When the family business starts to fail, Anderson Cavanaugh, in a last-ditch effort to right the sinking ship, enlists with the Solomon Corporation, a paramilitary organization of door-to-door Bible salesmen. From the horrors of basic training to the mean streets of suburbia, every moment of Anderson’s new life is caught on tape by a crack team of documentarians tasked with making the Solomon Corporation’s annual corporate video.
Aaron Hallaway, John Handem Piette, Jonna Juul-Hansen, Alexander Hilary, Andrew Bragdon, Tony Bottorff, Steve Wright
Top 10 Percent — 2010 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting
Semifinalist — 2010 Big Break Contest
Official Selection (American Salesman: Closure) — The Good, the Bad, the Indie Vol. 6
Winner — Best Television / Movie Script, 77th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition
The second webisode (“Stakeout”) is now online in standard and high definition formats. In this episode, new recruit Daniel Garrity (Andy Bragdon) stakes out a customer’s home (“client research”) while Cliff (John Handem Piette) explains the finer points of female psychology.
Run-Time: 4 minutes, 20 seconds; starring John Handem Piette, Andrew Bragdon, Steve Wright, and Chris Montes; written and directed by Charles C. Nwachukwu
The first webisode (“Man-Charm”) is now online in standard and high definition formats. In this episode, Solomon Corporation Field Manager Cliff Holloway (John Handem Piette), teaches a hapless recruit (Andrew Bragdon) how to approach, charm, and sell product to an average househusband (Tony Bottorff).
Run-Time: 3 minutes, 51 seconds; starring John Handem Piette, Andrew Bragdon, and Tony Bottorff; written and directed by Charles C. Nwachukwu
American Salesman took first place in the television/movie script category of the 77th Annual Writer’s Digest writing competition. Salesman was chosen from the ranks of over 1,000 script submissions and will see its first fifteen pages published in the Writer’s Digest 2008 Contest Booklet (December) along with the winning manuscripts of the nine other categories.
American Salesman is the first feature from Sydewinder Pictures.