Alek Abate  


Director | Screenwriter


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Alek Abate


DOOKA

Feature | Drama

LOGLINE
A recently released ex-con returns to her childhood home only to find that it has been converted into a Zen Buddhist center. But after she finagles a job and place to stay at the center, she must learn to separate her new spiritual journey from her thorny past.


NO FLY

Feature | Drama

LOGLINE
After getting detained by airport security for allegedly being on the no fly list, a Canadian shoe designer ends up stranded in Orlando without any recourse. But after he obtains the sordid footage of his airport detention and makes it go viral, he sets out to execute a plan to channel his recent celebrity into a convincing legal case in order to return home to Toronto.


AN OCEAN IN BETWEEN THE WAVES

Feature | Biopic

LOGLINE
After his favorite surf spot in Malibu succumbs to crowds and commercialization, pioneering surfer Miki Dora quests to find a new spot and return surf culture to its unspoiled past—all while dodging authorities and becoming the FBI’s second most wanted man.


SECOND SKIN

Hour-Long Pilot | Dramedy

LOGLINE
A stubborn tattoo stylist must negotiate the demanding personalities and low-culture responsibilities of his tattoo parlor day job while also keeping his nascent artworld ambitions alive and separated from his work.