Tiger, Tiger

Genre: Drama/romance

Script: Screenplay by Dennis S. Johnson and Mark Stouffer (WILD AMERICA). Stouffer’s award-winning National Geographic film, Tigers of the Snow, inspired him to co-create the story for TIGER, TIGER. Inspired by true events.

Logline: A crashed American pilot escapes the enemy with help from a brave young girl and wild Siberian Tiger.

Storyline: Inspired by true events, “TIGER, TIGER” is a powerful and exquisitely written love story about a man and a woman finding love under the most dramatic and challenging circumstances imaginable.

Set against a striking backdrop of Siberian Tigers in the Far East, it involves a crashed American pilot, unjustly imprisoned as a spy. Seven years later, he is released to a life of exile and forced to wed a strong, but inwardly scarred, young woman – one of thousands Stalin had cruelly culled from the streets of Moscow and shipped aboard the Trans-Siberian Railway to where they were forced to become wives of hardened prisoners released from the infamous Gulag.

As this man and woman struggle to carve out a life together in a hostile and inescapable frontier settlement, their hardened hearts collide, showing no trust or caring for one another – until a powerful Siberian Tiger becomes the force that unites them in love.

Rich in history, this captivating story stars a battered but romantic lead who uses his undying resolve and American spirit to rise to great heroics in a daring escape with the woman he loves.

Status: Screenplay complete. On Jan. 1, 2004 won Second Place in The Writers Place 2003 Feature Screenplay Competition. Also, winner of ScriptMag’s Open Door Screenplay Contest sponsored by Writers & Artists Group, Ltd., and a finalist in Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition. Mark Stouffer is a co-producer.