Luke is an award-winning screenwriter who has been a finalist and semifinalist in PAGE, ATX, PageTurner, ISA, NYC Midnight, and more.
His horror feature BIOLOGICAL won best feature at HorrOrigins Film Festival.
His short eco body horror VINES is currently at festivals where it has garnered 38 official selections, 18 nominations, and 10 wins including Best Horror Short at Seattle Film Festival. (as of 9/25/2025)
Living in Portland, Oregon, his penchant for the absurd is kept in check by the persistently grey skies causing him to examine the darkness and ennui of the human condition while eating artisanal donuts.
Living in Portland, Oregon, his penchant for the absurd is kept in check by the persistently grey skies causing him to examine the darkness and ennui of the human condition while eating artisanal donuts.
VINES
ECO BODY HORROR
ECO BODY HORROR
A mad botanist experiments on an unwilling human subject to give plants a fighting chance against climate change. When he loses control of his experiments he must face the implications of his radical bioethic.
Based on the Award-Winning Short Film
🌿3x Best Horror Short🌿
🌿39 Official Selections🌿
🌿18 Nominations🌿
🌿10 Wins🌿
www.VinesTheFilm
🌿3x Best Horror Short🌿
🌿39 Official Selections🌿
🌿18 Nominations🌿
🌿10 Wins🌿
www.VinesTheFilm
BIOLOGICAL
Supernatural Horror
Feature Film
While on a romantic cabin getaway, a local politician struggling with infertility is haunted by the spectre of a dead child from her distant past, leading them to uncover the graves of countless foster children.
Supernatural Horror
Feature Film
While on a romantic cabin getaway, a local politician struggling with infertility is haunted by the spectre of a dead child from her distant past, leading them to uncover the graves of countless foster children.
🌿Best Feature Screenplay HorrOrigins🌿
VAMP E.R.
Horror/Comedy
1/2 HR TV Pilot
A socially-conscious ER doctor joins a mismanaged hospital for mythical creatures after she’s unwillingly turned into a vampire.
🌿TOP 100 TableRead My Screenplay GENRE🌿
🌿TOP 100 TableRead My Screenplay Austin🌿
🌿TOP 100 TableRead My Screenplay Austin🌿
ALPHA AND OMEGA
Comedy
1/2 HR TV Pilot
Siblings Helen and Jasper run their businesses side by side, but they couldn’t be at more opposite ends of the spectrum: The Alpha Birthing Center and the Omega Funeral Home. Their brother Seth is a Presbyterian pastor who is often caught in the middle of their hijinx as they interact with the eccentric citizens of Killdeer, OR
Comedy
1/2 HR TV Pilot
Siblings Helen and Jasper run their businesses side by side, but they couldn’t be at more opposite ends of the spectrum: The Alpha Birthing Center and the Omega Funeral Home. Their brother Seth is a Presbyterian pastor who is often caught in the middle of their hijinx as they interact with the eccentric citizens of Killdeer, OR
HEKLA
Lovecraftian Horror
1/2 Hour TV Pilot
Lovecraftian Horror
1/2 Hour TV Pilot
In 1987, an agent at a secret government facility, tasked with creating and controlling superhumans, goes rogue and opens portals to another dimension of eldritch beings with dire consequences for a long-lost sister and the entire planet.
🌿BEST HORROR SCREENPLAY🌿
LA SCIFI Film Festival
ROCKET BUFFALO
½ Hour Adventure SciFi, Animated
Aboard a shiny silver rocket ship, rayguns at their side, two treasure hunting mercenaries, a wisecracking Buffalo and a Lakota woman, brave dangers across the galaxies to obtain rare treasures while navigating their tenuous partnership.
LUKETOPIA
1/2 Hour Absurdist Comedy
A hipster in rural Oregon secedes from the USA and must learn how to rule his own nation-state that is populated by outlandish characters and sasquatches.
🌿ATX 2016 Pitch Semi Finalist🌿
DUST BOWL
1 HR HISTORICAL DRAMA PILOT
Amid the greatest ecological disaster of the 20th century, two brothers in Texas fight to keep their families alive when everyone is abandoning their farms or dying.
BEAST FROM THE SEA
"SLEEPY HOLLOW SPEC"
Cultists have summoned an ancient sea monster foretold by the book of Revelation and the only way to stop it is hidden in the journals of Captain Cook.
🌿SEMIFINALIST 2016 FILMAKERS.COM🌿
LA SCIFI Film Festival
ROCKET BUFFALO
½ Hour Adventure SciFi, Animated
Aboard a shiny silver rocket ship, rayguns at their side, two treasure hunting mercenaries, a wisecracking Buffalo and a Lakota woman, brave dangers across the galaxies to obtain rare treasures while navigating their tenuous partnership.
LUKETOPIA
1/2 Hour Absurdist Comedy
A hipster in rural Oregon secedes from the USA and must learn how to rule his own nation-state that is populated by outlandish characters and sasquatches.
🌿ATX 2016 Pitch Semi Finalist🌿
DUST BOWL
1 HR HISTORICAL DRAMA PILOT
Amid the greatest ecological disaster of the 20th century, two brothers in Texas fight to keep their families alive when everyone is abandoning their farms or dying.
BEAST FROM THE SEA
"SLEEPY HOLLOW SPEC"
Cultists have summoned an ancient sea monster foretold by the book of Revelation and the only way to stop it is hidden in the journals of Captain Cook.
🌿SEMIFINALIST 2016 FILMAKERS.COM🌿