Action with brains.
Sci-fi with humanity.
Comedy with pain.
NOBODY. FUCKING. MOVE.
attn: calling all freedom fighters.
highly volatile and subversive script material available. start your uprising today.
Nobody Move is David Singer and CK Pahlow — a transcontinental award-winning screenwriting partnership that smashes together Sci-Fi, Comedy, and Action to tell the kind of stories that keep audiences on the edge of their fucking seats.
Time Management
(half-hour sci-fi/comedy)
2026: The giant ORCA corporation sends an ambitious middle-manager back in time for a top secret mission. But it’s not to kill Hitler — they're sending Joe back a measly three years to complete “administrative” work. And while he’s in the past shredding documents and purchasing chicken farms, he sees his old life clearly for the first time — including the marriage his old self is about to ruin. Joe decides to grab the future he thinks he deserves, even if that means drugging, kidnapping, and taking the place of the other Joe to do it.
Heavy Machinery
(feature-film sci-fi)
In the not-too-distant future, an Artificial Superintelligence has all but eradicated humanity. As the robotic drills approach the earth’s core, the few remaining human slaves that maintain the equipment are suddenly informed that the team with the lowest productivity will be “reassigned”. The different teams go to war with each other, desperate to maintain their feeble hold on life, and what starts out as sabotage quickly turns into bloody combat. Will they be the ones who wipe out humanity once and for all with their vicious civil war, or can they band together to spit in the unseen eye of their oppressor?
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(feature length sci-fi dramedy)
Professor Amy Pezzati has found a way to save humanity. And her funding’s just been cut. As society approaches collapse, her incredibly complex one-to-one simulation of the earth and everything on it has provided numerous pathways for solving humanity’s many problems. And, to her surprise, her virtual avatar has managed to find love, connection, and happiness in a world made of 1s and 0s in a way that had always eluded her IRL. With only a matter of days before the money is gone and the simulation evaporates forever, Amy has to confront what gives life meaning and what she’s actually trying to save.
Let’s make some history together and have some fucking fun doing it.
CK Pahlow is an Australian screenwriter passionate about bringing authentic characters and relationships to stories in the elevated genre space.
He got his start writing and directing grounded drama and comedy, making his feature debut with "Play It Safe" in 2015, before following it up with his work on the script for dark comedy "Brothers' Nest", which Rolling Stone reported "could (and should) be the sleeper hit of" SXSW 2018.
In 2019 his pilot script "The Trouble With Unicorns" brought him to the AFF finals, where he met (and fell in writer-love with) fellow finalist David Singer. Since then, CK has been having a blast bringing his experience in the Australian indie film scene to the genre space — partnering with David on sci-fi comedies that are equal parts smart and silly (including AFF 2022's "Time Management"), and with fellow Aussie Philip Tarl Denson on darker sci-fi and horror script.
David Singer is a writer, director, and musician based in Chicago. His debut short film Advantage: Weinberg was chosen for the Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at the Cannes Film Festival, and his feature film Imperfections premiered at the 2016 Austin Film Festival and was distributed worldwide. In 2019, his project Incoming won the Digital Series Award in the AFF Screenwriting Competition. Incoming is now in production as a narrative podcast and will debut in 2023.
David is also a musician who has released 5 LPs and played hundreds of shows around the world.
As a composer, his work in tv, film, and theater includes the Tony Award-winning August: Osage County and the Broadway remount of Of Mice And Men.
