Roadmap Writers Names JumpStart Winners
Max Rissman's Grandpa has been named the Feature Script Winner of the 2018 JumpStart Writing Competition, while Alan Baxter's Lost Eden Canyon has been named the Pilot Winner.
Pilot Winner
LOST EDEN CANYON - by Alan Baxter
Logline: Set on Arizona's Lake Powell, the story follows a blue-collar dock worker who turns to heisting multi-million dollar houseboats in order to pay for his sick daughter's medical care.
Pilot Runner-up
MIRACLES INC. - by Rebecca Graham Forde
Logline: A famous magician and his business partner travel the world investigating miracles while running a famous magic act in Vegas.
Feature Winner
GRANDPA - by Max Rissman
Logline: In the wake of a school shooting, the president of a gun lobby and his young granddaughter are haunted by the ghosts of the victims.
Feature Runner-up
DUSTED - by Guy McDouall
Logline: A timid hospital janitor becomes a conflicted vigilante after she discovers a magic artifact that allows her to cure terminally ill children by making human sacrifices.
Signing Prize Winner
THE PIONEER - by Ziyad Saadi
Logline: A freethinking Muslim girl is forced to transfer to an extremely conservative Muslim high school, only to end up shaking the establishment completely out of order.
Updated: 11/30/2018
Additional Contest Info: Roadmap Writers JumpStart Writing Competition
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!The Den
After winning a murder trial, a young attorney is offered a job at a different law firm--not knowing that it's solely operated by werewolves.
IT'S A POPCORN WORLD
An inventor is forced to try and, not blow up the world, just pop it like a kernel of popcorn, then there will be plenty of land and he can save his home.
Sonny
In a world of AI-hyped spectacles, a retired boxing legend must reclaim his glory against a brash social media influencer to fund his granddaughter's life-saving treatment, uncovering a corporate conspiracy that could destroy them both.
Wendigo
After a series of brutal killings in Algonquin Provincial Park linked to a missing hiker transformed into a mythical Wendigo, an elite military team must join forces with local rangers and a Native American tracker to stop the ancient creature's reign of terror before more innocent lives are lost.
The Huntsman
A battle-hardened Starship crew faces their greatest test when a routine extraction mission unleashes a mind-altering alien force, fracturing loyalties and awakening a cosmic mystery that could reshape the fate of the universe.
The Rulers Of The Islands
World-shaping for the fourth time, they sight Hawaii, a crown jewel in the Pacific: a prize to fight for? or to bring peace to our world from, instead.
THE NEO-PAGANS
A talented forensic sketch artist has the gift of “seeing” murderers with her hands.
THE BANNER
Though haunted by the childhood memory of the lynching of his father for leading a slave rebellion, an American slave risks his life to join Mexico's struggle for independence after witnessing the execution of the author of the first law against slavery on the North American continent.
Lab Rats
An anonymous organization uses an AI Bot to moderate a Focus Group on the topic of 'Fake'.
She Curses Like a Sailor
A thought-provoking view of women and cursing is entertained at this art opening in New York.
