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 Christmas Sermon
When a former 90’s R&B boy band member and current nightclub owner learns his mother’s dying wish was for him to become the pastor of her church, he must confront his lost faith, his loveless marriage, and the Church Board’s opposition to give a Christmas sermon that could change his life for the better.
The Christmas Sermon
When a former 90’s R&B boy band member and current nightclub owner learns his mother’s dying wish was for him to become the pastor of her church, he must confront his lost faith, his loveless marriage, and the Church Board’s opposition to give a Christmas sermon that could change his life for the better.
The Christmas Sermon
When a former 90’s R&B boy band member and current nightclub owner learns his mother’s dying wish was for him to become the pastor of her church, he must confront his lost faith, his loveless marriage, and the Church Board’s opposition to give a Christmas sermon that could change his life for the better.
CLOUD CITY
LoglineAfter discovering the richest citizens of Earth are abandoning the planet for a secret floating city above Venus, a young astronaut-in-training must find a way to save the Earth with the help of an adventurous young woman
GIRL OF MY DREAMS
When a lonely scientist who believes dreams are a link to a parallel world meets the literal woman of his dreams, he must find a way to bring her into the waking world before they are both discovered by the dream world’s evil ruler.
A Bullet For God's Bounty
In a small Arizona town in the 1880s, a righteous French bounty hunter agrees to track down a violent fugitive, only to discover he has been hunting the wrong man.
Pretty Baby: The Tragic Death Of Marion Parker
Based on a shocking 1927 crime, a grieving woman exposes the decades-old truth about her twin sister's murder to prevent the killer's lawyer from publishing his own skewed account of the tragedy.
Greenman
A rising rock star strikes out for Iceland in search of inspiration, only to discover a centuries-old horror that threatens to use her gifts to take over the world.
Tar Pits
Forced to take sides in a centuries-old intergalactic war, a veteran soldier and her scientist ex-wife bond with giant alien warriors in a final battle that will decide the fate of humanity.
Morbidly
A young physical therapist slowly loses his grip on reality as he succumbs to the seductiveness of his only patient, a morbidly obese woman with a grisly secret.
