In the shelter your friends leave and never come back. Rob knows this better than most, now it will take all nine cats to survive the Christmas storm, beat the Collector, and finally escape if he wants to keep everyone together.
ROB knows that in the shelter any day could be your last. He has a plan and he’s assembled his team. Only thing left is the ride...
When two new recruits break into the shelter, they bring a new threat that Rob couldn’t plan for. On the eve of the shelter closing and the storm of the century they’ll have one last chance.
If they can get to the roof, they just might save the ones they love and finally find a home together.
Can Rob’s Christmas Eve escape plan really get them all out?
A wildly inventive and sharply written script. The jury was incredibly impressed by the strong character concepts, the thrilling pacing, and the highly original premise that hooks the reader from the very first page.
The emotional moments are genuinely moving and carry us through to a deeply satisfying conclusion.
Strong commercial potential. Each character earns their moment of genuine heroism — quirky and brave in equal measure.
Einstein injects just the right level of wild-eyed futurism — a Doc Brown for a new generation.
Rob has been part of our family since 2007... a shelter rescue who turned out to be exactly the kind of cat you’d build a story around. Kind. Gentle. Brave in the quiet way that matters. Endlessly curious.
He lays around a lot these days. Eyes half-open. Somewhere far away.
Nine Lives grew from watching him daydream. One question that wouldn’t leave: what was your cat doing the day before you adopted them?
Danny’s feature documentary The Lost Reunions, a story about the PT Boaters of World War II that began with a chance meeting at a wedding, earned Best New Director at the Boston Film Festival.
He is the writer and director of The Reunion, an award-winning interactive web series with selections at SeriesFest, the Denver Film Festival, Cleveland Film Festival, HollyWeb Festival, and others. Nine Lives is his debut animated feature screenplay.