K.Page Stuart Valdes

WE GOT THIS (short) written, directed, edited, and produced by K.Page Stuart Valdes. Starring Jessica Frances Dukes, Wayne Maugans and Tristau Darius Azor.

Jason and Maye are parents to Marcus, a bi-racial high school senior who is experimenting with his sexuality. When Marcus is extremely late for curfew, culture and color clash as the family struggles with differing ideas of what it means to keep your loved ones safe. Feature in development.

FULL SERVICE (short) written, directed, and produced by K.Page Stuart Valdes. Starring Chengusoyane Kargbo and Wayne Maugans.

Abike, a Nigerian born oil industry executive, is driving to a friend's country house when she realizes her tank is needling towards empty. She pulls into a rural station where she is greeted by, Scott, a local who inherited his family business. Scott has never met anyone like Abike. She patiently dissects his assumptions about her life with humor and gravity before leaving him to ponder their commonalties and her power. Full Service explores our propensity to stereotype others, our simplistic ideas around identity, and how we are all more complex than we seem.

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TALKING PIECE (short) written, directed, and produced by K.Page Stuart Valdes. Starring Wayne Maugans, Paris Anthony, Antonio Wild, and Cynthia Bastidas.

Jason is a well educated Midwestern transplant to Brooklyn who has set his sights on a career in public education. His wife, Julia, is climbing the corporate ladder. Sam and Hugo are two kids of color who have grown up in the cross fires of Brooklyn’s rapid and aggressive gentrification, of which Jason and Julia are a part. When they lock heads with their new principal, Jason, about some troubles they are having outside of school, a firestorm of stereotype and assumptions explodes with both humor and gravity. Talking Piece premiered at Detroit's Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and won the Complex Cultural Currents Award at Stories by the River Festival. 

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IN DEVELOPMENT

RIGHT THERE WITH YOU (feature) 

Tamara, a 30 something African American child psychiatrist, is a rising star in her field. She is the researcher on a new ADHD drug, she is seeing clients at a clinic, and she has been asked to present at a prestigious conference. When her long time boyfriend, Bryant, decides to leave her she struggles to keep all of the moving pieces of her life in order. Things spiral out of control when one of her young patients find samples of the drug she is testing. Finalist Sundance Screenwriter's Lab, Best Screenplay California Women's Film Festival. 

SON OF A MOTHER ( true crime series)

Son of a Mother is a historical, true crime, dramedy inspired by the abduction of a Jewish American suburban housewife by a murderer who served time in the same prison as her son. Set in the tumult of the early 1970’s, the series looks at the effects this period had on a diverse group of characters seeking their own truths. Elaine Brenner, a spunky, Jewish American housewife, is worried about her son, Benjamin, who dropped out of school to join the antiwar movement with his girlfriend, Beverly Denton, an African American student at Wesleyan. When Benjamin is sent to jail for dealing marijuana at a protest, Vincent, a prisoner who is leaving after years in jail, tells him how he should handle himself in prison. Little do they know how entwined their lives are about to become. Filmmatic TV Pilot Award semi- finalist.

MIDNIGHT OIL (feature)  

In the height of the '73 gas crisis Ahmed Al Rahajman travels to Houston from London. He's a star economist and protege to his oil magnate father, and he is about to make the deal of a lifetime. In Houston, he is quickly mistaken for an overconfident Mexican and is dropped off at the border. Stranded in the desert without a cent or a passport, Midnight Oil builds to a culture clash of an ending when Ahmed confronts a border runner who found his papers, the motley group of strangers who are his only hope of getting back to Houston, and his own ideas of trust and power. Finalist Sundance Screenwriter's Lab, Academy Awards Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship Semi-Finalist, Austin Film Festival 2nd Rounder.

THE MOMENT BEFORE ( feature) 

In the heart of multi-ethnic Brooklyn, Levi, a Jewish American lawyer in his mid -80's, is nearing the end of his life. His bi-racial African American and German Jewish wife, their son and his Latina Catholic wife, their nephew, and their Indian American home health aide all have different ideas about his care. Can they reach across their differences and come together to make Levis end-of-life wishes come true?