Jo Hannah Afton
Screenwriter | Novelist | Photographer
Film & TV Projects
KILLER NIGHT SHIFT (Co-writer: Tom Freyer)
Suspense Thriller
Produced by MarVista. A Lifetime TV film.
Premiered August 25th, 2018
Available on Demand through Amazon
INDIGO SKY
Under Contract
A mystical adventure drama.
Official Selection ~ 2023 Beverly Hills Film Festival
AWARDS WILL BE ANNOUNCED APRIL 2023
Check out the festival HERE.
OLD AS BONES
Under Contract
TV Pilot and Bible
Sons of Anarchy meets True Blood.
Vampires, werewolves and witches tackle the end of times in this 90 minute TV pilot set in the near future in a dramatic and super sexy post-apocalyptic landscape. This project is now under contract with an established producer.
ACROSS THE OCEAN
Under Contract
A romantic drama.
JUDGE'S FEEDBACK
"(the script) is an engrossing drama that is dynamic, well-paced, and replete with emotional complexity. The characters all have fully-formed personalities, contradictory in the way humans always are without ever sacrificing their inherent core; they seem to live and breathe. And most impressively, in a film that focuses almost exclusively on a love triangle, there is no overt villain—only traumatized people with understandable positions, all trying to do their best with the hands they have been dealt. Their painful situation is handled with compassion and nuance."
GHOSTS IN THE FIRE
Available
A dark family drama.
With a tax auction on her heels, a horse breeder with a dark past leaves in search of her estranged twin brother -- a combat veteran living off grid in Idaho -- to get his signature on the family farm deed. To gain his cooperation, she will need to unearth family secrets and square up on an old debt.
"Ghosts in the Fire" is a dark drama with the dusty western edge of "Hell or High Water" fused with the Southern underbelly of "Winters Bone."
MOON GARDEN
Available
A dark romantic comedy.
Who doesn’t like an awkward love story between socially
maladapted people with weirdly fascinating habits
and strange diseases?
EMMA'S WAR (Co-writer: Glenn Mitchell)
Available
A US civil war biopic based on a true story.
MILITARY ORCHID
Available
A Sci-Fi Psychological Thriller (with comedic undertones)
“The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually chaotic. The truth is that it is not The Iluminati, or The Jewish Banking Conspiracy, or the Gray Alien Theory. The truth is far more frightening - Nobody is in control. The world is rudderless.”
~ Alan Moore
COVE OF CROSSING
Available
Sci-Fi Fantasy Novel and TV Series
What if fairies were real? But they weren't what you thought they were... not at all?
An intelligent Sci-Fi Fantasy novel with a cast of complex, intriguing and fun leading female roles. If you are interested in the book publishing rights, or the film rights, please contact my agent.
Women have stories.
I tell them.
IT'S A WOMAN'S WORLD
My leading ladies are in it to win it, and
when they venture out, they're on their own to solve whatever life throws their way. Some will go to hell and back to get what they want, and others will die trying. My stories are emotional, messy, suspenseful... my subjects can be controversial, and my lead characters unpredictable.
It's her story. We're just along for the ride.
Best you buckle up.
MY GENRES:
Drama
Thriller
Fantasy
MY STYLE:
Mystical
Character Driven
Emotional
Psychological
Gritty
Bizarre
Altered States
Stark
Small Town Life
Unconventional
Uplifting
Empowering
Contact me
Agent Contact:
Maggie Marr, Literary Agent & Legal Counsel
Cell: 310 - 692 - 9194
Email: maggie@maggiemarrlegal.com
PRODUCERS & INDIE FILMMAKERS
Contact me to discuss working on your next female-driven concept. I write to your specs, on your budget. Your creative vision is important to me.
INVESTORS
Are you interested in helping to finance my work or a project that I am producing? I often have projects in development that are not public, so feel free to inquire about investment opportunities.
Look inside.
It's the only adventure that counts.
© Jo Hannah Afton 2015 -- 2022