Screenwriting
Andrew Snyder’s screenplays often focus on themes of innocence, loss, and hope for the better. Drawing from his kind and empathetic worldview, he crafts compelling characters and storylines that showcase life and humanity not as they are, but as they could be.
Chasing Sunset (Feature Screenplay)
Austin Film Festival - Screenwriting Contest: Second Round, Top 20%
Logline: When a closeted, unknowingly gay freshman in college falls in love with a guy for the first time, he must navigate through a new relationship while building up enough confidence to come out to himself and his family.
The Subtleties of Now (Feature Screenplay)
Logline: In a small rural high school, a tight-knit group of high school seniors tries to have the best year of their lives, but issues and divides in the friend group drive them apart before leaving for college can.
Broken (Short Script)
Logline: After a failed suicide attempt, a man is dropped into limbo where his only option to leave is to watch videos of what his life was and could have been before he’s ultimately given a choice to live or die.
Shout (Short Script)
Logline: When two middle-aged sisters are assigned to take care of their callous father after a stroke, they devise a deadly plan to exact revenge on him as payback for their poor childhoods.
Fractured Together (One Act Play)
Logline: After the unexpected death of his mother, a lonely and unsupported teen must reconcile a relationship with his father before he falls through the cracks and drops out of high school.
Lilac Memories (Feature Screenplay - In Progress)
Logline: When a four-year-old boy misunderstands the “loss” of his grandma, he gathers his neighborhood friends to go on a quest to find her, but the group’s contrast with their parents’ understanding of the situation prove to be a disconnect that no one can bridge.