Check out the listings below to see what the team behind Amendment 28 Films is developing.
Be sure to check back for updates regarding production and future release dates!
Projects in Development
The Paris Bookseller
An 8-part Historical Drama TV series
When bookish young American Sylvia Beach opens Shakespeare and Company on a quiet street in 1919, many of the most prominent writers of the Lost Generation—including Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, T.S. Elliot, Gertrude Stein, and James Joyce—consider the bookstore a second home and when Joyce´s controversial novel Ulysses is banned, Beach takes a massive risk and publishes it under the auspices of Shakespeare and Company.
Co-written by N.H. Cohen and Zel Anders
Kerri Maher’s new novel, ‘The Paris Bookseller,’ turns back the pages of time
A Room of One’s Own
A 6-part Historical Drama TV series
An all-star ensemble portrayal of A Room of One´s Own, the historic feminist essay by Virginia Woolf which explores 400 hundred years of social injustices against women and the need for women to possess intellectual freedom and financial Independence.
Essay by Virginia Woolf, Screenplay Adaptation by Zel Anders and Jennifer Musser
Directors To be determined
More information about A Room of One's Own
A Warrior of The People
Historical Drama Feature Film
The true story of how Susan La Flesche overcame racial and gender inequality to become the United States’ first indigenous doctor in 1889 — and how she dedicated her life to caring for her community—the Omaha Tribe. By the age of 26, this fragile but indomitable indigenous woman acquired 1,244 patients scattered across 1,350 square miles of rolling countryside with few roads. They were often poor and sick with tuberculosis, smallpox, measles, and influenza. She was their last hope and effectively became the chief of her entrenched patriarchal tribe, crashing through walls of ethnic, racial, and gender prejudice. Later, while she battled her own health problems, she built and opened a hospital for her community. She also helped the Omaha community navigate the bureaucracy of the Office of Indian Affairs and receive the money owed to them for the sale of their land. The film is based on the award-winning biography, A Warrior of the People, by Joe Starita. Brief Biography of Dr. La Flesche Smithsonian Magazine Article about Dr. La Flesche
The screenplay is being written by Princella Parker RedCorn who is a member of the Omaha Tribe and whose great-grandfather was a patient of Dr. Sue.
Naked in The Promised Land
Narrative Feature Film
Born in 1940, Lillian Faderman was the only child of an uneducated and unmarried immigrant Jewish woman. Her mother, whose family perished in the Holocaust, was racked by guilt at having come to America and left them behind; she suffered recurrent psychotic episodes. Her only escape from the brutal labor of her sweatshop job was her beloved daughter, Lilly, whose poignant dream throughout an impoverished childhood was to become a movie star and "rescue" her mother. Lilly grew up to become Lil, outwardly tough, inwardly innocent, hungry for love and success. A beautiful young woman who was learning that her deepest erotic and emotional connections were to women, she found herself in a dangerous but seductive lesbian underworld of addicts, pimps, and prostitutes. Desperately seeking to make her life meaningful and to redeem her mother's suffering, she entered the University of California at Berkeley and worked her way through college as a burlesque stripper. She ultimately achieved a Ph.D. At last she became Lillian, the woman who in time became a loving partner, a devoted mother, an acclaimed writer, and a charismatic, groundbreaking scholar who sets up the first gay and lesbian studies program in the U.S. A very American -- story of an exceptional woman and her remarkable, unorthodox life.
The screenplay will be written in 2024. Review of Lillian Faderman’s Memoir
A Woman of Three Nations
Historical Drama Feature Film
In order to support and protect her eleven children, Juana Briones, an undaunted and illiterate medicine woman, leaves her alcoholic physically abusive husband to become an entrepreneur in 19th century California as it transitions from control by Spain, to Mexico and then to the United States.
The screenplay is in development. Brief history of Juana Briones
The Trials of Susan B. Anthony
Historical Drama Feature Film
Primarily a case about woman suffrage and sexual discrimination, United States v. Susan B. Anthony was the first trial of the famous feminist and was a criminal trial in the federal courts. In the federal election in November 1872, Anthony, the best-known advocate of woman suffrage, registered to vote and then voted. The government charged her with the crime of voting without “the legal right to vote in said election district”—she, in the words of the indictment, “being then and there a person of the female sex.” The trial was widely followed by newspapers throughout the United States. She was convicted in federal court under federal law for violating state law about who was eligible to vote. New York state law prohibited women from voting, and a recent federal law provided for the criminal prosecution of anyone who voted in congressional elections “without having a lawful right to vote.”
One-hundred-and-fifty years later, after a conservative anti-abortion group changed their name to include hers, the famous feminist’s second trial has become one of restorative justice. How will a woman who wrote widely about gender inequity and almost nothing about abortion be remembered by younger and future generations.
The screenplay is in development. Susan B. Anthony - Women's History
Two Plus One
Narrative Feature Film
In order to save money, an older lesbian couple decide to buy a house with a childhood friend of one member of the couple but when things don’t go as expected and the friend faces a life-threatening illness, the couple must decide whether to end their thirty year relationship, live separately, sell the house, or continue living long-term with the friend in what has become an uneasy situation for all.
Written and to be directed by Zel Anders.
Un Violon
Short Film
When his grandfather falls ill, a young boy, desperate to play violin, must make his first performance his greatest. Based on a dramatic short script by Australian screenwriter Joanne Bellew, the script was a 2023 Page Award Silver winner, reached #1 on Coverfly’s 2023 Annual Red List for Family Shorts and was was listed as a Finalist in the Roadmap Writers 2023 Shorts Competition. The film will be filmed in 2024 in Girona, Spain.
Written by Joanne Bellew - Directors - Zel Anders and NH Cohen
28 Easy Steps to Become U.S President
Short Film
Image Copyright Politico
28 Easy Steps to Become U.S. President is a short film with a message to young people — an all-star ensemble of women and men discuss with teens and young adults 28 steps it takes to become the president of a democratic country. Want to become President in 2044? Start Planning now.
Written and to be directed by Zel Anders.
The Mysterious Case of Ms. V
Short Film
The Mysterious Case of Ms. V is based on Virginia Woolf's short story The Mysterious Case of Miss V. and muses on the subject of those people that we see year-after-year at events but don't know very well. It is also a story about the “invisibility” of women in society, and the alienation of the individual in modern city life.
Screenplay by Jo Hannah Afton, Story by Virginia Woolf
Director - Zel Anders
More Info: The Mysterious Case of Miss V