inKlein2 Productions – Award-Winning Authors, Gifted Screenwriters, & Transformational Storytellers with Content for Television and Film
From belly laughs to gut-wrenching tears, experience an emotional rainbow from outrage, fear, hope, and ultimately, renewal. inKlein2 Productions offers an expansive portfolio of masterful storytelling available for television and film production.
Our screenplays, published books, and treatments are a collection of journeys into the human spirit told through a vibrant array of characters—some real, some imagined—that compel and inspire audiences of all ages.
Enjoy a sneak peek into our collection of creative content including award-winning publications and stories spanning WWII to modern times with an accompanying assortment of evocative music.
For more information about our projects, contact us. We look forward to working together with you!
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Film, Television & Electronic Media Content
Marika’s War
A True Story Based on the Award-Winning Book “All the Pretty Shoes”
By Marika Roth aka Marianne R. Klein
An orphaned young girl becomes a hero in her own Dickensian life as she faces anti-Semitism and sexual predators in WWII Budapest. Guided by her opera-loving ghost-mother and her idol, Shirley Temple, she cleverly manipulates her way out of war-torn Europe and ventures into fascinating Paris where swing dance and Glenn Miller are all the rage and where she is made a life-changing offer she can’t refuse.
Marika’s War, a feature film written by Marianne R. Klein (aka Marika Roth) is based on her memoire, All the Pretty Shoes.
The Generation Gap
A 70s Live-Action Music-Infused Dramady Movie
By Marianne R. Klein & Vikki Young
15-year-old wannabe pop star, Sofia is horrified and embarrassed when her uptight attorney-mom leaves her in the care of her free-spirited grandmother, a former Follies Girl, who has been estranged from the family for years. With her world now upside down it is only love and music that can pull both young and old together and find a way to incorporate the Big Band sound with rock and pop, thus eliminating the “generation gap”.
Since You Were Gone
(I Threw a Party)
Dramady
By Marianne R. Klein
When Eva’s promiscuous husband dies of a sudden heart attack in the arms of his mistress, a once submissive housewife finds herself betrayed and penniless. In an effort to reinvent herself, she embarks on a hilarious journey of growth and self-discovery.
Rain or Shine
Dramady Based on a True Story
By Marianne R. Klein
The product of a broken home, Stan Kolby is a pie-in-the-sky dreamer who gets tangled in a series of risky deals that nearly costs him his life. Escaping from his tumultuous life, he becomes a shoeshine entertainer and discovers treasures beyond wealth. A powerful Capraesque drama based on a true story.
My Fairy Godmother
Romantic Comedy
By Ruth Campbell
A serious journalist who’s been nominated for an important, career-changing award is forced to share his house with a pretty, young, homeless woman who claims to be his fairy godmother. At the same time, he’s ordered to write an article on a “channeler” who’s allegedly possessed by the spirit of a Scotsman who’s been dead for 200 years. Although these two goofballs seem like they’ll ruin his chance of winning the award, they just might wind up helping him to become a better man.
Published Books Available for Screenplay Development
Our award-winning authors share vivid stories about actual and fictional human lives. Each story is perfect for screenplay adaption.
Books by Marianne R Klein
All the Pretty Shoes
(Available in Audio)
An Award-Winning Memoir by Marika Roth aka Marianne R. Klein
A gripping story that follows Marika Roth, a Jewish girl who barely escapes her own death, and witnesses the execution of hundreds of Jews on the banks of the Danube River. Relying on her wits, courage, imagination and without parents or family to protect her, she comes face to face with antisemitism, betrayal, bullying and sexual predators.
Marika finally escapes Budapest via Paris and arrives in Canada where she grows into a woman challenged by language barriers, terrifying spousal abuse, career roadblocks and kidnappings. Thankfully, along with the heartbreak, Marika finds love, humor, and delightful moments as a model and artist as she continues to learn how to adjust to life’s unexpected curves.
Marika’s War above, is based on the first half of the book, All The Pretty Shoes.
A Gambler’s Journey
A Romantic Drama by Marianne R. Klein
In the midst of WWII, an out-of-luck professional gambler fights for the custody of his child and the love of his dying wife, despite their impending divorce. As a widower, he faces single parenting, financial hardship and antisemitism until a chance meeting with his soulmate changes his life.
