AUGUST VOLUME 20 2020 MAGAZINE ® ISSUE 4 Where everyone goes for scripts and writers™ Bridging the Gap: How Michael Mahal Led an Old Genre to New Lands PAGE 16 Australian Screenwriter Adrian Milnes Finds Success Thousands of Miles from Hollywood PAGE 22 FIND YOUR NEXT SCRIPT HERE! CONTENTS Contest/Festival Winners 4 FIND YOUR Feature Scripts – SCRIPTS FAST Grouped by Genre ON INKTIP! 5 Q&A with with Adrian Milnes 16 INKTIP OFFERS: Q&A with with Michael Mahal • Listings of Scripts and Writers Updated Daily Leading an Old Genre • Mandates Catered to Your Needs to New Lands • Newsletters of the Latest Scripts and Writers 22 • Personalized Customer Service • Comprehensive Film Commissions Directory Scripts Represented by Agents/Managers 45 Teleplays 46 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. 3 WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT INKTIP WRITERS “[InkTip] was the resource that connected “Without InkTip, I wouldn’t be a produced a director/producer with my screenplay screenwriter. I’d like to think I’d have – and quite quickly. I HAVE BEEN gotten there eventually, but INKTIP ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTED CERTAINLY MADE IT HAPPEN WITH THE SUPPORT AND FASTER … InkTip puts screenwriters into OPPORTUNITIES I’ve gotten through contact with working producers.” being associated with InkTip.” – ANN KIMBROUGH, GOOD KID/BAD KID – DENNIS BUSH, LOVE OR WHATEVER “InkTip gave me the access that I needed “There is nobody out there doing more to directors that I BELIEVE ARE for writers than InkTip – nobody. PASSIONATE and not the guys trying THEY OPENED DOORS that I would to make a buck.” have never been able to open.” – DWAIN WORRELL, OPERATOR – RICKIE BLACKWELL, MOBSTER KIDS PRODUCERS “We love InkTip. MANY AMAZING “INKTIP HAS BECOME MY GO-TO SCRIPTS are available at the click of a PLACE. You have a huge variety of scripts button. The search options are great!” over there, and I love that.” – DEREK LEE NIXON, ARISTAR ENTERTAINMENT GROUP – PARAM GILL, FLICKBAG “InkTip cares. It's comparable to IMDb as far “We have had a great experience as being that MUST-GO-TO SITE FOR searching for material on your website. ALL YOUR PRODUCING NEEDS.” WE HAVE DISCOVERED SOME – MARK MCNABB, SKYLIGHT FILMS TALENTED WRITERS we would not have found otherwise.” “When faced with the difficult task – KELLEY F. REYNOLDS, of finding an experienced, talented REYNOLDS ENTERTAINMENT screenwriter to assist with a rewrite – INKTIP WAS NOTHING LESS THAN A GODSEND.” – KARL KOZAK, DIVERSA FILMS “I love InkTip and have referred several producers that are looking for projects. It is great that you have WRITERS OF ALL CALIBERS, FROM UP-AND-COMING TO AWARD-WINNING. There are great screenplays on your site of all genres. It is the only place I go now.” – NANCY CRISS, NANDAR ENTERTAINMENT GROUP 4 Contest/Festival Winners Big Apple Film Festival M – Demon Killer (Fantasy – Feature) Screenplay Competition Mark Hammond An Asian adoptee, working as a waitress in New York A Little Sedated (Drama – Feature) Joseph Sanders City, gets a fast lesson in her family history when demons A coming-of-age stoner dramedy about two flawed high school begin to show up, and she’s the only one who can stop teens struggling through insecurities, drug abuse, and loss. Hell on Earth. (Animation – Feature) Thomas Pace Norah’s Ark Time Hustlers (Comedy – Television Half-Hour Pilot) In 2125, 12-year-old Norah and her family become stranded Andrew Hopps on a remote Pacific Island. They learn the island is actually Time Hustlers is a half-hour comedy series that follows two a secret wildlife sanctuary, kept safe by an order of monks, street hustlers, armed with a makeshift time machine, as where many animals, long thought extinct, still roam free. they travel through time and dilemma in hopes of chang- But will the island remain secret? And can they keep it safe? ing their fate. One Last Wish (Fantasy – Television One-Hour Pilot) Alan Alleman Together Apart (Romantic Comedy – Feature) Christopher Sullivan A man with no memories discovers that he is the king of a large nation. As he struggles to fulfill this role, he is con- A “cli-fi” romantic dark comedy in the vein of Black Mirror fronted with supernatural threats from his past, and his only meets When Harry Met Sally. In a climate-changed future weapon to fend them off is a genie with one wish remaining. where holographic technology revolutionizes the way peo- ple date, a man and a woman navigate the tricky territory of a long-distance relationship. Renaissance Man (Romantic Comedy – Feature) Robert Tolz A Renaissance Faire actress, staunchly proud of having Occupied Wall Street, falls for a Faire visitor, until she dis- New York International covers he’s got more money than Mr. Monopoly. Screenplay Awards