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OCTOBER VOLUME 17 2017 MAGAZINE ® ISSUE 5 Where everyone goes for scripts and writers™ SPECIAL EDITION Roundtable Interview with Screenwriters Jupiter M. Makins, BD Young, Dwain Worrell, John Porter, and Jake Helgren PAGE 12 FIND YOUR NEXT SCRIPT HERE! CONTENTS Contest/Festival Winners 4 Feature Scripts – FIND YOUR Grouped by Genre SCRIPTS FAST 5 ON INKTIP! Round Table Interview with Screenwriters Jupiter M. Makins, BD Young, Dwain Worrell, John Porter, INKTIP OFFERS: and Jake Helgren • Listings of Scripts and Writers Updated Daily 12 • Mandates Catered to Your Needs • Newsletters of the Latest Scripts and Writers • Personalized Customer Service Scripts Represented by Agents/Managers • Comprehensive Film Commissions Directory 59 Teleplays 64 You will find what you need on InkTip Sign up at InkTip.com! Note: For your protection, writers are required to sign a comprehensive release form before they place their scripts on our site. 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It is the only place I go now.” – NANCY CRISS, NANDAR ENTERTAINMENT GROUP 4 Contest/Festival Winners Artemis Women in Action Film Festival New Media Film Festival The Princess and the Geek Squad Apprentice Clash of the Gods (Action/Adventure) Vincent Zhou (Fantasy) Beth Rohach Clash of the Gods is not only a magic and fantasy film with A socially challenged teen helps a princess conjured from a bold adaptation of the Chinese mythology; it would be a computer game in a CGI fantasy world. an ambitious film series with latent satiric social commen- tary. The film, by blending a series of myths and allusions Black Screenplays Matter: An African including the legends of eight immortals in folklore and American Screenwriting Competition classical literature, depicts an adventure story in the back- ground of heaven reform. Mayday (Drama) Aaron Shaw When a cruise ship is seized by African terrorists hell-bent Pitch-2-Script Faith & Family on killing thousands of passengers, its security guard, Screenplay Competition who’s a tormented ex-soldier, must lead his out-manned, out-gunned, feuding ex-military security staff to save lives. A Christmas Genie (Family) Anat Golan A selfish teenager who blames Christmas for the death (Thriller) Tony Hendriks Shoot the Girl of his mother wishes the holiday gone, but when his wish A 12-year-old Trench Town tomboy avenges the murder of backfires, he must race to undo his wish before time runs her father by a bloodthirsty ghetto don, using social media out. (Comp: Big meets The Santa Clause) to bring him to justice, proving brain beats brawn. Scriptapalooza Screenplay Competition The Indie Gathering Security! (Comedy – ½-Hour Pilot) With Monsters (Horror) Rob Herzog Joseph Welch and Kamron Ghods An online dater seeks companionship, but his childhood The security staff at a New Orleans nightclub abuse their fears and boogeymen return at the worst possible time – power to serve justice, build relationships, and make while he’s on his first (and possibly last) date. money; all for personal gain behind their eccentric boss’s back as they search for a sense of security in their lives. International Family & Faith Film Festival Screenplay Festival Quest for Light – Adventure of the Magi Shalimar (Action/Adventure) Maria Soriano (Action/Adventure) Byron Anderson An orphan girl makes her thoughts real when she creates a Captivated by an extraordinary star, three warrior priests mystical golden flying colt she names Shalimar – but soon journey through Persia, battling evil and struggling with discovers that she must protect him from two vagrants their faith, until they are transformed by God on their way and all the greedy people throughout the world. to Bethlehem. SR Socially Relevant Film Festival International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival Short Screenplay Search The Record (Thriller) K.R. Scott When hackers introduce a mistake into a climate scien- Cover Crop (Sci-Fi) Jeffrey Howe tist’s work, she is plunged into scandal – and the spotlight. An unadventurous botanist on an isolated farm planet As the scientific community turns its back and Internet stumbles back into a relationship with an old flame – and threats turn to real-world peril, she must race to unravel onto a secret his corporate bosses will kill to keep. the truth – and defend it. StoryPros Awards Every month an average of 25 The Growing Season (Family) Stephen Dexter scripts are purchased or optioned Driven by the deep desire to see their single parents happy Register at www.InkTip.com in love again, the precocious daughter of an introverted farmer and her new friend, the timid daughter of a restless A free service to the industry local radio deejay, bring together the residents of their small town into their elaborate matchmaking scheme. For these scripts and many more, go to our website: www.InkTip.com Action/Adventure 5 Time Zero (Action/Adventure) Carlo Carere and Erin Carere coverup of America’s role in the Middle East conflict rather After acquiring the psychic ability to see everybody’s past, than averting a terrorist plot. a CIA operative faces terrorists who kidnap his loved ones and force him to use his powers against his country. Worldfest Houston Sunset Film Festival Los Angeles The Heart of a Tiger (Drama) Sreyreath Kuy The Heart of a Tiger is the searing true story of one woman’s Possessed Condo (Crime) John Comen fight to save her family during the brutal Cambodian While filming a day-to-day documentary and packing up her Genocide known as the Killing Fields. (Represented by dead mom’s condo, Joanna and her friend Kate get plagued Mark Gottlieb, Trident Media Group) by supernatural occurrences, which they capture with their camera, as they try to figure out what’s real and what’s not. Phil. (Comedy) Marissa Lessman WeScreenplay Diverse Voices In the midst of a breakup, a young longstanding cou- ple is haunted by Phil, a human manifestation of their The Last Fall (Drama) Cate Honzl shared history. In the wake of society’s collapse, a determined but bitter WriteMovies Spring 2017 woman must protect her precocious niece and isolated farmhouse from suspicious newcomers, mysterious fires, Screenwriting Competition and violent bandits, as the impending winter threatens to Choke Job (Thriller) David Dell Johnson bury them all. A slick defense attorney with a penchant for getting The Saudi (Thriller) Moutaz Jad guilty clients acquitted has his life destroyed by a mys- When a Saudi lands at LAX with a false identity, an inves- terious stranger and must race against time to clear his tigation by the FBI leads to the discovery of a government name of murder. Feature Scripts – Grouped by Genre Action/Adventure Angel of Death Michael Mendershausen After escaping Auschwitz, a Jewish doctor, to relieve his own 1000 The Druid, the Sword and the Raven (Sword in guilt, hunts down Josef Mengele, who’d gassed his wife, the Stone) Guido Maria Giordano and has Mengele’s life in his hands. The story of the genuine sword in the stone, set in Italy between the year 1000 and the year 1180. An adventur- Apache Echo David McCartney ous and exciting journey through medieval Italy. A feisty, big-city editor turned small-town newspaperman struggles with moral dilemmas and his own fears when he Acid Head Buddha Anthony Lojac JD, PhD follows the bloody trail of a fierce, Geronimo-like warrior A cool young acid head from NYC tries to help his dead who emerges in this day and age and leads a small band girlfriend in the afterlife. What Dreams May Come meets of renegade Apaches on deadly raiding parties in a rural Jacob’s Ladder and Enter the Void. part of southern Arizona. After Wolf Richard Humphries Bellatrix Michael Chichetti As humanity fights against a pandemic of werewolves, iso- A pair of female mixed martial artists are invited to be in a lated paratroopers and the pack they’re fighting become prestigious tournament that is being held on an exotic island.