What I do!

Mario Martin’s love for storytelling originated as a young boy when he felt inspired to tell stories through writing. At eighteen he shot his first film, “Checkmate.” That was the birthing of his passion for film-making and screenwriting.

Early on he honed his craft at the Maine Media Workshops and Boston Film & Video Foundation. Mario has attended many screenwriting boot-camps, worked with multiple coverage companies and many screenwriters.

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#Detritus; “Libby for short.”

April 2, 2020

INT. CAFETERIA – WHITE-HOUSE – WASHINGTON DC – DAY

John stands in front of a beverage-container with a glass-door full of bottled-water and many assorted bottled-beverages. He opens the door, grabs a bottle of water, opens it. Morgan approaches with a stainless-steel-bowl, the dog follows by her side.

Morgan puts the bowl on the gray-tile-floor. John pours water from the water-bottle into the bowl. The dog laps the water up. John empties the bottle of water into the bowl. He and Morgan watch the dog drink water from the bowl.

John turns to the beverage-container, opens the glass-door, grabs two bottles of water. He turns gives one to, Morgan. They look at each other, John sighs. They raise their water-bottles, make a toast.

JOHN

“To, I’m thirsty as hell!”

Morgan laughs, twists the cap off her water-bottle, takes a big-swig of water, appears re-freshened. She looks at the dog lap the water from the metal bowl. She turns to John, eyes open wide, smiles.

MORGAN

“Liberty! Libby, for short.”

John drinks the bottled-water, stops, looks down at the dog drink the water from the metal-bowl. He turns to Morgan with a look of approval.

JOHN

“ya, I like it.”

He looks over to the cafeteria food wrack behind them. In a glass-container are several pizza’s stacked on aluminum pans. John turns, puts his bottles water on the glass-container. Ho opens the glass door, removes a pepperoni-pizza from the glass-container, sets it on-top. He pulls away two slices of pizza from the pie, turns, hands one to, Morgan.

John, tares the slice of pizza in his hand in half. He gives half to Libby who drinks water from the white bowl. LIBBY, turns, scoffs the piece of pizza off the gray-tile-floor.

LATER

John stands in front of wall of metal-kitchen-cabinets with the doors open. He reaches in, pulls out cans of beans, soups and sardines. He turns to Morgan with two hands full of canned food. She stands next to him with a paper-bag, John puts the cans of food in the bag. Libby sits next to Morgan, watches them fill the bag with canned food..

Morgan holds a bag full of canned food, sets it on the floor next to Libby who lays relaxed. She turns to John, she appears tired.

MORGAN

“I’m exhausted.”

John studies Morgans face, looks into her eyes.

JOHN

“Me too. We should rest before we go.”

LATER

John and Morgan asleep together on a couch.

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What I do!

Mario Martin’s love for storytelling originated as a young boy when he felt inspired to tell stories through writing. At eighteen he shot his first film, “Checkmate.” That was the birthing of his passion for film-making and screenwriting.

Early on he honed his craft at the Maine Media Workshops and Boston Film & Video Foundation. Mario has attended many screenwriting boot-camps, worked with multiple coverage companies and many screenwriters.