Josephson Entertainment, the production company behind Disney’s ENCHANTED franchise and FOX’s long-running drama series BONES, is partnering with Roadmap Writers to launch a dedicated competition to identify commercial short stories to bring to market for television or feature film adaptation. A grand prize of $7000 will be awarded to the winner and they will enter into an option with Josephson Entertainment for a period of 24 months. They are only optioning the short story, with any further development of said story to be done independently of the writer.
This short story challenge is open to original short stories of any genre that can captivate the reader in no more than 50 pages.
And now we're pleased to announce the...
FINALISTS
Logline: A trail of gruesome murders leads a skeptical sheriff to the ruins of a Jewish agricultural settlement in 1880s Colorado
Genre: Western
Logline: When a fan writes a love letter to the Broadway actor, Terence Grantham, with whom she is in love with from afar, while hiding behind the intriguing nom-de-plume of Miss Forget me not, an unexpected love affair and second chances align in the lives of those two people who seem they are two strangers. Or was it all a game of destiny?
Genres: Historical, Romance
Logline: When an entitled tech billionaire flees a nuclear catastrophe with his entourage, little does he expect a presence in his bunker, more menacing than the world he left behind.
Genres: Sci-fi, Thriller, Mystery
Logline: A young gay lawyer in Atlanta goes to great lengths to hide his true self in the 1980s.
Genres: Drama, Legal
Logline: When a young man hires him to find his ex-roommate, private detective Marshall Santone gets more than he bargained for when he finds the roommate murdered, and his investigation quickly snowballs out of control.
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Mystery
Logline: When a widowed bookseller wages war with his callous brother over the sale of the family's priceless Kandinsky, he discovers that his love for his brother's wife - a troubled survivor of the Soviet Gulag - may be the only thing in his life that's truly priceless.
Genre: Drama
Logline: When their mentally ill mother resurfaces after a ten-year disappearance, two sisters must confront their family's dark past.
Genre: Horror
Logline: A father must return to his voodoo roots to outwit a demon who comes to collect a debt--his newborn girl.
Genre: Horror
Logline: When the young wife of a brilliant geneticist succumbs to cancer, he refuses to let her go. Using his research, he secretly experiments with her living tissue, preventing cell death and bringing her back to life. Only now, she is not only the woman he loved - but something else. And she can never die.
Genres: Drama, Horror
Logline: In a world where a cure for mortality exists, an anxiety-prone recent college graduate grieves for the very first time and falls for her best friend's brother.
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Young Adult (YA)
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