Character-driven screen stories rooted in danger, history, humor, and place.
Original series and features by Jamie Moss, Manuel Cox III, and The Suncoast Kids.
Full scripts available upon request. Selected teaser pages available below.
FEATURED PROJECTS BY JAMIE MOSS
STATE OF FEAR
TV Series | Thriller
After her husband’s murder is dismissed as another vigilante killing, a Tampa widow turns to a disgraced ex-cop and a broken private investigator, exposing a university conspiracy built to protect predators and bury the women who accused them.
SHADY OAKS
TV Series | Sports Dramedy
A worn-down Florida construction manager who abandoned baseball after his father’s death is pulled into a chaotic Sunday slow-pitch league, where a last-place team and a guarded food-truck owner force him to rediscover the man he buried.
THEY WHO DWELL
Feature | Historical Horror
In 1841 Florida, a Navy scout leads a surveying mission into forbidden swamp territory, where something older than the mapmakers begins hunting them for trespassing on land that was never theirs.
COLLABORATIONS BY THE SUNCOAST KIDS
SINS FROM THE SWAMP
Feature | Horror
A swamp tracker hunted by a cult with dark magic must betray the only world he knows to save the woman he loves before the Everglades swallow them both.
MOVERS & SHAKERS
TV Series | Drama | Dark Comedy
In Florida’s biggest trailer park, a guilt-ridden fight promoter pulls a broke father of six into an illegal swamp-fighting circuit as a crime boss and a dirty detective close in.
ADDITIONAL PROJECTS BY JAMIE MOSS
THE HOLLOW
Feature | Historical Drama
In 1959 Appalachia, a grieving father is dragged into a moonshine war that threatens his family, his land, and the last decent part of himself.
THE AIRSTRIP
TV Series | Dark Comedy | Aviation Mystery
When a widowed single dad reconnects with his estranged uncle, an aging aviation legend, two local screwups accidentally uncover a buried Florida mystery that powerful people want left alone.
THE PENINSULA’S FORGOTTEN SONG
BY JAMIE MOSS
A historical Florida trilogy tracing three centuries of violence, survival, and resistance across the forgotten edges of the peninsula.
CHAPTER I: FLORIDA'S ONLY KING
Limited Series | Historical Indigenous Drama
In 1530, as foreign ships threaten the unconquered Calusa kingdom, a veteran warrior’s fight for peace collapses into a power struggle that could destroy her people from within.
CHAPTER II: THE RED EARTH REMAINS
Limited Series | Historical Indigenous Drama
In 1647 Florida, an Apalachee man torn between two worlds is pulled into a violent uprising against Spanish rule, forcing him to choose what survives: his faith, his people, or himself.
CHAPTER III: UNTITLED FORT MOSE PROJECT
Limited Series | Historical Drama
In 1738 Spanish Florida, a formerly enslaved military leader fights to defend Fort Mose, the first free Black settlement in what became the United States, as freedom itself becomes a battlefield.
PROJECTS BY
MANUEL COX III
LOVE IN THE 80s
TV Series | Dark Comedy
When an aging widow reenters the dating world in a Florida retirement community, sex, gossip, HOA warfare, and a dangerous new arrival turn her quiet second act into a war zone.
ABOUT JAMIE MOSS
Jamie Moss is a Florida-born screenwriter raised in Arcadia and based in Cape Coral. He writes dark, character-driven stories shaped by history, danger, humor, and place, often drawing from the grit, mystery, and forgotten corners of Florida. His work spans historical drama, crime, thriller, dark comedy, and horror, all rooted in strong voices, atmospheric worlds, and people forced to survive them.
ABOUT MANUEL COX III
Manuel Cox III is a Cape Coral-born writer whose work blends character-heavy comedy, sharp personalities, and worlds shaped by tension, bad decisions, and human need. His voice balances humor with heart, finding comedy in people who are messy, lonely, stubborn, and still reaching for something better.
THE SUNCOAST KIDS
The Suncoast Kids is the collaborative banner of Jamie Moss and Manuel Cox III. Built out of a friendship spanning more than twenty years, their partnership is rooted in a shared love of dark, character-driven stories with danger, humor, and a strong sense of place. Together, they create original projects shaped by Florida grit, offbeat worlds, cinematic tension, and bold personalities.
CONTACT
Blackwater Stories is open to script requests, collaborations, and industry inquiries. Full scripts available upon request.
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