Film & Writing · Berlin
Crime dramas and dark comedies about outsiders out of their depth, from Kreuzberg to Copacabana to the Bronx.
Series
Original series in development. Pilots and episodes available on request.
Limited Series · Drama
Series · Thriller
Feature & Series · Drama
Pure Teatro
Cleanskin
Out of the Rough
Inspired by the life of La Lupe. A Cuban singer who treats the stage like a possession is exiled by a revolution, crowned by New York, and discarded by the machine that sold her fire. She refuses to shrink.
Aleppo, 2016. A street hustler escapes the siege dressed as a woman on a refugee bus and becomes the perfect bomb maker for Berlin, while the German spies who could stop him decide to let him run.
In Paterson, New Jersey, a teenage golf prodigy befriends the trans woman the town blamed for his uncle's disappearance, and finds his grandfather's films of a ritual at the Great Falls.
Features
Current Slate
Crime · Drama
A Night with Johnny Law
Queens, 1986. When two detectives are gunned down outside a Ridgewood diner, a nineteen-year-old college dropout who was inside is caught between a Mafia oath, a crooked precinct and his trumpet-playing older brother.
Crime · Drama
La Corrida
In the 1995 Bronx, a half Puerto Rican, half Black teenager raised on his grandfather's painted legends of a matador ancestor trains for the bullrings of Spain with a shopping cart. When a local enforcer starts killing the people he loves, he must decide which family story to live by, and the answer leads him to a Seville bullring and the hour of truth.
Action · Thriller
Sugarloaf
When his estranged wife is abducted from a tourist bus in Rio during their reconciliation trip, a burned-out ex-NYPD cop follows her trail through the favelas to a São Paulo trafficking auction.
Dark Comedy
Berlin PM
The night before his first day at a Berlin proptech startup, a rule-following Texas coder is robbed of everything he owns and stumbles into the escape plan of a trafficked Bulgarian woman. He has until nine a.m.
BLACKPUDDING
Crime · Thriller
Queens, July 2026. During a record heat emergency, a hard-drinking Ridgewood cop who calls himself Puerto Rican but lives like an Irishman is seduced into killing his lover's husband, a landlord who moves ICE detainees by the head, and learns too late that she chose him months before they met, that she isn't who she says she is, and that neither is he.
Screenwriter & Producer
Henry Holiday (Quinones)
Henry Holiday (Quinones) is a Berlin-based screenwriter and producer with a background in software development, media production and foreign languages. He writes about people caught between worlds: Havana and the Bronx, Aleppo and Berlin, Paterson and Rio. GfilmX is the home of his features, series and writing projects.
Read his work on The Black List, Script Revolution and IMDb.
Behind the Camera
From New York to Park City to set.
Producers, executives and readers can request scripts, pitch materials and series overviews.