Tribeca All Access® 2007
Frank Lehman has terminal brain cancer. Forced into early retirement, this once powerful businessman dreads spending his last days shuffling around in pajamas waiting to die. Telling no-one, he flees suburban Connecticut and goes to a dive resort in Belize, a family vacation spot from happier times. Josh, the black sheep of the family is given the task of bringing his estranged father home before he dies.
Screenwriter
Roberto Marinas has a BA in Film from the University of British Columbia and an M.F.A. in Playwriting from the Actors Studio Drama School at New School University. He is a 2003-2004 Dramatists Guild Playwriting Fellow where he mentored under veteran playwright and television writer Richard Dresser. He was short-listed for the 1996 Praxis Bi-Annual screenplay contest award. His one act play LOADER #26 has received readings at The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C, and Ensemble Studio Theatre and Second Stage in NYC. LOADER #26 premiered at the 2001 NYC International Fringe Festival.