Jesse Williams rose to national fame when he won the 2016 BET Humanitarian Award after delivering a stirring speech highlighting racial injustice and police brutality in America. The speech set off a firestorm of reactions on social media.
Emmy Award-winning director Joe Tripician wrote the screenplay and will also direct. Team Joy is about an old-school con-artist and his hacker daughter, who unknowingly reveals their tricks of the trade and puts them in danger.
A reel that represents the tone, mood, and narrative motifs in the feature film “Team Joy,” currently in pre-production.
Danger falls on a father and his teenage hacker daughter when she unwittingly reveals them both as con artists.
SYNOPSIS:
Ted and his young teenage daughter Joy are a couple of smart, technologically savvy grifters. But after all the scams they’ve pulled, Joy is having a crisis of conscience when they meet a man who tries to scam the scammers. Joy pulls a stunt that puts both her and her father in jeopardy.
Forced to skip town, Ted brings his new girlfriend Maya along. Joy attempts to break them apart, but only succeeds in getting them all in hotter water. When Maya’s past catches up to her, and Joy falls in love with an older bad boy, all seems lost.
This outlaw family has one last chance to either score big, or lose everything. The outcome will determine their fate for the rest of their lives.
The “Team Joy” screenplay placed in the top 15% of 2015’s Nicholl Screenwriting competition.
Team Joy 