David Sower
Screenwriter for Film & TV
David Sower has had a passion for scriptwriting ever since accidentally becoming involved in the making of a short film in the 1990s.
His most recent collaboration is with Steven Berkoff and CK Films.
David is based in London where he lives with his family and pursues his interest in classic cars, films and most sports.
Current Projects
A Conflict of Faith
Script co-written by Steven Berkoff & David Sower - Story by Laurie Berg.
Dachau, Germany 1942.
Hans is a devout Catholic German Lieutenant working in Dachau concentration camp. He risks his life by giving food to the starving Jewish inmates and saves a Jewish baby girl from certain death by smuggling her out of the camp. With the help of his local priest and a Mother Superior, Hans and his wife adopt the girl and bring her up in the Catholic faith. Post-war Munich,1961, the brave Hans and his wife are suspiciously killed in a car accident. Their adopted daughter Anna, now 18 years old, discovers her true birth religion and identity. With the help of the office of Simon Wiesenthal in Vienna she tries to trace her real mother - if she is still alive. Meanwhile, Anna is being pursued by her uncle, who is a wanted war criminal and Jew hater. He is determined to get rid of Anna and take over the family banking business.
This project is currently in development with CK Films Ltd in London. Film director Stephen Cookson is attached .
Buffalo Bill meets the British: The story of the Salford Sioux.
Family adventure with light comedy. Based around the true event of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show that toured Victorian England in 1887.
Joe is a poor Manchester boy who is looking for his missing father. He finds help and excitement when Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show arrives in his town. Joe becomes friends with Bill and a mysterious Sioux Indian called Lightning Cloud. Can his new friends help him in his quest? Can the local population deal with the influx of these exotic visitors? It's a tale of hope, survival, family importance and friendships that cross the social and cultural divide.
Tag line: All children need a guardian angel ... Joe got a cowboy and an Indian!
Tag line: It's as if Charles Dickens had met John Wayne!
The Long Wait for Revenge (sequel to The Long Good Friday)
The story picks up 21 years later in London, 2001.
Eddie Shand is Harold's son from his first marriage. He has inherited his father's crime empire. For many years he has wanted to find out who killed his father back in 1980, but he always came up against a wall of silence. Now he has a breakthrough and is on the trail to wreak his revenge. What he doesn't know is the man he is hunting is now a high ranking Sinn Fein leader under the protection of our own MI5.
Tag line: Crime as evolved ... so has Terrorism.