Lady Kelton’s Secrets
Fictional Drama
An aging widow reflects and relives some of her youthful years filled with love, sex, trials and tribulations. In the process, she learns that aging is an extraordinary progression where the years teach us that the secret to life is to revel in the passage of time.
Farewell, Paris
Romantic Drama
Paris, known as the city of lovers and romance, is a perfect setting for a group of love-starved orphans who have just escaped from a life of hell. Although one cannot ignore the ghostly footprints of Napoleon, King Louis XVI, and Marie Antoinette, Marika and her teenage friends are unaware of these historical figures, as war has deprived them of education. From their prospective, history has little or no relevance compared to the horrors of WWII. What matters to each of them are their upcoming adoption, dating, current events like the invasion of Normandie, the atomic bomb, and the meaningless murder of thousands of families who suffered atrocious horrors in concentration camps.
Books by Ruth Campbell
Summer Silhouettes
Magical realism fiction – middle grades by Ruth Campbell
When a 12-year-old baseball superstar loses his pitching arm to cancer, his hopes to pitch professionally are shattered. Angry over his predicament, he refuses but then reluctantly agrees to attend a county fair with his family where he meets an ethereal, mute young woman who creates paper silhouettes and seems to have an uncanny ability to snip and cut ones that depict memories, wishes, and predictions. He suspects that she, too, may have suffered a tragic loss—nearly a hundred years earlier. If he’s right, he may be the only one who can help her find true happiness again.
This Place Far Away
Young adult novel by Ruth Campbell
While World War II rages on across the globe, sixteen-year-old Peggy is consumed with worry. Her boyfriend is overseas risking his life to protect England against horrific Nazi air raids. When 12-year-old British evacuee Wilf moves into the Pasadena home that Peggy and her mother share, the teenage girl isn’t very welcoming. As summer passes both Wilf and Peggy experience their own struggles. Peggy finds herself falling for a former schoolmate who’s been secretly in love with her for years, while Wilf experiences the torment of his first love. Neither suspect that, before summer ends, the careless decisions each made will not only change the course of their own lives, it will bring tragedy to another. Someone deeply important to both Peggy and Wilf.
About Us
inKlein2 Productions is a collaboration of dynamic, women, who know how to tell stories about the hard knocks and highpoints of life!
We write for and about real people of all ages. We are…
Marianne R. Klein (aka Marika Roth)
CEO/Writer/Artist
Marika Roth was born in Budapest, Hungary. After surviving the brutal Nazi occupation of her homeland, Marika immigrated first to Paris, then to Montreal, Canada, where she worked as a fashion model while studying creative writing and psychology at Sir George Williams University and at the Montreal School of Fine Arts. She continued on her path toward becoming a writer by taking courses at UCLA and at the Writers Boot Camp in Los Angeles. Marika is a member of Women in Film, a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to empower, promote, and mentor women in the entertainment and media industries. In addition to writing screenplays, Marika has had several art exhibits. Her acrylic-based figurative artwork has been shown at several private exhibits. She lives in Los Angeles.
Vikki Young
President
Vikki Young is a native of California. She began her career as a teacher and later worked in development for both film and television, as well as standards & practices for studios such as Buena Vista International and Walt Disney Studios. While at Disney, in addition to managing animated, live action, original and acquired programming domestically, she was also programming liaison to Disney Channel Asia Pacific, headquartered in Taiwan and Singapore. Finding theatre as rewarding as television and film, Vikki is also an actor, and has been an acting teacher, theatre director, and enjoyed being an administrator at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in Hollywood. In addition to producing and developing new material, she currently works as a voice-over actor in film, television and radio. She is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Women in Animation, Society of Book Writers and Illustrators (SBWI) and SAG/AFTRA. She lives in Los Angeles.
Ruth Campbell
Author/Screen Writer
inKlein2 Productions is proud to present award-winning screenwriter and author, Ruth Campbell’s newest screenplay and books. In addition to winning the prestigious Walt Disney Studios/ABC Writers Fellowship, Ruth has been a finalist and double-semifinalist in the Austin Film Festival and a three-time semifinalist in the AMPAS Nicholl Fellowships, among many others.
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