Top 5 Features - 2025 JumpStart Writing Competition

June 20, 2025

Top 5 Features - 2025 JumpStart Writing Competition

Roadmap Writers is thrilled to announce the Top 5 Features from our 2025 JumpStart Writing Competition.

JumpStart leverages the reach and resources of Roadmap Writers to advocate for these exciting emerging voices. This year's judging panel includes execs and reps from companies such as Good Fear Content, Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment, Heroes and Villains, Writ Large, and more

And now we’re pleased to announce the...

FINALISTS FEATURE

SCRIPT TITLE	WRITER(S)	LOGLINE
AN AXE FOR THE FROZEN SEA	Samantha Silvay	Set in a fictionalized Soviet state, An Axe For The Frozen Sea follows a Socialist realist writer and his wife on their journey from good soldiers to revolutionaries.
CAT BURGLARS	Duncan Novak	In this deconstruction of neo-noir thrillers--Jude Turner, a suicidal young man living with Cerebral Palsy, embarks on a brutal quest for revenge against the people who stole his cat.
DETECTIVE CLAUS	David Zeltser	A divorced, workaholic police detective-stuck with his spirited daughter for the holidays-takes the case when a suspicious sleigh accident sidelines Santa. As they unwrap the mystery, father and daughter realize saving Christmas might mean reinventing it. Blending the comic charm of THE SANTA CLAUS with the adventure of THE CHRISTMAS CHRONICLES, this fresh, inventive holiday tale has the potential to become a beloved franchise.
TOUCHWOOD	Amy Charlesworth	She's surrounded by hot bodies. He's surrounded by cold ones... A promiscuous sex therapist and a virgin mortician challenge each other to confront their insecurities and issues with intimacy.
UNREST	Hadj Gill	A man, haunted by a classmate's murder twenty years ago, is trapped in a nightmarish version of his old school, forced to relive the tragic day. To save the victim, he must choose: sacrifice himself or endure eternal torment.