Top 5 Pilots - 2025 JumpStart Writing Competition

June 20, 2025

Top 5 Pilots - 2025 JumpStart Writing Competition

Roadmap Writers is thrilled to announce the Top 5 Pilots 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, Heroes and Villains, Writ Large, and more,

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

FINALISTS PILOT

SCRIPT TITLE	WRITER(S)	LOGLINE
CRIME CLEANERS	Vered Neta	After a woman kills her abusive husband, her sixty-something mother and her friends help her hide the body and clean up. Unfortunately, they are so successful a local Crime Boss forces them to clean his own murder scenes.
GARGOYLE HIGH	Lauren Conoscenti	In this supernatural teen drama, a new student navigates the trials of an all-girls boarding school - homework, an antagonistic roommate, the ancient creatures she keeps releasing on campus - while striving to uncover the truth about her biological family.
HAFŪ	Miya Kodama	When half-Japanese, half-Korean Ami Hwang and half-Japanese, half-white Emi Conners meet the weekend before college begins, the two immediately despise each other - only to discover they are, in fact, half-sisters - and their estranged father is dead.
RESCUE EDDIE	J.R. Spaulding, Jr.	When a quixotic nursing assistant embarks on a mission to discover why he is slowly transforming into a zombie, he draws the ire of the mad scientist who runs the interdimensional secret research facility down the street.
THE LAST WORD	James Crisp	A struggling actor, while navigating his own personal demons, stumbles upon an unexpected source of income and inspiration: reading eulogies for the deceased.