Paul Kelly Kennedy
Writer • Director • Producer • Actor
PORTFOLIO + SLATE
Awards: 2026 Official Selection
Beverly HIlls Film Fest
Golden Pen Script Awards
Genre
Feature - Whodunit Thriller, Dark Comedy, L.A. Noir
Comps
Promising Young Women, Zodiac, Gone Girl, Blow Out.
Logline
While a true-crime influencer tracks a serial killer through Los Angeles, two best friends navigate the city’s brutal dating scene-until one seemingly perfect match draws their romantic lives into the heart of the investigation.
Genre
Series - Aerospace Procedural
Comps
Imagine if The Pitt or The West Wing were set at Space-X
Logline
Inside Aether Dynamics, a private aerospace company pushing humanity toward the stars while secretly developing classified defense systems, a team of engineers, executives, and government liaisons fight to keep their dream alive - and their people together - amid government secrecy, media scrutiny, and a rising union movement threatening to tear the company apart.
Genre
Series - Sci-Fi Anthology, Family Drama
Comps
Her, The White Lotus, After Yang, Maniac
Logline
In a near future run by AI, humans turn to advanced artificial Assistants for lifestyle management and emotional fulfillment. This growing reliance on digital partners rewrites the concepts of relationship, identity, and purpose in a society on the brink of singularity. For Charlotte, the survival of her family hinges on finding balance between the old ways and the new order.
Genre
30-Minute Episodic - Comedy
Comps
Silicon Valley, The White Lotus, Entourage
Logline
As he ages out of his part-time yoga instructor / full-time fuckboy persona, Paul tries to reinvent himself as a “lifestyle architect” to the rich and famous. However, in LA’s highly commercialized wellness space, he learns that finding a higher purpose is the toughest grind of all.
Genre
Feature - Psychological Horror / Dark Comedy
Comps
Obsession, Get Out, Rosemary’s Baby, Don’t Look Now.
Logline
After a psychic reveals her boyfriend once loved another woman more, an insecure young woman becomes obsessed with replacing her as the love of his life, escalating from manipulation to deadly tests until she finally gets her answer.
Genre
Feature - Military/War Drama
Comps
The Hurt Locker, American Sniper, The Wrestler
Logline
After a devastating training accident destroys the only life he knew, a disabled veteran grapples with addiction, reintegration with the civilian world, and finding a new reason to exist.
In Association With 3E8 Films
Genre
Feature Film - Psychological Thriller, Dark Comedy, Perverse Romance.
Comps
Taxi Driver, Fight Club, Joker, Poor things, Vertigo.
Logline
A lonely man abducts his former high school crush, only to discover that captivity has given her the power to remake him.
Genre
Feature Film - Horror, Thriller
Comps
The Thing, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Under the Skin
Logline
In the remote Montana wilderness, a logger unearths a mysterious relic that slowly consumes his humanity, leaving a trail of death and forcing the last good man among them to confront an evil beyond understanding.
Treatments
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By Paul Kelly Kennedy
Genre Dark Comedy / Adult Animation / Crime Satire
Category Animated Television Series
Logline
A brilliant but unambitious former pharmacology student makes a comfortable living pushing designer pills, while juggling cracked-out customers, crooked cops, criminal suppliers, and chaotic exes in an acidly comic satire of America’s toxic relationship with drugs and Big Pharma. -
By Paul Kelly Kennedy
Genre Absurd Comedy
Category Feature Film
Logline An ex-con discovers his gift for darts can make him a legend, but only if he stops lying long enough to earn it.
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By Paul Kelly Kennedy
Genre Surreal Psychological Drama / Fashion Horror Satire
Category Feature Film
Logline In 1980s New York, a fading supermodel is offered one final runway-her “farewell to flesh.” Desperate to stay divine, she submits to a surgical rebirth in a secret Eastern European clinic. What emerges is utterly erased from the woman she once was.
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By Paul Kelly Kennedy
Genre Southern Gothic Crime Thriller, Vigilante/Detective Drama
Category 60 Minute Series
Logline A haunted ex-Navy SEAL turned oil-rig roughneck prowls the shadows of New Orleans, delivering brutal justice to the city’s predators. When his reclusive hacker friend uncovers a child-trafficking ring protected by cops and politicians, their quiet crusade ignites a war against the system that made monsters untouchable.
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By Paul Kelly Kennedy
Genre Dystopian Sci-Fi Romance / Absurdist Satire
Category Feature Film
Logline In a near-future where the government assigns humanoid androids as mandatory co-parents, a solitary woman begins to develop forbidden feelings for her machine counterpart-forcing her to question if intimacy is programmed, if love is a glitch, and if control is only a human flaw.
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By Paul Kelly Kennedy
Genre Miami-Noir Crime/Dark Comedy
Category Feature Film
Logline
When Miami's top callboy falls for his pimp's sister, he ignites a war of loyalty, lust, and betrayal that spirals into blood-soaked satire, a pulp tragedy about men who sell pleasure and mistake it for love.