HOMELESS
Genre: Drama / Fantasy
Format: Short Film
Nutshell: Wings of Desire x Stroszek
Logline: In a city plagued by forgotten promises, an otherworldly stranger has eight hours to find refuge for one of its forsaken or be condemned to an unwanted fate on Earth.
Awards Won:
- Quarterfinalist – Inroads Fellowship (2024)
- Shortlist – Barnstorm Media (2025)
- The Coverfly Red List – #1 in Fantasy Shorts Category (2025)
- Quarterfinalist – New York International Screenplay Awards (2025)
- Semifinalist – Chicago Script Awards (2025)
- Quarterfinalist – HollyShorts Script Competition (2025)
- Quarterfinalist – Filmmatic Screenplay Awards (2025)
- Official Selection: Auguri Film Festival-Italy (2025)
- Finalist – Calgary Film Festival Unrealized Brilliance (2025)
- WINNER – Best Unproduced Short Screenplay – Milan Indie Film Festival (2025)
- Quarterfinalist – Best Unproduced Screenplay – Auguri Film Festival, Italy (2025)
- Quarterfinalist – Best Film Short – Auguri Film Festival, Italy (2025)
AGENTS OF C.O.W.
Genre: Kids Animated
Format: Animated Feature
Nutshell: Anthropomorphic Flash Gordon meets Mission Impossible
Logline: After being secretly sent to Earth as an infant to survive a galactic coup, an orphaned but brilliant young alien cow is torn from the only home he’s ever known and forced back to his home planet—where an interstellar war demands he save a world he’s never known.
Awards Won:
- Quarterfinalist – Screencraft Animation and Family Competition (2024)
- RECOMMEND – Barnstorm Media (2025)
- WINNER – Tokyo Film & Screenplay Awards (2025)
THE JUPITER CHRONICLES
Genre: Science Fiction (Steampunk)
Sub-genres: Family Adventure
Format: Live action or animated feature
Nutshell: Steampunk “Star Wars” meets “Avatar: The Last Airbender”
Logline: A heavy-hearted young man is catapulted to a steam powered world where he, along with his sister, fights to free their long-lost father and its people from subjugation by Martian invaders before their final plan for conquest unfolds.
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Awards Won:
- Semifinalist – New Voices in Animation (2023)
- Semifinalist-Chicago Script Awards (2025)
- Honorable Mention-Best Unproduced Screenplay-Milan Indie Film Festival (2025)
- DOUBLE RECOMMEND – Stage 32 (2025)
- RECOMMEND – Barnstorm Media (2025)
- Honorable Mention – On the Brink (2025)
THE BOOK OF JON: A BLADE OF SAINTS & ANGELS
Genre: Action/Fantasy
Format: Live action
Nutshell: City of Angels meets Children of Men and John Wick
Logline: In a dystopian city, an angel-turned-human and a former special ops soldier must stop an ancient evil from replacing humanity’s bloodline with that of the Nephilim – a hybrid race of fallen angels and human giant warriors, before humankind is lost forever.
For an in-depth craft analysis of this project, click here.
Awards Won:
- Semifinalist – Nashville Film Festival Pitch Competition (2024)
- Shortlist – Barnstorm Media (2024)
- RECOMMEND – Barnstorm Media (2025)
- Shortlist – Barnstorm Media (2025)
HAVEN OF DANTE
Genre: Action/Fantasy/Young Adult/Superhero
Format: Live action or animated feature
Nutshell: Divergent meets Batman Begins
Logline: After a brutal attack resulting in the annihilation of her family, a courageous young woman is compelled to prevent a secret society born from the nine circles of hell from enslaving humanity.
For an in-depth craft analysis of this project, click here.
Awards Won:
- RECOMMEND – Barnstorm Media (2025)
All screenplays available upon request.
About the Writer
Leonardo Ramirez is an award-winning screenwriter, author, and voiceover actor of Puerto Rican descent whose work has earned recognition from Stage 32, Screen Craft, Barnstorm, Inroads Fellowship, Nashville Film Festival, and The Red List, where his short screenplay HOMELESS ranked #1 in fantasy. A 4th-degree black belt in Karate and a brown belt in American Bushido Kenjutsu, he brings a warrior’s discipline and passion to storytelling, specializing in expansive, soul-stirring narratives that explore family, faith, and the human condition. Born in the Bronx and rising from poverty and homelessness, Leonardo now lives with his wife Kristen and their daughter Mackenzy in a suburb of Nashville, Tennessee. Together with his daughter, he collects comics and action figures—and yes, she swings a sword too. A lover of sci-fi, superheroes, fantasy, action, pie, and plantains (“No, they’re not bananas”), Leonardo continues to build imaginative worlds while leaving an indelible mark through timeless storytelling.
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