Robert F. Godwin

recent Projects

She's the outlaw with curves that could stop a stagecoach dead and a mouth that talks her way out of anything, except this time. The lawman escorting her to the gallows is her own ex-husband. Deputy Dick Johnson knows better than to trust Honey Johnson's wandering hands, her sultry whispers, and those moonlit skinny-dips built to melt a man's resolve. With her gang of gun-slinging outlaws closing in hard for the stolen gold, and a crooked sheriff with greedy ideas of his own, Dick's caught fighting off bullets on the trail and desire in his saddle. Some prisoners you can cuff. This one, you can't resist.
Two Gen-Z strangers meet on the GEEKERS dating app and wander Midtown Manhattan from dusk to dawn, talking face-to-face as the city empties around them. Alienated from their jobs, their futures, and themselves, they circle each other with equal parts curiosity and detachment, drawn less to romance than to the strange comfort of hearing another person articulate the same quiet disillusionment. BEST ROMANTIC SCREENPLAY Los Angeles Short Film Awards 2026
In a storm-lashed Caribbean future, hard-bitten repair boss Mary Lou and her cyborg cydkick answer a distress call aboard an automated cargo ship hiding a horrifying secret. What begins as a challenging repair mission spirals into a nightmare of zombie sailors, corporate corruption, and family betrayal as the infected vessel drifts toward Haiti in search of a possible cure... or the end of humanity. Publishes July 31, 2026.
In the second novella of the series, Special Agent Nick Charles investigates missing immigrants and a string of unsettling discoveries in a corkscrew tale that tightens with every turn. Lives are upended, hopes erased, promises made only to be broken. The powerful do what they will. The weak suffer what they must. And the survivors, if they’re lucky, make it to tomorrow. As it turns out, harvesting organs isn’t music to anyone’s ears. Publishes September, 2026

JAILED

Nineteen days after the 1973 coup, he set out for work as usual. Instead, his team was ordered to report to the Naval Commander. They were handcuffed, loaded onto a bus, and delivered to a single jail cell already holding eighty detainees. One toilet. No beds. No charges. No explanation. No trial. Seven months passed before he was told what he was accused of. The verdict: “subverting democracy”, handed down from a military dictatorship. From there the story only grows stranger, and more ironic. In the end, it turns toward grace. That is why it is being told. This short documentary recounts a story that feels increasingly relevant, not only to Chile, but to America and the wider world. It is a story about working for the best while witnessing the worst of human nature.
Release date scheduled for July 2026

FACETS

A man directs a film he doesn’t fully understand. A woman moves in and out of frame, sometimes real, sometimes imagined. Childhood memories interrupt the present like jump cuts, an unanswered question, a forgotten refusal.He places himself inside his own story, actor, observer, child, man. Through repetition, through staging, through silence, the shape of his conflict becomes unavoidable. There are no explanations, only images that clarify what words cannot.Nothing is clear. Everything is obvious.

cadillac jack

One omelet, two bodies, and a stray eyeball. Cadillac Jack didn’t come for blood, but in this diner, breakfast is just the opening act. Jack is a hitman. He listens to his victims only after shooting them and just before they bleed out. He knows that’s when they’ll finally talk straight. And that, my friends, is Cadillac Jack.

BUTCHIE & ME

Two childhood friends navigate the turbulent transition from innocence to adulthood, confronting challenges of life, love, and loss, and discover the strongest bonds are those rooted in a shared past.Available on WeShort.com streaming service.

BLOOD LEGACY

The story follows a thrilling blend of supernatural intrigue and contemporary activism. Special Agent Nick Charles investigates Ulysses, a centuries-old vampire cursed to wander the earth. With themes of loyalty, love and redemption, BLOOD LEGACY merges the fantastic with a modern-day battle for justice in an epic struggle for the future of humanity.BLACK PAWN PRESSAvailable at Barnes&Noble

THE BASEMENT REMAINS

It shouldn’t have happened in an American town. It shouldn’t happen to hard-working people. Greed demolished everything above ground, but the basement door still stands. Now Skip Bennett wants to breathe new life into a dying small town. He also wants to make millions. Has he awakened a remnant of the past? The answer lies beneath the surface, where THE BASEMENT REMAINS.Winner: Best Screenplay - Los Angeles Crime & Horror Film Festival 2024

HOLLYWOOD ADJACENT

1972, southern California. An upper middle class mom risks her comfortable life to find a greater purpose. In film school, the wild and creative characters provide sexual discovery, romance, Hollywood greed, and personal treachery. With both political and sexual revolutions in full swing, she learns what she needs, avoids the pitfalls of a movie career, and enjoys every moment to the fullest.

About Robert F. Godwin

ROBERT FRANKLIN GODWIN IIIRobert Godwin is an award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker. Growing up in Burbank, California, next door to Hollywood, it was inevitable he would be drawn to the stories on cinema screens. As a young teenager, fascinated by the power of visual imagery, he wrote his first stories. In the cinema programs at Los Angeles City College, Art Center College of Design and UCLA, he made his first films. A few decades later, Robert tapped into his film-school experiences for a screenplay: HOLLYWOOD ADJACENT. Together with his degrees in cinema and in studio art, Robert holds an MBA in Marketing, all combining to fuel his vision of the sometimes-uneasy and always dynamic relationship between art and business. During the between years, Robert pursued an unconventional career path, from college professor, commercial photographer, corporate enterprise software for movie marketing campaigns with the major film studios, which led him back to creative storytelling.