Roadmap Writers JumpStart Writing Competition
Roadmap JumpStart

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Objective
This competition is open to both features and pilots of all genres.
Roadmap Writers is a leader in screenwriting education and training taught by working industry executives & literary representatives. In just six years, Roadmap has helped 250 writers get signed to representation with agents and managers. We helped some of last year’s finalists land representation at 3 Arts, Bohemia Group, Lit Entertainment Group and REJ Entertainment through our introductions!
Deadline/Entry Fees
Deadline | Date Days till: |
Entry Fee |
---|---|---|
Early | January 17, 2025 | $50 |
Regular | February 21, 2025 10 |
$70 |
Late | March 21, 2025 38 |
$80 |
Add Feedback Notes | +$45
Receive a one page analysis of your script.
Rules
Please see website.Awards
Grand Prize (2)
Pilot Category & Film Category
- 6x private virtual meetings with industry executives and/or competition judges
- A private Month Mentorship with an executive of your choice from Roadmap's list of available execs
- Steps 1 & 2 of Roadmap's Career Writer Program (Pitch Prep Program and Marketing Intensive)
- 5 free Open Pitch Sessions
- 12 months of Roadmap's "Industry On-Ramp" Program
- A 30-Minute Marketing & Strategy Call with Roadmap's CEO
- Featured in our JumpStart Competition Booklet, circulated to over 400 execs
Roadmap JumpStart

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Roadmap Writers JumpStart Writing Competition

Contact
Web:
Click here
Email:
info@roadmapwriters.com
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(4.5/5.0) |
Signficance: |
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(5.0/5.0) |
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Contest News
Roadmap Writers Names JumpStart Winners
Max Rissman's Grandpa has been named the Feature Script Winner of the 2018 JumpStart Writing Competition, while Alan Baxter's Lost Eden Canyon has been named the Pilot Winner.
Pilot Winner
LOST EDEN CANYON - by Alan Baxter
Logline: Set on Arizona's Lake Powell, the story follows a blue-collar dock worker who turns to heisting multi-million dollar houseboats in order to pay for his sick daughter's medical care.
Pilot Runner-up
MIRACLES INC. - by Rebecca Graham Forde
Logline: A famous magician and his business partner travel the world investigating miracles while running a famous magic act in Vegas.
Feature Winner
GRANDPA - by Max Rissman
Logline: In the wake of a school shooting, the president of a gun lobby and his young granddaughter are haunted by the ghosts of the victims.
Feature Runner-up
DUSTED - by Guy McDouall
Logline: A timid hospital janitor becomes a conflicted vigilante after she discovers a magic artifact that allows her to cure terminally ill children by making human sacrifices.
Signing Prize Winner
THE PIONEER - by Ziyad Saadi
Logline: A freethinking Muslim girl is forced to transfer to an extremely conservative Muslim high school, only to end up shaking the establishment completely out of order.
Updated: 11/30/2018
Roadmap Writers JumpStart Writing Competition

Contact
Web:
Click here
Email:
info@roadmapwriters.com
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Overall: |
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(4.5/5.0) |
Professionalism: |
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(4.0/5.0) |
Feedback: |
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(4.5/5.0) |
Signficance: |
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(5.0/5.0) |
Report Cards: |
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