Paul Byrne
Screenwriter
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Paul Byrne is a screenwriter and graduate of the University of Oklahoma. He currently lives in Benton Harbor, Michigan, and owns Cool Breeze Productions, a family-owned film company that creates and markets award-winning, multi-genre short films and feature productions. Paul is currently working on and is seeking investment partners for his action-adventure thriller feature “Between 2 Worlds.”
“Between 2 Worlds.”
Party girl Princess Nia of an African nation is forced into exile when her parents are executed by the power-hungry Gen. Lusala . On the run from the general's assassins, Nia escapes to America and finds domestic work on a Montana ranch owned by Bronk Taylor, a cantankerous Army vet who not only teaches her hard life lessons, but whom she also falls in love with. When Nia receives news her nation needs her after ousting Gen. Lusala, she must decide whether to lead her war-torn country out of despair or marry Bronk, the love of her life.
https://filmfreeway.com/Between2Worlds
“Blood Trail”
Tormented by the brutal slayings of his police partner and his fiancée, a troubled homicide cop Zeke Makowski must team up with his estranged father, a retired detective, to track down a serial killer, baptized the Butcher, who mysteriously resurfaces after 30 years. Following the killer’s blood trail, Zeke and his old man must navigate through the murky world of the C.I.A. which employed the Butcher to terminate a terrorist cell plotting a bio-chemical attack on a major U.S. city. Zeke and his father ramp up their investigation when they discover evidence left behind by the Butcher that his next target is the Catholic Pope. The emotional manhunt culminates in a bloody showdown where only one will survive – the divine-inspired serial killer who has never been caught or the boozy homicide cop who is at the end of his rope.
https://filmfreeway.com/BloodTrail379
“Precious Seconds”
Tortured on orders from the Director of Homeland Security, a falsely accused D.E.A. agent Chase Detrick relives fragments of a past life - an I.R.A. gunman in 1919 Dublin who's torn between the woman he loves and a violent political cause.
Escaping from a mental ward, Chase rescues a foreign woman in D.C., Laleh, from a vendetta hit by an international arms dealer. Shockingly, Laleh is the spitting image of Chase's wife Fiona whom he passionately loved 100 years ago. Despite Chase's promise to take Laleh far away from the contract killers, she decides to stick it out with her husband Ahmed and their young daughter despite the constant danger of a failed Witness Protection Program.
Finally captured by Lockhart, Director of D.H.S., Chase and her throw down in a death match where apparently both blow up in a fiery crash. At a memorial service for Chase, the dearly departed appears in the flesh to Laleh. For the last time, Chase and Laleh travel back to their past life during the Irish Revolution and together discover the tragic event that separated them for an eternity.
https://filmfreeway.com/PreciousSeconds
"Chasing Lucifer"
Hollywood international Indie Screenplay Awards OFFICIAL SELECTION, FEBRUARY 2025
A smart-mouthed, ass-kicking female private eye, "Shanny" Shanahan, goes head-to-head with a wiley al-Qaeda terrorist, Qusay. Initially pursuing clues to a seemingly unrelated murder in Washington, D.C., Shanny stumbles upon a terrorist plot targeting the Pentagon on 9/11. Losing her eyesight in an ambush, but not her will, Shanny races the clock on that fateful day to prevent a national tragedy from becoming even worse - a portable nuclear bomb aboard that fateful flight..
“Midnight Child”
“Midnight Child” focuses on a British pimp seeking vengeance, who kidnaps the daughter of a San Francisco D.A., and sells her to the international sex trade - only to realize the girl is his daughter too.
“Two-way Mirror”
“Two-way Mirror” is about an African-American woman on vacation who is seduced by an international con artist, but is actually a modern-day Robinhood, and entangles her in a $10 million scam targeting a paramilitary drug lord whose sole mission is to even the score.
“Mario's Luv”
“Mario's Luv” is about a full-ride soccer ace whose dad drowns at sea and must team up with a charismatic drug dealer to support his family, which leads to his arrest. Mario must now either roll over on his boss who is like a brother or do hard time and walk away from his teenage bride.