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Bill Birney

Screenwriter

TELEVISION

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Autopilot

television serial

It starts out as a self-drive car with a bunch of swell features. But it develops a point of view, and it can kill if it needs to.

TV anchor

SCREENPLAYS

ALONE WITH HIS THOUGHTS

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Something for
Dr. Thode

A psychiatrist traveling to pick up a professional award has no idea the difficulties he will encounter and the gifts he will receive along the way.

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The Back Door

When a journalism student at a community college interviews for an intern job, she isn’t expecting to get thrown in the deep end.

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FREEDOM

INVASION OF THE
FIFTH DIMENSION

Two young people receive the ultimate punishment for prying into the secrets of a future dystopian civilization – their freedom.

People of the earth take action when they learn their negative human traits are controlled by creatures from another dimension.

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Day 3

A truly unbelievable break comes to a cynical, washed-up actor when he refuses to do a death scene on the last day of a movie shoot.

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FOOTSTEPS

The lives of three women are thrown into turmoil by the unexpected return of their physically abusive husband and father.

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treadmill

A man dares to break away from a society that bans emotions and desire to discover what it feels like to be human.

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Alone with His Thoughts

A psychotic college genius is driven to cleanse the human race when he finds himself alone with his thoughts in a remote cabin.

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People in Cars

A wannabe psychologist helps a man, found half-dead in the desert, break through total amnesia, and narrowly survive a plan to abduct and kill him.

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WHERE WE ARE

After the sudden death of his wife and daughter, a man and his young son find inner peace by discovering that right here is where we are.

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Barbara Blyth
The girl you've always known

A fictional star of Hollywood’s Golden Age reveals how her meteoric rise and fateful crash were set in motion by strange beings with pendulous earlobes.

Books

BIO

Bill Birney

I started writing professionally in 1982 as a TV promo producer and editor and continued with commercial and corporate videos. I decided to try screenwriting in 1989 with “After Alice,” a romcom about how a man deals with getting dumped. After that I tried different genres – drama, action, some sci-fi, dramedy, and all while maintaining a day job.

I learned more about screenwriting from books and groups, talking with industry people, and writing more. In 2000, I was a tech writer at Microsoft – books, online articles and videos, help. But until now, I’ve never tried to sell a screenplay. Here I have polished and updated the best of my attempts and feel they are ready for your consideration.

 

Thanks, Bill

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Thank you for your interest

The best way to contact me is with email. I'm happy to send full scripts, answer questions, do Zoom meetings, and so on.  Bill

CONTACT

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