Jonathan LaPoma’s feature-length black comedy HARM FOR THE HOLIDAYS has advanced to the semifinals in the 2017 Table Read My Screenplay Contest. This is the script’s 18th award/honor in the last year, and LaPoma’s 122nd overall. HARM FOR THE HOLIDAYS is ranked 1st in the GLBT, 5th in the Comedy, and 7th in the Drama categories of MovieBytes.com’s Top 10 Contest Winning Scripts.
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HARM FOR THE HOLIDAYS Wins 3rd in Las Vegas Screenplay Contest
April 1st, 2017Jonathan LaPoma’s feature-length black comedy HARM FOR THE HOLIDAYS won 3rd in the Las Vegas Screenplay Contest (comedy category). HARM FOR THE HOLIDAYS is currently ranked 2nd in the GLBT and 9th in the Comedy categories of Moviebytes.com’s Top 10 Contest Winning Scripts, and has won 15 awards/honors in the last year. This is LaPoma’s 118th overall award/honor.
LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO Advances in European Film Award
November 20th, 2016Jonathan LaPoma and Natalia Porras Sivolobova’s feature-length coming-of-age drama, LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO (LAND THAT I LOVE), is an official selection of the 2016 European Independent Film Award. Winners have not yet been announced.
LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO has won 31 awards/honors, and LaPoma has won 105 overall. LA TIERRA is ranked 3rd in the Romance, 4th in the Urban, and 9th in the Drama categories of MovieBytes.com’s Top 10 Contest Winning Scripts, and is ranked in the top 1% of the more than 2,700 scripts listed on the site.
LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO Advances to Finals in World Series of Screenwriting
November 1st, 2016Jonathan LaPoma and Natalia Porras Sivolobova’s feature-length coming-of-age drama, LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO (LAND THAT I LOVE), is a finalist in the 2016 World Series of Screenwriting. This is the script’s 30th award/honor and LaPoma’s 102nd. LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO is ranked 2nd in the Urban, 5th in the Romance, and 9th in the Drama categories of MovieBytes.com’s Top 10 Contest Winning Scripts (over 2,700 scripts are listed on the site).
HARM FOR THE HOLIDAYS Wins the MAC Film Festival
October 21st, 2016Jonathan LaPoma’s feature-length holiday-themed black comedy, HARM FOR THE HOLIDAYS, won Best Screenplay at the 2016 MAC UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL. HARM FOR THE HOLIDAYS is the 5th ranked GLBT script in MovieBytes.com’s Top 10 Contest Winning Scripts, and it recently placed in both Page International and the Austin Film Fest.
SANDLEY an Official Selection of Lake Charles Film Festival
September 19th, 2016Jonathan LaPoma’s short script SANDLEY is an official selection of the 2016 Lake Charles Film Festival. SANDLEY follows a first-year teacher in an at-risk Los Angeles middle school who finds the inspiration to confront his bullies through his interactions with a lovable, but equally teased, student. SANDLEY is the 8th ranked dramatic short script in MovieBytes.com’s Top 10 Contest Winning Scripts. LaPoma’s ten screenplays have won 96 awards/honors.
Two of Jon LaPoma’s Scripts Advance in Creative World Awards
August 6th, 2016Jonathan LaPoma’s feature-length scripts THE WAY BACK HOME and LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO (LAND THAT I LOVE), co-written by Natalia Porras Sivolobova, have advanced through the first round of the 2016 Creative World Awards.
Both scripts are ranked within the top 2% of the more than 2,700 screenplays listed on MovieBytes.com.
LaPoma’s scripts have won 89 awards/honors in various international screenwriting competitions.
LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO Advances in FilmMakers International
March 2nd, 2016Jonathan LaPoma and Natalia Porras Sivolobova’s character-driven coming-of-age drama, LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO (LAND THAT I LOVE), has advanced to the semifinals in the 2016 FilmMakers International Screenwriting Awards, putting it in the top 7% of more than 1,500 submissions. LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO follows a 30-year old half-Mexican half-American woman who, after failing to make it as a dancer in New York City, returns to her hometown of Oaxaca, Mexico and struggles with where she truly belongs. It can be described as EVEN THE RAIN meets BEFORE SUNRISE.
Patricia Chica (CERAMIC TANGO, WOLVERINE HOTEL) is attached to direct.
LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO an Official Selection of Pasadena Film Fest
January 16th, 2016Jonathan LaPoma and Natalia Porras Sivolobova’s feature-length character-driven romantic drama, LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO (LAND THAT I LOVE), is an official selection of the 2016 Pasadena International Film Festival. This is the script’s 20th award/honor, and LaPoma’s 71st overall. LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO can be seen as EVEN THE RAIN meets BEFORE SUNSET and is ranked in the top 2% of the more than 2,600 scripts listed on MovieBytes.com.
Patricia Chica (CERAMIC TANGO, WOLVERINE HOTEL) is attached to direct.
DELLWOOD a Diamond Award Winner at California Film Awards
January 10th, 2016Jonathan LaPoma’s feature-length coming-of-age drama DELLWOOD is a finalist in the Diamond Award category of the 2015 California Film Awards. DELLWOOD follows a successful, but unhappy, novelist who reluctantly returns to his childhood town to attend a friend’s funeral. While there, he reminisces about his experiences as a child playing basketball on a city court to escape from emotional abuse, and he understands himself and the theme of his next project more clearly. DELLWOOD can be described as STAND BY ME meets THE BASKETBALL DIARIES, and it’s the 7th ranked Urban screenplay in MovieBytes.com’s Top 10 Contest Winning Scripts section.