Ideas, Shorts, Scripts & Treatments

  • True Bromance | トゥルー・ブロマンス

    True Bromance | トゥルー・ブロマンス

    True Bromance Elon didn’t argue. He didn’t tweet. He just walked to his rocket. He climbed into the Falcon Heavy, face still, eyes like stone. At Cape Canaveral, Trump stood alone, hands in his coat pockets, watching. He said nothing.…

  • Black Mirror Episode Concept: “Recursive”

    Black Mirror Episode Concept: “Recursive”

    © 2025 Barry Ashworth Genre: Sci-fi ©WGA Registration Number: 1587324 Premise:In a near-future world, a breakthrough in autonomous AI leads to the creation of an art-producing system that can self-update, evolve, and “teach itself” new techniques. At first, it’s hailed as…

  • Specter in the Circuit

    Specter in the Circuit

    Screen Treatment © 2025 Barry Ashworth Genre:Sci-fi Comedy/Parody Tone:Witty, meta, and playful, poking fun at cyberpunk tropes while exploring philosophical questions about identity and technology. Logline:In a hyper-digital future, a cybernetically enhanced police squad must track down a rogue, self-aware…

  • Burn Circuit

    Burn Circuit

    Feature Film Treatment © Kathleen Margart Cameron, All Rights Reserved 2025 BURN CIRCUIT Ride the edge, or be consumed by it ACT I: Entry & Resistance Selene Skeldon, 49-year-old tarot reader and single mother, works a dead-end night shift in…

  • Ratrace … View animated Short

    Ratrace … View animated Short

    The Cheese Stands Alone: A Tale of Mid-Squeak-isential Crisis ミドルライフ・スウィーク-イゼンシャル・クライシス:チーズはひとりぼっち In a nondescript corner of everyones somewhere, Masaru the salarymouse slid into his tiny grey suit at dawn, adjusted his paw-sized tie, and squeezed through the mouse-only exit beside the…

  • Kuro Tsuki – Black Moon

    Kuro Tsuki – Black Moon

    Film Treatment © Barry Ashworth, All Rights Reserved 2016 ACT ONE: THE FALL Opening SceneSnow-whipped winds sweep the desolate highlands of Hokkaidori, a land where legends and curses intertwine. RYŪ, a battle-worn warrior with eyes like cold steel, rides hard through…