In Development
Franky’s- Thicker than Water – Vampires vs. Zombies – Team Doc – Cop Criminals – The GPB – Tornado - The Social Climber – The Papala Conspiracy – BOA
HFC Pictures is currently working with distributors internationally to develop one-hour dramas and pilots for television. We are proud of our slate of in-development projects, and welcome interested parties to contact us for more details. For treatments, scripts, and budgets, please contact David Waknine at hfcpictures@gmail.com.
A tiny hole-in-the-wall topless bar in NYC is the neighborhood hang out. The club is run by its outwardly arrogant, inwardly teddy-like owner Franky and his team of eccentric employees. Franky’s is a single-location, character-driven comedy and throwback to the original sitcom – similar to Cheers and Taxi.
Franky’s is the most advanced of the pilots on our development slate; we have already staged a table read.
Family. Tradition. Crime. Meet the Gorskis, a seemingly innocent family of five. But under that perfect facade, you’ll find a Roma Gypsy crime family, where parents train their kids to be expert criminals, just as they were trained by their parents, and their grandparents before that. This show explores the dark underworld of Roma Gypsies and the criminal lives that were chosen for them before they were born.
When deadly vampires begin roaming the earth, scientists must come up with a plan to save mankind. In a secret lab, they engineer a race of zombies, hoping the vampires will prefer these mindless creatures to living people. But when the zombies escape, it triggers a war between vampires and zombies who must now compete over their common food source…the humans.
Greg McDermott isn’t just any doctor…he’s the team physician for a national football team. The sports industry is a multi-billion dollar business, and very often its doctors are asked to focus on profits over health. This show is a dark look at medicine and greed, and the ethical limits people are willing to push to achieve success.
Police departments often have no external oversight, and the men and women who investigate police crime come from the same place as the officers they’re investigating. The show follows two groups: rank-and-file officers and police crime investigators, all of whom must decide how far they’re willing to go to protect themselves, their friends, and the people of their city.
This procedural revolves around the agents of the Secret Service as they assess and investigate the 10,000 annual threats against the president. Each week, our team will try to stop a new assassination plot, deal with the ugly sides of the president’s morally gray personal life, and grapple with the very real possibility of trading their life for his.
The show explores life in a small town after a mile-wide tornado wreaks havoc on this intimate community and reveals surprising secrets that were meant to be kept hidden. We’ll explore the differences between our public and private lives, and what happens when a tornado blows apart the line separating those two worlds.
The show centers around Gabriel, a con man who maneuvers his way into the exclusive world of the fabulously wealthy. He gets busy collecting secrets, sleeping with wives, blackmailing the husbands, and climbing the social ladder in the most devious ways possible. This is a dangerous game in the most ruthless society, but we’ll soon learn that’s nothing compared to the dark things in Gabriel’s past that he’s running away from.
Philip Zajac is the getaway driver for a simple mugging…which suddenly turns into a murder. But when he wakes up the next day and learns that the victim was actually the chief of police, he quickly realizes that he’s being set up to take the fall. Now Zajak must abandon his wife and kids to find out who paid for the contract murder and why, in order to clear his name. Meanwhile, Detective Arnold Krol has been put in charge of the case, which will either make career or destroy his career. It’s a dangerous cat and mouse game that will consume the lives of both men.
BOA is an elite counter-terrorism squad, who proactively investigates threats of mass destruction, actively combats international criminals, and pursues terrorists to the ends of the earth that carry out attacks. Each week, they’ll focus on a single case, showcasing their expertise and training, while also managing their inner demons…because every day could be their last. And we’ll quickly realize that they’re not just elite agents, they’re fathers and husbands too, leaving them to chart a delicate balance between protecting their country and their family.