SYNOPSIS BY PRODUCER BEVERLY NERO:

WHEN WE MEET DONNA WILLIAMS (early 20's, Australia 1989), she gets fired from her first day on a job, is stalked by her disturbed mother, and then abetted by her equally crazy but well-meaning father to escape. Going from the “the frying pan into the fire,” Donna flies overseas to Birmingham, England with her abusive boyfriend, David.  Within days, Donna is abandoned at the train station. Amidst panic, words tumble, vision fractures. A symphony in her mind restores cohesion. An empathic Porter guides her to a "cuppa tea" and a ticket counter where an inviting travel poster of a beach in Wales catches Donna's eye and randomly determines her destiny. Standing in front of the closed doors of the train to Wales, Donna fatefully encounters a young Welsh soldier named Sion, a stranger much like herself. They discover a mirror-image in each other and soon find the simple joy of mutual acceptance. They spend three magical days and nights together and dare to risk intimacy.

When Sion has to return to army duty, Donna opts for her own adventure in Europe and they promise to return to each other in two weeks. Donna’s myriad of language and perceptual challenges continue to pervade her life, both comically and tragically, but all the while she gains strength from having been touched by acceptance and love. She begins to understand she’s been changed forever.  Donna returns to Sion as promised, only to discover that the same feelings that have awakened her have proven too much for him; he is a broken young man, and they are equally devastated as he drives her to the station and they say goodbye for the last time.

Donna returns to her native Australia. Alone again, with haunting voices of her childhood pushing her to the brink of suicide, she makes a last desperate attempt to find out what’s wrong with her. She sneaks in to her childhood home, bringing all the ghosts to life and then visits her father, poignantly confronting and demanding answers.  No one is more surprised than Donna herself when the secret life she dares pour out on paper, is adopted by the medical community and the literary world as an unprecedented first-person account of a life on the autism spectrum.

As the end credits begin, Donna is "the toast of New York" on her best-selling book tour. She skates blissfully in her own world, enjoying the sensory heaven of the prismatic sights and sounds of the rink at Rockefeller Center. 

DAN IRELAND

DAN IRELAND began his career at the age of nineteen years-old  as the co-founder and co-director of the enormously respected Seattle International Film Festival.  With a string of successes to his credit, including launching the World Premieres of such legendary director’s first films as The Coen Brothers (“Blood Simple”), Sam Raimi (“The Evil Dead”), Edward Zwick (“About Last Night”), Tim Burton (“Vincent,” “Frankenweenie”), Ireland moved to Los Angeles to become Senior Vice President of Acquisitions for Vestron Pictures.

During his three year tenure at Vestron, Ireland executive produced over seventeen films including, John Huston’s final film, "The Dead" (two Academy Award nominations), Bernard Rose’s (“Immortal Beloved," “Candyman”) first feature, “Paperhouse.” He also acquired the rights to such films as Julien Temple’s “Earth Girls Are Easy,” “Anna” (Academy Award Nominee Best Actress, Sally Kirkland).  His collaboration with renowned composer Hans Zimmer resulted in five film collaborations, and brought Zimmer to the attention of producer Mark Johnson who hired him to score the film, “Rain Man.”

Ireland’s other feature films, "Passionada," "Mrs Palfrey At  The Claremont," and ‘E.L. Doctorow’s "Jolene," have been largely responsible for launching the careers of its stars Emmy Rossum (“Phantom of the Opera,” “The Day After Tomorrow,” “Shameless”); Rupert Friend (“The Young Victoria,” “Pride and Prejudice”), and more recently, the dazzling newcomer, Jessica Chastain (“Tree of Life,” “The Debt,” “Take Shelter”), who was recently nominated for an Academy Award in 2012 as Best Supporting Actress for “The Help.”

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"Nobody Nowhere' is a long-standing passion project that hits close to home for BEVERLY NERO, who has an autistic son. 

She is also currently in pre-production on the supernatural drama, "Deaf Ghost" by Paul Raci & Angela Murphy, with a multi-award winning team of Joseph Sargent, Troy Kotsur, James Chressanthis, Jerram Swartz, Robert Latham Brown, and noteworthy cast,  Lynn Whitfield ("Josephine Baker Story," "Eve's Bayou"), Richard Griffiths ("Harry Potter" franchise) & Leon Thomas III ("August Rush," "Victorious"). 

Nero is also producing the International Family Film Festival winner (Best Comedy Screenplay) "BCarefulWhatUWish4" by Carol Sabik Jaffe with producer/director Michelle Pollino, and Gus Buktenika's "Two Wrights" (60's London Bromance/Comedy Heist) with producers Michael Helfant, Robert Stein & Bradley Gallow of Troika Pictures ("The Hive").

NORMAN STEPHENS

NORMAN STEPHENS has been a senior creative executive and producer in television and film for twenty years. Projects under his watch at Warner Bros. Television as VP Movies and Miniseries and later Senior VP Creative Affairs garnered numerous Emmy Awards, including bests for picture, director, writer, actor and actress. In 1994, Stephens joined Village Roadshow Pictures as Executive Vice President, Film and Television where he supervised all creative matters and worked on Bruce Beresford’s "Paradise Road" for Fox Searchlight, "Joey" for MGM, and the "Tarzan" theatrical feature for Warner Bros. As an independent producer Stephens received best-picture Emmy and Peabody Awards for "Bang Bang You're Dead." He produced the remake of Orson Welles’ "The Magnificent Ambersons," "Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor" and the remake of "Sybil" starring Jessica Lange and Tammy Blanchard and "Darwin's Darkest Hour" for National Geographic Television and PBS/NOVA. He is currently a consultant and producer developing numerous independent projects. Norman is a graduate of Princeton University and attended Cornell Law School and Columbia University graduate school.

DR. KENNETH ATCHITY

“Story Merchant” Ken Atchity, head of Atchity Productions, has more than forty years of experience in the publishing world, and over twenty years in entertainment. He has produced 30 films, including: "Hysteria" (Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy; Informant), "The Lost Valentine" (Betty White, Hallmark Hall of Fame), the Emmy-nominated
"The Kennedy Detail" documentary (Discovery), "Gospel Hill" (Danny Glover; Fox),
"The Madam’s Family" (CBS), "Joe Somebody" (Tim Allen; Fox), "Life or Something Like It" (Angelina Jolie: Fox), "Shadow of Obsession" (Veronica Hammel, NBC), "The Amityville Horror" (NBC), and the Shades of Love movies for Cinemax-Warner Brothers International. Films in development include: "Ripley’s Believe-It-Or-Not" (Jim Carrey; Paramount), "Demon Keeper" (Fox), "Three Men Seeking Monsters" (Jon Heder; Informant Media), "Trigger Switch" (Informant Entertainment), "The Kennedy Detail Feature" and "Expatriate" (Informant Media; Weinstein Brothers).

Atchity received his B.A. from Georgetown University and Ph.D. from Yale. He was co-founder and editor of DreamWorks, and wrote the libretto for the choral symphony “In Praise of Love” which premiered at Lincoln Center, and the novel The Messiah Matrix. Dr. Atchity was chairman of comparative literature at Occidental College, Fulbright Professor of American Literature to the University of Bologna, and Distinguished Instructor in Fiction, Non-Fiction and Screenwriting at UCLA Writer’s Program. His bestselling clients have led him to all areas of communications.