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JUNE VOLUME 16 2016 ISSUE 3 Where everyone goes for scripts and writers™ The Reality Behind Alternate Realities PAGE 16 Q&A with Screenwriter Andrew M. Henderson PAGE 22 FIND YOUR NEXT SCRIPT HERE! Where everyone goes for writers and scripts™ IT’S FAST AND EASY TO FIND THE SCRIPT OR WRITER YOU NEED. WWW.INKTIP.COM A FREE SERVICE FOR ENTERTAINMENT PROFESSIONALS. Peruse this magazine, find the scripts/books you like, and go to www.InkTip.com to search by title or author for access to synopses, resumes and scripts! l For more information, go to: www.InkTip.com. l To register for access, go to: www.InkTip.com and click Joining InkTip for Entertainment Pros l Subscribe to our free newsletter at http://www.inktip.com/ep_newsletters.php Note: For your protection, writers are required to sign a comprehensive release form before they can place their scripts on our site. Table of Contents Recent Successes 3, 7, 9, 11 Q&A with Alternate Realities Screenwriter Andrew M. Henderson 22 Contest/Festival Winners 4 Scripts Represented by Agents/Managers 27 Feature Scripts – Grouped by Genre 5 Teleplays 28 The Reality Behind Alternate Realities 16 3 Welcome to InkTip! The InkTip Magazine is owned and distributed by InkTip. Recent Successes In this magazine, we provide you with an extensive selection of loglines from all genres for scripts available now on InkTip. Isabel Drean Options Splintered Entertainment professionals from Hollywood and all over the Isabel Drean with Productions Kebweb found Splintered world come to InkTip because it is a fast and easy way to find on InkTip and optioned it from Victoria Caspall with the great scripts and talented writers. intent to direct as well as produce. Isabel is a French- In fact, your peers purchase, option, hire, or sign an average Canadian transplant to Los Angeles whose credits include of 25 writers and scripts every month which they found on Manigances, among others. Victoria Caspall, meanwhile, InkTip. About every ten days, another one of your colleagues is a brand-new up-and-coming writer from Walnut Ridge, goes into production on a movie where the writer or script was Arkansas, who spent most of a year writing, re-writing and found on InkTip. polishing this script to gleaming perfection. When we asked her what it was like landing her first option, she replied, For details, please see www.InkTip.com/success_new.php. “I didn’t pitch it. I just let the website do its magic.” InkTip is a free service for entertainment pros. All you need to do is register at www.InkTip.com. Farnaz Samiinia Hires Patrick Hegarty The loglines listed in this publication are on the website Farnaz Samiinia discovered Patrick Hegarty on InkTip with the full contact information of the writer, as well as the and commissioned him to write Magic Land. Farnaz, an synopsis, and often the complete script. up-and-coming studio-level director, will helm this one, with You also can do specific genre searches to pinpoint the exact her manager, veteran industry insider Valerie McCaffrey scripts or writers you need. producing. Patrick has had a number of scripts optioned over the years and was a recent winner at the Austin Film Festival Discover InkTip.com and see what your colleagues are raving Screenplay Competition. This is his first InkTip success. about. If you are not a member, go to InkTip.com and register as an Entertainment Professional. Bobby Collins Options House Under Hell Jerrol LeBaron, President Bobby Collins with United Foreign Media found The House Under Hell on InkTip and optioned it from Wes Laurie. Bobby’s credits include the documentary Lady Diana, among others. Wes is an experienced screenwriter whose credits include Breath of Hate and The Last House. This is his fifth success through InkTip. Michelle Dominguez Sanchez Hires Jonathan Katz Michelle Dominguez Sanchez with The Robb Company Industry Endorsements discovered Jonathan Katz on InkTip and signed to repre- sent him after reading his script Bloodworth. Jonathan has I love InkTip and have referred several producers who are worked in the advertising industry as a copywriter and cre- looking for projects. It is great that you have writers of all ative director, and this is his first success through InkTip. calibers, from up-and-coming to award-winning. There are great screenplays on your site of all genres. It is the only Barnet Bain Hires Dawn Johnston place I go now. Nancy Criss, Nandar Entertainment, Inc. Barnet Bain with Barnet Bain Films discovered Dawn Johnston on InkTip after reading her script Mother and hired You’re the only company that I know of that has a system her to write a feature-length script from an established con- that’s complete and easy to use. You’re the only one I cept. Barnet’s credits include What Dreams May Come and use; I don’t know why anyone