FEBRUARY VOLUME 19 2019 MAGAZINE ® ISSUE 1 Where everyone goes for scripts and writers™ Making Noise in Independent Film: Q&A with Timothy Woodward Jr. PAGE 16 Going Loud with His First Credit: Q&A with Screenwriter Sean Mick PAGE 30 FIND YOUR NEXT SCRIPT HERE! CONTENTS Contest/Festival Winners 4 FIND YOUR Feature Scripts – SCRIPTS FAST Grouped by Genre ON INKTIP! 5 Making Noise In Independent Film: Q&A with Timothy Woodward Jr. INKTIP OFFERS: 16 • Listings of Scripts and Writers Updated Daily • Mandates Catered to Your Needs Going Loud with His First • Newsletters of the Latest Scripts and Writers Credit: Q&A with Screenwriter Sean Mick • Personalized Customer Service • Comprehensive Film Commissions Directory 30 Scripts Represented by Agents/Managers 39 Teleplays 40 You will find what you need on InkTip Sign up at InkTip.com! 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An explosive action-packed sci-fi/action-adventure that brings the archetypes of religion and mythology into the realm of political intrigue and the human condition. Cynosure Screenwriting Awards The Colored Women’s Chapter (Drama – Feature) The Aztecs (Action/Adventure – Television 1 Hour Pilot) Nancy Zafris Michael Southam In 1939, a painfully shy maid conquers prejudice and her They’re not here for the American dream. They’re here own self-doubts to persuade her African-American social for America. club to dare the impossible: bring Marian Anderson, the world’s most famous classical singer, to their Ohio hamlet Darkness of Day: The Burning Sensation (Action/ just weeks after Miss Anderson’s historical outdoor con- Adventure – Television 1 Hour Pilot) A.J. Ager cert in Washington, D.C. Draven Noir is a vampire who gets one day out of the year to walk in the light. On that day, he sees the vision of Dukkha (Drama – Feature) Rachana Suri someone’s life he’s to save that day so he can do it again Inspired by true events, the collapse of the Rana Plaza the next year. He uses a quick gun and quick mouth to try manufacturing plant in 2013 which killed over 1,000 peo- to make it through the day to do keep his gift. ple, we follow the story of one woman’s fight for survival. With family pressure, close sisters have an arranged The Farmstead (Drama – Feature) Alex Hawthorne marriage abroad; instead, one sister finds herself sold Joyce is a hardworking farmer, struggling to keep the farm into slavery. Now she will do anything to save her sister. running. Her sister-in-law isn’t pulling her weight. (Official (CynosureScreenwriting Awards, Grand Prize Winner, Best Selection AOF MegaFest 2018) Female Protagonist) Austin Film Festival Rogue’s Garden (Action/Adventure – Feature) Screenplay Competition James William Evans When a hostage negotiation goes bad, a female Secret Hatchet Plains (Drama – Television 1 Hour Pilot) Service agent protects a male senator as they run for their Angela Jorgensen lives in the mountains of Pakistan. During the height of McCarthy’s Hollywood blacklist, three “unemployable” writers produce a show that is deeply crit- Mediterranean Film Festival Cannes ical of the Red Scare and U.S. conservative culture. The Skinwalker Resurrection (Horror – Feature) Barnstorm Fest Dedra Stevenson A young woman unleashes a terror in the form of a The Gift (Drama – Television TV Special) dark entity upon her life. After the discovery of a mys- Sulondia Hammond terious book of witchcraft spells in her home, Carmella Rob’s sexuality incites a family feud that could prove fatal unknowingly invites something sinister into her world, a to his religious zealot father, Bishop, who’s in need of a long-deceased Navajo skinwalker who wants to walk the kidney transplant. Earth in human flesh again. Big Apple Film Festival The Monthly Film Festival Screenplay Competition White Wolf, Black Wolf (Action/Adventure – Feature) Dark Country (Suspense/Thriller – Feature) Florence Nahon Mark McCluskey Intrigue, lust, and underhanded dealings in 1830s in A soldier receives a letter that his estranged brother has France make up the story of White Wolf, Black Wolf. A gone missing. He tracks down the origins of this letter to revolutionary and foreign legionnaire, the white wolf, find out his brother is no longer the person he knew, lead- unwittingly battles society and a devious priest, the black ing him to confront his past. wolf, to achieve his goals of freedom, belonging, and love. Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Action/Adventure 5 PAGE International Shore Scripts Screenwriting Awards Shrimp (Fantasy – Feature) Nicole Jones Lyre (Drama – Television 1 Hour Pilot) Amanda Prentiss An introverted 62-year-old woman with supernatural abilities born to a young polygamist girl in The Great Salt A battered post-World War II housewife desperate to Lake discovers the confidence to share her unique powers escape her abusive marriage struggles against her grow- with the rest of the world as her loving husband begins ing guilt, as well as her community’s prying eyes, after she to lose his battle with illness. (Shore Scripts Winner 2018; accuses her husband of a crime she committed. Academy Nicholl Quarterfinalist 2018) WorldFest-Houston Running Gun (Western – Feature) Mike Bencivenga International Film Festival A promising 16-year-old, Adam Corrigan, has his roman- Russian Snowflakes (Comedy – Feature) tic relationship and future destroyed when he befriends Linda Briley-Webb a troubled teenage runaway. The year is 1877 and the The summer of love and flower power is now the win- troubled teenager is the outlaw “Billy the Kid.” Running ter of anger and micro-aggressions. Hippie snowbirds Gun is a story of romance, redemption, and revenge descend on a small town to protest. They’re not sure what. and the truest telling yet of the life of the notorious “boy Commune with nature or communism. Snowflakes of the bandit king.” world unite! Feature Scripts – Grouped by Genre Action/Adventure The Ball William Brown Three mean-spirited girls attempt to block a young girl’s The 13 of Glory Georges Salo efforts to attend an annual spring ball. The quest for El Dorado by Francisco Pizarro takes the conquistadors, known as The 13 of Glory, to a land rife Blind Vector Charles Beale with gold. Their altruistic start spirals into the subjugation Three U.S. Naval airmen successfully hijack a Boeing 777 of the Inca nation and the genocide of its people. in mid-air by remote control from the ground, collect a $10,000,000 ransom, and get away. Af*ckinstan Jim Maceda Blood Journey Dennis W. Shepherd In the summer of 2010, a U.S. Marine platoon leader – to save countless lives and a powerful hydroelectric dam – taps A low-level government employee bucks the Trump child all of his savvy as an ex-cop to track down a fugitive Taliban separation policy, freeing a girl (13) and her brother (6) from a child detention center, embarking on a journey bomb-maker, but finds the trap has already been set. through Mexico and Guatemala, looking for their mother, encountering a mystical man on the hill, fighting a drug Angelica’s Touch Jan Dalby cartel and, in the climax, facing the leader of the corrupt She’s just a bank teller, but she has a gift: she can end Kaibiles, who holds the children’s mother captive.