In Pre-Production
What is on the table
Scripts for production:
CROSSROADS, Anyone Who Ever Loved,
DOODLEBUG, STRICKEN,
and LINES IN THE SAND
Currently inviting strategic partnerships, executive producers, and investors.
THE FREEMANS' OATH
(A Full-Length Feature)
A Narrative—
Heritage and Legacy)
DEVELOPMENT PHASE
Be a part of it all...
THE FREEMANS' OATH: RECKONING
REACHED POST-PRODUCTION
Featured Cast
Tonya Pinkins (Shakita)
David Sitler (Harvey)
Ethan Edward Metz (Jacob)
Felicia Graham (Ruby)
Andrea Bianchi (Isabella)
Chris Livey, Amanda Cruz, Frankie Spears, Jeff Lambert (Jorge Ensemble)
Key Creative Team
Jeff Lambert Wingfield — Director, Writer, Producer
Tonya Pinkins — Associate Producer
Monika K — DP / Assistant Director
Ronald J. Tormaino Jr. — Editor
Cariola Richards — Lighting Design
Kathleen Heron — Costume Design
Toni Melvin-Wingfield — Hair and Makeup
THE FREEMANS' OATH: REDEMPTION
CURRENTLY IN POST-PRODUCTION
Featured Cast
Tonya Pinkins (Shakita)
David Sitler (Harvey)
Ethan Edward Metz (Jacob)
Felicia Graham (Ruby)
Andrea Bianchi (Isabella)
Chris Livey, Amanda Cruz, Frankie Spears, Jeff Lambert (Jorge Ensemble)
Key Creative Team
Jeff Lambert Wingfield — Director, Writer, Producer
Tonya Pinkins — Associate Producer
Monika K — DP / Assistant Director
Ronald J. Tormaino Jr. — Editor
Cariola Richards — Lighting Design
Kathleen Heron — Costume Design
Toni Melvin-Wingfield — Hair and Makeup
BODIES OF COLOR
IN ACTIVE DEVELOPMENT
When five diverse couples gather at an exclusive restaurant to celebrate their friends’ newly expanded family, a succession of coded insults and unequal treatment turns an elegant evening into a public reckoning—forcing them to choose between quietly enduring the humiliation or exposing the polished machinery of discrimination.
LINES IN THE SAND
IN DEVELOPMENT
Six young women and men —collide in a heated debate about morality, loyalty, and truth in America’s fractured 2025 political landscape. When a Black, White, Mexican, Latino, Asian, and Middle Eastern students – young men and women step in, and two professors — one guiding toward justice, the other toward manipulation — enter the fray, the group must decide whether reconciliation is still possible.
STRICKEN
IN DEVELOPMENT
(A dramatic film script) was developed to emphasize the struggle of our youth who yearn to live while battling a disease. The screenwriter takes you into the lives of three main characters, brought together by their fight against the same disease. These three young adults have learned to deal with their disease but have succumbed to the disease's repetitive bouts of appearances. Angel Standrew, a college senior in Atlanta majoring in Communication/Journalism, becomes overwhelmed by an act of kindness that is both good and questionable. Angel not only acquires a position at a leading women's magazine but also befriends Gregory Coleman and petitions a significant network to get his job back. But amid everything, Angel is unguarded when she discovers she is pregnant and, due to complications, comes very close to death while giving birth. Gregory Coleman mysteriously comes home from New York to Atlanta. Ramona Santos, a young wife studying to become a lawyer, becomes unyielding when she decides to have a baby, despite her doctors' advice. Fortunately, because of the specific situation with their best friend, Angel, she learns that the one child her husband conceived before their marriage is enough. Stricken is a screenplay propelled by the circumstances and desires of each main character and illuminated by several supporting characters.
Twilight's Last Gleaming
IN DEVELOPMENT
WHERE "My Blackness" BELONGS
IN DEVELOPMENT
In Orange, New Jersey, seamstress Ruth Mercer measures the days in care packages, interrupted calls, and preparations for her children’s return. In Iraq, Daniel and Leah Mercer struggle to tell their mother what military service has become: fear, moral uncertainty, and an aching hunger for ordinary life.
When a young Black filmmaker livestreams her family’s explosive debate over colorism and cultural identity, a deliberately distorted video turns her relatives against one another—forcing three generations to confront who profits when Blackness becomes a competition instead of a shared inheritance.
A NEW LOVE FOREVER
IN DEVELOPMENT
On a rain-soaked train platform in Orange, New Jersey, 57-year-old music teacher Sherry Bell unexpectedly encounters Dwayne Carter, the former singer she nearly ran away with thirty-six years earlier. Their reunion awakens an affection neither has forgotten, but Dwayne has not returned simply to reclaim a lost romance. Inside his battered guitar case are a scorched electrical ledger and a recording that could expose developer Victor Dane—the man now attempting to seize Sherry’s beloved community arts center.
DE CAMP FIRE
IN DEVELOPMENT
Seven men gather around a late-night campfire at Hillside Camp, a Pennsylvania campground. What begins as an evening of teasing, drinking, and uneasy fellowship becomes an explosive debate over race, class, marriage, privilege, and who truly has the right to define freedom. At the center are Dean, a Black bisexual traditionalist who believes stability must be earned through established institutions, and Lance, a wealthy white radical who distrusts every institution capable of controlling love.
Currently inviting strategic partnerships, executive producers, and investors.
THE FREEMANS' OATH
(A Full-Length Feature)
A Narrative—
Heritage and Legacy)
DEVELOPMENT PHASE
Be a part of it all...
