current feature film Projects
SAVING SPERO
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 “War Horse"
The script is available.
HE'S MY SON
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.
wrestle like a girl
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.
in the shadow of the dream: ip/life rights
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 I have a large amount of records, case files, and historical documents to support the story.
the ascension records, a trilogy book i: keepers of frequency
Logline: Five American women undergo a brutal shamanic initiation from a spiritually advanced female tribe, and with the energetic enslavement of humanity near the tipping point, they join forces to protect the planet from evil incarnate.
Comps: The Woman King meets Dr. Strange in The Matrix.
The first installment/screenplay of a Supernatural/Sci-Fi Thriller trilogy with a strong female cast.
eco trip
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.
TELEVISION PROJECTS
SCRIPTED & UNSCRIPTED
Adult 3D Animated TV Sitcom (Half-hour)
BAMBO AND T-REX DELIVER
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
TRANSFORMATIONAL JOURNEYS WITH MOHANJI
Unscripted hybrid docu-series
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.
screenwriting bio
Stacy Bannerman, MFA, writes female-forward, socially relevant and spiritually informed screenplays and a super sassy Adult Animated TV Sitcom Pilot, BAMBO GOES POSTAL, #16 on Coverfly's The Red List. Her high-concept family sports drama, WRESTLE LIKE A GIRL, the actual account of the first girl to wrestle on a boys’ team under the federal law, is a 2024 The Writers Lab SemiFinalist. Stacy has a non-exclusive shopping agreement with an established Director for her antiwar drama, SAVING SPERO, featuring a strong, over-40 female lead in a true story about the war at home, the transformational healing power of the horse and the resurrection of the human spirit. She is currently working on an unscripted reality docu-series hybrid as well as ECO TRIP, an environmental dramedy/female buddy film. Additional projects include CANNON BEACH CHRISTMAS, a single location dramedy in the vein of The Big Chill, and a trilogy of supernatural/sci-fi feature screenplays, THE ASCENSION RECORDS. She writes from her singular POV as a woman who spent a lifetime on the front lines of actions, advocacy and activism for racial justice, peace, gender equality, and climate.
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