max kinnings
novelist and screenwriter
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BAPTISM
This is the first in a series of novels featuring the blind hostage negotiator, Ed Mallory. Represented by Antony Topping at Greene and Heaton, Baptism and its as yet untitled follow-up, have been sold to Quercus Books for publication in the UK and commonwealth in 2012 and 2013 respectively. Baptism has also been sold to Goldmann Publishing for publication in Germany in 2012.
SOAPOPOLIS
SOAPOPOLIS is an interactive Internet drama like no other. By turns anarchic, disturbing, surreal and hilarious, it takes drama into a new realm. Groups of characters contained within story "lands" are propelled on journeys by the imaginations of the audience. Confounding traditional genre expectations and destroying the boundaries between audience and performer, Soapopolis is like nothing you have ever seen or thought of before. It's everything you ever wanted to see because YOU write it.
The series utilises a large cast, mixing professionals with students and amateurs, and is shot using a green screen virtual backgrounds added in post production - from fantasy styles to realistic sets. In Soapopolis, anything can happen - it's all down to the viewer/contributor - it is not just another web drama - it is uniquely collaborative with its audience, and uniquely unpredictable. The characters can change as fast as the tone which can lurch from horror nightmare to crazed comedy - and everything in between. Characters can be constantly developed alongside new "islands" and thrown together alongside the audience’s own video inserts in a sort of digitised mash-up.
The pilot episode has been completed and received its premiere at Brunel University on May 18th 2011.
For some further details of the project, here’s a link to an article on the Brunel University website:
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/news-items/news-54652
ACT OF GRACE
This is a feature film I co-wrote in 2007 with Marc Pye and Alan Field which was shot in 2008. This has now been sold to distributors High Flyers for DVD release in March 2012.
ALLEYCATS
Alleycats is a high concept thriller set in the adrenalin-fuelled world of London’s bicycle courier community. Alleycats is the brainchild of Ian Bonhôte of Pulse Films - www.pulsefilms.co.uk - who will direct the film.
THE BREAK-IN
Originally entitled, Dark Entry and written with the assistance of a grant from the EU MEDIA fund, this is a feature film screenplay in development with director, Rob Kaplan - http://robkaplanfilms.com.