THE FREEMANS' OATH: RECKONING
REACHED POST-PRODUCTION
Featured Cast
Tonya Pinkins (Shakita)
David Sitler (Harvey)
Ethan Edward Metz (Jacob)
Felicia Graham (Ruby)
Andrea Bianchi (Isabella)
Chris Livey, Amanda Cruz, Frankie Spears, Jeff Lambert (Jorge Ensemble)
Key Creative Team
Jeff Lambert Wingfield — Director, Writer, Producer
Tonya Pinkins — Associate Producer
Monika K — DP / Assistant Director
Ronald J. Tormaino Jr. — Editor
Cariola Richards — Lighting Design
Kathleen Heron — Costume Design
Toni Melvin-Wingfield — Hair and Makeup
THE FREEMANS' OATH: REDEMPTION
CURRENTLY IN POST-PRODUCTION
Featured Cast
Tonya Pinkins (Shakita)
David Sitler (Harvey)
Ethan Edward Metz (Jacob)
Felicia Graham (Ruby)
Andrea Bianchi (Isabella)
Chris Livey, Amanda Cruz, Frankie Spears, Jeff Lambert (Jorge Ensemble)
Key Creative Team
Jeff Lambert Wingfield — Director, Writer, Producer
Tonya Pinkins — Associate Producer
Monika K — DP / Assistant Director
Ronald J. Tormaino Jr. — Editor
Cariola Richards — Lighting Design
Kathleen Heron — Costume Design
Toni Melvin-Wingfield — Hair and Makeup
BODIES OF COLOR - IN ACTIVE DEVELOPMENT
When five diverse couples gather at an exclusive restaurant to celebrate their friends’ newly expanded family, a succession of coded insults and unequal treatment turns an elegant evening into a public reckoning—forcing them to choose between quietly enduring the humiliation or exposing the polished machinery of discrimination.
LINES IN THE SAND — IN DEVELOPMENT
Six young women and men —collide in a heated debate about morality, loyalty, and truth in America’s fractured 2025 political landscape. When a Black, White, Mexican, Latino, Asian and Middle Eastern students – young men and women step in, and two professors — one guiding toward justice, the other toward manipulation — enter the fray, the group must decide whether reconciliation is still possible.
STRICKEN — IN DEVELOPMENT
(a dramatic film script) was developed to emphasize the struggle of our youth who yearn to live while battling a disease. The screenwriter takes you into the lives of three main characters, brought together by their fight against the same disease. These three young adults have learned to deal with their disease but have succumbed to the disease's repetitive bouts of appearances. Angel Standrew, a college senior in Atlanta majoring in Communication/Journalism, becomes overwhelmed by an act of kindness that is both good and questionable. Angel not only lands a job at a leading women's magazine but also befriends Gregory Coleman and petitions a powerful network to get his job back. But amid everything, Angel is unguarded when she discovers she is pregnant and, due to complications, comes very close to death while giving birth. Gregory Coleman mysteriously comes home from New York to Atlanta. Ramona Santos, a young wife studying to become a lawyer, becomes unyielding when she decides to have a baby, despite her doctors' advice. Fortunately, because of the specific situation with their best friend, Angel, she learns that the one child her husband conceived before their marriage is enough. Stricken is a screenplay propelled by the circumstances and desires of each main character and illuminated by several supporting characters.
Twilight's Last Gleaming — IN DEVELOPMENT
WHERE "My Blackness" BELONGS — IN DEVELOPMENT
In Orange, New Jersey, seamstress Ruth Mercer measures the days in care packages, interrupted calls, and preparations for her children’s return. In Iraq, Daniel and Leah Mercer struggle to tell their mother what military service has become: fear, moral uncertainty, and an aching hunger for ordinary life.
When a young Black filmmaker livestreams her family’s explosive debate over colorism and cultural identity, a deliberately distorted video turns her relatives against one another—forcing three generations to confront who profits when Blackness becomes a competition instead of a shared inheritance.
A NEW LOVE FOREVER — IN DEVELOPMENT
On a rain-soaked train platform in Orange, New Jersey, 57-year-old music teacher Sherry Bell unexpectedly encounters Dwayne Carter, the former singer she nearly ran away with thirty-six years earlier. Their reunion awakens an affection neither has forgotten, but Dwayne has not returned simply to reclaim a lost romance. Inside his battered guitar case are a scorched electrical ledger and a recording that could expose developer Victor Dane—the man now attempting to seize Sherry’s beloved community arts center.
DE CAMP FIRE — IN DEVELOPMENT
Seven men gather around a late-night campfire at Hillside Camp, a Pennsylvania campground. What begins as an evening of teasing, drinking, and uneasy fellowship becomes an explosive debate over race, class, marriage, privilege, and who truly has the right to define freedom. At the center are Dean, a Black bisexual traditionalist who believes stability must be earned through established institutions, and Lance, a wealthy white radical who distrusts every institution capable of controlling love.
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Jeff Lambert Wingfield Completes New Short Film
Jeff Lambert Wingfield Completes New Short Film, "The Freemans’ Oath"
Posted in: College News and Announcements, Department of Theatre and Dance News of Montclair State University
I am eager to reunite the cast of THE FREEMANS' OATH in order to EXPAND our story into a full-length feature film...with the support of Tonya Pinkins, Associate Producer.
READ more about our time and experience producing a short version of the script...
ANYONE WHO EVER LOVED "THE PROCESS and INTERVIEWS"
ANYONE WHO EVER LOVED: (a compilation of clips based on the novel by the same name) follows the stoic Hassan Johnson as he is confronted with the loss of his partner, Franco, in the Iraq War. Hassan, a New York City press agent, is persuaded to seek counseling and soon realizes his most significant conflict lies with Gisela. As Hassan begins to confront his past and present, he uncovers the secret Gisela has been concealing. Through these shocking truths, Hassan struggles to fight for personal closure.