Cindy Matta

The MAD QUEEN, circa 1828, chronicles the rise of Ranavalona I -- the first female sovereign of Madagascar who fought viciously to keep her Island free from European colonization for 33 years. Fueled by passion, and then power -- she rules with a bloody hand until paranoia becomes her undoing.

A single-dad, biochemist, perfecting a cure for Ebola, discovers his employers are planning to drop the lethal virus strain on the public sector to profit from sales of his vaccine. And so, he steals his lab work and samples with plans to turn the evidence over to the Centers For Disease and Control (CDC), but is forced into hiding when the company pegs him as a bio-terrorist. In order to complete his mission, he abandons his teenage son, hides the cure in an avalanche which leads to a perilous chase through the snowy back-country in Jackson Hole, Wyoming with his bi-athlete girlfriend leading the way.

A Marine Raider returns from a traumatic mission in Afghanistan only to become the prime suspect in the disappearance of two women when he stumbles on a human-trafficking/drug ring using the New York City taxi system.

After a golden-wolf pup loses his family in the wilderness, he's mistaken as a lost dog and thrown into a shelter where he learns how to be domestic while overcoming his deepest fear -- posing the question "Who rescued who?