"RUN" (Feature)

	WGA Reg. Number 1170481 (English) © SibaMedia 2006-2011 All rights reserved.

Story by Simone Bartesaghi
Screenplay by Simone Bartesaghi & Sheree Groves

Tag line:

If you are here, there’s a reason.
If there’s a reason, you’re guilty.
If you are guilty, you’d better run.

SYNOPSIS
The sun shines through the branches in a forest. A squirrel runs from tree limb to tree limb and then down the trunk to the grass. Suddenly he stops. In front of him is the foot of a beautiful young girl (23) in high heels, all dressed up for a night out dancing. She’s out cold.

The girl wakes up suddenly, scaring away the squirrel. The girl is scared too. She’s alone in a forest and doesn’t remember how she got there. She opens her fist to find a piece of paper with one word on it: RUN.
A chase begins. The girl, off and running, stumbles because of her high heels. She finally takes them off, so that she can run faster. But when she drops one shoe and stops to grab it, several arrows pierce her body, and she falls to the ground.

RUN is a story of different characters that are being hunted in a forest by a mysterious killer. There is no apparent relationship among the victims. The only one that knows why they are being hunted is the hunter.
What all the victims have in common is a personal object or habit that is their weakness. These objects and/or habits, and the victims’ inability to give them up even though doing so might save them, is what enables the hunter to kill them off, one-by-one.

The lead protagonists are a father and son who organize the remaining victims in order to figure out why they are in the forest in the first place, and how they can escape the hunter and survive. As the story unravels, the father and son learn that the victims have one thing in common: they all know a girl named Josie Johnston.

Back story: Like so many before her, Josie came to Hollywood seeking fame and fortune. She found neither.
Desperate to succeed, she gave in to prostitution: first the casting couch, then the escort services, and eventually, the streets. Finally, it is too much than she can bear, and, too proud or scared to go home, she commits suicide.

It is her father who seeks her revenge – by hunting down all those who in some way or another found themselves on the pages of Josie’s diary, and, in the mind of a father overwhelmed by grief and anger, contributed to the death his little girl.

The final confrontations will reveal unexpected solutions to this chase. The hunting won’t be over.