Mid-Lifers (Comedy – Television Half-Hour Pilot) Fresh Voices Screenplay Competition Heidi Segal Dealing with personal life-changing events, four women Henrietta (Horror – Feature) Harry Aspinwall embark on mid-life career changes to follow their long-for- Ohio, 1887. A multiracial family is devastated by illness gotten passions and become close friends in the process. after 11-year-old Rhett believes she has summoned a demonic power. While her doctor stepfather quarantines the house for cholera, Rhett must fight through an other- Mirage (Comedy – Feature) John Robert Franklin worldly dreamscape to protect her mother and brother. The dark comedic free-fall of a drug enthusiast who is frus- trated by his art and distracted by his Mafia obligations Inroads Screenwriting Fellowship chases an insatiable high that can only be obtained by the one thing he fears most – honesty. Diary of a Madman (Drama – Television One-Hour Pilot) Ryan Brennan WriteMovies Winter 2020 A rockin’ drug-fueled roller coaster through the life of a man whose batsh*t genius gave voice to a generation: Ozzy Screenwriting Contest Osbourne. The founder of heavy metal with Black Sabbath, the Do You Take... (Romantic Comedy – Feature) Prince of Darkness, and the family man whose real-life deci- Louise Geraghty sions beg the question: how the f*ck did he live to tell the tale? When a strait-laced accountant’s fiancé wants a week apart before their fairy-tale wedding, she meets a bohemian musi- Gator (Crime/Murder/Mystery – Television Half-Hour Pilot) cian with whom she has a chaste but undeniable connection. Sam Zehr With the dream wedding back on, a happy ending seems After being betrayed by his girlfriend, a young man moves assured. Until the musician turns up to declare his undying in with his uncle and begins to unearth secrets of deceit love – three days before the ceremony. (Represented by Ian and murder that are linked to a 1989 bank robbery. Kennedy, TalentScout International Management) Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 5 Feature Scripts – Grouped by Genre Action/Adventure kids have to call a truce to their war and plot to keep their parents from walking down the aisle. No matter what the The 13 of Glory Georges Salo kids do, love conquers all! The quest for El Dorado by Francisco Pizarro takes the conquistadors, known as The 13 of Glory, to a land rife Black Thunder Joe Wenborne with gold. Their altruistic start spirals into the subjugation of the Inca nation and the genocide of its people. His spirit was unbreakable. His triumph legendary. His story inspirational. Above the Earth Kenneth Taylor Blood Journey Dennis Shepherd Mr. President, a terrorist has hijacked the shuttle; they claim to have a nuclear bomb and will destroy Washington. A low-level government employee bucks the Trump child separation policy, freeing a girl (13) and her brother (6) from a child detention center, embarking on a journey through Accelerate Jamie Rauch Mexico and Guatemala, looking for their mother, encoun- Adversity pushes a world-famous alpinist to climb the tering a mystical man on the hill, fighting a drug cartel and, Rockies, only to fall 150 feet. What should’ve been his climactically, facing the corrupt Guatemalan special forces, death ends up being his story that inspires the world. aka the Kaibiles, who hold the children’s mother captive. After Wolf Richard Humphries Blue in Green Shokai Ku As humanity tries to survive against a pandemic of were- An Irish cabin boy of a capsized ship is rescued by the wolves, isolated paratroopers team up with a noted escapee ninjas offshore Izu Peninsula, Japan. Holding onto zoologist as they and the pack they’re fighting become the the hope of returning home, he learns the ways of ninja to targets of a primordial Apex predator. survive in the strange East Asian country. The Ankh Wilfred Akasi Boomer Kesari Bhattacharya A CIA agent on a mission to find a secret treasure in Egypt A father saves democracy to win respect from his daughter. gets a curse where everyone he touches dies, and he uses his skills to get the treasure and save his kidnapped family. Bring the Children Michael Wormald In the Yugoslav war, three women from the opposing Anthem Sean Mick and Don Wells sides, a Serb, a Croat and a Bosnian, must band together In the year 2094, global mega-corporations control every- to escape. Alone and with no military training, they flee thing. When the top security agent in the old United States Bosnia on foot, horseback, and whatever vehicles they is betrayed by his former mentor, he must join forces with can find, battling the armies of all three sides, escaping his enemies in the Resistance to unravel the mystery of a besieged city, and ultimately must reconcile the differ- his parent’s death and restore freedom to America.