A traveling exhibition of scripts, film, and verse — dispatches from a restless, composite imagination.
NOW STAGING — The Colloquy of Solterre and Lunasea✦NOW SCREENING — Fleet Street✦AWARD-WINNING — The Four Madnesses✦ON SHELVES — Post-Catastrophe Self✦BACKSTAGE — New Television Work✦NOW STAGING — The Colloquy of Solterre and Lunasea✦NOW SCREENING — Fleet Street✦AWARD-WINNING — The Four Madnesses✦ON SHELVES — Post-Catastrophe Self✦BACKSTAGE — New Television Work✦
A gothic elegy, a fever-dream procession, and a first glimpse of what's coming next — each dressed for the dark.
Concept Trailer · Coming Soon
La Mala Vita
LA MALA VITA is a prestige crime drama inspired by one of the most turbulent and consequential periods in modern Italian history.
Blending the tension of a spy thriller, the atmosphere of film noir, the scope of an organized crime saga, and the intensity of classic Poliziotteschi cinema, the series explores the intersection of the Mafia, intelligence agencies, political extremism, and the heroin trade during Italy’s Years of Lead.
Built for an international audience, the project offers:
A compelling historical backdrop that remains largely unexplored on television.
A cinematic, serialized narrative with premium streaming appeal.
Rich characters, political intrigue, and morally complex storytelling.
Strong potential for long-form franchise development.
The concept trailer is complete, and the series bible, pilot, and additional episodes have been developed.
I am currently seeking conversations with producers, studios, platforms, and production companies interested in ambitious, internationally marketable drama.
If you’re looking for a sophisticated historical crime series with cinematic scope and global appeal, I’d be pleased to connect.
The Four Madnesses, or the Voyage of the Carrus Navalis
An experimental short following a procession of madness across a ship of fools. The title nods to one proposed root of the word carnival itself — the Roman carrus navalis, a ship-shaped float paraded through festival streets. Winner, Best Experimental, at the Muses Film Festival in Greece.
Creature Feature is an adult horror series that mixes visceral creature horror, vampire mythology, monster transformations, psychological suspense, and dystopian science fiction with biting social commentary.
Influenced by the cult cinema of the 1980s while addressing contemporary anxieties surrounding corporate power, media manipulation, mass alienation, and the commercialization of human nature, the series combines pulp entertainment with philosophical depth.
Imagine Twin Peaks, The Monster Squad, The X-Files, and Black Mirror colliding in a darkly comic world where every monster reflects something disturbingly human.
The opening stories—including Night of the Living Geriatrics, Baron Samedi’s Danse Macabre, and the Gravegirl Boogie Woogie—introduce an ensemble of outsiders, bounty hunters, monsters, and survivors struggling against OneCorp’s increasingly sinister vision of a perfect society.
A raw, poetic, and quietly devastating journey through modern alienation.
Elliot drifts through life on Salt Spring Island — chasing odd jobs, cheap highs, fleeting connections, and the ghost of something real. From sledgehammer labor and food bank lines to mushroom trips, naked lake swims, and late-night philosophical rants, he’s searching for meaning in a world that feels increasingly surreal.
This is a story about what it means to be awake in a sleeping world.
KARAOKERS is a character-driven feature film that celebrates the resilience of ordinary people, the redemptive power of music, and the dreams we refuse to abandon.
At its heart is a down-and-out karaoke MC still living in his grandmother’s basement, who must confront lost love, family expectations, and the shadow of a Jersey legend when a Bon Jovi tribute band competition offers one final chance at redemption.
Imagine The Wrestler meets The Wedding Singer, with the working-class spirit of Rocky, touches of Goodfellas, and the wit and heart of a classic Kevin Smith film.
KARAOKERS is ultimately a love letter to working-class communities, late-night barroom philosophy, and the bittersweet realization that while youth may fade, the desire to be heard never does.
The screenplay is complete and production-ready.
I’m currently looking to connect with:
Producers and production companies seeking distinctive, character-focused feature films.
Development executives interested in commercially accessible dramas with a strong emotional core.
Financiers and co-production partners looking for original, music-driven projects.
Representatives open to creative conversations about respectfully incorporating the legacy of Bon Jovi into a uniquely American story.
If the project resonates with you, I’d welcome the opportunity to connect and discuss bringing KARAOKERS to the BIG screen.
ABJECT DRIFT is an original limited series inspired by one of America’s most disturbing and underexplored criminal landscapes: the hundreds of unsolved murders connected to truck stops, interstate highways, and transient communities.
Drawing inspiration from real FBI investigations and “ghost files,” the series follows a solitary truck driver haunted by his own past alongside federal investigators pursuing a serial killer whose crimes leave behind fear, silence, and unanswered questions.
More than a crime thriller, ABJECT DRIFT examines the hidden America that exists beyond the exits and rest stops—where isolation, addiction, exploitation, and violence intersect with lives too often overlooked.
Atmospheric, psychologically complex, and grounded in historical reality, the series combines investigative suspense with character-driven storytelling to create a prestige limited series designed for today’s premium television audience.
