About The Lighthouse Press, Inc.
We are an independent, small press publisher out of Lighthouse Point, Florida. Through our company structuring we also represent the theatrical property rights of our titles. Through this arrangement we offer new content for commercial grade theatrical films, documentaries, video, and the television/cable industries.

For you, the film industry professional, this means a way to satisfy the "new story appetite" of your clients, customers and audiences. Through film Rights options, Rights sales or co-production of our content, we provide the finest in original fiction and nonfiction entertainment. If you are looking for historical, contemporary, sci-fi, espionage, thrillers or suspenseful entertainment, we have it.

Our most readily recognized project to date is The Wayfarers, The Lighthouse Press, Inc. title endorsed by Steven Spielberg, under options as a documentary and a theatrical film, as well as the focus of our pre-production involvement with a film producer.

Turning Books Into Film
Readers and reviewers alike have called a number of The Lighthouse Press, Inc. books the most innovative, creative, and entertaining selection of titles to reach the public in years. We consistently hear the phrase, "I can't wait for the movie."

A cross sampling of our offerings:

° The erotic Green Horizons by award-winning author Janet Privett

° The suspense of a re-occurring 200 year-old curse in Lost Hunters by Deanne Devine

° A mind warping sci-fi series by Clifford Pickover, the world acclaimed author of over thirty books

° Raven West's two novels, First Class Male and Red Wine For Breakfast

° Zane Smith's hard-boiled detectives of, A Gypsy Lady To Die For and The Fifty Year Kill (previously optioned)

° The Pracktl Affair and Pieces of Sand, thriller/adventures from former military intellence officer Mel Savoie

° Suspense via Student Body and the Hunter's Prey by Neil Howard

° Old West realism in Paul L. Thompson's, Ride Hard For Rayado, Revenge In Tascosa, Malpais and Willow Lane

° DL Tolleson's The Gray Stopgap, a practically ready-made-for-the-movies techno-thriller

° And others that are browsable on the our BOOKS, AUTHORS and SUBJECT/GENRE pages or the Appendix below.

Whether the need is theatrical films, television, cable or satellite, the film industry frequently looks to books and novels for new content. Novels bring to the table not only new sources of entertainment, but also built-in audiences.

With Whom Would You Be Dealing?
We are not a large faceless corporation. The Lighthouse Press, Inc. is a fostering voice to our authors. We represent not only the theatrical rights of The Lighthouse Press, Inc. titles, but also the faith of our authors.

Whether you want to invest, produce, co-produce, option or outright and buy a title's film rights, the bottom-line is that you will not suffer at the mercy of endless delays. Instead of a subsidiary rights department staffed by a legion of lawyers your initial inquiry and subsequent negotiation will be handled with expedient and informed authority.

A Few Other Items of Note
Several of the Lighthouse Press, Inc. authors are members of the Screenwriters Guild while others are members in good standing with the Author's Guild and The National Writers Union.

We can prepare poster art at reasonable costs and talented screenwriters are available that relish working on exciting film projects.

Practically all of The Lighthouse Press, Inc. titles are available for film adaptation--even the documentary material of our non-fiction titles.

Appendix Of Intellectual Property Rights
The following titles represent some of the Intellectual Property Rights we presently offer (to download a Microsoft Word version of the following on-line Appendix, jump to the bottom of this page by clicking HERE.)

The Wayfarers
In 1904, in an event almost forgotten in history took place as a group of young Jews began a slow and dangerous trek by foot across a hostile Europe. These “wayfarers,” or fusgeyers, were organized groups of disenfranchised, disenchanted, and downtrodden Jews, who suffered fear, endless trade boycotts, government-enforced impoverishment, and deadly pogroms in their native Romania. Their attempt to emigrate to freedom in America is a story of courage, endurance, and pride—but more than that, it is a story of hope. These young people risked their lives in a protest which was bound to affect generations to come, and will surely touch audiences today. Shot on digital film, the production will follow the incredible journey of the fusgeyers, narrated by the warm, rich voice of Rabbi Nachman, from today’s Birlad, Romania.

Reenactments record the journey of these Fusgeyers interspersed with bright colorful scenes of their descendants of today searching for their ancestors. The subjective camera technique, filming events from the memory of an old respected rabbi, brings to life scenes never before reported and naturally dramatizes the suspense. The reenactments punctuating the film will serve as visual support to the dramatic lives of the main characters as they carry their protest on their way to freedom through an imperialistic 1904 Europe. (*Note: From 1899-1914, this phenomenon resulted in several hundred fusgeyer groups trekking across Europe to the ports on the North Sea.)

The Documentary
Between 1881 and 1914, 2.5 million Jews emigrated from Eastern Europe and the Pale of Settlement in Russia to new homes in America and other countries around the world.  The Fusgeyer Movement, as this migration has been known, will be filmed using archival footage and narrated by Theo Bikel, noted screen actor.

Summary
To download a Microsoft Word version of The Wayfarers Executive Summary, jump to the bottom of this page by clicking HERE.

The Gray Stopgap Espionage, archenemies and lovers collide when an experimental supercomputer creates a deadly secret. (Techno-thriller.)	The Sex Gates The gates transform men into women and women into men, and everyone wants in. (Erotic Sci-Fi.)
Student Body Someone is killing coed students at a small college campus in Virginia.	Deadly Perversions A computer software program is killing its users with excruciating pleasure.
Green Horizons A journey back in time to a Florida once dominated by ancient Indian civilizations and cultures.	The Fifty Year Kill Ex-con former executive redeems himself by toppling snuff film ring run by top corporation executives.
Angry Grace A hypothetical solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict that just might work!	Nobody Goes to the Moon Anymore International intrigue as an ousted CIA operative discovers an attempt to bring down a historic financial institution in Baltimore.
The Visitors' Gifts What happens if you get the one thing you want most in the world, then discover that it will destroy everything you love and believe in?	Hotline To Heaven God's Fan Club meets skullduggery when a consummate con artist down on his luck takes over.
Lost Hunters Terror stalks a small Indiana community with the return of a 200-year-old curse known as the "Itch."	Pieces of Sand Deranged religious zealot terrorizes South Philadelphia, and the chase is on to find him!
A Gyspsy Lady to Die For Ex-con former executive solves industrial espionage case involving seven murders.	While Tyler Sleeps Serio-comic look at what can happen when there is no living will and a life hangs in the balance.
Prayers by Night Can Andy Suton capture a serial killer before he makes more women scream their "prayers by night?"

The Neoreality Series
Four distinct properties by the author of over thirty books, Clifford Pickover, exploring the possibilities of alternate realities separated from our own by imperceptible veils. These four properties will be very computer graphics intensive.

The Re-birth Of A Genre
As America reconsiders her identity the unique tales of the Old West are making a revival. Every few years the Western theme experiences a resurgence of popular films and Oscar-winners like Eastwood's Unforgiven, Costner's Dances With Wolves (based upon the debut novel by Michael Blake), Lonesome Dove (based upon Larry McMurtry's novel) and others. Producer/Director Ron Howard is among those who has demonstrated success in marketing films to this specific audience, and we present the following novels by Paul L. Thompson for film funding consideration:

Download The Appendix and The Wayfarers Executive Summary
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