BIO:

Lukas Scheja is a German actor, director for theatre and film, also wise president of an international acting school, executive film producer and screenwriter, nationally and internationally working for 38 years in all fields of the dramatic arts.

As a founding member of the film production company “Dancing Coyote” in Los Angeles, he co-produced the 2013 international film “Dancing on a dry Salt Lake”. This film, directed by Dominique DeFazio, lifetime member of the Actors Studio, has won 39 awards, including “Best Screenplay”, “Best Directing”, “Best Protagonist”, “Best Ensemble Acting” and “Best Camera”.

As an actor, Lukas Scheja started at the Thalia State Theatre in Hamburg and toured in different productions in protagonistic roles internationally. For his leading performance in the film “Heidengeld”, he was awarded “Best feature film of the Year in Germany”.

Throughout his life, he has undergone training with renowned masters in disciplines such as Karate, Zen, Realisation and Daoism in acting.

As a director, he put on productions in different state theatres in Germany; for instance, he directed a production with 110 artists at the theatre festival “Ruhr-Triennale” under the famous artistic director Jürgen Flimm from the world-famous Thalia Theater, repeatedly “Best Theatre of the Year” in Germany.

Having been educated in German Studies at the University of Tübingen, he acquired the linguistic and academic skills that make him the highly innovative screenwriter he is today.

During the pandemic, he decided to encourage the students of his acting school to create a full-length feature film script. He asked 12 talented co-writers of his advanced students to join him during the process of two years to create his new screenplay, “Angels Desired” which he then finalised over the span of another year in five different countries.

“ANGELS DESIRED” Written by LUKAS SCHEJA (Germany)

LOGLINE - Feature Synopsis: (Genre: Fantasy)

A young woman’s comedic dream about a creaturerous film production and her growing into life within her artistic family and crew, saved by three peculiar angels amidst the myth of the Minotaura in our modern, vital and humorous life of our arising future.

STORY OUTLINE:

The film tells the dream of the 21-year-old actress Iznasha amid the film crew of her feature film project about her development into a successful and attractive presenter.

The protagonists in her dream are her father, as the film director, Tekushin and her mother, as the leading actress, Chayka. Surprisingly, in the film she has possibly lost these parents - her father, following his longing for death, and, suppressed by her, her mother, potentially through drowning.

The characters in this picturesque feature film can be seen as facets of Iznasha herself, as well as modern figures with roots in mythical ancient history.

Three Angels are accompanied to earth by the Archangel Gabriel to make up for experiences that Iznasha’s mother sensually omitted in her life: ‘Morbid Optimism’, ‘Swindled Airs’ and ‘Lustful Sins’. As children who died too young they are sent back to earth to learn the richness of human experience to be better angels after all, earning their wings.

The character of the enigmatic and mute Caméra embodies Iznasha's views and coaches her initially cyphered inconspicuousness towards leadership. At a strange crew party followed by a hell ride, the departments of the film production plunge themselves into a ritual, which awakens the powers to guarantee the success of the film production.

The clown Skuchenko comes from the beyond to pick up Tekushin in his mystical longing for death and accompanies him wisely and humorously to the striking beauty of actual life.

The three sages of the production management, Voya, Rubiyev and the medium Bledyayev, gradually take over the management of the project during the film and, guided by Chayka, finally bring it successfully to the press conference of its premiere.

As the mythological driving force beneath the story, the male Minotaur from Knossos experiences the resurrection of his white female counterpart – the Minotaura. She integrates the current development towards gender equality as a mysterious adventure.

Iznasha can be anyone. Anyone can be Iznasha.

A detailed Four Pager of the script is available at any time.