Big Island Film Festival took place on the Waikoloa Coast on the Big Island of Hawaii from 2006 to 2016.  It showed 48 to 65 features and shorts from around the world during the four days of the festival.  Not only did BIFF show films but also had celebrities each year from John Saxon to Tom Berenger to Kate McKinnon  to Will Estes.  Additionally there were major social events, awards and screenwriting workshops.BIFF was covered by Variety and recognized by Moviemaker magazine as onf "20 Film Festivals Worth the Money"  and later as One of the "20 Coolest Film Festivals".  It also was awarded by Foriegn Film Critics Association.  BIFF partnered with The Fairmont Orchid, Hawaii and was a major event  on the Island of Hawaii.  bigislandfilmfestival.com.

Born and raised in Kansas.  Vietnam-Era Marine with two Purple Hearts.  Attended Washburn University.  Attended Ottawa University where he had leads in three theater productions and played football.  Bachelor of Ed with degree in Communication Arts from Arizona State University 1985.  While at ASU participated in theater, ASASU Student Senate, President of Vets Club.  Who's Who Among American Colleges and Universities 1975-76.  Played football (1977-79), was Commissioner of Arizona Nine Man Flag Football League (1978-79) and won State  Championship in 1979.  Taught for Glendale High School District, Arizona from 1976 to 2001.  Taught theater, speech, English.  Corporate Secretary of Phoenix Jaycess, 1981.  Vice President (entertainment) of 1982 Jaycee National Convention.  Owned and operated Metro Playhouse theater company from 1983 to 1992.   Produced 90 plays and directed 65 plays in high school, community and dinner theater.  Acted on stage and on screen.  Wrote four comedy plays (three with the late Jack Sharkey) which have been produced across the US and the world.  These plays are available through Concord Theatricals.  When retired from teaching moved to Hawaii in 2001, where he created, owned and was Executive Director of Big Island Film Festival from 2006 until 2016.  Featured speaker at 2009 International Film Festival Summit.   When his wife of 44 years Jan passed away in 2016, he folded the festival and moved to Iowa where his son Jeff, Jeff's husband Aaron and grandson Eli lived. They have since moved to Tampa Florida. Member of Marine Corps League.  Now has remarried to Pauline and lives in Ankeny, Iowa where he plays golf when weather allows.

• Sorry! Wrong Chimney!  Comedy/3f 4m/Interior set/Co-written with the late Jack Sharkey

David Tuttle is moonlighting as a department store Santa so that he can  buy his wife a fur for Christmas. He tells her he’s working late at the  office, but she finds out he isn’t at the office. A suspected other  woman, hypnotism, the notorious Santa burglar Kris Kreigle and his  gun-toting fiancée, and a confused policeman add up to a rollicking tale  that is hilarious Christmas entertainment any time of year. 

This play has been produced across the US, Canada as well as London, Australia, Austria, Belgium, The Netherlands, Sri Lanka.

• Borderline Crazies - Comedy/3m,3f/Interior Set

 Ellen hopes to ski and put some spark into her dull marriage to Stu, an  efficiency author, while at Lake Tahoe in a rustic cabin owned by Stu's  publisher. They are startled when a horror author and his sexy wife also  arrive at the apparently double-booked cabin. The women immediately  bond but the men squabble like spoiled two-year-olds and devise several  wagers to determine who stays and who goes. Before anyone can leave, a  police officer reports that a snowstorm has closed the roads and an axe  murderer is on the loose. Stranded with no phone, no television and no  radio, the writers may kill each other before the murderer gets to them.  It's an avalanche of laughter with more twists and turns than a giant  slalom.   A CHRISTMAS VERSION Borderline Crazies: The Christmas Version is now available.   Details directly from me.

This play has been produced across the US and Canada.

• 100 Lunches - Comedy/3f. 3m/Multiple interior sets - Co-wriiten with the late Jack Sharkey

 Successful mystery playwright Chuck Reynolds has had his plays lauded by  all critics except Charity Starr. When she shows up at his home and has  the unmitigated gall to ask his expert help in writing a play of her  own, Chuck fiendishly insists that their teacher/pupil sessions be held  over lunch with Charity footing the bill at the most expensive  restaurants in New York City. Lunatic waiters provide a uniquely  hilarious touch to these meetings. Love blossoms despite the scheming of  Chuck's amorous neighbor. Charity's play opens on Broadway and she  finds out what it's like to be a target for all her critical confreres.  Non stop fun, romance, and explosive hilarity make this an ideal show  for the entire family.  

This play has been produced across the US and Canada.

• Star on the Door - Comedy/4m, 2f/Interior set - Co-written with the late Jack Sharkey

 Cinema legend Doreen Lewis, nervously about to make her Broadway debut  opposite her ardent admirer Paul Burnside, intercepts a phone call for  her dresser who is secretly wed to Doreen's son confirming that "Mrs.  Lewis" is pregnant. A loony resolution caps this evening of non stop  guffaws. 

This play has been produced across the US and Canada.

PERIL IN PARADISE

Thriller    |    25 Aug 2020

Two women vacation in a tropical resort in search of romance but find themselves involved with a psychopath in the middle of a drug war.

This thriller set in Hawaii could be shot at any tropical location.  Two lead females in 20's; one male lead in 50's;  one lead male early 30's.