Two minutes. One hundred seventy thousand witnesses. One Kentucky Derby. A heist story about people with nothing left to lose — and a long shot that just may win.
A veteran real estate agent hosts an open house at a beautiful home just outside the city. Some of the guests aren't there to buy.
Ninety percent of new real estate agents fail within five years. Ridgefield is the story of the ten percent — and what they'll do to get there. Mad Men meets Sopranos, behind the office doors of a prestigious firm.
One rowdy night at a Louisville bar. We follow the waitress table to table. Every drink she sets down drops us into a different patron's story — in medias res. By last call, every thread has converged.
The Kentucky Derby draws one hundred seventy thousand people through the gates of Churchill Downs every first Saturday in May. Two minutes later, one horse crosses a line. Most of the crowd never looks at the board.
Jimmy Moran has run every possible angle in Louisville. Divorced. Broke. A new landlord — Garrett Cole — who isn't going to let him slide another month. Jimmy knows the Derby better than anyone in the city. He knows where the money moves. He knows the gaps in the system. He knows the two minutes nobody is watching.
He puts a crew together. A veteran. An EMT. A contractor. A kid who works the track. Six men, one window, one race. Nobody gets hurt. Nobody even knows it happened.
Two Minutes is on its ninth draft. It's been read, notes-incorporated, evaluated. It's ready.
Shamus Greene was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. He's sold real estate across the city for over twenty years — Bardstown Road, the Highlands, Germantown, Smoketown, Shelby Park. He's watched every deal, every neighborhood, every version of the city.
Every character in Two Minutes is a version of someone he knows. Every location is a place that exists. Jimmy Moran is the version of himself he was afraid he'd become — the man who sees every angle in the city and none of them work out.
He founded Pending Pictures in 2026 to tell the stories that only get told if he tells them. Louisville stories, first. Then wherever the work takes him.
Pending Pictures is a film company founded in Louisville, Kentucky, by writer Shamus Greene. The first slate is rooted in the American South. Future projects will live where their stories demand — wherever that takes us.
The name isn't an accident. Every film is pending until it isn't. Every story is pending until someone tells it. Every shot is a long shot until it lands.
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Script access and distribution is managed through retained counsel.
Shannon Hensley, Esq.
Hensley Law Offices, Los Angeles