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Visitation
Sci-Fi Drama
Sixteen-year-old Aly, who lost her mother in a terrible accident, travels with her family to scatter mom’s ashes in the High Sierra.
But when they encounter an injured alien with the power to reunite people with their lost loved ones, they are overjoyed to see Aly’s mom… only to face losing her again when they have to help the alien find her way home before she's killed by locals or captured by the feds.
Sci-Fi Screenwriter
Jenna Avery is a sci-fi screenwriter known for her strong protagonists and her visceral and cinematic writing style.
She specializes in writing mythic, dramatic sci-fi stories often with deeper spiritual significance, grounded through simple but powerful human relationships at their core.
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Entangled
Feature. A scientist known for her practical thinking is haunted by visions of a lost lover on a distant planet, and finds herself reluctantly believing that this could be her true soul mate of multiple lifetimes.
Visitation
Feature. 16-year-old Aly encounters an alien who can reunite people with their lost loved ones, and is overjoyed to see her mom again… only to face losing her once more when they help the alien escape local vigilantes and the feds.
Space Race
TV Pilot. Two sisters compete in a quest across the wide reaches of space against hot shot space racers to locate a massive fortune hidden by an eccentric corporate quintillionaire.
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