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!CIRQUE D' ETOILES
*** Russian astronaut, thrown out of the space program, hijacks a space taxi going to the International Space Station.
THE SOCIAL POLICE
Twenty years from now, an FBI agent patrols the social media.
PIRANDELLO'S WIFE
Quiet, passive, obedient, a wonderful mother to her children and perfect wife to her Nobel Prize winning husband.
ALTA CALIFORNIA
In 1780s California, a mixed-blood scout, torn between his native heritage and Spanish conquerors, is thrust into a battle of survival and identity as he navigates oppressive mission life and brutal colonizers.
Breast Stroke
A high school swimmer needs to overcome his obsession with sex (or lack of it) to succeed personally and athletically.
Unbrotherly Love
Twin twenty-two-year-old brothers are trusted by their dad to transport a half-million-dollar car across Europe.
Shake Up Christmas
A feel-good jukebox musical about an infamous boy band member, longing for a normal life, that intrudes upon a working-class woman and her six-year-old son’s peaceful existence.
FULL CONTACT — Price of Redemption
FULL CONTACT — Price of Redemption In a winner-take-all championship game, a legendary linebacker must outplay a vengeful mastermind who turns the gridiron into a Sudden Death trap—where the ultimate prize isn't a world trophy, it's Jake's eternal soul.
Eternal Blessings
Haunted by the ghosts of a notorious religious sect, a dying woman travels back in time to see if she can break their curse and prevent them from crashing her afterlife.
Lab Rats
An anonymous organization uses an ***AI Bot*** to moderate a Focus Group on the topic of ***Fake***.
