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!Xanadu Shores III - Rescuing Atlas
“Rescuing Atlas” the Trilogy’s peak begins when an astrophysicist - megalomaniac and boat racing enthusiast, operating from his island, becomes hell-bent on blackmailing the world.
Xanadu Shores II: All That Glitters
The "Xanadu Team get duped by a nefarious jeweler in a casino robbery, leading to an international conspiracy disguised as an art heist.
Xanadu Shores - First 14 pages
"Xanadu Shores - The Pilot". A spy thriller unfolds as four friends become entrapped after one is kidnapped in a compromising situation, during a gold heist leading to an adventurous crime story encompassing fraud, greed and lustful revenge, alertly pursued by an agent along with his comely banker by land air and sea, explosively culminating on the island of Xanadu Shores.
Xanadu Shores: Proof of Concept (PoC) Eight Central Characters.
Proof of Concept; introduces the eight central characters in an intense office situation before the action unfolds after a pilot’s girlfriend gets kidnapped during a gold heist, leaving clues for his friends to follow, unknowingly chased by a capricious agent and his comely accomplice by land, air and sea explosively culminating on the island of Xanadu Shores.
Xanadu Shores - The Pilot
"Xanadu Shores - The Pilot". A spy thriller unfolds as four friends become entrapped after one is kidnapped in a compromising situation, during a gold heist leading to an adventurous crime story encompassing fraud, greed and lustful revenge, alertly pursued by an agent along with his comely banker by land, air and sea, explosively culminating on the island of Xanadu Shores.
Contortions
A man dying on a sofa confronts a procession of ghostly figures—his wife and friends—whose surreal, contorted interactions reveal a hidden chain of guilt, betrayal, and family catastrophe.
The Cajun
When a notorious pirate, made immortal by the curse of a Voodoo Queen, is invited to a mysterious poker game in modern day New Orleans, he discovers a clue to find the treasure that can set him free.
Brit Out of Water
A broke London accountant inherits a crumbling Southern inn — and accidentally inherits everything that comes with it.
Dark Latitude
When a young woman uncovers a hidden photograph tied to a murdered WWII survivor, her search for the truth exposes a forgotten escape—and those determined to keep history buried.
The Sky’s Edge
At the dawn of the aviation age, America's greatest daredevil aviator recounts his meteoric rise from working-class mechanic to national hero as fierce rivalries, personal tragedy, and an obsession with conquering the impossible drive him toward one final, calculated defiance of death.
