Jonathan LaPoma

Author / Screenwriter / Songwriter

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Jon LaPoma Places Scripts in Six Different Film Festivals

June 7th, 2017

Jonathan LaPoma’s scripts DIPLOMATIC AMMUNITY!, SOFI’S JOURNEY, and LA TIERRA Q… UE YO AMO (LAND THAT I LOVE), co-written by Natalia Porras Sivolobova, placed in six different film festivals today: Los Angeles CineFest (DIPLOMATIC AMMUNITY!), Malta Film Festival (LA TIERRA), Austria International Film Festival (LA TIERRA), Cinema New York City (LA TIERRA), Eurocinema Film Festival (LA TIERRA), and SOFI’S JOURNEY placed in a festival that LaPoma won’t be able to announce until September. 

This brings LaPoma’s total award/honor total to 131.

A SACRIFICE TO THE GOD OF THE BLUES Advances in LA CineFest

November 12th, 2016
Jonathan LaPoma’s short drama A SACRIFICE TO THE GOD OF THE BLUES has won its second award today, advancing to the semifinals of the 2016 Los Angeles CineFest. A SACRIFICE TO THE GOD OF THE BLUES is based on LaPoma’s short story of the same name which appeared in the November 2014 issue of 34thParallel Magazine, and that story is based on a chapter of LaPoma’s novel UNDERSTANDING THE ALACRAN. LaPoma’s ten scripts have won a total of 104 awards/honors in the last three years.

HARM FOR THE HOLIDAYS, SEMIFINALIST IN LA CINEFEST

June 5th, 2016
Jonathan LaPoma’s latest feature-length script, HARM FOR THE HOLIDAYS, is a semifinalist in the Los Angeles CineFest. HARM FOR THE HOLIDAYS is a black comedy that follows an unrepentant asshole with a heart of gold who moves back in with his comically dysfunctional family to help his suicidal brother, only to find that his brother is the sanest of them all (SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK meets BAD SANTA).
This is the script’s first award/honor and LaPoma’s 83rd overall.

Jon LaPoma Places Two Scripts in Los Angeles CineFest

March 4th, 2016

Los Angeles CineFest has chosen Jonathan LaPoma’s scripts SANDLEY and THE WAY BACK HOME as official selections of their 2016 contest. LaPoma has won 78 awards/honors at various international screenwriting competitions in the last two years.