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Table of Contents Recent Successes 3, 11, 19, 21, 23, 25 Teleplays 6 Industry Endorsements 3 More Scripts – Grouped by Genre 9 ScreenwritingU Master Class Writers 4 Feature Article: The Rundown – Producers Weigh in on International Contest Winners 4 Markets, Crowdfunding and More 12 Writers Represented by Agents/Managers 4 Get Your Movie on the Cover of InkTip Magazine 28 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. Entertainment professionals from Hollywood and all over the Howard Nash Options “Occupants” world come to InkTip because it is a fast and easy way to find great scripts and talented writers. Howard Nash with Starrunner LLC discovered “Occupants” through InkTip and optioned it from Julia Camara. 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The project will be produced by Marty’s partner Jon Zuber, who shares a credit with Marty on Lionsgate’s “Killer Holiday,” among others. This is Wes Laurie’s second success through InkTip. Continued on page 11 Register Today at www.InkTip.com 4 ScreenwritingU Master Contest/Festival Class Writers Winner Dragon Lady (Action/Adventure) Ed Rinkiewicz A Shaolin nun must choose between duty and conscience when HollywoodScript.com she is tasked with killing the prostitute who is the reincarnation Screenplay Contest of the dragon who destroyed the Shaolin Temple. River of Doubt (Non-Fiction/History) Paul Burgess The God Who Couldn’t (Romantic Comedy) After losing the election to Woodrow Wilson, former president Cheryl Beth Conway Theodore Roosevelt treats his resulting depression with an When the God of Lust creates Valentine’s Day Night so all expedition through the Amazon. But it soon spirals into a Olympians can have sex with humans and it’s a contest where his desperate struggle for survival. godhood is up for renewal, he’s the only one not getting any. Santa Klas Begins (Fantasy) Ed Rinkiewicz In the year 809 AD, a Viking priest tries to unleash the apocalypse by dropping a thousand children into Hell on the Yuletide. Only a humble toymaker stands in his way. This is “Santa Klas Begins.” (Link to concept trailer is available via the InkTip website.) Writers Represented by Agents/Managers Barbara J. Bird, Visions in the Tunnel (Action/Adventure) Whit Whitley What if an overworked tunnel builder influenced by yoga led to The Characters Talent Agency a dangerous trap with sexy women, a business charlatan, and his Sake: A Dog for Keeps (Family) Rob Malenfant own mental conflicts to decide what’s right from wrong? An alienated 17-year-old girl befriends an aging Malamute sled dog, travels from Lancaster, California to Wasilla, Alaska, and Denise Barrett, DR Entertainment participates in the Junior Iditarod race. Their travel, friendship, Liars (Romantic Comedy) Marion Zola and respect for each other quite change her life. (Scriptapalooza In a reverse of the classic “Working Girl,” this sophisticated coverage: “Consider”) romantic comedy involves a top Latina executive and an under- cover cop, both mistaking the identities of the other as their affair Beverly Brock, heats up, then explodes. The Brock Agency Elsa Ramo, Ramo Law PC Conquest of the Nagas (Sci-Fi) Whit Whitley What if an American woman in India found her soul transmigrat- Hitman-for-hire (Crime) Michael Duke ing into the life form of a human snake? 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