DECEMBER VOLUME 19 2019 MAGAZINE ® ISSUE 6 Where everyone goes for scripts and writers™ Bringing Apartment 413 to life with Director Matthew Patterson PAGE 20 Facing Down the Blank Page with Screenwriter Ron Maede PAGE 40 FIND YOUR NEXT SCRIPT HERE! CONTENTS Contest/Festival Winners 4 FIND YOUR Feature Scripts – SCRIPTS FAST Grouped by Genre ON INKTIP! 6 Bringing Apartment 413 to life with Director Matthew Patterson 20 INKTIP OFFERS: • Listings of Scripts and Writers Updated Daily Facing Down the Blank Page • Mandates Catered to Your Needs with Screenwriter Ron Maede • Newsletters of the Latest Scripts and Writers 40 • Personalized Customer Service • Comprehensive Film Commissions Directory Scripts Represented by Agents/Managers 59 Teleplays 61 You will find what you need on InkTip Sign up at InkTip.com! Or call 818-951-8811. 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 Jefferson State Flixx Fest Just Listed (Horror – Feature) Stuart Creque Amertia (Sci-Fi – Feature) The real estate agent wonders why the young couple Martin Medina and Luke Medina insisted on seeing the new listing after nightfall – and how In the future, capitalism fails and people are given Merit they know all about the horrific deaths that happened there. Numbers to determine their worth to society and what resources they are allowed to have. Some capitalists remain and wish to return to the old ways; so, when one Creative World Awards plans to drug society’s undesirables to fight back, a mem- The Fall (Drama – Feature) Tamra Teig and Michael Lipoma ber of law enforcement goes undercover to stop him. East Berlin, 1989. A single mother is forced into espio- nage when her son is framed for murder. After a deadly Las Vegas International Film and betrayal, she turns double agent to exact her revenge, and her actions, woven into historic events, become the Screenplay Competition catalyst that leads to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Legacy (Fantasy – Feature) Danielle R. Erlich A bullied teenager seeks refuge by an Irish castle and Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards travels to a magical world he never knew existed where his long-lost father turns out to be king. He’s told that an The Boys Are Back (Comedy – Television Half Hour Pilot) unknown assailant has kidnapped the king, and now the Jay Mullings responsibility to rescue him falls to his resentful and clue- Brotherhood – what else matters? The Boys Are Back fol- less teenage son. lows four close male friends (Scottish, Welsh, Irish and English), three of whom are helping the fourth get back on his feet after a tough divorce. Together they learn from Mike’s Place Pilot: Bringing Sexy Back (Comedy – each other, stumbling through life at an age when they Television Half Hour Pilot) Brie Wilson “ought to have had it figured out.” The sometimes fun-loving and always smack-talking club promoter, Mike Johnson, navigates his way through the misadventures of his roller coaster-esque life with the Rudy’s Christmas Revenge (Comedy – Feature) help of his attorney and girlfriend – the stasis in this duo. Joanne Bellew When a hardcore Christian’s hopes of becoming a musician are destroyed and he publicly destroys the reputation of Moondance International Film Festival the rock star who was responsible, he must find a way to undo the public humiliation of himself and the rock star The Beneficials – Heroes of the Soil (Animation – when he discovers that the now extremely ill musician is the Feature) Paul Piccirillo love of his pregnant daughter’s life. (Multiple contest wins) A small worm with big dreams ventures beyond the boundaries of his homeland to preserve his family’s legacy and defend a community of cornstalks from savage envi- Huntington Beach Film Festival ronmental threats. The Coldest Horizon (Action/Adventure – Feature) Jeffrey Howe Cottage for Rent: Body Optional (A Dear Dudley After an accident leaves a scientist stranded alone at the Mystery) (Crime/Murder/Mystery – Television One Hour South Pole, the ghosts of four explorers appear to help Pilot) Sable Jak her endure the loneliness – and, when she discovers she’s pregnant, to help her survive the-thousand mile trek A lottery winner, a mummy, a thieving cousin, a drone, and across the ice to safety. a thriving gossip train. What else would you expect from a small Midwest town? (Represented by Neil Sussman, Law Offices of Neil Sussman) Inroads Screenwriting Fellowship A War on Terror (Drama – Feature) Peter Haig Dylan (Drama – Feature) Dianne Gardner After being ambushed by a group of Taliban insurgents, a An autistic young man whose magic is his only security handful of U.S. soldiers wake up in a room unsure if they are is devastated when his uncle dies, his aunt puts him in a dead or alive – unbeknownst to them, their fate becomes home full of strangers, and his abusive mother stalks him. tied to an Afghan grandmother and granddaughter Running away is his answer until there is nowhere left to determined to free souls from their hellish fate. run. (Magical realism) Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. 5 The Goblins and the Gravedigger (Fantasy – Feature) Spoon Fed (Drama – Feature) Scott LaFortune Kenny Chumbley A young nutritionist with a sweet tooth is hired to curb the It’s Christmas Eve. A wretched gravedigger stands on the obesity crisis, then battles USDA corruption as she brings brink of doom, and his only hope is a band of goblins. down an unscrupulous sugar lobby. Based on a true story. (2019 PAGE Awards Gold Prize Winner. Represented by Jeff Belkin, Zero Gravity) PAGE International Screenwriting Awards Buck and the Angel (Drama – Feature) James Schlicker The Sweet Spot (Comedy – Television Half Hour Pilot) A young boy, Buck Lynch, fatherless and living with his Harriet Beaney dying mother in his grandparent’s home, has a strong An embittered ex-tennis star becomes the reluctant coach belief in the power of prayer. But his faith is tested when to a socially awkward teenager whose mother mysteri- a mysterious stranger claiming to be an angel leads Buck ously disappears. to believe he has come to make his mother well when he has actually come for his mother’s life on Christmas Eve. Texas Poetry (Crime/Murder/Mystery – Feature) David Milwee The Delivery (Drama – Feature) Gil Seltzer In this dramatic thriller, a drug cartel and an FBI investi- A Jordanian history professor turned radicalized terrorist gation descend on a small Texas town, and all hell breaks is tasked with delivering a car bomb from Dallas to New loose as the owner of a local bar, a trucking company York City. His cover – an unwitting 12-year-old boy who operator, and a crooked sheriff begin to turn on each joins him for the tenuous drive through the American other. But not everyone is who they appear to be. heartland. (Silver Winner – 2019 Page Awards; Coverfly’s Red List – Top 10 Drama Features 2019; Semifinalist – Bluecat Screenplay Contest; Top 10% Nicholl Fellowships.) Script Summit Lineage (Suspense/Thriller – Feature) Kathy Patterson Muscle and Bark (Action/Adventure – Feature) The defiant son of an immortal killer clashes with Scotland Gina DeAngelis Yard and his tragic past when he comes out of hiding to An aging Alaska mailman takes a newspaper editor’s $10,000 save his kidnapped family from his father. bet to deliver a letter to the White House by dogsled, while his crotchety sidekick and an ambitious heiress-reporter butt heads to make him and his dogs a national sensation Scriptapalooza Fellowship – all unaware he was never supposed to win. Boy Most Wanted (Drama – Feature) Tuck Tucker Physically and emotionally abused 7-year-old Tim has the Not My Emergency (Comedy – Feature) Matt Conlin unusual ability to locate missing people.