I’m currently seeking conversations with producers, studios, production companies, and streaming platforms interested in distinctive crime dramas with strong international appeal.
If you’re looking for a series that combines the tension of a psychological thriller with the authenticity of true-crime-inspired storytelling, I’d welcome the opportunity to discuss ABJECT DRIFT and its potential for the screen.
Gothic Psychological Drama · Limited Series in Development
Mad Shelley
MAD SHELLEY is a Gothic psychological drama that reimagines the final years of Percy Bysshe Shelley through a haunting blend of history, prophecy, and psychological horror.
Currently in early development, the project is seeking producers, production partners, composers, cast, and creative collaborators with a passion for elevated Gothic storytelling, Romantic literature, and visually ambitious independent cinema.
A lepidopterist’s obsession with beauty becomes an act of possession — until collector becomes specimen.
Inspired by the decadent tradition of Baudelaire, the mythology of Psyche, and the strange intimacy between the collector and the collected, The Lepidopterist Kiss explores desire, transformation, and the violence hidden inside our need to preserve beautiful things.
Part of my first poetry collection, Post-Catastrophe Self.
Adapted from a poem in my debut collection, Post-Catastrophe Self, this piece stages George Orwell’s final days at University College Hospital in January 1950 — not as biography, but as a collision between the real, dying man and the adjective his name became.
Every image in this film is built on primary-source research: Orwell’s actual biography; the 1949 letter from Aldous Huxley — his own former French teacher — sent him after reading Nineteen Eighty-Four, arguing that soft control would outlast hard control; the real building that inspired the Ministry of Truth; and the world of Keep the Aspidistra Flying, staged as a visitation from his own fiction. The recurring image running through the whole piece is invented for the film, but everything it’s standing in for is documented.
This is the second piece I’ve built this way — following Fleet Street, a video poem on Poe that was a festival semi-finalist — and part of a larger project of treating my own poems as source material for film rather than just text on a page.
He believed music was formless, transient, unserious — the sound of a civilization dissolving. He wanted the arts that hold still: the sculptor, the architect, the ones you can commission.
Then she sang.
The newest film in my ongoing series adapting poems from my collection Post-Catastrophe Self, following Fleet Street, The Lepidopterist Kiss and The Orwellian Wart.
The hardest problem it set was structural. The poem’s dictator holds a serious position — that formlessness is a new mode of domination, softer than tanks and much harder to resist — and the film has to make that case well enough to be worth refuting at the end. Losing on purpose only works if you’ve genuinely played.
A Gothic video poem that conjures the world of Edgar Allan Poe — spectral, literary, and steeped in dread. Named a semi-finalist at a Chicago film festival.
A first look at what's coming next for the small screen.
Animated Series · In Development
Squid and Planet
SQUID AND PLANET is an original animated series in development — the story of a housecat named Squid who chases a rabbit through her own backyard and falls straight into Odori, where a Council of Nine mythological cats has just lost its king.
Squid tumbles into Odori — a hidden realm between gods and mankind, governed by a Council of Nine cats drawn from mythology across the world: Bastet and Sekhmet from Egypt, Nekomata and Maneki-neko from Japan, Cat Síth from Gaelic folklore, Bygul and Trjegul from Norse legend, and Mammone from Italian folklore. The King of Cats has just died. The throne is empty. And nobody expected the ninth chair to be filled by a kitten from the other side of the veil.
This first look includes the opening theme, concept art, and character reveals.
SQUID AND PLANET is written and created by Andrew-Alexander Carnevale, and is now seeking the right producing and development partners to bring it to series.
Additional scripts and stage work are in progress — inquire below for current availability.
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Books
Poems built like artifacts — timestamps of a self that keeps breaking and reassembling.
Debut Poetry Collection · 2026
Post-Catastrophe Self
Forty-five poems in four movements — Shards & Compositions, Mythic Masks & Incantation, Grotesque & Historical Fire, and Apocalypse & Recomposition — framed by an introduction, afterword, and postscript. The collection maps a decade through what the poet calls the Recomposite: a self built, broken, and rebuilt in pieces. Closer to decadent and outsider-art traditions than the contemporary mainstream, it reads less like a book of poems than a psychic timestamp.
Sound as another stage for the same restless voice.
Band · Vocals & Songwriting
Henchmen of the Temple
Andrew-Alexander Carnevale is the vocalist and songwriter for Henchmen of the Temple. Releases and shows to be announced — reach out below to be the first to hear.
Andrew-Alexander Carnevale is a writer, filmmaker, poet, and multidisciplinary artist working across the page, the stage, and the screen.
His stage play The Colloquy of Solterre and Lunasea premiered in 2023. His short film The Four Madnesses, or the Voyage of the Carrus Navalis won Best Experimental at the Muses Film Festival in Greece, and his Gothic video poem Fleet Street was a semi-finalist at a Chicago film festival.
His debut poetry collection, Post-Catastrophe Self, was published in 2026. He is also the vocalist and songwriter for the band Henchmen of the Temple.
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