Film & Writing · Berlin

Crime dramas and dark comedies about outsiders out of their depth, from Kreuzberg to Copacabana to the Bronx.

Original features and series by screenwriter and producer Henry Holiday (Quinones).

Series

Television

Original series in development. Pilots and episodes available on request.

Limited Series · Drama

Series · Thriller

Feature & Series · Drama

Pure Teatro

Cleanskin

Out of the Rough

Inspired by the life of La Lupe. A Cuban singer who treats the stage like a possession is exiled by a revolution, crowned by New York, and discarded by the machine that sold her fire. She refuses to shrink.

Aleppo, 2016. A street hustler escapes the siege dressed as a woman on a refugee bus and becomes the perfect bomb maker for Berlin, while the German spies who could stop him decide to let him run.

In Paterson, New Jersey, a teenage golf prodigy befriends the trans woman the town blamed for his uncle's disappearance, and finds his grandfather's films of a ritual at the Great Falls.

Neon-lit diner at night, reflected in a wet street
Neon-lit diner at night, reflected in a wet street

Features

Current Slate

Crime · Drama

A Night with Johnny Law

Queens, 1986. When two detectives are gunned down outside a Ridgewood diner, a nineteen-year-old college dropout who was inside is caught between a Mafia oath, a crooked precinct and his trumpet-playing older brother.

Crime · Sport

La Corrida

A half Puerto Rican, half Black teenager in the South Bronx trains for the bullrings of Spain with a shopping cart and his grandfather's legends of a matador ancestor, until a loan shark's enforcer starts killing the people he loves.

Action · Thriller

Sugarloaf

When his estranged wife is abducted from a tourist bus in Rio during their reconciliation trip, a burned-out ex-NYPD cop follows her trail through the favelas to a São Paulo trafficking auction.

Dark Comedy

Berlin PM

The night before his first day at a Berlin proptech startup, a rule-following Texas coder is robbed of everything he owns and stumbles into the escape plan of a trafficked Bulgarian woman. He has until nine a.m.

Screenwriter & Producer

Henry Holiday (Quinones)

Henry Holiday (Quinones) is a Berlin-based screenwriter and producer with a background in software development, media production and foreign languages. He writes about people caught between worlds: Havana and the Bronx, Aleppo and Berlin, Paterson and Rio. GfilmX is the home of his features, series and writing projects.

Read his work on The Black List, Script Revolution and IMDb.

Behind the Camera

From New York to Park City to set.

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