Film Pitch: "In the Ring with Irene"

This story is about a man living through a storm. This script dives into Drake Fillmore's personal life leading up to the most traumatic experience of his day: Tropical Storm Irene. This film starts with the simple routines of an everyday artist struggling to make ends met. As news of a powerful storm heading his way, he does little to prepare for oncoming disaster. Symbolically, this film studies human emotion and will power during disasters and analyzes mans' intent to fight nature (internally and externally). Highlights of this film deal with experiences during the peak of Irene as his home is torn apart piece by piece and destroys what he holds most dear. It also looks into the psychology of his family who lived through the storm with him (room to add a death of a close loved one in the wrath of Irene). Out of this storm, Drake learns new humility for nature and the raw power of natural disasters, which changes him as an artist and a family man. Feature length: 82 minutes.