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
