Film/TV Options
THE BOW WOW CLUB - Vendetta Films
THE GUEST AT CENTRAL PARK WEST - Vendetta Films
DAD - previously optioned by 40 Acres and a Mule & SHINE Productions.
GOD THE CRACKHOUSE AND THE DEVIL - several options.
On The Market
CENTRAL AVENUE - TV Series
Written and created by Levy Lee Simon and Paula Neiman
We want to take you on a journey, a ride, back to a time, where the men were so dashing and the women were so fine, if you weren’t careful you might lose your mind. Back to a time when men kept their hair cut and their shoes shined, and you could get a chicken sandwich for a dime. Come with us back to, the 30s, 40s and 50s on Central Avenue in LA, where jazz was the music of the day. Where danger was ever present as gangsters and the police competed for the spoils, gambling, liquor and call girls. --- Sunshine and palm trees, cruising on Central Avenue with ease, where the Duke, the Count, Dorothy Dandridge and Lena Horne performed your favorite songs, and intellectuals debated the politics going on, and the average everyday folk felt right at home. Feel that LA night breeze, as the jazz music makes you tab your feet and grab your knees. Where was this place you might ask, this place to be, that had all that jazz! This place that was fresh, alive, and new? Come with us to Central Avenue.
SSC THE BRONX - TV series developed by Javon Johnson and Levy Lee Simon
SSC the Bronx, is a hour long, dramatic character driven series, that focuses on caseworkers working for Special Services for Children, The Bronx Field Office, NYC. The series centers on seven main characters, five caseworkers that make up the “Unit,” and two immediate supervisors. The caseworkers are the first responders to investigate reports, child abuse, sex abuse and neglect. Their job is to save the lives of children. The series will focus on the cases these caseworkers encounter, their personal relationships on and off the job.
IN THE JAZZ TIME 369 - Feature Film by Levy Lee Simon
In the Jazz Time 369 is a biopic about the life of the musician composer James Reese Europe, who is arguable credited with introducing the world to jazz music. He was the first African American to conduct and Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, the first African American to tour inter- racially with an all white dance troupe, the first African American to lead a military band in War World I, the first African American to kill and enemy on foreign soil, World War I and the first to lead his victorious 369th regiment down the Avenue of Heroes in New York City upon return from Europe. He also is the first African American to have a public funeral in the United States.
His popularity was immense and his music legendary. His notoriety crossed racial and international boundaries yet he is not well known today. This is the story of an unsung American hero, James Reese Europe.
