Logline: A high-profile victim of military domestic violence develops a powerful healing bond with a wild horse and risks her life to save him in the Appalachian backcountry even as he is saving her, and then must risk everything else to expose the Pentagon's crimes. (True Story)
Comps: "Born on the Fourth of July" x "Coming Home" x “War Horse"
The script is available.
Logline: After a USMC Iraq War veteran is coerced into pleading guilty to murder, the shellshocked Midwestern mom of Australia’s “pure evil killer” fights to find the truth and save her son, uncovering one of the military’s darkest secrets. (True story)
Comps: Dark Waters with A Few Good Men In the Valley of Elah
The script is available.
Logline: Based on actual events in 1972, when a scrappy schoolkid is barred from wrestling because she's a girl, she must fight for a place on the team with her father's help and battle injury and animosity on her way to the Boys State Championship. (True Story)
Comps: The Blind Side x Remember the Titans.
Tagline: Someone had to go first.
Awards/Accolades: The Grey List 2025. ISA Fast Track Fellowship Second Round Selection Spring 2025. The Writers Lab International Semifinalist 2024.
Script is available.
Logline: Karmic forces arise with a vengeance when a naïve activist becomes the first white Executive Director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center, she's caught in the crossfire of racial hate and "reverse discrimination" as she fights the Aryan Nations. (True story)
Pitch available. This is an autobiographical personal story, and the life rights are available to option. I have a large amount of records, case files, and historical documents to support the story.
Logline: Devolving humans and a dying planet lead a maverick Eco Biologist to the discovery of an ancient, ascended hierarchy that must re-emerge from thousands of years in hiding to elevate humanity and stop evolution’s end.
Feature Genre: Grounded Sci-Fi/Supernatural Thriller
Comps: The Da Vinci Code x The Day After Tomorrow
Tagline: The next phase of human evolution is spiritual.
Logline: After her Green Amendment passes in Oregon, a cocky climate activist takes her bill to Capitol Hill, but when her corn oil bus breaks down, she must team up with her frenemy to get to D.C.
Female-driven Environmental Dramedy/Buddy film. PG-13.
COMPS: "Don't Look Up" meets "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles."
Treatment available.
LOGLINE: Fed up with courtroom corruption, an environmental attorney reinvents themselves in Appalachian coal country, picking up a talking fainting goat for mail route misadventures and murder mayhem.
COMPS: BoJack Horseman X The Dukes of Hazzard
#16 Coverfly The Red List 2024.
BAMBO GOES POSTAL
Logline: After tragedy destroys his life, an international shipping executive undergoes a profoundly mystical transformation and travels the globe inspiring personal evolution and positive action to drive collective change.
Comps: Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown x Down to Earth with Zac Efron.
Pitch deck is available.
Stacy Bannerman, MFA, writes from her singular POV as a woman who spent a lifetime as an advocate and nationally-known activist for justice, peace, and climate. Accolades for her classic American underdog family sports drama WRESTLE LIKE A GIRL include The Grey List (2025) and The Writers Lab International Semifinalist (2024). Her Adult Animated TV Pilot, BAMBO GOES POSTAL, made Coverfly’s The Red List, among other awards and placements. Her inspirational female-driven Anti-War drama, SAVING SPERO, a Page Turner Screenplays Finalist, is in development with an established Director and veteran Producer. Stacy is currently working on a True Story Crime Drama, HE’S MY SON, about one mother’s fight for justice for her Iraq War veteran son, the “Pure Evil Killer.” Other projects include an environmental dramedy/female buddy film, ECO TRIP, and a grounded sci-fi/supernatural feature, THE ASCENSION RECORDS. Stacy is the author of two books—Homefront 911 (2015) received a Kirkus Reviews Starred Review—a history-making performance art piece staged at the US Capitol, 80 articles, and four bills, two of which became laws. She testified before Congress several times. She lives on the edge of the grid in SW Virginia.
As a skilled writer/ghostwriter, I'll help you bring your book, screenplay, or memoir to life. I'll capture your voice and tell your story in a way that engages readers and leaves a lasting impact.