The PARALYZING AGENT follows the story of a young woman who suffers from strange otherworldly nightmares and a man who has his own problems to solve.  Set in the present day Florida Panhandle on the beautiful Emerald Coast, the movie also travels to the mysterious but charming Mississippi Delta, where together they attempt to find answers to their intriguing questions.

 

Dora grew up in, a small, tight-lipped farming community in the Mississippi Delta.  She moved to Florida several years prior to the story's beginning, escaping a past full of fear.  She began a fledgling singing career financed by her day job as a bookkeeper for a local bed & breakfast.  She has found relief and safe harbor in beautiful Destin, Florida.  Here, Dora came to feel that her nightmares were over, and perhaps they never were as important as they seemed.  Time has altered her perceptions, but not her memory of the horrible events.  What Dora doesn't realize is that something ominous is missing from her distorted memories, which her friend, a hypnotist, tries to help her remember.

 

Dr. Giles, a recent widower, is a successful anesthesiologist working in a surgical center.  Despite the unusual loss of his wife at the prime of their relationship, he lives an enviable life on a golf and beach resort, but he can't seem to enjoy a minute of it.  Memories - perhaps guilt - hold him hostage, leading to some less-than-optimal coping behaviors.  Sleep difficulties secondary to a disturbing electronic discovery of his, finally propel him to seek professional help.  

 

As always with Dr. Giles, there is an underlying motive for seeing his colleague, the psychiatrist.  Dr. Giles is just as obsessive and driven in his personal life as he is in his highly technical work environment. However, the deeper he delves into this electronic anomaly, the more he finds that the government might have something to hide.  The only constant in his life is his little dog Cricket.

 

Dr. Giles takes care of Dora during a simple elective procedure, but it's an added minor procedure that causes a stir in the surgical center.  As Dora is coming out of anesthesia, her nightmares resume with a fury, and even she begins to question her grasp on reality.  Dr. Giles and the staff at the facility become aware that something is terribly wrong with her, but their initial concern is purely medical.  Meanwhile, Dora finds that there is more to Dr. Giles than meets the eye through his professional exterior.  As fate would have it, they meet again shortly thereafter and discover they have something in common.

 

Something happens with an errant click of a button on Dr. Giles' computer one night when Dora phones Dr. Giles.  What pops up concerns and fascinates him in such a way as to cause him to question everything he's come to accept about computers and electronics in general.  He discusses this in a roundabout way with Dora, who doesn't quite make the connection.

 

On Dr. Giles' suggestion, he flies Dora to her hometown in an attempt to answer their strangely connected problems.  Dr. Giles finds that there is a palpable sense of disdain towards Dora in the community, and even in her own family.  There is no wonder that she wanted to leave.  Dr. Giles also discovers some mysterious happenings, all having an eerie relationship to some of the largest television towers he has seen in all his years of flying.  It seems that the questions they hoped to answer have multiplied into deeper, more sinister ones.  

 

Dora and Dr. Giles scratch the surface of many topics ranging from the boundaries of a patient - physician relationship, to government cover-ups, to the childlike acceptance of things we don't understand.  Two people have the courage to ask questions... but the answers just might be something nobody would ever want to know.

DVD/Blu-Ray Description on Cover:

Dr. Giles, a troubled anesthesiologist with a nightmare-ridden patient stumbles upon a code that's been controlling our planet since the beginning.

Gene Greenlees was raised in Austin, Texas and began snapping pictures in 1972, at the age of 10 with a Kodak Instamatic. He now has over 50,000 photos and slides to his credit. In 1977, at the age of 15, he started his film education at Lanier High School in Austin, Texas, shooting and editing 8 & 16mm short movies.  He began flight school that same year.

 

Dr. Greenlees graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, with a B.S. in Physics/Education

in 1985.  While in college, he worked for Texas Instruments and IBM in Austin, Texas.

 

He began his military career as an Air Force officer and flyer in 1985, and flew until he was accepted into Medical School at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.  He went on to complete a residency in Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.

