DECEMBER VOLUME 20 2020 MAGAZINE ® ISSUE 6 Where everyone goes for scripts and writers™ It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like One Crazy Christmas for Producer/ Director Greg Carter PAGE 16 When the World Stopped, Screenwriter and Novelist Christy Lavalais Didn’t PAGE 22 FIND YOUR NEXT SCRIPT HERE! CONTENTS Contest/Festival Winners 4 FIND YOUR Feature Scripts – SCRIPTS FAST Grouped by Genre ON INKTIP! 5 It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like One Crazy Christmas for Producer/Director Greg Carter INKTIP OFFERS: 16 • Listings of Scripts and Writers Updated Daily • Mandates Catered to Your Needs When the World Stopped, Screenwriter and Novelist • Newsletters of the Latest Scripts and Writers Christy Lavalais Didn’t • Personalized Customer Service 22 • Comprehensive Film Commissions Directory Scripts Represented by Agents/Managers 42 Teleplays 43 You will find what you need on InkTip Sign up at InkTip.com! 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Together, in recent history to race the Palio, a centuries-old race they’ll find an epic place for him to kill himself. around the town center. My Dad Is the Guy from Smash Mouth (Comedy – Sailing Off the Edge of the World (Action/Adventure – Television One-Hour Pilot) Stephen Guerrieri Feature) Ross Mayberry When a young woman learns she is the result of a one-night A rambunctious rom-com/action romp a la Butch Cassidy, stand with the guy from Smash Mouth, the discovery rocks following a nun-besotted pirate, his half-mad sidekick, and her world – and unleashes a war for the soul of mankind. crew of ne’er-do-wells (including enigmatic Shlomo the (Represented by Dan Patack, Ellipsis Entertainment Group) Jew) as they battle the fiends of the Spanish Inquisition, the British Navy, the corrupt governor of Jamaica, and Zombie Video (Comedy – Television Half-Hour Pilot) legendary pirate Calico Jack Rackham, while chasing down Sarah Bockian their ship and the gorgeous and feisty nun-imposter In 2002, 17-year-old Sloane is determined to regain control who stole it. of her life after being dumped by her coworker boyfriend and learning that the new owners of their beloved place PAGE International Screenwriting Awards of work, a horror-centric video store, intend to do a full re-brand. Alaska Chance (Suspense/Thriller – Feature) Lydia Mulvey When a desperate woman’s spree of small-time bank rob- Save the Cat beries to fund her brother’s medical treatment comes to a Screenplay Challenge violent end, she is forced to join a small crew planning to Tira’allara (Fantasy – Television One-Hour Pilot) steal from a brash lottery winner, but she soon finds herself Tavyn Gentry out of her depth and on a collision course with her past. When fairies and magic return to a land they were forced to abandon, a young Elven woman is thrust into the heart Beautiful Allison (Sci-Fi – Feature) Pontsho Segodi of an age-old struggle for power between the native Elven When savvy journalist Allison Langford dies in a tragic car clans and the human empire that would enslave them. accident, she wakes up in a high-tech lab as an A.I. robot version of her former self, with only vague, fragmented memories of her past life as a living person. Script Summit Screenplay Competition The Devil’s Symphony (Action/Adventure – Feature) Happy Medium (Romantic Comedy – Feature) Scott Hamilton Aaron Lieben In order to save over a hundred children who mysteriously When a paranormal debunker goes undercover at a school vanished from a plague-infested town, a 19th-century for psychics, he attains fame and romance by developing police inspector must uncover the town’s dark secret, an intuitive gift, but must keep his opposing worlds sepa- defeat the ancient supernatural creature responsible, and rate or risk losing everything. expose the sinister true origins of the fairy tale The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Things Kept Hidden (Suspense/Thriller – Feature) Christopher O’Bryant Echo Base (Suspense/Thriller – Feature) Mark Keavney In 1895, a rookie Pinkerton detective and a mysterious In the near future when fake video is fragmenting society, bounty hunter seek a missing heiress in the Arizona a band of soldiers trapped in an underground nuclear Territory who may have fallen into the grip of a cult, and missile silo receives footage of an alien invasion and must the only way to save her is to reveal the secrets they each Click each title above to see the synopsis and script. Action/Adventure 5 keep hidden, though doing so might kill them. (Won Best as time passes, the once-friendly boy from outer space is Thriller at Script Summit 2020) now turning into a monstrous being. Scriptapalooza Screenplay Competition The Boy on the Cover (Action/Adventure – Feature) Elizabeth Savage Sullivan Mommy Dearest (Drama – Television One-Hour Spec Script) Rebecca VanderKooi and Hadassah Cohen A photojournalist hunts the subject of his famous photo to find out if the picture turned him into a killer. (Represented by A young woman in foster care who has been allegedly Ian Kennedy, TalentScout International Management Com) sexually abused goes missing. The squad at SVU must find her and her true perpetrator before it’s too late. The Lieutenant Nun (Biographical – Feature) Matthew Bernstein and Eva Mendieta WriteMovies Summer 2020 Screenwriting Contest A 17th-century Basque nun escapes cultural and gender expectations, fleeing the convent to live as a man. He Higher (Sci-Fi – Feature) Samantha Brennan becomes a master swordsman and conquistador in the A young girl discovers a boy who crash-landed from outer New World, only to discover that the true meaning of man- space without any recollection of how he got there, and hood does not lay at the tip of a sword. Feature Scripts – Grouped by Genre Action/Adventure Bad Love Strikes Kevin Schewe 12 Monkeys on a Bus Jack Pitt When an ambitious teenage gang discovers a deserted World War II-era time machine, they embark on a danger- Twelve retired zoo monkeys (domesticated chimps), used ous rescue mission back to Nazi Germany that threatens in TV advertisements, get on a school bus headed to a new to alter the course of history. petting zoo. They somehow lose the driver but thanks to Apollo, the NASA space chimp, and a programmed GPS unit, get to six intended locations and the new zoo by days Bear Mountain John Porubsky end. They cause riotous chimpanzee havoc at each rest Scout Billy Novy is forced to trek the Wyoming wilderness spot along the way. with only his nerdy best friend and fellow Scout Spencer to rescue his father who has been abducted by a bank- Above the Earth Kenneth Taylor robbing family of cowboys. Mr. President, a terrorist has hijacked the shuttle. They killed a Russian general; his daughter is the terrorist. We Billy Forbes Couch Potato are convinced they plan to destroy Washington regardless David Dayan Fisher of their demands. Think Forrest Gump meets Pay It Forward. A ten-year-old boy with big dreams of building a potato chip factory Across the Divide Dennis O’Flyng decides to finance it by collecting coins lost down people’s A suicidal widower on a wilderness pilgrimage rescues the couches – leading to an extraordinary series of events, injured sole survivor of a plane crash, a woman on a clan- making the impossible possible.