Filmography/screenplays

Space Investors- (Feature Comedy Screenplay) 2022

Official Selection: Austin Comedy Film Festival, Austin Texas, 2023.
Semi-Finalist: Flicker’s Rhode Island International Film Festival, 2023, Providence Rhode Island.
FOURTH PLACE: Zedfest Screenplay Competition, 2023, Burbank California.

Frank And The Orbital Gap- (Feature Comedy Screenplay) (2022)

Semi Finalist: Best Screenplay, 100 Screenplays Festival, Burbank, CA (2023)
Awarded Best Sci-Fi Horror Script in the Horrors4You Film Festival, London UK (2022)
Finalist- Best Screenplay: The Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival, Toronto ON, (2022)
Second Place: Best Feature Screenplay. Zedfest Film Festival, Burbank, CA (2022)
Official Selection: The Austin Comedy Film Festival, Austin TX, (2022)
Award Winner (Great Writing Category: The L.A. Neo Noir Novel, Film, & Script Online Festival, (2022)

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Asteroidy- (Comedy Screenplay) 2022

Finalist: BEST SCIENCE FICTION SCREENPLAY AT the Austin Short Film Festival, 2024
Awarded H.G. Wells BEST COMEDY SHORT FILM SCREENPLAY at the LA Sci-Fi & Horror Festival, 2022, Los Angeles, CA
Finalist: BEST COMEDY SHORT SCREENPLAY The Los Angeles International Sci-Fi Film Festival, 2023, Los Angeles, CA
Official Selection: Los Angeles International Sci- Fi Film Festival, 2023, Los Angeles CA

Outta This World- (Film) (2021)

Awarded THIRD PLACE in the SCI-FI SHORT FILM CATEGORY: International Horror Hotel Film Festival, Cleveland, Ohio (2022)
Awarded SECOND PLACE in the SHORT SCI-FI fILM CATEGORY: Indie Gathering Film Festival, Cleveland Ohio (2022)
Official Selection: End Of Days Film Festival, Orlando Florida (2022)
Official Selection: Shockfest Film Festival, 2022
Official Selection: Brooklyn Sci-Fi Film Festival, 2022
Honorable Mention: Absurd Film Festival

Outta This World- (Comedy Screenplay) (2021)

Awarded BEST SCREENPLAY: Absurd Film Festival, Milan Italy, 2021
Awarded BEST SCREENPLAY: Creation International Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA, (2021)
Awarded BEST SCI-FI SCREENPLAY : Die Laughing Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA, (2021)
*BEST SCREENPLAY FINALIST: Manhattan Short FIlm Festival, 2021, New York, N.Y.
Official Selection: Houston Comedy Film Festival, Houston Texas (2021), Best Comedy Screenplay Short Finalist.
Official Selection: Hang On To Your Shorts Film Festival Best Comedy Screenplay Short Finalist, Asbury Park, NJ. (2021)
Semi-Finalist: Micro Sketch Category: Lit Laughs International Comedy Film Festival, 2021, Harrowgate UK.

Bag Of P (Comedy Screenplay) (2021)

Winner: BEST DARK SCREENPLAY, Portland Comedy Film Festival, 2022, Portland Oregon
Official Selection: Dark Comedy Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA (2021)
Semi-Finalist: Burning Love Screenplay Contest, Arlington VA (2021)
Finalist: Hollywood Just4Shorts Film and Screenplay Festival, Los Angeles, CA (2022)

Area 50 1/2 (Comedy Screenplay) (2021)

Awarded BEST COMEDY SCREENPLAY: New York Script Awards, 2021, New York, N.Y.
Awarded BEST SCI-FI SCREENPLAY: Monza Film Festival, 2022, Turin Italy.
Semi-Finalist Best Short Screenplay: Zedfest Film Festival, 2022, Burbank California.

