Messengers

 
Short           Thriller   Supernatural   Teen    LGBTQ+
 
Messengers contains a transgender teen called Delannie who has just found out she is a prophet of the Lord, an angel, and a newly discovered Christian Gospel that states God’s love is for everyone, including those under the LGBTQ+ umbrella. Biblical times meets the modern-day in a new and exciting way. 
 
Tagline
Sacrifice for paradise. 
 
Logline
The lost Gospel of Simon finds its way into the hands of a suicidal transgender youth who is visited by Vatican priests seeking the Gospel to destroy its existence and an angel who guides the youth through her existential crisis as she is told she is a prophet of the Lord.
 
Synopsis
 
DELANNIE, 19, with long black hair and wearing subtle makeup that covers a hint of stubble, lies on a stone table in a public park. Her dad, NOEL, strokes her hair before pulling out a large knife. He lifts it above her and starts to yield it down on Delannie as she screams for help.
Inside a once-grand church in New York, homeless people and drug dealers congregate. We meet DELANNIE wearing subtle makeup covering light stubble. Delannie has recently transitioned into a female. The self-inflicted cuts on her arm are fresh and she teases a knife over her wrists. If she was to kill herself right here, right now, God would have to take notice.