current feature film Projects
THE FREEDOM MEDAL
Logline: Badly wounded by the war she protested, a high-profile military spouse 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. (True story)
Comps: "Born on the Fourth of July" x “War Horse"
The script is available.
TITLE IX: THE MOVIE
Logline: Based on actual events after the 1972 passage of TITLE IX-the only US law to guarantee sex equality-a scrappy schoolgirl battles injury and animosity on her way to the Boys State Wrestling Championship while inspiring her brilliant, frustrated mother to reclaim her dream of college. (True Story)
Comps: The Blind Side x Remember the Titans.
Tagline: Someone had to go first.
Script is available.
He's my son
Logline: After a USMC Iraq War veteran is coerced into pleading guilty to murder, the shellshocked mother of Australia’s “pure evil killer” fights to find the truth and save her son. (True Crime)
Comps: Dead Man Walking with A Few Good Men x In the Valley of Elah
Script available January 2025.
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 I have a large amount of records, case files, and historical documents to support the story.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
BAMBO AND T-REX DELIVER
Format: TV Series
Genre: Adult 2D Animated Sitcom (Half-hour)
COMPS: "Daria" and “BoJack Horseman” meet "The Dukes of Hazzard.”
BAMBO GOES POSTAL PILOT
LOGLINE: Fed up with courtroom corruption, an environmental attorney reinvents themselves in Appalachian coal country, picking up an anthropomorphic fainting goat for mail route misadventures and home-schooled murder mayhem.
The Pilot script and Series Bible are available.
MOHANJI: Making Masters
Unscripted docu-series
Logline: After tragedy destroys his life, an international shipping executive undergoes a profoundly mystical transformation and travels the globe inspiring people, elevating spirituality, and providing practical solutions for the most pressing issues of our times through enlightened eyes.
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 sports biopic, TITLE IX, the actual account of the first girl to wrestle on a boys’ team under the federal law, is a Finalist for The Writers Lab (2024). Stacy has a non-exclusive shopping agreement with an established Director for her antiwar drama, THE FREEDOM MEDAL, 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, a single location drama 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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