Disruptive

Penpusher · 160 points

140 points to Logliner

8 loglines
5 reviews

– Darwin 1942. When a recalcitrant minister is accused of spying for the Japanese, he must put aside his conflict with authority and fight to clear his name and uncover the real spy, as bombs rain down on the city.

July 4, 2023
When mining pollutes the water table and the mine closes, a local outback town is left without employment. A local teenage rebel attempts to save the town by setting up a renewable energy company and entice the ‘ornery locals to learn a new way of living.

September 24, 2019
A young woman is challenged to write a horror story and ends up telling the story of her mother’s life. This is the new truth about Frankenstein.

August 26, 2019
When the local mining company brings in external workers, the town of Hope apathetically slides towards its death. Slut-shamed 17-year-old schoolgirl, Tim, challenges the locals, the politicians, and the mining billionaires into establishing a renewable energy business, in a frantic effort to save the town – and herself.

August 19, 2019
When a disgraced schoolgirl is sent home, she finds her rural outback town dying. With everything hopeless, she sets about to remake the town, fighting with corrupt politicians, billionaire mining magnets and ?apathetic ?townspeople to create a prosperous future.

August 8, 2019
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A rework of an older logline

October 17, 2018
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When opinionated teenager, Mary Wollstonecraft sees her mother suffer in an abusive marriage, Mary decides to create a different pathway for women through education. Set against Georgian England, she struggles against her family, the church and the law in a desperate bid for acceptance before she is shunned by society.

September 4, 2017
Set against the backdrop of the social and political upheaval of the late 1800s in Europe, Mary is an unconventional and annoyingly intelligent woman struggling to alter the destiny and education of her gender – and still find love.

November 22, 2016

on When the local mining company brings in external workers, the town of Hope apathetically slides towards its death. Slut-shamed 17-year-old schoolgirl, Tim, challenges the locals, the politicians, and the mining billionaires into establishing a renewable energy business, in a frantic effort to save the town – and herself.

Thank you again. You are both quite right. I will go back to the original premise and look at more of your examples of loglines.
on When a disgraced schoolgirl is sent home, she finds her rural outback town dying. With everything hopeless, she sets about to remake the town, fighting with corrupt politicians, billionaire mining magnets and ?apathetic ?townspeople to create a prosperous future.

I'm a bit unsure about how to re-post. But here is a rework of the logline idea. When the local mining company brings in external workers, the town of Hope apathetically slides towards it's death. Slut-shamed 17 year old school…
on When a disgraced schoolgirl is sent home, she finds her rural outback town dying. With everything hopeless, she sets about to remake the town, fighting with corrupt politicians, billionaire mining magnets and ?apathetic ?townspeople to create a prosperous future.

Thank you so much! Your reviews have provided me with direction. Leave it with me to stew for a bit.
on A rework of an older logline

Thank you. Thank you for your feedback and suggestions. Your words, support and enthusiasm are of equal value to me. I agree - she is a story that needs to be told.
on Set against the backdrop of the social and political upheaval of the late 1800s in Europe, Mary is an unconventional and annoyingly intelligent woman struggling to alter the destiny and education of her gender – and still find love.

Thank you all so much! This has given me a lot to think about. I will re-post soon.

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