Jazz John – Film 25 minutes (2021)

Awarded BEST ORIGINAL IDEA, Night Of Comedy Shorts 2023, Milano Italy.
Awarded HONORABLE MENTION, The Australia Film Festival, 2022, Sidney Australia.
Awarded SECOND PLACE in the SHORT COMEDY CATEGORY: The Indie Gathering International Film Festival, Lorrain, Ohio (2021)
Awarded RUNNER-UP Award for BEST CONCEPT in the Brightside Shorts Film Festival, 2021, Jersey City, New Jersey * Nominated for Best Film, Best Concept, Best Actor (Mark Parsia) and Best Director (Michael Thomas Cain)
Official Selection: Lit Laughs International Comedy Film Festival, North Yorkshire, UK (2021)
Nominee: BEST WRITING-COMEDIC & BEST EDITING-COMEDIC Categories, The Short Film Awards, South Orange, N.J. (2021)
HONORABLE MENTION- WRITING: International Film Festival Manhattan, New York, N.Y., (2021)

Oatmelios- (Short Film) 27 Minutes (2021)

Awarded HONORABLE MENTION – the Australia Film Festival, 2021
Awarded 3RD PLACE – SHORT COMEDY CATEGORY- The Indie Gathering Film Festival, 2022, Cleveland Ohio.

Thumb Wrestler 2- (Short Film) The Second Thumbing- 27 Minutes (2018)

Official Selection: The Brightside Tavern Shorts Film Festival, Jersey City (2018)
Official Selection: The International Film Festival, Manhattan (2018)
Comedy Award Winner & *Nomination: (Best Supporting Actor, Short)- Chaz MacCormack, The Indie Gathering International Film Festival, 2019.

The Park Pervert- (screenplay, 2017)

Winner of 1Pg Short Screenplay contest at the LA Feedback Film Festival, 2017

Thumb Wrestler -(Short Film) 29 Minutes (2016)

Official Selection: Battles Of The Sketches Film Festival, 2024
Awarded HONORABLE MENTION in the Australia Film Festival, 2022
Awarded Best Comedy Short- The Lost Sanity Film Festival, 2019
Comedy Film Winner The Indie Gathering International Film Festival, Hudson Ohio (2018)
Awarded Honorable Mention The International Film Festival, Manhattan (2017)
Awarded Special Mention London-Worldwide Comedy Short Film Festival (2018)
Awarded Honorable Mention– “Best Parody”- Night Of Comedy Shorts, Milan Italy (2021)
Nominated For “Best Concept Award” The Brightside Tavern Shorts Film Festival, Jersey City (2018)
Official Selection: Comedy Shorts Film Festival, Online Festival (2017)

Bad Hair Day- (Short Film) 16 Minutes (2006)

Awarded: BEST TRAGICOMIC FILM, Night Of Comedy Shorts Film Festival 2023, Milano Italy.
Official Selection: Bizarroland Film Festival, Orlando Florida, 2023. **nomination: BEST ACTRESS (Mink Stole Award) for Gia Rhodes (“Donna Rapunzelle”)
Awarded: BEST DRAMA, LONDON FILM AWARDS, London UK, 2022
Awarded: Honorable Mention, Planet 9 Film Festival, Los Angeles California
Official Selection: Cosmic Film Festival, 2022
Official Selection: New York Istanbul Short Film Festival, 2022, Istanbul Turkey
Official Selection: The Brightside Tavern Short Film Festival, 2016, Jersey CIty New Jersey
Official Selection: New York International Independent Film & Video Festival, 2006
Official section: International Festival Of Cinema And Technology, 2007 ( touring: Orlando Florida, Brisbane Australia.

Party Games- (Short Film) 25 Minutes (2004)

Winner Of The Best Director Award at the NY Independent Film and Video Festival (2004)

Receptionist Smart-(Short Film) 29 Minutes (2002)

Awarded Best International Film, Absurd Film Festival, Milan Italy, 2022
Awarded: The Independent Achievement Award, NY International Independent Film And Video Festival (2002)
Awarded: Funny Bone Best Comedy Award , Festival Of The Macabre, Latrobe PA.(2002)
Awarded: Grand Goldie Film Award, Palatka Florida (2002)