Maroun Rached

Architect & Screenwriter

France

Maroun lives and works in Paris, France. He’s an architect by trade and a writer by passion. In parallel to his career in architecture, he has written numerous screenplays, political articles, movie reviews, and maintained a blog about Lebanese politics & night life.

Portfolio
Short script
03/01/2019
The Librarian

An athletic young man enters a public library and is lectured by a nerdy female clerk (Comedy, 8p).

Short script
10/01/2023
The Crystal Egg

A cheeky female telemarketer tries to sell online a crystal egg statuette to a middle-aged recluse man (Comedy, 5p).

Short script
01/01/2020
Minotaur

A young man is about to check out from a psychiatric facility at the term of his mandatory treatment period; but is he really ready to go out in the world again? (Psych/Thriller, Drama, 17p)

Short script
11/01/2023
The Condition

A young introvert, suffering from a sleepwalking condition, learns that his affliction is much grimmer than he would have expected (Drama/Horror, 6p).

Monologue
09/01/2020
Hear me

Advice from an old broken person to a younger one (Dramatic monologue, 1p).

Short play
11/01/2023
The time-killing talk

Two women sitting in a waiting room struggle to remember why they are there, and come to an unsettling realization (Drama/Surreal, 10p).

Best scene selection (Table read - Wildsound Film Festival)
07/01/2016
Elan Vital (TV Pilot)

In the near future, the US faces a potent danger from a new terrorist sect known as the Elohites, a religious discipline that teaches telekinetic powers, making it impossible to predict or even recognize attacks (Fantasy/Crime/Thriller).

Feature screenplay
The Seduction Seminar

A geeky teenage boy struggling to attract his crush, hacks into a man’s seduction seminar scam and ends up learning that when it comes to love, there’s no surefire solution (Rom-Com, 10p excerpt).

Feature screenplay
01/01/2016
The GEHC's

GEHC's or Genetically Enhanced Human Clones are super soldiers, bred and trained by the government. When a rogue clone, smuggled out of the facility as a kid, comes back to make his creators pay for their cruelty, two of his siblings try to stop him (SciFi/Action-Adventure, 10p excerpt)..