Mark Robbins

Christia: a Screenplay Mark Robbins

Filled by a joyous ride across West Texas history, intrigue, cowboys, and robots, this screenplay presents a future bright but fearful in its birth. Almost reality defined using today?s technology, Christia is called into the role of a prophet for a new age ? an age of justice or ? "And Moses said unto God, 'Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?'" Exodus 2:11 A brilliant, young African-American student of computer science at the University of Texas, Christia is uneasy in her life. A successful husband, and a broad brave history of struggle dating back to the Buffalo Soldiers, yet her bright future is drawn back to the cowboy roots of her family in West Texas, another desert in the history of prophets. Menacing police and societal roles threaten her as she attempts to crystallize her dreams of transitions to our future of robotic surplus.