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HARD HOME

  Hard Home written by Diégo Malik ( a story by Ahmed Awad and Diégo Malik) H.O.S PRODUCTIONS & ARAMA STUDIOS Al Jadaf, Dubai, UAE hisownspaceprod@gmail.com INT. APARTMENT BUILDING - BEDROOM - MORNING A young man, average height and build, scruffy beard, freckled, in his early 20s, reluctantly rolls out of bed and slowly turns his head to hear the loud and belligerent conversation his father was having with himself just outside the bedroom door. SON I'm getting sick of this... He mutters to himself as he's still seated at the edge of the bed, rubbing his eyes and trying to wake himself up. SON I'm getting sick of this! He bellowed. He could be as loud as he wished and he, the father, still wouldn't hear him. He gets off the bed and walks to the bathroom to wash his face, brush his teeth, and shower all while trying to drown out the noise that was just a few feet away from his room. The young man gets dressed. His outfit is most relaxed, as always. He neve...

BATCH 18

Batch 18 written by Diégo Malik (adopted from "Detention" by Sara Haj) H.O.S Productions Al Jadaf, Dubai, UAE hosproductions@gmail.com INT. CLASSROOM - NIGHT A man is seated at a desk in a dimly lit classroom on a Thursday evening taking a folder out of a briefcase that sits on his lap. He opens the folder out in front of him and begins boxing through a few pages before he stops at one and lingers on it a bit. He reads, goes through a few names on the page, closes the folder, and then puts it back into his briefcase as he gets up from his seat and gingerly leaves the room. INT. CLASSROOM - DAY It's now Friday morning. Olivia, Sam, Emma, and Johnny, four students, all enter the classroom one by one and space themselves out as they see their names on each of their seats. Olivia in the middle, Sam on the far left of her, Emma in the distant left corner of the room, and Johnny in the seat closest to the door. Not long after, a teacher, the mysterious man from the evening befo...