Here at Screw Propellers Films, our catalog spans everything from grounded modern thrillers to surreal, genre‑bending animated stories. Each reflects a different facet of the studio’s voice — character‑driven, atmospheric, and always a little unexpected. If you’d like to discuss any of these projects or explore collaboration, we invite you to get in touch.
Blown Away by Love
A buttoned-up executive travels to her late ex’s hometown to reclaim custody of her estranged son and gets entangled with a local IT guy who just wants to give his lawn the attention it deserves.
When corporate climber Gal’s ex-husband dies intestate, guardianship of their young son is awarded to her former in-laws. Gal travels to her ex’s hometown to reclaim the boy, but is met with resistance from her ex-mother-in-law, who questions whether she’s there out of love or obligation. Frustrated by the custody situation and a career setback, Gal chooses to prolong her foray out of her insular, career-focused world – reconnecting with her son, a lost friend, and parts of herself she’s buried over time. Ordinarily, she would come to appreciate the tranquility of the small town, but she can’t because of neighborhood leaf blower enthusiast Ron – a guarded man content with small-town life and his IT job. Frequent contentious run-ins between the two deepen into something more and, together, they blow away the leaf piles they’ve built around their hearts.
A Killer Contest
A mild‑mannered hypertension advocate is dragged into a chaotic Congressional showdown to determine which disease truly deserves the title “The Silent Killer,” forcing him to confront political absurdity, professional rivalry, and a betrayal from the woman he’s falling for.
Larry Rasby has spent his career quietly championing hypertension awareness for the American Hypertension Society. When he testifies before Congress that high blood pressure is “The Silent Killer,” he’s blindsided to discover that Sarah — representing ovarian cancer — has just used the exact same phrase. Feeling slighted, Congress launches a bizarre series of hearings to determine which condition truly owns the title, summoning dozens of causes, lobbyists, and advocacy groups to compete for the grim honor. Larry reluctantly returns to Washington, where he has to battle the other competitors, his attraction to Sarah, and the pressure of not letting everybody down.
The Outlaw Rides Again
A reclusive former country star is forced into an unexpected comeback when his old manager tries to buy the rights to his music, pushing him back into the spotlight, into a fight for his legacy, and into a reckoning with the family he left behind.
Buck Long was a country music legend – known for his deep, powerful voice and his belligerent, reckless lifestyle. But, the Abilene Outlaw’s career cratered and he dropped off the map. In the early 2000s, a foundering manager named Willie stumbles upon Buck’s music. Willie’s unsanctioned attempt at revitalizing Buck’s career inadvertently threatens Buck’s main source of income – and, more importantly, pride: his song catalog. Sharing a common enemy in the business, Buck and Willie unite and embark on a comeback tour, for redemption and the money to secure the songs. After initial setbacks, the tour turns into a roaring success… until Buck’s singing voice changes during a live TV special. Flanked by his young girlfriend and his estranged daughter, The Outlaw is left to confront the end of his career, again, and the many mistakes he’s made along the way.
Just Dirk
A neurotic New York writer in a creative slump befriends a runaway robot who becomes his closest companion — until the robot’s growing independence, budding relationships, and a military search team force him to confront jealousy, abandonment, and what it really means to care about someone.
Orval Walbeck is a struggling NYC writer‑comedian whose creativity has dried up and whose manager is constantly pressuring him to produce something — anything. On a frustrated escape from the city, Orval stumbles upon a robot stranded on a rural roadside. The robot introduces himself as Dirk, and Orval, starved for inspiration and companionship, brings him home. Dirk quickly becomes Orval’s closest friend: earnest, curious, and unintentionally funny. Their odd-couple bond gives Orval a spark he hasn’t felt in years. But Dirk soon attracts the attention of a local high‑school teacher who is fascinated by his design. Dirk begins spending more time with her and her students, leaving Orval feeling jealous, abandoned, and creatively adrift all over again.
Thad & Larry
A three‑foot‑tall green alien living on a ranch with the couple who found him stows away on a road trip to Las Vegas, hoping to win bail money for his arrested guardian — only to drag a clueless middle‑aged man and a sci‑fi‑convention stranger into a chaotic showdown with a longtime nemesis.
Thad, a three‑foot‑tall green alien who crash‑landed on a ranch, has spent years sipping sweet tea, strumming guitar in a local band, and harassing local doofus Larry. When the ranch’s owner lands behind bars and his wife can’t afford bail, Thad hatches a cash‑grab plan: hitch a ride on Larry’s road‑trip to a sci‑fi convention in Vegas and win the money at the tables. Chaos erupts when Thad finds out there’s no such thing as a free ride – an old nemesis kidnaps the duo (plus a mysterious convention fan who oddly adores Larry). The unlikely team must work together to free themselves before the big boss shows up.
