Sasha Pasternak Writing Portfolio
All screenplays are available, upon request.
Vicious
On the evening of October 12th, 1978, Nancy Spungen was brutally stabbed by her lover, Sid Vicious.That same night, as she sat slowly dying, the couple living below her hosted a dinner party. Based on true events, Vicious follows two couples as they fight over love, art, and the ruthless lies only lovers can tell.
We Lack, Definition
Definition matters, at least to those so desperately trying to find it. After years apart, six college friends gather in a lakeside cabin to mourn the sudden passing of their dear friend, Frankie. Here they will make peace with who they were, who they are, and who they’re each becoming.
The A**hole Had It Coming
Texas during the 1980s isn’t a place to talk about sex, let alone an orgasm. But for Grace Palmer, and the employees of The Cougar Club Sex Shop, a good orgasm is the answer to all of life’s insults. After suffering through an abusive marriage, Grace spends her days providing underground sex-therapy to oppressed housewives and women on the mend. When the wife of an abusive cop shows up looking for help, Grace offers her protection; the likes of which will land them both in a world of trouble. With the Mayor on her case, a porn VHS on backorder, and a dead cop buried under an avalanche of debauchery, Grace can’t help but wonder: is good advice worth the price?
STAGE PLAY
No Moon In Hell
When Marilyn Dennison, a Vietnam nurse, agrees to go on a helicopter joyride over the jungle, she thinks she’s in for a reprieve from the endless pain of the med-vac hospital. But when the chopper is shot down over war ravaged land, she’s forced to go from nurse to soldier, as she races to save herself and the wounded pilot who holds the key to getting them both out alive.
FEATURE FILM
Make Me The Tennessee (Short)
In 1983, when the vengeful Kathy Morris attempts to poison the Tennessee cop who aided and abetted in the death of her sister, she gets cold feet. After all, the cop is her husband.
Everleigh Yours
In 19th-century Chicago, sex and gambling go hand-in-hand. When ambitious sisters Ada and Minna Everleigh open an exclusive brothel in the heart of downtown, they’re blackmailed into placing a bet with the city’s Warden and most notorious criminal. If they lose, their club is forfeit and their reputations ruined. If they win, the wealthy men of Chicago and a life of prestige will be theirs for the taking.
HOUR LONG - DRAMA
Organ Trail
For Cincinnati’s leading heart surgeon, Joan Fox, irony is a dish best served in hell. When she learns her dying daughter won’t receive a donor heart in time to save her life, Joan murders a patient for his matching organ. This epic fall from moral grace catapults Joan into the black market of organ trading, where a body is worth more dead than alive, and a scalpel is more destructive than a gun.
HOUR LONG - DRAMA
Make Me The Tennessee
It’s 1983 and the women of Coppertown, Tennessee are used to being underestimated. But when one of their own is murdered by her police chief husband - and the rest of the force covers it up - these women will take justice into their own hands. Lives will be lost, loyalties tested, and marriages destroyed, but for these fed-up police wives, revenge is well worth the trouble.
FEATURE FILM