Intelligent Stories About Children
Escape Velocity  (theatrical feature)
A precocious unhappy nine year old girl wishes aliens would come and spirit
her away. And when she mistakes the gift of a flying saucer playhouse as the
real thing and a little runaway Russian boy as its extraterrestrial pilot, troubles
multiply until it's her against the rest of the world.
Something in the Water  (one act stage play)
In an attempt to give their friend a birthday surprise, a small group of children end
up trapped in her ninth floor apartment. What they don't know is -- they're never
going to leave.
317  (one hour TV family/drama series)  IN PRODUCTION NOW!
On the eve of the certain destruction of the Earth, under the guise of an impossible
mission to destroy an inbound asteroid of immense proportions, the decision is made
to secretly send five hundred groups of six children each out into the galaxy toward
planets suspected of being able to sustain human life. Each group knows that after
their thousand year journey, there will be no planet Earth to which they might
someday return. This then is the saga of Group #317 who, after being roused from
ten centuries in hypersleep, discover they’ve been awakened seventy five years
too soon. Now, as they continue toward their destination, they must find a way to
survive.
Earthlings  (one hour TV family/drama series)
Two children accidentally journey back in time 150,000 years to what they know
as prehistoric times.  To us, however, it's the 21st Century.  Now, they must find
a way to fit in, even as they struggle to find a way back to their own time.
Shooting Star (theatrical feature)
A ten year old girl orphans herself by helping her terminally ill father commit suicide
then creates a fantasy world to help her understand the and survive the deed.
April Dancing (theatrical feature)
Thirteen year old Steven wants to be like James Bond. Then he gets the chance.
Boy, is he ever sorry. Cold War intrigue and espionage sweep a young American
boy and a Russian girl into a world so crazy it's all they can do to hang on.
Upstairs Music (theatrical feature)
A single dad fights to keep custody of his two children but his eccentric life style
keeps getting in the way. Schooners, pirates, mad Chinese shipwrights, commando
raids on ice cream parlors, and an aunt out for revenge all pull at your heartstrings.
The Dark Side of the Moon (theatrical feature)
Fourteen year old Hannah struggles to make sense of what's happening to her
beloved Austria as the Nazis move in and threaten her and her father's seemingly
tranquil life -- a life spent soaring among the Alps in her father's sailplane. But
when Hannah unwittingly joins the Resistance and things go from bad to terrible,
she makes a bold escape one night by making an impossible flight in her father's
glider all the way across the Alps to freedom in Switzerland..
The Dandelion is Also a Flower (theatrical feature)
Twelve year old Julie takes care of her invalid father and earns money as a child
prostitute. To keep from going mad, she lives in a fantasy world of 1940s London
during the Blitz. Can a concerned FBI agent help her out of her predicament or
will she end up like the dandelions she protects over her mother's grave?
These 9 properties seek serious inquiries from Producers, Directors, and Actors.
All material © 1994-2005 by Hank Isaac