TV SERIES (One-hour drama)





I.R.L. (IN REAL LIFE)



Created & Written by: Danny Boushebel





GENRE: Action / Thriller / Drama / Crime


NUTSHELL: THE BLACKLIST meets TAKEN & THE BOURNE IDENTITY.


TAGLINE: A plan gone wrong is still a plan.



LOGLINE:

When a Lebanese American man travels to Lebanon to fulfill his late mother's wish of uniting her ashes with his deceased father's, he gets caught in a dangerous web of lies, murder, and corruption after waking up with no memory of the night before next to a dead prostitute in a seedy brothel.



AWARDS & PLACEMENTS:

WINNER – Best Television Script -Cine Vista Oasis Film Awards (Jakarta, Indonesia - Aug. 2024)

WINNER – Best Television Script – The Dreamers Film Festival (Brooklyn, NY - USA - Apr. 2024)

WINNER – Best Int'l TV Script – Frida Film Festival (France - Mar. 2024)

WINNER – Best TV Screenplay – Sofia Int'l Film Festival (Sofia, Bulgaria - Apr. 2023)

WINNER – Best Screenplay – Tabriz Cinema Awards (Tabriz, East Azerbaijan - Apr. 2023)

WINNER – Best Television Script – Stanley Film Awards (London, UK - Mar. 2023)

WINNER – Best Unproduced Script - Madrid Arthouse Film Festival (Spain - Dec. 2022)

WINNER – Best TV Pilot Script - Vesuvius International Film Fest (Italy - Dec. 2022)

WINNER – Best Drama Script – Gold Star Movie Awards (NJ, USA - Nov. 2022)

WINNER – Best TV Script - LIFF - Lebanese Independent Film Festival (Lebanon - Sep. 2022)

WINNER – Best Screenplay – Dreamz Catcher Int'l Film Festival (Kolkata, India - Sep. 2022)

WINNER – Best Screenplay – Indie Cine Tube Awards (Kolkata, India - Aug. 2022)

WINNER – Best Script – Venus Community Awards (Istanbul, Turkey - Aug. 2022)

WINNER – Best Television Script – Arrow Int'l Film Festival (Russia - July. 2022)

WINNER – Best Pilot Script - 4th Dimension Independent Film Festival (Ubud, Bali - July 2022)

WINNER – Best Television Script – 8 & Halfilm Awards (Rome, Italy - July 2022)

WINNER – Best TV Pilot Script – 1st Monthly Film Festival 2021 (Belgrade - May. 2022)


HONORABLE MENTION – Best Television Script – Fox Int'l Film Fest. (Rome, Italy - June 2022)

NOMINEE – Best Screenplay – Beyond the Curve Int'l Film Festival (Paris, France - July 2022)


FINALIST – Best Pilot Script – Elegant Int'l Film Festival (Kolkata, India - Apr. 2024)

FINALIST – Barcelona Indie Awards - (Spain - March 2024)

FINALIST – Los Angeles Int'l Screenplay Awards - Diversity Initiative (Season 1) (USA - Oct. 2022)


SEMI–FINALIST – Dubai Independent Film Festival (Dubai, UAE - Jan. 2023)

SEMI–FINALIST – Calgary Independent Film Festival (Calgary, Canada - Dec. 2022)

SEMI–FINALIST – Seattle Movie Awards (Seattle, WA - USA - Nov. 2022)

SEMI–FINALIST – Munich Short Film Awards (Munich, Germany - Sep. 2022)

SEMI–FINALIST – Best Original Screenplay – Montreal Movie Awards (Canada - Sep. 2022)


OFFICIAL SELECTION – Red Movie Awards (Reims, France - Jan. 2023)

OFFICIAL SELECTION – Oaxaca FilmFest (Oaxaca, Mexico - Dec. 2022)

OFFICIAL SELECTION – YWIFF - Your Way Int'l Film Festival (Paris, France - Aug. 2022)