Thad & Larry, Continued
A burnt‑out alien wakes up hungover and stumbles into a day of escalating chaos involving a Hungarian‑folk‑dancing manic‑pixie dreamgirl named Larry, arson plots, Tinder disasters, a disgraced celebrity scientist, and a criminal overlord — all culminating in his decision that it might finally be time to leave Earth behind.
Years after his first misadventure, burnt‑out alien Thad wakes up hungover and gets smacked in the face by a newspaper—the first domino in a day of surreal satire. A chance encounter with a Hungarian‑folk‑dancing “Larry” (who’s a woman, not the doofus from before) drags him through a carousel of absurdities: rescuing a bakery from pyromaniacs, bargaining with a celebrity scientist‑turned‑sex‑worker for a time‑machine secret, and watching Larry’s Tinder dates devolve into STEM‑pressuring, wardrobe‑stealing chaos. The day’s activities culminate in a confrontation with an old acquaintance, leaving Thad and Larry to ponder the states of their lives and whether or not it’s time for a change.
The Warning (short)
A young man becomes paralyzed by indecision after a warning from his father’s ghost, only to discover that the smallest, most ordinary choice can still lead to a tragedy he never saw coming.
One evening, Ron’s startled by the sudden appearance of his father’s ghost, who warns that he is on the verge of making a catastrophic mistake the next day. The ghost won’t say what the mistake is — only that it will change everything. The next morning, Ron becomes consumed by fear. Every decision feels like a potential disaster: what shirt to wear, what to eat, whether to go out after work, whether to step into an elevator with an eight‑months‑pregnant woman. His day becomes a minefield of imagined consequences as he tries to avoid the unnamed catastrophe.
What Now (pilot)
After getting fired from his dead‑end job, a directionless thirty‑year‑old ricochets between a pushy friend, a chaotic temp agency, and an inexperienced young CEO who’s desperate to hire him, stumbling into awkward situations at every turn as he tries to figure out what comes next.
Mark is thirty, smart, and completely unmotivated. His job barely holds his attention and his chronic disinterest finally catches up with him when he’s abruptly fired. His work friend Scott tries to help by connecting him with Katie, a young and inexperienced CEO who only holds the title because her father wants the company to qualify as woman‑owned and minority‑owned. Katie is eager — almost too eager — to bring Mark on board. But Mark panics at the idea of responsibility and turns the job down. Instead, he ends up at a temp agency, which places him in an office full of eccentrics. Mark’s knack for stumbling into awkward situations only makes everything stranger. Meanwhile, Scott keeps dragging Mark into social disasters, and Katie keeps reappearing with increasingly desperate attempts to recruit him — even though she has no idea how to run her company and desperately needs someone competent to keep it afloat.
The Great Migration
When environmental changes force a colony of lemmings to migrate, a disagreement over their Elder’s guidance splits them into two rival groups — one thriving, one struggling — until a hapless outcast becomes the unlikely hero who reunites them and leads them all to safety.
When a sudden climate shift forces a lemming colony to flee, the wise Elder’s counsel splits the survivors into two camps: the hopeful pioneers of Dumbleton and the stubborn followers of tradition who settle across a crevasse in the bleak, mud‑filled Plentysville. Amid bickering and absurd attempts to bridge the chasm, a hapless Plentysville resident’s crash‑landing odyssey teaches him the true path. He must return in time to stop a panicked mass‑migration into the abyss.
An Origin of Species
The first human, an awkward outcast raised by chimps, teams up with a feathered proto‑bird and a walking fish to survive an oncoming meteor, while their anachronistic world spirals into scientific misfires, evolutionary accidents, and complete prehistoric nonsense.
In a world where evolution takes the scenic route, clueless chimp parents birth the first human – Guy Zapowzki—a pink, hairless oddball dismissed by other chimps as a moron. Guy teams up with Polly, the world’s inaugural bird, while Herbert, a small-town walking fish with big‑city dreams, fumbles through civilization. At the center of the activity is a chimp‑run Science Center that churns out premature jets, tortoise expeditions, and a golden composite‑based bridge that collapses into a cow‑to‑whale metamorphosis. Soon after Guy gets a job at the Science Center, he finds himself at the center of a crisis – a meteor is headed toward the planet.