Premiered at the 2023 Montclair Film Festival
On a getaway to a secluded cabin, a squirrel-obsessed dog has an out-of-this-world encounter.
Written and Directed by Katie Ennis
FEATURE IN DEVELOPMENT.
In the height of summer boredom, LYTLE (12), and her best friends NIKHIL (12) and STEVE (13), discover something odd about the Shady Pines Adult Community that borders their neighborhood: no one actually lives there. They conclude that their suburban New Jersey town is host to an elaborate government cover-up and become entangled in a rescue mission to save a mythological creature from the clutches of the military.
Quarterfinalist, PAGE Awards - PAGE International Screenwriting Awards Competition 2022
Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship 2022
Quarterfinalist, Emerging Screenwriters Screenplay Competition 2022
IN DEVELOPMENT. One of 12 Semi-finalists in the 2022 American Zoetrope Screenplay competition.
A young couple’s romantic Cape May getaway is derailed when they discover their eccentric B&B manager is hiding something - the place is haunted by a spectral soprano and her horde of demonic peacocks. Hoping to dodge a too-soon proposal from her boyfriend, Nick, Jade teams up with a local ghost tour guide to investigate the strange happenings.
Semifinalist, Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition 2023
Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival 2022
Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship 2023
A supernatural comedy series.
A ghost tour company in a New England ocean-side town, staffed by poor millennial actors, discovers the town’s pirate ghost legend may actually be true – and there may be buried treasure in it for them.
The tone of the show is quirky and fanciful. It’s an offbeat workplace comedy full of subversive humor and frilly costumes. Think WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS meets SILICON VALLEY. It is a genre blend of supernatural horror and silly comedy, inspired by cinematic classics such as GHOSTBUSTERS and THE GOONIES. GHOST TOURS aims to combine episodic and serialized storytelling with an open style to include dreams, flashbacks, and absurd tangents.
The cast is diverse, comprising multiple ethnicities, religious backgrounds, sexual preferences and age groups. The myriad ways these sub-communities relate – from interracial marriage to job peers – is a model for a modern American fictional small town.
Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship 2021
Quarterfinalist, Emerging Screenwriters Screenplay Competition 2021
OUR LAST SUMMER is a feature film, currently in development. Co-directed and produced by Katie Ennis and written by Gary Jaffe. Produced by Emily McCann Lesser and Executive Produced by Alan Ball.
The script was selected for the 2021 Film Independent Fast Track, 2020 IFP Project Week Forum, the Outfest Screenwriter’s Lab, and the Inside Out Finance Forum.
Summer 1991. While packing for his final year at sleep-away camp, closeted teenager Daniel is nudged by his mother to make lemonade for his Uncle Ira, who is dying of complications from HIV/AIDS. Ira wants to talk about their assumed shared identity before time runs out, but Daniel may not be ready to take that step...
Starring Wayne Wilcox (Gilmore Girls, Rent), Igby Rigney (Blue Bloods) and Tony Award-winner Stephanie J. Block (Rise, Madam Secretary, The Cher Show)
LAST SUMMER WITH UNCLE IRA premiered at Outfest 2020 and is currently on the festival circuit. PW protected viewing link available upon request.
Co Directed by Katie Ennis & Gary Jaffe
Written by Gary Jaffe
Produced by Emily McCann Lesser & Katie Ennis
In the days following Pearl Harbor, a duty-bound Jewish gay man (Niccolò Walsh) must decide whether to serve overseas or remain in New York City with his bohemian lover (Ryan Trout). Honor, responsibility and patriotism collide with sexuality, otherness, and of course, love.
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Directed by Katie Ennis and Gary Jaffe
Produced by Katie Ennis & Skylar Landsee
Written by Gary Jaffe
Edited by Katie Ennis
Awards: 2017 Rhode Island International Film Festival, Audience Award for Best LGBT film
Haunted (short)
In search of some ghostly fun, ALEX and ZOE spend the weekend at a famously death-ridden hotel, only to find themselves haunted by questions.
Written and Directed by Katie Ennis
Awards: Best Short Drama at the 2015 SNOB Film Festival
JIM discovers an eternally youthful GENIE and has the opportunity to change his life, if only he could get his genie to stop jumping on the couch.
Completed in 2013, JIM AND THE GENIE is a whimsical comedy about a twenty-something New Yorker who discovers a genie in an old lunch thermos. Once Jim recovers from shock, he realizes he now possesses the power to change his life; but while Jim struggles with large, life-altering decisions he must also contend with entertaining an eternally youthful genie, who after years of being cooped up in a bottle, is ready for some serious playtime.
Starring Mike C. Nelson (Blackish) and Rachel Lee.
