Bungalow
Feature Length Film*
Written and Created by Paul Rabinowitz
Log Line:
A Big Pharma sales executive aggressively pushing prescription opioids seeks personal redemption and purchases a dilapidated bungalow colony to turn it into a community arts center.
Bungalow sparks from the internal struggle of Scott, one of a group of friends close from childhood who spent their summers at a Bungalow Colony in the Catskills, NY. Scott works as a sales executive at his uncle’s pharmaceutical company in charge of opening new areas to distribute opioids to doctors. He is increasingly tormented by his role facilitating human suffering. When his mistress overdoses from opioids supplied by him, he finds an escape valve in his impulsive purchase of a run-down bungalow colony he hopes to turn into an artists’ residency. He is in turn goaded, spurred and inspired by Isabel and her brother Caio, siblings who are tapped into both the practice and ethos of art and its trade. His dream hits a snag when the town engineer, whose brother was an addict and took his own life, refuses to allow the Town Engineer to give Scott the Certificate of Occupancy.
The film contains in its premise the foundations for conversations related to income inequality, the role of art in life, and the shifting dynamics of family, both found and of origin. It explores areas devastated by high unemployment, and the subsequent rise of the MAGA dream. It is the story of a man seeking redemption for his role in a grave collective wrong and the story of his path toward art and family as a means of facilitating healing for himself and as a gesture of good for his community.
The twist at the end illuminates that his past is never far behind.
*The feature length film can be adapted into a Pilot Episode for an episodic T.V. Series.
Bungalow T.V. Series (Pilot Episode)
Finalist at the Austin Short Film Festival 2024 for Best Drama Screenplay.
Quarter Finalist at the 2024 New York Metropolitan Int’l Screenwriting Competition.
For more information about Bungalow email Paul Rabinowitz