Los Angeles CineFest
[Inactive Contest]
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By Lynda Lemberg and Jeffrey Allen Russel.
In 1840, an unconventional widow risks her life when she joins forces with a charismatic journalist, brutalized tenant farmers and a traumatized exile she rescues in Montreal, to stop the most powerful men in Scotland from violently evicting Gaelic Highlanders, unaware of her own family's complicity in the ethnic cleansing.
Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 02/22/2014; Updated: 01/05/2019)
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By Gustavo Freitas.
During the Cold War, an aging Intelligence Officer addicted to anxiolytics must lead a rogue team of spies to investigate a US ambassador involved in a conspiracy in Brazil. Based on historical events.
Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 06/19/2018; Updated: 07/16/2019)
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By Jonathan LaPoma.
After his brother attempts suicide a few weeks before Christmas, an unrepentant asshole with a heart of gold moves back in with his comically dysfunctional family to help his brother, only to discover that his brother is the sanest of them all (#1 ranked Comedy and GLBT script on MovieBytes).
Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 04/02/2016; Updated: 09/07/2019)
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By Danny Howell.
A teenager about to turn 16 makes a discovery that could be his ticket out of his oppressive small town life, but it means leaving his younger brother behind.
Format: Screenplay
(Posted: ; Updated: 12/07/2019)
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By Jonathan LaPoma.
A struggling Hollywood screenwriter recruits his former best friends to help him write a script about a series of pranks they pulled in high school, and they discover why their friendship fell apart (ADAPTATION meets IDIOCRACY). [12 awards/honors including, 1st in 2017 Los Angeles Screenplay Contestl]
Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 12/02/2016; Updated: 09/07/2019)
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By Izzy Mariano.
A hollywood security guard digs up celebrity dirt for money, but now his efforts to get the goods and evade detection are complicated when he befriends a young actress, and uncovers her dark secret.
Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 08/16/2015; Updated: 06/09/2019)
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By Jonathan LaPoma & Natalia Porras Sivolobova.
After trying for seven years to successfully make it as a dancer in New York, a 30-year-old half-Mexican, half-American woman with dual citizenship reluctantly returns to her hometown of Oaxaca, Mexico and struggles to find her identity. [38 awards/honors including, First Place-2015 Las Vegas Screenplay Contest (Drama Category), and Grand Prize-2015 London Film Awards (Feature Screenplay Category)]
Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 04/16/2014; Updated: 09/07/2019)
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By Jonathan LaPoma.
A young boy who loves animals must cope with his father’s insistence that he will someday work in the slaughterhouse that has employed the men of his family for the past several generations. [21 awards/honors including, Grand Jury Prize winner of 2014 Hollywood Screenplay Contest, Grand Jury Prize winner of 2015 Las Vegas Screenplay Contest, and Grand Prize Winner of the 2014 London Film Awards (Feature Screenplay Category).]
Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 04/15/2014; Updated: 09/07/2019)
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By Allee Pitaccio.
Imagination and dreams come to life when a teenage Gitana and an African hash dealer form an unlikely friendship amidst prejudice and cultural clashes in Andalusia.
Format: Screenplay
(Posted: 05/02/2018; Updated: 03/04/2019)
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By Jonathan LaPoma.
A first-year teacher in an at-risk Los Angeles middle school finds the inspiration to confront his bullies through his interactions with a lovable, but equally teased, student. [Ranked 2nd in the Urban short script category of MovieBytes.com's "Top 10 Contest Winning Scripts"]
Format: Short Screenplay
(Posted: 06/27/2015; Updated: 09/07/2019)
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An elderly woman entering a care center thwarts death at every opportunity.
Parallel worlds collide when an unwitting conspiracy podcaster and the determined, crime-fighting woman he falls for must solve a layered mystery in the murky, dangerous underworld of corporate and government crime when they are framed for a double murder on Wall Street.
When a wealthy businessman and a waitress (each with an eight year old daughter) get married, they think they have the perfect family-unaware that their two darling angels are actually little menaces.
A thirsty logger heads for a couple cold ones during the record setting flooding of 1977.
Duped into taking a job in a remote mining camp he would never tackle in a million years, a rebellious young man of the 70s, his girlfriends, and his crew take revenge on the company owners.
The raw, often hysterically funny, always compelling portrait of pastoral bliss takes place in Noble, a small town in the heart of the country, which explodes into scandal and outrage when Smitty, the town’s most irritating citizen, kicks up the dust and upends the mystique of he famed Lipizzaner Stallion traveling review by blowing wide open the quaint hypocrisy of the local Pony Club executives.
In 1979, an adventurer travels to Haida Gwaii, a remote island group off the north coast of BC, and finds more surprises on his outward journey through wild country and a wilder community that proves to be an inner journey as well.
This one is pure Fun.!It's a genre buster, LA LA Land meets James Bond, meets All That Jazz and Cabaret! Asian American Black Belt goes undercover for the CIA, to help track down terrorists.
It's not your mother's buddy movie.
*** Russian astronaut, thrown out of the space
program, hijacks a space taxi going to the International
Space Station.
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