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DARK LANDINGS - THE SHORT

The film Dark Landings -the Short won many awards. Best Short Film, Best Director for Sandra Scragg, Best Actor for Maggie Reed, Best Screenplay for Mark Sawyer, Best Director of Photography for Ryan Purcell, and others. The short film is, of course, only the beginning. It is intended to lead into Dark Landings, which is an episodic series of two seasons of ten episodes each that have already been completed.

Season 1

SEASON ONE includes the characters and stories of Dark Landings The Short Film and many and much more! Skye and her family come under attack by violent radicals led by the hardcore Joel Matthews, Roe and her team scramble to save lives, which leads to — other violent radicals enter the Dreamscape and attack Skye with an evil equivalent of Witness. This group builds truck bombs and plots assassination in a try for a state-wide takeover and wholesale executions of opponents.  Another radical, disgruntled by failure, takes an assassin’s aim at Skye and makes the biggest mistake of his life when the same bullet that hits Skye also impacts Roe.

Season 2

SEASON TWO Of Dark Landings includes a group of criminals who make one of the greatest mistakes it’s possible to make — they try to kidnap, rape, and murder Skye’s daughter Crissy. Add to this a reclusive mountain monk who miraculously saves a hiker who fell off a cliff, Skye’s husband Steve showing up in shocking and wonderful fashion, and then… Dark Marty and Good Artie — twin brothers who seem the Jekyll and Hyde of American crime. Dark Marty kills hookers, tries to rape and kill Detective Moon, succeeds in capturing Mac, but… You don’t threaten Roe’s detectives without eventually meeting her one-on-one yourself!

Missions

Dark Landings combines modern history, politics, and diplomacy with spiritual possibilities while tied to a modern US police procedural — a strange mix that works! Within this, we have two main missions.
The Junta’s Evil Trio—Massera, Videla, and Agosti
Thanks to them, the Wednesday night flights returned empty.
“Pinochet Shirts” like these are what spur Skye to action—to prevent what happened in Argentina and Chile from happening in the USA.

First Mission

One of our main goals Dark Landings is to draw attention to the Argentine children of the assassinated “dissidents” from the 1970s who childless military families adopted. The grandmothers of these children, depicted in our poster at the top of the page, still protest in front of the government offices in Buenos Aires every Thursday to find their missing grandchildren (“Los Desaparecidos”).

About 350 children remain missing as of this writing. The Argentine government is assisting in the search for them, but it would be wonderful to spread awareness and potentially help reunite even one family.
House Fire
Skye’s family home—if the radicals have their way.

second Mission

After completing the Dark Landings short film, our secondary goal is to create an engaging, valuable, and exciting episodic. This includes dynamic good and evil characters, the better elements of a police procedural, and is a historical and political drama that addresses numerous cultural and social concerns. It will also incorporate mysterious and spiritual aspects. Dark Landings is not a narrative of revenge but a tale of prevention, justice, and possibly karma.
“Pinochet Shirts” like these are what spur Skye to action—to prevent what happened in Argentina and Chile from happening in the USA.

SEASON ONE

Includes the characters and stories of Dark Landings The Short Film and many and much more! Skye and her family come under attack by violent radicals led by the hardcore Joel Matthews, Roe and her team scramble to save lives, which leads to — other violent radicals enter the Dreamscape and attack Skye with an evil equivalent of Witness. This group builds truck bombs and plots assassination in a try for a state-wide takeover and wholesale executions of opponents.  Another radical, disgruntled by failure, takes an assassin’s aim at Skye and makes the biggest mistake of his life when the same bullet that hits Skye also impacts Roe.

Skye’s family home—if the radicals have their way.

SEASON TWO

Of Dark Landings includes a group of criminals who make one of the greatest mistakes it’s possible to make — they try to kidnap, rape, and murder Skye’s daughter Crissy. Add to this a reclusive mountain monk who miraculously saves a hiker who fell off a cliff, Skye’s husband Steve showing up in shocking and wonderful fashion, and then… Dark Marty and Good Artie — twin brothers who seem the Jekyll and Hyde of American crime. Dark Marty kills hookers, tries to rape and kill Detective Moon, succeeds in capturing Mac, but… You don’t threaten Roe’s detectives without eventually meeting her one-on-one yourself!

