Karl Kaufman

THINK BIG, BIGGER THAN LIFE

Fluent in a number of European and Asian languages, Karl graduates as filmmaker at the de’ Medici Arts Institute in Florence, Italy, makes various shorts, a  feature, and heads for Tinseltown with:

A FEATURE TRILOGY PROJECT:

Candid Hope
Drama, 115 pages

Doll maker discovers her dolls have magic powers and all hell breaks loose.
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Fearless
Drama, 115 pages

With the magic dolls’ help, doll maker escapes her antagonists' deadly plans.
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Felicity
Drama, 115 pages

Doll maker reestablishes link between magic dolls and children of the world.
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With candid hope, fearless, and felicity, Karl knocks at doors of agents, producers, and distributors until the sun sets over the City of Angels.  Suddenly, the barrel of a semiautomatic drills into him.  Someone in a hood screams, "Gimme yo bag sonofabitch!"  Ironically, aside from script outlines, Karl’s bag contains Reach Home Before Sunset, a book that to a gangster must be like gold coins to a cow. 

The fact that he’s made movies since his teenage years, that they win prizes all over, and his feature has just aired... in this moment what does it matter?

As if the robbery is not enough, afterward he finds himself with facial paralysis.  He cannot speak, but he can scribble. 

As he writes by default, the heavens open more than ever and into the computer flows a saga set in a Universe of Light.  A "Medium" on steroids, "Touched by an Angel" with an attitude to surpass "The Twilight Zone."  A mockery of violence.  A fearmongers’ demystification of epic proportions.  Tagline: “Give up daydreaming, it’s night.”  Ideas he is compelled to share visually.  Stories from such a breathtaking perspective, the words of rare sages he is blessed to meet throughout the course of his life surface in 39 scripts for the following project:

Mystica
Serial Overview

Angel projects herself into humans with physical resemblance, guides them out of trouble, undergoes own transformation in each episode until she longs to be human.
Project Bible excerpt on request
Trailers available

VARIOUS INDIVIDUAL EPISODES:

Reencounter
Pilot

Separated in childhood, orphaned twins from Russia, one raised in loving home in Los Angeles, the other on the run from prostitution ring leaders, find each other.
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Freedom
Teleplay

Liberated South Sudanese slave tracks down sister who works in a sheik's mansion in Beverly Hills.
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Harvest
Teleplay

Ruthless mafia don goes abroad to replace failing kidneys and explores illicit international sale of human body parts.
Shooting script on request

Ramifications
Teleplay

When giving birth, mother dies with unfulfilled desire of spending life with her daughter, but heaven grants mother's soul a second chance.
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Seeing
Teleplay

Millionaire’s discovery of the book Absolute Transparency changes his life.  He transforms his ship into a mecca for alternative research; then must face the wrath of phony pro-ecology politicians he formerly supported.
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Storm Served
Teleplay

Star journalist discovers the true purpose of her life.
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Examples of the light-heartedness that runs throughout all Mystica episodes, regardless of the seriousness of each theme:

Again
Teleplay

A-list Hollywood starlet/producer stumbles through sea of immortality.
Shooting script on request

Moses
Teleplay

Moses objects to modern day misuse of his name on cosmetic product.
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Prospects
Teleplay

Retired comedy filmmaker glimpses the future.
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Through
Teleplay

Arnold, Dubya, Hillary, Clinton, Rush Limbaugh, and others go through the honest politician aptitude test.
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MYSTICA PERIOD PIECES: 

Amnesia
Teleplay

Talent agent rescues French-American singer amidst the fall of Saigon.
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Repercussions
Teleplay

During Great Depression Eugenics movement sterilizes Italian woman assumed to be feeble-minded due to lack of fluency in English.  Vengeful cousin then kidnaps daughters from Eugenicist couple and presents them as orphans to woman and husband.
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OTHER PROJECTS:

Heaven Must Be Irish
Comedy, 103 pages

When General Edgar meets favorite star, Trixy, in company of two celestial beings, all of whom look Irish, his conclusion is unavoidable.
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Women Rule
Drama, 116 pages

Divided by thousands of miles and a mutual lover, two women in the entertainment business discover their combined creative power.
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Poetry
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The Parents Issue
Reality Show
Pilot available

Seeking 3D-loving, 181-conscious, producers/coproducers committed to creating profoundly upbeat entertainment; also editors/writers to novelize plays.  Please contact: eMtertain@gmail.com