2023 JumpStart Writing Competition - Winners Announced!

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WINNER

 

Winners Announced - 2023 JumpStart Writing Competition

Roadmap Writers is incredibly excited to announce the Grand Prize Winners and Runners-Up for our annual JumpStart Writing Competition.

After narrowing down the field of exceptional scripts to five features and five pilots, we turned to our esteemed judging panel of Execs from companies that included 42 Management & Production, Good Fear Content, Gramercy Park Entertainment, Grandview, Heroes and Villians Entertainment, Lit Entertainment Group, Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment, and Writ Large,  to select this year's Winners.
 

All of us at Roadmap are excited to work closely with our Grand Prize Winners and beyond to help them gain industry exposure and achieve their career goals.

So please join us as we congratulate our 2023 JumpStart Competition Winners and Runners-up!

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PILOT GRAND PRIZE WINNER 

 

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Bryce Berkowitz

 

Bryce Berkowitz

RIVER RATS

BIO

Logline: A 12-year-old graffiti artist takes down a local drug dealer to avenge his brother and becomes a trailer park kingpin. *This is adapted from an award-winning short story.*

 

FEATURE GRAND PRIZE WINNER 

 

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Farook Qais

 

Farook Qais

HI, LIBIDO

BIO 

Logline: On her journey into adulthood, a devout Muslim woman navigates the delicate balance between her family's expectations, sexual fulfillment, and the idea of marrying for love.

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Grand
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Runner
PILOT RUNNER UP

 

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Samantha Lavin

 

Samantha Lavin

QUEENS VILLAGE

BIO 

Logline: When a suburban realtor's wife has a mental breakdown, his mother-in-law cuts him off financially, forcing him to return to his sketchy Queens Village roots to manage a building of questionable tenants in order to retain custody of his kids during the glory years of the early 1980’s.

FEATURE RUNNER UP

 

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Michael Elliott

 

Michael Elliott

NOBODY'S HEROES

BIO

Logline: A disillusioned Vietnam combat vet defies the FBI to help a notorious antiwar activist escape to Canada.

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THANK YOU TO OUR JUDGES!

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Good Fear Content

Good Fear Content

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Grandview
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Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment

Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment

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Writ Large
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