 

After medical school graduation in 1996, Dr. Greenlees began dreaming and writing complete screenplays. In 1999 he edited 7 short movies.  After a medical relief trip to Banda Aceh, Indonesia in 2005, he was motivated with his wife Wendy, to write their first feature length screenplay, entitled “the Emerald coasT project…”. In 2006 he founded Z-Flight Productions and began shooting the movie we now know as “the PARALYZING AGENT.”  Dr. Greenlees directed, produced and edited the movie with the help of his wife Wendy, with a great cast and minimal crew.

 

Gene continues to practice as a part time anesthesiologist.  He and his wife have no children, but have a Yorkie named “Cricket” that also starred in the movie. He's a commercial-instrument rated pilot and flies an A-36 Beechcraft Bonanza. He's also and a ham radio operator (Amateur Extra - KD5ANB).

 

Since finishing the final editing of "the PARALYZING AGENT" in Fall of 2008, Gene is now writing 2 novels in hopes of making both into screenplays for future production.  He also has 2 music videos in pre-production.

 

1-Sentence Synopsis:

 

 

30 Word Short Synopsis:

Dora has been haunted by terrible, out-of-this-world night terrors her entire life.  Dr. Giles, a young widower still coming to grips with the loss of his beautiful wife, is Dora’s anesthesiologist for an elective procedure. He finds that Dora is more than just a woman with nightmares.  His quest is to discover the root of Dora's dreams, and at the same time make sense of a computer code that may have been guiding the planet since 1947.  

 

Short Synopsis:

Dora has been haunted by terrible, out-of-this-world nightmares her entire life.  Dr. Giles, a young widower still coming to grips with the loss of his beautiful wife, is Dora’s anesthesiologist for an elective procedure. He finds that Dora is more than just a woman with nightmares.  His quest is to discover the root of Dora's problem and at the same time make sense of a computer code problem that may have been guiding the planet since 1947.

 

200 word description:

Dora comes from a small Mississippi farming community, and she’s haunted by terrible, out-of-this-world nightmares.  With no resolution in sight, and her own mother as a skeptic, home is unbearable.

 

Dora escapes to the beautiful beach town of Destin, Florida.  She’d heard that people in the Panhandle had similar experiences, and might be able to help.  Somehow, the nightmares mysteriously stop.  Real peace is hers.  Sugar white sand beaches...emerald green gulf waters...pleasant sleep - she’d found paradise.  

 

An unwelcome twist occurs during a cosmetic procedure designed to enhance her new life.  Awakening from anesthesia, she realizes the nightmares are back with a vengeance.  This time she has a witness:  her anesthesiologist, Dr. Giles.

 

A recent widower, Giles is trying to resolve his own broken life, when he discovers a computer code that could change the way the entire world functions.  His skeptics, a psychiatrist and a pathologist, think Dr. Giles’ problems are not with his computer, but his brain.

 

Their problems are strangely linked, and the only way to find answers is to return to Mississippi.  This trip could drive Dr. Giles and Dora to proving an inconceivable theory...or to plunging into insanity.

Wendy grew up in the Mississippi Delta in Inverness, Mississippi.  She attended Mississippi University for Women in Columbus, Mississippi.  There she met her husband Gene, who was in pilot training at Columbus Air Force Base.  They married and moved to Sacramento, California, where she continued college at California State University where she also worked part time in the costume department of the Drama School.  After moving with her husband to Barksdale AFB in Shreveport, LA, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Louisiana State University at Shreveport.  

 

Wendy began her nursing education in Galveston, Texas.  She graduated with honors from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.  She furthered her nursing education at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing in Baltimore, Maryland, attaining a Master of Science in Nursing.  

 

She has worked in Florida as a Family Nurse Practitioner, but now spends most of her time with Gene taking on the roles of a writer, actor, singer, and cinematographer in their movie “the PARALYZING AGENT.”  She and her husband have no children, and live in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida.  

 

She enjoys singing several musical genres, but she especially loves Broadway, Country & Jazz.  Her first taste of singing and acting was in high school starring in numerous school plays and musicals.  She also used her singing talent to place in several beauty pageants in Mississippi.  Among her other interests are sewing, gardening and biking. She was also the  trainer of their Yorkie named Cricket that had a small role in the movie.