Jungian psychology identifies feminine archetypes as part of the collective unconscious, not stereotypes, but symbolic forces of womanhood that emanate from the mythologies of many cultures. The experiences of my life, transforming from being a girl into a sexual, romantic, social adult, an artist, a maker, a daughter, wife, mother and activist, whether compelled by awe or outrage, have given rise to the story engine, Dollface Films.

2026 DEVELOPMENT SLATE:

SUSPENSE:

• THE BEASTS & THE CHILDREN - A young woman with a troubled past seizes a chance at happiness with a charming drifter and his lonely, gifted son. But the dream of creating a happy family soon turns dangerous when she realizes that the boy had been abducted as a child. Spec Feature.

• RELATIVE TRUTH - Based on the optioned novel “His Mother’s Son” by Cai Emmons, published by Harcourt Press. Jana is an E.R. doc who long ago created an alternate identity in the hopes of burying the shame of her brother’s dreadful crimes as a school shooter. Now terrified that her own son might be like him, she’s compelled to face the truth.

ROMANTIC COMEDY:

• THE REAL ME - A hard-working, single mom who’s ready to reclaim her career as a fashion photographer, mistakenly sends her shy daughter’s crush pictures to her former magazine editor, catapulting both of them into a wild adventure. Spec Feature.

• THE LYING KING - A brilliant but unsuccessful actor disguises himself as Asian in order to snag the lead role in a national production of “The King & I” that’s headed to Broadway. Guilty of the worst kind of cultural appropriation, he is also unaware that his former girlfriend, the one whose heart he broke into pieces, has been cast to play Anna, his love interest. Backstage Musical Spec Feature.

DESTINATION ROMANCE: Mature & YA

• BÈSAME MUCHO - An American widow and her much younger Spanish teacher, both defeated by loveless marriages, discover a rare kind of healing bliss in the intoxicating city of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico that becomes complicated by family convention and immigration policy. Spec Feature.

• ABROAD - A serious college student on a Paris college abroad program is hell-bent on finding the scientist who’s working on a drug that could help her sick mother, unaware that it’s the intense principal dancer of the Paris ballet, who she’s been avoiding, that’s the key to what she needs.

DRAMATIC SERIES:

• KINKS - Dr. Novak is a media-darling sex therapist hired by the FBI to help them entrap a devious sex offender, but her unconventional ways of looking at intimacy shake up the status quo in unexpected ways. Spec Pilot.

• GRASS ROOTS - An injured Olympic athlete lands back in her home town where she restarts adult life reluctantly as the high school gym teacher. Awakening to the myriad ways the school, the town and the culture fails girls, she runs for school board, transforming into a leader.

• SECOND SKIN - An orthodox Jewish woman in prison for a white-collar crime she didn’t commit, trades jail time for going undercover with radical white supremacists, but the group and its charismatic leader offer a sense of community she’s never before enjoyed.

YA SCIENCE FICTION

• THE FATE THAT REMAINS - Having escaped from a brutal concentration camp run by aliens, a young woman, who has survived by living as a boy, discovers an Utopian society in the forest where she learns what it means to be human again. But when she discovers that all is not what it seems in this perfect world, she must rise up as a leader to do the right thing. Spec novel co-written with Sara Dahmen.