“Pinochet Shirts” like these are what spur Skye to action—to prevent what happened in Argentina and Chile from happening in the USA.

First Mission

Our main goal with Dark Landings is to draw attention to the Argentine children of the assassinated “dissidents” from the 1970s who childless military families adopted. The grandmothers of these children, depicted in our poster at the top of the page, still protest in front of the government offices in Buenos Aires every Thursday to find their missing grandchildren (“Los Desaparecidos”).

About 350 children remain missing as of this writing. The Argentine government is assisting in the search for them, but it would be wonderful to spread awareness and potentially help reunite even one family.

Mountains, Forests, and Nature assume great importance as the many stories of Dark Landings move forward.

Second Mission

After completing the Dark Landings short film, our secondary goal is to create an engaging, valuable, and exciting episodic. This includes dynamic good and evil characters, the better elements of a police procedural, and is a historical and political drama that addresses numerous cultural and social concerns. It will also incorporate mysterious and spiritual aspects. Dark Landings is not a narrative of revenge but a tale of prevention, justice, and possibly karma.

OUR EXCELLENT CAST AND CREW

Dark Landings – The Short films in early April 2023. Sandra, Bry, and Mark are thrilled about the excellent Cast and Crew who have come together for it. A highlight is having MAGGIE REED play Captain Roe. Maggie is an acclaimed and accomplished actor whose roles include parts on Seinfeld, Star Trek – TNG, Law & Order, and (aired in March 2023) The Equalizer, among many other accomplishments.

Director and Casting Director - Sandra Scragg

Our Director Sandra Scragg is also a national casting director who loves to focus on our wonderful PNW actors. She has been casting theatre productions since 2006 and added film/commercial casting to her portfolio in 2016. She is excited to find the perfect actor for the myriad of amazing characters that make up the cast of Dark Landings.
Maggie Reed as Captain Roe
Bry Troyer
Bry Troyer

Producer - Bry Troyer

At age 7, Bry Troyer, on a farm in Kansas, cast his horse and his 4-H pig in his first movie or musical, I Sing About Pigs. Since then, he has transitioned to making movies for people, co-writing, and producing the recent feature, They Reach. Bry continues consulting and line producing on other features, writing and producing short films while waiting for COVID-19 to wrap up. He hopes that some of them never leave the Internet’s dark corners.

Bry attended the University of Washington’s film school program after earning a bachelor’s degree from George Washington University and enrolling there for law. He is currently a producer at the e-sports and production company Evil Geniuses. Additionally, he teaches production management at Seattle Film Institute and has developed and produced commercial material for clients like Coca-Cola and the University of Washington.
Along with his work in video production, he has over ten years of experience in radio journalism and professional writing as an editor, news director, and freelance journalist on subjects ranging from drag queens to dairy cows. He resides in Washington with his husband Ron, their rat terrier Bilbo, and four house plants.
Wally Lane
Wally Lane

Screenwriting Mentor and Consultant - Wally Lane

Wally Lane, Mark’s screenwriting mentor, can’t be described simply. But here is a summary:
In 2007 at the PNWA Conference, Mark met Wally. He advised Mark to consider screenwriting, which the latter decided to try. Now, fifteen years later, Mark says, “If my scripts don’t float your boat, it’s all Wally’s fault. If you think they’re great, then, Thank you!” That’s not what Mark actually says. Wally had once been a professional boxer, after all.

The truth is that he appreciates Wally for being so patient with him as a stumbling, too wordy, novelizing shambles of a sort-of apprentice. Wally Lane is credited as one of Dark Landings’ screenwriters, and we are honored to have him on board as a mentor and consultant at every stage of the process.

Coming Next

While Skye Tanner brings more pressing issues into her life, Captain Roe, on rare days off, camps in the mountains to unwind. In Season 2, some intriguing episodes will occur, focusing on hidden events in the woods.

To Learn more

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