even goes anywhere else. The Lost & Found Family, among others. This is Dawn’s Tim Scott, Gold Key Productions first success through InkTip. [InkTip.com] has certainly been a great help. You Kevin Dewalt Options Timmy are always there if I need something and using your Kevin Dewalt with Minds Eye Entertainment found Timmy site to find material is extremely fast. Thanks again. on InkTip and optioned it from Jackie Hayes. Kevin’s cred- Joel Rice, Producer, Muse Entertainment its include Forsaken and The Tall Man, among others. This (The Kennedys, The Deal, Catch Me If You Can) is Jackie’s first option and her first success through InkTip. Continued on page 7 Register Today at www.InkTip.com 4 Contest/Festival Winners Cinequest Screenwriting High Concept Screenplay Competition Competiton Old Drunk Boxer (Action/Adventure) Steven Boergadine Byron – Mad, Bad and Dangerous (Comedy) A retired fighter who is haunted by a tragic past rejoins the fight- Jay Natelle and Martyn Hobbs ing community as a way to regain a sense of self – but finds Exiled in Venice, amidst wine, women, and partying, life has lost himself embroiled in a seedy underworld that pulls his past back all meaning for Europe’s most famous poet until he blunders into into the present. a farcical but deadly conspiracy where he must choose between risking everything to save a damsel in distress or living on as the aging caricature of the romantic lover. International Horror and Sci-Fi Sardis the Merciful (Fantasy) Christian Thomas Film Festival Short Screenplay Search A desperate king must atone for old misdeeds by facing a mon- Once Upon a Midnight Dreary (Horror – Television strous figure out of his past. ½-Hour Pilot) Kenny J. Wright An outlaw is forced to seek refuge in an abandoned building that Cynosure Screenwriting Awards soon becomes a four-walled house of madness. (An anthology story. Adapted from Edgar Allan Poe’s poem, “The Raven.”) Designated Drinker (Drama – Television 1-Hour Pilot) Richard Willett and Linda Lili Anderson Annie, a tightly wrapped accountant with an empty nest and a KAIROS Prize for husband losing interest, and her new best friend Brian – a gay Spiritually Uplifting Screenplays N.Y. playwright forced back to L.A. to escort his wacko aging parents into oblivion – belly up in a legendary Hollywood bar American Exodus (Action/Adventure) Katherine Craddock with a colorful assortment of drinking buddies coping with their Escaped slave Harriet Tubman rescues enslaved fugitives as a own deferred dreams and absurd new realities. conductor on the “Underground Railroad” in the 1850s – but with a $40,000 bounty on her head and the law against her, can The Flid Show (Drama) Richard Willett she risk her freedom one last time to free her own parents? A charismatic, belligerent English nightclub singer, born with flipper-like arms because his pregnant mother took the drug tha- The Hand of a Woman (Action/Adventure) lidomide, believes his deformity will keep him from ever finding Birgit Syran Myaard love – until he falls for a pretty, young American doctor with When an Israelite warrior refuses God’s call to face an evil gen- intimacy issues of her own, and must confront his own dark past eral in battle, the biblical prophet Deborah finds the fate of her in order to win her. nation rests in the hand of a woman. In a Midnight Garden (Drama) Richard Willett Heaven’s Messenger (Drama) A broken woman who joins MADD to strike out at the alcoholic Wayne Sable and Christopher Lovick responsible for the death of her son becomes alarmed and con- Heaven’s Messenger (inspired by true events), is about an fused when he begins moving toward her out of his own needs. ex-boxer turned inner city minister who is pressured to come up Their strange dance creates unexpected and sometimes darkly with the money to save his church before it gets bought out by a comic twists and leads both to a new place in their lives. large financial firm. When all hope is seemingly gone, a pigeon sent as a sign from God becomes the saving grace that unites the Fresh Voices community to protect the church. Screenplay Competition Monanco International Film Festival Lemon Made (Comedy) Erik Adolphson Matanzas (Drama – Television Mini Series) Piotr Kaszuba When the new kid in town joins the neighborhood’s lucrative 1561. Driven by lifelong ambition and a secret lover, ship worker lemonade business, he ignites a turf war between rival fourth Patrice Lachere joins a French exploratory mission to the Spanish- grade Mob bosses and their gangs over lemonade stands. claimed North American coast, where he pursues rumored native gold, until the men mutiny. Lachere finally succumbs to sickness on the leaky boat that leads the failed colonists home, where they find Spain and France at each other’s throats, and a religious war Go to www.InkTip.com tearing France apart.