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Title: WORLD WITHOUT END
Logline:
In a post-apocalyptic Cape Town, a guarded young woman discovers she has terrifying new powers, and reluctantly teams up with a wary science field worker in order to evade a vicious killer, as she pieces together her memories and searches desperately for her estranged mother.
Genre: Science Fiction / Drama
Writer: Stephen Nagel
Format: 1-Hour TV Show
Page Count (Pilot): 42
Awards: Winner, 2019 WGSA Muse Award for Best TV Drama Unrpoduced Screenplay
Programmes/ Labs: 2024 Durban Film Mart Access Lab
Status: In development.
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Introduction to the Story
Euna wakes up to a new world one day, a world in chaos, filled with detritus and sparse populations of survivors. Her memory is foggy and she must find out what happened to her and the world around her, all while trying to remember the life she had before. She also has one urgent and pressing desire: find her mother Sandra, who she resents for abandoning her. Sensing that things have changed dramatically, she makes her way through a hostile physical environment, distrusting of those she encounters. She must learn to find her new place and meaning in this broken world.
Elsewhere, Daniel and Dr. Jennings make new discoveries that may help them understand how and why the apocalypse came to be, and find solutions to return existence to some semblance of what it was before. Daniel is heling the remaining science community as he searches desperately for his family, across the border outside South Africa. Hs believes helping them is his best hope of finding them.
Meanwhile, Renze, a harsh-looking formidable man is on the hunt, for something, or someone. With an unwavering determination and using violence indiscriminately, he works relentlessly for his organisation to take control of the post-apocalyptic world and its survivors.
Euna teams up with Daniel. They travel from Cape Town to Johannesburg, fighting bandits and Renze and bonding as surrogate family, all in pursuit of the truth, and Euna’s mother, Sandra, who may know the secrets of what lies behind the apocalypse.
Why This Story? World Without End is an allegory for our world that is fractured, chaotic and selfish. I want this story to highlight themes of community, togetherness, and most importantly, HOPE.
Characters
The World
Next Steps
We’re currently looking to partner with an established television production company, locally or via an international co-production to bring this idea to life in the form of a 1-hour television show. For more information, please contact us today at btgfilms@gmail.com.
Awards & Labs
WGSA Muse Awards 2019
Winner, 2019 WGSA Muse Award for Best TV Drama Unrpoduced Screenplay
Durban Film Mart (DFM) Access 2024
World Without End was selected as part of DFM Access for 2024, with Writer-director Stephen Nagel & Development Producer, Morgan Morris.
DFM Access is a 12-week development platform for entry level producers. It provides a nurturing framework for participants with existing long-form or episodic independent film projects to hone and improve their scripts and project packages.
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