Screenplays Written by Kurt Hogan
The Book of Sleep
When Asha Freeman returns to bury her grandmother on a remote Gullah island off the Carolina coast, she expects closure — not a legacy. But the house she inherits holds more than memories. Beneath its floorboards and tangled jasmine lies a secret passed down through generations: a book bound in silence, pulsing with ancestral power, and waiting for someone brave enough to open it.
OSCAR
Before the statue, there was a man.
Before Hollywood had room for a Black voice, Oscar Micheaux built his own industry. OSCAR is the epic, true story of a man who defied a century. From Pullman porter to prairie homesteader, from bestselling novelist to the world’s first Black feature filmmaker, Micheaux rose in the shadows of Chaplin and the silent era—using nothing but grit, charm, and genius to create over 40 films that exposed racism, reversed Black stereotypes, and dared to show Black life with shocking realism.
While Hollywood trafficked in blackface and caricature, Oscar made cinematic rebellion. His work wasn’t just entertainment—it was protest. It was prophecy.
Set against the backdrop of the Harlem Renaissance and featuring icons like Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Madam C.J. Walker, OSCAR spans decades of danger, desire, betrayal, and brilliance. Each chapter is defined not just by his relentless ambition, but by the unforgettable women who shaped—and scarred—his journey.
Rejected by Hollywood. Ignored by history. But he survived the talkies, outlasted the studios, and made the world watch. Now, his name will mean what it always should have: Oscar is excellence.
UNSPOKEN
Set against the vibrant, volatile backdrop of modern Atlanta, Unspoken follows Kai Bridges—a rising hip-hop star whose voice moves millions, but whose words carry chains he hasn’t yet felt. When he meets Amara Monroe—a poet, activist, and mirror to his fame—their connection ignites something deeper than desire. What begins as challenge becomes seduction, and what feels like love becomes a reckoning.
At the center lies a single word: the one we inherited, reclaimed, repackaged, and repeated. A word born in bondage but now draped in platinum. Unspoken dares to ask—what if the most powerful word in Black culture is also the most dangerous? And what happens when we let it go?
PAST TENSE
THE LOVE NOTE
THE LOVE NOTE
When Holden Kirkland—an aging Black teacher in a New England town—receives a Facebook request from his high school crush, Bentley Tennison, he’s flooded with memories he never truly buried. Their teenage romance was forbidden, their connection unspoken. But now, nearly forty-five years later, they begin sharing the same vivid dreams—returning as their younger selves to a past that never got the ending it deserved.
As dream and reality blur, Holden must confront buried trauma, the racial violence that stole his youth, and the quiet ache of a love he was never allowed to name. But with a devoted wife beside him and a life built on survival and dignity, Holden faces an impossible question: can a dream be betrayal? Or is it the truest form of closure?
THE LOVE NOTE
THE LOVE NOTE
THE LOVE NOTE
In the hauntingly beautiful heart of New Orleans, where the ghosts of history dance beside the living, a modern-day preservationist discovers a love song buried inside a flood-damaged piano—a melody never heard, a message never delivered. As Janelle Munrow digs deeper, she unearths not only a forbidden romance between a dark-skinned jazz pianist and a light-skinned Creole debutante in 1940s segregated Mardi Gras, but also a painful truth entwined with her own family legacy.
As past and present collide, two love stories—one silenced by shame, the other struggling to bloom—intersect in a city where memory lives in music and legacy lingers in the air like incense.
Bold, romantic, and urgently resonant, The Love Note is a cinematic reckoning with race, class, colorism, and the cost of silence. From the jazz-soaked ballrooms of the past to the vibrant parades of today, this is a must-see story of restoration, resurrection, and the kind of love that refuses to be forgotten.