers, Nobel laureates, and just plain folk. Tim once worked for the CBC’s flagship public affairs program As It Happens, and he was a disk jockey for a Dick Clark-owned radio station. He also spent nine years as a lawyer. He's been scuba-diving in the Bahamas, flown sailplanes over the California desert, gone bike-riding with a nudist club in the Netherlands, patrolled with UN Peacekeepers down the "green line" in Cyprus, and crewed a three-masted square-rigger on the Atlantic—and he knows where Buffalo Bill Cody is really buried. |
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| Title 1: |
Albatross |
| Genre 1: |
Political Thriller with Romance Subplot (Feature Film) |
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The First Lady of the US is being blackmailed and rather than turning to her husband for help, she turns to an old lover who happens to be the President’s chief political enemy. |
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Winner 2007 Angie Award for best screenplay at International Mystery Writers Festival Semi-Finalist 2009 Scripapalooza Contest.
Cpl. Robert Hodges is a GI stationed in Berlin in 1961. His fiancée, Katrina Schiedeman, lives in the Russian sector. When the Berlin Wall goes up, they are permanently separated.
Jump ahead to the late 80s. President Grant Willard is attempting to pass a treaty. His First Lady is Katrina Schiedeman. Leading the opposition to the treaty is none other than Robert Hodges, now a Senator.
And Katrinaa is being blackmailed.
Katrina and Robert have not spoken since Berlin, but Katrina approaches him for help. It is clear that they still care for each other.
She discloses that she had to leave behind their son when she escaped from East Germany. Katrina believed the boy had died just after she fled, but the blackmailers say he is a alive, someone whose life will be ruined if his true parentage is revealed.
Robert knows that the answers lie in Berlin. He dispatches an aide to find the truth.
Days later, as he stalls the vote on the Senate floor, his aide bursts through the door. Their son did die in 1962. The blackmail scheme is a lie.
In a powerful speech, Robert rallies support to defeat the treaty.
Later, Katrina comes to Robert’s office to ask “What about us?” She and the President are splitting. Their marriage was an attempt to turn a friendship into something more and it has not worked. Robert reveals that he has accepted a university teaching post where, “My door will always be open to students... and former First Ladies.” |
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| Title 2: |
Reel Law |
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Situation Comedy (TV) |
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Lawyers behaving badly. |
| Synopsis 2: |
REEL LAW is about law, life, and taking on the world in the new millennium at the law firm of Doherty Price. The background is Vancouver’s vibrant entertainment industry, but at its heart, Reel Law is about the characters we meet every week and about the same issues raised on any good legal program, just with more glamour and pizzazz.
We hope to use comedy in one of its oldest and most important traditions—as court jester to address the serious social...
Aw, screw it. Who am I kidding?
This is a sitcom, plain and simple. It happens to take place in a law office, but issues? It’s a comedy, for pete’s sake. We’re here to make people laugh.
There’s no magic to it. When in doubt, we go for the gag. We don’t jerk tears and we don’t have poignant moments—unless they’re a setup for something really good. We’re not afraid of farts, belches, scratching of private parts, or “incorrect” politics.
That said, we do have one boundary.
When we poke fun at people, it is because of what they do, not who they are. So, no racist jokes. No gimp jokes. No blatant putdowns of women, which, I admit, will be a fine line to walk given the fact that we will be hip deep in T&A. But, people, we will operate from a position of great respect for T&A at all times.
Great respect.
Got it? |
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| Title 3: |
The Bucket List |
| Genre 3: |
Reality Show (TV) |
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What have you been putting off that you would do if you knew you were going to die soon—and someone else were footing the bill? |
Synopsis3: |
The concept is simple: help people fulfil those dreams they put on hold figuring they could get to them someday. When I put the question out to 100 of my contacts, I found one who wanted to complete her training as an opera singer and sing with a major opera. Another wants to compete in the National Reining Horse Association Futurity in Oklahoma City. A friend in Indiana wants to lead a big band “and maybe sing a number or two out front.” A rather literary man I know wants to travel to Greece to visit the key locations in Homer. A boomer woman wants “to go swimming in the new London Olympic Aquatic Centre in England with Sir Paul McCartney followed by a private sit down vegetarian lunch at a good restaurant in London.” Another wants to take a balloon ride over the Grand Canyon while yet another man is out for even more adventure: he wants to run the Amazon from the Andes to the Atlantic. And my nephew had only one simple request: “Space travel please.” With Virgin Galactic getting ready to launch, that’s very much a possibility.
I don’t envision this program as actually setting out to fulfil the wishes of dying people. That could easily slip into the maudlin. Rather, it is to get people to think about the things they’ve put off in their lives. Then we pick the ones that will make the best TV and make them happen. |
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